We’re live blogging Sunday’s Oxford 250 at the Oxford Plains Speeday. We will be posting live updates of the action, and you can ask questions here. Live Blog 2015 Oxford 250 #Oxford250 Coverage Glen Luce’s win shows strength of Maine racers The Hot Corner: No more degrees of separation for Glen Luce Oxford 250 Video: […]
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Pasteryak claims Modified Series 100 at Oxford Plains Speedway
Chris Pasteryak (5) leads Norm Wrenn down the front straitaway during the Valenti Modified feature at Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday evening. Pasteryak won the 100 lap race. OXFORD — Second-generation modified star Chris Pasteryak drove inside of early leader Norm Wrenn coming through Turn 3 on lap 28, survived a pair of restarts on lap […]
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Racing spotlight: John Peters becoming a contender at Beech Ridge
WESTBROOK — When you look at the dozen or more young guns striving to make a name for themselves in Super Late Model racing around central and southern Maine, you don’t have to look very far to see unlimited potential. Take a stroll through the pit area at Beech Ridge on a Saturday night during […]
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Racing roundup: Knight, Lanpher, St. Clair earn big wins over the weekend
Oxford native Shawn Knight notched his third Super Late Model victory of the season in impressive fashion Saturday night in Oxford’s weekly Championship Series program. Knight drove inside of third-generation pilot Gunnar Rowe coming through Turns 3 and 4 at the end of lap 28 and pulled away for top honors. Rowe, who has led […]
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Around the Track: Travis Stearns riding ACT roller coaster this season
AUBURN — On the Vermont-based American-Canadian Tour (ACT), there are over a dozen seasoned race teams with the equipment, experience and adequate talent behind the wheel to win races. Just ask 30-year-old Travis Stearns of Auburn, a series veteran who is fighting his way through a tumultuous, up-and-down season in 2015. In the first eight starts […]
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Video: Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins at Daytona after horrific last-lap crash
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A horrific last-lap accident that left drivers fearing for Austin Dillon’s safety muted Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s victory in the rain-delayed race at Daytona International Speedway. Earnhardt crossed the finish line at 2:41 am Monday morning filled with dread after Dillon’s car sailed upside down into the fence then shot back […]
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Auto racing: Evan Beaulieu digging deep at Beech Ridge
DURHAM — While defending track champion Dave Farrington Jr. of Jay strives to defend his crown each week at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, another talented young hot-shoe from Durham is working to get his program turned around and headed in the right direction. Twenty-two year old Evan Beaulieu is already in his 11th […]
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Auto racing: Jamie Heath still a threat, despite cutback to schedule
For more than a decade, one dedicated short track driver from the western Maine hamlet of Waterford has terrorized the ovals. While he is cutting back on his schedule for 2015, he’s always a threat win. Thirty-eight-year-old Jamie Heath has dominated four-cylinder support class action around New England. His tendency to roam and try new […]
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Auto racing: Alexander making good progress at Wiscasset
While several drivers in their 20s and 30s are working to make a name for themselves in the premier Super Late Model or Pro Stock class, one teenage prodigy from the mid-coast is turning heads while making significant progress of his own. Fifteen-year-old Ellsworth native Wyatt Alexander is in his first full season in the […]
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Auto racing: Manchester’s Reid Lanpher hitting full throttle
Another example of Maine’s rich short track racing talent pool is hitting his stride in 2015. Just south of the Capitol city in Manchester, there’s a young man lighting up the radar and building his own fan base. When 17-year-old Reid Lanpher won a 50-lap Super Late Model feature at Oxford on May 16, it […]