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Beech Ridge, Lee USA host the PASS traveling road show on Saturday,Tuesday   Naples ME (7/6) The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North schedule always heats up in July, and this week's double dose of Super Late Model racing is a must see for fans of the fastest full fender race cars in the east.   Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough Maine anchors the northern series and both the Super Late Models and Mods will be back on track at the Ridge this Saturday July 9 for the Southern Maine Motors.com 150.

 

Beech Ridge always brings out a packed field and the entry list already has a number of new or returning entries. Kellyyy Moore, Scott Mulkern, Bill Penfold, Ricky Morse, JT Thurlow and DJ Shaw will be racing with PASS, challenging the regulars for Beech Ridge supremacy. All the PASS North point contenders are expected to be in action, including a number of Beech Ridge Pro Series regulars.. Beech Ridge weekly racer Bill Rodgers stole the touring racer's thunder in the 2010 edition of this event, winning one for the home team.   The PASS Mod squad will be looking to end Andy Shaw's three race 2011 win streak; The Mods will go 40 laps at the Scarborough oval and their segment of the show is always exciting. Racing gets the green at 6:00 PM. The Beech Ridge Sport Series, Wildcat and Road Runner divisions complete the card.   The turn around for both divisions will be a quick one as they will all be back on track Tuesday July 12 for their annual trip to Lee USA Speedway. The third annual addition of the PASS Bastille 200 features all three PASS touring series, and the home track heroes always look forward challenging the touring PASS Sportsman drivers.   Mike Rowe and Johnny Clark battled it out in the 2010 edition of the PASS Bastille 200 with Rowe prevailing in the closing laps to win one of the season's most exciting races.   It's a great night of racing at Red and Judy MacDonald s beautiful Route 125 facility. Qualifying rounds kick off at 7:00 PM.   Ben Rowe's victory at Canaan Fair Speedway allowed the Turner Maine speed merchant to open up a twelve point gap over defending champion Johnny Clark, but its not a comfortable margin by any means. The month of July will go a long way to deciding the 2011 title, and there's a lot of great racing ahead for racers and fans alike.     Check out all the latest point standings, stories and photos at www.proallstarsseries.com. Find these two fine speedways at www.beechridge.com and www.leeusaspeedway.com .   Visit Saturday night's Beech Ridge sponsor Southern Maine Motors at www.southernmainemotors.com .

 

Joey Doiron PR : PASS North Series Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 4.27.11 For more information, visit www.JoeyDoiron.com or email TbarrettGWC@hotmail.com       Joey Doiron: PASS North Series Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview       THE STORY   Joey Doiron aims to collect his first career PASS North Series win when the series opens the 2011 season with the PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, April 30. Doiron won the 2010 Rookie of the Year award in the series, a march he started with a career-best finish of fourth in this very race. Doiron started his racing career at Beech Ridge and considers it his home track. Doiron is coming off a DNF at “The Race” at North Wilkesboro Motor Speedway earlier this month after a blown tire ended his day prematurely.

 

THE FACTS   WHO: Joey Doiron, Berwick, Maine TEAM: No. 73 JBJ Machine/Dale Shaw Race Cars Chevrolet CREW CHIEF: John Doiron, Berwick, Maine   BEST CAREER BEECH RIDGE MOTOR SPEEDWAY FINISH: 4th (May 2010) LAST RACE AT BEECH RIDGE MOTOR SPEEDWAY: 23rd (September 2010)   WHAT: PASS North Series PASS 150 WHERE: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval) WHEN: 3 p.m., Saturday, April 30   PASS North Series NEXT RACE: May 14, PASS 150, Star Speedway, Epping, N.H. (.25-mile oval) FINAL 2010 POINTS POSITION: 9th (Rookie of the Year)       DID YOU KNOW?   Joey Doiron started on the outside pole for the most prestigious race of the PASS North Series season, the PASS 300 at Beech Ridge, last September. As a rookie in the Sport Series division at Beech Ridge, Joey Doiron won a feature event and finished fourth in the final point standings. Last season, almost every track on the PASS North Series schedule was a first-time visit for Joey Doiron.       WHAT THEY'RE SAYING   JOEY DOIRON, Driver of the No. 73 JBJ Machine/Dale Shaw Race Cars Chevrolet, On his chances at Beech Ridge this weekend: “It's Beech Ridge, so I'm always gald to go there. Every time we've been there with PASS, we feel like we've been a winning car through practice and even for most of the race. Something always seems to happen to us.   “Hopefully, the luck has to turn around after (The Race at North Wilkesboro). To turn it around with a win would be awesome, or even a Top-5 finish. I'd be more than happy to start the season the way I did last year.”   On the racing at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway: “You just can't abuse your stuff too early. I really think the key the last couple of years has been whoever can ride around and stay out of trouble and then be able to paint the (inside) line in the last 50 laps of the race. It doesn't matter if you're a half-second faster than everybody else, if you can't pass on the bottom at the end when everybody starts sliding up to the top of the track, you're not going to be very good.   “The track is its own animal. A lot of people consider it like Oxford, but I always think we have a chance to win at Beech Ridge, and at Oxford, usually I can't get out of my own way. So I don't know what it is there.”   On his goals for his sophomore season: “I definitely think we can win a race this year. We just need some luck. We put ourselves in position to do it a couple of times last year it seemed, but we just couldn't seem to catch a break when we needed it.   “If we can get a win, we can build on that. Hopefully, then we'll pick up another one after that. I think if we can run competitively at the tracks where we think we can, the points will take care of themselves.”     UP NEXT   The PASS North Series heads to the second race of the season on the smallest track, the PASS 150 at the quarter-mile Star Speedway in Epping, N.H., on Saturday, May 14... Joey Doiron has never competed in a Super Late Model at Star Speedway, but he post a Top-10 finish with a 9th-place run at the high-banked quarter-mile of White Mountain Motorsports Park last season.       SOCIAL MEDIA   Follow Joey Doiron on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joey-Doiron-Racing/125184144172663 Follow GWC Motorsports Marketing on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-White-Checker/45527276443 Follow GWC Motorsports Marketing on Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/GWCNewEngland Travis Barrett GWC Motorsports Marketing TBarrettGWC@hotmail.com (207) 522-0357

 

PASS NORTH PR - season goes green at Beech Ridge Saturday

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: Norm Desjardins @ (603) 387-5598   PASS NORTH season goes green at Beech Ridge Saturday   Naples ME (4/25) The 2011 Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North campaign goes green at Scarborough Maine's famed Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Saturday April 30 with all three PASS touring series on track for the first time this season. Every team is tied for the points lead and a good start to the yearl builds momentum for the races to come.

 

The PASS North Super Late Models, Mods, and Sportsman highlight the season opener and its the perfect cure for those off season racing blues.   The early entry list includes a few surprises and a number of new names. Tracy Gordon returns to PASS competition in a second entry from the Frahm stables; he'll team up with Matt Frahm in his return to PASS North. Gordon's name appears twice in the PASS North win column. Kirk Thibeau is on the list, as are Ridge regulars David Oliver and Bill Rodgers, a guy that's already proven he can take on the PASS regulars and win.   Canada is well represented with Lonnie Sommerville, Shawn Turple and Matt Matheson all on board for the season opener.   Bryan Kruczek has stepped up to the super late model ranks and he'll make his PASS debut at Beech Ridge. Mike Landry is a familiar face in the PASS Sportsman series, but he will wheel a super late model Saturday.. Chris Thorne is making an infrequent PASS North appearance and . PASS North rookie Kyle DeSouza will attempt his first Beech Ridge PASS super late model start. .   There's several new combinations seeking success in the series. Mike Rowe will return to full time competition with a new combination. Peter Pettit and Steve Perry have partnered to field the full time PASS ride for the Maine legend. Lonnie Sommerville is a familiar name to PASS North fans but he will make his PASS North season debut with Scott and Vicki Mulkern's potent race team; Mulkern himself will take his best shot at a Beech Ridge win, too..   Five time series champion Johnny Clark ,Richie Dearborn, 2010 PASS North rookie of the year Joey Doiron, Travis Benjamin, Scott Alexander, Ben Rowe, Ricky Morse , Bill Penfold, Scott Chubbuck and Derek Ramstrom, are just a few of the names on the early entry list and you know that the season opener will attract an overflow field of the fastest full fender racers in the region.   Beech Ridge has two pre season practice sessions scheduled.. The track will offer up open test sessions on Thursday and Friday April 28 and 29 from 2:00 PM until 6:00 PM.   The PASS Mods, PASS Sportsman, the Texas Roadhouse North East Mini Stock Tour,  NELCAR Legends, and the Pro Four Modifieds join the PASS North super late models on Saturday's schedule.The first heat race rolls off at 3:00 PM.   Watch the early entry list grow at www.proallstarsseries.com. Beech Ridge Motor Speedway is on line at www.beechridge.com . The speedway is located at 70 Holmes Road in Scarborough Maine.

 

Pro All Stars Series news - PASS 400 weekend - Sautrday race report

Vaughn, Dow and Beaulieu Claim Saturday PASS 400 Weekend wins Scarborough ME (9/11) Day three of PASS 400 weekend was highlighted by qualifying for all three PASS North touring divisions plus features for the Legends, Road Runners and Wildcats. 144 race cars rolled through the Beech Ridge Motor Speedway back gate and from the first green to the final checker the fans in the stands witnessed short track racing at its finest.

 

Tom Scully Jr., Joey Doiron, David Oliver and PASS Super Late Model point leader Johnny Clark all claimed their qualifiers.  Super Late Model consolation rounds went to PASS National Series point leader Preston Peltier and 2009 PASS North Rookie of the Year Nick Ribbe. Sunday’s Last Chance race will determine the final qualifiers for the 300 lap, $10,000 to win PASS 300. Heat race wins for Sunday’s PASS Sportsman 100 went to Grant Aither, Jay Sands and Craig Smith Sumner Sessions and John Brill came out on top of the PASS Mod heats. The Mods will run a 50 lap feature Sunday and a new PASS Mod Champion will be crowned. With PASS qualifying complete it was feature time for the Road Runners and the field made quick work of their show with just one lap nineteen caution to mar the 25 lapper. Matt Dow captured the win over Shawn Brackett, David Turner, Tasha Dyer and Donnie Dinsmore. A twenty two car Legends field ran a 50 lap Nationals qualifier and when the dust cleared it was Evan Beaulieu in victory lane. Seventy five laps for the Wildcats wrapped up the day’s racing with Mike Short leading the thirty two car field to the green. Short jumped out front from the pole but a miscue sent him back through the field and Nate Leavitt took over the point. Leavitt, Keith Stewart and David Vaughn broke away from the pack at the halfway mark and the trio ran nose to tail until ten to go when Stewart experienced troubles and Vaughn went on by for second.  The caution flew with two circuits remaining, setting up a green-white-checker with Leavitt on the inside and Vaughn on the high side. The pair raced side by side to the white flag, but Vaughn snatched the top spot from Leavitt coming off turn two to claim the win. Leavitt, Steve Benicasa, Louie Anderson and Matt Dow came home second through tenth. On Sunday the feature racing goes green at 12:15 PM sharp with  the PASS North super late model  last chance qualifier, qualifying and a 50 lap feature for the North East Mini Stock Tour, 100 laps for the PASS Sportsman and the big one, the sixth annual PASS 300. For more information be sure to visit www.proallstarsseries.com and www.beechridge.com. UNOFFICIAL RESULTS – 25 lap Road Runner feature 1 84 Matt Dow 2 31 Shawn Brackett 3 21 David Turner 4 7 Tasha Dyer 5 29 Donnie Dinsmore 6 24 Ray Letellier 7 6 Clayton Lauber 8 74 Kari Thibideau 9 77 10 89 Ryan Phillips 11 41 Mark Laigle 12 81 Ray Dinsmore 13 64 Brian Graffam UNOFFICIAL RESULTS – 75 lap Wildcat feature 1 84X David Vaughn 2 36 Nate Leavitt 3 41 Steve Benicasa  4 81 Louie Anderson  5 84  Matt Dow 6  61 Matt Gain 7 12 Skip Tripp 8 47 Brian Caswell 9  93 Randy Snow 10  5 Chris Warming 11 22 Paul Lund 12 83 Shawn Gilpatrick 13 83G Mike St. Germain 14 23 Joe Morse 15 14 Mad Max 16 88 Scott Deery 17 62 Andy Ayers 18  18 Bob Eddy 19 8 Keith Stuart 20 11 21 70  Dan Bean 22 73 Matt Hodgdon 23 40 Lyman McKeage  24  2X Jeremy Morales  25  1  Mike Short 26  15 Kyle Nicely 27  2 28  35 Alby Ovitt 29 7 Travis Dyer 30 50 Dave Cameron 31 00 Mike Poole 32 3 Jesse Tolman