Sep 2, 2020 | Claremont Speedway, NH Race Tracks
150-LAP PRO STOCK, ENDURO, MORE SUNDAY, SEPT.6 AT CLAREMONT
NO FRIDAY RACES THIS WEEK
CLAREMONT, N.H. – The powerful Granite State Pro Stock Series returns to Claremont Motorsports Park this Sunday, September 6, for 150 laps of big time feature racing presented by Newport Chevrelot, And with a $10,000 winner’s purse up for grabs, this one is sure to draw a crowd.
There will be no racing this Friday, September 4, at the Thrasher Road speedplant, as. promoter Mike Parks, who also heads the GSPSS series, is bringing the big show to town on Sunday, when the seven-decade-old oval will celebrate Labor Day Weekend in style.
Along with the Granite State Pro Stock Series event – the biggest race is series history – there will also be an added-laps, added-payoff event for the Street Stocks, as the multi-track NHSTRA brings its Battle for The Belt series to town.
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Sep 1, 2020 | Monadnock, NH Race Tracks
BONSIGNORE TOPS WHELEN MODS, FIRST OF YEAR FOR KIMBALL IN HOMETRACKERS SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, AT MONADNOCK
By Gary Dutton (Track Writer)
WINCHESTER, N.H. – Justin Bonsignore has Monadnock Speedway pretty well figured out. Sunday, the Empire State star won the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Wade Cole Memorial 200 at the storied high-banked quarter-mile.
It was Bonsignore’s third Whelen Tour victory at Monadnock, duplicated big scores here in 2013 and 2014, the latter the famed all-green 200-lapper. When Bonsignore won that one, in fact, Sunday’s main event namesake, Wade Cole, was in the field, as was open-wheel legend Ted Christopher.
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Sep 1, 2020 | Claremont Speedway, NH Race Tracks
HIRSCHMAN $10K WINNER, FELLOWS FINDS MAGIC AUGUST 28 AT CLAREMONT
By Gary Dutton
CLAREMONT, N.H. – He’s often referred to as Big Money Matt, and Friday at Claremont Motorsports Park Keystone State super star Matt Hirschman showed why.
Fighting through all kinds of early-event adversity, Hirschman passed rising star Matt Kimball on lap 70 of the Maurice Enterprises 100 main event to earn the $10,000 winner’s purse.
He’d been ricocheted into the turn two wall in his heat race, looked mediocre at best for half his consi, but then found his stride when the big bucks were on the line.
Promoter Mike Parks, with major support from hometown businessman Maurice Hurd, put a dandy together. With the Thrasher Road speedplant’s largest crowd in decades on hand for the big show, Hirschman and the other 25 Open Modified starters – 33 teams attempted to qualify – staged a classic battle.
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Aug 27, 2020 | Claremont Speedway, NH Race Tracks
MAURICE ENTERPRISES OPEN MODIFIED 100 FRIDAY AT CLAREMONT
CLAREMONT, N.H. – It is, without doubt, one of the biggest race’s of the year at Claremont Motorsports Park.
The Maurice Enterprises 100 comes to town this Friday, August 28, when the top Open Modified teams in the Northeast will converge on the storied third-mile speedplant, all gunning for the $10,000 winner’s purse up for grabs in this huge event.
Paying $1,100 just to qualify and take the green in Friday night’s big event, this one is drawing the best in the business. Among those already signed up for this one are a virtual who’s who of Modified racing. Matt Hirschman, John McKennedy, Ron Silk, Andy Jankowiak, Chuck Hossfeld, they’re all in, along with Les Hinckley, Kirk Alexander, hometrack star Brian Robie, and many more.
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Aug 25, 2020 | Claremont Speedway, NH Race Tracks
SONNHALTER WINS BELT RACE, FELLOWS NOW 25-0 AT CLAREMONT
Claremont Motorsports Park August 21 event story
By Gary Dutton
CLAREMONT, N.H. – It rained cats and dogs, just like Hurricane Katrina; it rained Friday at Claremont Motorsports Park. Later, the lights went out, and still later, the fog rolled in.
But when all was said and done, Aaron Fellows had won his 25th consecutive feature race at Claremont Motorsports Park. Not to be outdone, Dave Greenslit earned his sixth victory lap of the summer, both Zach Richardson and Jeremy Blood stayed red hot, and Matt Sonnhalter topped the Mini Stock 50-lapper, all Friday after the rain had stopped.
For thousands of years, Claremont motorheads have known that as long as Mt. Ascutney can still be seen rising beyond turn two, racing high on Thrasher Road will go on. Friday, with the pits nearly full, the mountain suddenly disappeared but, after a half-hour-plus super soaking, there it was again.
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Aug 25, 2020 | Monadnock, NH Race Tracks
BYRNE, PATNODE SPLIT MODIFIED TWINS SATURDAY AT MONADNOCK
By Gary Dutton (Track Staff Writer)
WINCHESTER, N.H. – There was no dominant driver in Saturday’s Modified twinbill on the high banks of Monadnock Speedway.
Ben Byrne (Deerfield, Ma) and Todd Patnode (Swanzey, NH) each won a 35-lap NHSTRA feature but, like everyone else in the 22-car field, took a beating in one or the other go-rounds.
Tough nights? They were abundant, Trevor Bleau was bounced around to 16th and 14th place finishes, and Matt Kimball, although second in the nightcap, left the track knowing he could have won both races.
Street Stock ace Tommy O’Sullivan (Wilbraham, Ma) earned his first victory lap of the summer August 22, while Aaron Fellows won his track-high ninth 2020 main event. Timmy Leblanc (Hinsdale, NH) scored his second victory, and Chris Davis (Winchester, NH), who’d blown up three engines the previous four weeks, also won for the second time.
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