 For the second time in the month of June, Star Speedway will be in action on both Friday and Saturday night this weekend, June 28-29. Star Speedway’s weekly racing divisions had a scheduled off week this past weekend with both the PASS and ACT tours in town, but will be back in full force this weekend.
First up will be the second edition of this season's $5 Friday program presented by Little Billy’s Tees, featuring seven divisions of racing. Friday's division lineup will include the Pro V8 Sportsman, Crown Vic Cruisers, Junk Yard Dogs, the New England Dwarf Cars and the NELCAR Bandoleros and Legends Cars. The pit area for Friday's racing will open up at 5PM, with pit admission being $25. The grandstand area will open up at 530PM, with admission being $5 for all over the age of 11. Practice will begin at 540PM, with the first green flag of the evening waving at 6:45PM. Saturday's five-division racing program will be headlined by the Izzett Construction Late Models, who are back on hand for 50 laps. Joining them will be the Woody’s Auto Street Stocks, Bumpy's Auto Slingshots, Six Shooters and MLM Diagnostic Services Pure Stocks. The pit area is scheduled to open up at 3:30PM on Saturday for Star members, and at 3:45PM for non-members. Pit admission will be $30 for Star members and for $40 for non-members. The grandstand is set to open up at 4PM on Saturday, with admission being $15 for adults, $12 for seniors/military, and $10 for juniors. Practice will begin at 4:30PM, followed by heat racing at 6PM. To see the full schedule for both days of racing, or learn more information about Star Speedway and upcoming events, visit StarSpeedwayNH.com and follow the track on social media.
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 Epping, NH — After Mother Nature pulled all her punches throughout the morning hours, the American-Canadian Tour returned to feature racing action at Star Speedway for the first time since 2019 on Saturday afternoon. Twenty-one American-Canadian Tour teams took advantage of Friday’s open practice with ten more teams rolling through the gates Saturday morning to compete in round six of the thirteen-race ACT Tour season. In the end, the Coastal Clash certainly lived up to its name! Weather-related schedule changes were a-plenty Saturday but pushing through Cam Huntress, leading Rookie of the Year candidate Kasey Beattie and defending ACT champion D.J. Shaw pulled off the heat race victories. An extremely fast turn-around time saw the thirty-one car field take the green flag in the Coastal Clash 125, shortened from 150 laps in hopes of completing the day’s entire schedule of events. By virtue of their +2 handicap following the heats, Gabe Brown and Jimmy Renfrew, Jr. led the field to green in a firestorm across the line. While Brown led lap one, Renfrew dove under for the preferred inside groove to lead lap two with Huntress running strong in third. What looked to be a career day for the Rochester, New Hampshire driver turned sour fast with an extruding exhaust pipe deemed unsafe for competitors and patrons alike. The first caution on lap 15 for a spinning Shawn Swallow saved Huntress but did little to stall the storm out front. After a side-by-side battle at the head of the pack, Brown regained the lead on lap 23 with a ferocious battle for sixth developing in their rear-view mirrors. Bryan Wall Jr. and Ray Christian III fought door handle-to-door handle before Wall’s backsliding on the inside opened the door for Kaiden Fisher to join in. All eyes returned to the front of the pack by lap 50 with Brown and Renfrew navigating heavy lap traffic before the field slowed once again, this time for a stopped Aaron Fellows atop turn two. Brown continued to hold the lead on the restart with the battle for the middle of the top-ten continuing to be as hard-nosed as ever, now with Tom Carey III, Erick Sands and Jesse Switser joining the party. As if shot from a cannon, Switser made his way around to begin stalking D.J. Shaw in third while Brown and Renfrew continued to fight hard at the front. Where Renfrew was strong in the corners of the tough old Star Speedway asphalt, Brown made up ground on the backstretch with foot to the firewall and right-side tires nearly in the dirt lap after lap. With time running out, intensity hit an all time high. With five laps remaining Brown, Renfrew, Shaw and Switser traded lanes and paint again and again as the four top drivers gave all they had down to the final lap. Jimmy Renfrew Jr. would bring the Chad Sullivan-owned 0NH, the Eppin’ Express, across the line to take the Coastal Clash 125 with Shaw and Switser completing the top-three. A late slip found Gabe Brown in fourth with Quebec’s Alexendre ‘Fireball’ Tardif collecting fifth. Tom Carey III, rookies Fisher and Beattie, Chip Grenier and Erick Sands would round out the top-ten. Ryan Kuhn was the dominant car of the first half of Saturday's PASS Super Late Model Series event at Star Speedway, and he ended up scoring the win, but he'll be the first to admit that it looked like he was going to come up a little bit short as the race crossed the half-way point. "That was unbelievable. Kind of speechless, man," Kuhn stated in his victory interview. "[with] 25 [laps] to go, I thought we were done and out of it. I just wanted to ride back and manage my stuff for a late-race restart and we got that." In racing, you never give up, because you just never know what can happen. Saturday's race at the 0.250-mile short track in Epping, New Hampshire, was a prime example of that fact. Series points leader DJ Shaw and the hard-charging Derek Griffith muscled past Kuhn during a restart around the mid-way point of the race. And from there, it was the Shaw and Griffith show. The battle between the two racers was entertaining as all get out, and everything you'd expect from two of Super Late Model racing's best, that is until both drivers went over the line during their duel, and ruined each other's hopes of winning the race. Griffith shoved his way to the lead with 17 laps to go, but Shaw wasn't a fan of the move, and gave a shot of his own right back to Griffith heading into the next set of turns. The contact from Shaw sent Griffith spinning from the lead, and the caution flag would come back out. Shaw was now the leader of the race, but under the yellow, race control would penalize Shaw with an end of line penalty for the contact, which caused Griffth to spin out. This handed the lead to Joey Doiron, and Kuhn, who all of a sudden had new life, was alongside on the front row. Kuhn would snag the lead away with 16 laps to go, and he would hold off Doiron's final charge on a restart with 12 laps remaining to take the victory. "Oh man, that was one heck of a battle with Joey there. You know, he's one of the best around," Kuhn gushed about his competitor for the race win. For the 24-year-old native of East Bridgewater, MA, the win was the culmination of perserverance through some tough times recently on the race track. The 2022 PASS North Super Late Model champion concluded his victory interview by thanking his team for sticking by him through thick and thin. "I want to thank my whole crew for sticking with me," Kuhn stated. "These last few weeks, really few months, have been really rough. We really needed this one." The official margin of victory for Kuhn was 0.550 seconds over Doiron, the 32-year-old racer from Berwick, ME. While Doiron, the 2015 PASS Super Late Model Series National Champion, failed to take the win on Saturday, he did pick up his second best finish of the 2024 season through the season's opening five events. Gabe Brown, who was disappointed by a fourth-place finish after a rough and tumble battle with Jimmy Renfrew Jr. in the ACT Tour event earlier in the afternoon, came home third in the race, and Shaw rallied from the rear of the field to finish fourth. Bryan Kruczek scored a top-five in the No. 5K machine, and Griffith's rally back through the 15-car field stalled out with a sixth-place finish. While the ACT Tour, PASS MODS, and PASS Super Late Model events were successful in dodging the threatening weather in the area throughout the afternoon, the skies finally opened up just as Kuhn concluded his victory interview. The Coastal Clash 125 Star Speedway – Epping, NH Saturday, June 22, 2024 UNOFFICIAL RESULTS 1. 0NH Jimmy Renfrew Jr. Candia, NH 2. 04VT DJ Shaw Center Conway, NH 3. 25NH Jesse Switser W. Burke, VT 4. 47NH Gabe Brown Center Conway, NH 5. 21QC Alexendre Tardif Notre Dame des Pins, QC 6. 5MA Tom Carey III New Salem, MA 7. 18VT #Kaiden Fisher Shelburne, VT 8. 45NH #Kasey Beattie St. Johnsbury, VT 9. 9VT Chip Grenier E. Barre, VT 10. 36NH Erick Sands Derry, NH 11. 27MA Chase Curtis Rutland, MA 12. 77NH Bryan Wall Jr. E. Kingston, NH 13. 97NH Joey Polewarczyk Hudson, NH 14. 27NH Cam Huntress Rochester, NH 15. 55MA Randy Cole Middleton, MA 16. 03MA Derek Gluchacki Dartmouth, MA 17. 17NH Kyle Goodbout Lincoln, NH 18. 7MA #Jeremy Sorel Westfield, MA 19. 29ME Cole Robie Windham, ME 20. 73MA #Cole Littlewood Orange, MA 21. 04NH Shawn Swallow Groveton, NH 22. 11QC Claude Leclerc Lanoraie, QC 23. 03QC Sebastien Couture Kannapolis, NC 24. 33QC Remi Perreault St. Paul, QC 25. 10NS Nathan Leclair Fremont, NH 26. 46x #Taylor Hoar South Hero, VT 27. 31CT Ray Christian III Uncasville, CT 28. 2NH Adam Lovejoy Sanford, ME 29. 29NH Aaron Fellows Croydon, NH 30. 98MA Ryan Flood Sandwich, MA 31. 41QC Jonathan Bouvrette Blainville, QC  With a full schedule of racing on both Friday and Saturday night this past weekend, Star Speedway was a busy place. A total of 12 divisions took to the Epping, New Hampshire, oval over the course of two days and some new drivers added their names to the list of Star Speedway winners.
The weekend’s action kicked off on Friday night with seven divisions of racing on hand on $5 Friday’s presented by Little Billy’s Tees. The Pro V8 Sportsman, Crown Vic Cruisers, Mighty Trucks, 603 Mini Cups, Junkyard Dogs, NELCAR Legends and Bandoleros were all on hand. The Pro V8 Sportsman saw Jimmy Renfrew Sr. grab the feature win over Matt Robinson and Mitch Wendell. The Crown Vic Cruisers saw veteran Patrick Tanguay take top honors, while the Mighty Truck main event was won by Dave Lamson. The 603 MiniCups saw Ken Goodrow find victory lane, and Nick Woodside topped the competition in the Junk Yard Dogs. In NELCAR competition, Cole Robie won the Legend race, while Bryson Robidoux took top honors on the Bandolero division. Saturday night's racing program saw the Izzett Construction Late Models back on track in consecutive weeks for a 50-lap main event. This event, drawing over 20 cars, was the final tune-up for teams before the return of the American-Canadian Tour on June 22. Joining them were the Woody’s Auto Street Stocks, Bumpy's Auto Slingshots, the Six Shooters, and the NEMA Lites. During Izzett Construction Late Model action, Jimmy Renfrew Jr. grabbed the win over Eric Sands and Jarret Curtis. The Woody’s Auto Street Stocks had a first-time winner on Saturday, as former Six Shooter champion JT Cashman topped the field. Veteran Rob MacRae crossed the stripe second, with Charlie Baldwin rounding off the podium in third. Kris Knox took top honors in the Bumpy's Auto Slingshots main event, while Jacob Vaughn and Jenna Beaulieu rounded out the top there. The Six Shooter main event saw Adam Knowles take the win, following him to the line was Justin Goudreault, while Ryan Partridge rounded off the podium in third. Ben Mikitarian was the winner in NEMA Lite competition. Star Speedway will be back in action on Saturday, June 22, for a night that will include the return of the American-Canadian Tour & the Pro All Star Series for the first time in many years. For more information on this event and upcoming races, visit us online at StarSpeedwayNH.com and follow us on Facebook.  Star Speedway is back in action this coming weekend, with two days of the areas best short track racing on tap for both Friday June 14th and Saturday June 15th.
For the first night of this weekend’s racing doubleheader, the Friday night June 14 schedule has seven divisions of short track action on tap. The Friday night card will have the Pro V8 Sportsman, Crown Vic Cruisers, NELCAR Legends and Bandoleros, Mighty Trucks, 603 Mini Cups, and Junk Yard Dogs all on track. Friday racing is presented by Little Billy’s Tees and is just $5 to get into the grandstands. Friday’s schedule will have pit gates opening up at 5PM, with pit admission being $25 for all. General admission is set to open up at 5:30pm with admission being $5 for all. Practice is scheduled to begin at 5:45pm, with the first green flag of the night to wave an hour later, with heat racing at 6:45pm. The Saturday night June 15th, slate will be headlined by the Izzett Construction Late Models, who are in action on consecutive weekends for the first time this season. This is the final tune-up for local teams before the return of the American-Canadian Tour next week. The Woody’s Auto Street Stocks are also back on track, joined by the Bumpy’s Auto Slingshots, Six Shooters, and NEMA Lites, who are in town. Saturday’s action will begin with pit gates opening up at 3:30PM for Star members, 3:45PM for non members, pit admission will be $30 for members, $40 for non members. General admission is set to open at 4PM, with admission pricing being $15 for adults, $12 for seniors/military, and $10 for juniors. Practice for Saturday's racing will begin at 4:30pm, with the first green flag for heat racing beginning at 6PM. For more information on either event this weekend or upcoming events, visit StarSpeedwayNH.com or follow us on social media.  JOSLIN, FISETTE & FLAHERTY ALSO CLAIM SATURDAY NIGHT CHECKERS AT STAR SPEEDWAY
The Izzett Construction Late Models were on the Saturday, June 8 schedule for their second race of the 2024 season at Star Speedway. This time out, it was Connor McDougal who topped the competitive field of drivers to claim the win. McDougal was able to best his opening day Late Model finish of second with a win Saturday, as he grabbed his first Star Speedway win of the 2024 season. Colby Meserve drove his mount to a second place finish behind McDougal, with Chase Curtis rounding off the podium with a third-place effort. Defending Woody’s Auto Street Stock track champion Shane Gendron proved himself the man to beat Saturday, as he found his way to Start victory lane at nights end. Charlie Baldwin backed up a Street Stock win last time out with a runner up this weekend, as he crossed the stripe second, with another previous 2024 winner, Joey Ventrillo, in third. Patrick Joslin was another driver who grabbed his first Star Speedway win of the 2024 season on Saturday, as he claimed checkers in the Six Shooter main event. Kody Parker was next across the line behind Joslin at races end, with Adam Knowles rounding off the podium in third. In the MLM Diagnostic Services Pure Stock feature event it was Kayden Fisette who crossed the line first on the final lap taking home the feature win. Former Star Pure Stock Champion George Riley Jr had another consistent run, as he claimed the runner-up spot behind Fisette, while Sean Nadeau finished the main event in third. Bella Flaherty was able to claim her second Star Speedway win of the 2024 season in the Crown Vic Cruiser feature on Saturday. Veteran driver Patrick Tanguay had a strong run claiming runner up honors on the night, while Jake Michaud rounded off the podium in the third spot. Star Speedway will be back in action for a double-duty weekend of racing on June 14 and 15. Friday is the first $5 Friday night racing of the season, while Saturday welcomes the NEMA Lites, Late Models and more to town for a feature night of action. For more information on upcoming events, visit StarSpeedwayNH.com.  With summer fast approaching, the action has been heating up at Star Speedway, and it will continue with five divisions of weekly racing on tap this Saturday, June 8.
The Izzett Construction Late Models return this weekend after a few weeks off for 50 laps. Also on the card will be a MLM Fast 40 event for the Woody’s Auto Street Stocks. Back on track again this weekend will be the Six Shooters, MLM Diagnostic Services Pure Stocks, and the Crown Vic Cruiser division. Saturday's schedule will kick off with pit gates opening for Star members at 3:30pm, and at 3:45pm for non members. Pit Admission will be $30 for Star members, and for $40 for non-members. Practice will begin at 4:30pm, with the first green flag of the afternoon set to wave at 6pm for qualifying. Grandstands will open up at 4pm, with admission being $15 for adults, $12 for seniors/military, and $10 for juniors. For the full schedule for Saturday and more information on all upcoming Star Speedway events, visit StarSpeedwayNH.com. RYAN BATTLE WINS MARCO TURCOTTE MEMORIAL, BALDWIN, SOUTHER, CHILDS, AND RILEY ALL CLAIM WINS6/3/2024  Star Speedway was back on track Saturday, June 1st, with five divisions of weekly racing. Following a scheduled weekend off to celebrate Memorial Day, the N.E. Concrete Foundations 350 Supers headlined the schedule with a special 40-lap feature in honor of Marco Turcotte.
Joining the 350s on Saturday were the Woody’s Auto Street Stocks, Bumpy’s Auto Slingshots, Six Shooters, and MLM Diagnostic Services Pure Stocks. In Supers action, Ryan Battle topped the competition in Star Speedway’s premier division. The young Massachusetts driver notched his first win of the 2024 season in the Marco Turcotte Memorial race. Defending Star 350 Supers champion Jeffrey Battle crossed the line second behind his brother, while Rusty Poland rounded off the podium with a season best effort in third. Charles Baldwin picked up right where he left off two weeks ago, as he made it two in a row in Woody’s Auto Street Stock action. Veterans R.D. MacRae and Rob DeAlmeida both had solid nights on Saturday, with both ending their race on the podium. In the Bumpy’s Auto Slingshot main event, Dwight Souther Jr. took home top honors for the first time in 2024 over a top-three filled with Star Trooper alumni. Jaxson Filippone and Jenna Beaulieu were both on the podium with Souther at the end of the feature. Paul Childs continued a string of strong finishes to start his season Saturday, and he claimed his first Star Speedway Six Shooter win of 2024 in the process. Former MLM Diagnostic Services Pure Stock champion George Riley Jr. topped all comers on Saturday and took home the win in the division's main event. Jameson Ritter and Daryl Quinlan joined him on the podium. Star Speedway will be back in action on Saturday, June 8, with another full night of racing. For more information on upcoming events, visit StarSpeedwayNH.com and follow the track on social media. |
