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| Brian Robie |
Winchester,
NH – After a three week delay due to wet grounds, rain and construction delays,
Monadnock Speedway dropped the green flag on their forty-ninth racing season
Saturday night. This year’s season opening event was the O’Reilly Auto Parts
Spring Dash 100 featuring for the first time, The Granite State Pro Stock
Series supported by Monadnock’s six NASCAR Whelen All American Racing Series
divisions.
As race fans
settled into the newly constructed grandstands, they were treated to
record-setting round of time trials for the Granite Stock Pro Stocks. Mike O’Sullivan of Springfield, MA, broke the
qualifying record originally set in 1994 and tied last season by two-tenths of
a second at 13.019 seconds. O’Sullivan
went to win the Spring Dash 100, but not before fans witnessed a dominating
performance by Center Conway, NH, driver, DJ Shaw who led the race from lap 17
to lap 66 when O’Sullivan to command.
Shaw spun out on 72 while in second and had to make a quick pit stop for
adjustments. Shaw’s charge to the front after pitting put him back in second
place behind race winner O’Sullivan. Joey Doiron of East Walpole, MA maintained
a quiet top five presence over the second half of the race to capture third.
Monadnock’s
premier division, the Sportsman Modifieds, kicked off their first 50 lap main
event of the season with a dominating performance by Sunapee, NH’s Brian Robie.
Robie started second, snagged the lead from pole-sitting Joel Monahan of
Whately, MA, survived five restarts and rolled into victory lane for the win.
Todd Patnode of Swanzey, NH, overcame a rare spin-out and pit stop, coming back
thru the field to take second place away from Matt Kimball of Bennington, NH.
Kimball finished third. The race was red-flagged
on lap 16 when Brian Chapin of Three Rivers, MA, got caught up in a multiple
car incident that sent his racer crashing hard into the retaining wall at the
entrance to pit road. The car left on a roll-back. Chapin walked away.
Sportsman Modifieds: Brian Robie, Todd Patnode, Matt Kimball, Ben Byrne, Joel Monahan, JT Cloutier, Keith Carzello, Scott MacMichael, Kevin Pittsinger, Alyssa Rivera, Kim Rivet, Brian Chapin, Mark Hayward, Tylet Jarvenpaa, Andy Major, Kenny Thompson
Sportsman Modifieds: Brian Robie, Todd Patnode, Matt Kimball, Ben Byrne, Joel Monahan, JT Cloutier, Keith Carzello, Scott MacMichael, Kevin Pittsinger, Alyssa Rivera, Kim Rivet, Brian Chapin, Mark Hayward, Tylet Jarvenpaa, Andy Major, Kenny Thompson
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