It's practically November, but it was one of the busiest weekends of racing in New England all year long last weekend.
That's due, in part, to the perfect storm of season-ending specials and unsettled weather for the last month moving the Lee Octoberfest, Wiscasset Fall Brawl and Thompson World Series all to the same Sunday.
Here's a look back at our top-5 finishers, in no particular order:
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As Jimmie Johnson prepares to survive Talladega and plan the celebration of his unprecedented fourth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title, there's little doubt.
The No. 48 team is the best in the history of NASCAR. Period.
Mark Martin said that the technical areas of the race car are where Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus thrive. The proof is obviously in the pudding.
Is Jimmie Johnson the best driver in the history of the sport?
Well, this is supposed to appear much earlier in the week, but given that it's been about seven and a half months since I last posted anything, I guess it's as good a start as any here on a very happy "Hump Day."
"The Top-5" will take a look at the five most interesting, significant or entertaining stories from the last week in the world of stock car racing, both here at home and a little further away. For the inaugural edition, we're willing to reach back through the past couple of weeks to see what we could come up with.
Here's the our top-5, in no particular order:
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Lots and lots of questions from all the faithful GWC readers, all 37 of you.
Answers? Well, those aren't exactly clear yet, but it's high time we try and fill you in on what's going to happen to the home of northern New England's unbiased motorsports coverage.
Next week, I start a new career over at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, which means I'm leaving journalism -- at least as a primary bread-winning career -- behind. What it doesn't mean is that Green-White-Checker is going to end.
Not yet.
OXFORD, Maine -- Everything was new, but it was that old familiar feeling again for driver Brian Hoar and car owner Rick Paya.
Hoar finished fourth in the New England Dodge Dealers Fall 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway on Sunday, wrapping up his sixth career ACT Late Model Tour championship over Scott Payea. Hoar posted two wins, eight top-5 finishes in 13 starts and 11 top-10s en route to his first championship since his days as a driver-owner in 2000.
"A lot of the guys that came over with me, they've never won a race, let alone a championship, after six or seven years so it's awesome for them," said Hoar, who spent most of the last decade running full-time on the NASCAR Camping World East Series with his own team. "To do it the way we did it, driving for a car owner, it's kind of a dream come true."
Continue reading "CHAMPIONSHIP FORM: Past champs Hoar, Paya unite for an ACT title run together" »
OXFORD, Maine -- Eric Williams served notice Sunday that he's more than just a Thunder Road regular.
Williams made a dream come true for himself in the ACT Late Model Tour season finale, winning the New England Dodge Dealers Fall 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway. It was the sixth career ACT win for the past Thunder Road champion, but it was the first of his career at Oxford.
The low-buck, Hyde Park, Vt., driver was happy to cross a trip to Oxford's victory lane off his career bucket list.
OXFORD, Maine -- Qualifying for the New England Dodge Dealers Fall 150 is complete. A starting lineup has been posted.
Brian Hoar will start from the pole to celebrate his sixth career ACT Late Model Tour championship. The title was unofficially decided before the teams ever got to Oxford Plains Speedway today.
The 33-car field is ready to roll, and it includes Oxford 250 winner Eddie MacDonald, as well as young New England stars D.J. Shaw in the No. 55nh usually driven by Brad Leighton and Bradley Babb in the No. 60 owned by Sally Graves and driven by T.J. Watson at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last month.
BARRE, Vt. -- Nick Sweet started on the pole. Brian Hoar and Joey Polewarczyk Jr. encountered trouble. Brent Dragon appeared on the verge of his second Milk Bowl title.
Oh yeah -- and John Donahue kissed a cow in victory lane at the 47th Chitteden Milk Bowl on Sunday at Thunder Road International Speedbowl.
Here's a look back at some of the highlights from Sunday:
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BARRE, Vt. -- Getting to the top-5 never felt like so much work.
Both Joey Polewarczyk Jr. and Brian Hoar recovered from early segment spins to finish fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 47th Chittenden Milk Bowl at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Sunday. Polewarczyk did a couple of 360-degree spins in turn four in the second segment, while Hoar was caught up in multi-car pileup in the same area of the race track in segment one.
It was, in a word, the Milk Bowl.
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On Sunday, the Graniteville, Vt., driver finally had a reason to -- placing fifth in the final segment of an entertaining 47th Chittenden Milk Bowl at Thunder Road International Speedbowl to win the title by four points over Brent Dragon. For that effort, Donahue has been named the GWC Driver of the Week for Oct. 5. Though he is a farmer by trade, John Donahue insisted that he'd never before taken the opportunity to kiss a cow.
47th annual Milk Bowl coverage
presented by Goss Dodge BARRE, Vt. -- The "moment" this time around was two-fold.
And it came after several other moments failed to live up to top billing at the 47th running of the Milk Bowl Sunday at Thunder Road International Speedbowl -- the track's crown jewel that has become as infamous for its defining moments as for its list of champions.
Unfortunately for Brent Dragon, he was wrapped into all of them -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
Continue reading "MOMENTARY SILENCE: Routine restart casts fateful dice for Dragon, Donahue" »
47th annual Milk Bowl coverage
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BARRE, Vt. -- After a month of fretting, it was no wonder that John Donahue was done thinking.
Donahue never came close to winning any of the three segments of the 47th Chittenden Milk Bowl on Sunday at Thunder Road International Speedbowl, but he didn't need to -- placing fifth in the final 50-lap segment to win his first career Milk Bowl. Donahue outscored Brent Dragon, who won the first segment, by four points to claim the title -- and earn the honor of planting the coveted kiss on the cow in victory lane.
"I'm ecstatic. What a day," said Donahue, who posted finishes of third and ninth in the first two segments. "I'm so pumped right now."
Continue reading "THINKING MAN'S GAME: John Donahue etches his name in Milk Bowl history" »
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