NASCAR CANADA - For the second consecutive season, TSN, Canada’s Sports Leader, will be the exclusive broadcast partner of the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Sirius Satellite Radio. TSN will nationally televise 13 one-hour broadcasts – one for each of the Series’ 13 races. Coverage gets underway on May 30 at 12 midnight ET with the Crown Jewel 200, the first race of the season, taking place on the speedy 5/8-mile oval at Cayuga International Speedway. (5-16-08)
ASA SAT - TV coverage of the inaugural series continues this week. The “Lakeland 125” at USA Int’l Speedway will make its television premiere on Saturday, May 17th, on Sports Time Ohio and Wednesday, May 21st, on SportSouth. Tim Russell won the event. (5-16-08)
MODS - For the second straight week, a 60-something racecar driver won a Modified race at Riverhead Raceway on LI, NY. FIve-time track champ and former NASCAR WMT titlist Wayne Anderson won his 31st feature Saturday night at the quarter-mile track. Anderson is in his mid-60s. Bill Park, 61, won the week prior. (5-15-08)
CW EAST - Whelen Modified Tour driver Ryan Preece has entered the NASCAR Camping World Series event at Iowa Speedway, driving for Maxie Bush Racing in the #28 Ford Fusion. (5-15-08)
TEAMS - Bob Dillner's BDI Racing team, fresh off its first-ever Super Late Model win on Saturday in the PASS South event at Motor Mile (VA), added another title to its mantle Wednesday afternoon, winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Celebrity and Media Pit Crew Challenge. Dillner (jackman), Matt "Duke" Kentfield (gasman), Bob Bachner (rear tire changer) and Dustin Archer (front tire changer) survived three tough rounds to take the overall team title, going up against teams made up of NASCAR media, local celebrities and dignitaries. Highlights of the Celebrity and Media Pit Crew Challenge will be shown during the Sprint Pit Crew Challenge on SPEED at 9pm ET Thursday. (5-14-08)
LATE MODELS - 2007 TD Banknorth Oxford 250 winner Roger Brown and joined up with team owners Mike Lux and Jerry Hicks to run a schedule of at least five or six ACT Late Model events starting on Memorial Day weekend at Thunder Road Speedbowl (VT). The Oxford 250 will also be one of the race on their schedule. The team has fielded cars for Mike Rowe and Patrick Laperle in the past and David Bath, a former Pro Stock/Super Late Model driver himself, will serve as the team’s crew chief. (5-14-08).
NEWS - Speed51.com wishes to extend prayers and condolences to the family of Jake Jacobs, who passed away Saturday at age 52. Jacobs was a long-time crew member for Andy Santerre and the ASM team on the Camping World East tour and had was hired by Dale Earnhardt, Inc. as an engine tuner this season. Jacobs was a good friend to many 51 staffers and will be missed. He leaves behind a wife and five children. (5-12-08)
SLM - Boris Jurkovic's back was bothering him before Saturday's opening night late-model feature at Illiana Speedway. He sure felt pretty good in front after it was all over, though. The former track champion was lightning fast during a main event that was run with raindrops falling out of the sky. He wound up holding off Eddie Hoffman at the finish by 0.373 seconds. 1) Hoffman 2) Hoffman 3) Dave Weltmeyer 4) Jeff Cannon 5) Mike White (5-12-08)
DIRT MODS - Danny Johnson picked up $10,000 Sunday for winning the Victoria 200 at Utica Rome Speedway in NY. Johnson passed Pat Ward with 41 laps to go and sped to the victory. The race was round #2 on the DART RoC Dirt Trail. (5-12-08)
CAMPING WORLD - PASS South regular Kyle Busch Motorsports Development Driver Alex Haase has entered the NASCAR Camping World Series event at Iowa Speedway this Sunday. (5-12-08)
CW EAST - DEI development driver Trevor Bayne was injured Friday morning in an automobile accident. The NASCAR Camping World East and Hooters Pro Cup driver was driving to the DEI shop in Mooresville, NC when he was involved in an incident that began when another car stopped on the country road. DEI told our Bob Dillner (also of SPEED) at Darlington that Trevor sustained an injury to his arm and cuts and bruises, but is not expected to miss next week’s East Series race at Iowa Speedway. He was released from at North Carolina hospital Friday evening. (5-9-08)
