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The following press release is from PASS Racing, Inc.
PASS Mods Invade Oxford Saturday
(Naples, ME – May 25, 2006) The TAT Link-Belt PASS Modified Series brings open-wheel action to Oxford Plains Speedway Saturday night May 27th at 6:30 pm in the Cole-Man’s Concrete sponsored race.
After two races and two different winners, Chad Dow of Fairfield, ME at Speedway 95 in Bangor and Jason Taylor of Searsmont, ME at Canaan Fair Speedway, Canaan, NH last Saturday night, it just may be time for a another winner, and Chris Staples may be just the guy to do it.
The Brunswick driver is sitting on top of the points after two races with a slim lead over Dow and Taylor because he finished second at both Speedway 95 and Canaan, and Chris is the only driver to win a TAT Link-Belt PASS Modified race at Oxford. He took the first ever PASS Mod race at Oxford, the Cole-Man’s Concrete feature on July 3rd last year, and followed it up with a win in the July 29th race. The #5 Dallas Oil mod will be the car to watch Saturday night.
But you can’t forget the Morse brothers at Oxford. Troy’s #6 was third last week at Canaan and he and brother Richie in the #34 were on the podium with Staples in last July’s Cole-Man’s Concrete feature at Oxford.
Saturday night may also be the first appearance of Larry Emerson of Durham, ME in the #1 and Dennis Scribner of Otisfield in the #05, and we may see the 2005 season champion Wayne Allard of Stetson, ME in his first appearance of 2006 as the action gets under way at 6:30pm.
The following press release is from PASS Racing, Inc.
Staples Three-Peats at Oxford
(Naples, ME -- May 28, 2006) Chris Staples of Brunswick, ME came to Oxford Plains Speedway Oxford, ME Saturday night undefeated at Oxford in the TAT Link-Belt PASS Modified Series. Chris took both Oxford races in 2005 and was leading the points coming into Oxford with seconds at both Speedway 95 and Canaan in the two races so far in 2006.
Greg Ellis of Hermon, ME and Dana Reed of Shapleigh, ME were on the point for the green in the Cole-Man Concrete 40-lap feature. Reed took the lead down the backstretch with Ellis falling in behind him. Troy Morse slid off between turns three and four after some help and brought out the first yellow. Troy kept it going and stayed on the lead lap.
On lap 4, Richie Morse of Waterville, ME took the lead in his sharp looking #34, with Dana Grover of Waterford, ME in the #99 and Steve Bennett, Jr of Buckfield, ME in the Cole-Man’s Concrete #12 following him through.
Grover moved to the outside to test the newly applied “Ryan’s Magic Goop.” The first application was before opening day and fans saw some great two-groove racing that day with the PASS Super Late Models and in all the divisions. After all the recent rain it was decided that a second dose wouldn’t hurt, and Grover found it to his liking as he took the lead on lap 18.
A lap 19 tangle between Chad Dow and Steve Bennett brought out the second caution, and Bennett had to pit with a flat right front. Dale Cullivan of Palermo, ME in the #25 was making his first start in a TAT Link-Belt Modified, but showed he wasn’t all that rusty after several tours of duty as a U. S. Army Warrant Officer in Iraq as he spun to avoid Dow and Bennett.
On the restart, it was Grover and Morse, with Staples in his very colorful #5 and Jason Taylor of Searsmont, ME in the #8 up from their ninth- and tenth-place starting spots up to third and fourth. The top four stayed that way for several laps until Taylor finally got by Morse for third.
With five laps to go, it was still Grover with Staples side-by-side lap after lap. Taylor was lurking in third when Richie Morse and Chad Dow got together in turn one. Dow limped to the pits with a flat right front and Morse went off on the hook.
With two laps to go, Staples drove it hard into turn three on the outside and it stuck. He pulled away from Grover down the front stretch to take the win -- his third in a row at Oxford. Taylor was third, Cullivan back up to fourth from the back, young Jeremy McCormick of Brooks, ME in the #73 fifth in only his second start, Dana Reed in the #60 sixth, Dennis Scribner of Otisfield, ME in the #05 finishing his maiden voyage in a modified in seventh, Troy Morse back to eighth after the early spin, Steve Bennett, Jr ninth, and Greg Ellis tenth.
