Regional Notes - June 4, 2008
Fred Astle’s victory in the May 24 Coors Light Silver Cup at Seekonk (Mass.) Speedway was the first for the two-time Pro Stock track champion since 2006…Donnie Schick got his first late-model win of the season and 15th of his career on May 24 at Selinsgrove (Pa.) Speedway…Jeff Dodd won the pro-hornet feature at Macon (Ill.) Speedway on May 24, while son Zach Dodd captured the amateur-hornet feature…Robert Jeffreys, who has raced at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., for more than 30 years and is approaching 70 years old, picked up a modified victory at the historic track, winning a 100-lap feature on May 24…Ryan Larkin became the second half of a father-son combo to reach victory lane at Lebanon Valley Speedway in New Lebanon, N.Y., for the 10th time in the track’s history. Ryan’s big-block modified victory came on May 24…Max Blair, the 19-year-old son of 1997 late-model track champion Robbie Blair, earned his first Fastrak late-model feature victory May 24 at Tri-City Speedway in Franklin, Pa…On May 25, Rick Garand won for the first time in Barre, Vt.’s Thunder Road sportsman division for the first time since 1995, edging James Hebert, who was 4 years old when Garand last won, for the honors…Chad Poole set a new modified division track record May 25 with a 13.56-second trip around Shady Bowl Speedway in DeGraff, Ohio…Figure-8 racing debuted at Auto City Speedway May 25 with Chad Lamson and Duane Damon sliding across the finish line together to claim a tie for the victory in a dead heat…Andrew Bohanan won for the seventh time this season in the road-runner division at Pocola, Okla.’s Tri-State Speedway May 24…Hornet driver Ashley Lewellen broke her arm while racing at Skagit Speedway in Alger, Wash., May 23 and is out of action for an undisclosed period.