OXFORD, Maine — Nineteen-year-old Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. wiped away two months of bad luck with a dominant American-Canadian Tour victory in the Dunkin’ Donuts 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway Saturday night.
Polewarczyk won the season-opening ACT Late Model Tour event at Lee (N.H.) Speedway in April, but finished no better than 18th over the next five events.
“We’ve been competitive and we’ve always had a fast car, we’ve just had no luck,” said Polewarczyk. “After the last race at Waterford, we had a team meeting and decided to try and just shake it all off and re-focus on winning races. We tried a crazy setup tonight that we’ve never run before, and it paid off. This is a huge weight off our shoulders.”
Polewarczyk took the lead from Scott Payea on lap 53, surviving restarts on laps 104 and 138 to take the victory.
Eddie MacDonald made several daring two- and three-wide passes on the far outside lane, including a move over Ricky Rolfe to take away second place with three laps remaining.
Rolfe finished third ahead of Patrick Laperle in fourth and Glen Luce in fifth.
The finish:
Joey Polewarczyk, Jr., Eddie MacDonald, Ricky Rolfe, Patrick Laperle, Glen Luce, Ben Rowe, Scott Payea, Brent Dragon, Jean-Paul Cyr, Scott Robbins, Ryan Nolin, Travis Adams, Shawn Martin, Jonathan Urlin, Joe Becker, Kurt Hewins, Randy Potter, Roger Brown II, Shawn Knight, Scott Dragon, John Donahue, Pete Potvin III, Steve Fisher, Tommy Ricker, Claude Leclerc, Jamie Fisher, Rick Thompson, Jr., Dennis Spencer, Jr., Travis Stearns, Nick Sweet, Corey Morgan, Tyler Cahoon, Trampas Demers.