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Posted by: MBR on Mon Jun 29th, 2020 4:55 am

Racing resumed today at Oxford (ME) Plains Speedway. 

Re: Oxford Plains:
Posted by: MBR on Mon Jun 29th, 2020 5:25 am

Oxford, ME - Nick Sweet slipped past early leader Corey Bubar near the midpoint of the of the Coastal Auto Parts Pro All Stars Series (PASS) 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway (OPS) Sunday afternoon. The win is the fifth career triumph for the Barre, Vermont driver and the second in three races of the PASS Tour in 2020. Center Conway, NH driver DJ Shaw came home in the runner up spot while Travis Benjamin rounded out victory lane in a carbon copy top three finish of the opening PASS race earlier in the month. Sunday`s race at OPS was held without fans but was broadcast by NSNsports out of Vermont.

Unlike his previous win where he started on the front row, Sweet started this contest back in the 11th position of the 33 car starting field. Getting to the front, however, was no easy task as Sweet had to get by the likes of Eddie MacDonald, Curtis Gerry and the aforementioned Bubar.

"I had to be very very disciplined with the car," Sweet said in post-race tech, " I didn`t have a lot of lateral grip so it was easy to slip the tires. Once I got myself to relax, it sort of came to me and I was able to make my way to the front." Once Sweet overtook the leaders, he withstood a brief challenge from Travis Benjamin before extending his lead to just over 3 seconds by race conclusion. "I thought I might have something for him at first, but he just drove right away from me," Benjamin said following the race.

While Sweet cruised away to victory, several intense battles were waged in his rearview. DJ Shaw was able to capitalize on lapped traffic to close in and move to the inside of the number 7 of Benjamin. The Shaw/Benjamin side by side battle took place over the last 10 laps with Shaw narrowly edging Benjamin by less than 1/10 of a second at the line. "I didn`t have a second place car," Shaw  said, "but we got a couple breaks here we are."

Behind the top three another battle waged on between the 14 of Scott McDaniel and Massachusetts driver Eddie MacDonald. While those two competitors spent the last 20 lap`s door handle to door handle and sometimes sideways, Jake Johnson closed in with a handful of laps remaining to make it a 3 car battle. MacDonald slipped going into turn one and allowed Johnson to squeeze past them both to secure the 4th spot, with MacDonald holding on to round out the top five. The back half of the top 10 was led by Scott McDaniel, Ben Rowe, Johnny Clark, Ryan Robbins who started on the back row, and early leader Corey Bubar.

source:  http://www.oxfordplains.com/index.html

Re: Oxford Plains:
Posted by: MBR on Mon Jun 29th, 2020 5:26 am

Unofficial @PASSSLM14 finish at OPS today.

Re: Oxford Plains:
Posted by: MBR on Mon Jun 29th, 2020 5:27 am

Nick Sweet tops @PASSSLM14 field for Oxford Plains win; 

Re: Oxford Plains:
Posted by: MBR on Tue Jun 30th, 2020 3:50 am

Saturday night`s Bandits Division 

Re: Oxford Plains:
Posted by: MBR on Sun Jul 19th, 2020 5:37 am

Travis Verrill wins for the 2nd time in the Bandits Division at Oxford Plains Speedway tonight

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