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From the
PASS MELTDOWN Race Report: In the Top 10
qualifiers redraw, Derek pulled the outside
pole.
On a very cold and brisk afternoon,
Tyler Dippel and Ramstrom led the 31 car
starting field to green. Dippel would lead the
first five laps before Ramstrom moved by in turn
three to take the lead.
Following a
caution for a spin by Karl Weber in turn two on
lap 31, Ramstrom and Austin Wayne Self would
lead the field back to green for the restart.
Self got a good start on the outside as the
field roared into turn one.
Ramstrom
battled back on the low side, but spun exiting
turn two in front of the entire field. The cars
of Brandon Lynn, David Garbo, Jr., and Jeff
Batten all made hard contact as they tried to
avoid Ramstrom. All four drivers were eliminated
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Super Late Model
Racing’s Best Prepare for Mason Dixon
Meltdown at
Southern National |
CHARLOTTE, NC
(November 7) – As has been customary for the Pro
All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Model
division, the season will once again conclude
with the running of the 9th Annual Mason Dixon
Meltdown on Saturday, November 15 at Southern
National Motorsports Park in Kenly, NC. Some of
the best short trackers from Canada to Florida
are busily preparing their machines for what
will be, for many of them, the final race of a
long campaign.
One driver looking to cap
off a pretty stellar 2014 season is Worcester,
Massachusetts native
Derek Ramstrom. During the late summer
and early fall, Ramstrom went to victory lane in
two of New England’s most prestigious events,
the PASS 300 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway and
the World Series of Stock Car Racing at Thompson
Speedway in Connecticut. Following a successful
5th place outing with the Petit Motorsports team
last weekend at Caraway Speedway’s North-South
Shootout, Ramstrom is encouraged to return to
his family owned team for another outing at
Southern National.
Full Story on the
PASS site.
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Due to the
impending weather, the
North-South Shootout
at Caraway Speedway has been rescheduled to this
Sunday, November 2nd.
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Place Finish in the Mod Race< |
Pos. No. Driver
1 6 Ryan Preece
2 60 Matt
Hirschman
3 15 Ron
Silk
4 4 Jason Myers
5 35 Derek
Ramstrom
6 22 Chuck
Hossfeld
7 5ct Chris
Pasteryak
8 09 Andy
Seuss
9 79 Spencer
Davis
10 77 Gary
Putnam
11 21 Tony
Hanbury
12 3 Daren
Scherer
13 1 Burt
Myers
14 21 Tommy Neal
15 9 Tommy
Barrett Jr.
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Finish in the SLM Race< |
Pos. No. Driver
1 74 Ryan Moore
2 52 Chris
Bell
3 98 Jody
Measamer
4 4n Ben
Rowe
5 7r Derek
Ramstrom
6 129 Spencer
Davis
7 5s Dalton
Sargeant
8 28 Jared
Irvan
9 4 Brandon Lynn
10 66 Zane
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Derek is running in both
the PASS SLM 150
& the TOUR TYPE MOD 125
races |
- In Friday afternoon
time trials Derek is
24th out of 27 cars in
SLM and
11th out of 15 cars in Tour Type
Mods.
- Derek is in the #7r SLM owned by
Petit Motorsports and the Ramstrom #35 Mod. |
Cover-It-Live
Trackside Now and Pay per View TV
of the
action both available at
Speed51.com |
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THE WIN
IN THE
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Derek Takes the Heat #1 Win on Sat.
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Derek in line for time trials for
the
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
just
before the rain came Sat. afternoon.
After
the track dried out, Derek
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D. Anthony Venditti Memorial
Sunday, October 5th |
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Hot off the biggest win
of his career in the Pro All Star Series 300 at
Beech Ridge Speedway in Scarborogh Maine, Derek
Ramstrom arrived to try the D. Anthony Venditti
Memorial 100 and came away with another big win
and the $5K check to prove it. Ramstrom has
spent time on the Seekonk bullring and was able
to convert it to a big win, despite being
knocked out of the lead in a spin with Tom
Scully, Jr. on Lap 20. Ramstrom worked his way
back to fourth to find Scully in fourth and 30
laps remaining. Ahead of Scully was 2014 champ
Kenny Spencer and leading was multichampion Dave
Darling, who excels at winning extra-lap
features.
Ramstrom steeled himself,
navigated past Scully, then set out after
Spencer. Spencer had been hunting down Darling.
He was rebuffed in a lap 82 restart and Ramstrom
came forward to take him on. He dropped below
Spencer on lap 86 and then went to second just
before Kevin Folan got into turn four dirt and
Bob Hussey spun on the loose sand kicked into
the turn.
Darling and Ramstrom set
upw tiht Spencer and Dick Houlihan at their
backs. Darling pulled away fast and Ramstrom
used Darling’s technique of dropping under for
the pass but was unable to convert. The field
strung out with Ramstrom a half car back.
Ramstrom looked under again and Darling got
loose in the turn. Derek leapt in and they went
door-to-door on lap 95. A lap later, he had his
nose past Darling and he continued to edge
forward.
Darling looked for the
cross under on lap 97 but Ramstrom held him off.
They battled nose-to-tail through the white flag
lap and Darling gave him a quick punt in the
last turn, but Ramstrom held it straight and ran
across the stripe just .144 seconds ahead.
Spencer roared across on Darling’s tail with
Houlihan and Dean Petty rounding out the top 5.
It had been a tough race
with 16 cautions spread across the 100 laps. The
longest stretch of racing was 16 laps, between
laps 66 and 82. The first quarter of the race
saw eight cautions slow progress down to a
crawl, even though the first ten laps ran fast
and smooth.
Dean Petty jumped off the
outside pole Into the lead with polesitter
Angelo Belsito on his trail. Ramstrom, strating
third, dueled with Belsito and took second on
the lap 10 restart, following Petty underneath.
Radical Rick Martin engaged Belsito over second
and Mike Brightman fought it out with Tom Scully
Jr. behind them. Ramstrom got under Petty and
took the lead out of turn four on lap twelve.
Martin kept Petty outside and grabbed second
before Belsito spun in turn four on lap 15.
Scully went under
Ramstrom on the restart from low in the second
row; there was contact and they spun to the
infield off turn three, sending both to the rear
as a host of cars ran to the pits for repairs.
Vanasse had worked his
way up from tenth and was next to lead,
outrunning Martin on the restart. He held the
front to lap 44, dodging with Darling for the
distance. This involved three restarts until
Jake Vanada spun in turn one of lap 44.
Vanasse and Darling went
door-to-door with Martin and Spencer doing the
same behind them. Vanasse began to experience
difficulties with his car and went backwards,
almost taking Spencer up to the wall. Martin
also went off pace and Spencer almost was victim
again, but avoided both hazards with some
miraculous driving skills. This set Darling free
to take the 50-lap cash prize. And he headed off
to a 15-car lead over Vanasse, who had
recovered. It was another 20 cars back to
Scully, Kevin Casper, Spencer and Martin.
Darling was into his first lapped traffic on lap
54.
Caution flew as Hussey
got sideways on the track in lap 57 then limped
to the pits.
The restart saw Darling
escape Vanasse. Scully and Vanasse battled for
position, but Spencer saw an opportunity and
went underneath and into second on lap 60.
Vanasse’s problems returned and he began to
backslide. He went to the pits on lap 64.
Lap 66 saw Martin spin
out of turn two and Folan was around just
beyond. Ryan Lineham ended up by the backstretch
wall with extensive front end damage. He was
towed to the pits. Now Darling and Spencer would
lead the restart. But Scully had toiled back to
the front and was below Houlihan in the second
row, and Ramstrom was behind him, inside Tom
Scully, Sr.
Petty had come back to
seventh, restarting alongside Casper.
Darling pulled away but
Spencer began to chase him down. Ramstrom pulled
up to Tom Jr.’s bumper then went under to third
and set off after Spencer.
It
took him 15 laps to get past Spencer and another
ten to best Darling for the lead. Another wild
four laps, with Darling emptying his bag of
tricks to take the front back and Ramstrom had
won the Fall Spectacular 100.
Brightman grabbed sixth and Scully, Jr. seventh.
Vanada followed and Larry Gelinas, Belsito,
Folan, Billy Brady, Hussey, Davis Silvia and
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DJ SHAW #60
SECOND & AUSTIN THERIAULT #57 THIRD
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13th at PASS South Orange County |
At the first
2014 race for the Super Late Model, the #35 was
strong right from unloading from the trailer for
Friday practice. With just a few changes Derek
was able to run in the top five on the time
sheets.
During the last practice session
the panhard bar broke. That causied the drive
shaft to snap in half, which crushed an oil line
by the drive shaft hoop. Luckily Jay Folgeman
(who ran the #35 to third in the Oxford 250 in
2013) let the team use his race shop in Durham,
NC to insure the repairs were complete and the
setup was perfect. The work went well, but it
was a 2 AM finish time.
Next day at the
track car felt good, ended up timing 4th place.
After the Top 10 redraw, Derek started in fifth.
The #35 ran well for the first 60 laps.
But then the motor started to skip consistanly
with a possible ignition issue. Derek dropped
back to about 10th at one point in a tough race
where half of the 28 starters had retired by the
100 lap mark.
On lap 119 the motor first
loaded up coming out of turn two and then
cleared out, causing the car to get sideways and
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SEASON SHAPES UP |
Derek plans on
putting most of the focus in 2014 on the PASS
Super Late Model program. The team will head
down to Rougemont, NC for a PASS South 150 lap
event at Orange County Speedway for Derek's
first race of the season.
Highlights of
the PASS SLM season will be the Oxford 250 and
the Southern Maine Motors 300.
Derek has
had only one test ride in a Tour Type Modified
before this year. So a limited Modified schedule
is planned to
start slow and shake out the
cob webs. The first events will be two races
that are part of the new Tri-Track Open Modified
Series - May 11th at Lee and June 14th at
Star. The third race will be at Seekonk on Open
Wheel Wednesday on July 23rd.
The first
NASCAR Whelen Modified Series race with the big
boys will be June 21st at the Waterford
Speedbowl. Two Thompson (including the World
Series) and one Stafford Whelen races will
follow later.
October 4th will see Derek
at the DAV Fall Classic SLM open race where
Derek posted a Win in 2012 and a 2nd in 2013.
Derek is shooting for a couple of PASS wins
in 2014 after mechanical failures and some bad
luck marked the 2013 PASS effort.
The
Ramstrom Racing Team has been working hard all
winter to better prepare the #35 SLMs and MOD
for an exciting race season.
Our thanks
go out to Matthews Truck Service and Towing of
Sterling, MA for their support. The help
preparing the cars and the continued funding of
expenses makes it possible for Ramstrom Racing
to compete this season. |
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matthewstruck
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SLM = Super Late Model
MOD = Tour Type Modified |
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April 5th - Orange
County Speedway
Rougemont, NC -
SLM
PASS South
The
Orange Blossom Special 150
May 10th - Star Speedway
Epping, NH - SLM
PASS North 150
May 11th - Lee USA
Speedway
Lee, NH -
MOD
Tri-Track Open Modified
Series
Bullring Bash 100
May 24th - White Mountain Motorsports Park
North Woodstock, NH -
SLM
PASS
North
Littleton Chevrolet Buick 150
May 31st - Southern National Motorsports Park
Lucama, NC - SLM
PASS South
The
Dogwood Blossom 150
June 14th - Star
Speedway
Epping, NH -
MOD
Tri-Track Open Modified
Series
SBM 125
June 21st - Waterford Speedbowl
Waterford, CT
- MOD
NASCAR Whelen Modified
Tour
Mr.
Rooter
161
July 20th - Oxford
Plains Speedway
Oxford, ME -
SLM
PASS
North/National
The Oxford 250
July 23rd - Seekonk Speedway
Seekonk, MA -
MOD
Open Wheel Wednesday
Tri-Track Open Modified Series
Modified
Madness 100
Aug. 9th - White
Mountain Motorsports Park
North Woodstock, NH
- SLM
PASS North
150
Aug. 13th - Thompson
Speedway Motorsports Park
Thompson, CT -
MOD
NASCAR Whelen Modified
Tour
Budweiser King of Beers 150
Sept. 14th - Beechridge Motor Speedway
Scarborough, ME -
SLM
PASS North/National
Southern Maine Motors 300
Sept. 28th - Stafford Speedway
Stafford
Springs, CT - MOD
NASCAR Whelen Modified
Tour
NAPA Fall Final 150
Oct. 4th - Seekonk Speedway
Seekonk, MA -
SLM
D. Anthony Venditi
Fall Classic
Oct. 19th - Thompson
Speedway Motorsports Park
Thompson, CT -
MOD
NASCAR Whelen
Modified Tour
World Series 150
Nov. 15th-
Southern National Motorsports Park
Lucama, NC
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PASS
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Former Thompson Speedway Super Late Model
champion and Pro All Stars Series regular Derek Ramstrom
has built a reputation as a driver to be reckoned with
in full-bodied racing across New England and beyond. But
the West Boylston, Mass. driver is ready to dip a toe
into the waters of open wheel racing.
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