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New England
Outdoor Furnace
2008 Fall Challenge
"Open Wheel Sunday"
Sunday, Oct. 26th
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Santos III Rules
at Twin State |
Claremont, NH – Showing off his
“traffic game” to perfection, Bobby Santos III won the 25-lap
Northeastern Midget Association feature at Twin State Speedway’s
Open Wheel Sunday. It was the last show of the season for NEMA.
Starting sixth, Santos drove the family #98 past early leader
Mike Horn on lap four. Adam Cantor (Cantor 7ny), who had
followed Santos to the front, assumed second less than a lap
latter. The top two remained unchanged to the checkered, two
thirds of the race run in traffic.
It was the fifth win for Santos who clinched a runner-up spot
(behind Tim Bertrand) for his dad in the car owner standings.
Nokie Fornoro (Jarret 4), 2008 champion Randy Cabral (Bertrand
47) and Joe Payne Jr., the latter in the #75 campaigned in the
past by Lou Cicconi Jr., completed the top five.
There were three restarts including two over the final four
laps. Payne got by William Wall on a lap 21 restart and then had
to defend it two laps latter. Wall (Wall 5) held on for a
hard-earned sixth.
It was NEMA’s 18th race of the 2008 season. |
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Feature - Twin State Speedway - Sun. Oct. 26th |
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Pos. |
# |
Driver |
Hometown |
Owner |
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1 |
98s |
Bobby Santos III |
Franklin, MA |
Robert
Santos Jr. |
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2 |
7ny |
Adam
Cantor |
Dix
Hills, NY |
Cantor
Racing |
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3 |
4 |
Nokie
Fornoro |
Stroudsburg, PA |
Mike
Jarret |
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4 |
47 |
Randy
Cabral |
Plymouth, MA |
Tim
Bertrand |
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5 |
75 |
Joey
Payne |
Fairlawn,
NJ |
Lou
Cicconi Jr. |
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6 |
5 |
William
Wall |
Shrewsbury, MA |
Wall
Motorsports LLC |
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7 |
P30 |
Mike
Horn |
Ashland, MA |
Mike
Horn |
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8 |
22 |
Chris
Leonard |
Pelham,
NH |
Dave
Leonard |
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9 |
87 |
Doug Cleveland |
Sudbury, MA |
Doug
Cleveland |
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10 |
21 |
Barry
Kittredge |
Marlboro, MA |
Barry
Kittredge |
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11 |
30 |
Paul
Scally |
Raynham,
MA |
Paul
Scally |
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12 |
78 |
Brian Cleveland |
Billerica, MA |
Linda
Cleveland |
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13 |
2 |
Lee
Bundy |
Kennebunkport, ME |
Lee
Bundy |
14
DNF |
77m |
Jim
Miller |
Weymouth,
MA |
Mike Luggelle |
15
DNF |
26b |
Greg
Stoehr |
Bridgewater, MA |
Greg
Stoehr |
16
DNF |
28 |
Paul
Luggelle |
Holbrook, MA |
Paul
Luggelle |
17
DNF |
9 |
John Zych
Jr. |
Mendon,
MA |
John Zych |
18
DNF |
99 |
Keith Botelho |
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Power
Point
Race Cars |
19
DNF |
45 |
Woody
Pitkat |
- |
Gene
Angelillo |
20
DNS |
77 |
Andy Shlatz |
Enfield, CT |
Mike Luggelle |
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NEMA Ends '08
Season At Twin State |
The Northeastern Midget
Association brings its 2008 campaign to a close at this
weekend's rescheduled Open Wheel Sunday at Twin State Speedway
in Claremont, NH. Although both NEMA and Twin State are among
New England's oldest racing institutions, the Midgets have run
only two features at the semi-banked third mile.
Twin State is a major challenge. Kyle Carpenter was the last
winner,
besting Joey Payne Jr. and Adam Cantor in 2005. Dave Humphrey
(1973) is the only other NEMA Twin State winner.
It is the final opportunity for teams to grab that elusive win.
Adam
Cantor (Cantor 7ny), Erica Santos (Breault 44), and Nokie
Fornoro
(Jarret 4) have had impressive runs this year. Fornoro came from
last to second last week at Thompson's World Series. Erica
Santos placed second at Waterford Speedbowl while Cantor has
been in the top five nine times.
They hope to join a win list that includes champion Randy
Cabral, Bobby
Santos III, Greg Stoehr, Payne and Jeff Abold. Coveted top-10
spots in
both the driver and owner standings are still to be determined.
Their respective championships secured, there are still things
to be
accomplished for Cabral and owner Tim Bertrand. They're after a
fourth
straight and a ninth overall win. Fornoro was the last to win
four in a
row (in was actually six straight) driving for Mike Scrivani in
1981.
The six straight tied the record for consistency established by
Joe Csiki in 1963. Csiki won 11 times that year. Fornoro won 10
of 20 in '81. |
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