Riverside Speedway - Sat., July 28th

Kelly Moore Outduals Trevor Sanborn to Win PASS North Summerfest at Riverside Speedway

Richie Dearborn, 2nd; Winner Kelly Moore; & Trevor Sanborn, 2nd

PASS North Super Late Models Riverside Speedway - Saturday, July 28th Groveton, NH
1	47	Kelly Moore	Scarboough, ME	NAPA
2	29	Trevor Sanborn	Parsonsfield, ME	Cushman Competition
3	33	Richie Dearborn	Hollis, ME	Chadwick BaRoss
4	54	Johnny Clark	Hallowell, ME	Clark's Cars & Parts
5	4	Ben Rowe	Turner, ME	Richard Moody & Sons Construction Co. LLC
6	53	Alan Wilson	Hebron, ME	-
7	14	Rick Martin	Westport, MA	G. Lopes Construction
8	2	Mike Rowe	Turner, ME	P.T. Watts
9	8	Cassius Clark	Farmington, ME	EJP Pipeline Services
10	98	Adam Bates	Warner, NH	Weaver Bros. Construction
11	25	Michael Thomas	New Portland, ME
12	29d	Dave Dion	Pelham, NH	Berlin City
13	15	Stephen Berry	Gorham, ME	Gorham Sand & Gravel
14	35	Derek Ramstrom	W. Boylston, MA	West Boylston Auto Parts
15	40	Gary Bellefleur Jr.	Stetson, ME	Newport Industrial Fabrication Inc.
16	07	Mark Patten	Belmont, NH	Pats Lawn Care
17	0	Bill Penfold	Yarmouth, ME	VIP Charter Coaches
18	66	Mike Parks	Charlestown, NH	Racersbored.com
19	17	Travis Benjamin	Morrill, ME	Irving Oil

Mark Lucas, 3rd; Winner Jason Taylor; & Chris Staples, 2nd

PASS MODS Riverside Speedway - Saturday, July 28th Groveton, NH
	#	Driver	Owner	Driver Hometown
1	8	Jason Taylor	Jason Taylor	Searsmont, ME
2	5	Chris Staples	Dallas Staples	Brunswick, ME
3	9	Mark Lucas	Don Prescott	Harpswell, ME
4	12	Steve Bennett Jr.	Coleman	Buckfield, ME
5	34	Richie Morse	Richie Morse	Waterford, ME
6	03	Gary Norris Jr.	Jeff Rich	W. Gardiner, ME
7	33	Bill Dixon	Bill Dixon	N. Waterboro, ME
8	99	Jeremey McCormick	Sheldon McCormick	Brooks, ME
9	6	Troy Morse	Troy Morse	Bridgton, ME
10	29	Greg Ellis	Paul Ellis	Hermon, ME
11	01	Ronald Gooden Jr.	Ronald Gooden	Whitefield, NH
12	1	Chris Smith	James Hoyt	Scarborough, ME
13	14	Scott McDaniel	-	Livermore, ME

PASS North at Riverside Speedway by Mike Twist

Kelly Moore Outduals Trevor Sanborn to Win PASS North Summerfest at Riverside Speedway

Super Late Models Finish 150-Lap Event in Tight Formation

NAPLES, ME (July 29, 2007) – Experience beat out youth Saturday night at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, New Hampshire when the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North Super Late Models came to town for their 150-lap Miller Lite Summerfest event.

Kelly Moore, the 1995 NASCAR Busch North Series champion and the winningest driver in Busch North/Busch East Series history, stayed barely ahead of Trevor Sanborn, an up and coming Maine driver, at the finish line to take the victory.

The race saw three different drivers set the pace in its various stages. Rookie Stephen Berry led early on, Sanborn dominated the middle stages of the event and then Moore took over after passing Sanborn on lap 103.

Moore never pulled far away from Sanborn and as the laps clicked down, there was a large break-away pack of the top nine cars running nose-to-tail. At the line, the order of finish was Moore, Sanborn, Richie Dearborn, Johnny Clark and Ben Rowe.

With his top five finish, Rowe unofficially maintains the PASS North point lead over his father Mike Rowe.

The PASS North Super Late Models will return to action Saturday, August 11th in the Atlantic CAT 250 at Scotia Speedworld in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Kelly Moore Adds a PASS North Victory to His Long Resume

Summerfest Victory Comes Down to Close Battle between Veteran & Rookie

NAPLES, ME (July 30, 2007) – Kelly Moore has done a lot in his career. He’s raced at tracks from Daytona to Indianapolis Raceway Park to Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He’s set the all-time pole and victory records in the NASCAR Busch North/Busch East Series – winning his most recent event last summer at New Hampshire International Speedway. He won a NASCAR Touring championship. For years, he was even referred to by many as the “Dale Earnhardt of Maine,” thanks to his always-exciting and aggressive driving style and the fact that he would usually be driving a black Chevrolet.

Now at the age of 48, Moore is finding that there isn’t much that he has not done in his career. But somehow he found an accomplishment to add to his resume this past weekend. On Saturday night at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, New Hampshire, Moore won the Miller Lite Summerfest event for the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Model tour. It was the veteran’s first career PASS North victory.

But to Moore, the victory wasn’t about records or accomplishments. It was about having fun.

“That’s true. I never even thought of that,” said Moore after the race, when he was asked about winning in PASS North for the first time. “I just love to race. I like the competition and I like the camaraderie with the other drivers. It’s fun. If I come and have a good time, I’ll come again. If I come and don’t have a good time, I’ll just take a couple of weeks off. I just want to go race and have a good time. I don’t want to have the pressure of racing every weekend. I did that for 28 years racing for points. It wasn’t in the Cup Series, but it was weekly and in the Busch North Series from 1987 to 2005. That’s a long time.”

Moore has been running a limited schedule of PASS North events this season, and the Riverside race was one that he had his eye on from the beginning.

“We planned on coming over here,” said Moore. “At the beginning of the year, I looked at the schedule and picked out some races. I even picked out Speedway 95, but something changed and I couldn’t go there. We’re going to go to Beech Ridge; I’d like to go to Star. I like going to the races that are close – two, three or four hours away. I’d like to go to Antigonish, but I don’t like the ride. I’ve done enough of that. I’ve raced at Indianapolis Raceway Park, Darlington, Richmond and then gone back to Maine. I’ve done that weekend after weekend after weekend.”

Moore also likes the competitors that he faces on the PASS North circuit.

“These guys have all raced a long time too and they like to race and have fun,” said Moore. “They’re a great bunch of guys to race with for the most part. You’ll always have a little spat here and there, but that’s racing.”

There were no spats that involved Moore on this evening, though. Early on, rookie Stephen Barry led almost until the halfway mark. Then fellow rookie Trevor Sanborn took over the top spot and checked out to a lead that was nearly a straightaway long. Sanborn had shown promise in his heat race, when he finished second to Mike Rowe. In the feature, though, Sanborn really showed off the speed of his #29 Cushman Competition Ford while Moore paced himself.

“The car was decent, but it wasn’t a car that could run right to the front,” said Moore. “It probably would have been if I beat it up. But I like to hold on to the car and save it for the end. When I was young, I used to run the car hard. So I was trying to race the racetrack and not the other competitors tonight and that paid off for us.”

“The car was going good,” said Sanborn. “It was our first time here and it worked out well. In the heat race, I was all over Mike [Rowe], but I couldn’t quite get him. So come feature time, we wanted to show these boys what we had. I ended up getting Steve Berry on the outside on that last restart and had quite a lead on him. Then the lights went out.”

When Sanborn says that the lights went out, he means that literally. On lap 97, lights mounted on six poles in the infield went dark. The race was flagged yellow immediately and all of the competitors slowed down safely using the lighting from the grandstands and pit area as their only illumination. The problem was corrected and the race went back to green soon after.

When the race resumed, Sanborn found Moore right on his rear bumper. On lap 103, Moore dove under Sanborn to take the lead.

“Kelly got back up there and got underneath me,” said Sanborn. “We did all that we could do to hold him off. But he was fast. He had a crate motor and that was a little bit of an advantage, but it wasn’t a big deal. We just hung in there and finished second.”

Sanborn did not lead another lap in the race, but he didn’t give up either. The two fought a hard battle for the victory, leading a breakaway pack that grew to nine cars in length before the checkered flag waved.

Moore and Sanborn raced hard, providing entertainment for the fans and enjoyment for themselves.

“I tried to race him good and clean,” said Moore. “I think that he raced me clean. There was a little bit of contact there, but it wasn’t a pushing and shoving match. It was just good, hard racing and that’s the kind of racing that I like to do.”

“That was different,” said Sanborn of competing against a driver who he had grown up watching. “Kelly knows his way around the track. There’s no doubt about that. I was trying to follow him and beat him. I wanted to chase him down. I’ve watched him race since I was a little kid. That was fun.”

Little did Sanborn know it, but Moore had also been watching him as well.

“I watched him run the heat races and I thought that he did a good job,” said Moore. “I try to watch people and see what they do and don’t do. I try to see how they act and react.”

At the line, the order of finish was Moore, Sanborn, Richie Dearborn, Johnny Clark and Ben Rowe.

With his top-five finish, Rowe unofficially maintains the PASS North point lead over his father Mike Rowe.

In other PASS action at Riverside, Jason Taylor kept his #8 car ahead of Chris Staples and Mark Lucas to win the PASS Modified feature event.

The PASS North Super Late Models will return to action Saturday, August 11th, in the Atlantic CAT 250 at Scotia Speedworld in Halifax, Nova Scotia.