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SATURDAY, MARCH 26th,
2022
Hilton Garden
Inn Riverwatch in Auburn |
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2021
PASS North Champion
2021
New England North Champion
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New England South 2nd
2020
PASS North 2nd |
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Saturday, October 16th,
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3rd at OPS
A solid run to
3rd battling Dennis Spencer #12 and Curtis
Geery #7g with tires fading. After starting
12th, Johnny ran up to 5th before being
caught in the much slower outside lane on a
restart and being shuffled back to 14th. On
the move again the #54 charged up to second
as the pace set by Spencer demanded careful
tire management. With this finish Johnny has
has taken the points championship in the
PASS SLM New England North 2021 tour
division.
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Saturday, October 9th,
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10th at THE WORLD SERIES 75
A tangle
with Dave Farrington Jr. #23 while
contesting 4th
place on lap 67 drops the
#54 to the end of the field. In the
remaining eight laps Johnny battled back to
10th.
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Friday, October 1st,
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10th at THUNDER ROAD
A nice run from
last to 2nd in the heat. Heading for the
top five in the first half of the race when
the #54 suffered
extreme tire wear.
Right down to the cords at race end. No
speed in the last 75 laps for a 10th
place finish, 3 laps down. |
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Saturday, September 25th,
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25th at SEEKONK DAV
Eliminated in
the lap 4 "Big One." Travis Benjamin
turned coming out of turn 2. No place to go
for the #54 as the #7 comes across the
track. Johnny knocked into the outside wall.
A hard hit. Repairs during the rain delay
put the #54 back out to score one more lap. |
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Saturday, September 18th,
2021
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33rd
at WMMP
A great car.
Moving up from previous winner's mid-pack
starting position. Into second and then a
tangle with the #5 of Dillon Moltz resulting
in a spin on the main straight. Back up
through the pack once again. Great battle
with Joey Doiron in the #16 to take 3rd in
the closing laps. DJ Shaw in the #60 takes
the win and holds the New England South
points lead. Big points advantage for the
#54 in the PASS North Overall and the New
England North sub-series.
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5th
at the OXFORD 250
Starting from
31st, Johnny battled his way up to 3rd at
lap
178. Racing for the win with Cassius
Clark #13, Joey
Doiron #21, Derek
Griffith #12g, Curtis Gerry #7g, Eddie
MacDonald #17, and Bubba Pollard #26. 250
Top Three
finish was Cassius Clark,
Curtis Gerry, and Derek Griffith.
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Saturday, August 14th,
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13th PLACE FINISH
A suspension set-up
that just didn't work. |
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Wednesday, July 28th,
2021
for $10,000 - "Best car ever!"
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Sunday, July 11th,
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26th PLACE FINISH
Rear end faillure
put the #54 out at lap 115.
Locked the
right rear all down the back straight.
Heat win helped with points battles. |
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Sunday, June 20th,
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6th PLACE FINISH
A battle back
from 13th to 6th after a flat
at a track
where passing is tough. |
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Sunday, June 6th,
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5th PLACE FINISH
A solid run to
5th against strong competition. |
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Sunday, MAY 23rd,
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5th PLACE FINISH
Battled back
into the Top 5 after a flat on lap 94. |
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Sunday, MAY 16th,
2021
THE MAY MADNESS 150
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16th PLACE FINISH
After a tangle
on lap 83 and contact with the wall. |
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Sunday, APRIL 25th,
2021
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JOHNNY CLARK 2nd at
OPS |
Race
Report by Zach Evans, Speed51.com
-- Dave Farrington, Jr. is picking up
where he left off at Oxford Plains Speedway
in 2020, backing up a runner-up finish in
the Oxford Championship Series season opener
Saturday with a win with the Pro All Stars
Series on Sunday.
Farrington, the
defending track champion at the historic
Maine venue, flexed his muscle in the
150-lap Sunday feature, ultimately winning
by more than two seconds over defending
Oxford 250 champion Johnny Clark.
With things going so well for Farrington at
Oxford, the only thing he wants to do is
keep the momentum rolling.
"We don't
want to change a thing.," Farrington said.
"I'm happy to win here in the month of
April. Obviously, last year August was our
month. Consistency, week after week, winning
six of the last nine races here is pretty
dang impressive. It's put a target on our
back, probably more than we'd like to have."
Early in the race, Farrington was
content to ride behind Travis Benjamin and
Joey Doiron as they battled side-by-side for
the top spot. Once he was able to get around
them near the halfway mark, however, he led
the rest of the distance. All along,
Farrington wanted to lead early and often.
"We wanted to get going there in the
early part of the race there, when the 7
(Benjamin) and the 21 (Doiron) were playing
cat-and-mouse, I guess. We just wanted to
get out there and run."
Clark
finished in the runner-up spot, continuing a
strong start to the 2021 PASS North season.
With a seventh-place finish at the Thompson
Icebreaker and a win at the Northeast
Classic at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, he
has established himself as an early-season
championship favorite.
Marching
towards a record-breaking seventh PASS North
championship, Clark is relishing a
resurgence as a top-notch competitor in the
Northeast Super Late Model world.
"It
feels good. We started 11th because we won
at Loudon. Sometimes it helps to start that
far back because you get to run your own
race and don't worry about everybody else,
trying to hold position.
"There were
a couple of restarts where they'd call the
green. You can pull to the right and I never
passed before the line but no one would go.
It's Oxford, there's three grooves here. One
time I went from eighth to fourth. All of a
sudden it was fun, it's fun again. It feels
so good to be relevant and competitive
again." |
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Sunday, APRIL 18th,
2021
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JOHNNY CLARK WINS
THE NORTHEAST CLASSIC |
PASS/ACT RACE REPORT:
In the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super
Late Model National Championship race at the
Northest Classic, Hallowell, ME's Johnny
Clark got his first "Magic Mile" win after a
50-lap barnburner. Clark, the multi-time
PASS champion and reigning Oxford 250
winner, first grabbed the lead from Turner,
ME's Ben Rowe on lap eight. Clark paced the
field until the caution flag on lap 24 for
Zig Geno's spin, which saw polesitter
Brandon Barker get the jump on the restart.
After a competition caution on lap 30
for two fresh tires and adjustments, the
action really heated up. The yellow came
back out two circuits later for debris, and
on this restart, Derek Griffith made a
three-wide move entering turn to take over
the point. In the process, 11-time NHMS
winner Eddie MacDonald got shuffled out of
second spot just as he looked ready to
challenge for the victory.
Jeff White
then spun on the backstretch with 12 laps to
go for the fourth and final caution. This
time, it was Griffith getting shuffled as
Barker again leapt off the outside. Barker
led the 39th circuit before Herman, ME's
Mike Hopkins -- who'd started dead-last in
the 25-car field -- blew underneath him to
pace lap 40.
Once again, Windham,
ME's Barker found a way back to the front,
going around Hopkins entering turn one the
very next time around. Clark followed Barker
and looked multiple times to his inside over
the next six laps. With four laps to go,
Clark got the run he needed off turn two.
The veteran snatched the lead entering turn
three and then slammed the door on Barker's
crossover attempt. Clark, Barker, Hopkins,
and D.J. Shaw then ran under a blanket until
the final lap, when Hopkins' bid for second
let Clark scoot away for the victory.
Although Hopkins came up short of second
on the track, he inherited the spot in
post-race technical inspection when Baker
was disqualified for an engine infraction.
Shaw became the new third-place finisher.
Jeremie Whorff, Ben Rowe, Dennis Spencer,
Jake Matheson, Alex Labbe, Griffith, and Rowland
Robinson Jr. finished fourth through 10th. |
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THE 47th ICEBREAKER
Saturday, APRIL 10th,
2021 |
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7th Place Finish
Moderate speed in practice and a solid
heat finish.
On the lap 3 restart,
the #54's nose was heavily damaged
when the
cars ahead just didn't go at the green. |
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2020
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