PASS North 150
White Mountain Motorsports Park
North Woodstock, New Hampshire (1/4-mile oval)

Saturday, September 16 at 6:30 p.m. AT/5:30 p.m. ET

Event #: Race 9 of 13.

Race Distance: 150 laps

PASS North Point Standings - through round 8 - click here

Dale Shaw Caps Off Emotional Night with PASS North Win


Top three finishers (left to right): Mike Rowe - 3rd place; Dale Shaw -winner; Cassius Clark - 2nd place.

NORTH WOODSTOCK, NH (September 16, 2006) – Professional athletes have a lot in life they can be proud of. Football players can win Super Bowls and MVPs. Baseball players can win World Series rings. Racecar drivers can win the Daytona 500 or the Indy 500. Nothing though, not even winning the Daytona 500, can beat the feeling of being a proud parent. Being proud of your kids and their accomplishments is the greatest feeling that an adult can have.

As a racer, Dale Shaw has plenty he can hang his hat on too, including wins in Busch East and multiple other series. In fact, he is a former Busch North champion. He also won the first ever PASS North race in 2001, when he took the checkered flag at Lee USA Speedway. And while Shaw was happy to win Saturday night’s PASS North event at White Mountain Motorsports Park, it just capped off what was an incredible evening after his son, DJ, won the track championship in the Late Model Division earlier in the night.

“I didn’t’ even want to race after my son won the championship,” said Shaw. “He way exceeded my expectations in his first year in a Late Model coming right out of go-karts. I just find it unbelievable. I am so proud of him. No matter where I would have finished, it wouldn’t have mattered, but I wanted to show him that the old guy could still drive.”

While the feat for Shaw’s 16-year-old son was incredible, the PASS 150 itself was incredible in its own rite.

Shaw started third and moved his way into the lead around the outside of pole sitter Ben Rowe on lap 29. After that, it was all about Shaw. A long green-flag run allowed Shaw to open up a huge lead and put much of the field a lap down.

However, when the second caution flag of the event flew on lap 118, the tone of the race began to change. Instead of domination by Shaw, it turned into a challenge for second-place Mike Rowe and third-place Cassius Clark to catch the leader. With a few more cautions, the race for the lead was heating up. Clark moved into second, got around all the lapped cars and began to track down Shaw.

When the caution flew again on lap 143, it set up a seven-lap shootout for the win between Shaw, Clark and Mike Rowe. And a shootout it became.

Shaw and Clark raced side-by-side, with Clark taking the lead on lap 146. The two continued to race side-by-side to bring the packed grandstands to their feet. With the white-flag flying, Clark found himself in the lead. One corner later, a little bumper in the back of the 8-machine allowed Shaw to get side-by-side again. But as the two rounded turn three and four coming to the checkers, Clark got a little loose, had to back out of the gas and that allowed Shaw to pull ahead at the finish by a mere 0.083-seconds

“I was so discouraged those yellows came out there at the end because we had a big enough lead that no one was going to catch me,” said Shaw. “Cassius got around me fair and square there at the end, then he got loose coming out of turn two. I filled a hole going into three and drove it down there. It wasn’t really big enough, but I was here to win a race. That was my opportunity and that is the way it goes.”

Clark, who has five PASS North wins already in 2006, had to settle for second after charging from the 13th starting spot.

“I tried to go around him on the outside there,” said Clark. “I had a faster car. He ran into me with two to go. I didn’t even pinch him down or anything. He just ran into me and got by me. But hey, what goes around comes around.

“We were really bottled up there in traffic for a while. We couldn’t seem to pass anyone. Mike (Rowe) and I were fast, but just bottled up. I knew I had the faster car. I was hoping for a couple of restarts so that I could break through and that’s what happened.”

Clark’s charge toward the front almost ended with 20 laps to go, when he went on the outside of a three-wide situation and slammed into the frontstretch wall. He actually got on two wheels, but he was able to keep going.

“Some guy put me three wide and he drove me into the frontstetch wall. I knew the car hit square. We knew the car was fine, so we went for it.”

Rowe neglected to stick his nose in on the battle at the end and elected to settle for third to keep himself in a position to win incase the leaders wrecked coming to the flag.

“It’s just where we ran in traffic that cost us tonight,” said Rowe. “We didn’t have many yellows so we just had to take what we could get and try the holes we could. We’ll just take third and go on from there.

“Dale was strong all night. Cassius was good; both were going for the win. I saw a hole under them there on the last lap, but I couldn’t do it. I would have wrecked us all. I just let them duke it out and figured I’d settle for third. I guess that is just what comes with getting older. Years ago, I would have stuck my nose in there for sure.”

Bill Whorff was fourth and Johnny Clark kept his slim point lead intact by rounding out the top five.

Next up for the stars of PASS North is the 2nd Annual PASS 400 weekend at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine. That even runs from Friday, Sept. 22 to Sunday, Sept. 24.

Unofficial Race Results
Finish - Car # - Driver - Hometown
1. 60 Dale Shaw Center Conway, NH
2. 8 Cassius Clark Farmington, ME
3. 24 Mike Rowe Turner, ME
4, 0x Bill Whorf Jr. Topsham, ME
5. 54 Johnny Clark Hallowell, ME
6. 04 Joey Porciello Hudson, NH
7. 53 Alan Wilson Hebron, ME
8. 88 Russ Hersey Swanzey, NH
9. 4 Ben Rowe Turner, ME
10. 00 Jeremie Whorff Topsham, ME
11. 29 Scott Chubbuck Brunswick, Me
12. 75 Gary Smith Bangor, ME
13. 10x Chris Kennison Oxford, ME
14. 35r Dereck Ramstrom Worcester, MA
15. 17 Travis Benjamin Morrill, ME
16. 33 Richie Dearborn Hollis, ME
17. 1s Sam Sessions Oxford Plains, ME
18. 55 Bobby MacArthur Beverly, MA
19. 44t Trevor Sanborn Parsonsfield, ME
20. 47 Corey Williams Boothbay, ME
21. 88vt Jay Caron -
22. 20 Reudell Legendre Danville, VT
23. 37 Pete Fraser Nottingham, NH
24. 40 Eric Chase Milton, VT
25. 7 Curtis Gerry Scarborough, ME
26. 36t ALAN Tardiff Lyman, ME

White Mountain Next for PASS North as Season Winds Down

NAPLES, Maine (Sept. 14, 2006) — As race fans from all over the northeast converge on the famed ‘Magic Mile’ this weekend in Loudon, New Hampshire, teams and officials from the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North division are busy preparing for a high-stakes shootout of their own.

Point leader and 2004 champion Johnny Clark, young gun Cassius Clark and three-time and defending champion Ben Rowe will lead a full field of the fastest full-bodied cars on asphalt into the immaculate White Mountain Motorsports Park (WMMP) in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, this Saturday night, Sept. 16, for 150 green-flag laps of short track excitement.

Pit gates will open at 12:30 p.m., practice runs from 2:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. and the green flag waves at 5:30 p.m. sharp.

Among the drivers entered is Richie Dearborn, who captured the September race at White Mountain in 2005. Scott Chubbuck drove to victory on Donnie and Teri Avery’s high-banked 1/4- mile back in July, and looks to be a contender in Saturday’s 150-lap battle. Following Chubbuck across the line in July were Ben Rowe, Mike Rowe, Johnny Clark and Travis Kheil.

Cassius Clark recorded his fifth win of 2006 last Sunday in the New England Dodge Dealers 150 at the Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine. The Farmington, Maine hotshoe has been on a roll this summer, and looks to put the Team EJP/Chapman Trucking Ford into Victory Lane yet again this weekend. Clark finished 21st at WMMP in July.

The influx of drivers from the Outlaw Late Model division continues as a number of drivers will attempt to qualify for Saturday night’s shootout as they prepare for the 2007 season in the Super Late Models. Derek Ramstrom of W. Boylston, MA, who was solidly in the top ten at Beech Ridge last week when he got caught up in someone else’s mess, will be back along with Chris Staples of Brunswick, Me, Jimmy Rosenfield of Middleboro, MA, “Pistol Pete” Frazer of Nottingham, NH, and Jimmy Renfrew of Candia, NH.

Also on tap this Saturday are the final points races for White Mountain’s regular weekly divisions. Competition has been intense all season, with two divisions coming right down to the wire to decide the 2006 championships. The friendly confines of WMMP, with its high banks and smooth surface, make for some of the best short track racing seen anywhere on the planet.

The Pro All Stars Series was formed in 2001 and has enjoyed steady yet controlled growth since its inception. In 2006, the series expanded to include the PASS South division, creating an organized tour for Super Late Model/Pro Stock teams throughout the southeastern United States. Response and racer participation has been positive, and the 2007 schedule is coming together very nicely. The 2007 PASS North schedule is also nearly complete, providing some very exciting events to announce in the coming weeks.

Schedule - Saturday, September 16 - Times are local (ET)
GATES OPEN - 12:30
PRACTICE - 2:30-5:00
PASS - (2) 30 MINS.
SUPER STREETS - 10 MINS.
LATE MODELS - 10 MINS.
STRICTLY STOCKS - 10 MINS.
STRICTLY MINIS - 10 MINS.

DRIVERS MEETING - 5:10

RACES START - 5:30
SUPER STREETS - 2 HEATS - 10 LAPS
STRICTLY MINIS - 2 HEATS - 10 LAPS
PASS QUALIFYING - 4 HEATS - 15 LAPS
LATE MODELS - 3 HEATS - 12 LAPS
STRICTLY STOCKS - 2 HEATS - 10 LAPS

STRICTLY MINIS FEATURE - 20 LAPS
PASS CONSI - 15 LAPS
LATE MODELS SEMI FEATURE - 10 LAPS
SUPER STREETS FEATURE - 30 LAPS
PASS B FEATURE - 15 LAPS
LATE MODELS FEATURE - 50 LAPS
STRICTLY STOCKS FEATURE - 25 LAPS

INTERMISSION

PASS TOUR FEATURE - 150 LAPS

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