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White
Mountain Motorsports Park will host a 20-event schedule in 2020
with several major touring series plus special events for weekly
divisions such as the Strictly Stock Minis.
(Mark Alan Sumner Photo) |
WMMP Sets 2020
Racing Calendar |
N. Woodstock, NH - 12-3-19 -
White Mountain Motorsports Park (WMMP) has officially set the
2020 racing schedule for teams and fans. The track's 28th season
of racing currently has 20 events planned with several additions
and changes from the previous year.
The WMMP season officially opens on Saturday, May 9. The annual
Car Show will be held at the track that morning from
10:00am-12:00pm. It will be followed by an open practice for all
divisions with post time at 6:00pm. All Saturday events will
start at 6:00pm in 2020 except for those held on major race
weekends at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The following weekend, the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super
Late Models will make their first visit of the season for a
special Sunday afternoon show. The PASS 150 presented by
7-Eleven of Lincoln, NH is slated for Sunday, May 17 at 1:00pm.
PASS will make two other visits to WMMP in 2020. Their second
150-lapper of the year in the White Mountains is Saturday, July
18. The third visit is set for Saturday, September 19, which
will also include the PASS Modifieds and Honey Badger Bar &
Grill Street Stock Series.
This season includes the return of the Modified Racing Series
(MRS) to WMMP for the first time since 2005. The 100-lap event
will be held on Saturday, July 4 as part of the Independence Day
spectacular with the annual holiday fireworks.
The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) is again making two trips to
WMMP. The Caron Fabrication Spring Green 120 is slated to
Saturday, June 13. The GoMotorsportsShop.com NELCAR Legends Tour
is also on the card that night. NELCAR will make a second visit
on Saturday, August 22.
The ACT Late Model Tour returns on Saturday, August 8 for the
third annual Midsummer 250. The $10,000-to-win event is fast
becoming one of the biggest events on the Northeast Late Model
racing schedule.
Saturday, July 25 will be a "Night for the Little Guys". Both
the North East Mini Stock Tour and Street Stock Showdown Series
will be in town for a pair of 50-lap specials. The Foley Oil &
Propane Late Models will be given the night off as they prepare
for the Coca-Cola New Hampshire Governor's Cup 150 and the
Midsummer 250 the following two weeks. The Late Models also have
100-lap specials as part of Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends,
respectively.
The Triple Crown Series for the Wells River Chevrolet Flying
Tigers returns in 2020 after a successful first season.
The three-race series will be contested on May 30, June 27, and
August 22, respectively. A Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank
Strictly Stock Mini Special is set for Saturday, September 12
while the 7-Eleven Dwarf Cars have a special event on Saturday,
August 15.
The 2020 season hits the halfway mark with the Country Camper
Midseason Championships on Saturday, July 11. The weekly
champions will be crowned at the Championship Night season
finale on Saturday, September 26.
For more information, contact the White Mountain Motorsports
Park offices at (802) 244-6963 or
media@acttour.com. You
can also follow us on
Facebook
at @WhiteMtnMotorsports.
# DAY DATE - TIME - EVENT
-- Sat April 25 - Noon to4:00pm - Practice for All Divisions
-- Sat May 9 - 10:00am to Noon - Annual Car Show
1:30 to 5:30pm - Open Practice
1 Sat May 9 - 6:00pm - Season Opener
2 Sun May 17 - 1:00pm - PASS 150
presented by 7- Eleven of Lincoln, NH
3 Sat May 23 - 6:00pm - LM Spring Board 100
4 Sat May 30 - 6:00pm - Flying
Tiger Triple Crown #1
5 Sat Jun 6 - 6:00pm - Regular Event + Kids Rides
6 Sat Jun 13 - 6:00pm - Caron Fabrication
Spring Green 120
ACT Late Model Tour & NELCAR Legends
7 Sat Jun 20 - 6:00pm - Regular + Kids Rides
8 Sat Jun 27 - 6:00pm - Flying
Tiger Triple Crown #2
9 Sat Jul 4 - 6:00pm - Modified
Racing Series 100 -
Holiday Fireworks
10 Sat Jul 11 - 6:00pm - Mid-Season Championships
11 Sat Jul 18 - 7:00pm - PASS 150
12 Sat Jul 25 - 6:00pm - North East Mini Stock Tour & Street
Stock Showdown Series
13 Sat Aug 1 - 6:00pm - Coca-Cola NH Governor's Cup 150
14 Sat Aug 8 - 6:00pm - Midsummer 250 -
ACT Late Model Tour ($10,000 to win)
15 Sat Aug 15 - 6:00pm - Dwarf Car Special
16 Sat Aug 22 - 6:00pm - Flying
Tiger Triple Crown #3 + NELCAR Legends
-- Sat Aug 29 - Track Closed for Oxford 250 Weekend
17 Sat Sep 5 - 6:00pm - LM Leaf Peepers 100 + Senior Tour Auto
Racers
18 Sat Sep 12 - 7:00pm - Strictly Stock Mini Special
19 Sat Sep 19 - 6:00pm - PASS 150 +
PASS Mods & Honey Badger Street Stock Series
20 Sat Sep 26 - 6:00pm - Championship Night
PRINTABLE 2020 WMMP SCHEDULE
PDF HERE |
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Groveton, NH's Quinny Welch, seen here following one of
his five Late Model
wins this season, was honored on Saturday as the 2019 White
Mountain
Motorsports Park "King of the Mountains". (Mark Alan Sumner
photo) |
“King of the Mountains”
Welch Leads Honorees
at 2019 WMMP Banquet |
N. Woodstock, NH - Groveton's Quinny Welch was
officially bestowed the title of 2019 "King of the Mountains" at
the 2019 White Mountain Motorsports Park Banquet of Champions on
Saturday, November 2. Welch was just one of dozens of drivers
recognized as part of the end-of-season celebration held at the
Days Inn of Lincoln, NH.
Welch had one of the most dominating seasons in Foley Oil &
Propane Late Model history en route to his fifth straight track
championship and eighth overall. The veteran won five races and
finished in the top-five of all 14 point-counting events to
easily beat out veterans Stacy Cahoon, Mike Bailey, and Oren
Remick. In fact, Welch never trailed in the standings all
season, posting an average finish of 2.36.
"It was a good year - a strong, consistent year," Welch said in
his acceptance speech. "It all comes by having a great team.
Everybody at my table helped make this possible...without a good
race car and team, I'm not going to do much."
Welch went on to thank all of his crew members, Crazy Horse
Racing for their work on his cars, his family members for their
support, and track co-owner Cris Michaud for his work the past
season. He also acknowledged Late Model runner-up and longtime
friend Stacy Cahoon as well as the entire Late Model class for
their efforts.
"The whole Late Model division this year was super," Welch
noted. "The drivers were respectful. There weren't very many
times you had to replace body panels. It's a great group of
guys."
Barton, VT's Shane Sicard was honored as the champion of the
Wells River Chevrolet Flying Tigers. Sicard won his second
straight title with a performance even more impressive than
Welch's. He won eight of the 15 Flying Tiger features with a
pair of four-race winning streaks. Sicard had an average finish
of 2.27 with no result lower than sixth.
Bethlehem's Dustin Jackson received the top award as champion of
the Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank Strictly Stock Mini's.
Jackson dueled with Ryan Ware and defending champion Adam Sicard
atop the standings for most of the season. He trailed Ware by 18
points with two races remaining. But Jackson won both of those
races - his third and fourth wins of the season - to come from
behind for the championship. He then added a fifth win in a
non-point season-ending special.
Waterford, VT's Andy Hill accepted the championship trophy for
the 7-Eleven Dwarf Cars. Hill won six of the nine Dwarf Car
features and only finished off the podium one time. It was
enough to convincingly win the title over Dave Gyger and Jason
Wyman.
Waterbury Center, VT's Jason Woodard was in attendance as the
Flying Tiger Triple Crown Series Champion. Woodard, who won the
season-long Flying Tiger Championship at Vermont's Thunder Road,
posted a win and two second-place finishes in the three-race
series. Shane Sicard and Hinesburg, VT's Cooper Bouchard were
also recognized for finishing second and third in the standings.
The entire Dads 4 By Tool & Supply Kids Truck division was also
recognized at the banquet. The youth racing class had another
great season with six different winners and exciting action at
every event, including multiple last-lap passes for the win.
A trio of special awards were also presented as part of the
festivities. Strictly Stock Mini racer Dave Driscoll of Lincoln
was given the inaugural Avery Award for his contributions to
racing at WMMP. Driscoll has involved in WMMP as a driver, car
owner, and crew member for more than 20 years. He's raced in
almost every division and has also been a crew member for
multiple championship teams. His Strictly Stock Mini team
currently fields multiple cars so family and friends can also
experience the thrill of the high banks.
Lyndonville, VT's Scott Corey received the WMMP Most Improved
Driver Award. Corey had far and away the best season of his Late
Model career in 2019. He posted his first career win in a
make-up feature on July 13 to cap a Triple Crown with heat and
semi-feature wins. Corey finish fifth in the final Late Model
standings with nine top-10 finishes.
Brett Jackson, the father of Strictly Stock Mini Champion
Dustin, was honored with the WMMP Sportsmanship Award. Jackson
and his team displayed great character both on and off the
track. He raced hard but clean and treated other competitors
respectfully while also helping them out in the pit area. He
also never let his son's championship battle affect how he drove
against him or others.
The Banquet of Champions puts an official wrap on the 2019 White
Mountain Motorsports Park season. The track office is working on
the 2020 WMMP schedule of events and division rules with hopes
to release both by early December.
For more information, contact the White Mountain Motorsports
Park offices at (802) 244-6963 or
media@acttour.com.You can
also follow us on
Facebook
at @WhiteMtnMotorsports. |
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Photo by
Mark Alan Sumner |
2019 WMMP
Season:
By the Numbers |
It's time to take a look at the numbers that defined the
White Mountain Motorsports Park season! "By the Numbers" is an
off-season feature that's been done by our Thunder Road friends
for many years, and this year, we've decided to take the deep
dive. You'll find out how many drivers had winning in streaks in
2019 (hint: it was a lot), just how dominating Quinny Welch and
Shane Sicard were, how wide an age range there was in Victory
Lane this year, and much more! Read more below and let us know
if you think there are some big numbers we missed!
(All statistics include non-point-counting events unless
otherwise noted.)
1 - Both Quinny Welch (Late Models) and Shane Sicard (Flying
Tigers) ranked first in their division's point standings for the
entire season, going wire-to-wire for their championships.
(Welch finished second in the Late Model Spring Green opener,
but this was a "show points" events so he ended the night tied
for first in points.)
1.7 - Average finish for Jason Woodard (2, 1, 2) on his way to
winning the Flying Tiger Triple Crown Series championship.
2 - Number of four-race winning streaks for Shane Sicard this
year. He won the first four Flying Tiger features of the season
and had another four-race run near season's end.
3 - Number of family duos that won features at WMMP in 2019:
brothers Shane Sicard (Flying Tigers) and Adam Sicard (Strictly
Stock Minis), father-son Brett and Dustin Jackson (Strictly
Stock Minis), and uncle-nephew Matthew and Michael Potter
(Flying Tigers).
3 - Number of drivers who had double-digit podium finishes.
Shane Sicard had 12, Quinny Welch had 11, and Dustin Jackson had
10.
3 - Ben Belanger won the Flying Tiger Triple Crown series finale
in just his third start in the division.
4 - Number of drivers that won at least five races in 2019:
Shane Sicard (8), Andy Hill (6), Quinny Welch (5), and Dustin
Jackson (5).
5 - Consecutive "King of the Mountains" titles for Quinny Welch.
He has eight Late Model championships overall.
5 - Five non-Kids Truck drivers ages 21 and under won at least
one feature: Stephen Donahue, Kaleb Rogers, Christian Laflamme,
Ryan Ware, and Tyler Thompson.
7 - Ryan Ware had a streak of seven straight podium finishes
from May 18 to July 6, the longest such streak of the year.
10 - Number of different times that a driver won at least two
races in a row. The drivers were: Quinny Welch (x2), Nick Sweet,
Wayne Helliwell Jr., Shane Sicard (x2), Adam Sicard, Dustin
Jackson, and Andy Hill (x2). The Kids Trucks were the only
division that did not have at least one back-to-back winner.
12 - Combined number of wins for the Sicard family. Shane Sicard
had eight Flying Tiger wins and Adam Sicard had four Strictly
Stock Mini victories.
14 - Quinny Welch finished in the top-5 in all 14 point-counting
Late Model events in 2019.
15 - Quinny Welch, Shane Sicard, Dustin Jackson tied for the
most top-10 finishes with 15 each. None of them finished outside
the top-10 in any race they entered.
31 - Number of different winners across all WMMP divisions. (8
Late Models, 7 Flying Tigers, 6 Strictly Stock Minis, 4 Dwarf
Cars, and 6 Kids Trucks).
15 years, 179 days - Tyler Thompson was the youngest non-Kids
Truck driver to win a race in 2019. He was this age when he won
his first Strictly Stock Mini feature on June 29.
59 years, 184 days - Bobby Brown became the oldest driver to win
a race at WMMP this year when he captured the Dwarf Car feature
on August 3. Three other drivers age 57+ won a race this year:
Strictly Stock Mini racer Brett Jackson (58 years, 6 days on
June 8), Dwarf Car racer Norm Forest (57 years, 59 days on
September 7), and Strictly Stock Mini racer Les Washburn (57
years, 68 days on July 13).
66.7% - Andy Hill won six of the nine Dwarf Car features he ran
for a 66.7% winning percentage, the highest of any driver.
151 - Different drivers who ran at least one point-counting
feature at WMMP this year.
$10,000 - Amount of money Wayne Helliwell Jr. took home for
winning the Midsummer 250 on August 3. |
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SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 5th |
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2019 WMMP CHAMPIONS |
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Photos by Mark Alan Sumner |
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Groveton, NH's Quinny
Welch takes a victory lap after
securing the 2019 "King of the Mountains" crown. |
FOLEY OIL & PROPANE LATE MODELS
2019 TRACK CHAMPION: QUINNY WELCH |
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WELLS RIVER CHEVROLET FLYING
TIGERS
SHANE SICARD - #4nh - BARTON, VT |
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WELLS RIVER CHEVROLET FLYING
TIGERS
FLYING TIGER TRIPLE CROWN SERIES
JASON WOODARD - # 68vt - WATERBURY
CNTR., VT |
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WOODSVILLE GUARANTY SAVINGS
BANK
STRICTLY STOCK MINIS
DUSTIN JACKSON - #37 - BETHLEHAM,
NH |
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7-ELEVEN DWARF CARS
ANDY HILL - #8 - WATERFORD, VT |
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NEW PIT ENTRY AGE LIMITS |
The management team at White Mountain Motorsports Park
powered by the Autosaver Group has made a change in policy for
admitting youngsters in the pit area for 2018.
Beginning at the practice event scheduled for Saturday, May 5th,
youngsters of any age will be
allowed to enter the pit area for that days’ event. All
necessary release forms must be filled out and turned in to
track pit booth personnel that day. There are no special rates
for these youngsters as they must pay current day pit prices.
Every youth must pay the fee including infants, no exceptions.
The reason for this is for insurance purposes.
SPECIAL RULES ARE IN EFFECT FOR
THIS NEW PROGRAM
1. All minors must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
2. If found running around unsupervised, the individual(s)
privilege will be revoked for the season.
3. If an individual loses the privilege to be in the pits, there
are absolutely no refunds.
White Mountain Motorsports Park management reserves the right to
cancel this program at any time. |
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