Speedway 660 Crowns Champs, Readies for Speed Weekend August 31, 2015 Regional Speedway 660’s weekly division champions don’t have much time to enjoy their accomplishments before Irving Blending & Packaging SpeedWeekend. Our Night of Champions provided us with plenty of thrills and excitement. Fans left the Geary Woods after a great show Saturday night anticipating what’s coming next. Five first-time champs were crowned: Ashton Tucker (Bando), Kyle Boudreau (Sharp Shooter), Robert Raynes (Street Stock), Randy Moore (Sportsman), and Lonnie Sommerville (Pro Stock) . They have more in common than being champions. These guys not only raced like champs all season long, they acted like champions. Adrian Stairs (Bando), Noah Gillespie (Sharp Shooter), Courtney O’Blenis (Street Stock), Ryan Messer (Sportsman), and Alexandra O’Blenis (Pro Stock) are the 2015 Speedway 660 Rookie of the Year Award winners. Lonnie Sommerville came back to race full-time with us in 2015. He could have run on the Maritime Tour, he could have continued racing with the Pro All Star Series or he could have cherry-picked the big money races in eastern North America. Instead, Lonnie supported his home-track and helped elevate the level of competition, not only in Pro Stock but in the other divisions too. The Sportsman champion, rookie of the year and two other drivers in that division’s top five all run LSR built and serviced cars. Sommerville, a two-time Irving Blending & Packaging 250 winner, will unveil a brand new car for this year’s 250. Irving Blending & Packaging SpeedWeekend starts Friday with the Harvey’s Family Farms corn-boil, infield party and concert with Tristan Horncastle and wraps up Monday with the Capital City Auto Parts ENDURO 200. If you are a fan who slides down to the Geary Woods Sunday evening just in time for the green flag to start the 250, you are missing a lot of awesome racing. The Westwood Estate Apartments Bandoleros and the Atlantic Modified Tour will precede the biggest Sportsman race in the Maritimes. The Martin’s Home Heating Sportsman Division features a mix of veterans and rookies. Expectations are plenty of visiting drivers will invade the Geary Woods looking for a win in the Irving I24-150. There’ll also be a few Pro Stock regulars who’ll do double duty this weekend. Dave O’Blenis, Lonnie Sommerville and Greg Fahey are three of those Pro Stock drivers expected to enter the Irving I24 Sportsman 150. Adding the Pro Stock drivers to the mix just raises the level of competition and forces the full-time Sportsman drivers to up their game. O’Blenis will attempt to win the Irving I24 Sportsman 150 for the third straight year. On Sunday fans will see the Fredericton Gun Shop Sharp Shooters, the DMR Auto Sales & Service Street Stocks and qualifying for the Irving Blending & Packaging 250. Then on Sunday evening the Pro Stocks will roll out on the track for the Irving Blending and Packaging 250. Weekly RE/MAX Group Four Realty division drivers will be there, as well as challengers for from the Parts for Trucks Maritime Tour and the Pro All Star Series. The top three finishers last year, all from Maine, are expected: Travis Benjamin, Ben Rowe and Austin Theriault. D.J. Shaw has also expressed his intention to enter the event. At last count 37 teams have ordered tires for the 250. To learn more about SpeedWeekend please visit www.speedway660.com. A limited number of campsites remain available as well as lap sponsorship opportunities; call 506-454-7223 in regard to either.
