MARC Season 2016-2017 – Catfish International Speedway Jahl The Younger, Pileggi The Older in Double Sweep: MARC 2016 – 2017 Round Eight at Catfish International By Benson S.R. Tuna April 8, 2017 – Cambridge, Massachusetts — Our ninth race of the 2016-17 MARC campaign featured some very close racing, and one of the largest showings of the year, 21 racers. We can… Read More
GRoNE – Catfish International Speedway – March 25, 2017 GRoNE at Catfish international Speedway Cambridge, Massachusetts; March 25, 2017 We had 8 racers, not bad considering there was a “series of unfortunate conflicts” with many of the usual attendees. Some last-minute pleas and cajoling saved the day and the race proceeded as planned. T-Jetter extraordinaire Greg Wisniewski joined us for his first ever Gravity… Read More
MARC Season 2016 – 2017 – Fast Five Raceway Home Field Advantage Reigns Supreme Ashland Massachusetts,March 11, 2017 Despite some overnight snow, we had 18 racers make the trek to Ryan Archambault’s Fast Five Raceway for MARC’s seventh event of the season. Helping to swell the ranks were Gerd Wolny and Gary Hallenbeck from the Albany area and Terry Ayer for NH. These guys… Read More
Gravity Racing of New England – LenJet Raceway – February 25, 2017 GRoNE Racing at LenJet Raceway Ashland, Massachusetts February 25, 2017 Twelve folks attended the recent GRoNE event held at Peter Lentros’ LenJet raceway. While Peter was hosting the event, he was actually racing the 1/24 scale New England Retro Race (NERR) next door in Modelville Hobby! The schedules for the two events overlapped preventing Peter… Read More
MARC Season 2016-2017 – Race 6 – LenJet Raceway Vipers win 3 of 4 at LenJet Raceway Ashland, Massachusetts February 11, 2017 – Despite an overnight snow fall, 22 racers still made their way to Peter Lentros’ LenJet Raceway the morning of February 11th– real racers don’t let a little snow get in the way of having fun. In addition to Tom Kanan and… Read More
MARC Season 2016-2017 – Race 5 – South Shore Speedway Crazy fast at South Shore Speedway Hingham Massachusetts, January 14, 2017 – For the past few years the classes for South Shore Speedway have been G-Jet and Super Stock. CMPM hasn’t been raced here since 2011 and Spec Racer (AKA Spec Stock back in the day) was last raced in 2012. That was before famed… Read More
Gravity Racing of New England – January 2, 2017 Ringing in the New Year with a GRoNE at Fast Five Raceway Southampton, MA January 2, 2017 – With eleven racers in attendance for the first Gravity Racing of New England event of the year, it’s apparent that interest in these types of cars is continuing to grow in New England. We had Bill Bonsma… Read More
MARC Season 2016-2017 – Race 4 – Nantasket Beach Speedway Sportsman Formula One G-Jet Oh So Close Hull, Massachusetts Dec 10, 2016 – Tom Jahl narrowly nipped Don Hall to win the MARC Sportsman F1 G-Jet battle on The Lady Gray Speedway. Jahl’s 195. 11 lap total was four more track sections than second place finisher Don Hall who managed 195.07 laps. Congratulations… Read More
MARC Season 2016-2017 – Race 3 – LenJet Raceway Full House at LenJet Raceway! Ashland, Massachusetts, November 12, 2016 Events at Peter Lentros’ LenJet Raceway always seems to draw a crowd, this event was no different with 23 racers in attendance – a season high. It was great to have Tommy Gray, Tom Bussmann, Benny Leyro, Mike Resnick and Tom Smith back in the… Read More
Gravity Racing of New England – Nov 5, 2016 – Catfish International Speedway Cambridge Massachusetts, November 5, 2016 – What we lacked in entrees, we made up for in enthusiasm and fun! While we only had 5 entrees at the Gravity Racing of New England event at Rob Hayes’ Catfish International Speedway on Nov 5th, we still had lots of fun; the enthusiasm from the more seasoned Gravity… Read More