The Inaugural Legends Series points leader, Matt Hoose, took the pole position and led the first 25 laps in a very close and competitive race at Oxford Plains this weekend. Christopher Halliday and Brad Spidle got around him at the mid point leaving Hoose holding 3rd.

An unfortunate last lap – last turn incident spun Hoose and Spidle coming to the checkered flag. Hoose held on to 3rd but Spidle was knocked back to 5th place. Halliday led the last 25 laps to take the win. Ronald Henrie finished in the 4th spot.

Hoose holds onto the points lead just 13 ahead of Brian Young and 14 ahead of Jimmy Eifling. Lowell Jewell moves up into 4th despite finishing last in the race with a damaged car. David Schaeffer did not start, dropping him to 7th. 5th and 6th is Brad Spidle and Brian Neff respectively. James Ray, Huston Hamer and Sue Rarick round out the top 10. The series rolls on to Stafford Motor Speedway in Connecticut next week.

This weekend’s race was at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia and it attracted a 20 car field of bootleggers. Max Handley took the pole position with James Ray starting 2nd.

Lots of close, clean racing all through the field despite a very loose setup due, in part, to the 84 degree temperature.

Mason White, who started 5th, took the lead with 14 laps to go. He somehow held off a hard-charging Matt Hoose for the win, beating him by just 2/10ths of a second!

Hoose holds on to the point lead with Jimmy Eifling and Brian Young tied for 2nd. David Schaeffer drops to 4th and Lowell Jewell remains in 5th. Next week we travel north to Maine and pay a visit to Oxford Plains Speedway.

Huston Hamer takes the win at Thompson International Speedway in his 1st race of the regular season!

Matt Hoose started on the pole and led the 1st 17 laps with the top 5 running nose-to-tail. Hamer finally takes the lead with the help of a little tire rub on lap 18.

The next lap, Hoose tries to take the spot back and ends up on his roof in the infield.

No caution comes out and Hamer leads the final 33 laps to take the race 3 win. In fact that was the only spin and the race was completed with zero cautions! Great racing all through the field!

Hoose hangs on to the top spot in the point standings with Schaeffer, who had brake issues for the entire race, and Eifling tied for 2nd place. Only 5 points separate the top 5! Brian Young and Lowell Jewell are 4th and 5th respectively. Next week the series visits Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

Race 2 of the Inaugural Legends Series brought us to Concord, NC where the weather was an improvement over last week’s foggy conditions. David Schaeffer started on the front row for the 2nd straight week, this time qualifying on the pole. Jimmy Eifling started 2nd.

Schaeffer led the first 13 laps when Matt Hoose passed him for the top spot. Hoose came from a 6th place start to take the lead and never looked back, getting his 1st win of the season. Eifling finished where he started in 2nd. Schaeffer finished in 3rd place.

Hoose is now the points leader with 10 races to go. Move Schaeffer up to 2nd and Eifling up to 3rd.

Next week we visit our country’s first paved race track, Thompson International Speedway in Connecticut.

Race number 1 in our Inaugural Legends Series was at New Smyrna Speedway down in sunny… uh… foggy Florida. Taking the pole position was Lowell Jewell followed by his teammate David Schaeffer in 2nd.

The racing was intense throughout and a lot of fun! Jewell had led the first 13 laps when Brad Spidle made the pass to take over the top spot. After a few hard fought laps with Matt Hoose, Jewell fell back to 3rd.

Then in a spectacular crash, his car breaks loose coming off of turn 4 and slams hard into the outside wall. He was unable to make repairs in time to return to the track.

Spidle led 37 laps and took the checkered flag just ahead of Hoose. Schaeffer finished 3rd and that’s how they stack up in the point standings with 11 races to go.

Next week the series heads to Concord, NC.

The Bootleg Racing Series sponsored by Skitter Creek Racing presents:

The Inaugural Legends Series

Car: Legends Ford ’34 Coupe

Race 1 of 12
Saturday, September 21, 2013
New Smyrna Speedway – New Smyrna Beach, FL

We are getting close to the start of our inaugural Legends Series. September 21st is the big night! We’ll have one more preseason race on the 14th at Lanier, which will be a members only race. Then the following week the series kicks off at New Smyrna Speedway! We are hoping to get things rolling with a fair sized grid!