The
"Racing For Clean Air" Team Captain Andy Santerre
Comes
Through the Field For Top-5 Finish
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LOUDON,
N,H, - Dale Quarterley charged relentlessly to the front in the
closing stages of Saturday’s Siemens 125 NASCAR Grand National
Division, Busch North Series race at New Hampshire International
Speedway, taking the lead from Ryan Moore on lap 107 to score his
first career superspeedway victory. The former motorcycle racer
started 14th and defeated Kelly Moore by 0.428 seconds. Jerry Marquis
scored his first top-five finish since 2000 with a hard-fought third
place, while defending champion and point leader Andy Santerre took
fourth from Ryan Moore in the closing laps.
Completing
the top ten were Mike Stefanik, Eddie MacDonald, Busch Pole winner
Mike Olsen, Mike Gallo, and Brad Leighton. Quarterley’s Chevrolet
averaged 92.087 miles per hour through six caution flags for 30
laps and won $13,521 of the $207,761 posted awards. It was Quarterley’s
fifth career Busch North Series victory and completed the prized
“triple crown” of wins on at least one superspeedway,
one short track, and one road course.
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Santerre,
who entered the race with a lead of 14 points over Olsen, stretched
that margin to 27 with six races remaining in the season.
For
much of the afternoon, the lead was contested among Kelly Moore,
Ryan Moore, and Brian Hoar, but an unscheduled pit stop eventually
put Hoar one lap down and he finished 21st. The first father-son
sweep in Busch North Series history seemed to be in the cards as
Kelly Moore, in search of his 27th career victory, led laps 36 to
81 only to be overtaken by his son Ryan, looking for his first win.
Quarterley, who started 14th, passed Hoar for third on lap 85 and
stalked the Moores for 20 laps before passing Kelly for second on
lap 106 and Ryan one lap later for the lead. A late caution flag
and red flag for Matt Kobyluck’s accident did nothing to
shake Quarterley’s grip on the top spot, but Ryan Moore faded
to fifth in the final circuits. Kobyluck and Nevin George both emerged
uninjured in the two major incidents of the race.
For
the fourth time in 2004, Quarterley won the PowerAde Power Move
of the Race Award for improving his position most from start to
finish. Kelly Moore earned the Featherlite Most Improved Driver
Award for bettering his finish most over the last Busch North Series
race. Olsen’s Busch Pole was the eleventh of his career,
but his first on a superspeedway.
The
Busch North Series returns to short track action next Saturday night
with the Kinney Drugs 150 at Adirondack International Speedway in
Beaver Falls, N.Y.
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NASCAR
Busch North Series 2004 Top 5 Point Standings:
After
Race #9 at New Hampshire International Speedway, July 25, 2004.
| 1. |
1478 |
Andy
Santerre |
| 2. |
1451 |
Mike
Olsen |
| 3. |
1306 |
Kelly
Moore |
| 4. |
1302 |
Ryan
Moore |
| 5. |
1284 |
Dale
Quarterley |
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