Corey & Chad
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Scott Dominates 7/5
Race,
But has to Settle for Third
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Photos by Chris Roy and
Jamie Williams |
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The
Hight Motorsports team went into Beech Ridge for the PASS
Fire Cracker 150 ready to race after being rained out the
week before at All-Star Speedway with what they believed to
be a fast car.
Scott rolled onto the track with the third heat, in the 4th
starting position. He worked his way up to 2nd but ran out
of time to reel in young Derek Ramstrom and settled for the
2nd place finish.
The Hight Motorsports Chevy rolled out onto the starting
grid for the 150 lap feature in the 6th position. After a
couple of early cautions Scott was able to get into a rhythm
and quickly moved up into the 2nd position. He followed on
the rear bumper of Adam Bates for a few laps before he made
his move around the outside, into the lead. Scott quickly
pulled away putting at times an entire straight away lead
between himself and Bates and Ramstrom who fought for 2nd.
The race stayed green for almost 100 laps as Chubbuck lapped
much of the field, well up into the top 10.
Around lap 110 the caution flag waved for Ben Rowe as his
night ended in the backstretch wall. Ramstrom lined up on
the outside of Scott, but mechanical problems sent him to
pit road just before the green flag came back out. That
moved Bates to the outside, which was the preferred groove.
On the restart he was able to work his way around Scott. A
side by side battle ensued as Scott was able to drive
underneath Bates every lap, but was unable to get enough
grip off the corner to complete the pass. The two put on a
great show for the fans as they battled side by side for
many laps without touching.
The caution flag flew again at lap 141 setting the stage for
a 9 lap shootout, with Scott restarting on the outside of
Bates. The initial restart was waved off at the last minute
for a car stalled leaving pit road. On the second try Scott
spun his tires coming to the green, he made a great save,
but it opened the door for DJ Shaw to get by him. Scott
caught right back up to Bates and Shaw and the three ran
nose to tail for the remaining laps as no one could make a
move at the bottom of the race track.
The team leaves Beech Ridge happy with the third place
finish and proud of Scott for a great run and his dominating
performance throughout most of the race. The next race on
the schedule will be the make-up event at All-Star Speedway
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8th Place in the
Rain Shortened "98" |
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After a 5 week
break that included 4 days of testing, and 2 rained out events, the
Hight Motorsports team finally got on the race track for a race
Sunday at Wiscasset Raceway.
Scott started 6th in the third heat race. He quickly moved up to 2nd
place behind Johnny Clark. The yellow came out with 4 laps to go for
a spinning car on the front stretch. Chubbuck had a near perfect
restart while Clark on the inside spun his tires allowing Scott to
clear him going into turn one and sail away for the heat race win.
PASS officials did a great job to shuffle the schedule of events to
start the race early, as they knew bad weather was coming. The Hight
Motorsports Chevrolet started 3rd, with Kelly Moore and Adam Bates
the only cars to start ahead of Chubbuck. As the green flag dropped,
Chubbuck worked his way around the inside of Bates and rode in 2nd
place. Only a few laps into the race a car spun in turn 1 forcing
the field to dodge it as they came around the track, the green flag
stayed out, and Scott lost a position as a result. Soon after that
near miss, a caution came out, and Scott moved back into second
place on the restart. He was hot on the tracks of leader Kelly Moore
when another caution came out for an altercation further back in the
field.
Restarting from the outside of the front row, Chubbuck had another
flawless restart and capitalized on Moore spinning his tires to take
the lead around lap 40. He led for 3 laps before getting spun by
Kelly Moore entering turn three. The altercation left both drivers
restarting from the back of the pack.
Scott kept his cool and worked his way back into the top ten without
any cautions. A late caution helped him pick up 2 more spots before
the rain began to fall at lap 98. Unfortunately the rain did not let
up, and forced the race to be called short. It was a disappointment,
as it looked like given another 25 laps Scott had a car that could
have gotten back into the top 5.
The team leaves Wiscasset with heads held high and eager for the
next race this Saturday, June 28th at All-Star Speedway.
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8th Place in the
125 Lap PASS Qualifier
Hard fought battle to an 8th place
finish at Wiscasset in the first of the 125 qualifiers leading to
the big 250 in August.
Scott started on the inside of the
third row and ran in the top five fighting with
Ben Rowe, Adam Bates, Travis Benjamin, and Cassius Clark for most of
the race. The front runners showcased tight clean racing while the
mid to tail cars brought out the nine cautions. Towards the end DJ
Shaw and Kelly Moore slipped by the #77.
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2nd Place at Wiscasset Raceway on
Opening Day Saturday, May 10th |
The Hight
Motorsports team decided to participate in a live test session on
May 10th at Wiscasset Raceway’s opening day Pro-Stock race. The team
used the day to prepare the car for the May 18th PASS 125 race.
Driver Scott Chubbuck took an 8th place starting position in the
second heat. He passed a few cars and on a couple of occasions did
an amazing job steering through spinning cars to take the lead and
the win in the heat race.
Starting 2nd in the 23 car featured, Chubbuck battled on the outside
of Chuck LaChance for nearly 20 laps. On a restart Johnny Clark was
able to sneak by both Chubbuck and LaChance to take the lead. Travis
Benjamin also got by Chubbuck, but would fall victim to the tech
shack in post race inspection.
The 2nd place finish was quite remarkable considering Chubbuck drove
the majority of race with no front brakes. The race proved to be a
valuable experience for the Hight Motorsports team as they were able
to diagnose this major brake problem.
This weekend Chubbuck will look to break his string of four
consecutive 2nd place finishes as Wiscasset Raceway with a win in
the PASS 125 race. Racing goes green at 2 PM on Sunday, May 18th.
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PASS NORTH SEASON OPENER
"THE CABIN FEVER 150" at BEECH RIDGE
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A Strong Performance to Build On |
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Scott
Chubbuck gave new team sponsor Hight Ford Mercury of
Skowhegan and the entire Hight Motorsports team a great
start to the season at the PASS 150 at Beech Ridge this past
weekend. Despite drawing the worst possible starting
position for the heat race, Chubbuck made his way to the
front of the heat in short order. After passing a few cars
and avoiding a spin in the early laps Scott cruised to a 2nd
place finish in the heat race behind Scott Mulkern.
Chubbuck started the feature 6th on the 31 car
field. The car was good early, with Scott riding in the top
5 for much of the first half of the race. Around halfway the
handling began to get worse as a push developed. The car
faded back to about 8th, because Scott made a
late race run towards the front. After a series of restarts
the Hight Motorsports Impala SS worked its way to 3rd
place with about 10 laps to go. With hot tires the car began
to fade again as others made their late race charges to the
front. Scott held on for a 7th place finish.
The
team was excited to come out of the race with a solid top
ten finish and hope to build on it as they head to Speedway
95 on Saturday, May 3rd, for the next PASS North
Super Late Model race. |
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The #77
Impala SS for 2008 |
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The Hight
Motorsports team has been busy preparing the car for the 2008 race
season. The Impala SS came back from Junior Hanley’s about a month
ago with a new body and several chassis updates. After returning
from Ontario, the car went to Rumford to Erik Designs for graphics.
The last couple
weekends have been spent putting the motor in and preparing the rest
of the car and equipment for opening day April 19th at
Beech Ridge for the PASS North season opener. Stay tuned to the site
for more updates in the weeks to come! |
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Thanks
for 2007...
... and Looking Forward to 2008 |
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Hight Motorsports
would like to thank everyone for a great season. This includes the
Hight Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac and GMC located in Skowhegan and
Farmington as well as Hight Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep of Madison.
Also big thank
you to crew who spent countless days and nights in the shop
preparing for competition and many more days and nights at the track
on race weekends. Crew chief Glenn Stueber has done a great job
putting a crew together that not only works hard, but has been
accused of having the most fun in the entire pit area.
Another big
thank you goes out to driver Scott Chubbuck who joined the team at
the last minute in May for a one race deal that turned into 10 races
by the end of the season and a strong relationship and friendship
with the team. As a quick review, Scott started the year with a win
at NBIS and followed that up with 4 podium finishes including a 2nd
and 3rd at Wiscasset and Bangor respectively. He did a
bang up job in the season finale at All-Star Speedway, winning the
Pro-Stock nationals after being involved in an accident early in the
race.
The biggest
thank you of all goes out to the families, friends, and fans that
support the team and team members throughout the year. Without your
support we wouldn’t all be able to do what we love so much, race.
... Looking Forward to
2008
Hight
Motorsports is excited and proud to report that the team will be
back for the 2008 season with driver Scott Chubbuck and the entire
crew that made this year such a success. The plan for now is to run
some of the PASS schedule as well as a couple other races such as
the Peterbilt 250 at New Brunswick International Speedway.
The car has been
stripped and will take a trip to Ontario for a new body and a
general off season overhaul.
Stay tuned to
HightMotorsports.com for updates throughout the off season. Please
have a safe and happy holiday season! |
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Scott and the #77
took the WIN
at the 10/19 ALL-STAR
Nationals
in a wild race delayed by rain
Chubbuck, Hirschman and Perley
Win at All-Star
Nationals
by Denise Dupont
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#77 Team Report:
On
Saturday, October 6th the Hight Motorsports team
traveled to All-Star Speedway in Epping, NH for what
they thought would be their last race of the year in the
PASS 150. The car was good all throughout practice.
Driver Scott Chubbuck qualified the car in the third
starting position for the feature event. Excitement
filled the pit of the Hight Motorsports crew in
anticipation for the evening’s race. Too bad Mother
Nature had other plans for the night. Rain moved in just
as the Super Late Models were rolling to the starting
grid. The race was cancelled.
Fast forward two weeks. The Hight Chevrolet Monte Carlo
is back in Epping, NH for the All-Star Nationals, a 150
lap pro-stock race with the winner’s share of the purse
being $10,000. The two day event was reduced to one when
Mother Nature again ruined the plans for Friday night’s
qualifying events.
After arriving Thursday evening, the car finally got to
see the race track early Saturday afternoon for a couple
of good practice sessions. Scott’s bad racing luck began
after the drivers meeting when he drew himself the tail
end of the 8 car heat race.
In the heat race Scott became the innocent victim of a
battle between Dan McKeage and DJ Shaw. Scott was able
to continue despite pretty severe damage on all corners
of the car. With a badly bent wheel and bent panhard bar
Scott salvaged a 3rd place finish.
After the heat races rain moved in over the speedway and
a long delay followed. The team spent the rain delay
repairing the car, straightening the rear end and the
body.
An 8th place starting position in the feature kept Scott
away from the first three cautions further back in the
field. However, the fourth caution started in front of
Scott on lap 2 (yes lap 2, the 4th caution), when the
field was done stacking up in the middle of turns 3 and
4 the Hight Motorsports car was on top of the 88 Russ
Hersey car.
For a moment it looked like that would be how the season
would end for the team. The crew frantically scurried to
the pit box to wait for the wrecker. Meanwhile, under
the calm direction Glenn Stueber, team spotter, crew
chief and motivational speaker, Scott was told to, “put
the car in reverse and get off the guy.” And just as
easy as that Scott backed off of the #88 and drove
around into the pit with all four tires, apparently
pointed in the same direction.
With the help of the crew and several others who joined
in, some hammering, and several rolls of duct tape Scott
was back on the track, with all the body panels (most of
them taped together).
He made decent progress through the field over the next
30 laps. Around lap 35 the car began to push and it
became apparent the right front tire was slowly going
flat. The bad news was that it came during the beginning
of the longest green flag run of the night. The good
news was that the run only lasted about 15 laps. With
the crew waiting, what seemed like an eternity, at the
pit stall, the words, “there is our yellow,” finally
came from Glenn who then told Scott to hit pit road for
two right side tires.
Scott returned to the track with two fresh right side
tires, the right front that came off the car had only 9#
of air pressure. He restarted 15th and again looked to
have a long ways to go to get to the front. However when
the green flag flew Scott found out he was driving a
rocket. Within about 10 laps he was up to 7th for the
12th restart of the race. He continued his drive to the
front setting outside and inside of competitors, being
careful not to scratch the paint. By lap 80, Chubbuck
passed Travis Benjamin for the lead. During that battle
half of the right front fender, not surprisingly, was
lost.
Scott survived what seemed several restarts in the next
13 laps. Then when coming to the one to go flag, track
owner, Bobby “ShowStoppa” MacArthur, indicated the show
would stop in two laps as the midnight curfew had
arrived. Chubbuck held off Dan McKeage, who raced Scott
very clean, for the final two laps to win the race!
Under the direction of team owner Corey Hight, and with
the approval of Glenn, Scott showed his respect for the
noise curfew by bunting the nose of the car against the
front stretch wall and putting on a spectacular smoke
show. |
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