Transeau & Carlson Take Wins In NHMS Flat Track’s Friday Night Dirt Duels
Story By: KRISTEN LESTOCK / NHMS – LOUDON, NH – It was the first ever race under the lights at New Hampshire Motor Speedway’s newest racing surface, The Flat Track, and race fans and NASCAR drivers packed the area to enjoy the first Friday Night Dirt Duels presented by New England Racing Fuel. The night was headlined by the U.S. Legend Cars International and the USAC Dirt Midget Association racing on the 0.25-mile dirt track as an added family-friendly event to the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 weekend.
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers Corey LaJoie and Daniel Hemric raced in the 35-lap U.S. Legend Cars International feature event while fellow Cup Series driver Ryan Blaney served as Grand Marshal, but it was Chris Transeau who took home the win, which came with $2,000, which is the largest legends purse in the Northeast this season.
Ryan Newman, Bubba Wallace and Michael McDowell, who are all in town for the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 on Sunday on the 1.058-mile speedway, joined their fellow Cup Series drivers to enjoy the night of short track racing.
The 30-lap USAC Dirt Midget Association race marked their first appearance at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and it was Seth Carlson who took the win.
The Flat Track, located directly behind the North East Motor Sports Museum, is the first track to be built in New England in the last 25 years. Crews turned roughly 186,095 square feet of ground and 3,000 tons of clay to build the 0.25-mile track. Construction began last fall, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on June 6, 2019. Motorcycles were the first to race on the new surface on June 15 when American Flat Track, “America’s Original Extreme Sport,” took over the venue during Laconia Motorcycle Week.
