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Four-Time
PASS Champ Ben Rowe
Signs On With Mulkern Racing |
FALMOUTH, Maine --
Championship-caliber equipment now has a
championship-caliber driver to call its own. A four-time
championship
driver, that is.
Mulkern Racing LLC has announced Ben Rowe, the all-time
winningest driver in PASS history, will drive the Community
Pharmacies No. 48 full-time on the PASS North Series in
2010. With team owner Scott Mulkern, Rowe will attempt to
win a record fifth PASS North title.
"It's exciting for me all over again. Anytime you start
something new,
it's pretty exciting to me," said Rowe, who has 39 career
combined
victories in PASS North and PASS South and is coming off a
season in which
he won both the PASS South and PASS National championships
in 2009.
"Scott's just a great guy to be around, and he knows what it
takes to win."
Rowe will debut with Mulkern Racing this weekend at the
Northeast
Motorsports Expo at the Augusta Civic Center, where he will
sign autographs both Friday night and Saturday afternoon.
Mulkern is no stranger to victory lane himself, with three
career wins in
PASS-sanctioned events and 19 career top-5 finishes in PASS
North. He's
competed part-time as a driver with his own team over the
last few
seasons, but this year has made the commitment to a
full-time operation as an owner with his wife, Vickie.
"The real focus for us now is on Ben and trying to win a
championship for
Ben in PASS North," Mulkern said.
Accomplished crew chief Seth Holbrook, who has ties to both
Kyle Busch
Motorsports and veteran New England racers like Mike Rowe,
Joey Laquerre
and Tim Brackett, has been hired by Mulkern to lead the No.
48 team. Tony
Ricci works full-time at the Mulkern Racing shop preparing
and maintaining
the team's cars.
Already, Rowe said he believes the new No. 48 is capable of
contending for
the PASS North title.
" I think we can go to (Speedway 95) and win the first race
of the year,"
Rowe said of the April 18 season opener in Hermon, Maine.
"Scott wants to
do it, and he wants to do it right. He wants to go for the
North championship, and it gets him all pumped up talking
about it.
"Seeing him get so pumped up gets me wound up to get going
again, too, so it's good for me. I think it's going to be a
fun year."
Mulkern said the team is concentrating on racing here in the
North Series,
with an eye on a possible race or two in PASS South.
"We may do some," said Mulkern, who also plans to run a
couple of PASS
North races himself in a team car. "If everything goes well,
we might run
a race down south early before the North season starts."
Mulkern Racing has four cars, including a Lefthander
Chassis, two Junior
Hanley-prepared cars and a new Howe chassis from Distance
Racing. The team will use both Chevrolet engines prepared by
Butler-MacMaster Automotive and Dodge engines from
Performance Automotive Machine. |
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At the
Northeast Motorsports Expo held on January 8th to the 10th
at the Augusta Civic Center, Ben received one of the 1st
Annual "Mainely's" for Driver of the Year in a Touring
Series in 2009.
The "Mainely's" were presented from Mainely Motorsports TV by
the show's co-host Amanda Leach. |
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