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Please visit the website for updated news On Sat. Oct. 16th the Granite State Mini Sprints held their 26th annual awards banquet at The Red Blazer in Concord, NH. It was a great time for all who attended. The night started out with music, drinks, laughs, and lots of stories. The evening continued with dinner and then moved into the best time of the night, THE AWARDS AND DOOR PRIZES. Dean Hanson kicked off the ceremony with a big Thank You to everybody for a great year. He then moved into awarding the 500cc division. The top ten in the 500’s were, 10thJosh Payea, 9th Kyle Belliveau, 8th Colin Jepson, 7th Mike Bubnis, 6th Billy Lussier, 5th Laury Clark, 4th Zack Herbert, 3rd Josh Boissoneau, 2nd Troy Boissoneau, and for her 3rd straight 500cc championship driving the #33 machine, Lacey Hanson. The next group of awards being handed out was for the 600cc division. The top ten were, 10th Troy Boissoneau, 9th Jacob Williams, 8th Luck Greenwood, 7th Matt Robie, 6th Tim Beard, 5th Doug McPhail, 4th Drew Eldridge, 3rd Derek Eldridge, 2nd Terry Reil, and for his 1st600cc championship driving the #75L, Johnny Chestnut. Both Johnny and Lacey worked real hard all season to hold off all challenges for the crown. Lacey also took home the Bear Ridge Speedway and Cannan Speedway track championship withTroy Boissoneau taking Big Daddy’s Speedbowl track championship and stopping Lacey from taking everything but the kitchen sink. Johnny Chestnut also took home Bear Ridge Speedway and Big Daddy’s Speedbowl track championships with Luke Greenwood taking home Cannan Speedway’s track championship stopping the rain of terror of Johnny Chestnut. The rookie of the year awards went to the two guys who worked very hard to stay consistent in every event to take home the award. One of the rookies had to hold off his own brother by one point to take home the rookie of the year award.( Derek 3rd, Drew 4th in 600 points) The 500cc division awarded the #83 Colon Jepson with the rookie of the year and the 600cc division rookie of the year went to #8 Derek Eldridge. Granite State also has two other awards that all members get to vote on to see who receives these awards. The awards are for spirit and sportsman of the year. This year the two gentlemen who received them definitely deserve these awards for all their efforts, their positive attitudes even in hard times, commitment to the club, and just great people to be around. The sportsmen award went to long time member #55 Don Collins and the spirit award went to the crew chief of the #97 machine Will Clark. Congratulations to all award winners, you all have worked very hard to be able to receive these awards and should be very proud of your accomplishments this season. We hope to see everybody back next season for another great year of racing. The awards ceremony came to an end and everybody was very pleased and for the rest of the evening everybody enjoyed more drinks and story telling of this season and how each other is going to beat each other next season. Granite State held their annual general meeting the next day (Sunday Oct. 17th) at the Hampton Inn in Concord, N.H. The meeting started at 9:00am with the old board going over old business then, the new board was voted on and the results were: Dean H. for President, Troy Boissoneau for Vice President, Annie Boissoneau for Treasurer, Lacey Hanson for Secretary, Jack E. for Head of Tech, and the members at large are Zack Herbert, Josh Boissoneau, Mike B., Bill Luseier, Hutchens. Next season the club will be looking to do 12 point races with 2 rain dates equaling 14 events with one drop race. Dean has been talking to the tracks about next year; the club is also looking into car shows, special events, special races, and many other ideas that were brought up at the meeting. We want to thank everybody who did take time out of their busy schedule to spend a few hours planning for the 2011 season. Thank You from the Granite State Mini Sprints Club. Please visit the website to keep up to date with news, rule update or events as they come together, it will be posted on the front page to keep everybody in the loop as we move forward to the 2011 season.
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