Ray Parent’s #17 Ford races to victory at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. (Photos by Ayers Racing Images)
“This is without a doubt our biggest career win ever to win at the ‘Magic Mile’ against the best of the best — it just doesn’t get any better than that,” said his father Rene Parent of Westport.
Despite having had a good season complete with several top five finishes,
Ray Parent after the race with his first place trophy.
The invitational race pits local track champions from the US and Canada against one another and Mr. Parent was the only Rhode Island driver in the field and this was his first ACT series victory.
The Enterprise News of New Hampshire reports that “Rhode Island’s Ray Parent took his racing effort to another level.”
Parent, the newspaper reports, “took advantage of the timely caution, after starting 20th on the field. He excited the cheering crowd with a four-wide move on the following restart to break into the top five. Wasting no time, he ducked underneath again for another three-wide move moments later, and by lap 19 he had stolen the lead … MacDonald quickly got to second place, and loomed large in Parent’s mirror.
“A lap 26 caution brought the pair together, but at the drop of the green, MacDonald’s car suddenly spun backwards through the field. That’s when Parent broke away with the lead, while MacDonald was eventually forced to retire. By lap 28, Polewarczyk was hot on Parent’s trail after starting 33rd” and took the lead.
” … But only momentarily as on lap 35, Parent put the crowd on its feet with another crossover and snatched the lead back on the inside. It became a tense fight and the laps wound down as the pair battled for the win. As the race come to a close, Parent began to break away
His family joins Ray Parent for a post-race photo.
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