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This Day in NEMA History...
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May 15th
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1994...Flagger Steve Dumas could have left the yellow and the red at home. Drew Fornoro (Angelillo #45 ) won the 25-lap non-stop feature at Oxford Plains. Mike Seymour (Tapply #8), Bentley Warren (Seymour #29x), Bobby Seymour (Schrader #29) and Paul Lawless (Lawless #6) were second through fifth. The heats, won by Russ Stoehr and Mike Seymour, were all non-stop as well.
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Drew Fornoro and Mike Seymour at Star in 1995 - a familiar battle in the mid 1990's.

May 16th

1975... Dave Humphrey (McCarthy #47) won the season opener at Westboro. Johnny Evans (Yuris #83), Johnny Coy Sr. (Fusco #17), Johnny Mann (Cali #1) and eventual champion Bobby White (Germond #12) followed in order. Humphrey, Bill Eldridge, Drew Fornoro and Dutch Schaefer have each won four NEMA season-openers.
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Left​: Car owner - John McCarthy, a three time champion and served as NEMA president for 12 years, poses with his Badger driven by the great Dave Humphrey - a combination that could win on any given night.

May 17th

1997...In command all the way, Babe Shaw (Shaw #107), showed Drew Fornoro (Angelillo #45), Mark Buonomo (Buonomo #76), Paul Lawless (Lawless #6) and Chuck Welling (Johnson #69) the way home in a 25-lapper at Star for his second career feature win. A husband and wife team, Babe and Sue Shaw would earn a career-best 3rd place in the NEMA Championship this same year.
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Left: Babe took a hiatus from the driver's seat shortly after his great 1997 season and went in to win again  with Jeff Horn at the helm. However, Babe made a cameo behind the wheel at Seekonk in 2005 shown here. (Marx Photo)

May 18th

1956...Ronnie Evans and car owner Walter Mordenti, two early NEMA stalwarts, teamed up to win at Westboro. Al Pillion, on his way to the championship in the Kelly #33, and King Carpenter were second and third.
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Left: Ronnie Evans aboard the Mordenti #78 battles with eventual 1956 champion, Al Pillion, in the famous Kelly brothers #33. (Les King Photo)

May 19th

2001...Bobby Seymour (Scrivani #9), took the lead from Rudy Boetticher Jr. on lap 15 and held on to capture the 25-lap Kelley Memorial at Star. Boetticher (Boetticher #45) was second followed by Mark Buonomo (Buonomo #76), Jeff Horn (Shaw #107) and early leader Barry Kittredge (Kittredge #21).
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Left: 1987 NEMA Champion, Bobby Seymour waves to the crowd at Waterford Speedbowl during his final campaign as a driver in 2002. (Marx Photo)

May 20th

1984...Mike Seymour’s first NEMA win (in the Seymour #7) came in the season-opener at Monadnock. Nokie Fornoro (Scrivani #21) was second, Drew Fornoro (Angelillo #1) third, Bobby Seymour (Seymour 4) and Lee Smith (Lowrey #17) was fifth. Billy Mann and car owner Everett Rogers started their championship drive with a sixth. 
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Left: Mike Seymour and Butch Walsh do battle on the banks of Star Speedway in 1984, a decade before Mike won the NEMA Driver's championship and two owner's championships for Bill and Nickie Tapply.

May 21st

1955...The first driver to reach double figures in career wins, Bill Eldridge scored number 10 in the Leonardi #75 at West Peabody. Jim Cunningham was second with Ray Roberts third. Testimony to Eldridge’s strength in NEMA’s early days: when he reached 20 wins (July 25,1958) his closest rival – Al Pillion – had eight.
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Left: NEMA's first champion, Bill Eldridge, who in the first six years of NEMA's life, won four championships driving the Gibbey Parmentor #55.

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