Sanborn closes in on 1st win

The freshest young face in the PASS North Series is beginning to show signs of growing up.

That he'd never seen Thompson International Speedway before last Saturday night wasn't exactly out of the ordinary for Trevor Sanborn. That he matched his career-best by finishing 2nd there to 3-time series champion Ben Rowe, however, suggests that the 19-year-old from Parsonsfield is getting the hang of driving the Cushman Competition No. 29 Fords.

In the last three races, he's finished 3rd, 4th and 2nd after starting out the season with 2 finishes outside the top-15 in the first 3 events. Part of the problem for Sanborn has been unfamiliarity with the entire package -- the tracks, the team and the cars -- after starting out running a Pro Stock at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.

"Most of the (the tracks) are new this year," Sanborn said at Thompson. "There's just a couple that I've been to before this year, like Unity and Beech Ridge. The rest of them -- Hallifax, Star -- it's all new. It's a whole new game.

"For me, it's just getting used to the team and making changes and that stuff. I'm kind of getting used to the cars. They're a whole different ballgame than Jeff Taylor race cars. These are Junior Hanley chassis, and it's just a matter of getting used to it."

With a string of good finishes under his belt over the last month, Sanborn thinks the team has turned a corner and is inching close to a victory lane trip.

"I would say both," Sanborn said. "We got off on a bad foot at the beginning of the year, and we just ended up coming out on top these last three races by getting top fives. I can't wait for the win."