Ellington, CT: The USAC Dirt Midget Association prepares to kick off the 2019 season with many returning teams and several new ones joining the series for the first time. With thirteen races already locked in from May to September, the series will see action once again in the New England and New York area.
(more…)Thunder Road Season Opener Postponed Due to Snow, Scheduling
Barre, VT – The start of the 60th season of racing at Barre’s Thunder Road will have to wait one more week. Track management has officially postponed the season-opening Community Bank N.A. 150 to Sunday, May 5 at 1:30pm.
(more…)Woodard Leads Early Entries for Myers Triple Crown
Barre, VT – After a big rookie season in the Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers, Waterbury Ctr.’s Kelsea Woodard is already raring to go for 2019. The second-generation racer has filed the first official entry for the 2019 Myers Container Service Triple Crown Series and leads a growing list of drivers who have committed to the trio of 75-lap events.
(more…)Barre, VT – The month of April has arrived, and with it the promise of another year of racing atop Quarry Hill. Barre’s Thunder Road is less than four weeks away from its 60th season of competition, making it an important anniversary for race teams and fans at the “Nation’s Site of Excitement”.
The historic track will open its season with the 21st Community Bank N.A. 150 on Sunday, April 28 at 1:30pm. The event, which will once again feature the American-Canadian Tour (Late Models), is the first of many big shows to help celebrate Thunder Road’s 60th season in style.
(more…)Bruno Purchases King of Dirt Racing Series
Series founder Hazer to take on advisory role
WEST HAVEN, Vt. – A new era for the King of Dirt Racing Series has begun. Devil’s Bowl Speedway owners Mike and Alayne Bruno and King of Dirt (KOD) founder Rob Hazer have agreed to terms of the sale and transfer of the Northeastern dirt track stock car racing organization, effective immediately.
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Pepsi inks two-year deal at Vermont track; Cleveland, Stratton among early entries
WEST HAVEN, Vt. – The old Pepsi commercials had that familiar tagline – “New look, same great taste,” – and the slogan now rings true at Devil’s Bowl Speedway. Pepsi has entered into a new two-year agreement to be the title sponsor of the headline Sportsman Modified division at the historic Vermont dirt track and to be the “Official Soft Drink of Devil’s Bowl Speedway” for 2019 and 2020.
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