Feb 22, 2017 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Devil’s Bowl Speedway to receive $10,000 Capital Improvement Grant from NASCAR
Projects to be completed with help from sanctioning body
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Vermont’s Devil’s Bowl Speedway already has its first “win” in the 2017 stock car racing season. An announcement was made on Saturday, February 18, during a conference at The Plaza Hotel in Daytona Beach, Fla., that the Rutland County facility has been awarded a $10,000 grant from NASCAR for capital improvements and facility upgrades.
Devil’s Bowl Speedway enters its 51st season of stock car racing in 2017 and its seventh consecutive year under NASCAR sanction. Located on Route 22A in pastoral West Haven, Vt., the venue has the unique distinction as the only facility in North America with two weekly short tracks – a 1/2-mile Asphalt Track and a 3/10-mile Dirt Track – competing in the grassroots NASCAR Whelen All-American Series program.
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Feb 21, 2017 | Snocross, Vermont
Patenaude brothers sweep Pro finals in Bennington for ECS Conx2share Series,
Presented by Woody’s Traction and FXR
Photos – https://plus.google.com/+Maineracing/posts/e63XYGVuakU
BENNINGTON, Vermont (Feb. 20, 2017) – Vermont veterans and talented brothers Leo and Hunter Patenaude made a clean sweep of the Pro classes over the weekend, as East Coast Snocross (ECS) completed Round 3 on its seven-race 2017 schedule at Willow Park.
Leo (Ingles Performance/Ski-doo) kicked off his impressive weekend with a strong run in Saturday’s Pro Open final. The older of this skilled brother act from Hartland slotted into fourth at the start, took the lead on lap seven and pulled away for top honors. Hunter finished three seconds back in the runner-up spot, with Kristoffer Holm (Team Southside/Polaris) filling out the podium in third.
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Feb 21, 2017 | Monadnock Speedway, New Hampshire, Thunder Road, Vermont
Thunder Returns to the Monadnock Mountains in 2017
Winchester, NH – The owners of Monadnock Speedway are very optimistic as they embark on the
2017 racing season. Modified racing has always been popular at the high-banked, ¼ mile speedway and
will continue to be the backbone of Monadnock this year.
Topping the excitement at Monadnock Speedway is the return of the open-wheel
Modified Series. Over the last several years, the speedway has developed a strong following in what
they called the “Sportsman Modifieds”. Written years ago, the rules were designed to provide an
economical modified racing division – exactly the same as the ever-popular SK Lights that run at
nearby Connecticut race tracks. Going into the 2017 season, the Sportsman Modifieds will carry a new
name – the SK Modified Lights.
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Feb 14, 2017 | Snocross, Vermont
Return to Bennington, VT next stop for ECS Conx2share Series,
Presented by Woody’s Traction and FXR
CLARKSBURG, Mass. (Feb. 13, 2017) – In the early 1990s, the sport of snowmobile snocross was in its infancy here in the northeast. Southern Vermont was a hotbed for the sport in those days, with Haystack Mountain hosting races, and Mount Snow playing host to the famed Winter X Games.
The high-flying action of snocross is about to return to its roots, as East Coast Snocross (ECS) gets ready for a return to Willow Park in historic Bennington on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 18-19.
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Feb 6, 2017 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Top Drivers Honored at Two-Night Devil’s Bowl Speedway Banquet of Champions
Nine track champions crowned; John Bruno Award to Ron Proctor
RUTLAND, Vt. – Devil’s Bowl Speedway officially draw the curtain on its 50th racing season during a two-night Banquet of Champions gala on February 3-4. Ceremonies were held in the Grand Ballroom at the Holiday Inn Rutland-Killington in Rutland, Vt., honoring nine stock car racing champions, top drivers, and special award winners at two tracks at the West Haven, Vt., facility; well over 400 guests attended the weekend gatherings.
Awards for the 3/10-mile Dirt Track at Devil’s Bowl Speedway were presented on Friday, February 3, when Bobby Hackel of Rensselaer, N.Y., was crowned as the youngest lead-division champion in Devil’s Bowl Speedway’s 50-season history. The 22 year-old, fourth-generation racer won the Central Vermont Motorcycles Sportsman Modified title in the first season of NASCAR Whelen All-American Series-sanctioned racing at the Dirt Track. Tim LaDuc took runner-up honors with Kenny Tremont Jr. third.
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Jan 30, 2017 | Bear Ridge, Vermont
Bear Ridge Speedway the best bang for your buck family entertainment
Bear Ridge Speedway is celebrating 50 years of consecutive racing with the same management, and continues to be the best source of great inexpensive high quality entertainment for families. The price of a regular show general admission (front gate) ticket will remain the same as it has over the past decade for adults (ages 17 to 61) at $10.00 a person and children 11 and under $2.00. Teens 12 to 16 and seniors 62 and older will be able to enjoy the racing in 2017 for just $8.00.
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