{"id":21466,"date":"2017-03-08T07:56:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=21466"},"modified":"2017-03-08T07:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:56:04","slug":"devils-bowl-speedway-facebook-live-talk-show-keeping-off-season-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2017\/03\/devils-bowl-speedway-facebook-live-talk-show-keeping-off-season-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway \u201cFacebook Live\u201d Talk Show Keeping Off-Season Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway \u201cFacebook Live\u201d Talk Show Keeping Off-Season Fun
\n\u201cLet\u2019s Talk Racing!\u201d show has made over 330,000 Facebook impressions since December<\/strong><\/p>\n

WEST HAVEN, Vt. \u2013 The winter months are usually not much fun for stock car racing fans in the Northeast, but Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway in snowy Vermont is changing that. A weekly live talk show called \u201cLet\u2019s Talk Racing!\u201d \u2013 airing every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. on Facebook\u2019s \u201cLive\u201d video platform \u2013 has kept fans and racers engaged in an upbeat, interactive program through positive use of social media.<\/p>\n

Track promoter Mike Bruno and media director Justin St. Louis host the one-hour show on Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway\u2019s official Facebook page. Since debuting on December 15, \u201cLet\u2019s Talk Racing!\u201d has become a place to discuss news and information at the Rutland County facility, but the show has not been limited in its focus. The hosts have a list of topics, but viewers are encouraged to have an active part in the show by posting questions and comments during the broadcast. Several drivers have been guests, and a few episodes have been broadcast live on location from drivers\u2019 race shops and garages. The planned guest for Thursday, March 9, is Lyle DeVore, promoter of Howard Commander\u2019s famed Albany-Saratoga and Lebanon Valley Speedways in New York State.
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The show is free to watch and participate in. Production is extremely low-budget \u2013 no money has been spent to date, in fact \u2013 and the show is simply streamed via cell phone camera. Through its first 12 weeks, \u201cLet\u2019s Talk Racing!\u201d has gathered an average weekly audience of nearly 3,000 unique viewers and well over 330,000 impressions on Facebook via shares, likes, and comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI give Mike all the credit \u2013 the show was his idea,\u201d St. Louis said. \u201cI don\u2019t think either one of us expected it to take off as quickly as it has. The viewers and the drivers have been a lot of fun and we plan to keep the show going in some form or another through the racing season this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruno has been pleasantly surprised by the reach that the show has had. \u201cWe\u2019ve heard from viewers from all over the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Australia, England, and Brazil. It\u2019s pretty amazing to think about,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cIt\u2019s not intended to be a Hollywood production; it\u2019s just a fun thing to do and it really has given us something to look forward to during the winter. People watch to have a good time and to talk about something they love, whether they come to Devil\u2019s Bowl or not. That was our only goal in the first place.\u201d
\n\u201cLet\u2019s Talk Racing!\u201d airs Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. on Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway\u2019s official Facebook page at www.Facebook.com\/DevilsBowlSpeedway. The track\u2019s NASCAR Whelen All-American Series season begins on Sunday, May 7 at 1:30 p.m. with the historic \u201cSpring Green\u201d event; weekly racing begins on Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n

Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway is located on Route 22A in West Haven, Vt., four miles north of U.S. Route 4, Exit 2. For more information, visit www.DevilsBowlSpeedwayVT.com or call (802) 265-3112. Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway is on Facebook at Facebook.com\/DevilsBowlSpeedway and on Twitter and Instagram at @DevilsBowlSpeed; follow the action using the #DevilsBowl hashtag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway \u201cFacebook Live\u201d Talk Show Keeping Off-Season Fun \u201cLet\u2019s Talk Racing!\u201d show has made over 330,000 Facebook impressions since December WEST HAVEN, Vt. \u2013 The winter months are usually not much fun for stock car racing fans in the Northeast, but Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway in snowy Vermont is changing that. A weekly live […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devils-bowl","category-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21467,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21466\/revisions\/21467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}