{"id":23322,"date":"2018-06-02T07:50:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T11:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=23322"},"modified":"2018-06-01T12:52:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:52:06","slug":"speedbowl-after-massive-wreck-cassidy-canfield-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2018\/06\/speedbowl-after-massive-wreck-cassidy-canfield-recover\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedbowl – After massive wreck, Cassidy, Canfield recover"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Speedbowl – After massive wreck, Cassidy, Canfield recover<\/strong><\/p>\n

WATERFORD \u2014 Their Mini Stocks looked more like corpses than race cars.
\nKen Cassidy\u2019s No. 11 Mini Stock was totally destroyed after he flipped
\nhis car over on the first lap of the 25-lap feature at the New
\nLondon-Waterford Speedbowl.<\/p>\n

Charles Canfield, meanwhile, was involved in the same altercation.. His
\nNo. 25 Mini Stock had the entire right side torn off.
\nThat was Saturday. Less than one week later, both drivers plan on
\nreturning with the same cars that were involved in the first-lap
\ndemolition.
\n\u201cThe car might not be pretty, but we plan on being back,\u201d said Cassidy,
\na five-time champion and the division\u2019s all-time win leader. \u201cJust as
\nlong as we have no further hiccups, we\u2019ll be there.\u201d
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to come back even stronger, maybe even better,\u201d said
\nCanfield, the current Mini-Stock champ. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have to play
\nsome catch-up in the standings. But last year we were trailing by 15
\npoints and we wound up winning by one. There\u2019s no reason we can\u2019t do it
\nagain.\u201d
\nThe two drivers have had busy weeks.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve have been cranking on the car all week,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had
\nthe car on the frame machine. We also had some damage to the motor when
\nwe hit the wall. \u201c
\n\u201cThat was the hardest hit I\u2019ve ever been involved in during my entire
\nracing career, I had a beautiful car, and in less than one lap, it
\nturned into a pile of junk.\u201d
\nCanfield\u2019s crew, meanwhile, had to replace mounting brackets, half of
\nthe front clip, the radiator and the right-front suspension.
\n\u201cWe could have brought my back-up car for this week, but I like this car
\nbetter,\u201d Canfield said. \u201cI had faith in my crew that we could bring it
\nback. We had to overlook some of the little things on the car just so we
\ncould make it.\u201d
\nFellow competitors offered Cassidy rides for Saturday night, but hew
\nopted to repair \u201cThe Mighty 11.\u201d
\nDoug Curry offered me his back-up car, Christopher Ivory offered me his
\nback-up car and other drivers offered me rides,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cBut God
\nforbid if something happened again when I was driving someone else\u2019s
\ncar. I don\u2019t want to be that guy.\u201d
\nCanfield and Cassidy are still trying to figure out what happened on
\nthat fatal first lap.
\n\u201cJake Christian\u2019s No. 59 got in front of me and turned around, and I had
\nnowhere to go,\u201d Canfield said. \u201cThe 59 wound up being my brake. Everyone
\nelse was on the gas and it wound up being a mess. It was one of those
\nincidents that can happen,\u201d
\nCassidy, meanwhile, blamed it on impatient drivers trying to win the
\nrace on the first lap.
\n\u201cIt was three wide in front of me, so I checked up and Nathan Taylor ran
\ninto the back of my car,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cI hit the wall so hard that my
\nback end was up in the air, and I got hit again. That\u2019s when I flipped
\nit over.\u201d
\nWhile their cars looked like natural disasters, neither Canfield nor
\nCassidy considered throwing in the towel. Determination outweighed the
\nfrustration.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to be ready to go, no matter what,\u201d Canfield said. \u201cI had
\nhelp from people like the Norman Brothers to get us going. \u201cWe are just
\nabout bundled up and ready to race.\u201d
\nCassidy was just as focused.
\n\u201cWe don\u2019t give up,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cIt was a long week, and an expensive
\nweek, But I have too many good people, too many sponsors and too many
\nfriends that I didn\u2019t want to let down. If it wasn\u2019t for them, I might
\nhave said the heck with it. But I received more than 200 phone calls and
\nFacebook texts. That type of support makes me want to get back to
\nvictory lane like we used to.\u201d
\nOn May 25, their cars were in the obituary page. One week later, both
\nCassidy and Canfield hope to be in the headlines.<\/p>\n

Speedbowl notebook:
\nThe Mini-Stocks will be just one layer of a special night of motor
\nsports scheduled for Saturday at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl,
\ninvolving cars from all walks of life.
\nThe action starts with the first \u201cSpectator Drags\u201d event if the season.
\nInterested competitors can bring their street cars to participate in
\none-lap elimination races until a champ is determined\u2026The night’s final
\nevent Saturday will be a Mid-Size Compact Car Enduro, which should be
\none of the most action packed events of the season. In between the drags
\nand the Enduros, the Modifieds will be featured in a 40-lap event, the
\nSportsman will be in a 25-lap race, the Legends will go for 25 laps and
\nthe Vintage Open Modifieds will hit the track for the first time this
\nyear.
\nThe drag racing is scheduled for 4:30 p.m., followed by qualifying at 5
\np.m. The opening ceremonies will follow qualifying\u2026. Brody\u2019s Seafood
\nMarket and Deli of Norwich will be selling clam fritters and clam
\nchowder under the hospitality tent from 3 to 6 p.m\u2026. The Modified
\ndivision is the only Speedbowl division that has not seen feature action
\nin 2018. The Modifieds were rained out on May 6, May 12 and May 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speedbowl – After massive wreck, Cassidy, Canfield recover WATERFORD \u2014 Their Mini Stocks looked more like corpses than race cars. Ken Cassidy\u2019s No. 11 Mini Stock was totally destroyed after he flipped his car over on the first lap of the 25-lap feature at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl.<\/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":[3,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-waterford-speedbowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322","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=23322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23323,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322\/revisions\/23323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}