{"id":27356,"date":"2020-09-22T13:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=27356"},"modified":"2020-09-22T09:21:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:21:03","slug":"drellos-crate-engine-passes-inspection-after-protest-at-devils-bowl-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2020\/09\/drellos-crate-engine-passes-inspection-after-protest-at-devils-bowl-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Drellos Crate Engine Passes Inspection After Protest at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Drellos Crate Engine Passes Inspection After Protest at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Championship Night ready for Saturday<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. \u2013 Demetrios Drellos has been officially declared the winner of the 30-lap Pepsi Sportsman Modified race held at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway on The Stove Depot Night on Saturday, September 19. A protest was filed against the Queensbury, N.Y., driver\u2019s General Motors \u201c602 crate\u201d engine following his fourth consecutive win at the Vermont track on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team of second-place finisher Justin Comes posted the $500 protest bond required by the 2020 Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway rulebook following the feature race on Saturday night to have the Drellos engine inspected at an independent location. The engine was removed from the Drellos car at the track, impounded, and then delivered to Hunt\u2019s Machine in Schenectady, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The inspection process \u2013 which was completed by the staff at Hunt\u2019s Machine on the morning of Monday, September 21 \u2013 revealed that the engine was sealed, stock, and untouched, in its original configuration and measurements as prepared by General Motors. The engine returned to the Drellos team on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the win now official, Drellos holds a 31-point lead on Adam Pierson, 741-710, entering the Championship Night season finale at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway on Saturday, September 26. Bobby Hackel sits third at 644 points, followed by Kenny Tremont Jr. (632), and Comes (585).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Points are awarded in qualifying heat races with 5 points to the winner, 4 points to second place, 3 points to third place, 2 points to fourth place, and 1 point for all other starters. A feature race win is worth 50 points with 48 to the runner-up, 46 to third place, and a two-point declination down to a minimum of 10 points for 21st<\/sup> place and beyond. Consolation races and B-Feature races do not award points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Champions will be officially crowned in four other divisions on Saturday night as well. Castleton, Vt.\u2019s Johnny Bruno has a 45-point cushion on Anthony Warren, 764-719, for the O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Limited Sportsman title; Bruno only needs to start his heat race to mathematically clinch his second-straight crown. West Rutland, Vt.\u2019s Andrew FitzGerald has clinched his first championship in the Super Stock division, entering Saturday\u2019s race with an insurmountable 110-point lead on Ronnie Alger, 646-535.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mini Stock and Friend Construction 500cc Mini Sprint titles are still very much up for grabs, though. Chris Conroy of Newport, N.H., has a slim, nine-point edge on defending champion Craig Kirby, 590-581, in the Mini Stocks, and rookie Chris Sumner is still in the hunt 42 points behind Conroy. The 500cc Mini Sprint division will crown its first two-time champion, as 2018 title winner Cody O\u2019Brien and 2017 champ Austin Chaves sit 17 points apart, with Springfield, Vt., racer O\u2019Brien leading 672-655.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Championship Night starts at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 26. In addition to the five weekly divisions, the final Sportsman Modified \u201cDraw Race\u201d will also be held. Advance sale tickets will soon be available online at the Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway is located on Route 22A in West Haven, Vt., four miles north of U.S. Route 4, Exit 2, and just 20 minutes from Rutland, Vt.  For more information, visit www.DevilsBowlSpeedwayVT.com<\/a> or call (802) 265-3112. Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway is on Facebook at facebook.com\/DevilsBowlSpeedway<\/a>, and on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat at @DevilsBowlSpeed; follow the action using the #DevilsBowl hashtag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drellos Crate Engine Passes Inspection After Protest at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway Championship Night ready for Saturday SCHENECTADY, N.Y. \u2013 Demetrios Drellos has been officially declared the winner of the 30-lap Pepsi Sportsman Modified race held at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway on The Stove Depot Night on Saturday, September 19. A protest was filed against the Queensbury, […]<\/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":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27356","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\/27356","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=27356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27357,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27356\/revisions\/27357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}