Pierson Seals Bear Ridge Title With New England Dirt Track Championships Win

by | Sep 30, 2012 | Bear Ridge, Dirt Track, New England, Vermont

Pierson Seals Bear Ridge Title With New England Dirt Track Championships Win
Birthday boy Chaffee sweeps Modified and Midget races for second time in 2012

BRADFORD, VT – Modified stock car driver Adam Pierson saved his best for last at Bear Ridge Speedway, winning the third annual New England Dirt Track Championships and clinching the track’s 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series title in the process. Pierson, of Fairlee, VT, made it back-to-back wins in the track’s biggest event of the year to wrap up his third consecutive Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modified track championship and eighth overall.

The make-up events for the New England Dirt Track Championships presented by Perry Oil Service and 99ROCK – previously postponed by rain on September 22 – opened the card, with Pierson running from 14th starting position to his second victory of the season in the 50-lap special. Bryan King of Corinth, VT survived a torrid battle with Devil’s Bowl Speedway regular and former Bear Ridge champion Vince Quenneville, Jr., of Brandon, VT, with King taking the runner-up spot by a bumper.
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Dave Pembroke Claims 50th Milk Bowl Pole

by | Sep 29, 2012 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road, Vermont

Therrien and Hodgdon Claim Tiger and Street Segment Wins

Barre, VT – Two-time Thunder Road Late Model Champion Dave Pembroke of Middlesex, VT claimed the Booth Bros./H.P. Hood Pole Award and will lead the 30 car field to green in the 50th People’s United Bank Milk Bowl at Thunder Road. Pembroke set the fast time of 12.956 during Saturday’s (Sept. 29) qualifying to just edge out three-time Milk Bowl Champion Brian Hoar of Williston, VT.

2012 Thunder Road Champion Nick Sweet of Barre, VT, Fort Kent, ME’s Austin Theriault and three-time Thunder Road Champion Cris Michaud won the three Triple 50 qualifiers and will complete the top five in the starting line-up for segment #1. Cody Blake, Travis Fadden, Joey Polewarczyk, Jr., Trampas Demers and Brooks Clark will start in the top ten.
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First Entries Filed for Vermonster 150 Enduro at Devil’s Bowl Speedway

by | Sep 29, 2012 | Devils Bowl, Vermont

First Entries Filed for Vermonster 150 Enduro at Devil’s Bowl Speedway
October 20 “survival” race offering $1,500-to-win; Spectator Races also on card

WEST HAVEN, VT – Entries are flying into the mailbox at Devil’s Bowl Speedway for the West Haven, VT track’s “Vermonster 150” Enduro on Saturday, October 20 at 1:00pm. The Enduro is a long-distance survival-of-the-fittest race featuring bone-stock race vehicles bulling, jamming , slipping, sliding, smashing, and crashing their way toward the checkered flag, and will be held rain, shine, or snow.

Jeff Murray of Georgia, VT was the first to file an official entry, quickly followed by Bret “The Jet” Williams of Sudbury, VT. Murray, who has chosen No. 35, plans to pilot a 1997 Honda Civic in his first Devil’s Bowl Enduro appearance of the season. Williams will run the same No. 56 Saturn that he ran in the latest Enduro at Devil’s Bowl on August 24.
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