SOUTH PLATTSBURGH – The 2012 Airborne Speedway schedule gets underway Sunday, April 29, with the Econo Lodge 50 for DIRTCar Modifieds presented by Della Honda and Valcour Imaging. The opening day line-up, presented by Della Honda and Valcour Imaging, will feature five divisions – J&S Steel Limited Late Models, Key RD Trailer Sales Renegades, Adirondack Water Sportsman Modifieds and Busch Beer Mini Modifieds.
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(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Motor Speedway’s SK Light Modified
division will welcome several new drivers to its ranks this season. While
most of the newcomers are young drivers who have worked their way through
the karting ranks, there is one new face to the SK Light division this
season that bucks that trend. Scott Bouley, a 15-year veteran of the K & N
Pro East Series (formerly Busch North Series), will join the SK Light
division, where he will try to put his #26 into CARQUEST Victory Lane and
dance on his roof for the first time since he danced on his roof following a
ProStock feature victory in the 2000 CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler.
“We’re going to show up and put the petal to the metal and give it our all,”
said Bouley. “I haven’t danced on the roof since we won at the Sizzler 12
years ago, so it’s been too long. I shopped around last year to see where I
wanted to go racing and Stafford is the best track around, it’s a real class
facility. We’re really excited about the car and I’ll definitely be dancing
on the roof if we can win again.”
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Canaan, NH. — NEMA midget hot shoe Anthony Nocella, of Woburn, MA.,
knows a thing or two about open-wheel race cars. He has enjoyed success
and lots of it in go-karts, mini-sprints, and the two NEMA sanctioned midget
divisions.
When the Valenti Modified Racing Series opens it’s ninth season March 31, and
April 1, at Connecticut’s Waterford Speedbowl, at the annual Budweiser
Blastoff Weekend, Nocella will give the ground-pounding open-wheel modifieds
a shot, thanks to car-owner Kevin Stuart, of Lowell, MA.
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Car counts growing for Vermont’s only dirt track
BRADFORD, VT — The 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series roster is filling up in a hurry as stock car drivers from many backgrounds plan to call Bradford, VT’s Bear Ridge Speedway their summer home for 21 action-filled events. New additions have been made across the board in all divisions.
The top-tier Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modified division will see a strong freshman class as six-time Limited Late Model Robert Tucker of Topsham, VT moves up along with fellow Late Model standouts Richie Simmons of Bradford, VT and “Rapid” Troy Comeau of Rumney, NH. Second-generation drivers and twin brothers Jacob and Joey Scarborough of Brandon, VT have also entered the division; their father Don Scarborough was the 1997 Bear Ridge Speedway track champion. Former asphalt standout “Fast Eddie” Patterson of Websterville, VT will also make his Modified debut. Veteran Bob Shepard of West Topsham, VT also returns to the Modifieds in 2012.
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Barre, VT – Thunder Road has announced that all its 2012 season pass holders will receive half price off the $18 general admission ticket to the American Canadian Tour Fall Foliage at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY on Saturday, October 6. The event will feature the 200-lap final point-counting ACT event of the season.
2012 season passes, either reserved seat gold passes or general admission passes, are good for admission to all 18 events at the “Nation’s Site of Excitement.” The 18 events of 2012 include special events such as the 50th People’s United Bank Milk Bowl, the ACT Merchants Bank season opener, the ACT Bond Auto Labor Day Classic, the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic and the Vermont Governor’s Cup. Season pass holders also get to enter the grandstand area 15 minutes before regular general admission tickets.
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(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Motor Speedway has again lined up an
impressive field of current and former open wheel champions for its CARQUEST
Champions For Charities Event as part of CARQUEST Super Saturday on June
30th. During the coming weeks, SMS will offer a profile on each of its
championship winning drivers and the charity they will be racing for and
this week’s CARQUEST Champions For Charities spotlight falls on Woody
Pitkat, the 2006 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Division 4 Regional
Champion, who will be racing to help support The Victory Junction Gang Camp.
The Victory Junction Gang Camp was built in honor of Adam Petty and they
provide life-changing experiences for children with chronic medical
conditions or serious illnesses. Victory Junction has opened it’s doors to
over 14,000 children from all 50 states and 4 countries since opening in
2004. Located in Randleman, NC, Victory Junction is partnered with 30
different hospitals to deliver health care to its campers, who are dealing
with such chronic medical conditions and serious illnesses as Autism,
Cancer, Craniofacial Anomalies, Diabetes, Hemophilia, Sickle Cell and Spina
Bifida. The cost for a child to attend Victory Junction is $2,500, but
thanks to generous donations, no child or family incurs that cost.
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