by Jay | Mar 6, 2015 | ACT, New England, Touring Series News
Photo by Leif Tillotson
Waterbury, VT – Lee USA Speedway will present the American Canadian Tour (ACT) opening event on Sunday, April 12, 2015
. The 150 lap New Hampshire Governor’s Cup ACT race has traditionally been one of the most exciting and unpredictable events of any race season on the popular tour. This year is no exception– Eddie MacDonald “The Outlaw” of Rowley, MA has only won the race one time; that was in 2014.
Lee Speedway has been owned by the MacDonald family for 29 years. Young Eddie MacDonald, long before the present emergence of the modern era of 13-year olds wielding $40,000.00 Super Late Models around today’s short tracks, was getting laps in at the fast 1/3 mile Lee track, before he could even race in a division at the Speedway.
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by Jay | Feb 27, 2015 | New England, New England Motorsports South
NEW ENGLAND MOTORSPORTS SOUTH
By Lou Modestino
Get ready for Frank Maratta Auto Show and Race A Rama this weekend…Saturday, February 28 the doors open at 10 am-9 pm and Sunday, March 1 from 10 am-5 pm. Many New England race tracks and tours will be on hand with race cars and drivers. There will be lots of schedules from the different tracks and tours with the possibility of getting autographs and pictures.
The show features the Pit Crew Challenge, Pin-up Pageant 2015, show cars, hot rods, drag and road racing vehicles and oval track race cars. Some of the venues represented include; Stafford Motor Speedway, Thompson Motorsports Park, Waterford Speedbowl, New England Dragway, Lime Rock among others. Also tours such as the NEMA Midgets, Valenti Modified Racing Series, New England Mini Stock Tour, Pro 4 Modified Tour and NEAR Vintage Race Cars along with other racing series.
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by Jay | Feb 27, 2015 | New England, New England Motorsports North
NEW ENGLAND MOTORSPORTS NORTH
By Lou Modestino
Get ready for Frank Maratta Auto Show and Race A Rama this weekend.Saturday, February 28 the doors open at 10 am-9 pm and Sunday, March 1 from 10 am-5 pm. Many New England race tracks and tours will be on hand with race cars and drivers. There will be lots of schedules from the different tracks and tours with the possibility of getting autographs and pictures.
The show features the Pit Crew Challenge, Pin-up Pageant 2015, show cars, hot rods, drag and road racing vehicles and oval track race cars. Some of the venues represented include; Stafford Motor Speedway, Thompson Motorsports Park, Waterford Speedbowl, New England Dragway, Lime Rock among others. Also tours such as the NEMA Midgets, Valenti Modified Racing Series, New England Mini Stock Tour, Pro 4 Modified Tour and NEAR Vintage Race Cars along with other racing series.
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by Jay | Feb 22, 2015 | New England, New England Motorsports South
NEW ENGLAND MOTORSPORTS SOUTH For Feb 20, 2015
By Lou Modestino
After a stellar rookie season in Stafford Speedway’s SK Light division, Taunton, MA native Branden Dion is ready to challenge for SPAFCO Rookie of the Year honors in the track’s premier SK Modified® division in 2015 behind the wheel of the #04 Triple D Racing / Doug King Builders Chevrolet.
“I’m very excited to be moving up this year,” said Dion. “We worked on the car a lot during the season to get our setup dialed in and I think we’ll ready to go. The plan is for us to start off slow and work our way towards getting the car faster each week. Last year we studied our stuff each week, took our time, and towards the end of the year we really seemed to have everything together. It’s definitely going to be a learning experience for us but we have the same crew and the same chassis, so we should have a good starting point with the car setup.”
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by Jay | Feb 20, 2015 | New England, Vermont
Packard Leaves Florida with a 16th Place Finish in the American Racer Challenge
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. – Excited to be back in the race car, Packard rolled the 9x Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels car out of the hauler for the first practice of the 2015 American Canadian Tour season. “We have never been racing down south with the ACT car and New Smyrna was a different track than what we have up north,” said Packard. “The track was really fast, but a lot of fun to drive and a great experience for me and the team.”
With the sun shining and warm temperatures, Packard began getting acclimated with New Smyrna Speedway. Since her fellow competitors already had an advantage of practicing and racing 100 laps the day before, Packard spent the first practice learning the track and dialing the car in. “We were a little behind by not racing on Sunday, and all the things that we fought in practice on Monday; the other teams had already been able to overcome,” Packard said, “but we spent the day gaining on the car and getting it ready for the race.”
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by Jay | Feb 20, 2015 | New England, New England Motorsports North
NEW ENGLAND MOTORSPORTS NORTH For Feb 19, 2015
By Lou Modestino
Devil’s Bowl Speedway is on the rise as one of Vermont’s top family entertainment hot spots, and businesses in and around Rutland County are taking notice. The region’s only dual-surface stock car racing facility welcomes several new and returning sponsorship partners in 2015 and is poised for continued growth with both its NASCAR-sanctioned 1/2-mile asphalt oval and its new 1/3-mile dirt track.
Bond Auto Parts has extended its sponsorship of the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Modified division to a fourth consecutive year and will again present “Hard Charger” awards in the Renegade and Mini Stock classes. Family owned and based in Barre, VT, Bond Auto Parts is among the country’s leading auto parts retailers and has partnerships with the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Bruins, and New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Bond Auto Parts supports Devil’s Bowl Speedway through its store on Strongs Avenue in Rutland.
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