IN
DIANAPOLIS, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 – Multi-platinum selling and Award-winning duo Florida Georgia Line will headline the second annual Legends Day concert presented by Firestone on Saturday, May 23, on the Turn 4 infield stage at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with special guests Thomas Rhett and Frankie Ballard rounding out the lineup.
Miami, FL – Lapizta, the watch company founded on a passion for racing and extreme sports joins forces with the Pramac Racing Team for the 2015 MotoGP season. Pramac Racing has been on the MotoGP scene since 2002 and will be hitting the tracks for 2015 with Italian rider, Danilo Petrucci, and the first ever-‐Colombian rider, Yonny Hernandez. LAPIZTA first caught the eye of Pramac while on display at Colombia’s international watch exhibition, WatchBO.
Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park is a track rich in history along multiple facets of motorsports. In the early days cars pushed the limits along the first paved oval in the nation and later on along a road course the had been nearly forgotten until 2013. In 2013 TSMP officials announced that the road course of yesteryear would be reconstructed along the premier details that TSMP is known for.
In 2014 numerous road course series and clubs attended the facility posting videos and results for many people to dream about racing on such a magnificent track. No oval track cars competed on the course that ran along the pit area pavement of the oval primary design.
(more…)
The upcoming 2015 season, and 7th in NEMST history, continues to offer something for everyone in the new year. Following announcements of two dates at the historic Oxford Plains Speedway and a brand new event at the 1.7 mile Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park Road Course the Texas Roadhouse North East Mini Stock Tour is returning to Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, ME. The announcement brings current drivers back to a facility that has been missed over the past 3 tour seasons.
(more…)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The 57th annual DAYTONA 500 on Sunday, Feb. 22, NASCAR’s biggest, richest and most prestigious race, will start at 1 p.m. (TV – FOX, FOX Deportes; Radio – MRN Radio, SiriusXM). It’s the sixth straight year “The Great American Race” will have a start time of 1 p.m.
Start times for the other remaining events of Budweiser Speedweeks 2015 at Daytona International Speedway are as follows:
Dick Berggren to be Inducted Into Maine Motorsports Hall of Fame
August, ME: The Maine Motorsports Hall of Fame has announced that on April 4, 2015 Dick Berggren, President of the Racing History Preservation Group (RHPG) that is the parent company of the North East Motor Sports Museum, will be inducted.
Dick will be one of six inductees who have influenced motorsports in Maine. He made his mark on the sport in his #80 Super Modified at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in the mid-1970s and raced Modifieds there in the early 1980s. As editor of Stock Car Racing Magazine and later his own Dick Berggren’s Speedway Illustrated, he put Maine motorsports on the national stage with his stories about Beech Ridge, the Oxford 250 and Maine racing personalities. In total, only 80 other significant Maine racing figures have been inductee into the Maine Motorsports Hall of Fame.
(more…)