Check out New England’s dirt track scene at Racin’ Preview 2011

by | Feb 16, 2011 | Maine, New England

Check out New England’s dirt track scene at Racin’ Preview 2011
(18th annual Portland Expo show set for Fri.-Sat., February 25-26)

Portland, ME – New England still has an active dirt track stock car racing scene, though it has been reduced to a trio of quarter-mile oval tracks in recent seasons.

It’s been just over a quarter-century since historic Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in nearby Scarborough was paved over, a year since Vermont’s Champlain Valley Racing Association switched their two tracks to asphalt racing surfaces, and a few months since the apparent closure of Massachusetts’ Whip City Speedway.
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Beech Ridge racers look forward to Racin’ Preview 2011 at the Portland Expo

by | Feb 14, 2011 | Beech Ridge, Maine, New England

Portland, Maine – Beech Ridge Motor Speedway will be represented by your typical selection of oval track racers at Racin’ Preview 2011, set for Friday and Saturday, February 25-26 at the Portland Expo.

Scarborough’s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway is in its’ seventh decade of providing outstanding family entertainment, these days both with the traditional Saturday night racing program – dubbed NASCAR Nites – and their groundbreaking Thursday Thunder program, successfully imitated by many other Northeastern tracks after being pioneered by track operator Andy Cusack well over a decade ago.
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WICKED BIG MEET COMES TO STAFFORD SPEEDWAY ON JUNE 18th

by | Feb 14, 2011 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford

WICKED BIG MEET COMES TO STAFFORD SPEEDWAY ON JUNE 18th

(Stafford Springs, CT)—New to the 2011 schedule of events at Stafford
Motor Speedway is the addition of The Wicked Big Meet, scheduled for
Saturday, June 18. The Wicked Big Meet is America’s Largest Subaru
Enthusiast Festival and after 5 years at Wachusett Mountain, it will call
Stafford home for its 6th year in the making.
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