by Jay | Aug 26, 2013 | Bear Ridge, Vermont
Fornwalt and Simmons Celebrate Wins at Bear Ridge Speedway
Pierson Dominates USAC Dirt Midget action
BRADFORD, VT – Bear Ridge Speedway celebrated Sabil & Sons Towing Old Timers Night on Saturday with hard-nosed racing, exciting finishes, and non stop action.
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Rookie Jordan Fornwalt of Bradford, VT ran to the Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modified win after a spirited battle with early leader Dan Eastman in the 40-lap main event. Fornwalt, the defending Limited Late Model Champion had to fend off a late charge from current point leader Chris Donnelly to secure the victory by .126 seconds. Donnelly, who started 17th, arrived on Forwalt’s back bumper with four laps remaining and finished second. Mike Gendron was third, Eastman fourth and Josh Sunn completed the top five
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by | Aug 20, 2013 | Bear Ridge, Vermont
Gray Scores an Emotional Win in the Limited Late Models
BRADFORD, VT – Chris Donnelly and Justin Comes highlighted a jam-packed list of dirt track stock car winners on Swenson Insurance Night in the 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series at Bear Ridge Speedway on Saturday. Donnelly won the 25-lap Sprint Cars of New England (SCoNE) feature from the 14th starting position, and Comes first win of the year in the DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds broke a long streak of bad luck. More than 115 race teams filled the pit area.
Multi time champion Donnelly used the races’ only caution to his advantage as he took the lead on lap 12 from leading rookie candidate Travis Hull shortly after the race went back to green. Bridgewater, NH hotshoe Dan Douville used a late race slide job to take second with Travis Hull finishing third. Will Hull claimed fourth, after flipping off the top of turn one in hot laps after a steering failure with Lacey Hanson fifth.
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by | Aug 13, 2013 | Bear Ridge, Dirt Track, Vermont
Champagne wins USAC Dirt Midgets, Giguere again in Limited Late Models
BRADFORD, VT – Northfield, VT stock car driver Tim Tucker negotiated a slicker than normal track to etch his name in the record books as a 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modified winner for the first time at Bear Ridge Speedway in Bradford, VT on Saturday night, winning the 40-lap Walker Motor Sales feature event in a thrilling finish.
Tucker jumped into the lead at the green after passing rookie Derek Barker on the initial green. Tucker ran to a large lead in the mid stages of the event while Chris Donnelly was working his way to the front from his 18th starting spot. Donnelly arrived on Tucker’s bumper with a handful of laps remaining and used the topside to pull even with Tucker but could not complete the pass. Tucker took the victory by .115 seconds with Donnelly second and rookie Jordan Fornwalt third. Adam Pierson and current point’s leader Kevin Chaffee completed the top five.
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by | Aug 7, 2013 | Bear Ridge, Vermont
“Madness” event draws huge purse, USAC Midgets back in town
BRADFORD, VT – Bear Ridge Speedway – “The Home of the Coupes” – has posted a mammoth prize purse for its iconic Wells River Chevrolet Sportsman Coupe division at the John Poor Memorial presented by Walker Motor Sales of Woodsville, NH on Saturday. Between the finish payout and bonus lap money raised by race teams through various sponsors, more than $8,500 is up for grabs. The race, named in honor of late Bear Ridge official John Poor, will be run in the popular “Madness” segmented format with full-field inversions and cumulative scoring, with bonus money paid to each of the top-five runners on every lap.
Jason Colbeth of Newbury, VT became the latest winner in the division at last week’s Interstate Batteries of New-Mont event. Colbeth joins Teddy Salomaa, Kane Pike Josh Harrington, Melvin Pierson, Louie Cadwell, Martin Mastic and rookie Danny Doyle as feature winners in 2013.
The cars and stars of the USAC Dirt Midget Association powered by Ignite Racing Fuels are back in action for Walker Motor Sales Night. Bear Ridge favorite Kevin “The Fairlee Flier” Chaffee leads the points entering the event, with former Champion “Flat Foot” Joe Krawiec second.
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by | Aug 6, 2013 | Bear Ridge, Vermont
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Giguere wins Late Models, Nelson first time winner in Hornets
BRADFORD, VT – With over 30 different winners so far this season in the 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series stock car program at Bear Ridge Speedway the new winner trend continued on Interstate Batteries of New-Mont Night on Saturday. Evan Kingsbury, Jason Colbeth and Traci Nelson took center stage in three electrifying races to light up the night and their names to the winner’s list.
Evan Kingsbury, of Bradford VT, posted his first Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modified win of the year in a narrow finish, defeating Chris Donnelly by just .173 seconds. .Tim Tucker led the first seven laps before Kingsbury, who started fifth on the grid, used the topside to annex the lead. Donnelly, who started 18th in the 20 car field patiently worked his way to the front, arriving in second with just three laps to go. Eddie Patterson and reigning track Champion Adam Pierson waged a race long battle for the next position with Patterson claiming third and Pierson fourth. Tim Hodge completed the top five.
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by | Jul 31, 2013 | Bear Ridge, Vermont
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Gray snaps Giguere’s unbeaten streak in the Limited Late Models
BRADFORD, VT –Chris Donnelly once again used the topside to roll to victory in the Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds during 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series action on Perry Oil service Night at Bear Ridge Speedway on Saturday. The veteran racer, who started 21st in the 22 car field used numerous early race cautions to his advantage and blasted into the lead on lap 28 of the 40 lap affair. Rookies Derek Barker and Adam Gage waged a torrid battle up front which continued for the runner up spot for the remainder of the race. Barker would come home second with current point leader Kevin Chaffee making a last lap pass for third. Gage was fourth and Tim Hodge completed the top five.
USAC Dirt Midget action found Adam Pierson in victory lane again in an absolutely dominating performance. Pierson, who rode the rim to front in only ten laps from his 14th starting spot, steadily pulled away after taking the lead and took the victory by over four seconds. Former Champion Joe Krawiec had his best run of the season to finish second with Tim Gallant third, Scott Holcomb fourth and early leader Rookie Dylan Duhaime fifth.
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