by | Sep 13, 2013 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Five title races within 17 points entering season finale on Sept. 14-15
WEST HAVEN, VT – Stock car racing fans at Devil’s Bowl Speedway will have plenty of number-crunching to do in the grandstands at the Vermont 200 Championship Weekend on September 14-15. Five of the championship races that will be decided during the two-day event have airtight point battles and will undoubtedly come down to the final laps.
The top two drivers in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Late Model division are separated by only four points for the championship. Josh Masterson, a 22-year-old rookie from Bristol, VT, has earned three victories in his freshman season. Cagey veteran Chris Bergeron of Claremont, NH has four wins and trails his young rival by four points – the difference of just two on-track positions – entering the final 100-lap race on Sunday. Both are chased by another impressive rookie, 16-year-old feature race winner Brandon Atkins of AuSable Forks, NY, who is just 31 points out of the lead.
The 100-lap race also counts as the final event in the four-race Vermont State Late Model Championship Series, in which Nick Sweet of Barre, VT leads Chip Grenier of Graniteville, VT by a close 17 points. Sweet has an up-and-down history at Devil’s Bowl but won the track’s most recent Vermont State event – the People’s United Bank 100 – in June. Grenier has taken a shine to Devil’s Bowl, finishing second to Sweet in June and second to Brent Dragon in a photo finish on Vermont 200 Weekend in 2012.
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by | Sep 10, 2013 | Devils Bowl, Touring Series News, Vermont, Whelen All American Series
Modified Twin 50s at Devil’s Bowl Speedway to decide national rookie champion
WEST HAVEN, VT – Devil’s Bowl Speedway may be celebrating one of its drivers as a national NASCAR champion at the Vermont 200 Championship Weekend on Sunday, September 15. On the strength of nine main event victories in 2013, Todd Stone of Middlebury, VT leads the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series (NWAAS) “Division I” national rookie standings entering the final event of the year.
Stone has been a dominant force in the Bond Auto Parts Modified division at Devil’s Bowl and is in a tight race for the national Rookie of the Year presented by Jostens award with Late Model driver Bobby McCarty of Summerfield, NC. Unofficially, Stone leads McCarty by just nine points (519-510), but has two opportunities to gain points in twin 50-lap Modified races at the Vermont 200 Weekend and clinch the title.
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by | Sep 6, 2013 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Sprint-style races highlight Saturday, Sept. 14 program at Devil’s Bowl Speedway
WEST HAVEN, VT – Devil’s Bowl Speedway will guarantee four new faces in victory lane at September’s Vermont 200 Championship Weekend. Stock car drivers who have yet to carry a checkered flag at the fast half-mile oval in 2013 will take part in the second annual “Shootout” races for a chance to hoist the winner’s trophy during the Saturday, September 14 portion of the two-day season finale.
Regular weekly competitors from four weekly divisions will take part in 10-lap, sprint-style Shootout races. A star-studded field of eligible open-wheel racers has been named to the Bond Auto Parts Modified Shootout roster. In one of the season’s biggest surprises, two-time defending track champion Ron Proctor of Charlton, NY owns four runner-up finishes in 2013 but has been denied a victory thus far. Defending Shootout winner Jeff Haskins is again eligible and top drivers Vince Quenneville, Jr., Leon Gonyo, and Joe Williams are also locked in. Dave Snow, Cody Sargen, Jamie LaFountain, Andy Smith, Jamie Proctor, and the father-son team of James Introne, Sr., and Jim Introne, Jr., are also eligible.
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by Jay | Sep 5, 2013 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Antique Racers to Join Vermont 200 at Devil’s Bowl Speedway
Restored racecars bring past to present at track’s season finale
WEST HAVEN, VT – Devil’s Bowl Speedway will look a bit like the days of old at its Vermont 200 Championship Weekend on September 14-15, as the New England Antique Racers (NEAR) club roars around the half-mile oval for the first time. A vibrant group of restored and revitalized racecars are expected for the two-day event for display both on and off the track.
Open-wheel Modified and Coupe racers from across the barnstorming northeastern racing days of the 1960s and ‘70s will run in practice and race events during the Vermont 200 Weekend. Many of the NEAR cars attending the event will be identical in construction to those that competed at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on both asphalt and dirt surfaces several decades ago.
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by | Aug 29, 2013 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Wild-and-crazy smashfest to cap Devil’s Bowl Speedway season
WEST HAVEN, VT – The Vermont 200 Championship Weekend at Devil’s Bowl Speedway just got a little crazier. The title race for the four-round Enduro Series has been moved from its original October date and added to the card on Sunday, September 15, concluding a two-day stock car racing grand finale.
Enduro events have a “survival of the fittest” attitude filled with crashes and wild maneuvers. Any four- or six-cylinder car, light-duty pickup truck, or minivan that meets specifications may compete, with only safety modifications permitted. Races are run without caution flags and disabled vehicles are left wherever they may lie, including on the racing surface; red flags are used only in the event of emergencies.
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by Jay | Aug 24, 2013 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Stone Sweeps Devil’s Bowl Doubleheader
Bergeron, Masterson win again in Late Models
Todd Stone put an exclamation point on a NASCAR Whelen All-American Series stock car racing doubleheader at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Friday, August 23, sweeping a pair of 25-lap features in the track’s headline Bond Auto Parts Modified division. Stone was joined on the winner’s list during the Sugar & Spice Restaurant Night card by Late Model drivers Chris Bergeron and Josh Masterson, Renegade racers Stephen Donahue and Richie Turner, and Mini Stock competitors Jake Noble and Chuck Bradford.
Stone put on a passing clinic in the two main events, driving from 12th and 13th starting positions in the respective feature races. The Middlebury, VT driver was unstoppable in the opening race, driving from the back to pass Dave Snow for the lead at lap 15 and then cruising to an easy victory. Joe Williams of Scotia, NY came from seventh to take the runner-up spot, with Joey Roberts of Fletcher, VT third. Snow, of Brandon, VT, held on for a career-best fourth, with Vince Quenneville, Jr., of Brandon, VT fifth. (more…)
Five title races within 17 points entering season finale on Sept. 14-15
