by | Aug 7, 2013 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Spectator racing, kids racecar rides highlight Interstate All Battery Center Night
WEST HAVEN, VT – A NASCAR national championship may very well be won at Vermont’s Devil’s Bowl Speedway. With only four stock car racing events remaining in the 2013 season including Interstate All Battery Center of Rutland Night presented by the Green Mountain Water Environment Association on Friday, August 9, Todd Stone of Middlebury, VT has grabbed the lead in the national Rookie of the Year standings for the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series.
Devil’s Bowl Speedway is one of 55 North American short tracks sanctioned by the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series (NWAAS) program, with its open-wheel Bond Auto Parts Modified class designated as the “Division I” group. Each NWAAS track assigns a Division I class with drivers competing against each other under a common point structure for state and national championships.
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by | Aug 5, 2013 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
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Atkins, Bergeron split Late Model mains; Hanson, Bushey make history
WEST HAVEN, VT – Veteran stock car driver Todd Stone held off young up-and-comer Jessey Mueller to win Devil’s Bowl Speedway’s most important open-wheel Modified event on Friday, August 2, taking the second annual Carrara Masonry & Concrete C.J. Richards Memorial 67. The win highlighted a night full of close finishes, with Brandon Atkins, Chris Bergeron, Lacey Hanson, and Karen Bushey also taking victories at the event honoring the track’s late founder.
The outcome of the race – which was the second round of the five-race Northern Modified Challenge Series – was in question throughout the entire 67-lap distance until Stone crossed the finish line as the winner. Veteran Leon Gonyo of Chazy, NY started on the front row by virtue of a random draw, and led the opening seven laps. Visiting short track standout “Liquid” Loud Cicconi of Aston, PA, driving Stone’s team car, took command on lap 8 and diced with Gonyo for the next 14 laps before Middlebury, VT racer Stone entered the picture.
Stone took the lead from Cicconi at lap 31 and led his teammate in an entertaining duel, but Cicconi’s engine failed, forcing him out of the race at lap 39 while running second. The resulting restart allowed 18 year-old Mueller, of Olmstedville, NY, to draw even with Stone, and the pair raced in lockstep for the final 27 laps. Both were forced to make daring maneuvers through lapped traffic with five laps to go, nearly causing them to crash, but Stone held on to beat Mueller by a car length to win. The victory was his fourth-straight and seventh of the season in the Bond Auto Parts Modified division at Devil’s Bowl.
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by | Aug 2, 2013 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
The schedule for Friday’s “C.J. Richards Memorial 67” presented by Carrara Masonry & Concrete is attached. Pit gates will open for the early practice at 2:00pm until 3:30pm. Pits will reopen at 4:00pm, with practice at 5:00pm. Qualifying is at 7:00pm.
Modifieds – This event counts for track points, NASCAR points, and Northern Modified Challenge Series points. Because this is an NMCS race, heat lineups will be determined by random draw, and the feature lineup will be decided by a fan drawing an invert pill. There will NOT be a semi-feature this week. The feature race is 67 laps.
Late Models – You will run one set of heats and two 20-lap features with a “split” purse. The first feature will be lined up like any other event – the qualified cars from the heats will receive their handicap, all others will go to the rear. The entire field will be re-handicapped for the second feature (not inverted from the finish of the first feature). Both races (and heats) will count for points.
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by | Aug 1, 2013 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
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Will race as teammate to point leader Stone at Carrara Masonry Richards Memorial
WEST HAVEN, VT – Devil’s Bowl Speedway will welcome a new challenger on Friday, August 2 as short track auto racing star “Liquid” Lou Cicconi makes the long haul from his Aston, PA home to the racy Vermont track. The International Super Modified Association championship leader will race in the Carrara Masonry & Concrete “C.J. Richards Memorial 67” for the Northern Modified Challenge Series on Friday.
Cicconi is a multi-time champion and race winner on asphalt, concrete, and dirt surfaces in open-wheel Modified, Super Modified, Midget, and Three-Quarter Midget cars; his most recent victory came in a winged ISMA Super Modified at the famed Oswego (NY) Speedway in June. Cicconi has landed a potent Devil’s Bowl ride in the No. X1 car fielded by G. Stone Motorsports of Middlebury, VT – the same team that has won six Bond Auto Parts Modified races at the track with driver Todd Stone and ranks second in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national Rookie of the Year standings.
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by | Aug 1, 2013 | ACT, Devils Bowl, Touring Series News, Vermont
ACT Late Model Tour: Emily Packard
Devils Bowl Speedway Race Report
WEST HAVEN, Vt. – Emily Packard of East Montpelier, Vt., finished 11th in the ACT Late Model Tour St. Jude Children’s Hospital 150 at Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven, Vt., on Sunday, July 28. Packard started 13th in the field and battled several caution periods and a 23-minute rain delay to post her best ACT finish since mid-May. With a number of laps run under the yellow flag – including efforts to keep the track from getting damp during caution periods for rain – the handling in the rear end of the No. 9x Northstar Fireworks/Berlin Optical Expressions Ford Fusion started to wane as fuel was burned from the gas tank.
WHO: Emily Packard, East Montpelier, Vt.
CREW CHIEF: Neal Woodward, Georgia, Vt.
TEAM: Emily Packard Motorsports No. 9x Northstar Fireworks/Berlin Optical Expressions Chevrolet
SPONSORS: Northstar Fireworks, Fecteau Homes, Berlin Optical Expressions, Yipes! of Barre, VT Shifter Karts, GossCars.com, Be The Match, Rutland Regional Medical Center, R.G. Paving
WHAT: ACT St. Jude Children’s Hospital 150
WHERE: Devil’s Bowl Speedway, West Haven, Vt. (.500-mile oval)
STARTED: 13th
FINISHED: 11th
NEXT RACE: August 3, ACT 150, Sanair Super Speedway, St. Pie, Que. (.875-mile oval)
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by | Jul 30, 2013 | ACT, Devils Bowl, Touring Series News, Vermont
Stone, Bushey, LaVair grab repeat victories
WEST HAVEN, VT – American-Canadian Tour stock car driver Wayne Helliwell, Jr., captured an historic victory at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Sunday, July 28, taking his third consecutive win at the West Haven, VT track in the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 150 presented by Cat Country 105.3 FM. Todd Stone, rookie Brad Bushey, and Chris LaVair also picked up NASCAR Whelen All-American Series wins at the event.
Helliwell, of Dover, NH, outlasted a race-long fight with Ray Parent. The pair traded the lead eight times during the 150-lap race, which was halted twice for rain including for 23 minutes with 93 laps complete. After the race resumed, Parent, of Tiverton, RI, was running second with just four laps remaining when his engine sputtered, out of fuel. Helliwell pulled away for the win after the final restart to earn the two-race ACT sweep at Devil’s Bowl in 2013, having won the Spring Green 113 in May; he also won the Spring Green in 2012 to make it three-straight wins at the track.
Travis Stearns, a rookie from Auburn, ME, picked up where Parent left off, earning a career-best runner-up finish. Joey Polewarczyk, Jr., of Hudson, NH finished third, followed by Glen Luce of Turner, ME, and rookie Bobby Therrien of Hinesburg, VT, Ben Lynch of Huntersville, NC, and Jimmy Hebert of Williamstown, VT.
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Spectator racing, kids racecar rides highlight Interstate All Battery Center Night