by Jay | Aug 23, 2012 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Championship Night Moved to September 7 at Devil’s Bowl Speedway
Weather-related postponement shuffles schedule, adds extra week
Mother Nature threw a kink in the stock car racing plans at Devil’s Bowl Speedway last week, but the resulting shuffling of schedules will allow race fans to enjoy an added week of NASCAR Whelen All-American Series action.
The twin 20-lap features for the J&S Steel Late Model division that were scheduled to be run at last week’s Green Mountain Water Environment Association/Sunoco Race Fuels Night have been moved to Sugar & Spice Night, this Friday, August 24, along with the postponed 75-lap Enduro for 4- and 6-cylinder cars. Also on the card for Friday are regular events for the Bond Auto Parts Modified, Renegade, and Bomber divisions, a pancake eating contest, and the summer’s second round of Spectator Racing. All street-legal vehicles are welcome to compete in the spectator races; vehicles must be registered, inspected, and insured, and drivers must wear a helmet.
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by Jay | Aug 15, 2012 | Devils Bowl, New England, Vermont
Action-Packed August Events Coming to Devil’s Bowl Speedway
Fans will have several opportunities to experience on-track excitement
Devil’s Bowl Speedway is inviting its stock car racing fans to be a part of the excitement in an action-packed month of August. In addition to the high-drama racing of the weekly NASCAR Whelen All-American Series, race fans can get in on the fun in a variety of ways.
Enduro racing returns to Devil’s Bowl on Friday, August 17, with novice racers running nearly street-legal 4- and 6-cylinder race cars in a survival-of-the-fittest event. Enduros do not have caution flags, with stoppages only for emergency situations. Hinesburg, VT’s Eric “Mongo” Messier won the season’s first Enduro on June 29 in a 1995 Ford Probe. The event begins at 7:30pm; general admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors (62+), and free for children 12 and under.
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by Jay | Aug 11, 2012 | Devils Bowl, New England, Vermont
Vermont State Late Model Championship to be Decided at Devil’s Bowl Speedway
Sweet, Pembroke tied for lead entering final round on September 16
Devil’s Bowl Speedway will be the site of the first Vermont State Late Model Championship Series celebration in a quarter-century on Sunday, September 16. The 100-lap finale for the renewed four-round stock car championship will be part of a new tradition at the West Haven track – the “Vermont 200” weekend – which also features a 100-lap event for the track’s weekly NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Bond Auto Parts Modified division.
Brought back in 2012 after a 25-year hiatus, the Vermont State Championship Series pits the very best Late Model stock car teams from the fast, progressively-banked Devil’s Bowl half-mile and the high-banked, quarter-mile bullring at Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl in Barre, VT against each other to crown an overall champion. A total of 44 drivers have attended the first three events, including invaders from New York, New England, and eastern Canada.
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by Jay | Aug 10, 2012 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Sugar & Spice, Devil’s Bowl Speedway Team Up For Pancake Eating Contest on August 24
Qualifying eat-off on August 18; top three to face off against Devil’s Bowl dignitaries
Gentlemen, start your griddles! Devil’s Bowl Speedway and Sugar & Spice Restaurant are teaming up to host the first pancake and Vermont maple syrup eating contest ever held at a stock car track on Friday, August 24.
In a Vermont-themed upgrade on the annual hot dog eating contest on Coney Island, Sugar & Spice – an authentic sugar house, restaurant, and gift shop located on Route 4 in Mendon, VT near the Pico and Killington ski resorts – will host the preliminary qualifying round on Saturday, August 18 at 9:00am. The contest will pit eager eaters against each other in five-minute showdowns; the three contestants who are able to pack away the most pancakes in five minutes will qualify for the finale.
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by Jay | Aug 4, 2012 | Devils Bowl, New England, Vermont
Roberts, Bell Score in Twin 20s at Devil’s Bowl Speedway
Bushey takes eighth Late Model win in three-wide thriller
Rookie open-wheel stock car driver Joey Roberts broke through for the first NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Bond Auto Parts Modified victory of his career on “Family Fun Friday” at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Friday, August 3. Roberts, of Georgia, VT, won the first of two 20-lap sprint-style feature races for the win.
Roberts, in his first year of Modified racing after a successful full-fender stock car career, started fourth in his Vermont Life Safety/Mansfield Heliflight-sponsored No. 50x Bicknell and quickly jumped out to a large lead. Seventeen year-old Jessey Mueller of Olmstedville, NY made an impressive late-race drive from ninth to reach Roberts’ rear bumper at the finish, but settled for second. Another 17 year-old, Cody Sargen of Greenfield Center, NY, started his two-car team’s outstanding night with a Devil’s Bowl Speedway career-best third-place finish, with teammate Joe Williams fourth. Ron Proctor finished fifth.
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by Jay | Jul 28, 2012 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Quenneville Back On Top At Devil’s Bowl Speedway
Bushey, Duprey, Masterson win in close finishes
Vince Quenneville, Jr., returned to victory lane at Devil’s Bowl Speedway at the Cat Country 105.3 Night event on Friday, winning the 35-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Bond Auto Parts Modified feature. Quenneville, of Brandon, VT, bolted from his 10th starting position into the lead early and was never headed. The victory was his fourth of the year and vaulted him into the unofficial championship point lead.
Leon Gonyo of Chazy, NY had a very strong run and finished second for his best result since a victory on May 25. Cambridge, NY young gun Alex Bell flew through the field after a crash in the opening laps and a subsequent trip to pit road to finish third. Rookie Jeff Haskins of Wells, VT finished a career-best fourth, and Jessey Mueller of Olmstedville, NY rebounded from a mid-race crash to finish fifth, despite missing the left-side sheet metal on his car. Joey Roberts was sixth, followed by Ron Proctor, Cody Sargen, Jason Bruno, and Andy Smith.
Although Quenneville now has the championship lead, he only has an eight-point cushion on Proctor, 662-654, unofficially. Only four races remain on the regular-season schedule for the Modifieds including a double-feature event on Friday, August 3.
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