by | Aug 8, 2013 | Canaan, Devils Bowl, New Hampshire, Vermont
Teenager Mueller and veteran Gonyo sit 1-2 in standings
CANAAN, NH – An equal mix of youth and experience lead the all-new Northern Modified Challenge Series stock car tour to Canaan Fair Speedway on Sunday, August 11. Eighteen year-old Jessey Mueller has a small six-point advantage on Leon Gonyo – a veteran of five decades of racing – entering the Subway Fresh Fit 50. The event is round three of the five-race championship sanctioned by Devil’s Bowl Speedway management.
The Canaan event will be the first experience at the fast 1/3-mile New Hampshire oval for most of the Northern Modified Challenge Series drivers. Mueller, of Olmstedville, NY, has a history of success at new tracks; he won the NMCS opener at Thunder Road (VT) Speedbowl in his first start there in May and also won a special event in his first trip to Stafford (CT) Motor Speedway in 2012. Gonyo, of Chazy, NY has accumulated championships and dozens of victories at several tracks since the early 1970s.
The pair finished 1-2 in the first-ever NMCS race at Thunder Road on Memorial Day, and were second and third, respectively, behind winner Todd Stone of Middlebury, VT in the C.J. Richards Memorial at Devil’s Bowl Speedway last week. Mueller has 106 points to Gonyo’s 100 entering Canaan. Hunter Bates of Middlebury, VT is third with 92 points, Vince Quenneville, Jr., of Brandon, VT is fourth at 88 points, and Joe Williams of Scotia, NY sits fifth at 86 points. Stone’s Devil’s Bowl win moved him up to sixth place.
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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 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 | Thunder Road, Vermont
Barre, VT – Thunder Road International Speedbowl Harvest Equipment night scheduled for Sunday, August 4 has been postponed due to heavy rains. The event has been rescheduled for tomorrow, Monday, August 5. Post time is 6:00pm.
Thunder Road Late Models, Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen, and Allen Lumber Street Stocks will be in action with qualifying beginning at 6:00pm. The front gate will open at 4:30pm.
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 | 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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