by Jay | Aug 12, 2012 | Bear Ridge, Dirt Track, New England, Vermont
Simmons with First DIRTcar Win in Bear Ridge Nailbiter; Horniak in John Poor Memorial
Holcomb with 2nd USAC win; Ellsworth, Bell turn bad seasons around with victories
Hometown dirt track stock car driver Richie Simmons waited through a two-hour rain delay 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.
Simmons, in his first full year in a Modified, jumped into the lead at the second lap after passing rookie Troy Comeau of Rumney, NH. Simmons held through a spate of early caution periods and held an extensive advantage in the middle stages of the race, but Comeau reeled the leader in as Simmons negotiated lapped traffic late in the going. Comeau nosed ahead to lead with five laps remaining, but Simmons fought back to lead lap 36.
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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 9, 2012 | Bear Ridge, Dirt Track, Vermont
John Poor Memorial Offers Over $6,000 for Coupes at Bear Ridge Speedway
“Madness” event draws huge purse, USAC Midgets back in town
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 $6,000 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.
Sophomore driver Jason Colbeth of Newbury, VT became the latest first-time winner in the division at last week’s Interstate Batteries of New-Mont/JTB Towing & Recovery event. Colbeth, Teddy Salomaa, and rookies Jesse Smith and Tom Placey have each broken through to carry their first checkered flags this season, joining veterans Gene Pierson, Jr., Mike McGinley, Terry Williams, Jason Horniak, Steve Ellsworth, and point leader Josh Harrington as feature winners in 2012.
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by Jay | Aug 5, 2012 | Bear Ridge, Dirt Track, Photos, Vermont
Sunn nips Pierson in Modifieds, Colbeth dominates Coupes; Fornwalt in Late Model photo finish
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The youth movement continued its ascent to the top of the 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series stock car program at Bear Ridge Speedway on Interstate Batteries of New-Mont/JTB Towing & Recovery Night on Saturday. New stars Josh Sunn, Jason Colbeth, and Jordan Fornwalt took center stage in three electrifying finishes to light up the night.
Sophomore campaigner Sunn, of White River Junction, VT, posted his third Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modified win of the year in a narrow finish with defending champion Adam Pierson. After rookie Josh Currier of Newport, NH lead the opening 12 circuits of the 40-lap event, fellow first-year driver Robert Tucker of Topsham, VT took command. Tucker was under fire from Sunn, who raced from ninth place at the start, just as the second and final caution flag flew with only six laps remaining.
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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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