by | Feb 25, 2014 | PASS, Touring Series News
NAPLES, ME (February 24) – The highly anticipated debut of PASS TV is set for this Saturday afternoon with the first broadcast coming from the historic Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina. The legendary half-mile speedway will host the first Pro All Stars Series (PASS) events of 2014, including the PASS South Super Late Models and PASS Pro Late Models. The PASS Super Late Models will be the featured event of the Fox Carolina 150 in a race that will also double as the first PASS National Championship Series event of the year. In addition to PASS, the Southeast Super Trucks will make their first ever visit Greenville-Pickens Speedway in a 75 lap race that will feature some of the Carolinas top short track veterans.
PASS TV will have live flag-to-flag coverage of all the action from Greenville-Pickens Speedway starting at approximately 3:45 PM Eastern. Coverage will include qualifying for all three divisions, last chance races if needed, and each main event, including the Fox Carolina 150 for the PASS South Super Late Models. The Fox Carolina 150 is attracting some of the best short track racers in North America, including former PASS National Series champions Jay Fogleman, Ben Rowe, and Cassius Clark, Super Late Model champions Daniel Hemric and Travis Braden, defending Greenville-Pickens Speedway track champion Anthony Anders, and up and coming stars like Jared Irvan, Tate Fogleman, Joey Doiron, Trevor Noles, and Brandon Setzer.
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by | Feb 22, 2014 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Devil’s Bowl Speedway to host People’s United Bank 100 on May 30
WEST HAVEN, VT – One of Vermont’s most important stock car racing events will enjoy the support of one of America’s great financial institutions, as People’s United Bank sponsors the 100-lap Vermont State Late Model Championship Series event at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Friday, May 30.
People’s United Bank is a longtime supporter of stock car racing at Devil’s Bowl Speedway, and 2014 marks People’s second season of involvement in the Vermont State Championship. With more than 400 locations throughout New England and New York – including a branch just five miles from Devil’s Bowl in Fair Haven, VT – People’s United Bank is an integral part of the local community.
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by | Feb 21, 2014 | PASS
CHARLOTTE, NC (February 20) – As the remnants of a major winter storm finally disappear in the Southeast, Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Model and Pro Late Model teams up and down the East Coast are making their final preparations for the kickoff to the much anticipated 2014 racing season. And it all starts with two big weekends of racing in the state of South Carolina.
On March 1, the season gets under way in the upstate with the Fox Carolina 150 at the legendary Greenville-Pickens Speedway. Not only will it be the first race of the year for the PASS South Super Late Models and PASS Pro Late Models, but it will also be the first of six PASS National Championship events. The Fox Carolina 150 will bring together the best of the Southeast, such as two-time defending PASS National Champion Jay Fogleman, to compete against top New England short trackers like Joey Doiron and former PASS National Champions Cassius Clark and Ben Rowe.
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by | Feb 20, 2014 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Devil’s Bowl champion grabs another title at New Smyrna Speedway
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL – Todd Stone is bringing another piece of hardware home to Vermont. The Middlebury stock car driver survived a rough race Wednesday night to clinch the Florida Modified division championship at the prestigious World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at New Smyrna Speedway. The title backs up his 2013 Devil’s Bowl Speedway track championship and NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Vermont State title.
The week-long World Series event saw Stone compete in four events over six nights. He opened the series on Valentine’s Day with a runner-up finish, won on Saturday, finished fourth on Monday, and inherited a second victory after a heart-stopping run in the 75-lap finale on Wednesday.
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by | Feb 20, 2014 | New England Motorsports South
By Lou Modestino
At the Racer’s Expo in Marlboro 16-year old Kaz Grala of Westboro told is that he’s going to race in the NASCAR K&N Series. He’s got a ride with Turner Scott Motorsports based in Mooresville, NC. His previous experience was driving a Late Model at Waterford Speedbowl in CT. Also, the VARA and NASCAR Late Model circuits down in the Carolina’s.
We talked to two time NASCAR Nationwide Champion Randy Lajoie formerly of Norwalk, CT. Lajoie is currently retired and is a mentor to his son Corey who raced in the K&N Series East. Corey had to settle for second best in that series last year. Corey, though, is on the payroll of Petty Motorsports and is expected to run in a few major ARCA Late Model race for that team. He’s may also snag a NASCAR Nationwide ride for Petty this year if things jell for him. Randy Lajoie is currently the principal of The Lajoie of Seating. He designs custom racing seats and also has off the shelf seats for drivers on all of the racing circuits.
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by | Feb 20, 2014 | New England Motorsports North
By Lou Modestino
Go-kart racing will return to Devil’s Bowl Speedway in 2014. A new structured program designed to give both children and adults a competitive racing experience will bring flat karts and full-body “Mini Cup” cars to a brand new paved 1/7-mile oval on Sunday afternoons. The kart track shares a portion of the front stretch with the half-mile stock car track.
The new ten-event Devil’s Bowl Speedway Kart Series marks the first kart races held at the facility in more than a decade. Devil’s Bowl is working closely with officials from the Adirondack Karting Association in Ballston Spa, NY – including former Modified stock car standout Joe Williams – to keep rule books in line with other tracks in the area.
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by | Feb 19, 2014 | ACT, Touring Series News
Waterbury, VT – Veteran stock car driver Aaron Fellows, from Croydon, New Hampshire, is the first to file a full season entry for the 2014 American Canadian Tour season. Fellows has compiled an impressive ten championships in his weekly short track career in both the weekly Late Model and Modified divisions at New Hampshire’s Twin State (6) and Canaan (4) Speedways.
“We have decided to give the ACT Tour a try this year. With the shutdown of Canaan, and the rumors of some veteran teams planning to cut back from a full touring schedule, this looks like an opportune time. We had some good finishes in the races we were at last season with ACT. Top ten runs at Canaan and Beech Ridge gave our team some confidence. Of course the highlight of the year was when we finished fourth at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS). The Bond ACT Invitational is really a short track racers dream event. My goal is to get back to NHMS in September,” said Fellows.
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by | Feb 17, 2014 | Bear Ridge, Vermont
BRADFORD, VT – Bear Ridge Speedway Vermont’s Fastest Dirt Track, and the only DIRTcar Sanctioned track in New England seeing registrations higher than it has been in years, setting up the Ridge to be the best bang for your buck family entertainment once again for the 2014 racing season.
Opening night, May 3rd, the 47 consecutive season opener sponsored by KDD NAPA of Bradford, is gearing up to be the first of your weekly must see events this summer. Each of the six 99ROCK wfrd weekly racing series will be competing with double features for their double points, setting the stage for some edge of your seat racing excitement.
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by | Feb 17, 2014 | Granite State Pro Stock, Touring Series News
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Northfield, VT- What makes the most winningest driver in GSPSS history so successful? Two words: preparation and family.
North Salem, NH’s own Matt Frahm has already enjoyed a storied racing career. Frahm has already competed in the K + N Series and has strapped in for several Nationwide Series races. Returning back to Pro Stocks in 2013, the driver of the Lambert Roofing/ WDW Machine/ Granite Industrial Gases Chevrolet has 3 career wins in the GSPSS in 12 tries, the result of tedious preparation. “I learned so much at the Nationwide level,” comments Frahm. “I learned that every second is valuable, especially in practice.” Frahm takes that to a whole new level. Not only does the Frahm family take advantage of every second at the track, the preparation starts before the car even leaves the shop. He and his father go over every inch of the car, check every nut and bolt, and have their game plan in place before the car makes it to the trailer. “You win races in the shop, not at the track,” Frahm states. Being prepared before getting to the track gives them more time to fine tune their automobile once the tires get bolted on.
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by | Feb 15, 2014 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
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Sprint Cars of New England to make first half-mile appearance October 18
WEST HAVEN, VT – The winged warriors are back. Mud-slinging, methanol fueled, high-flying Sprint Cars will come to Vermont’s Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Saturday, October 18 with the Bond Auto Parts Sprint Cars of New England series.
The race marks the first show for winged sprinters in over five years, and is the final event of a three-race, end-of-season series on a temporary clay surface laid over the existing Devil’s Bowl pavement. The SCoNE tour will be making its first-ever appearance on a half-mile track during the event and will crown its 2014 champion there.
Top drivers expected to be at Devil’s Bowl include three-time SCoNE champions Mark Cole and “Professor” Chris Donnelly, 2011 champion Danny “The Topside Tornado” Douville, Vermont’s “Fairlee Flier” Kevin Chaffee, Clay Dow, Will Hull, and 2013 SCoNE Triple Crown champion Tyler Rich.
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