by Jay | Apr 10, 2012 | ACT, Canada, New England, Touring Series News
VP RACING FUEL BECOMES OFFICIAL FUEL OF ACT AND THUNDER ROAD
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) announced today that VP Racing Fuels (VP) would become the “Official Fuel” of ACT for 2012. The ambitious program will begin a major effort on the part of ACT to create both a more “green” environment, and equally important, to begin to contain fuel expenses for over 400 Late Model race teams in the ACT system, and 100 competitors at Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl in Barre, VT.
The program will address the fuel needs of the ACT US, ACT Series Castrol Quebec, and Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl in Barre, VT.
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by Jay | Apr 10, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, New England, Stafford
Stafford Springs, CT – After several seasons in Stafford’s DARE Stock
division, Nick Salva is ready to make the move into the SK Light Modified
division. As Salva makes the move into the open wheel ranks for the first
time in his career, he has help from a face that is very familiar to
modified fans at Stafford. Salva’s uncle is none other than 3-time SK
Modified® champion Bo Gunning and it was a call from Gunning that led to
Salva’s landing in the SK Light division for the 2012 season.
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by Jay | Apr 10, 2012 | PASS, Touring Series News
It’s no secret that Kyle Grissom has had success throughout the late model stock car ranks, but just because one has that success doesn’t mean it automatically transfers to the super late model ranks as many have found out. Kyle Grissom, however; wasted no time to making his presence known to the super late model world by winning the PASS South Easter Bunny 150 Saturday night at the Hickory Motor Speedway in Hickory, North Carolina.
Grissom, son of 1993 NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion Steve Grissom, was able to fend off challenges from several different drivers on multiple occasions before pulling away for the win in the final ten laps. The PASS South newcomer set fast time in qualifying before leading on five different occasions for a total of 101 laps behind the wheel of his #31 Harrison’s Workwear Chevy Impala enroute to his first series win.
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by Jay | Apr 9, 2012 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road, Touring Series News, Vermont
14th ANNUAL MERCHANTS BANK 150 OPENS THUNDER ROAD SEASON
BARRE’S NICK SWEET LOOKS FOR THREE IN A ROW
Barre, VT – The ‘Nation’s Site of Excitement’, Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl will open for the 53rd year of stock car racing with the traditional Merchants Bank 150 on Sunday, April 29, 2012. There has been over $30,000.00 in purse and prize money posted for the event, with the winner receiving $3,000.00 for the 150 lap contest. Defending event champion Nick Sweet from Barre, VT has an opportunity to become the first driver to win three in a row. The St J Auto team has back-to-back wins in 2010 and 2011 already in the record books.
“The opening Merchants Bank 150 has become really special for our family team. I was born and raised in Barre, I live and work in Barre, and winning at Thunder Road in front of a home town crowd is about as good as it gets in racing for us,” said Sweet.
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by Jay | Apr 9, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, NASCAR, Thompson, Touring Series News
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Set To Open At Thompson
Icebreaker Begins Season For 11th Straight Year
The 2012 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour is set to take the green flag in the traditional season-opening Icebreaker weekend at Thompson (Conn.) International Speedway on Sunday, April 15.
Picking up where the 2011 season left off, and where Ron Silk captured his first championship, the Whelen Modified Tour returns to the high banks at Thompson to begin its 28th season of competition. The .625-mile oval in northeast Connecticut has played host to more events than any other facility in the Tour’s history: the 2012 Icebreaker will be the 117th there since 1985.
Silk celebrated the 2011 championship at Thompson in the season finale last October, and he’ll open his title defense at a track where he’s won three times previously and has finished in the top 10 in 11 of his last 13 visits. The Norwalk, Conn., native will be looking for his first win in the Icebreaker, an event where he’s finished on the podium just once in six previous tries.
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by Jay | Apr 9, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, New England, Stafford
Stafford Springs, CT – After making his SK Modified® debut in the season
ending CARQUEST Fall Final event last season, 2-time defending SK Light
champion Matt Galko is hoping to continue his SK Modified® efforts this
season. Galko will pilot the #3 Davidson Racing car that was formerly
driven by Jeff Malave in the season opening CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring
Sizzler, but if sponsorship is not found, it may be the only race that Galko
runs this season.
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by Jay | Apr 8, 2012 | PASS, Touring Series News
Newton NC (4/7) – Kyle Grissom fought off multiple challenges from several different drivers to earn his first career super late model win in the PASS South/PASS National Easter Bunny 150 at the Hickory (NC) Motor Speedway. Grissom was able to pull away in the final five laps from Brad Keselowski Racing development driver Landon Cling, who finish a career best second, and Texas native Trey Mitchell in third. Cassius Clark was the best finishing PASS North driver in fourth with Roger Lee Newton rounding out your top five. Current PASS South Series points leader heading into the Easter Bunny 150, Preston Peltier finished 26th after getting caught up in an accident early on.
Unnofficial Results: PASS South/National Easter Bunny 150 – Hickory Motor Speedway – Newton NC – 4/7/2012
1) #31 Kyle Grissom
2) #29 Landon Cling
3) #47 Trey Mitchell
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by Jay | Apr 7, 2012 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway’s CARQUEST Champions For
Charities race pairs championship open wheel winning drivers with a charity
of their choice. Pro-4 Modified Limited champion Stan Mertz is paired with
the Connecticut chapter of Autism Speaks and his donation total will be
getting a boost from Stafford DARE Stock driver Kris Fluckiger. Fluckiger
will donate all his prize winnings from the season opening CARQUEST Tech-Net
Spring Sizzler through the June 29th Friday night race towards Mertz’s total
for Autism Speaks.
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by Jay | Apr 7, 2012 | Devils Bowl, New England, Vermont
Rookie rosters growing at Devil’s Bowl Speedway
New racers trying out Vermont’s fastest half-mile
WEST HAVEN, VT — Rookie stock car drivers from around the northeast will learn their craft on the asphalt half-mile at Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven, VT this summer. The track’s weekly NASCAR Whelen All-American Series program has more than a dozen rookies registered to date, with several more expected to enter by the season opening Spring Green event on Sunday, May 6.
The headline Bond Auto Parts Modified class has freshman racers Joey Roberts, Andy Smith, and Jeff Haskins, each with vastly different racing backgrounds. After success in Sportsman and Renegade cars, Roberts, of Georgia, VT, will make his open-wheel debut in the No. 50x Bicknell chassis sponsored by Vermont Life Safety. South Glens Falls, NY driver Smith was a frequent winner on both the clay and asphalt Devil’s Bowl surfaces in the former Duke Stock class, and will pilot the No. 91 E-Z Marine & Storage/Weller’s Auto Parts Bicknell. Haskins, of Wells, VT, ran the first five stock car races of his career last season and earned an impressive seventh-place finish at Devil’s Bowl in his Dirt Wheels-built No. 95 Fuller Sand & Gravel/Concrete Professionals, Inc. car.
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by Jay | Apr 7, 2012 | Maine, New England, New Hampshire
FAMILY MATTERS: Crazy Horse Racing Off To Big Start
Great Run at Waterford Speedbowl Sign of Things to Come in 2012
SOUTH PARIS, Maine – It’s still early on a Saturday night, at least by stock car racing’s standards, when Mitch Green’s cell phone rings.
“The first thing I’m thinking is, ‘Uh-oh. This can’t be good,’” Green recalls. “Usually when you get that call so soon, something must have gone wrong.”
Green bids a hello to the voice on the other end and then tentatively asks how things have gone at a race track on the other side of New England. He is pleased when Jeff Marshall, a competitor in the weekly Late Model division at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, N.H., fills him in on some good news.
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