For our friend Chuck Rogers…
Our tribute to the late Chuck Rogers, a long-time competitor at both the Waterford Speedbowl and Thompson International Speedway that (more…)
‘Never Give Up’ Gets Busch to Victory Lane
‘Never Give Up’ Gets Busch to Victory Lane
Z-Line Designs Driver Rallies from Crash To Score Fourth Nationwide Series Win of 2011
Date: April 16, 2011
Event: Aaron’s 312 (Round 7 of 34)
Series: NASCAR Nationwide Series
Location: Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway (2.66-mile oval)
Start/Finish: 22nd/1st (Running, completed 124 of 124 laps in a green-white-checkered finish)
Winner: Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
It appeared that Kyle Busch’s day was over. After being involved in a multi-car accident on lap 89 of Saturday’s Aaron’s 312 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, Busch’s No. 18 Z-Line Designs Toyota was a mangled mess, so much so that he was ready to take his car to the garage area so that his crew could load it up and get a head start on their trip home.
But crew chief Jason Ratcliff had other ideas. The veteran race-caller brought Busch to pit road where a swarm of Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) crewmen went to work on repairing the Z-Line Designs Camry. Quick and tenacious effort during a series of stops allowed Busch to rejoin the field without losing a lap. And with 32 laps remaining in a car seemingly held together with duct tape and sheer will, Busch rallied his way to the front with JGR teammate Joey Logano pushing him from behind.
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ACT Looks for 9th Different Winner at Lee Opener
ACT Looks for 9th Different Winner at Lee Opener
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour will look for its ninth different Lee USA Speedway winner in this Sunday’s (April 17) 2011 New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 150 season opener. No driver has been able to repeat in the eight events held at the 3/8ths mile speedway since 2003.
Three of the previous eight winners will attempt to change that fact on Sunday, as seven-time ACT Champion Jean-Paul Cyr of Milton, VT (2005), ACT’s hottest driver at the end of 2010 Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. from Hudson, NH (2008) and defending NH Governor’s Cup winner Miles Chipman from Epping, NH (2010) have all filed entries. But that leaves over 40 other drivers aiming at their first career ACT win at Lee.
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iRacing: Riding Shotgun at Thompson
Riding shotgun in an iRacing Street Stock at Thompson International Speedway for the length of the race. If this is (more…)
ACT Lee USA Opener Chance For Cyr And Dragon To Get Back In The Hunt
ACT Lee USA Opener Chance For Cyr And Dragon To Get Back In The Hunt
Waterbury, VT – After what was by anyone’s standards a disappointing 2010 season for long-time American Canadian Tour (ACT) veterans Jean-Paul Cyr and Brent Dragon, both from Milton, VT, both expect the opening event of the season at Lee USA Speedway on Sunday, April 17, 2011 to be a chance to get things turned into a positive change of direction.
Cyr is a seven-time ACT Champion and saw his long-standing championship record tied by Brian Hoar from Williston, VT in 2010. Cyr returned to ACT racing after taking a year to compete at Thunder Road Speedbowl in Barre, VT in 2009. He won the King of the Road title that season. He had a slow start coming back to the ACT at the beginning of 2010, and by his own admission was really never a contender.
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SWEET TO DEFEND THUNDER ROAD TITLE AND MERCHANTS BANK OPENER
SWEET TO DEFEND THUNDER ROAD TITLE AND MERCHANTS BANK OPENER
Waterbury, VT – Every hometown needs sports heroes. Barre, VT is a sports town. The “Granite Capital of the World” is a blue collar town with master craftsmen making a living working with huge slabs of granite, which their neighbors have hauled deep from inside Quarry Hill that looks over the city below.
For over fifty years, racing at Thunder Road International Speedbowl has been part of the fabric of this town and region. The latest local hero to follow in the tradition of local and regional heroes like Stub Fadden, Ronnie Marvin, Roy ‘Pappy’ Forsythe, Harold ‘Hardluck’ Hanaford, the Dion Brothers, Joey Laquerre and dozens more is another local kid, Nick Sweet, from Barre.
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Cody Hodgson South Boston Speedway Race Preview
Cody Hodgson: NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
South Boston Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
Cody Hodgson of Escalon, Calif., seeks his second straight Top-10 finish to start his career when the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East stops at South Boston Speedway in South Boston, Va., for the South Boston 150 on Saturday, April 16. Hodgson, who is running for the Sunoco Rookie of the Year award in the series, tested at South Boston last week and is looking to carry the momentum of a 10th-place run in the season opener at Greenville Pickens Speedway two weeks ago into the second event on the 2011 schedule.
Brent Dragon Lee USA Speedway Race Preview
Brent Dragon: ACT Late Model Tour
Lee USA Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
Brent Dragon of Milton, Vt., rolls on with the ACT Late Model Tour as it opens the 2011 season with the NH Governor’s Cup 150 at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, N.H., on Sunday afternoon, April 17. Dragon has competed on the Tour every year since its inception in 1992 and is fourth on the all-time series win list with nine career victories. Though he’s never won at Lee USA, he does consider it one of his favorite stops on the circuit – in part because it reminds him so much of Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., where he won multiple Late Model track championships. Dragon will compete this weekend in a car fielded by Avery Motorsports, part of a joint effort with his own Dragon Motorsports team this season.
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TONY STEWART – So, You Think You Can Dance?
TONY STEWART – So, You Think You Can Dance?
KANNAPOLIS, N.C., (April 12, 2011) – With the exception of Helio Castroneves, the IZOD IndyCar Series driver who won season five’s Dancing With The Stars competition, there’s not a racecar driver around who would consider themselves a good dancer, at least on the dance floor. But on the racetrack, that’s a much different story, especially for drivers in the elite NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and especially at the two restrictor-plate tracks they visit – Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway and Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
The two venues represent a very different style of racing – one that even Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli could appreciate, as both ballroom dancing and dancing in a restrictor-plate draft require proper footwork, excellent communication and, above all, trust.
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Airborne adds Big-Block Modifieds, boosts purse for Mohawk Casino 100
Airborne adds Big-Block Modifieds, boosts purse for Mohawk Casino 100
South Plattsburgh, NY – Airborne Speedway has upped the ante for the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino 100, the season’s longest-distance event for DIRTcar Modifieds, Sunday, September 12.
Big-Block Modifieds have been declared eligible to compete alongside the region’s top 358-Modified competitors in the $3,000-to-win event.
The Mohawk Casino 100 is the highlight of a two-day program which includes Airborne’s Sportsman, Renegade, Mini-Modified and Bomber divisions.
“This is our biggest Modified event of the year and we’re anticipating a large field that will make qualifying for the race a real accomplishment,” promoter Mike Perrotte said.
Airborne open its 58th season with the Della Auto Group Fast 50 Saturday, May 7 at 5 p.m. when Patrick Dupree of Saranac Lake will begin defense of his 2010 Ernie’s Discount Tools Modified title. All Airborne divisions be will in action.
Many of the opening day competitors will be in attendance at the Mike Watts Motorsports Show at the Crete Civic Center in Plattsburgh Friday, April 15 (6-10 pm) and Saturday, April 16 from 10 am – 6 pm. Admission is $7/adults. $2/kids 12 and under.