Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park fit inside New Hampshire Motor Speedway’s 1.058-mile oval. On July 19, Super Bowl champion Rob Ninkovich and two-time American League All-Star Rico Petrocelli will celebrate the speedway’s 25th Anniversary by serving honorary roles during pre-race festivities for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series New Hampshire 301.
Darren Durrell of Newburgh and Andrew Crosby of Hermon led the early laps of the 20 lap Modified Enduro feature at Speedway 95 Wednesday night, but once Dustin Lancaster of Milo came from his 8th place starting spot and took the lead from Crosby on lap 8, the others were left to fight for second on back. Lancaster held the lead to the finish, winning his second feature in as many weeks. Crosby held on to take the second spot with Hampden’s Danielle Beal making a late race charge to finish third, almost catching Crosby in the process. Durrell, the pole sitter in the event, fell to fourth at the finish with outside pole sitter Bob Seger Jr. of Frankfort coming in fifth. Crosby took the win in the qualifier held earlier in the evening.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Armed with a new Troyer car, Taunton, MA native Branden Dion is ready to make his first start in a Valenti Modified Racing Series car at Stafford Motor Speedway this Friday night. Dion has run the prior two races on the 2015 VMRS schedule at Seekonk and Lee and the former SK Light and current SK Modified® driver is looking forward to continuing his learning curve in the VMRS series at a track that he has a level of familiarity with behind the wheel of the #04 Triple D Racing / Doug King Builders machine.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—For Manchester native Glenn Bartkowski, the world of weekly NASCAR short track racing has proven to be both a rewarding and trying experience. Bartkowski began his weekly racing career in Stafford’s DARE Stock division in 1997 and he ran in that division through the 2004 season before taking a season off and then moving up to the Limited Late Model division in 2006. Bartkowski raced either parts of a season with Norm Sears sharing his car or a full season and until last year, had only one win in the DARE Stock division to show for his efforts. Bartkowski won his first Limited Late Model feature on the final Friday night of the 2014 season and he backed that win up with his second win in last Friday night’s Limited Late Model feature.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—With the Valenti Modified Racing Series set to make its second of three 2015 appearances at Stafford Motor Speedway, one driver who is looking forward to the race is Richmond, NH native Todd Patnode. In what was his first VMRS start at Stafford back in May, Patnode started 13th and he methodically drove his way through the field to end up fifth at the end of the 80-lap feature in his #05 Allstate Asphalt machine. With such a great result on his Stafford debut, Patnode is excited about his chances for his second visit to Stafford and a repeat of his top-5 effort.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—The NAPA Auto Parts SK 5k returns to the half-mile on Friday July 10th and the NAPA fan vote is in full swing with over 1,200 votes cast. Also returning to the second edition of the event will be bonus money for the top-3 finishers in the SK Modified® qualifying races. Drivers who finish in the top-3 of their heat race will be awarded an additional bonus of $250, $150, or $100 respectively. The added bonus for qualifying races is just another piece of the already huge jackpot of over $30,000 for the SK Modified® division.
Waterbury, VT – The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) makes its second visit of the 2015 season to Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, ME on Saturday, June 27 for the Oxford Plains 150. The ongoing championship duel between Wayne Helliwell Jr. and Joey Polewarczyk Jr. will be the featured storyline at the 3/8-mile oval, but a number of drivers are eager to steal the spotlight.
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (June 23, 2015) –Budweiser and Outback Steakhouse, both primary sponsors of Kevin Harvick and Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), have long histories of supporting military-based charities. For the second straight year, both entities have partnered with the Folds of Honor Foundation to honor the memories of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the United States Armed Forces, and also remembering the families they left behind.
Canaan, NH. — Last month, the Valenti Modified Racing Series rolled into Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford, CT, for the first of three events this season, and if that first race was any indication, fans of the open-wheel modifieds could be in for another treat Friday night, June 26, when the series visits Stafford. The question, could it be as good as that first one?
Although his driving days have ended, car owner Bobby Sears is still a weekly
fixture at New Smyrna Speedway. Sears will turn 71 later this year and he
shows no signs of slowing down as his race team has already scored several
wins in both the Super Late Model and Pro Late Model divisions with new driver
Brad May.