{"id":15193,"date":"2014-02-03T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=15193"},"modified":"2014-02-03T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T13:49:01","slug":"devils-bowl-speedway-host-asphalt-dirt-racing-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/devils-bowl-speedway-host-asphalt-dirt-racing-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil’s Bowl Speedway to Host Asphalt and Dirt Racing in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Devil's<\/a>RUTLAND, VT \u2013 Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway has unveiled an exciting and diverse stock car racing lineup for 2014. The fast half-mile track, located in West Haven, VT just 20 minutes from Rutland City, will pay homage to its past and future with a summer slate of asphalt racing and a three-race return to its original clay dirt surface in the fall. The announcement was made before a crowd of nearly 300 at the Banquet of Champions on Saturday, February 1.<\/p>\n

The NASCAR Whelen All-American Series pavement season will open on Sunday, May 4 with the historic \u201cSpring Green\u201d event. The Bond Auto Parts Modified, Renegade, and Central Vermont Motorcycles Mini Stock divisions will open their championship schedules, and will be joined again by the exciting American-Canadian Tour Late Models.<\/p>\n

The weekly Friday night season kicks off one week early in 2014, on Friday, May 16 at 7:00pm. Special events dot the summer schedule, beginning with the first of two appearances by the Vermont State Late Model Championship Series on Friday, May 30. The Coca-Cola Firecracker extravaganza returns on Friday, July 4, with the double-points Mid-Season Championships on Friday, July 18. There will be two \u201coff weeks\u201d during the season, on Friday, June 13, and again on Friday, July 25.
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\nThe third annual C.J. Richards Memorial 67, a special Modified event run in honor of the track\u2019s late founder and in tribute the inaugural 1967 season, has been scheduled for Friday, August 1. The Friday night schedule ends on August 22 with a double-feature blowout for all four weekly divisions.<\/p>\n

The asphalt season draws to a close with the blockbuster Vermont 200 Weekend on September 13-14. The event includes championship finales for all regular classes as well as the Vermont State Late Model Championship Series, and has quickly become a \u201cmust see\u201d event in the Northeast.<\/p>\n

Following the completion of the regular season, a professional team of dirt track preparation experts will transform Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway into a newer version of its former self by laying natural clay over the existing pavement. The track operated with that same dirt surface for its first four years and again from 1975 to 2009. The Richards family paved the track in 2010 as part of a long-term vision of overall growth at the speedway.<\/p>\n

Dirt events will be held on Friday, September 26, on Saturday, October 4, and on Saturday, October 18, with the division lineup to be announced soon.<\/p>\n

Track co-owner and promoter Mike Bruno has stressed that Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway will forever remain in its current asphalt layout, but that he realizes that a strong segment of local race teams and fans enjoyed dirt racing at Devil\u2019s Bowl for many years. Two years of extensive research combined with the recent closure of nearby Canaan Fair Speedway in New Hampshire prompted Bruno\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud of the growth of our asphalt program over the last few years, and we remain committed to weekly NASCAR asphalt racing at Devil\u2019s Bowl. Nothing will change that,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cWe have one of the best paved facilities in the area, and it happens to be surrounded by 75 acres of the best natural racing clay in the country. We will keep supporting the outstanding asphalt racing that we enjoy every week, but we also want to give back to the dirt fans that supported Devil\u2019s Bowl for almost 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruno has sought advice from industry experts including dirt track promoters Lyle DeVore of Albany-Saratoga (NY) Speedway, Jeremie Corcoran of Canandaigua (NY) Speedway, C.V. Elms of Bear Ridge (VT) Speedway, and several others. Corcoran has headed up a similar asphalt-to-dirt transformation of Michigan\u2019s Berlin Raceway in each of the last two Septembers, and said that adding the clay \u2013 at least in his experience at Berlin \u2013 has actually improved the asphalt racing.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Corcoran] told me that the clay is removed from the asphalt almost immediately after the race [at Berlin], and then the winter weather sort of cures the track,\u201d Bruno explained. \u201cIn the first pavement race at Berlin after the clay was removed, lap times were faster than the previous track record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway is located on Route 22A in West Haven, VT, four miles north of Exit 2 on U.S. Route 4.<\/p>\n

Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway \u2013 West Haven, VT
\n2014 Schedule of Events<\/p>\n

No. Day Date Event Time Surface
\n1. Sun 5\/04 Spring Green\/American-Canadian Tour 1:30pm Asphalt
\n2. Fri 5\/16 Regular Event 7:00pm Asphalt
\n3. Fri 5\/23 Regular Event\/Enduro Series 7:00pm Asphalt
\n4. Fri 5\/30 Vt. State Late Model Championship 100 7:00pm Asphalt
\n5. Fri 6\/06 Regular Event 7:00pm Asphalt
\n Fri 6\/13 OFF \u2013 No Racing
\n6. Fri 6\/20 Mini Stock 25 7:00pm Asphalt
\n7. Fri 6\/27 Regular Event (Late Models OFF) 7:00pm Asphalt
\n8. Fri 7\/04 Late Model Triple Crown\/Enduro\/Fireworks 6:30pm Asphalt
\n9. Fri 7\/11 Modified Twin 25s 7:00pm Asphalt
\n10. Fri 7\/18 Mid-Season Championship (Double Points) 7:00pm Asphalt
\n Fri 7\/25 OFF \u2013 No Racing
\n11. Fri 8\/01 3rd Annual C.J. Richards Memorial 67 7:00pm Asphalt
\n12. Fri 8\/08 Regular Event\/Enduro Series 7:00pm Asphalt
\n13. Fri 8\/15 Regular Event\/NEAR Antique Racers 7:00pm Asphalt
\n14. Fri 8\/22 Double Features \u2013 All Divisions 7:00pm Asphalt
\n15. Sa-Su 9\/13-14 VERMONT 200 WEEKEND 1:30pm Asphalt
\n16. Fri 9\/26 Dirt Event #1 TBA Dirt
\n17. Sat 10\/04 Dirt Event #2 TBA Dirt
\n18. Sat 10\/18 Dirt Event #3 TBA Dirt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUTLAND, VT \u2013 Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway has unveiled an exciting and diverse stock car racing lineup for 2014. The fast half-mile track, located in West Haven, VT just 20 minutes from Rutland City, will pay homage to its past and future with a summer slate of asphalt racing and a three-race return to its original […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[201,200],"tags":[14980],"class_list":["post-15193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devils-bowl","category-vermont","tag-devils-bowl-speedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}