{"id":17505,"date":"2015-01-10T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=17505"},"modified":"2015-01-10T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:09:39","slug":"stock-cars-debut-thompsons-road-course-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/stock-cars-debut-thompsons-road-course-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Cars to Debut on Thompson\u2019s Road Course in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oolgdfg\"<\/a>NO. STONINGTON, Conn. \u2013 Founded by long-time road racer, Lou Gingerella, and experienced motorsports professional, Josh Vanada, OTB Promotions has announced that they will host an event on Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park\u2019s (CT) road course, featuring three of the region\u2019s grassroots stock car divisions. Drivers from the North East Mini Stock Tour (NEMST), North East Street Stock Tour (NESST), and New England Truck Series (NETS) will join drivers from Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park\u2019s (TSMP) Mini Stock Division for this historic event on Friday, September 11 and Saturday, September 12.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGiven the rich history of road racing and stock car tradition at Thompson, it made sense to Lou and I to put this event together. We\u2019re excited to showcase some of the Northeast\u2019s finest grassroots stock car touring series, as well as our own Mini Stock Division\u201d said Vanada, the Executive Vice President of OTB Promotions, and current TSMP General Manager.<\/p>\n

The two-day event will mark the first competitive activity for stock cars on TSMP\u2019s road course since its $5 million renovation, which was completed in 2014. The format for the two day event will be a practice day on Friday, followed by a final practice, qualifying and feature races on Saturday.<\/p>\n

While it will be their first event on TSMP\u2019s road course, NEMST has been competing on New Hampshire Motor Speedway\u2019s road course since 2012. The Tour\u2019s founder and promoter, Bob Guptill, believes that this foundation will be a bonus for fans. \u201cWe are excited to offer our drivers the experience of a brand new event on a brand new track. Building on our current road course events, this is sure to put on an amazing show for drivers and fans,\u201d he predicted. The NEMST road race always boasts strong car counts, and given the 30+ car turnout at Thompson\u2019s Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing last October, another robust entry list is likely.<\/p>\n

In their inaugural season, NESST, features the ever-popular and ultra-competitive street stock race cars. Co-Series Director, Nick Ray, is enthusiastic about this stop on the Tour\u2019s schedule. \u201cWe are very excited to have this extraordinary opportunity to showcase our street stock on the famed TSMP road course. Our competitors will be ready to put on a great show that will not soon be forgotten. We also would like to send a huge \u2018thank you\u2019 to Josh and his team for making this possible,\u201d the rookie director remarked. In addition to bringing their own touring cars, the division\u2019s rules package will also allow drivers from TSMP\u2019s Limited Sportsman Division to compete in the ground-breaking event.<\/p>\n

New England\u2019s only regional truck division, NETS, competed at six different facilities in 2014, but none of them were road courses. Actually, the event will mark the first road course event NETS has contested in their history. Series Director, Lorraine Pard, says she and her race teams have had their eye on TSMP\u2019s 11-turn road course since the facility\u2019s renovations were announced. \u201cAs soon as Thompson was planning this prestigious road course, I wanted to bring the trucks to the challenge of this style of racing. This past season, teams would ask if trucks could race this course. Our 2015 schedule will be released with a road course date at Thompson. I\u2019m pleased to announce this race to my teams.\u201d With increasing interest in the truck division in the past 18 months, a deep and talented field can be expected.
\nAny Mini Stock conforming to TSMP\u2019s Divisional rules will also be welcome to participate in a separate race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NO. STONINGTON, Conn. \u2013 Founded by long-time road racer, Lou Gingerella, and experienced motorsports professional, Josh Vanada, OTB Promotions has announced that they will host an event on Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park\u2019s (CT) road course, featuring three of the region\u2019s grassroots stock car divisions. Drivers from the North East Mini Stock Tour (NEMST), North East […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[196,41],"tags":[15670],"class_list":["post-17505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-thompson","tag-thompsons-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17506,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505\/revisions\/17506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}