{"id":17929,"date":"2015-02-15T04:52:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T09:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=17929"},"modified":"2015-02-15T02:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T07:58:36","slug":"devils-bowl-speedway-drivers-ready-world-series-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/devils-bowl-speedway-drivers-ready-world-series-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway Drivers Ready for World Series in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stone_thiering_51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17930\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stone_thiering_51-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"stone_thiering_51\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stone_thiering_51-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stone_thiering_51.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL \u2013 Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway may be buried under three feet of snow in chilly Vermont, but that won\u2019t stop three of its regular stock car competitors from firing their engines. Todd Stone, Emily Packard, and Brandon Atkins are ready to compete in the 49th annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at New Smyrna Speedway during Florida Speedweeks, February 13-21, with both the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series and the American-Canadian Tour.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Stone, of Middlebury, VT, swept NASCAR Whelen All-American Series (NWAAS) championships last year in the open-wheel Florida Modified division at the World Series at New Smyrna and in the Bond Auto Parts Modifieds at Devil\u2019s Bowl, but moves to full-fender cars in 2015. His World Series ride is a G. Stone Motors-sponsored Ford Fusion for the Pro Late Model class, which has pre-registered entries from 11 states and three Canadian provinces, coast-to-coast. Stone said that practice sessions helped him learn his car\u2019s setup, and he posted top-10 lap times in final practice on Thursday.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Pro Late Model cars have bump-stop suspension, which is a lot different than the ACT Late Models my team raced years ago,\u201d Stone said. \u201cThere\u2019s a learning curve, but I think we\u2019re going to be pretty good. It\u2019s funny \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of young talent here with more experience in these cars, and I\u2019m the grey haired guy just starting out. We just want to have some fun and get away from the snow back home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stone will race his Pro Late Model seven times in nine nights at New Smyrna, beginning his hunt for NWAAS Division II national championship points. When he returns north he will run the Central Vermont Motorcycles Late Model division at Devil\u2019s Bowl and is contemplating a part-time schedule in the Late Models at Airborne Park Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY \u2013 both of which also accumulate NWAAS Division II points.<\/p>\n<p>Teenagers Emily Packard of East Montpelier, VT, and Brandon Atkins of Au Sable Forks, NY, will be among the 29 American-Canadian Tour (ACT) entries at New Smyrna for 100-lap events on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights. Packard finished third in 2014 Devil\u2019s Bowl Late Model standings with three wins, and fourth in ACT points, while Atkins is a former Devil\u2019s Bowl winner and was the 2014 ACT Rookie of the Year. The ACT Late Model Tour visits Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway for the People\u2019s United Bank 100 on Saturday, June 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL \u2013 Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway may be buried under three feet of snow in chilly Vermont, but that won\u2019t stop three of its regular stock car competitors from firing their engines. Todd Stone, Emily Packard, and Brandon Atkins are ready to compete in the 49th annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car [&hellip;]<\/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":[45,15667,15663],"tags":[15696],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-new-smryna","category-new-smyrna-speedway","tag-new-smyrna-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","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=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17931,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions\/17931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}