{"id":18554,"date":"2015-04-17T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=18554"},"modified":"2015-04-17T14:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T18:55:57","slug":"devils-bowl-speedway-fan-festival-returning-to-downtown-rutland-may-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/devils-bowl-speedway-fan-festival-returning-to-downtown-rutland-may-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway Fan Festival Returning to Downtown Rutland May 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/2014\/05\/kart-racing-series-hold-devils-bowl-speedway\/devilsbowl\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12972\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/devilsbowl.jpg\" alt=\"devilsbowl\" width=\"259\" height=\"108\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12972\" \/><\/a><strong>Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway Fan Festival Returning to Downtown Rutland<br \/>\nRutland Region Chamber of Commerce to host racecar show on May 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RUTLAND, VT \u2013 The windows will rattle and the ground will shake in one of Vermont\u2019s largest cities on Saturday, May 9 as the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce hosts the return of the Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway Fan Festival in Downtown Rutland, VT.  The free-admission racecar show will give fans an up-close preview of the racing season and a chance to meet the drivers at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway just hours before the season premiere in nearby West Haven, VT.<\/p>\n<p>Cars and drivers from the track\u2019s NASCAR Whelen All-American Series will line Center Street in the heart of the shopping, dining, and entertainment district of the city with gleaming machines from the Bond Auto Parts Modified, Central Vermont Motorcycles Late Model, Brileya\u2019s Chrysler-Jeep Renegade, and Portland Glass Mini Stock divisions.  Fans can meet drivers, collect autographs, and enter to win tickets for the opening event at Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway that evening.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A panel of voters will also tally scores for the Best Appearing Car award in all four racing divisions, and the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce will also award the \u201cChamber\u2019s Choice\u201d trophy for the overall best appearing racecar.<\/p>\n<p>The Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway Fan Festival will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on Saturday, May 9, and is just part of the unofficial beginning of summer in Rutland County, as the event coincides with the opening of the Vermont Farmers Market.  The Fan Festival will be held on Center Street, directly across the intersection of Merchants Row where the Vermont Farmers Market is located.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevil&#8217;s Bowl Speedway is a tremendous asset for this region and for Vermont,\u201d said Tom Donahue, CEO of the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce.  \u201cWe are thrilled to host the Fan Festival in Downtown Rutland.  It\u2019s always exciting to see the racecars up close and meet the drivers, and we encourage Devil\u2019s Bowl fans to shop and dine at the many great establishments in Rutland before heading off to the season opener at the speedway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway\u2019s 49th season of stock car racing opens on Saturday, May 9 at 6:00 p.m. with a 100-lap special for the Modified division, a 50-lap Late Model race, and championship openers for the Renegade and Mini Stock divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway Fan Festival Returning to Downtown Rutland Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce to host racecar show on May 9 RUTLAND, VT \u2013 The windows will rattle and the ground will shake in one of Vermont\u2019s largest cities on Saturday, May 9 as the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce hosts the return of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"class_list":["post-18554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devils-bowl","category-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18555,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554\/revisions\/18555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}