{"id":20129,"date":"2016-01-01T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=20129"},"modified":"2016-01-01T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T14:50:29","slug":"devils-bowl-racers-score-in-vermont-motorsports-magazine-driver-of-the-year-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/devils-bowl-racers-score-in-vermont-motorsports-magazine-driver-of-the-year-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil\u2019s Bowl Racers Score in Vermont Motorsports Magazine \u201cDriver of the Year\u201d Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"devils<\/a>Devil\u2019s Bowl Racers Score in Vermont Motorsports Magazine \u201cDriver of the Year\u201d Awards
\nGonyo honored with three awards; LaVair is top four-cylinder driver<\/strong><\/p>\n

WEST HAVEN, Vt. \u2013 A select group of asphalt and dirt stock car drivers from Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway were honored on Monday night, December 28, as Internet news source Vermont Motorsports Magazine announced its annual \u201cDriver of the Year\u201d award winners. The winners in 11 categories were revealed in a live audio broadcast at www.vtmotormag.com; more than 19,000 fan votes were tallied in a two-week span.<\/p>\n

Former multi-time Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway Late Model race winner Nick Sweet took top honors as the 2015 Driver of the Year in the overall voting, topping Modified racer Nick Heywood and multi-division dirt star Kevin Chaffee. Devil\u2019s Bowl champions Vince Quenneville Jr. and Chris LaVair were among the 10 nominees in the top category. The list of past VMM Driver of the Year overall winners includes Devil\u2019s Bowl competitors Todd Stone in 2013 and Don Miller in 2010.
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Veteran NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Modified competitor Leon Gonyo was honored posthumously with three awards, winning Driver of the Year laurels in the Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway, Airborne Park Speedway, and Open Wheel categories. Gonyo, who passed away following a medical emergency during a victory lap at Devil\u2019s Bowl in September, was the overwhelming favorite on all three ballots; he won five races at Devil\u2019s Bowl in 2015.<\/p>\n

Asphalt Modified track champion Quenneville finished second to Gonyo in the Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway category, followed by two-time asphalt Late Model winner Bobby Therrien. Also nominated were dirt Sportsman Modified champion Kenny Tremont Jr. and runner-up Tim Hodge, asphalt Modified runner-up Ron Proctor, asphalt Late Model champion Josh Masterson, asphalt Renegade champion Robert Gordon, and asphalt Mini Stock stars LaVair and Chuck Bradford.<\/p>\n

Mini Stock drivers LaVair and Justin Severance finished 1-2 in the Four Cylinder category. LaVair, known for his asphalt success, took down six victories and the asphalt track championship, while rookie driver Severance was a two-time dirt winner at Devil\u2019s Bowl and also took the Bear Ridge Speedway championship. American-Canadian Tour Late Model driver Joey Polewarczyk Jr. was named the Touring Series Driver of the Year after a five-win season that included the People\u2019s United Bank 100 at Devil\u2019s Bowl in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Devil\u2019s Bowl Racers Score in Vermont Motorsports Magazine \u201cDriver of the Year\u201d Awards Gonyo honored with three awards; LaVair is top four-cylinder driver WEST HAVEN, Vt. \u2013 A select group of asphalt and dirt stock car drivers from Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway were honored on Monday night, December 28, as Internet news source Vermont Motorsports Magazine […]<\/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-20129","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\/20129","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=20129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20130,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129\/revisions\/20130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}