{"id":2296,"date":"2010-05-11T22:34:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T03:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2010-05-11T22:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T03:34:41","slug":"opening-day-at-big-daddy%e2%80%99s-speedbowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/opening-day-at-big-daddy%e2%80%99s-speedbowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day at Big Daddy\u2019s Speedbowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening Day at Big Daddy\u2019s Speedbowl<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening Day, Spring Fling, or just Mother’s Day at the races; whatever
\nyou choose to call it, the first day of business at Big Daddy’s
\nSpeedbowl, the Burning Bush Homecenter night, was an interesting one.<\/p>\n

The venue has been around since 1961 and was previously known as
\nRattlesnake Motordrome, the Legion Speedway, The Pines, the Nor-Way
\nPines, and the Legion Bowl. Since last October Mike “Big Daddy” Rivers
\nhas been in charge and the 2010 season opened with a much different
\nfacility than the 2009 closed with.
\n
\nThis year marks one of cooperation with two other local racetracks;
\nThe Canaan Dirt Speedway in Canaan, NH and Bear Ridge Speedway in
\nBradford, VT. The track have coordinated their rules and their
\nschedules, running Friday (Canaan), Saturday (Bear Ridge), and Sunday
\n(Big Daddy’s) evenings. Now cars can run all three tracks, on three
\nconsecutive nights.<\/p>\n

Ryan Avery, driver of the #01 Modified, is a veteran of all three
\ntracks. He drew the first spot for the night’s racing and never
\nrelinquished it, leading the feature event of the Mid State Trucking
\nModified class from flag to flag. Lee Cadwell (81X) held off Randy
\nHowe (82) and they finished second and third. The night’s frustration
\naward would have to go to Blake Sheppard, who started second and
\nbattled toe-to-toe with Avery for the first half of the race. Then he
\nspun out, charged through the pack as far as third, and was dumped yet
\nagain, ending his evening.<\/p>\n

We also had the resurrection of the Late Model division, sponsored by
\nMike’s Automotive. It was a small field, but with hopes of growing in
\nthe near future. Jamie “Cletis” Bezanson (131\/2) won the feature,
\nfollowed by “Dangerous” Dan Collins (4) and Brad Shanks (8).<\/p>\n

Ray Johnson (79) won a wild and exciting Cutting Edge Grafix and
\nKeyser Trucking Super Street main event. Second went to Mike McClay
\n(82) and Mike Greene III (29) captured third.<\/p>\n

There are two four-cylinder divisions this season, the OE Parts Direct
\nMini-Stocks allowing more modification than the Camaro Heaven Bandits.
\n Josh Sunn (11) took the checkered flag in the Mini-Stock feature,
\nfollowed by Brandon Lemere (2) and Tony Shaw (20). In the Bandits
\nmain, it was the 33 car of Tim Sheppard leading Alicia Smith (88) and
\nJamie Nutting (99) across the line.<\/p>\n

The cold an blustery weather kept some fans home, but the car count
\nwas good, track operation was efficient, and a bright feature is in
\nstore for the new management of the venerable old Rumney track.
\nBurning Bush Homecenter of Warren, NH was the title sponsor for
\nOpening Day.<\/p>\n

This coming week\u2019s races are sponsored by Eastman Trophy of Groton
\nVt..and will feature all 5 regular divisions in competition. Big
\nDaddy\u2019s weekly divisions are the Camaro Heaven Bandits, OE Parts
\nDirect Mini-Stocks, the Cutting Edge Grafix and Keyser Trucking Super
\nStreets, Mike’s Automotive Late Models, and Mid State Trucking
\nModifieds.<\/p>\n

Big Daddy\u2019s is offering sponsorship packages. Give promoter Mike
\nRivers a call at 603-470-5531 or 603-286-9900 to explore the
\npartnership possibilities.<\/p>\n

Big Baddy\u2019s Speedbowl is a family orientated racing facility.
\nGrandstand admission is still only $10 for an adult and a family
\npackage of $25. Pit admission is $25 a week, $20 with a pit
\nmembership. The gates open at 12 noon, the driver\u2019s meeting starts at
\n3:30, and the first race goes off at 4:00pm. The track is located on
\nthe Rumney\/Wentworth town line on NH Rte. 25. Check the track website,
\nwww.BigDaddysSpeedbowl.com, for complete race results, coming events,
\nand race photos..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opening Day at Big Daddy\u2019s Speedbowl Opening Day, Spring Fling, or just Mother’s Day at the races; whatever you choose to call it, the first day of business at Big Daddy’s Speedbowl, the Burning Bush Homecenter night, was an interesting one. The venue has been around since 1961 and was previously known as Rattlesnake Motordrome, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-hampshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","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=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}