{"id":9986,"date":"2012-06-15T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2012-06-15T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:46:32","slug":"open-wheel-frenzy-bear-ridge-speedways-jiffy-mart-event-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/open-wheel-frenzy-bear-ridge-speedways-jiffy-mart-event-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-Wheel Frenzy at Bear Ridge Speedway\u2019s Jiffy Mart Event Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRADFORD, VT \u2013 Open-wheel stock car racing action will overflow at Bear Ridge Speedway in Bradford, VT on Saturday, June 16, as Jiffy Mart of Bradford presents the \u201cNew Digs for Dogs\u201d event to benefit the Bradford Bull Dogs youth football team.\u00a0\u00a0Between the WYKR Sprint Cars of New England (SCoNE), the USAC Dirt Midget Association, the Atlantic Coast Old Timers antique club, and the regular 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds and Wells River Chevrolet Sportsman Coupes, five open-wheel divisions will flock to the \u00bc-mile dirt track.<\/span><\/p>\n

Will Hull of East Montpelier, VT scored a popular first career win in the most recent SCoNE event at Bear Ridge on May 26.\u00a0\u00a0The former Limited Late Model track champion snookered Tyler Rich in lapped traffic coming to the final lap to steal the win.\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019ll try for his second win of the year against former SCoNE champions Chris Donnelly, Dan Douville, Shawn Lawler, and Mark Cole on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The action is tight and tenacious at Bear Ridge Speedway this season, proven by close championship point battles across the board.\u00a0\u00a0With the first five events in the record books, no drivers have yet to make a dominant statement.\u00a0\u00a0Kevin Chaffee has the biggest lead in any division, pacing the Sportsman Modified class by just 16 points (275-259) over defending champion Adam Pierson.\u00a0\u00a0Both drivers hail from Fairlee, VT and have visited the winner\u2019s circle this season, but both have had \u201coff\u201d nights as well; Chaffee crashed last week and finished 16<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span>, while Pierson slumped to 14<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0on May 12.\u00a0\u00a0Dan Eastman, Justin Comes, and Derek Graham sit three points apart in positions 3-5, well within striking distance of the leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ride-hopping Chaffee is expected to pull triple-duty in the Modifieds, Midgets, and Sprint Cars on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0Chaffee \u2013 known as \u201cThe Fairlee Flier\u201d \u2013 also leads the USAC Dirt Midget Association standings by 11 points over Connecticut\u2019s Scott Holcomb, 152-141, with Massachusetts youngster Tim Gallant and New England Auto Racing Hall of Famer Ray Miller just four more markers behind.\u00a0\u00a0Noted ESPN\/ABC sports announcer and Stafford (CT) Motor Speedway president Jack Arute will make his Bear Ridge driving debut in the USAC Midgets on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Terry Williams of Wells River, VT used a win last week to take over at the top of the Wells River Chevrolet Sportsman Coupe division, but only by two points over two-time champion Josh Harrington of Topsham, VT (227-225).\u00a0\u00a0The next 10 Coupe drivers are all within 50 points of Williams\u2019 lead.\u00a0\u00a0North Haverhill, NH veteran Mike Greene leads the A Notch Above Automotive Limited Late Models on the strength of five top-two finishes, but paces 15 year-old Jordan Fornwalt of Bradford, VT by only 11 points, 253-242; Fornwalt already has three wins in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

Danny Doyle of Rochester, VT has a nine-point cushion on Bradford\u2019s Chuck Simmons (260-251) in the Weglarz Property Service Fast Fours after his first win of the year on Miller Auto Group Night last week, and Brent Warren of Salisbury, VT and defending champ Eric Lang of Groton, VT are deadlocked at the top in the KDD NAPA Auto Parts Hornet class, at 244 points each.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jiffy Mart of Bradford Night starts at the famous \u201c6:00-ish\u201d post time on Saturday, June 14.\u00a0All six 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series divisions will be on hand, along with the lightning-fast WYKR Sprint Cars of New England and the Atlantic Coast Old Timers club.\u00a0\u00a0Special event general admission is $13 for adults (age 18-61), $10 for teens (12-17) and seniors (62+), and $2 for children.\u00a0\u00a0Season passes are also available; Visa and MasterCard are accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bear Ridge Speedway is located on Kidder Road in Bradford, VT, just off Exit 16 on Interstate 91.\u00a0\u00a0For more information, call\u00a0(802) 222-4052\u00a0or visit\u00a0<\/span>www.bearridgespeedway.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BRADFORD, VT \u2013 Open-wheel stock car racing action will overflow at Bear Ridge Speedway in Bradford, VT on Saturday, June 16, as Jiffy Mart of Bradford presents the \u201cNew Digs for Dogs\u201d event to benefit the Bradford Bull Dogs youth football team.\u00a0\u00a0Between the WYKR Sprint Cars of New England (SCoNE), the USAC Dirt Midget Association, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[4154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bear-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}