Published at June 24, 2011
in NEMA.
NEMA sure has changed a lot over the years. What some of you kids out there may not know is that NEMA was originally started for the “little guy.” The guy’s that couldn’t afford the big Offy engines or Kurtis-Kraft chassis of the day, but it was more for guys that worked forty hours a week.
Their “shop” was (and in some cases still is) the garage at home. Now I wasn’t around in those days but I do remember NEMA in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s. If there was anything I can tell the new faces of NEMA is learn who these people and events are that made the organization what it is today.
The older gentlemen that just walked past you in the pits could have been Carl Kibbe, who won four NEMA titles as an owner, or maybe Joe Fiore who’s been such in intergral part of the success of NEMA’s greatest team, Gene and Marilyns #45. Sorry boys, but if you had to compete aginst guys like Billy Mann, Joey Coy, Lee Smith, Mike Favuli, Paul Stoehr, Russ Klar, Drew Fornoro, Butch Walsh, Bobby White or Dave Humphrey….you had a long night ahead of you. Not to mention your win percentage wouldn’t be as high.
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Rain Forecast Pushes Monadnock 200 to Sunday
Daytona Beach, FL — The Monadnock 200 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour race scheduled for Saturday, June 25 at Monadnock Speedway has been postponed to Sunday, June 26 due to the inclement weather forecast.
The adjusted schedule will now see the Whelen Modified Tour practice from 12-1 p.m., qualify at 2 p.m. and take the green flag at approximately 4:30 p.m. at the quarter-mile bullring in rural Winchester, N.H.
The Monadnock 200 will be the fourth race of the 2011 Whelen Modified Tour season. Each of the three races have produced different winners and Rowan Pennink brings a 51-point lead in the season standings to Monadnock. Ted Christopher is the defending winner of the Monadnock 200.
For more information on the Monadnock 200, please visit the track’s official website.
UPDATED SCHEDULE
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Bradford, VT – According to a trio of New England open cockpit racing historians, when the USAC-Dirt Midget Association and the Sprint Cars of New England appear on the same program at Bear Ridge Speedway on Saturday July 2, they’ll almost certainly be making history. It will be the first time that Midgets and Sprint Cars have ever appeared on the same bill in northern New England.
“I think this is probably a first,” said Dick Monahan of Newburyport, MA, 25 year member and former President of the NEMA Midgets. “During the 50’s and early 60’s URC Sprint Cars and ARDC Midgets ran the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Junction, VT, but they ran on successive days. Each sanctioning body insisted on running its own show and did not want another one on the same bill.”
“It would take some serious research to figure that one out for sure,” said John DaDalt of Stafford Springs, CT “but I’m not aware of any split shows with Midgets and Sprint Cars in Maine, New Hampshire or Vermont.”
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