Connecticut driver will race opening Late Model championship event Sunday
WEST HAVEN, VT – Former NASCAR National Champion Keith Rocco will trek north to Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Sunday, May 13 for the Mother’s Day Special event. The Wallingford, CT superstar will compete in the championship-opening race for the J&S Steel Late Model division.
Rocco was the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series National Champion in 2010 and has ranked fourth or better for each of the last five years. The Devil’s Bowl feature event will be the fourth race of his busy weekend; Rocco will run an open-wheel SK Modified and a full-fender Late Model on Friday night at Stafford Motor Speedway in his native Connecticut, heads to Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, NH on Saturday for a 200-lap NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour event, and rides north for his first-ever race in Vermont on Sunday.
“We’re coming to race, to have fun, and hopefully to win,” Rocco declared. “If you’re not trying to win, you shouldn’t be out there, right?”
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Waterford, CT — Waterford Speedbowl has cancelled tonight’s scheduled Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday racing program due to wet weather. The mid-week entertainment program will return next Wednesday evening with races for the Legends Cars, Bandoleros, Super X-Cars, X-Cars and Wacky Race.
The Speedbowl is in action two more times this week, first with Friday’s Show and Go at the ‘Bowl, featuring free car cruise night and spectator drags. The event offers free grandstands admission to watch the elimination drags for most any type of motor vehicle, beginning at 6:00pm.
On Saturday, a special celebration for the Northeastern Midget Association (NEMA) joins the Speedbowl’s NASCAR Whelen All-American Series racing program. Six divisions will see action including a total of 60 laps of feature racing to honor NEMA’s 60 anniversary � 30 laps each for the NEMA Midgets and the NEMA Lites. Qualifying begins at 5:30pm and main events start at 7:00pm Saturday.
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"WEATHER UPDATE **Tonight's, May 9, $8 Wild 'n Wacky Wednesday program has been cancelled due to heavy rain in the area.**
BIG night for NEMA Midgets this Saturday!!! Join us as NEMA royalty will be in the house celebrating their 60th anniversary at a track key to their history…lots of winners, champions and NEMA VIP's Saturday."
60th anniversary event at ‘perfect’ Midget track will include division royalty
Waterford, CT — Waterford Speedbowl will host a special event this Saturday, May 12 as the Northeastern Midget Association (NEMA) comes to town with a big celebration planned. The popular division will be in the spotlight as it commemorates its Diamond Anniversary – 60 years in racing – with plenty of personnel that contributed to its history on hand.
Sixty laps of feature racing, thirty each for the NEMA Midgets and the companion NEMA Lites, highlights the racing on what is widely regarded as a ‘perfect’ Midget racetrack. The Speedbowl’s combination of smooth race surface, degree of banking and length of straightaway make for some of the finest Midget races in the east. The NEMA feature will be the Marvin Rifchin Trophy Race, memorializing one of NEMA’s greatest contributors and a New England racing legend. The tire maker (M&H Tire) was a frequent attendee at NEMA events for most of its 60-year history.
NEMA President Mike Scrivani Jr. could not think of a more suitable venue. “The Speedbowl is the ideal spot for this race. It has always been a special place for Midgets in general and NEMA in particular”. Indeed, the three-eighths mile shoreline oval has been a major part of NEMA from the beginning. The second-ever NEMA race was held at the Speedbowl in May 1953 and Midget racing has been a mainstay at the Speedbowl nearly every year since.
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