This Saturday the Waterford Speedbowl hosts the 3rd annual Little League Night featuring the Sidsvault.com Home Run Derby. Any Little Leaguer wearing their team jersey will be admitted free of charge into the grandstands. The wiffle ball exhibition will team up ten of the Speedbowl’s NASCAR Whelen All-American Series drivers with ten local Little Leaguers in a home run contest on the front stretch at approximately 6:30pm. Grandstands open at 4pm, qualifying at 5pm and features begin at 7pm.
This years Speedbowl Sluggers include SK Modified drivers Jeff Pearl, Ron Yuhas Jr. and Tyler Chadwick. Ed Reed Jr., Bruce Thomas Jr. and Vin Esposito from the Late Model division, Walt Hovey Jr. and Al Stone III representing the Sportsman division and Mini Stock drivers Ken Cassidy Jr. and Randy Churchill Jr. Only Yuhas, Reed and Cassidy have participated in the event before.
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Waterford, CT — With two consecutive Friday night rainouts at Stafford Speedway, the Johnson Motorsports team and driver Doug Coby brought their white #10 SK Modified to the Waterford Speedbowl this past Saturday for a 35-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American series event. This was the team’s second visit of the season to the 1/3 mile shoreline oval, and their 8th place finish contributed a total of 32 points to their NASCAR state championship point total.
In the first practice session of the day, the team showed everyone on hand that they had not missed a beat from their pole qualifying effort and 3rd place finish at the Speedbowl’s season opening Bud Nationals by posting the fastest time of the practice session.
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Waterford, CT — When the final tally is made for the 2008 Waterford Speedbowl SK-Modified championship, May 10 may be one of the keys. Dennis Gada, seeking a record seventh championship, came back from a mid-race crash to finish 10TH and hold on to the division point lead.
Gada, who likes being atop the standings, will take an ever-so slim two-point edge on the streaking Keith Rocco into Saturday night’s 35-lap SK feature. It is the headliner of Little League Night at the Speedbowl.
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Waterford, CT — For the second time in just over a month, the New England Midget Association, visited the Waterford Speedbowl. The weather on these two visits loomed with threatening skies and the infield was full of puddles. However, shortly after getting the cars unloaded and race ready, the grey sky turned blue and was replaced with bright, warm sunshine. Randy was still getting words of encouragement from fans that watched him run to a touching victory on April 10th. He was hoping that his luck would hold out and he would once again claim the checkers.
It was around 5:30 when the first green flag fell for the qualifying heats for NEMA. The first heat pitted the 77 of Shawn Torrey and the 9 of John Zych Jr. in the front row with Chris Leonard’s 22 and Greg Stoehr’s 26b making up the second. Sixth place starter, Randy Cabral’s 47 dove to the inside and grabbed the top spot quickly bringing Stoehr and fifth place starter, 98 of Bobby Santos III with him. Stoehr took over the lead from Cabral, after a caution was shown for Abby Martino, as a fuel pump broke on the 88 and shortened the night run for the car. Shortly afterwards, with a daring first turn move, Santos, III ducked under Cabral grabbing second. Randy claimed third as he crossed the line in front of the 4 of Nokie Fornoro to finish the qualifier. The second heat put Mike Horn (p30) and Erica Santos (44) in the first two spots with Jeremy Frankoski’s 63 and Joey Payne’s 45 in the second row. Miss Santos proved to be the fastest off of the line and once in the lead, she never looked back while Horn, Frankoski, and Payne fought for second. Payne finished second by powering by the 63 and then the p30. Frankoski claimed third and Horn rallied for forth.
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Waterford, CT — The Waterford Speedbowl’s Wild n’ Wacky Wednesday, about to begin it’s eighth season, has become New England’s premier mid-week racing program. Based on affordability for both fans and competitors, the series is a true bargain at only $7 for an adult admission.
Wild n’ Wacky begins Wednesday (May 7) with the Legends, Super-X Cars, X-Cars, and X-Modifieds. Leading strong rosters are defending champions Jason Palmer (Legends), John Yagmin (Super-X), Brad Voglesong (X-Car), and, Bubby Brouwer (X-Mod).
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Idle the past three weeks, the Northeastern Midget Association returns to Waterford Speedbowl Saturday night. Rain washed out Seekonk Speedway’s opener last weekend but it failed to cool the ambitions of the NEMA drivers.
A trio of announced championship contenders - veterans Joey Payne Jr., Nokie Fornoro and Greg Stoehr - are anxious to continue their bids on what many consider the premier Midget track in the east. Payne and Stoehr were second and third at the Speedbowl back at the Modified Nationals on April 12th in the only feature NEMA has run so far this season.
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Waterford, CT — Keith Rocco recorded his first-ever Speedbowl SK Modified win Saturday evening, narrowly defeating Dennis Gada and Ron Yuhas Jr. With 10-laps remaining, Rocco slipped by Yuhas, battling right down to the wire with Gada before pulling ahead following a late-race restart. Ron Silk and defending champion Rob Janovic Jr. completed the top-5.
Other feature winners were Ed Reed Jr. (Late Model), Chris “Moose” Douton (Sportsman), Jeff “Soup” Civardi (Mini Stock), and, Dave Pinkham (True Value Modified Series).
In the closing circuits, Rocco survived a dramatic outside-bid by 6-time champion Gada, who was seeking his third victory of the season.
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Waterford, CT — Upon his first-ever visit to the Waterford Speedbowl on Saturday evening, Dave Pinkham of Buxton, Maine went home a winner celebrating the second True Value Modified Racing Series win of his career. During the early laps it was Ed Dachenhausen and Les Hinckley setting the pace until coming together on lap-42. Both were sent to the rear of the field, and resulting restart saw Dwight Jarvis inheriting the lead. On a late-race restart, Pinkham slipped-by Jarvis, going on to win by several car-lengths. The race was marred by a red flag period with 65-laps remaining when Jimmy Blewett became airborne, flipped, and slammed into the fourth-turn wall on his roof. Blewett was uninjured. Following Pinkham was Dwight Jarvis, Les Hinckley, Chris Pasteryak, and, Vinny Annarummo Jr.
Other feature winners were Keith Rocco (SK Modified), Ed Reed Jr. (Late Model), Chris “Moose” Douton (Sportsman), and, Jeff “Soup” Civardi (Mini Stock).
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Racing will continue as scheduled for today at the Waterford Speedbowl.
Tonight’s feature card, the 100-lap True Value Modified Racing Series race, sponsored by the CT Army National Guard is the headliner. At least 22 Modifieds have taken practice laps. Notably, as of 2:30PM two-time winner this season and defending champion Kirk Alexander is not in attendance.
