Provost Collects First DARE Stock Win of Season
Duane Provost bested Norm Sears and Scott Roy to win his first feature of 2008. He started on the pole and led green-to-checkered to take down the win.
Rocco Gains Points Lead with SK Mod Win
SK Modified Results (40 laps)
Edgar, WI — Promoters must replace their over-reliance on traveling race fans with a focus on local race fans to succeed in today’s market, according to Racing Promotion Monthly, the national trade newsletter for auto racing promoters, and drawing local fans will be the focus of this winter’s 36th RPM Promoters Series. Humpy Wheeler, recently retired promoter of Lowe’s Motor Speedway will deliver keynote remarks at the Speedweek Workshop, the popular promoter returning to the Workshops podium for the first time in a decade. Roger Slack, most recently Wheeler’s vice-president of events at Lowe’s, will make opening remarks at the Reno Workshop. Seventeen additional sessions, covering the breadth of weekly race track operation, emphasizing practical ideas adaptable to any short track, complete the agenda.
The Thirty-Sixth Annual RPM Promoters Workshops Series, where promoters will meet friends they can talk with and gather ideas they can use, begins December 4 in Reno, NV, and concludes during Speedweek, February 9-11, 2009, in Lake Mary, FL. The Workshops, produced by Racing Promotion Monthly and presented by K&K Insurance and Hoosier Racing Tire, return this Winter to the Eldorado Hotel Casino, Reno, and the Orlando Marriott Lake Mary, Lake Mary, FL.
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Waterford, CT — The SK-Modifieds will be counting by twos Saturday night at Waterford Speedbowl. One guy may wind up counting by fives when the Double Down Shootout presented by Mohegan Sun, cut short last week by fog, resumes.
Both 25-lap SK-features are on the schedule amounting to a double dose of points. The $5,000 “sweep” bonus remains in affect as well. Winning both SK features is worth a cool five grand. To do that the first-feature winner must come from the last starting spot in the second.
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August 30, 2008 - Waterford Speedbowlby Nicholas Teto
Jeff "Soup" Civardi signing autographs
Ken Cassidy signs an autograph for a fan.
Waterford, CT — A $5,000 “bonus” awaits the driver who can capture both SK-Modifieds features at Saturday night’s Double Down Shootout presented by Mohegan Sun at Waterford Speedbowl. Should that happen, five fans will get away with a cool grand ($1,000) apiece.
All four Whelen All-American Series divisions will run double features - 25 lappers for the SKs and Late Models; 15 lappers for the Sportsman and Mini Stocks. The second features line up in reverse order of the first feature finish. It amounts to 130 laps of feature racing.
The first 500 adult fans through the gates will receive a free hat. The gates open at 4 PM and the racing gets underway at 7. Adults will be asked to enter the Double Down Sweepstakes at the gate. If a SK sweep is accomplished, they’ll be five $1,000 winners. Rules are at www.Speedowl.com.
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Waterford Wings & Wheels by Nick Vasquez
New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame member Johnny Kay, an outstanding Midget driver for over 25 years, died Monday, Aug. 11. He was 85.
A win in the 1954 “Night Before the 500″ at Indianapolis’ 16th Street was the crowning event for Kay who posted victories under a number of banners including ARDC, AAA, USAC and NEMA from the post War 1940s through the 1960s. He was the second alternate at the 1956 Indianapolis 500.
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Champion Late Model stock car driver Brent Dragon is headed “home” to Capital City Speedway in Ottawa, Ontario for Saturday’s Toromont CAT 100. But there’s one small thing: Dragon is from Milton, Vermont, 200 miles and an international border away. In fact, he’s never even seen Capital City Speedway. So why is it “home”?
Enter Mike and Tom Kenyon. Through their Kenyon Racing Products company, the Kemptville, ON brothers supplied the Port City chassis that Dragon pilots on the American-Canadian Tour (ACT). Mike Kenyon is also Dragon’s crew chief, and in fact, Kenyon Racing Products sponsors the weekly Late Model division at Capital City Speedway. Beyond that, Dragon, an avid big game hunter, spends much of his winter months in the Ontario woods.
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It’s been a pretty tough stretch for our racing family and this week was no exception. We have lost many over the last few weeks and this week we added to those losses. Where do we turn when we have to deal with the loss of someone we care deeply about? Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
I stayed pretty close to home this week. My Grandmother went in the hospital last Thursday and went home to the Lord on Tuesday. She was 85. Her children came in from California and Vermont along with her sister. We pulled together as a family and supported one another. We will get through this as we reach out to one another.
Newburgh, NY – The Allison Legacy North Race Series held their first ever North - South Shootout this past weekend at the Adirondack International Speedway in Lowville, NY.
The weekend began Friday afternoon when the teams arrived for two hours of practice. Unfortunately for two teams their weekend would end early as the 99 of Tommy Barrett and the 89 of Cody Gnieting would have and untimely meeting at the exit of turn four ending both of their shot at the weekends grand prize. Also during practice two time ALNRS Champion Anthony Frissora, who was making his return to the series on a part time basis in the #88 G&S sponsored Ford Thunderbird, spun coming out of turn four which left nowhere for the 27 of William Schneider to go. Both cars were heavily damaged however do to the hard work from their crews they would both be able to make the show.
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