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.
Continue reading ‘NEMA’s Randy Cabral 2 for 2 at Speedbowl’
Oswego, NY - The ISMA Super Series is in the final preparation stages for their first race of the season on Saturday May 24 at the Waterford Speedbowl. Last year was Chris Perley’s season as he started 2007 with a win and ended it with a win, sandwiching 9 other feature victories in between. Lou Cicconi won the ISMA inaugural at the Connecticut oval while Justin Belfiore picked up the 50-lapper in 2006. While Perley has dominated the win column for the past two years, he’ll be the first to admit the opener is anyone’s ballgame.
This season should see another stellar field coming to the “Bowl” with not only Perley ready and willing to win, but also a slew of others, some who have been knocking hard on The Rowley Rocket’s back door.
Continue reading ‘Waterford Speedbowl is Site of 2008 ISMA Opener on May 24th’
Waterford, CT — Keith Rocco forged ahead on several late race restarts in scoring his second consecutive 35-lap Whelen All-American Series SK Modified feature at the Waterford Speedbowl Saturday evening. He passed early leader Jay Miller with 13-laps remaining, then battled Jeff Pearl before gaining the advantage in the closing circuits. Following Pearl was Rob Janovic Jr., Ron Yuhas Jr. and Tyler Chadwick.
Other Feature winners were Bruce Thomas Jr. (Late Model), Walt Hovey Jr. (Sportsman), Randy Churchill (Mini Stock), Jason Palmer (Legends), Joe Cipriano (Legends Young Lions), and Randy Cabral (NEMA Midgets).
Continue reading ‘Rocco Scores Again, Thomas Returns To Victory Lane At Speedbowl’
Waterford, CT — Randy Cabral may have missed his calling. Now two-for-two after a dominating performance in the Northeastern Midget Association 25-lap feature Saturday night at Waterford Speedbowl, he should consider motivational speaking. He’s good at finding reasons to win.
Grabbing the lead from Joey Payne Jr. on a lap two restart, Cabral absolutely ran away in the Bertrand #47. Only a yellow with 12 to do delayed Cabral’s rush to victory. He again powered away from Payne. His time for lap 16 was a sizzling 12.742 seconds.
Continue reading ‘Motivated Cabral Romps At The ‘Bowl’
Second generation ace Tom Scully, Jr. of Cranston, RI led the list of Opening Night winners at the 1/3-mile Seekonk Speedway oval on Saturday night May 10, capturing the 40-lap Pro Stock feature in the Subway of Seekonk-East Coast Collision-Dr. Feelgood Limousines #2 Chevrolet. Rookie Ryan Vanasse led the first two circuits before a hard-charging Kenny Spencer rocketed past via the outside. Spencer maintained his advantage through a pair of early cautions while Fred Astle, Jr. worked his way forward from sixth. Astle was strong in the high groove, passing Scully, Jr. for second on lap 8 and edging past Spencer to lead the 10th go-around.
Spencer battled back on lap 11, and soon Astle and Scully were locked in a heated exchange for second. The pair made contact on lap 13, and Astle spun around in turn three and was forced to restart from the tail. Veteran Joe Cerullo snatched second from Scully on a lap 16 restart, but went around in turn one battling for position the next time by, moving the two-time defending champ David Darling to third.
Continue reading ‘Scully, Jr. Bests Pro Stocks For Opening Night Seekonk Win’
Waterford, CT — Keith Rocco forged ahead during several late race restarts in scoring his second consecutive SK Modified feature at the Waterford Speedbowl Saturday evening. Rocco passed early leader Jay Miller with 13 laps remaining and then battled with Jeff Pearl before finally pulling ahead during the final circuits. Following Pearl was Rob Janovic Jr., Ron Yuhas Jr. and Tyler Chadwick. In Late Model action, it was Bruce Thomas Jr. recording his third feature of the season. Thomas battled with Ron Yuhas Jr. during the last half of the event before finally getting the advantage as the two approached lapped traffic and Thomas was able to sneak-by on the inside. Following Yuhas was Tim Jordan, Vin Esposito, and Ed Reed Jr.
Other Feature winners were Walt Hovey Jr. (Sportsman), Randy Churchill (Mini Stock), Jason Palmer (Legends), and Randy Cabral (NEMA Midgets).
Continue reading ‘Rocco Back to Back at Waterford’
Stafford Springs, CT — Stafford Motor Speedway is once again making plans to participate in NASCAR Day on May 16. Funds generated from NASCAR Day will benefit The NASCAR Foundation, which supports over 30 driver and industry charities.
To commemorate the fifth-annual celebration of NASCAR Day, Stafford Motor Speedway will host a pit-crew challenge. Participating fans may sign up at the Collectible Booth on the midway on May 16. Cliff Nelson of ECI / Cliff Nelson Motorsports is donating $100.00 for NASCAR Day and Cliff is challenging all Stafford teams to match his $100.00 contribution and make NASCAR Day 2008 at Stafford the best NASCAR Day yet!
Continue reading ‘Stafford Motor Speedway to Participate in NASCAR Day 2008′
Newburgh, NY — With the impending rain in the forecast for this evening the Lee USA Speedway Management was forced to make a make a tough call by canceling all racing for Friday May 9. With the ever rising cost of fuel the Speedway did not want the race teams to make the haul only to have to turn around with out making a lap. With mother nature being so unpredictable it is always a tough call to make.
The next stop for the Allison Legacy North tour will be next Saturday night May 17 at the fastest quarter mile in the east, Monadnock Speedway. Come out and enjoy yourself to some of the best racing in Northeast with Monadnocks weekly show and the Allison Legacy North Race Series.
Sources:ALNRS PR
Stafford Springs, CT — Due to inclement weather, Stafford Motor Speedway has postponed its May 9th New England Dodge Dealers Late Model 100 program to Friday night, June 27th.
Stafford Motor Speedway returns to racing action next Friday night, May 16th with a Whelen All- American Series racing program. Stafford’s SK Modifieds®, Late Models, SK Light Modifieds, Limited Late Models, and DARE Stocks will all take to the track with heat and feature events.
Continue reading ‘May 9th N.E. Dodge Dealers LM 100 at Stafford Postponed to Friday, June 27th’
Thompson, CT — Thompson International Speedway race teams will now have an opportunity to drive under the new Thompson lighting system one week before the regular Thursday night Thunder series opens for the summer.
Speedway owner, Don Hoenig, today announced that he felt it was important for the race drivers and their teams to be introduced to the new “bright lights” before the regular season begins. “This will give drivers a chance to get a good feel for just how racing under the new lights will be. To some drivers, this may be a significant change. We feel that by moving the hours of our open practice to later in the day, drivers will be afforded this opportunity before they race in competition under the new lights the very next week. As a result, the track will open at 3 PM on Thursday, May 15th and the open practice session will be held from 5 PM until 9 PM,” Hoenig said.
Continue reading ‘Thompson Changes Hours for May 15th Open Practice’
Mother’s Day is this weekend. I know none of you will forgot, right? One thing we all have in common, we all have mothers. We set aside this one day to remember them in a special way, but I think we should heed Scripture and honor them everyday. Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Let me ask you, what did you do for you mom lately? I don’t mean one Sunday out of 52. I mean everyday. I realize some of us have estranged relationships with our mothers but we still need to recognize the fact that without them we wouldn’t be here. Scripture instructs us early on to honor our parents.
Continue reading ‘Remembering Mom’
Thanks to AutoRacing1.com for this interesting find this afternoon:
“In May 1928 on Berlin’s AVUS racetrack, Fritz Von Opel set a speed record of an estimated 238 km/h in a rocket-powered car, the RAK 2. Von Opel, grandson of Opel Motor Car Company founder Adam Opel, and his partners used 24 solid-fuel rockets packed with 120 kilograms of explosives to propel the RAK 2 forward. More than 3000 guests from show business, sports, science and politics including movie star Lilian Harvey and boxer Max Schmeling attended the event. Available video includes archive shots of the event (In German).”
Vintage Video
Must be even Mother Nature is a race fan. She put up a fuss all day on Saturday during the Thunder Road Merchants Bank Car Show and wiped out half of the afternoon practice, but kindly stepped aside to let the 10th Annual Merchants Bank 150 - Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl’s 49th season opener - go on as planned.
Scott Payea served notice that he is definitely ready to wrestle the American-Canadian Tour championship away from Jean-Paul Cyr by taking the Merchants Bank 150 checkered flag for the second year in a row. After three events, Payea now leads the point standings by five markers over Patrick Laperle. In perhaps a bit of a surprise to some, John Donahue sits third ahead of Cyr and Brent Dragon. Donahue, by the way, drove from 30th to finish 9th in the 150.
Continue reading ‘ACTion News’
Waterford, CT — Jason Palmer passed George Whitney at the halfway point, going on to win the 20-lap Legends feature at Waterford Speedbowl’s first Wild n’ Wacky Wednesday of the season. Palmer was trailed by Mark Bakaj, Whitney, Justin Rau, and, Glen Billings.
Other Feature winners were Rob Corey (Super X Car), Mike Walsh (X Car), and, Bill Gerstch, Jr. (X Modified).
Continue reading ‘Palmer & Corey Win Wild N Wacky Opener’
According to his driver web site, Sean Caisse will be competing in this Saturday’s ARCA race at Kentucky Speedway. The Pelham, NH driver will be driving the #01 Advics Toyota for Hattori Racing Enterprises. The 22-year-old former NASCAR Camping World Series East standout’s webpage also features the logos of Toyota Racing Development and Germain Racing. It will be interesting to watch how Caisse’s schedule develops.
