You hear so much about so many lost speedways, but have you ever had a chance to really walk back into time! Well on September 30th the Senior Tour Auto Racers (STAR) took over 1,000 fans and drivers for a complete walk back in time at the Lakeville Speedway, Lakeville Ma. Lakeville has been dormant for better than 30 years. Lakeville driver Lew Boyd said,” It’s just like it was in the 70”s”
STAR has been gearing up for the Lakeville Speedway Reunion for the past several months. President of STAR Charlie Lima and Lakeville native Glenn Chistolini have been clearing the overgrown track to get it back to what it look like in the 60’s and 70’s. The fans, drivers and past promoters were surprised to see this grand old track back into shape. The starter stand still in tacked, held once more the colors of the racing flags. Racing banners were hung all over the fence. The wall surrounding the track was completely uncovered and after 30 years still in great condition. Lakeville Speedway was back, even if it was for only one day !!
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Stock car driver Jean-Paul Cyr of Milton, VT is on the verge of breaking two all-time American-Canadian Tour (ACT) Championship records on Saturday at Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway. Should Cyr finish 23rd or better in the season-ending New England Dodge Dealers 150 at the 3/8-mile oval track, he will clinch his fifth-straight ACT Late Model Tour title and seventh overall. Both marks would be new records across all ACT divisions dating back to 1979.
“Records are meant to be broken, and some day my records may be surpassed,” said the driver of the #32 Ehler’s RV/Sticks & Stuff Chevrolet, “but it means a lot to be here right now.”
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Naples, ME — Strange things happen in the night in October, and Saturday night at All-Star Speedway in Epping, NH may not be any different when the PASS North Super Late Models, PASS Modifieds, and the PASS Pullen Sportsman Series go at in the second last point’s race of the season.
Ben Rowe has felt his father’s breathe behind him many times before, but this time Mike is only twelve points behind his son in the PASS North Super Late Model Series title fight. If Mike finishes six spots ahead of Ben, assuming they both get the same amount of heat points, then they will share the lead going into the finale at White Mountain Motorsports Park on Sunday October 14th. And, as we have seen in the past, Richie Dearborn is right there 40 points out of the lead with two races to go if ether Rowe falters badly.
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Waterford, CT — Rob Janovic Jr., a home-grown product, is the 2007 Waterford Speedbowl SK-Modified champion. The crown comes after a dozen campaigns at the oval where he literally grew up.
One of three “first time” champions, Janovic took the lead at midseason and that fought off a determined effort by Dennis Gada, the 2006 king who was seeking a record seventh championship. Janovic, who won three times, was never out of the top 10 in 23 starts.
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Thompson, CT — Julia DeMato, an American Idol top ten finalist, will sing the National Anthem at the Thompson International Speedway on Sunday, October 14th. Her performance will be the highlight of the pre-race ceremonies that will begin shortly after 12 Noon.
Born and raised in Brookfield, CT., Julia is one of seven children of Peter and Joan DeMato. At the age of 23, Julia went to New York City to wait in line for a chance to have her dream come true. She made cut after cut after cut and then she was “off to Hollywood.” Julia says, “The rest is history.”
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Thompson, CT — The Fast Track driver information system at the Thompson International Speedway has received high praise in its first year of use at the historic New England speedway.
The Fast Track Medical Response System was implemented during the early stages of the 2007 racing season in an effort to greatly enhance the ability to provide medical services to competitors, race team members and employees at Thompson. Thompson International Speedway was the first race track to adopt the Fast Track Medical Response System. The Fast Track system is designed around a light weight bracelet that contains a tiny computer chip. This computer chip contains vital medical information on the person wearing it. In the event that medical assistance is needed, a quick scan of the bracelet provides first responders with valuable medical information in seconds. If the patient is transported to a medical facility, this same information is immediately available to the medical staff at the receiving facility.
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Salisbury, MA — A year ago, Speedway Illustrated announced a new racing exposition. Then, after months of preparation, the first-ever SpeedwayEXPO was presented to an expectant crowd in early March this year. By all measures, the event was a resounding triumph. SpeedwayEXPO had successfully rejuvenated a Northeastern tradition and brought together short-track and big-league enthusiasts, drivers, teams and suppliers.
As the ’07 racing season winds down, the magazine’s staff is hard at work on the 2nd annual SpeedwayEXPO, February 29 – March 2, 2008. According to Karl Fredrickson, the magazine’s editor, “We threw a party for 7,000 of our friends. This one’s going to be even bigger and better!”
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Have you ever done something wrong? Seems like a simple question with a simple answer, but why is it we forget that when it comes time to forgive someone else from a mistake they made? Forgiveness is something we want to receive but many times are not as willing to give. Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Let me set the record straight, we all make mistakes. We all make choices that seem right at the time but in retrospect they were not the correct ones. That being said why have we become a society that has developed a less forgiving attitude? Zero tolerance is not the right way to deal with mistakes.
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After each clinched a championship this season in the NASCAR Grand National Division, Joey Logano (No. 10 Joe Gibbs Driven Chevrolet) and Mike David (No. 2 Bennett Lane Winery Ford) have turned their attention to this year’s NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown.
David, who wrapped up the Grand National West Series title by a 114-point margin in the season finale on Sept. 15, is a series veteran making his fourth appearance in the prestigious post-season event.
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Daytona Beach, FL — Steve Carlson was pretty sure that he was in good shape. After all, he had been tracking the standings for the past several weeks. But it wasn’t until he got the call Wednesday afternoon from George Silbermann, NASCAR’s managing director of racing operations, that it became a reality.
Carlson is the 2007 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series champion.
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Tibbert, William F. Dec. 3, 1920 – Sept. 26, 2007
William F. “Billy” Tibbert, 86, Sarasota died Sept. 26, 2007. No services are planned at this time. National Cremation Society is in charge. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn; a son, William Jr. of Mansfield, Mass.; a daughter, Marcia Peach of Sandwich, Mass.; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
He served in World War II Merchant Marines. He belongs to ACOT (Atlantic Coast Old Timers) and Living Legends of auto racing. He participated in an auto racing career starting in 1941, open wheel midget and stock car racing from Canada, New England to Florida Midwest. Graduated Brockton Business School and attended Bentley School of Accounting.
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Champion stock car racer Tracie Bellerose of Gorham, NH will team up with Graniteville, VT driver John Donahue, sponsor National Guard, and team owner Kendell Roberts at the American-Canadian Tour’s season-ending New England Dodge Dealers 150 at Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday. Bellerose is a former Track Champion at Thunder Road in Barre, VT, and owns a pair of feature victories in weekly competition at Oxford.
“I’m really excited to have the opportunity to race with Kendell and John, and I love Oxford,” Bellerose said. “Kendell wanted to have both of his cars on the track this weekend, and he asked me if I’d be interested in driving. You can guess how long it took me to make a decision!”
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It seems as though Patrick Laperle’s name has taken up a lot of space in this column of late. Truth is, the Frenchman has been on rails since overcoming a severe illness this spring, and just keeps making headlines. In 17 combined starts between the Série ACT Castrol and the ACT Late Model Tour this year, Laperle has taken four victories, four runner-up finishes, three additional top-fives, and has just a single result outside the top-ten: Just days removed from his hospital stay, Laperle took one lap at Autodrome Montmagny in the Série ACT Castrol opener, finishing 23rd.On Sunday, he earned his second Chittenden Milk Bowl win in three years at Thunder Road in Barre, VT, kissing Harvest Hills Dickens, the beauty queen cow, and taking home a tick under $11,000 in the process. It was his third win in four ACTion Super Series races in 2007, giving him more than $23,000 earned in just those events alone.
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Five-time American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racing champion Brian Hoar of Williston, VT is hunting after the victory that has eluded him all season long, as he returns to Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway for the New England Dodge Dealers 150 on Saturday. Hoar rejoined the ACT Late Model Tour in 2007 after spending several seasons racing the NASCAR Busch East Series, and looked like a potential winner at Oxford in April before a failed rear end on his Goss Dodge Charger ended his day.
“Looking back, that was the most legitimate shot we’ve had to win a race all season,” Hoar recounted. “We could have won that race, but it’s been pretty up-and-down since. It would be fun to end the year strong at Oxford.”
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Daytona Beach, FL — After a six-month stretch of competition that has included close to 2,000 laps of intense racing action, the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship will be decided this Saturday night in the Southern Modified Tour 150 at Caraway Speedway.
There are only two Whelen Southern Modified Tour drivers – L.W. Miller and Tim Brown – that have a mathematical chance of winning the championship at the Asheboro, N.C. short track.
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Newburgh, NY (Oct. 2, 2007) Anthony Frissora (Shrewsbury,MA) won for the the fifth time this season in the NE Outdoor Furnace Fall Challange at Twin State Speedway in Claremont, NH. Second place went to Tayla Orleans (Wrentham, MA) who once again came from the back to the front in a matter of laps. Third place was Bobby Alberti (Carver, MA) who managed to stay clear of several cautions for another top five finish. Check back for a full rundown of this weekend events.
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Oxford, ME — For the fifth consecutive year, Oxford Plains Speedway has announced that the richest single-day late model stock car race in the region will coincide with an off weekend for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series.
The 35th annual TD Banknorth 250 Presented by New England Dodge Dealers, which attracted a record number of pre-entries and one of the largest fields of qualifying hopefuls in its proud history last summer, is slated for Sunday, July 20, 2008.
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Waterford, CT — The Speedbowl will play host to the competitors of the HRDA as they present a full program of 100’ “Holeshot” Drag Racing On October 12th & 13th.
A wildly popular segment of the sport on both the West Coast and Long Island , the weekend marks the first time such an event has ever been presented at the shoreline oval. Ssome of the fastest street-legal vehicles in the Northeast are expected.
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Stafford Springs, CT — Whelen Modified Tour driver Mike Stefanik ended a 27-race winless drought Sunday afternoon by taking the lead from Matt Hirschman on lap 92 of the CARQUEST…
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Lexington, NC — The competitors at this year’s North-South Shootout (TM) featuring the East-West Supermodified Shootout(TM) will vie for over $124,000 in prize money. With the support of a several notable companies, the teams will also be eligible for over $11,000 in contingencies.
National companies like the Joie of Seating, PRO-formance Shocks and RH2Way, regional giants like Sherwood Racing Wheels and DMC Auto Exchange along with small businesses like Clean-Up Supply and Shadow’s Candle Company have all joined forces with C&C Racing Promotions to reward the teams competing in the annual North-South Shootout (TM)
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Concord, NC — 2007 is a learning season for 14-year-old Zach Stroupe. In the competitive Super Late Model world in the Southeast, it is hard for any driver or team to make their first-ever season in the high-horsepower racecar series an impressive one.
So far in 2007, however, Zach Stroupe and the BDI Racing team have been doing nothing but impress. Even though the finishes may not show it, the #51 Chevrolet team has been turning heads at tracks from North Carolina to Florida in their rookie season with strong showings in some of the toughest SLM series in the South.
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Sixteen points separate point leader Ben Seitz, seeking an unprecedented fourth straight drivers title, and Joey Payne Jr. as the Northeastern Midget Association returns to Seekonk Speedway Oct. 6-7 for the D.Anthony Venditti Memorial.
“It’s all about pressure,” says Seitz, a winner earlier this year at Seekonk. “It’s all about how good you do in the garage and on the track.” NEMA’s best get around the quarter mile in the low 11 seconds bracket.
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Huntington, NY — When Donny Lia and the Bob Garbarino-owned #4 Mystic Missile team joined forces at the beginning of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season, everyone involved with the…
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Stafford, CT — Woody Pitkat sets high standards for himself in his racing career and the young racer will not let anything get in his way of accomplishing every single…
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Stafford Springs, CT — Following post race technical inspection from the September 28-29 CARQUEST Fall Final feature events at Stafford Motor Speedway, the following changes have been made to the…
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Speedbowl announcer Matt Buckler continues on the mind after a six-day stay at Manchester (CT) Memorial Hospital. The motorsports writer for the Journal Inquirer of Manchester, Buckler suffered complications of…
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