The holiday spirit, complete with some bargains for shoppers, will be in full force at Waterford Speedbowl’s annual Christmas Party Thursday night, Dec. 20 at the Groton Motor Inn & Suits in Groton, CT.
“Party goers” are asked to bring a new toy that will be donated to the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. Over the past half dozen years the Speedbowl family has been very generous in support of the less fortunate in the area. A toy automatically enters the donor into a drawing for valuable prizes.
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SK-Modified champion Rob Janovic Jr. will share center stage with four other champions at the 2007 Waterford Speedbowl Awards Banquet Saturday night, Jan. 12 at the Groton Inn & Suites in Groton, CT.
Fellow champions Bruce Thomas Jr. (Late Models), Dwayne Dorr (Sportsman), Ken Cassidy Jr. (Mini Stock) and Michael Gervais Jr. (Saturday Night Legends) will also be honored as the Speedbowl puts the cap on the ’07 season.
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AUTO PARTS SWAP’n SELL
New England’s Largest All Automotive Swap Meet!
350 Vendor Spaces – HEATED – INDOORS!
Date: Saturday & Sunday, January 19-20, 2008 – 8:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Eastern States Exposition Complex, 1305 Memorial Avenue, West Springfield, MA 01089
Admission: $10.00 – 12 & under Free (ticket good for one day only)
Contact: 860-871-6376
VENDOR INFORMATION:
Autoparts Swap ‘N Sell is a traditional winter automotive swap meet. It was created by an automotive enthusiast for automotive car enthusiasts. This annual event is a tradition that attracts thousands on a yearly basis. Considered by many as the largest indoor event of its type with 350 vendor spaces. Autoparts Swap ‘N Sell is for “hardcore automotive vendors”. Please – no household toys or garage sale junk items. Everything automotive is welcome and remember, this event is held in “extreme weather”, heated indoors.
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I am not able to be here this week due to an injury, Lynda, my wife has stepped in to share. Enjoy her thoughts. Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
It’s that time of year again. The time for mistletoe and holly along with the sound of bells ringing, carols and everyone bustling around while feeling jolly. Feeling jolly? Truthfully, if we really admit it deep down we feel this sense of dread about the Christmas season. Shopping to do but how much do we have to spend, guests coming over but how will we get ready for them and is there room in the inn?
Everywhere we look the days are being counted down for us and we feel like we are in a race. Many of us are speeding down the road, cutting each other off to get our errands done, stealing the space at the mall from the guy coming down the lane across from us and grumbling to the shop clerks that we can’t wait for it all to be over.
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Thompson, CT — The office at the Thompson International Speedway once again adopted its winter schedule beginning Monday, December 3, 2007. The office will be open four days a week between the hours of 9 AM and 12 Noon. The days of operation will be Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday each week. The office will be closed on Tuesdays.
Track officials also want to announce that the new competition rules for the 2008 season are available. Competitors may find them on the track’s web site or may call the track office to have a copy mailed. The web site may be found at: www.thompsonspeedway.com.
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Champions Carlson, Logano and Lia will also participate
Lake Placid, NY — Three 2007 NASCAR Champions have joined the list of drivers participating in the 3rd Annual Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge, presented by Whelen Engineering, January 3-5 at the Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Craftsman Truck Series Champion Ron Hornaday, NASCAR Whelen All-American Series National Champion Steve Carlson, and NASCAR Grand National Busch East Series Champion Joey Logano have joined NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Champion Donny Lia, NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour Champion L.W. Miller, Nextel Cup driver and three-race Bodine Challenge winner Boris Said, and NHRA driver and previous Bobsled Challenge competitor Morgan Lucas, in the field of racecar drivers piloting bobsleds down the icy chute.
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Stafford Springs, CT — Stafford Motor Speedway 2008 Season Tickets are available and on sale now, but time is running out to take advantage of the track’s early bird discounts…
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Rules For Only PASS South… Not PASS North Or Other PASS Series
After much thought and discussion, PASS President Tom Mayberry announced today that starting in 2008 there will be a new qualifying procedure for all PASS South Super Late Model events. This announcement will not effect the PASS North Super Late Models or any other PASS-sanctioned event.
“In reviewing our qualifying procedures, we felt this decision to amend the rules was best in order to sustain the PASS South’s continued rise and popularity, not only with the drivers, but with the fans as well,” said PASS President Tom Mayberry.
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We recently surveyed a group of American-Canadian Tour (ACT) and Thunder Road fans, officials, and members of the local and regional media, asking their collective opinion on the performances turned in by the drivers they watched race every week in 2007. Out of their selections of the ten best across the ACT Late Model Tour, Série ACT Castrol, and Thunder Road’s Late Model, NAPA Tiger Sportsman, Allen Lumber Street Stock, and Power Shift Online Junkyard Warrior divisions, we have compiled a list of the “Top 25 ACT Drivers of 2007.”
Beginning next week, this column will recognize five drivers each week from the list, ranked in order, beginning with positions 25 through 21. The idea sprang from a list originally created in 2003 by this writer as a “solo project” that has since continued each winter. For the first time last year, five extra people were called upon to help rank the drivers, and the survey was, by all accounts, quite successful.
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Atlantic City, NJ — 600Scene.com is pleased to announce the Second Annual 600cc Roundtable Discussion to be held at Motorsports 2008 presented by VP Racing Fuels in Atlantic City, N.J., on Sat., Jan. 19. The discussion will be held from 1:30-3:00 p.m. at the Atlantic City Convention Center.
The discussion will be on the current state of the class and an outline of the new universal rules package. This year’s panel will include industry manufacturers Mike Dicely (Hyper Racing), Terry Schaeffer (RTS Chassis), Brett Schoenly (SB3 RaceCars) and a representative from Stallard Chassis. Engine Builder Jim Dunckley (Speep Equipment Corp.) and industry representative Kevin Steele (600Scene.com) will also be on the panel.
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Atlantic City, NJ — Two of the most colorful and respected figures in the sport will be part of the huge Motorsports 2008 Race Car Show presented by VP Racing Fuels scheduled for Atlantic City’s Convention Center January 18th through January 20th.
NASCAR Nextel Cup veterans Kenny Schrader and Kenny Wallace will make up the “Kenny and Kenny Show” when they are the featured speakers in a special pre-show industry presentation at 10:45 am on Friday, January 18th. Exhibitors, promoters and fans (holding a Friday ticket or Exhibitor pass) may enter the A-Hall only for this very special presentation at 10 am.
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Newburgh, NY — The ALNRS releases their tentative 2008 schedule. Series Director Michael A. Vasquez, Sr. stated the 2008 schedule brings the series back to the best short tracks in the New England region. The series will once again open their season at the Waterford Speedbowl in Waterford, CT. on April 12. If it is anything like last year the ALNRS is sure to start the season off with a bang.
From there the series will head to Lee USA Speedway for their first of four stops at the 3/8 mile speedway where they will be part of the Speedways season opener. The series then heads to the fastest high banked quarter mile in the Northeast at the Monadnock Speedway. This will be the first of five stops at the speedway. The ALNRS will also be a part of Monadnocks season finale on Sept. 20.
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Atlantic City, NJ — Three-time NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday will be appearing at the Motorsports 2008 Race Car Show presented by VP Racing Fuels at the Atlantic City, NJ Convention Center.
Hornaday, who nosed out Mike Skinner by just 54 points in the final event of the season at Homestead-Miami Speedway, will be visiting with fans and signing autographs twice during the three day show that runs from Friday, January 18th through Sunday, January 20th.
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The “Gambler’s Classic” Indoor Auto Race presented by Pepsi will be even more exciting in 2008, thanks to Behrent’s Performance Warehouse.
Complimenting an already-thrilling program on the concrete floor of Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, Florida, N.Y.-based Behrent’s Performance Warehouse will sponsor a Dash-for-Cash event for the headline M&R Products Three Quarter Midgets/600cc Micro-Sprints.
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The Southern New York Racing Association announces that it donated over $5000 last month to The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. This money will allow 2 Children to attend camp in 2008 and provide a Nurse and Camp Counselor for them.
The money was raised from the Southern New York Racing Association’s reunion held at The O’Neil Center in Danbury last July. The money was donated in memory of the Drivers and Stock Car Crew Teams that raced at The Danbury Fair Racearena from the 1950s to 1981.
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Schedule includes more races and five new venues
In just its third year of existence, the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Models look to embark on its most ambitious season yet in 2008. The schedule will be made up of a mix of venues including familiar favorites and new, challenging tracks to the already impressive list of speedways.
For the first time in PASS South Series history, the schedule increases from eight races to 14 races. The season will once again begin at the Hickory Motor Speedway (NC) with the third running of the Easter Bunny 150 on March 22nd . The series will make a return trip to Hickory for the Over The Mountain 150 on September 27th . Greenville-Pickens Speedway (SC) and Orange County Speedway (NC) join Hickory in hosting two events each in 2008. Both the Lanier National Speedway (GA) and South Boston Speedway (VA) return once again to host major race weekends.
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Winston-Salem, NC — NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour champion L.W. Miller was crowned the 2007 champion on Sunday night at the Benton Convention Center in downtown Winston-Salem.
Miller captured the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship by a mere 25 points over Tim Brown, while Burt Myers was third in the final 2007 standings.
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The Northeastern Midget Association will celebrate its 56th season with at least one date at three of the club’s charter members. The 16-race 2008 schedule, a possible 18 dates, kicks off on April 5-6 at Thompson Speedway’s Icebreaker.
Seekonk Speedway and Waterford Speedbowl, each set for four races in 2008, hosted the first two events in NEMA history in 1953. Stafford, which welcomes NEMA back for its open cockpit show in July, was also on the ’53 schedule.
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Salisbury, MA — While things have been progressing behind the scenes for the 2nd Annual SpeedwayEXPO, some of its team members have been very much in the limelight lately. Dick Berggren recently was honored with the Bobby Isaac Memorial Award and SpeedwayEXPO itself was recognized by Racing Against Cancer™ for its involvement with the program in 2007.
On October 12, Berggren received the Bobby Isaac Award during pre-race ceremonies for the Busch Series race at Lowe’s. The award is presented annually by Lowe’s Motor Speedway to an individual in recognition of outstanding contribution to short-track racing.
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Salisbury, MA — SpeedwayEXPO is excited to announce a great new promotion just in time for the holiday season. New England’s premier racing exposition is taking some of the stress out of holiday shopping by offering the perfect stocking-stuffer for racers: A $10 advance discount ticket is now available for the February 29-March 2, 2008, racing extravaganza.
Where else can you get this much racing excitement for only $10? Make this the perfect gift for the racer or race fan on your shopping list. Or surprise the whole family with tickets to this great event.
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Canaan, NH — The 2008 True Value Modified Racing Series Schedule was announced at the the 2008 Awards Banquet by series President Jack Bateman.
Seventeen races are on tap for the fastest growing touring series in the Northeast. The season is scheduled to begin on April 12th at Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, NH. and end at the traditional Oktoberfest at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, N.H. on October 19th.
The series will make its inaugural visit to Thunder Road Speedbowl in Barre, Vt on May 25th. It marks the first modified race at the historic ¼ mile track in over 40 years.
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Chicopee, MA — Kirk Alexander of Swanzey, N.H. was honored Saturday night as the 2007 True Value Modified Racing Series Champion during the annual Awards Banquet at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Chicopee, Mass. It was the third series championship for Alexander who is also the all times series winner.
“I am very lucky to have a great team behind me”, said Alexander. “This championship is for my brother Tim, more than it is for myself.”
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Former Norwood Arena track official Dusty Young is home after a scary stay in the hospital. He had fallen and hit his head at the doctor’s office and again at the hospital. Since he was sent home the day before Thanksgiving, he is doing much better. However, he is still battling cancer, according to his son Glen.
Area racing fans will remember that “Fireball” Glen Young is a veteran of racing at Seekonk Speedway. He started in the Street Stocks in 1991 and would advance through the ranks to compete in the Late Models and Pro Stocks as well.
All of us at YankeeRacer.com send our best wishes to Dusty Young and his family.
Glen Young can also send message to Dusty via his email address, Fireball_099@yahoo.com, if you prefer that route.
Use the following address to send cards:
Dusty Young
15 Park Street, Apt 111
Mansfield, MA 02048