In the 50’s and 60’s Bill Slater and the V8 Modified burned up the paved tracks all over the northeast. (Credit: Howie Hodge/ Mark Small photo.)
“Breakfast with Bill – Conversations with the Connecticut Valley Rocket “Wild Bill Slater” by Walt Scadden is now available.
Jason Woodward hopes to defend his Tiger Sportsman Championship at Thunder Road in 2015. (Credit: Leif Tillotsen photo.)
The Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen will take to the high banks of Thunder Road for the 34th consecutive year in 2015. Defending Champion Jason Woodard leads a mix of veterans and rising stars alike will vie for the championship in the famed division. Continue reading
Rowan Pennink will be looking for a win in Sunday’s NAPA Spring Sizzler at the Stafford Motor Speedway. (Credit: NASCAR Home Track photo.)
For Rowan Pennink and the #93 Van Wickle NAPA Auto Supply team, the 44th Annual edition of the NAPA Spring Sizzler at Stafford Speedway will see the team chase the checkered flag with altered plans. A practice crash in the season opening race at Thompson Motorsports Park eliminated their primary car and left Pennink and team scrambling to get their backup car together. Without practice, Pennink was still able to qualify 18th out of 35 cars and came home with a respectable 13th place finish. While Pennink is bringing the same car to Stafford for the Sizzler, he is confident that he can have a good run.
Belchertown’s Barry Gray could be a major threat to win this Saturday night’s Granite State Pro Stock feature event at the Claremont Speedway in NH. (Credit: Monadnock Speedway photo.)
The Granite State Pro Stock Series returns to the place where it all began; Claremont Speedway, April 24.The series, now in the fourth year of existence, held the inaugural event at Claremont Speedway (formerly Twin State Speedway) in August of 2011 which saw Chris Wilk of Mendon, VT fend off a late-race charge from Donnie Lashua to pick up the victory.
A flat tire at Bristol Motor Speedway dealt Eddie MacDonald a set back. But, he and his crew never gave up and he fought his back up to sixth at the checkered flag. (Credit: Eddie MacDonald photo)
Eddie MacDonald powered the Grimm Construction/Multiple Sclerosis Society Chevrolet to a hard earned sixth place finish in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Pittlite 125 at Bristol Motor Speedway as a companion race with the Sprint Cup Series. The Rowley, Mass. veteran started his 183rd race in the series and took the green flag as the defending champion of last year’s event. A flat tire on lap 49 appeared to quash any hopes of repeating the win but Eddie Mac and the crew never gave up and rallied from the flat and 24th restarting position to make his patented charge to the front.
64-year old Mike Rowe of Turner, ME (center lower) ended up the winner in the PASS Super Late Model portion of the PASS/ACT doubleheader at the Oxford Plains Speedway in Maine! (Credit: PASS/Oxford Plains photo.)
Mike Rowe of Turner, Maine raced to his 151st Oxford Plains Speedway main event win, earning a trip to victory lane in his maiden voyage aboard Peter Petit’s lucky number 7 in AIM Recycling Pro All Stars Series Super Late Model competition at Oxford Plains Speedway on Sunday afternoon, while Joey ‘Pole’ Polewarczyk prevailed in the co-headlining ACT Late Model Tour 150-lapper.
Rowe, a 64-year-old veteran, multi-time track champion and all-around legend at the speedway where he was a track titlist a full four decades ago, waged a race-long battle with reigning series champion DJ Shaw of Conway, New Hampshire for supremacy in a thrilling 150-lapper for the ultra-quick AIM Super Late Models. Continue reading
Canton’s Richard Savary has done well racing his Modified car at the Monadnock Speedway and looks for another successful run at that track on Saturday night, May 2. Credit: Matt Wiernasz photo.)
In less than two weeks, Monadnock Speedway will be back in action hosting the traditional Bond Auto Parts Spring Dash 100. The special event season opener was delayed by two weeks due to the extended winter and mud season in the Northeast. The event will feature the first race of the season for Valenti Modified Racing Series as they compete in 100 laps around the 1/4 mile high banked track.
Millis’ Tommy Barrett, Jr. is among the top Modified shoes that are committed to the Tri-Track Modified Series Opens at Lee USA, Monadnock and Seekonk Speedways with New London-Waterford Speedway also knocking on the door. (Credit: Crystal Snape photo.)
By Lou Modestino
When the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour pulls into Stafford next weekend, it’s going to be an opportunity for the NWMT to get some redemption for the crash fest and delays in the Thompson Speedway’s Icebreaker last weekend. It was pretty much the same story for the Thompson’s Sunoco Modifieds(aka Sk Modifieds). When tracks charge $40 for adult admission prices for the NASCAR Modified Tour, the fans deserve better than a crash fest and big delays. Continue reading
Ray Evernham (right) has done it all in motorsports. He’s pictured here with his former Sprint Cap driver Jeff Gordon (left). (Credit: NBC Sports photo)
By Lou Modestino
NBC Sports welcomed three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion crew chief Ray Evernham and seasoned broadcaster Ralph Sheheen to its growing lineup of motor sports experts. Evernham and Sheheen will handle coverage of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour Events on NBCSN. The announcement was made by Jeff Behnke, Vice President of NASCAR Production for NBC Sports and NBCSN. Continue reading
Missing from the Modified dirt track action, Jimmy Ryan of Vermont will be racing at the Devil’s Bowl Speedway, on both the dirt and paved tracks, in 2015 starting in May. (Credit: Devil’s Bowl Speedway photo.)
Jimmy Ryan is coming home to Devil’s Bowl Speedway. One of Vermont’s most popular open-wheel Modified stock car drivers for many years, “Flyin’ Ryan” plans to end his hiatus from driving in 2015. He has recently taken delivery of a Teo Pro Car chassis, a brand new Chevrolet “602” crate engine, and has reclaimed his familiar car number 60 with the registration office.