ACT announces three races in southern New England in 2016.
The American Canadian Tour (ACT), in collaboration with the Waterford Speedbowl, Seekonk Speedway, and Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park (TSMP) has scheduled an ambitious schedule of ACT Championship events for the 2016 stock car racing season. The Triple-Header will match up the best of the three tracks weekly racers with the best of the American Canadian Tour.
Plainville, Connecticut’s Ted Christopher, a past indoor race winner, is among many top drivers entered in the Allentown, PA indoor TQ races on Saturday, Jan. 2. (Credit: NASCAR Home Track photo.)
The first Indoor Auto Race being held in Allentown, PA in 50 years has produced a great deal of excitement among racers and fans. Tickets are selling rapidly for the Saturday, January 2nd event being held for the first time inside the PPL Center. An impressive list of entries for the headline TQ Midget and Slingshot division for the Ironton Telephone sponsored event were filled months ago.
Crewchief and NASCAR Hall of Fame member Bud Moore (left) with Ricky Rudd Credit: NASCAR photo.)
Described as “an old country mechanic” who loved to make ‘em run fast, Bud Moore had a successful career as a winning NASCAR car owner and crew chief earning a spot in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The 90-year-old decorated veteran of World War II will be part of the Pioneer Pole Buildings Motorsports Fueled by Sunoco Distributed By Insinger Performance Race Car & Trade Show. The 31st edition of the show is set for Friday, January 22nd thru Sunday, January 24th at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA. Continue reading
Race night and other changes are set for 201 at the Devil’s Bowl Speedways.
Devil’s Bowl Speedway’s landmark 50th season will be one to remember in 2016. Officials have overhauled the stock car racing schedule for the historic Rutland
County facility, and the calendar will be packed with exciting, family-oriented, NASCAR-sanctioned events on both of Devil’s Bowl’s race tracks – a fast half-mile paved oval and a tight three-tenths-mile clay oval – situated on Route 22A in West Haven, Vt. Continue reading
The Northeast Motorsports Expo show, held at the Civic Center in Augusta, ME, highlights all of the motorsports venues and tours in northern New England. The Granite State Pro Stock Series will be a part of the 28th annual Northeast Motorsports Expo, at the Augusta Civic Center, in Augusta, ME, on January 8-10.
The 2016 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tours are out.
The very popular NASCAR Modified Tour 2016 schedules are released by NASCAR
What was old has become new again as the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour 2016 schedules have been revealed.
Stoughton’s Joe Brady (left) is pictured here with driver Ted Christopher (right) after a win at the Stafford Motor Speedway. (Credit: Stafford Speedway photo.)
By Lou Modestino
Modified car owner, Joe Brady of Stoughton, was run over and killed in a recent tragic auto accident on Park St. in his hometown, across the street from his Brady Enterprises Christmas Tree lot. The driver of the vehicle was charged with DUI. Brady was buried in a private ceremony. His wife Linda plans to have a memorial service for all his friends sometime in the near future. Brady was also a member of the NEAR Hall of Fame having been inducted a few years ago. This writer had the pleasure of presenting him at that ceremony. A long time fixture on the NASCAR Modified scene, Joe and his driver Ted Christopher made several championship appearances at the World Series of Racing at the mid-February event held at the New Smyrna Speedway in the Daytona Beach area of Florida. Continue reading
The Seekonk Speedway announces its 2016 schedule.
Seekonk Speedway is excited to announce its 2016 schedule. The schedule will feature 21 NASCAR Whelen All American Series events beginning with Opening Day on May1st. NWAAS events will follow on every Saturday through September 24 except for July 2nd for the mid season break. Seekonk NWAAS divisions Pro Stocks, Late Models, Street Stocks and Sport Trucks will all be battling their way to get into Everett’s Auto Parts Victory lane in 2016.
Tri-Track Series continues to pick up momentum for 2016.
The Tri Track Open Modified Series (TTOMS) announced two more dates for their 2016 schedule on Friday morning, with a double return to the New London-Waterford Speedbowl in Connecticut on tap for the organization.
Drivers that race on the paved and dirt tracks at the Devil’s Bowl Speedway will race under the NASCAR banner.
Devil’s Bowl Speedway will break new ground in its upcoming 50th season of stock car racing in 2016. For the first time ever, the Vermont track will host weekly NASCAR-sanctioned events on both its half-mile asphalt oval and its three-tenths-mile dirt track, operating both surfaces as part of the national NASCAR Whelen All-American Series. Continue reading