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Rowley’s Eddie MacDonald will be looking for his first 2015 win at New Smyrna Speedway next month

Eddie MacDonald of Rowley hopes to start the 2015 racing season with a win at the New Smyrna Speedway's ACT Tour events in mid-February. (Credit: NASCAR Home Tracks photo)

Eddie MacDonald of Rowley hopes to start the 2015 racing season with a win at the New Smyrna Speedway’s ACT Tour events in mid-February. (Credit: NASCAR Home Tracks photo)

By Lou Modestino

Many of the long time race chasers in the Northeast have talked about the big half-mile at New Smyrna Speedway (NSS) in Florida being just like an extra-large Lee USA Speedway in Lee, NH. If that is an accurate assumption, then one former Rookie-of-the-Year and two veterans from the American Canadian Tour (ACT) will have an edge going into the February trip to Florida at the “World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing”. The American Racer Challenge Cup will post $35,000 for teams from throughout the Northeast and Eastern Canada on Monday and Tuesday, February 16 and 17, 2015 in a unique twin 100 lap event over the two days. Continue reading →

Sk Modified and Late Champion Keith Rocco to race in the ACT Challenge at New Smyrna Speedway during Feb SpeedWeeks

Meriden, CT driver Keith Rocco is at home driving both Modified and Late Model race cars and heads to the New Smyrna Speedway to compete in the ACT American Race Challenge. (Credit: NASCAR Home Tracks photo)

Meriden, CT driver Keith Rocco is at home driving both Modified and Late Model race cars and heads to the New Smyrna Speedway to compete in the ACT American Race Challenge in mid-Feb. (Credit: NASCAR Home Tracks photo)

Lou Modestino

Keith Rocco from Meriden, CT is a 2010 NASCAR National Champion, has three (3) NASCAR SK Modified championships at the Waterford Speedbowl, two (2) ACT type Late Model Championships at the Speedbowl, and too numerous feature event wins in the heart of Modified country, Connecticut, to list. His next challenge is to head to the New Smyrna World Series of Asphalt Racing and enter the American Canadian Tour (ACT) American Racer Challenge Series on Monday and Tuesday, February 16-17, 2015. Continue reading →