2015-12-23

ACT Releases 13-Event 2016 Schedule

ACT Releases 13-Event 2016 Schedule

 

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<<ATTACHED PHOTO (VLF_7236.jpg): The ACT Tour will visit 12 different tracks in 2016, including a return trip to Oxford Plains Speedway (pictured) on April 17. (Eric LaFleche/Victory Lane Radio photo)>>

 

Waterbury, VT – The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) has announced the release of the 2016 ACT Late Model Tour schedule. The 13-event series will see the Tour visit 12 different tracks in six U.S. states and the province of Quebec as they pursue the $10,000-to-win ACT Championship.

 

The season will once again kick off with the New Hampshire Governor's Cup 150 at Lee USA Speedway on Sunday, April 10 and crown the 2016 champion at Connecticut's Thompson Speedway on Saturday, October 15. Other traditional early-season events which have returned include the 18th Merchants Bank 150 at Barre, VT's Thunder Road on May 1, the Spring Green 116 at Plattsburgh, NY's Airborne Park Speedway on May 14, and a 100-lap event at Fair Haven, VT's Devil's Bowl Speedway on June 4.

 

The 2016 schedule will again feature three ACT/Pro All Stars Series (PASS) doubleheaders. The two series open the Oxford Plains Speedway racing season on Sunday, April 17. ACT and PASS then travel to Quebec's Autodrome Montmagny on Saturday, July 23.The 150-lap event is the ACT U.S. Tour's first visit to the speedway since 1999 and is a combination event with Série ACT.

 

The third ACT/PASS doubleheader is set for Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18 at Scarborough, ME's Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. The ACT portion will mark the return of the Fall Foliage 200 to Beech Ridge, which previously hosted the event from 1987 to 1989. Beech Ridge will be the only track to host two ACT Tour events in 2016, with the Fall Foliage 200 being held in addition to their traditional early-August date.

 

Autodrome Montmagny is one of three tracks the ACT Tour will return to in 2016 after a long hiatus. The Tour visits Connecticut's New London-Waterford Speedbowl on May 21 and Massachusetts' Seekonk Speedway on July 16for the first times since 2010 and 2007, respectively, as part of the Southern New England Tripleheader. The three-race, three-track series concludes in the ACT season finale at Thompson as part of the World Series of Speedway Racing. Annual summer visits to N. Woodstock, NH's White Mountain Motorsports Park and Groveton, NH's Speedway 51 round out the schedule.

 

For more information contact the ACT offices at 802.244.6963, media@acttour.com, or visit www.acttour.com.

 

2016 ACT Late Model Tour Schedule

#             DATE                     DAY                       TRACK                                                   EVENT

1              Apr 9-10               Sat-Sun                                Lee USA Speedway                         NH Governor's Cup 150

2              Apr 17                   Sun                        Oxford Plains Speedway                              Oxford 100/PASS

3              Apr 30-May 1     Sat-Sun                                Thunder Road                                   Merchants Bank 150      

4              May 14                 Sat                          Airborne Park Speedway              Spring Green 116

5              May 21                 Sat                          NLW Speedbowl                              NLW Tripleheader 100

6              Jun 04                   Sat                          Devil's Bowl Speedway                Devil's Bowl 100

7              Jun 18                   Sat                          White Mountain                               WMMP 150

8              Jul 16                     Sat                          Seekonk Speedway                        Seekonk Tripleheader 150

9              Jul 23                     Sat                          Autodrome Montmagny              Montmagny 150/PASS

10           Aug 06                  Sat                          Beech Ridge Motor Speedway   Coastal 100        

11           Aug 20                  Sat                          Speedway 51                                     Lil Joey Generation Next 151

12           Sep 17-18            Sat-Sun                                Beech Ridge Motor Speedway   Fall Foliage 200/PASS

13           Oct 15                   Sat                          Thompson Speedway                    World Series Tripleheader 75     

 

Schedule Subject to Change

 

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Winter Meltdown Entry Forms, 2016 PASS Registrations Now Available Online



Winter Meltdown Entry Forms, 2016 PASS Registrations Now Available Online

 

NAPLES, ME (December 23) – Pro All Stars Series (PASS) officials announced today that entry forms for the upcoming Winter Meltdown at Greenville-Pickens Speedway are now available online at ProAllStarsSeries.com.  The PASS Winter Meltdown will go green on Saturday afternoon, February 6 at 2 PM and will serve as the first race of 2016 for the PASS South Super Late Models and the PASS National Championship Series.  Being on Super Bowl weekend, the PASS Winter Meltdown will be the first major points event of 2016 and will also feature a 100 lap event for the South East Limited Late Models (Non-Winners) a 75 lapper for the Southeast Supertrucks, and a 40 lap event for the Mini Stocks.

PASS officials also announced that 2016 licenses are now available online at ProAllStarsSeries.com for the PASS division.  Licenses for the new Southern Modified Racing Series Presented By PASS, which will feature the popular Tour-type Modifieds, and the Northeast's PASS Modified division, will be posted in the near future.  Drivers purchasing licenses for the 2016 season will receive bonus points for each race they are pre-registered for and will also save money towards any events that they enter early.

"We know a lot of teams are currently making plans for next year and we wanted to make these forms available for them now," said PASS President Tom Mayberry.  "In 2016 we will get an early start at Greenville-Pickens with the PASS Winter Meltdown.  All of our competitors and fans are excited about next year and we can't wait to get it underway in February.  It will be here before you know it, that's for sure."

The Pro All Stars Series is recognized as North America's premier sanctioning body for asphalt Super Late Models and boasts such marquee events as the Easter Bunny 150 at Hickory Motor Speedway and the legendary Oxford 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway.  For media or marketing questions, please contact Alan Dietz at 704-231-2039 or alandietzpass@live.com.  Please visit ProAllStarsSeries.com for more information and don't forget to "Like" the Pro All Stars Series on Facebook or follow us on Twitter at @PASSSLM14 to keep up with breaking news as it happens.

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2015-12-22

ACT Announces Southern New England Tripleheader

ACT Announces Southern New England Tripleheader

 

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<<ATTACHED PHOTO (DSC09063.JPG): The ACT Tour visit New London-Waterford Speedbowl, Seekonk Speedway,  Thompson Speedway in 2016 as part of the Southern New England Tripleheader. (Heather Aube photo)>>

 

Waterbury, VT – The American-Canadian Tour (ACT), in collaboration with the New London-Waterford Speedbowl, Seekonk Speedway, and Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, has announced the creation of the Southern New England Tripleheader for the 2016 stock car racing season. The three-event series will match up the best of the three track's weekly racers with the stars of the ACT Late Model Tour.

 

The Tripleheader will be held on three unique race tracks – the 1/3-mile New London-Waterford Speedbowl, Seekonk Speedway's ¼-mile bullring, and the 5/8-mile high banks of Thompson Speedway. The series includes a special $7,500 point fund for local weekly teams which participate in all three events. The events will also award championship points for ACT competitors as part of their $30,000 Championship point fund, which includes $10,000 for the 2016 ACT Champion.

 

"We had great support from local race teams for the final event at Thompson during the World Series last fall," ACT President Tom Curley said. "The three Southern New England tracks – New London-Waterford, Seekonk, and Thompson – have become an important addition to our ACT weekly business model over the past decade. This program of three races, tied together with an independent point fund, should be lots of fun to follow for southern New England Late Model fans and teams throughout the 2016 season."

 

The ACT Late Model Tour previously raced at both Seekonk and New London-Waterford on an annual basis in the mid-to-late 2000s. Thompson hosted the Tour for the first time in 2015, which resulted in an emotional win for eight-time ACT Champion Brian Hoar. Thirty-five teams entered the inaugural event, of which 14 were local Thompson teams. The event's success brought the promoters from the three ACT affiliate tracks together to create the Southern New England Tripleheader. All three tracks follow ACT rules in their weekly Late Model divisions.

 

"We are proud to showcase our Late Model competitors in ACT's Southern Tripleheader," Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park General Manager Josh Vanada said. "This is a great cooperative effort by all three tracks spearheaded by ACT. We are excited to see the impact that this will have on our competition level and on our ACT event at the World Series."

 

The opener of the Southern New England Tripleheader will be a 100-lap event on Saturday, May 21 at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl. The last ACT event at New London-Waterford was held in October 2010 and was won by Joey Polewarczyk, Jr.; the #97NH team also won the last ACT event at Seekonk Speedway in August 2007. Seekonk's 150-lap Tripleheader event will take place on Saturday, July 16. The final event, a 75-lap contest, will take the green on Saturday, October 16 as part of Thompson's annual World Series of Speedway Racing and will also be the ACT season finale.

 

For more information contact the ACT offices at 802.244.6963, media@acttour.com, or visit www.acttour.com, www.speedbowlct.com,www.seekonkspeedway.com, or www.thompsonspeedway.com.

 

2016 ACT Southern New England Tripleheader

 

DATE                     DAY       TRACK                                                                   EVENT                                  

May 21                 Sat          New London-Waterford Speedbowl       NLW Tripleheader 100

Jul 16                     Sat          Seekonk Speedway                                        Seekonk Tripleheader 150

Oct 16                   Sat          Thompson Speedway                                    World Series Tripleheader 75

 

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2015-12-18

Devil’s Bowl Speedway Announces Exciting Changes for 50th Season Schedule in 2016

ATTACHED PHOTOS (credit MemorEvents): Devil's Bowl Speedway has released its 2016 stock car schedule, which includes 14 asphalt events and 13 dirt events.
 
 
Devil's Bowl Speedway Announces Exciting Changes for 50th Season Schedule in 2016

Asphalt racing moves to Saturday nights; Dirt Track schedule expands to 13 events

 

For Immediate Release                                                                                                                                                                                 DBS-121815-1

 

WEST HAVEN, Vt. – 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.

The asphalt will make a big change as it moves to a new Saturday night slot at 6:00 p.m.beginning on May 21; the track had previously operated on Fridays.  The Bond Auto Parts Modified division will again headline the program in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series presented by Yandow Sales & Service and John Deere, along with Central Vermont Motorcycles Late Models, Brileya's Chrysler-Jeep Renegades, and Portland Glass Mini Stocks.

Highlight events will include the return of the American-Canadian Tour Late Models for the People's United Bank 100 on June 4, the Coca-Cola Firecracker Spectacular on July 2, the fifth annual C.J. Richards Memorial 67 Modified event on August 6, and the Vermont 200 Championship Weekend on September 10-11.

The Dirt Track at Devil's Bowl will also see big changes in its third season as the schedule sees a major expansion to 13 events primarily on Sunday evenings at 6:00 p.m.  The Dirt Track is scheduled to open on Sunday, May 22 and will also compete under NASCAR Whelen All-American Series sanction with the Sportsman Modified class as the headline division.  Support classes will include the Renegade and Mini Stock divisions and appearances by other divisions including the Sprint Cars of New England tour.

Dates for major special events on The Dirt Track will be announced soon, including The Stove Depot "King of the Clay" Sportsman 100 and the second annual Green Mountain Sprint Car Nationals.  The asphalt and dirt tracks will run on back-to-back nights on eight different weekends during the season.

"This schedule is something that we're really proud of, and I personally can't wait for the 50th season of racing at Devil's Bowl," promoter Mike Bruno said.  "There are still many more announcements that we'll be making during the winter that will only add to the excitement."

Devil's Bowl Speedway will honor its champions and top drivers from the 2015 season at the Holiday Inn Rutland-Killington in Rutland, Vt. on Saturday, January 30, 2016.  For tickets, contact Justin St. Louis at (802) 355-3282 or email devilsbowlspeedway@gmail.com.

Devil's Bowl Speedway is located on Route 22A in West Haven, Vt., four miles north of Exit 2 on U.S. Route 4.  For more information, visit www.DevilsBowlSpeedwayVT.com or call (802) 265-3112.  Devil's Bowl Speedway is on Facebook at facebook.com/DevilsBowlSpeedway and on Twitter and Instagram at @DevilsBowlSpeed; follow the action using the #DevilsBowl hashtag.

 

 

 

 

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Devil's Bowl Speedway – West Haven, Vt.

2016 Schedule of Events

 

ASPHALT TRACK (schedule subject to change)

No.        Day       Date                     Time                                    Notes                                                                                                   

1.            Sat.         May 21                 6:00 p.m.                             50th Season Opener

2.            Sat.         May 28                 6:00 p.m.

3.            Sat.         June 4                   6:00 p.m.                             ACT Late Model Tour People's United Bank 100

--             Sat.        June 11                                Off

4.            Sat.         June 18                                6:00 p.m.

5.            Sat.         June 25                                6:00 p.m.

6.            Sat.         July 2                    6:00 p.m.                             Coca-Cola Firecracker Spectacular

7.            Sat.         July 9                    6:00 p.m.                             Mid-Season Championships

--             Sat.        July 16                  Off

8.            Sat.         July 23                 6:00 p.m.

9.            Sat.         July 30                 6:00 p.m.

10.          Sat.         Aug. 6                   6:00 p.m.                             5th Annual C.J. Richards Memorial Modified 67

11.          Sat.         Aug. 13                 6:00 p.m.

12.          Sat.         Aug. 20                 6:00 p.m.

13.          Sat.         Aug. 27                 6:00 p.m.                             Sugar & Spice Restaurant "Double Stack" Night

--             Sat.        Sept. 3                  Off

14.          Sat.         Sept. 10                1:30 p.m.                             Vermont 200 Championship Weekend

                Sun.       Sept. 11                1:30 p.m.                             Vermont 200 Championship Weekend

 

 

DIRT TRACK (schedule subject to change)

No.        Day       Date                     Time                                    Notes                                                                                                   

1.            Sun.       May 22                 6:00 p.m.                             50th Season Opener

2.            Sun.       May 29                 6:00 p.m.

--             Sun.       June 5                   Off

3.            Sun.       June 12                                6:00 p.m.

4.            Sun.       June 19                                6:00 p.m.

--             Sun.       June 26                                Off

5.            Sun.       July 3                    6:00 p.m.                             Independence Day Special

6.            Sun.       July 10                 6:00 p.m.                             Mid-Season Championships

--             Sun.       July 17                  Off

--             Sun.       July 24                  Off

7.            Sun.       July 31                 6:00 p.m.

--             Sun.       Aug. 7                   Off

8.            Sun.       Aug. 14                 6:00 p.m.

--             Sun.       Aug. 21                                Off

9.            Sun.       Aug. 28                 5:00 p.m.

10.          Sun.       Sept. 4                  5:00 p.m.                             Labor Day Special

--             Sun.       Sept. 11                Off

11.          Sun.       Sept. 18                5:00 p.m.

12.          Sat.         Sept. 24                5:00 p.m.

13.          Sat.         Oct. 1                    5:00 p.m.

 

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2015-12-16

Put a Gift of Speed, Thrills and Excitement Under the Tree this Christmas

 

Put a Gift of Speed, Thrills and Excitement Under the Tree this Christmas

By Jim Clarke, Clarke Motorsports Communications/First Draft Media

 

There's a great way to a smile on the face of your favourite short track race fan during the holiday season.

 

Staff and officials at Canada's Toughest 3rd of a Mile Paved Oval have their sights set on another exciting year of action and are offering the chance to take turn some laps behind the wheel in a ride with the Peterborough Speedway Driving Experience.

 

With a resume that includes a win in the Hangover 150 endurance event at Ransomville Speedway and a number of top 10 finishes during this year's events on the Southern U.S. PASS Late Model tour, track owner/promoter J.P. Josiasse will guide participants through classroom sessions before sending them to the track to get the feel of a real racing machine.

 

"We're not looking to discover the winner of the next Daytona or Indianapolis 500," said Josiasse. "Each week, there are people watching from the grandstands who'd love to know how it feels to battle for the checkered flag in the middle of the pack and this is the perfect way to scratch that itch."

 

Josiasse says the Peterborough Speedway Driving Experience cars are fully equipped, 4-cylinder racing machines; on parallel with those regularly used in the track's Mini Stock division. Fitted with manual or automatic transmissions, professional motorsports seats and 5-point racing harnesses, participants can just show-up and drive – in the half-day beginner course or full-day corporate package – with safety apparel, including helmets and driving suits available at the track.

 

Learn more or register for a session by selecting the 'driving school' tab at www.peterboroughspeedway.com. Details are also available by e-mailing drive@peterboroughspeedway.com. 

 

Fans can always find the latest off-season news, including updates on the 2016 schedule at www.peterboroughspeedway.com, by liking the track on Facebook or following it on Twitter.  You can also download the free Peterborough Speedway app on your Smartphone.

 

Photo attachment: Peterborough Speedway collection

 

Even this close to the big day, the race fan on your gift giving list would love the chance to turn some laps on Canada's Toughest 3rd of a Mile Paved Oval. See the 'driving school' tab at www.peterboroughspeedway.comto learn more.

 

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NASCAR Pinty’s Series 2016 Schedule Announced

For Immediate Release

 

NASCAR Pinty's Series 2016 Schedule Announced

Toronto Returns To Canadian Calendar

 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Dec. 16, 2015) – NASCAR announced today the NASCAR Pinty's Series schedule for 2016, the 10th season for the series and the first with entitlement sponsorship from Pinty's Delicious Foods Inc.

 

The slate features 12 events across five Canadian provinces, highlighted by a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series companion event for the fourth year in a row at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and a return to the country's largest market for Honda Indy Toronto weekend.

 

The season will open for the fourth year in a row at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park's road course on May 22 and will return there on Sept. 4 to join the Camping World Truck Series.

 

Kawartha Speedway has played host to the last race on the schedule each of the previous nine years of the Pinty's Series, and that tradition will continue in 2016 with the season finale on Sept. 17.

 

The series made its first two appearances on the Honda Indy Toronto race card in 2010 and 2011. Ontario's largest annual sporting event is held by Toronto's Lake Ontario waterfront on the Exhibition Place street course. The Pinty's Series will headline the action on July 16.

 

The remainder of the 2016 schedule includes:

  • Visits to NASCAR-sanctioned weekly oval tracks Sunset Speedway (June 18) in Ontario and Autodrome St-Eustache (Sept. 10) in Quebec.
  • Annual western swing once again features Alberta's Edmonton International Raceway (July 23) – also a NASCAR-sanctioned oval – and Saskatchewan's Auto Clearing Motor Speedway (July 27).
  • Road course dates in Quebec at Circuit ICAR (July 3) and Circuit de Trois-Rivieres (Aug. 14).
  • Appearances at two of Canada's premiere oval tracks with Autodrome Chaudiere (June 11) in Quebec and Riverside International Speedway (Aug. 20) in Nova Scotia.

 

The 2015 season concluded with Scott Steckly crowned as the champion for the fourth time in the last eight seasons.

 

Next year's NASCAR Whelen Modified and Whelen Southern Modified Tour schedules, as well as those for the NASCAR K&N Pro Series, are nearing completion and release. The 2016 television broadcast schedules for each of NASCAR's regional touring series will be announced at a later date.


2016 NASCAR PINTY'S SERIES SCHEDULE

Date

Track

Location

5/22

Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

Bowmanville, Ont.

6/11

Autodrome Chaudiere

Valle-Jonction, Que.

6/18

Sunset Speedway

Innisfil, Ont.

7/3

Circuit ICAR

Mirabel, Que.

7/16

Exhibition Place

Toronto, Ont.

7/23

Edmonton International Raceway

Wetaskiwin, Alta.

7/27

Auto Clearing Motor Speedway

Saskatoon, Sask.

8/14

Circuit de Trois-Rivieres

Trois-Rivieres, Que.

8/20

Riverside International Speedway

Antigonish, N.S.

9/4

Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

Bowmanville, Ont.

9/10

Autodrome St-Eustache

St-Eustache, Que.

9/17

Kawartha Speedway

Fraserville, Ont.

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

 

 

Contact:

Jason Cunningham

NASCAR Integrated Marketing Communications




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Nomination: Dany Mayrand, signaleur en chef NASCAR 2016

C'est avec un sentiment de fierté que nous annonçons aujourd'hui la nomination de M. Dany Mayrand à titre de Signaleur en chef NASCAR de l'Autodrome St-Eustache pour la saison 2016.

Depuis ses débuts en 1984 à l'Autodrome Laval, Dany Mayrand a compilé différentes tâches d'officiel de course, mais il s'est surtout fait connaitre des amateurs en agitant ses drapeaux dans la tour de l'Autodrome St-Eustache et aux quatre coins du Québec.

Expérimenté et compétent, Dany est reconnu comme un des meilleurs de sa profession au Québec et au nord des États-Unis.


En 2016, il effectuera un retour à la ''maison'', ayant passé la majorité de sa carrière du côté de l'Autodrome St-Eustache.




-- 
Justin Beaudin

Autodrome St-Eustache


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