Don’t blame Matt Kenseth. When Kenseth gave Joey Logano a front bumper pile-drive into the wall Sunday at Martinsville Speedway it proved to be one of the most dramatic plays of on-track vengeance during a Sprint Cup Series event in years. You can think negatively of Kenseth for what he did, you can lose respect […]
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NASCAR Made Matt Kenseth Dump Job Happen, And NASCAR Is Its Biggest Victim
November 2, 2015 by 13 Comments
Tri-Track Modified Series Is Great Idea That Won’t Last Playing To Half-Full Grandstands
September 17, 2015 by 39 Comments
Arguably, it was the best lineup of Modified drivers for one single event in 2015 that was on the track for Sunday’s Dunleavy Truck & Trailer 100 at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl. It was a 27-car field that included multiple NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champions, a NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour champion, a former Valenti […]
Absurdity Reigns Over The Valenti Modified Racing Series
August 7, 2015 by 13 Comments
Last Saturday night, in the eyes of Valenti Modified Racing Series officials, Richard Savary was the victim at the Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Me. Thursday he was deemed the guilty party. Try to make sense of it. Wait, don’t try because you’ll get lost trying to. Call it the greatest show of drama […]
Northern Points: Kruczek Unlikely Star In Final Oxford 250 Tune-Up
August 6, 2015 by 6 Comments
— — Billed as the final true Oxford 250 tuneup, last weekend’s Pro All Stars Series race saw some 40 cars attempt to qualify at Oxford Plains Speedway. The field for the HP Hood 150 had all of the names and faces one would expect to contend at Oxford, and it certainly included everyone’s list […]
Showcase Showdown: Could Sunday Whelen Modified Tour All-Star Shootout Be Feasible At NHMS?
July 18, 2015 by 13 Comments
— By Shawn Courchesne LOUDON, N.H. – On Friday New Hampshire Motor Speedway hosted the second Whelen Modified Tour Whelen All-Star Shootout. The non-points exhibition event gives the drivers of the Whelen Modified Tour an extra chance to showcase their action packed brand of New Hampshire Motor Speedway racing. The 35-lap shootout event seems to […]
Another Wakeup Call Crash Shows Again The Tragedy In-Waiting Of NASCAR Restrictor Plate Racing
July 6, 2015 by 28 Comments
When the dust settled on what was the ultra-violent and visually horrific completion of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 very early Monday morning at Daytona International Speedway, six-time series champion Jimmie Johnson expressed sincere disbelief that driver Austin Dillon was still alive. Absorb that for a minute. As Dale Earnhardt Jr. came […]
Northern Points: Jeremy Davis Unfazed By Thunder Road Debut
May 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
— Jeremy Davis had many in attendance Sunday at Thunder Road International Speedbowl scrambling to make sense of what they were seeing. Where the usual powerhouses of the PASS North Series — and the ACT Late Model Tour, too, for that matter — were dropping off like flies in the first Super Late Model race […]
Northern Points: New Attitude For Joey Polewarczyk
May 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
— — RaceDayCT is proud to announce a new section of the website called Northbound, which will include news and columns covering the topics of the Northern New England short track racing scene. We’d like to welcome award winning motorsports journalist Travis Barrett as the editor of our Northbound section. Keep your eyes out for […]
Never Surrender: No Compromising Journalistic Standards Just To Offer Coverage
May 18, 2015 by 63 Comments
Sunday afternoon I was driving down Route 101 in New Hampshire headed toward Lee, N.H. on my way to cover the Tri-Track Open Modified Series event at Lee USA Speedway. Then I had a serious epiphany. Wait, let’s call it rather a Sirius epiphany. With the “80’s on 8” playing on Sirius-XM Radio in the […]
No Excuses To Be Made For Tommy Barrett Jr. Throwing Away Whelen Mod Tour Ride
May 2, 2015 by 39 Comments
At short tracks across America drivers arrive week after week to run weekly grassroots divisions in possession of the dream that maybe one day a team owner will discover them and carry them to the next level of racing. Tommy Barrett Jr. got to the live that dream. Less than three years removed from the […]
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