Month: January 2011

QUEENSBURY, N.Y. — NASCAR is back in Vermont. A meeting with drivers and owners in Queensbury, N.Y., on Friday evening introduced the Daytona Beach, Fla., sanctioning body as the new governing organization for Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven and sister track Albany-Saratoga Speedway in Malta, N.Y., for 2011. The two tracks will join NASCAR’s Whelen All-American Series, where drivers from nearly 30 tracks in the United States and Canada compete against each other weekly for state, provincial, and national championships; NASCAR previously sanctioned both Devil’s Bowl and Albany-Saratoga during the 1970s. Officials from the Champlain Valley Racing Association, which owns and operates the two speedways, made the announcement to a group of about 100 people on Friday. Bob Duvall, NASCAR Director of Developmental Racing Series Operations, was on hand and spoke for just over an hour alongside Bruce and Jerry Richards of the CVRA. Press conferences are scheduled on Saturday for 10:00am in Saratoga, N.Y., and at 1:00 in Rutland to introduce NASCAR to the media. Duvall explained Friday that by becoming NASCAR-affiliated, the CVRA tracks will receive a multitude of benefits including point funds and medical insurance for competitors, and marketing and public relations assistance among other things. Each track will receive a NASCAR point fund of $16,500 — including $10,000 for the headline Crate Sportsman division — and drivers will take part in the NASCAR Whelen...