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    2012 schedule?

    From Area Auto Racing News, it mentions the possibility of no M R S race at Twin State or Canaan? It does, however, mention Star as a possibility. Does any one know if they are planning to still have Ricky's Race if Twin State and Canaan are gone?

    Would M R S ever go to Devils Bowl in VT or go back to White Mountain?

    Would Monadnock agree to more than two races?

    And how do we get Dwight Jarvis back running the full tour???

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    Racer Mike Bruno reportedly has purchased Devils Bowl from the Richards. I'm assuming it's staying asphalt. They are leasing the Albany Saratoga Speedway to Howie Commander of Lebanon Valley fame. (the dirt is already going back on). I wish they would have a MRS at the Bowl, and another at Airborne.
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    Rickys race could move to monadnock.... not sure why Canaan wouldn't want them back with the crowd they had! Twinstate has some behind the scenes issues just my opinion...... star would be awesome. Extra races at mad dog two thumbs up. I think the thurs. Shows at Thompson are a turn off to Dwight. Again just my opinion. God I love the mods at lee!!

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    Rumor is Canaan is having economic issues with the weekly stuff and the hurricane certainly didnt help.

    Mad-Dog has no set dates yet.

    Like Bud said, TwinState has their own issues.

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    I think I also read in Area Auto that Devils Bowl was staying asphalt. Would that be a good track for the mods? I've never been there. Don't know much about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bud View Post
    Rickys race could move to monadnock.... not sure why Canaan wouldn't want them back with the crowd they had! Twinstate has some behind the scenes issues just my opinion...... star would be awesome. Extra races at mad dog two thumbs up. I think the thurs. Shows at Thompson are a turn off to Dwight. Again just my opinion. God I love the mods at lee!!
    I agree, give another show to Monadnock, Lee and/or Star and call it good. I also agree the MRS schedule would be fine without Thompson.

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    Jim I was at Devil's Bowl to see racing both on pavement and dirt and I suspect it would be ideal for the Modifieds, although a sharp turn one would present a challenge to drivers. It would be neat to see the Mod's there. A VMRS Rep. was there in 2009 to check the place out and gave it his approval. The problem is location. It's just minutes from the NY border. Would it be enough of a draw from fans to make it profitable for the track? Is it too far for the teams from southern New England to support it?

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    I hope they don't replace the Open Race with an MRS event. Star should stay with the Open Modified Race. It takes time to make it a big Annual event. If Star sticks to the Open concept it will become very succesfull. We don't need another 100 lap save your tires for the last 20 laps race.

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    I think with Dwight it comes down to a couple things. Money. and been there done that. (championships) I have been helping him for a while and I see him picking and choosing races to have fun and going to the tracks he likes a lot. I hadn't heard much about not going back to Canaan as far as I knew things went well and all parties were happy. I did hear that TSS probly would not happen this coming year. I would love another Wmmp show but last time they were there there was a dispute with officials from mrs and wmmp so they have not been back. I know the series has tried it was always a good show there except one race was awful. I would like to see Thunder Road back on the schedule too.
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    I think Star almost has to be a MRS event to get a decent car count. A lot of the weekly runners there were once on the MRS and most of them got spanked pretty badly and I don't think they have any interest in testing themselves against the big dogs in an open competition format. IMO the tire issue was just an excuse for some wimps to not get their butts handed to them on their own track - pretty disgraceful given the money that was put up.

    TSS is run by a fool who is unwilling to learn from his mistakes. He has brought in most of the regional tours in New England at one time or another, and in almost all cases bridges have been burned. The weekly program there is just awful (with an average of about 6 cars per division), and now that there is concrete around just about the whole place, the race track has been ruined as well for any races with more than 10 or 12 cars in them.

    IMO MRS gets no lift from racing there because regardless of day the races are held, it's guaranteed to be one of the smallest crowds of the year for MRS, plus they will tear up a bunch of equipment because the track owner saw fit to take away all the run-off areas. Until TSS gets a new owner and some of the those walls are taken out, it would not be smart for MRS to go back there (although I wouldn't be surprised if they did at some point).

    There are a lot of issues with Canaan - the biggest one being that the track has been actively on the market for almost a year now, and there is the question as to who is going to run it next season. Dick Thierren is rumored to be possibly replacing Pete Watson at Lee, and if that does indeed pan out, there is not a clear line of succession at Canaan.

    While Ricky’s Race drew a big crowd, in my estimation the race day itself wasn’t coordinated very well, and the event lasted much longer than it needed to or should have been allowed to go on (for a race starting at 5pm, there was no excuse for the main event to almost end before it’s completed distance of 100 laps because of curfew, which is what almost happened this year). I think the race would be better off at Monadnock where that staff is better and more experienced at handling big events.

    Thunder Road should be on the MRS schedule, and after the beating at the gate Curley took this season, you would think he would have learned his lesson.

    It’s no secret Tom Curley is really starting to show his age with the way he’s running Thunder Road and the ACT Tour. It’s one thing to gamble and come up snake eyes, but anyone with half a brain could see replacing the modifieds with a 100 Tiger Sportsman race on Memorial Day was going to be downer (and it was). The decisions Curley has been making the past couple of seasons have been bad in a lot of cases, and at this point in his career when he seems more interested in protecting or shining up his legacy, you have to wonder if he would be willing to admit he made a huge mistake in not bringing back the MRS?

    Don’t dismiss that fact that he’s afraid the modifieds might be more entertaining than his own program either, because that is a factor too.

    Modifieds would race well at Devil’s Bowl, and I think there’s a shot they could be on the 2012 schedule. The track has multiple grooves to race in, and I think the modifieds would take to it like a duck to water. There is some history of asphalt mods racing there in the past, so I think a lot of interest could be generated there.

    Might not be a bad place to hold Ricky’s Race either, with the advantage that it’s not too far for the folks from southern NE, plus maybe pull in some ROC racers/fans from nearby NY, and even fans from “North of the Border” - I think a big modified race at Devil’s Bowl could be a good draw for Canadian fans too.
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    I would love to attend the Ricky Miller Memorial Race next year. I wouldn't mind seeing it at Star on Loudon Cup Weekend. Is loudon more closer to epping ?

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    June 22 - Stafford

    June 29- Lee

    July 7- Monadnock

    July 14- Canaan

    July 21- Oxford

    Aug 31 - Stafford

    Oct 7 - Seekonk

    Oct 21 - Lee

    Stafford released their schedule today, and I'm guessing at a few of those, but pretty safe bets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by limodmaniac View Post
    June 22 - Stafford

    June 29- Lee

    July 7- Monadnock

    July 14- Canaan

    July 21- Oxford

    Aug 31 - Stafford

    Oct 7 - Seekonk

    Oct 21 - Lee

    Stafford released their schedule today, and I'm guessing at a few of those, but pretty safe bets.
    Is the Canaan race going to be the Ricky Miller Memorial Race ??

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    Actually don't know, I kinda threw that in the "schedule" but actually I'm not 100 percent about them even having a race, so maybe I should have left it out.. Was just sorta figuring that would be there again. Though I did hear Seekonk also in June. You know how these schedules work.. we get all excited waiting the release and then pretty much its the same schedule as last years.

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    Rumor I heard (take it for what it's worth) is that Ricky's Race is being moved to Monadnock at the end of April (the track's opening race I assume) with a slightly smaller purse than what the 2011 race had.

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