Weekend Tidbits

It was great seeing some of you guys at Motorsports over the weekend! Now we start counting down the days until Volusia.

Utica Rome Speedway, Bridgeport Speedway, Five Mile Point Speedway, New Egypt Speedway, Georgetown Speedway, and the RoC Dirt Tour have all released their schedules. The modified portions of the schedules have been updated on the master schedule (link available to the left of this post.)

Georgetown Speedway's schedule will see a diminished amount of big-block races in 2014. There are currently 5 races scheduled, with up to 3 additional dates to be announced during the year. The reason for the lower amount of appearances is that race fans were vocal about wanting the big-blocks and the super late models are the same card instead of rotating weeks. The only way to make this possible was to make the crate modified and crate late model divisions the weekly headliners with a once-a-month appearance by the modifieds and late models.

Canandaigua Motorsports Park has been removed from the Super DIRTcar Series. The Series was originally scheduled to open on April 19 at Canandaigua, but a lack of cooperation has nixed those plans. Canandaigua currently remains a DIRTcar sanctioned track. Canandaigua plans to run the $6,400 to win Jan Corcoran Memorial as the track points opener. The race will be run April 12 or April 19.

Bridgeport Speedway's biggest race, the "Friends of Mike" event, will be a RoC Dirt Tour event in 2014. Bridgeport also hosts the RoC Dirt Tour for the March 29 "60over Special."

While RoC gained a big race with the addition of "Friends of Mike", they've also lost a big race as Accord Speedway has decided to make the "King of the Catskills" a non-sanctioned event in 2014 and the 1/4 mile will not be part of the RoC Dirt Tour in 2014.

Weedsport Speedway has not yet announced a schedule, but they will not run weekly or monthly in 2014. Instead, the management team has decided to put together a schedule of 3 (but up to 5) special shows.

Lernerville Speedway has announced their season will begin later than previous years. After traditionally hosting a March season-opener, the season will kick off April 18 this season.

Andy Bachetti will not be able to race at the DIRTcar Nationals in Volusia due to an alternation with an official during the Eastern States 200 at Orange County Fair Speedway. Bachetti was also suspended for last year's World Finals. He will be eligble to return to DIRTcar competition when the northeast racing season kicks off in the spring.

Kevin Vaclavicek is the latest sportsman star to announce his intentions to move up to the modified division in 2014. Vaclavicek will focus on weekly competition at New Egypt Speedway.