Snow Covered Oval Race – Car Ice Racing

Speedway 51 Racetrack Covered in Snow – Car Ice Racing – The Greatest Idea Since… Dirt Racing

Have you ever witnessed a dirt or asphalt racetrack covered in snow? Then, had the thought that perhaps you should go racing anyway…

They did just that at Speedway 51 in Groveton, NH. Their first race of the 2017 season was on an asphalt oval covered in 5 inches of snow and ice. The 2017 Winter Blast 100 was hosted in front of a packed house. Yellow track barrier walls shining like the sun, in contrast to the all-white race track. What kind of cars? Run-what-ya brung. Anything could have entered this event.

It’s was awesome! You can watch it all below. Thanks to 949 Productions for providing video archive of the amazing event. The speedway ice race video is posted below this story along with nearly-full race results (someone forgot their transponder).

Speedway 51 Racetrack Covered in Snow - Car Ice Racing - 2017 Winter Blast 100

Speedway 51 (formerly Riverside Speedway) bills itself as a “high-banked, family-fun, action-packed motorsports park” and well they hit every point of their mission statement. The New Hampshire racetrack usually hosts a weekly racing program May through September. Their regular racing program includes; Late Models, Sportsman, Street Stocks, Dare Devils and Pure Stocks. This year they added some snow to their 2017 schedule and opened up the track a bit pre-mature.

The oval race in the snow featured zero cautions. Not because the race went without incident, it had plenty of those. It was because cautions were disabled! For the iRacing members out there… this was the pick-up cup, in real life.

100 green flag laps of car ice racing. 62 cars on track, at once. Needless to say, the stands were completely full! In the middle of January, the speedway grandstand were near full capacity to watch the endurance race. All it takes is a bit of creativity, you can put your local track to use in the off-season.

For those buzz-kill type people, the ones that read all of the above and immediately thought, bad idea. It wasn’t! The Speedway 51 didn’t completely neglect safety. Most of the incidents were harmless. Though, one did force a brief red flag on the event.

Speedway 51 Winter Car Race - Car Ice Racing

At the end of the event the track looked like it might have been the scene of a zombie apocalypse. Cars, trucks, vans, buses all stuck and abandoned on the 1/4 mile speedway. However, despite all that, we did declare a winner!

I almost said it was a fun event and it didn’t matter who won. I quickly corrected myself and stuck a solid line through that one. We’re racers over here, it always matters. Doug Brandy Jr won the oval ice racing event at Speedway 51, he’s your 2017 Winter Blast 100 winner!

The video below features on-board action from two cars entered in the Winter Blast 100. The first is from the cockpit of Claremont Speedway champion Kodi Sabins. The other is from Legion Speedway champion Matty Boucher.

Author: Shane Walters

 

Snow Covered Oval Race – Speedway 51 – Car Ice Racing Video

 

2017 Winter Blast 100 Results – Speedway 51 Snow Race

1. 619 DOUG BANDY JR.
2. 9 JAMIE HEATH
3. 94 BRENDAN MOODIE
4. 74 KEVIN WHITTUM JR.
5. 05 DONNY YATES
6. 21 MATT CARBONE
7. 358 MARCEL GRAVEL
8. 43 STEVE TRACY
9. 56 CHRIS LAFOREST
10. 171 MATT BOUCHER
11. 271 KEVIN BOUCHER
12. 621 MIKE SALOIS
13. 00NO SCOTT MORRISON
14. 14 ANDREW HARMON
15. 59 JESSE SWITSER
16. 56X DARREN NEWLAND
17. 97VT NICL DUBOIS
18. 26 STEPHEN DONAHUE
19. 23 JOSHUA RONDEAU
20. 91 CHRIS KNIGHT
21. 57 TODD DERRINGTON
22. 302 ANDREW COATES
23. KRB JASON BALL
24. 01 BILLY WOODSIDE
25. 117 RICHIE TURNER
26. 07 KEVIN KEENE
27. 40 MARK WARREN
28. 100 AJ SUMNER
29. 197 TODD DALPHONSE
30. EZ DOM BASSETTE
31. 00 JOE MELBERG
32. 016 SHANE LABRANEY
33. 55 TOM HARWOOD
34. 97ME WALTER HAMMOND
35. 005 JAXSON EDWARDS
36. 51 JARRETT LAQUERRE
37. 194 ISAAC SPAULDING
38. 136 JOEL HODGDON
39. 8T TYLER QUENNEVILLE
40. 5 BRAD MOORE
41. 1 TYLER MITCHELL
42. 11VT JACOB ROY
43. 43S JOHN SHELL
44. 22 JASON CYR
45. 007 TAYLOR KEENE
46. 91NH JAMES FADDEN
47. 36 KODI SABINS
48. 017 TODD LEWIS
49. L56 DANIEL LABRANEY
50. 29 MICHAEL GOODEN
51. IEZ SCOTT KEITHAN
52. 521 DALE SQUIRES
53. 199 MATT PERREAULT
54. 20D DAN ELLIOTT
55. 2 BRIAN PUGH
56. 003 GAGE WOODSIDE
57. 10 MATT LAFOREST
58-62 IF YOUR NAME MISSING NO SCORER, OR NO SCORESHEET TURNED IN!

 

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