Posted By Tj Ingerson on February 20, 2012
PHOTO: Kevin Chaffee carried the checkered flag twice in a part-time midget schedule for Skip Matczak in 2011. Chaffee will full-time for Matczak at Bear Ridge in 2012 in the USAC Dirt Midget Association. (Alan Ward photo)
(From series press release)
BRADFORD, Vt. -- “The Fairlee Flier,” Kevin Chaffee of Fairlee, Vermont Motorsports Magazine 2011 Driver of the Year, has landed a season-long ride in the 2011 USAC Dirt Midget Association championship winning team at Bear Ridge Speedway. Read Full Story
Posted By Tj Ingerson on January 23, 2012
PHOTO: Kevin Chaffee (#3) and Joe Krawiec (#4) race side-by-side down at Bear Ridge Speedway in the USAC Dirt Midget Association. The USAC Dirt Midget Assocation will return as a bi-weekly series to Bear Ridge in 2012. (Alan Ward photo)
(From series press release)
ELLINGTON, Conn. -- The USAC Dirt Midget Association (DMA) held its final pre-season meeting at Seals-It headquarters on Sunday and reviewed plans for an every-other-week schedule at Bear Ridge Speedway in Bradford, VT. More than 60 current and potential members were on hand. Read Full Story
Posted By Tj Ingerson on January 18, 2012

PHOTO: The famed "Home of the Coupes," Bear Ridge Speedway is gearing up for an action-packed 2012 season. (Alan Ward photo)
USAC Midgets, SCoNE Sprints highlight 21-event slate; Season passes available
(From track press release)
BRADFORD -- The best-kept secret in stock car racing, Bear Ridge Speedway, is starting to become less hush-hush and more center stage. The quarter-mile DIRTcar-sanctioned clay oval in Bradford, VT will celebrate its 45th season in grand style, with a 21-event schedule overflowing with action. Read Full Story
Posted By Tj Ingerson on January 8, 2012


New Website to Enhance VMM's Northeast Stock Car Racing Coverage
BURLINGTON, VT -- The stock car racing website Vermont Motorsports Magazine -- online at www.vtmotormag.com -- has launched a newly designed website for their local short track racing coverage. The new website, designed by Anthony Sweet Designs, will offer additional functionality to help enhance the coverage of local short track racing throughout the northeast. Read Full Story
Posted By Tj Ingerson on January 5, 2012

PHOTO: Kevin Chaffee, of Fairlee, Vt., had three top five point finishes in three dirt track divisions and was named 2011 Vermont Motorsports Magazine Driver of the Year by the readers of www.vtmotormag.com. (Alan Ward photos)
Dirt Track Racing Front Runner edges out ACT Tiger Champion O'Donnell
BURLINGTON, VT -- Dirt track stock car racing driver Kevin Chaffee has been named the Vermont Motorsports Magazine 2011 Driver of the Year by the readers of www.vtmotormag.com
Over 13,000 votes were cast across eleven categories in a two-week online poll at the Vermont Motorsports Magazine website. Fairlee, Vt., driver Chaffee earned 26% of the vote in the overall VMM 2011 Driver of the Year category. The DIRTcar Sportsman Modified, USAC Dirt Midget Association, and Sprint Cars of New England winner edged ACT Bond/WIX Tiger Tour and Thunder Road Int'l Speedbowl Tiger Sportsman champion Derrick O'Donnell, of Bradford, Vt., by 35 votes for the award. Read Full Story