Adam Piper Finds Way To Devil’s Bowl Speedway Victory Lane On Saturday Night

Story By: DEVIL’S BOWL SPEEDWAY – WEST HAVEN, VT – Under cloudy skies in West Haven, Adam Piper beat the weather and 25 other Sunoco Sportsman Modified drivers to earn his second career victory in the headline division, his first coming in 2023.

Marty Hutchins won the O’Reilly Auto Parts Limited Sportsman Feature. Ray Hanson, Nick Austin-Neil, Eric Messier and Rob Steele also made stops in victory lane, adding to their respective win totals for 2024.

James Hanson and Piper led the Sunoco Sportsman Modified field to green for the 30-lap feature with Piper jumping out front early and Hanson trying to track him down. Dave Camara, Josh Masterson and Vince Quenneville were all moving forward, but Quenneville’s night ended in an accident around the lap-10 mark, also sending Tim LaDuc, Marty Kelly and AJ Munger and Bubba McPhee to the pits.

Piper held off challenge after challenge on restarts throughout the race, holding steady all the way, even through a green-white-checkered after Billy Lussier ran into trouble late.

In the end, it was Adam Piper going to victory lane over Josh Masterson, Jimmy Ryan, Hanson and Camara. Randy Ryan, Troy Audet, Josh Leclaire, Frank Hoard, III and Fire Swamp completed the top-10. Randy Ryan earned his first Elmo’s Pit Stop Hard Charger Award, going from 21st to 6th.

Poultney, Vt.’s Marty Hutchins won his first Devil’s Bowl Feature in five years after taking some time off from racing in the last few years. The O’Reilly Auto Parts Limiteds ran for 55 laps and a $555 winner’s share. Hutchins started 5th and passed outside-front-row starter Tyler Travis on a lap three restart, never to relinquish it. Like Piper, Hutchins survived a litany of restarts to grab the win over a late-charging Gary English, Mike Clark, Jr., Fred Little and Alex Layn rounding out the top-five.

Nick Austin Neil won his third Hoosier Racing Tire Novice Sportsman feature of the year with a lap 14 pass of Russ Farr. Farr started 1st and led convincingly, until a caution around halfway bunched up the field. Austin-Neil passed him exiting turn two on lap 12, but Farr fought back, going outside of Austin-Neil in the south end to retake the top spot. Two laps later, Austin-Neil went by Farr again in turn two, this time for good. Farr was good for 2nd with Allen Hewitt 3rd. Logan Denis was 4th and Matt Wade rebounded from an early incident to finish 5th.

Eric Messier won his 2nd Fisher Auto Parts Mini Stock A Main of 2024, after Adam Mahoney and TJ Knight led the field to the green flag. Mahoney led early, but Messier was on the charge forward, along with Chase Allen, Griff Mahoney, Jeremy Brownell and Mark Mahoney. Messier started 19th and was shown as the leader by lap six. Behind him, Allen and Griff Mahoney battled for 2nd with Adam Mahoney, before Allen prevailed and took the spot on lap 11. Messier was three seconds ahead at that point, and he went on to win his 2nd Fisher Auto Parts Mini Stock Feature of 2024. Allen was 2nd with Griff Mahoney 3rd, Jeremy Brownell 4th and Adam Mahoney 5th. Anthony Johnson won the B-main.

Ray Hanson impressed again in the Friend Construction 500cc Mini Sprint ranks, dominating his heat race from the back and coming from 11th starting position to win the 15-lap feature. Gage Provencher started behind Hanson in 13th, and they came through the pack as a pair, until Hanson took the lead from Vern Woodard on lap seven, leaving Provencher back in 4th to race with Brandon Emerson, Tucker Jones and Woodard. Provencher secured the runner-up spot on the final lap, with Hanson well out front. Emerson was 3rd, turning in his best run of the year. Jones and Woodard ran 4th and 5th, respectively.

Elisabeth Dupont and Helen Steele led the field to green, but the division’s winningest driver, Rob Steele was on the move quickly from 8th. Eric Friend and Norm Morill were trying to move in the early going to keep Steele’s pace, but they had no luck doing so. Steele launched to the front and led the majority of the race, winning by a margin of almost 2 seconds. Bradford Cram finished 2nd after a charge in the second half of the race. Dupont came across the line in 3rd with Friend and Morrill completing the top five.

Devil’s Bowl Speedway is back in action on Saturday, June 29th at 6PM with one of the central Vermont’s largest, loudest and brightest fireworks displays, plus a 44-lap, $2,000-to-win Sunoco Modified Feature! All weekly divisions will be racing, plus another wild and crazy enduro! Grandstand gates open at 4:30PM. General Admission is $20, infield parking is $25. Kids 12 and under are free! Pit admission is $35 for members and $45 for non-members.

Sportsman Modified

A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 66-Adam Piper[2]; 2. 11X-Josh Masterson[5]; 3. 60-Jim Ryan[8]; 4. 514-James Hanson[1]; 5. 26-Dave Camara[13]; 6. 60R-Randy Ryan[21]; 7. 13A-Troy Audet[9]; 8. 7-Josh Leclaire[12]; 9. 13-Frankie Hoard III[17]; 10. 88-Fire Swamp[20]; 11. 11VT-Joey Scarborough[15]; 12. 22E-Mike Engwer[25]; 13. T69-Travis Green[19]; 14. 25-Billy Lussier[3]; 15. 2-Brent Warren[7]; 16. 5-Tanner Siemons[22]; 17. 36-Brian Whittemore[4]; 18. 75-AJ Munger[6]; 19. 8-Kevin Chaffee[24]; 20. 22J-Bubba McPhee[23]; 21. 60W-Anthony Warren[10]; 22. 22-Johnny Bruno[14]; 23. 357-Marty Kelly III[11]; 24. 78-Vince Quenneville[18]; 25. 54-Tim LaDuc[16]; 26. (DNS) 00-Pat Miner

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 11X-Josh Masterson[3]; 2. 11VT-Joey Scarborough[5]; 3. 60W-Anthony Warren[4]; 4. 00-Pat Miner[1]; 5. 22-Johnny Bruno[6]; 6. 36-Brian Whittemore[2]; 7. 13-Frankie Hoard III[7]; 8. 5-Tanner Siemons[8]; 9. 22J-Bubba McPhee[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 66-Adam Piper[1]; 2. 60-Jim Ryan[3]; 3. 25-Billy Lussier[2]; 4. 26-Dave Camara[6]; 5. 7-Josh Leclaire[5]; 6. 78-Vince Quenneville[7]; 7. 88-Fire Swamp[8]; 8. 60R-Randy Ryan[4]; 9. 22E-Mike Engwer[9]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 514-James Hanson[1]; 2. 2-Brent Warren[3]; 3. 75-AJ Munger[2]; 4. 357-Marty Kelly III[5]; 5. 54-Tim LaDuc[6]; 6. 13A-Troy Audet[4]; 7. T69-Travis Green[8]; 8. 8-Kevin Chaffee[7]

Hot Laps 1: 1. 26-Dave Camara, 00:17.809[3]; 2. 78-Vince Quenneville, 00:17.917[18]; 3. 11X-Josh Masterson, 00:17.939[13]; 4. 13A-Troy Audet, 00:17.970[1]; 5. 25-Billy Lussier, 00:18.082[12]; 6. 60W-Anthony Warren, 00:18.104[24]; 7. 13-Frankie Hoard III, 00:18.124[8]; 8. 22J-Bubba McPhee, 00:18.161[14]; 9. 00-Pat Miner, 00:18.168[15]; 10. T69-Travis Green, 00:18.197[6]; 11. 2-Brent Warren, 00:18.238[25]; 12. 514-James Hanson, 00:18.244[7]; 13. 60-Jim Ryan, 00:18.267[19]; 14. 66-Adam Piper, 00:18.270[17]; 15. 5-Tanner Siemons, 00:18.272[22]; 16. 60R-Randy Ryan, 00:18.295[20]; 17. 11VT-Joey Scarborough, 00:18.298[21]; 18. 75-AJ Munger, 00:18.321[16]; 19. 88-Fire Swamp, 00:18.327[23]; 20. 357-Marty Kelly III, 00:18.368[9]; 21. 22E-Mike Engwer, 00:18.414[5]; 22. 8-Kevin Chaffee, 00:18.468[4]; 23. 54-Tim LaDuc, 00:18.477[10]; 24. 36-Brian Whittemore, 00:18.554[26]; 25. 22-Johnny Bruno, 00:18.656[2]; 26. (DNS) 7-Josh Leclaire

Limited Sportsman

A Feature 1 (55 Laps): 1. 1VT-Marty Hutchins[5]; 2. 53-Gary English[13]; 3. 2X-Michael Clark Jr[10]; 4. 19X-Freddie Little[3]; 5. 751-Alex Layn[14]; 6. 4X-Joshua Patterson[7]; 7. 813-Jason Quenneville[8]; 8. 77J-Bob Kilburn[1]; 9. 77-Eric Shaw[12]; 10. 916-Nick Brundige[15]; 11. 44D-William Duprey[11]; 12. 9-Tyler Travis[2]; 13. 23T-Scott Towslee[16]; 14. 27X-Cody O’Brien[4]; 15. 75-Derrick Counter[19]; 16. 06-Steve Miller[6]; 17. 25-William Lussier Jr[17]; 18. 40-Ed Bell[18]; 19. 42-Kamden Duffy[9]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 77-Eric Shaw[5]; 2. 19X-Freddie Little[2]; 3. 916-Nick Brundige[7]; 4. 813-Jason Quenneville[3]; 5. 42-Kamden Duffy[4]; 6. 23T-Scott Towslee[6]; 7. 75-Derrick Counter[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 1VT-Marty Hutchins[3]; 2. 751-Alex Layn[6]; 3. 77J-Bob Kilburn[1]; 4. 2X-Michael Clark Jr[4]; 5. 4X-Joshua Patterson[2]; 6. 25-William Lussier Jr[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 9-Tyler Travis[1]; 2. 53-Gary English[5]; 3. 06-Steve Miller[3]; 4. 44D-William Duprey[4]; 5. 27X-Cody O’Brien[2]; 6. 40-Ed Bell[6]

Hot Laps 1: 1. 1VT-Marty Hutchins, 00:17.864[8]; 2. 9-Tyler Travis, 00:17.975[19]; 3. 916-Nick Brundige, 00:17.975[2]; 4. 06-Steve Miller, 00:18.017[13]; 5. 53-Gary English, 00:18.042[7]; 6. 42-Kamden Duffy, 00:18.197[5]; 7. 77J-Bob Kilburn, 00:18.281[9]; 8. 23T-Scott Towslee, 00:18.330[18]; 9. 751-Alex Layn, 00:18.349[10]; 10. 4X-Joshua Patterson, 00:18.362[15]; 11. 25-William Lussier Jr, 00:18.373[12]; 12. 77-Eric Shaw, 00:18.376[17]; 13. 40-Ed Bell, 00:18.449[1]; 14. 813-Jason Quenneville, 00:18.553[16]; 15. 19X-Freddie Little, 00:18.667[11]; 16. 27X-Cody O’Brien, 00:18.780[14]; 17. 75-Derrick Counter, 00:18.910[4]; 18. (DNS) 2X-Michael Clark Jr; 19. (DNS) 44D-William Duprey

Novice Sportsman

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 5-Nick Austin Neil[8]; 2. 99-Russell Farr III[1]; 3. 49-Allen Hewitt[2]; 4. 24-Logan Denis[7]; 5. 510-Matthew Wade[6]; 6. 12VT-Aiden Benoure[9]; 7. 77X-Matthew Cram[4]; 8. 2X-Josh Bussino[3]; 9. 76-Raelin Dunham[13]; 10. 47-Winston Forbes[10]; 11. 8-Jason Kerr[11]; 12. 10X-Aaron Clark[12]; 13. 28X-Bobbi Hults[5]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 2X-Josh Bussino[2]; 2. 77X-Matthew Cram[3]; 3. 24-Logan Denis[5]; 4. 10X-Aaron Clark[7]; 5. 12VT-Aiden Benoure[4]; 6. 99-Russell Farr III[1]; 7. 47-Winston Forbes[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 49-Allen Hewitt[1]; 2. 28X-Bobbi Hults[3]; 3. 510-Matthew Wade[4]; 4. 5-Nick Austin Neil[6]; 5. 8-Jason Kerr[5]; 6. (DNS) 76-Raelin Dunham

Hot Laps 1: 1. 28X-Bobbi Hults, 00:18.302[11]; 2. 2X-Josh Bussino, 00:18.481[3]; 3. 5-Nick Austin Neil, 00:18.510[1]; 4. 77X-Matthew Cram, 00:18.672[5]; 5. 8-Jason Kerr, 00:18.711[12]; 6. 76-Raelin Dunham, 00:18.752[7]; 7. 24-Logan Denis, 00:18.875[6]; 8. 10X-Aaron Clark, 00:18.885[4]; 9. 12VT-Aiden Benoure, 00:19.058[2]; 10. 49-Allen Hewitt, 00:19.141[10]; 11. 47-Winston Forbes, 00:19.175[9]; 12. (DNS) 99-Russell Farr III; 13. (DNS) 510-Matthew Wade

500cc Mini Sprints

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 68-Raymond Hanson[11]; 2. 11A-Gage Provencher[13]; 3. 13NH-Richard Balla[6]; 4. 4J-Tucker Jones[8]; 5. 73-Vern Woodard[1]; 6. 15P-Chris Pierce[4]; 7. 81-Alex Reed[2]; 8. 4-Tommy Kasuba[3]; 9. 9Q-Quinn Quenneville[12]; 10. 67-Kevin Smith[9]; 11. 25D-Destin St Clair[10]; 12. 727-Jenna Zak[7]; 13. 743-Ashleigh Kulzer[5]; 14. (DNS) X9-Levi Cram

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 68-Raymond Hanson[6]; 2. 4J-Tucker Jones[4]; 3. 743-Ashleigh Kulzer[3]; 4. 4-Tommy Kasuba[2]; 5. 25D-Destin St Clair[5]; 6. 73-Vern Woodard[1]; 7. (DNS) X9-Levi Cram

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 15P-Chris Pierce[2]; 2. 11A-Gage Provencher[5]; 3. 9Q-Quinn Quenneville[6]; 4. 67-Kevin Smith[4]; 5. 13NH-Richard Balla[7]; 6. 81-Alex Reed[1]; 7. 727-Jenna Zak[3]

Hot Laps 1: 1. 11A-Gage Provencher, 00:19.696[7]; 2. 68-Raymond Hanson, 00:19.771[2]; 3. 4J-Tucker Jones, 00:19.968[3]; 4. 13NH-Richard Balla, 00:20.008; 5. 743-Ashleigh Kulzer, 00:20.084[5]; 6. 67-Kevin Smith, 00:20.499[10]; 7. 25D-Destin St Clair, 00:20.547[11]; 8. 81-Alex Reed, 00:20.582[9]; 9. 9Q-Quinn Quenneville, 00:20.597[8]; 10. 73-Vern Woodard, 00:20.633[12]; 11. 4-Tommy Kasuba, 00:20.736[4]; 12. 15P-Chris Pierce, 00:24.729[6]; 13. (DNS) X9-Levi Cram; 14. (DNS) 727-Jenna Zak

Mini Stocks

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 68-Eric Messier[19]; 2. 4-Chase Allen[6]; 3. 10-Griff Mahoney[7]; 4. 79-Jeremy Brownell[10]; 5. 81X-Adam Mahoney[1]; 6. 83-Mark Mahoney[15]; 7. 39-Ryan Patch[12]; 8. 54JR-Jakobee Alger[14]; 9. 25-Damian Olden[11]; 10. 54X-Ron Alger[8]; 11. 19-Chris Sumner[13]; 12. 27X-Brian Blake[17]; 13. 1X-Austin McKirryher[5]; 14. 11-TJ Knight[2]; 15. 66C-Cody Vanguilder[18]; 16. 65-Luke Marcheski[21]; 17. 6A-Adam Stewart[4]; 18. 44M-Richard Fleury[16]; 19. 4C-Chris Charboneau[3]; 20. 61-Jp Corrow[20]; 21. 15-Tim Robinson[9]

B Feature 1 (6 Laps): 1. 70J-Anthony Johnson[1]; 2. 66-Kyle Morris[4]; 3. 5-Christopher Hewitt[2]; 4. 4D-Donald Olden[7]; 5. 22B-Quinton Bishop[5]; 6. 08-David Hunt Jr[6]; 7. 51-James Murray[3]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 68-Eric Messier[10]; 2. 25-Damian Olden[5]; 3. 11-TJ Knight[2]; 4. 54X-Ron Alger[4]; 5. 54JR-Jakobee Alger[6]; 6. 27X-Brian Blake[7]; 7. 1X-Austin McKirryher[3]; 8. 70J-Anthony Johnson[1]; 9. 66-Kyle Morris[9]; 10. 4D-Donald Olden[8]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 4C-Chris Charboneau[2]; 2. 83-Mark Mahoney[6]; 3. 39-Ryan Patch[5]; 4. 4-Chase Allen[3]; 5. 15-Tim Robinson[4]; 6. 61-Jp Corrow[8]; 7. 65-Luke Marcheski[9]; 8. 5-Christopher Hewitt[1]; 9. 22B-Quinton Bishop[7]

Heat 3 (6 Laps): 1. 19-Chris Sumner[5]; 2. 81X-Adam Mahoney[1]; 3. 10-Griff Mahoney[3]; 4. 79-Jeremy Brownell[4]; 5. 6A-Adam Stewart[2]; 6. 66C-Cody Vanguilder[7]; 7. 44M-Richard Fleury[6]; 8. 51-James Murray[8]; 9. 08-David Hunt Jr[9]

Hot Laps 1: 1. 10-Griff Mahoney, 00:23.086[14]; 2. 4C-Chris Charboneau, 00:23.634[7]; 3. 19-Chris Sumner, 00:23.899[25]; 4. 25-Damian Olden, 00:23.956[20]; 5. 81X-Adam Mahoney, 00:23.975[13]; 6. 66-Kyle Morris, 00:24.547[18]; 7. 70J-Anthony Johnson, 00:24.548[11]; 8. 79-Jeremy Brownell, 00:24.647[6]; 9. 22B-Quinton Bishop, 00:24.797[4]; 10. 66C-Cody Vanguilder, 00:25.061[26]; 11. 44M-Richard Fleury, 00:25.250[9]; 12. 61-Jp Corrow, 00:25.458[8]; 13. 65-Luke Marcheski, 00:25.478[16]; 14. 5-Christopher Hewitt, 00:25.707[10]; 15. 83-Mark Mahoney, 00:25.792[15]; 16. 6A-Adam Stewart, 00:25.809[24]; 17. 39-Ryan Patch, 00:26.551[22]; 18. 51-James Murray, 00:31.695[19]; 19. (DNS) 54JR-Jakobee Alger; 20. (DNS) 54X-Ron Alger; 21. (DNS) 4-Chase Allen; 22. (DNS) 27X-Brian Blake; 23. (DNS) 11-TJ Knight; 24. (DNS) 1X-Austin McKirryher; 25. (DNS) 4D-Donald Olden; 26. (DNS) 15-Tim Robinson; 27. (DNS) 08-David Hunt Jr

Crown Vic

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 227-Rob Steele[8]; 2. 312-Bradford Cram[7]; 3. 22G-Elisabeth Dupont[1]; 4. 4-Eric Friend[9]; 5. 91-Norm Morrill[3]; 6. 17T-Ron Tollner[6]; 7. 91X-Mathew Decker[5]; 8. 722-Hellen Steele[2]; 9. C4-Scott Cram[4]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 4-Eric Friend[8]; 2. 91-Norm Morrill[3]; 3. 91X-Mathew Decker[5]; 4. 17T-Ron Tollner[6]; 5. 227-Rob Steele[9]; 6. 312-Bradford Cram[7]; 7. 22G-Elisabeth Dupont[1]; 8. 722-Hellen Steele[2]; 9. C4-Scott Cram[4]

Hot Laps 1: 1. 17T-Ron Tollner, 00:23.707[9]; 2. 312-Bradford Cram, 00:23.872[1]; 3. 4-Eric Friend, 00:24.234[5]; 4. 91-Norm Morrill, 00:26.138[6]; 5. 91X-Mathew Decker, 00:26.623[3]; 6. C4-Scott Cram, 00:28.004[2]; 7. (DNS) 22G-Elisabeth Dupont; 8. (DNS) 722-Hellen Steele; 9. (DNS) 227-Rob Steele