Flamboro set to host two APC events
Flamboro Speedway will host two events in the popular APC United Late Model Series this year with 100-lappers June 5 and July 17 at the one-third-mile paved Millgrove oval. The companion Super Stock Series will also take to the track for Flamboro’s first date to begin its second year.
The Flamboro stops are two dates in the 10-race APC LM schedule, which opens at Sunset Speedway May 22 and finishes at Jukasa Motor Speedway Sept. 25. Other host tracks are the speedways of Delaware, Sauble and Peterborough. The Super Stocks have a five-race card for 2021.
Merrittville Speedway kicks off its 70th (that’s right, 70th) year of continuous operation April 17 with its Spring Sizzler at what is considered the oldest existing dirt track in Canada. Headlining the show will be the 360 Sprint Cars and the 358 Modifieds, plus the regular Street Stock and Sportsman divisions.
The track will then continue to run every Saturday night throughout the season featuring a wide variety of regular and touring classes, including the Action Sprint Tour. The popular school bus races will return with races in May and September and the season will close Sept. 12 with a 100-lap enduro.
Here are some updates on the new Nissan Sentra Cup, a showroom stock road race series that will eventually replace the six-year-old Nissan Micra Cup.
While the Micra Cup has been popular and successful with racing on the circuits
of Ontario and Quebec, the automaker phased out the car in 2019, so racing the larger, more powerful Sentra will begin this year. Both the Sentra and Micra will race in the same events, with the Sentra teams starting first on the grid, and awards and finishes will be granted for both. Nissan Canada believes drivers will step up into the Sentra division, still a low-cost option into road racing. The series has the full blessing of NISMO, Nissan’s global performance and racing program. Both series are exclusive to Canada.
Nissan recently announced its 2021 schedule, with six dates beginning May 21-23 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. It will continue throughout the season at several Quebec circuits, including the Circuit Gillies-Villeneuve on June 11-13 during the Canadian Grand Prix (with an alternate date if the GP is not held).
For the first time since 1961, the NHRA will not begin its yearly card with the
Winternationals in Pomona, Calif. The opener in the 22-race series presented by Camping World will be the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., on March 11-14.
This will be the 53rd running of the GatorNats, the third oldest stop on the NHRA tour. Two weeks later, the NHRA heads to Atlanta for the Southern Nationals, and then it’s travelling west to Pomona for the Lucas Oil WinterNationals on April 9-11. The change has not been officially explained, but it is believed the NHRA had to juggle its schedule due to COVID restrictions.
The GatorNats has been a favourite. This year could be different with pandemic restrictions. The first WinterNats were held in Florida in 1960 as part of NASCAR’s Speed Weeks on a former air strip about 30 kilometres north of the then new Daytona International Speedway.