Round Two Voting Now Closed for TCM Best of 2015 Awards (Ballot Here)

VOTING CLOSED

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The second round of the TCM Best of 2015 Stock Car Racing Awards begin now!

This ballot, which will run until October 7th at Noon Atlantic, consists of four different awards, including the second round of the TCM Most Popular Driver Award voting, which has taken on a different format in 2015.

Read below about the new format, the nominees for the TCM Fan Favorite Monthly Operating and Special Event Short Track, along with TCM Fan Favorite Touring Series, and cast your vote for in the “last chance round” of the TCM Most Popular Driver Award, a part of the TCM Best of 2015 Stock Car Racing Awards!

TCM Most Popular Driver Voting Format:

Round One – All 88 nominated drivers have been split, at random, into one of three groups of drivers. Call them heats, if you will. The top three from each group from Round One will automatically move on to the final round of voting, beginning on Thursday, October 8th at Noon Atlantic. The balance of the top ten from each group in Round One voting (positions fourth through tenth in each group) will be placed into a 21 driver pool, call it a Last Chance if you will, for Round Two voting.

Round Two – Round Two voting runs from Wednesday, September 30th at 6pm to Wednesday, October 7th at Noon Atlantic and will feature the 21 drivers that placed in the top ten in their Round One groups but were unsuccessful to transfer to the final round. The top three from this group will transfer into the final round of voting.

Round Three – The final round of voting for the 2015 TCM Most Popular Driver Award will feature the top three from each of the groups from Round One, plus the top three from the Round Two group, comprising a ballot of 12 drivers. The winner of this final vote will receive the TCM Most Popular Driver Award. Voting runs from Thursday, October 8th at Noon Atlantic to Thursday, October 22nd at Noon Atlantic.

TCM Track and Series Award Nominees

TCM Monthly Operating Short Track:

Eastbound Park: Eastbound Park is Newfoundland’s only operating paved stock car oval with racing from May to October. Divisions include the Islander RV Sportsman, Hanlon Realty Legends, Bandoleros and Atlantic Dodge Dealers Mini Stocks.

Lake Doucette Motor Speedway: South of Digby lies the unique 1/2-mile oval of Lake Doucette Motor Speedway. Running a Four Cylinder and V8 Class, the track typically contests races every second Sunday afternoon at 1pm.

Petty Raceway: Located in the shadows of Moncton, New Brunswick, Petty International Raceway has four house divisions – the Leisure Days RV Bandoleros, Mister Transmission Mini Stock, CMax Street Stocks and Sportsman. Petty Raceway also hosts four touring series each season: the Atlantic Modified Tour, Atlantic Tiltload Maritime League of Legends, Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour and Eastern Super Mini Cup Series. The track operates race events from May to October.

Valley Raceway: Nestled in the Annapolis Valley, just outside of Kingston, sits Valley Raceway. Nova Scotia’s only dirt track hosts Four Cylinder, V8 and Unlimited class racing every second Sunday at 1pm with a growing fan base and car count showing up to compete each week.

TCM Special Events Track (Five or Less Stock Car Events):

Cape Breton Miners Memorial Speedway: Cape Breton’s only stock car oval on the Grand Lake Road in Sydney hosts the NAPA Sportsman Series five times a year, along with racing in the Cape Breton Trailer Sales Street Stocks and Atlantic Cat, Hewitt Rentals Mini Stocks from June to September.

Riverside International Speedway: The crown jewel of stock car racing in Atlantic Canada. Riverside International Speedway hosts the Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour three times a season, including the iconic IWK 250 in July. The NAPA Sportsman Series and Atlantic Tiltload Maritime League of Legends are regular visitors to the high banked oval in James River, Nova Scotia. The track is also the only Atlantic Canadian venue for the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series. Racing takes place at the track from June to September.

Shediac’s Centre for Speed: Going back to a one weekend schedule for stock cars in 2015, the Atlantic Championships remains the lone stock car event on the slate at the Grand-Barachois, NB track. While music events, demolitions and drifting highlight the schedule at the oval, the annual October event remains a favorite on many racer’s schedules.

Speedway Miramichi: Changing ownership in 2015 from Jason Carnahan to Barry Richard, Speedway Miramichi’s Chi City Showdown event remained a success and grew in popularity this past September. The track also hosts period stock car racing for Street Stocks, Mini Stocks, the Atlantic Modified Tour and Eastern Super Mini Cup Series from May to October.

TCM Fan Favorite Touring Series:

Atlantic Modified Tour: Taking on a new look this season, the mainstay Atlantic Canadian series grew in car count as the season wore on in 2015. A new champion emerged in Brandon Skidmore, a contender emerged in Justin Beers and the racing, which took place on three New Brunswick short tracks, was exciting to watch. The series contests events at Speedway Miramichi, Petty Raceway and Speedway 660 from May to September.

Atlantic Tiltload Maritime League of Legends: Under new management for the second year, the Atlantic Tiltload Maritime League of Legends Tour continues to grow with the average car count in 2015 growing to 17 cars. The series added Oyster Bed Speedway to a schedule that includes Riverside International Speedway, Scotia Speedworld, Petty Raceway and Atlantic Motorsports Park. The series, which started in May, caps their season at the road course in North Salem, NS on October 11th.

Eastern Super Mini Cup Series: Continuing to build their unique brand of stock car entertainment, the series contested races in 2015 at Speedway Miramichi, Oyster Bed Speedway, Petty Raceway and their finale will run tentatively on October 3rd at the CENTRE For Speed. These little machines put on a big show when they hit the track and have even attracted four cylinder stars Patricia Taylor and Mike Weagle to split a car in a part time schedule in 2015!

NAPA Sportsman Series: The popular Late Model Sportsman touring series runs nine races between Riverside International Speedway and Cape Breton Miners Memorial Speedway from June to September. Including some of the top talent in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the series even attracted a handful of cars from Newfoundland for a part time schedule in 2015.

Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour: The reigning TCM Fan Favorite Touring Series champion enjoyed one of the closest title fights in their 15 year history in 2015, with Donald Chisholm edging out youngsters Cole Butcher and Dylan Blenkhorn for the championship. The racing, which took place at Scotia Speedworld, Riverside Speedway, Petty Raceway, Speedway 660 and Oyster Bed Speedway, was close from flag-to-flag and featured some exciting edge-of-your-seat Pro Stock action through every turn! Their schedule runs from May to September.

A reminder – as in previous years, we are only allowing one vote per person, per email address, per voting round. Multiple votes from the same email addresses or same person in the same round will not be counted. Emails that bounce or are invalid when we send out the confirmation email of your vote at the end of the voting period will have the vote associated with that account not counted.

All email addresses will be added to the 2016 Tim’s Corner Motorsports Newsletter List for the upcoming season.

 

Thanks for taking your time to vote, after all, without you, there is no Tim’s Corner Motorsports! Good luck to all nominees and we hope to see you back to vote as a part of Round Three beginning on Thursday, October 8th!