Legends Tour Ready to Start Season this Saturday at Speedworld

HALIFAX, NS – After a busy off-season the Atlantic Tiltload Maritime League of Legends Tour is ready to get back on track this Saturday at Scotia Speedworld. The Maritime winter brought a number of changes to the series for 2015, including a new series sponsor in Atlantic Tiltload, a new championship point fund for eligible full-time competitors totaling $5,000, the announcement that the popular touring division will return to Oyster Bed Speedway in Prince Edward Island for the first time in nearly five years and Tim Terry filling the role as public address announcer for the series.

Pre-season registrations will show there will be a healthy mix of returning veterans and new blood to the series when the green flag flies this weekend. The reigning series champion Justin MacNeill (Bedford) knows how to get around the 3/10-mile oval quickly and has won multiple features at his home track.

Nicholas Naugle (Dartmouth) turned heads last year by winning a season high three events on the series, including the Scotia Tire 50 at Scotia Speedworld last August. Naugle will look to back up his hot rookie season by getting his sophomore season off on the right foot Saturday afternoon, but over a dozen others will look to also get a step up on their competition with a checkered flag on Saturday. “Miss Rawdon Rocket” Emily Meehan (Rawdon Gold Mines), Jeff Cruickshank (Hantsport), Jarrett Butcher (Porter’s Lake), Danny Harvey (Lantz), Paul Goulden (Shelburne) and Joey Lawson (Porter’s Lake) are among 2015 pre-season registrants that finished in the top ten in the championship standings in 2014. Butcher is the defending winner of the Atlantic Tiltload Maritime League of Legends 50 at Scotia Speedworld.

Joining them on the series include at least four drivers who will be looking to capture the Rookie of the Year Award on the Atlantic Tiltload Maritime League of Legends Tour. Bandolero division standouts Cory Hall (Jolicure, NB), Adam Meehan (Rawdon Gold Mines) and Cole Tanner (Shubenacadie) have made the move to the Legends division and each have signaled their intention to run the full series in 2015. The trio owns a total of five track championships and dozens of feature victories amongst them in Bandolero competition and each will be a factor over the new season. They will be joined by Fredericton’s (NB) Dustin Tucker, the son of three-time Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour champion Shawn Tucker, in the Rookie of the Year chase.

The Atlantic Tiltload Maritime League of Legends Tour 50 is a part of Scotia Speedworld’s opening weekend for the 2015 racing season. Included on the card is also the opening round for the Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour as they contest the Lucas Oil 100. Racing action gets under way with qualifying races for both feature events at 4 p.m. Tickets are available at the gate on race day.

Atlantic Tiltload Limited, with locations in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and Saint John, New Brunswick, is a Canadian owned and operated transport company specializing in the movement of heavy industrial equipment, including overweight and over-dimensional shipments. Our 24 hour Hot Shot Service enables our equipment to be mobilized within one hour of receiving a call, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. For more information on Atlantic Tiltload Limited, please call 902-468-9438 or www.atlantictiltload.com.

The Maritime League of Legends Association was formed in 2005 by a group of racer’s wanting to grow the Legends Cars division in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. In 2015, the Maritime League of Legends Series will visit five venues throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island between May and October. For more information on the Maritime League of Legends please visit www.maritimelegends.ca.

Scotia Speedworld (SSW) is a 3/10-mile asphalt oval racing facility. SSW is the only track in Nova Scotia to host a weekly racing series, which runs May through September and features six different classes of racecars. SSW also hosts special events, including Monster Jam and the Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour. SSW is located at Exit 6 on Highway 102, across from the Halifax Stanfield International Airport. For more information please visit www.ScotiaSpeedworld.ca, call the Event Hotline at (902) 873-2277, or the office at (902) 481-2514.