Author: Lou Modestino
Fireworks-a-Plenty for Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Championship Night at Thunder Road

Barre, VT – It has all come down to this. One final Thursday night of the season and one last chance for your highbank heroes to do good on their championship hopes at Thunder Road International Speedbowl during Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Championship Night. While there’s sure to be plenty of fireworks on the asphalt, there will also be plenty of fireworks in the sky following the racing action courtesy of Northstar Fireworks of East Montpelier!
Final Midweek Show Brings Full Fendered and Open Wheeled Twin 50s to Thompson Speedway

Barre, VT & Naples, ME — With autumn setting in, Thompson Speedway brings the final midweek show of the season this Wednesday, September 17th with the Fall Showdown headlined by Twin 50s for the Outlaw Open Modifieds and the track championship Late Models! The full seven division card is sure to be a whopper in the final test and tune prior to the 63rd Sunoco World Series on October 10th, 11th and 12th!
Top Five: Storylines to Watch as the NASCAR Playoffs Make a Pit Stop in New England

LOUDON, N.H. – Fans headed to New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) for New England’s only NASCAR Playoffs weekend are in for a wicked good time at “The Magic Mile” as drivers take to the track for three full days of action-packed racing this Friday through Sunday, Sept. 19-21. From one driver’s chance to go back-to-back and be the first to lock in to the NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) Playoffs Round of 8 to the majority of the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series (NCTS) field racing at NHMS for the very first time during a cutoff race, there will be no shortage of thrilling, white-knuckled excitement for fans to enjoy. Here are five must-watch storylines headed into the weekend:
Eight 2025 Champions Crowned Friday At Claremont Motorsports Park

CLAREMONT, N.H. – Claremont Motorsports Park closed out the Weekly Racing Series portion of its ambitious 78th season of oval track competition Friday, crowning eight different drivers as champions of their 2025 divisions, no fewer than four of them first timers atop their classes at the historic third-mile speedplant.
Motorsports TV Schedule For Monday, 9/15/25 Through Sunday, 9/21/25
Lou Modestino sends in this weeks’ motorsports TV schedule, via RacingTVSchedule. All times are eastern.
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Brown Dominates White Mountain Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Fall Foliage 200 While Gluchacki Finally Earns the Brookside Equipment Triple Crown

N. Woodstock, NH — Thirty-seven Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour teams made the trek to New Hampshire’s scenic White Mountain Motorsports Park to contest both the 47th Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Fall Foliage 200 and crown the 2025 Brookside Equipment Sales Triple Crown champion. With the hills surrounding the popular quarter mile alight with bright yellows, deep reds and the occasional orange tint, the time was right for the annual autumn special.
Months of Track Prep Have New Hampshire Motor Speedway Ready for Race Fans

The NHMS Operations and Maintenance teams have worked tirelessly for months to ensure New Hampshire Motor Speedway is ready to welcome race fans starting this Saturday when campgrounds open for New England’s only NASCAR Playoffs weekend next weekend.
LOUDON, N.H. – This Saturday, Sept. 13 marks the start of nine days of NASCAR in New England with campgrounds opening at 8 a.m. to welcome thousands of campers from all over who make New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) their home-away-from-home while their favorite drivers battle it out on “The Magic Mile.” The NHMS Operations and Maintenance teams have worked tirelessly for months preparing the 1,200-acre property, from the campgrounds to the racetrack, to shine its brightest.
Hinesburg’s Derrick Calkins Cashes In On Vermont Agency Of Transportation Night At Thunder Road

Barre, VT – The inaugural $2,000-to-win, 100 lap special for the Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers certainly did not disappoint on Vermont Agency of Transportation night at Thunder Road. Thirty teams entered the event with only Ty Delphia unable to take the green after fighting mechanical woes all afternoon. It was a spirited side-by-side race at the front of the field starting with Rich Lowrey and Mike Martin at the onset.
Shane van Gisbergen Looks Ahead to His New Hampshire Cup Debut at the Mobil 1 301

With four road-course wins on the season so far, Shane van Gisbergen admits New Hampshire Motor Speedway will be a challenge, but he’s up for it.
LOUDON, N.H. – NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) rookie Shane van Gisbergen locked himself in to the Round of 16 of the NASCAR Playoffs with four road-course wins so far this season, but ovals have been a struggle. With his full focus currently on making it to the Round of 12 with a strong showing at this Saturday’s cutoff race at Bristol Motor Speedway, van Gisbergen will soon shift his efforts to prepare for tackling New Hampshire Motor Speedway’s (NHMS) flat 1.058-mile oval.

