JOE GIBBS RACING ARCA RACE INFO
DATE: Sunday, August 17th, 2025
RACE: Springfield ARCA 100
TRACK: Illinois State Fairgrounds
TRACK LENGTH: One-mile dirt Oval
TV: FS1 (1:00 PM CT/2:00PM EST)
RADIO: ARCARacing.com
Author: Mike
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Huge Weekend of Racing August 15-17 At Lincoln Speedway And The Illinois State Fairgrounds
MOWA Sprint Cars at Lincoln, USAC Silver Crown Series, ARCA Menards Series, & DIRTcar Sportsman
The huge weekend of racing begins Friday night, August 15 at Lincoln Speedway featuring MOWA Sprint Cars, Saturday afternoon, August 16 with USAC Silver Crown and Sportsman at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, and Sunday afternoon, August 17 with the ARCA Allen Crowe Memorial 100 and the Sportsman Nationals at the Illinois State Fair.
Star-Studded IROC field Ready To Steal The Show At Monterey Historics
Marshall Pruett of Racer reports that (s)omething extraordinary is on the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion schedule this week at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca… IROC.
Separate from the event-wide celebration of Formula 1’s 75th anniversary and many of the familiar classes that appear every August, a field of 26 cars hailing from all eras of the International Race of Champions – the former IROC series – will bring a new wrinkle to North America’s version of the Goodwood Road Racing Festival.
Centralia, IL Veteran Racer Joe Cooksey Returns To State Fair Races Sunday
August 12, 2025 Springfield, IL-Centralia’s Joe Cooksey, a long time ARCA Menards Series competitor, has teamed with Morris, Illinois owner/driver to return to ARCA dirt track competition in the Allen Crowe 100 Sunday at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. Joe has 145 ARCA starts in a 19-year ARCA career including a pole position in 200 on the DuQuoin “Magic Mile”.
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Celebrates Fifth Anniversary as Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion Sanctioning Body at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
MONTEREY, California (August 12, 2025) – Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) celebrates its fifth anniversary this week at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca as the official sanctioning body of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, the premier historic and vintage motorsports event in North America that takes place August 13 – 16.
The HSR team returned to Monterey last week to assist in the successful running of the Monterey Pre-Reunion and Corkscrew Hillclimb. The HSR group of primarily experienced historic and vintage motorsports professionals continues straight through this Saturday’s final day of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
Front Row Motorsports: Richmond Raceway NCTS Race Advance- Layne Riggs / Chandler Smith
NASCAR NCTS eero 250 – Front Row Motorsports
- Date: Friday, August 15, 2025
- Event: Race 18 of 25
- Series: NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
- Location: Richmond Raceway (0.75-miles)
- # of Laps: 250
- Time/TV/Radio: 7:30 PM ET on FS1/SiriusXM channel 90
Spire Motorsports Cup Series Richmond Raceway Advance
In 21 NASCAR Cup Series starts at Richmond (Va.) Raceway, Spire Motorsports has logged one top-10 finish. Carson Hocevar earned a team-best eighth-place result in last season’s summer stop to the Virginia oval. Spire Motorsports fields the Nos. 7, 71 and 77 Chevrolet ZL1s in the Cup Series for Justin Haley, Michael McDowell and Hocevar, respectively.
The 400-lap event will be televised live on USA Saturday, Aug. 16 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The 25th of 36 points-paying races on the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series calendar will be broadcast live on the Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, Channel 90.
Front Row Motorsports: Richmond Raceway Competition Notes – Noah Gragson and the No. 4 ArmorGuard Coatings Ford Team
Front Row Motorsports’ Noah Gragson: Cook Out 400
Date: Saturday, August 16, 2025
Event: Race 27 of 38
Series: NASCAR Cup Series
Location: Richmond Raceway (0.75-miles)
# of Laps: 400
Time/TV/Radio: 7:30 PM ET on USA/MRN/SiriusXM channel 90
Justin Grant Back Driving At Springfield IL Mile This Saturday Afternoon After Lawrenceburg Crash
August 12, 2025-Springfield, IL-Less than two weeks after breaking his foot in a sprint car crash at the Lawrenceburg (IN) Speedway, USAC champ and 2-time Bettenhausen 100 winner Justin Grant of California is back behind the wheel of the Hemelgarn big car. Grant gingerly climbed into the cockpit of his machine this past weekend at Salem Speedway and managed a second place finish, completing all 100 laps.
Spire Motorsports NCTS eero 250 Race Advance
In four NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series starts at Richmond (Va.) Raceway, Spire Motorsports has earned two top-20 finishes. Rajah Caruth, driver of the team’s No. 71 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Silverado, collected a team-best 17th-place finish at the facility last August. The Mooresville, N.C., organization fields the Nos. 7, 71 and 77 Chevrolets full time in the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series. The No. 7 entry will see a rotating roster of all-star caliber drivers throughout the remainder of the season, while Rajah Caruth and NASCAR Cup Series veteran Corey LaJoie will pilot the Nos. 71 and 77, respectively.