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!
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.
One thing is becoming abundantly clear with the budding driving career of 18-year-old Chase Grennan of Glen Cove, the bright spotlight of signature NASCAR Modified events at Riverhead Raceway doesn’t intimidate him at all. In fact, he thrives on them and has been dubbed with the moniker “Big Time”. Saturday, the college freshman set fast time and led all but the first lap of the Cecil Palm Tree 66 for his third win of the season, all Crown Jewel Series events for the Ted Christopher Cup. Add his upset win in the 2024 Islip 300 and the only left for “Big Time” Chase to accomplish is to win a 50-lap weekly event.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway hosted USNE First Responder Friday on September 12th with the TC 13 Shootout joining Stafford’s five weekly divisions in feature action. The SK Modified® division ran their regularly scheduled 40-lap feature as well as the 3rd Annual TC 13 Shootout, a 13 lap race contested between the top-13 finishers from the 40-lap feature. Michael Christopher, Jr. was the big winner of the night taking home the TC 13 Shootout trophy and the $1,313 to win TC 13 Shootout.
The annual Cecil Palm Tree 66 NASCAR Modified event is presented to honor memory of the late Eddie Partridge, a lover of the open wheel machines and the excitement they provided wherever they raced, especially Riverhead Raceway which he, his wife Connie and nephew Tom Gatz purchased in 2015. Saturday when the green flag waves over the field to begin the Cecil Palm Tree 66, the usual open wheel excitement will be ramped up with the 2025 NASCAR Modified and Crown Jewel Series Ted Christopher Cup championships hanging in the balance, just the way Eddie Partridge the Modified fan would have loved.
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.
SEEKONK, Mass. — Seekonk Speedway has a packed weekend of excitement planned September 12-13, with drivers continuing their battle for the championship on both Fast Friday and NASCAR Saturday. On top of that, Saturday night is First Responders Night, with free admission for First Responders courtesy of IBEW Local 99, along with the annual Wall of Fame induction. This year, Ronnie Pond, a “Master of Speed” and Johnny Tripp, a multiple-division winner and a former track champion, will both be inducted at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday night.
CLAREMONT – N.H. – Guy Caron stormed to victory Friday night at Claremont Motorsports Park, leading the last 29 laps to win the Mike Richardson Memorial main event in the Outlaw Late Models at the Thrasher Road speedplant.
Caron, the reigning Outlaw Late Model division champion, has run only selected races this summer at the third-mile oval but Friday shook the dust off to win the prestigious 50-;lap annual event.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway returned to weekly racing action with the Late Model division taking center stage with their extra distance Paradiso Insurance Late Model 50 feature event on Friday night, September 5th. Chris Meyer was the big winner of the night by winning the Paradiso Insurance Late Model 50. Meyer had the car of Chris Buffone right behind him for roughly the final 35 laps and Buffone actually took the lead from Meyer coming to the white flag, but Meyer was able to retake the lead on the final lap and win the race. Other winners on the night were Mikey Flynn in the SK Modified® feature, Nickolas Hovey in the SK Light feature, Travis Hydar in the Limited Late Model feature, and Brent Gleason in the Street Stock feature.
North East, Pa. – (September 5, 2025) – When the checkered flag waves on Saturday, September 13, it will mark the final running of the Race of Champions 250 in its traditional 250-lap format at Lake Erie Speedway in North East, Pa.
Modeled after the long-distance Modified classics once held at Pocono Raceway, the Lake Erie edition has quickly earned a place among asphalt racing’s crown jewels. Champions such as Matt Hirschman (Northampton, Pa.), Patrick Emerling (Orchard Park, N.Y.), and Andy Jankowiak (Buffalo, N.Y.) have conquered the event, each adding their name to the history books.
