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2026 Indoor Auto Racing Championship Series Dates Confirmed

by MikeSeptember 5, 2025

Allentown, PA – PPL Center – January 9 & 10, 2026
Atlantic City, NJ – Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall – January 29, 30 & 31, 2026
Trenton, NJ – CURE Insurance Arena – February 19, 20 & 21, 2026

Trenton, NJ – Plans are well underway for the 2026 Indoor Auto Racing Series, with dates and host hotels confirmed for January and February events in Allentown, PA, Atlantic City, NJ, and Trenton, NJ. The expanded schedule will feature a third day of racing in Trenton, highlighted by the Slingshot division.

Atlantic City tickets will be first to go on sale via Ticketmaster on September 19, with special pre-sale opportunities beginning September 17.

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Thunder Road Office Releases $103,000 Northfield Savings Bank Milk Bowl Entry Form

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 5, 2025

Thunder Road Milk Bowl — With the Thunder Road office releasing the Vermont Milk Bowl entry blank with over $100,000 in purse monies available on Saturday and Sunday, October 4 & 5, already defending champion Marcel Gravel and three-time champion Jason Corliss have thrown their hat in the ring. (Alan Ward photo)

Barre, VT – With the cool air already making its way through the hills and valleys of the Green Mountain State, so too comes the official entry form for the 63rd Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank. Vermont’s greatest racing spectacle returns to Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl on Sunday, October 5 following the Booth Bros./Hood Milk Qualifying Day on Saturday, October 4. Over $100,000 is available to the Maplefields/Irving Oil Late Model teams during the weekend as these brave drivers contest in the Toughest Short Track Stock Car Race in North America!

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USAC East Coast Sprints-Modifieds-Sportsman Make A Grandview Speedway Triple Header This Saturday Night

by MikeSeptember 4, 2025

BECHTELSVILLE, PA. – Wingless Sprint cars from the USAC East Coast Series will join the weekly stock car action this Saturday night at Grandview Speedway.

Grandview Speedway will be presenting another NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series program this Saturday featuring the T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, the T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman, and the only visit of the season by the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars.

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Race Of Champions Weekend At Lake Erie Speedway To Host Final 250-Lap Event

by MikeSeptember 4, 2025September 4, 2025

Lake Erie / Andy Jankowiak — Andy Jankowiak

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.

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Chemung Speedrome Hobby Stocks Added To Race Of Champions Weekend At Lake Erie Speedway

by MikeSeptember 4, 2025

North East, Pa. – (September 5, 2025) – The Chemung Speedrome Hobby Stocks will be part of the action during Race of Champions Weekend, September 12–14, 2025, at Lake Erie Speedway in North East, Pa., adding even more excitement to one of the biggest weekends in short track racing.

The Chemung (N.Y.) Speedrome Hobby Stocks have quickly established themselves as a competitive and entertaining division, providing an entry-level opportunity for racers in the Southern Tier region. After requests from competitors and discussions with Chemung Speedrome promoter Ray Hodge, the decision was made to include the division in the prestigious Lake Erie event.

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Sunoco Drive For The Cup Opens This Weekend At Seekonk Speedway

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 4, 2025

SEEKONK, Mass. — Seekonk Speedway is set to crown champions 2025 track champions in the month of September.

The Sunoco Drive For The Cup kicks-off this weekend on both Fast Friday and NASCAR Saturday, with six drivers in each division racing for the championship. On top of those six title contenders, the rest of the field will be looking to capture the trophy and improve their points position heading for the stretch run.

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Adam Gray Leads Stafford Late Models Into Paradiso Insurance 50

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 4, 2025

(Stafford Springs, CT)—With the 2025 season at Stafford Motor Speedway beginning to wind down and head towards crowning five track champions, the track’s Late Model division is set for their biggest race of the year, the Paradiso Insurance Late Model 50. The Late Model field will take to the track this Friday night, September 5^th for their extra distance classic with 4-time Stafford Late Model champion Adam Gray leading the field. 2025 has been a self-admittedly up and down year for the driver of the #97 Meadows Motor Cars Chevrolet, but Gray will be looking to post a solid finish to kick off the final four races of the season.

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Lap Money And Extra Bonuses On The Line For Grandview Speedway Freedom 76 & 38 On September 19 & 20

by MikeSeptember 4, 2025

BECHTELSVILLE, PA. – The monetary rewards continue to grow for the biggest racing event of the season at Grandview Speedway, the Freedom 76 weekend!

The lap money for the lap leaders during the Freedom 76 continues to grow as many fans and area businesses continue to sponsor laps for the historical race, with many laps now being sponsored twice. In addition, many bonuses have been posted for both the Freedom 76 T.P. Trailer Modified Championship and the Freedom 38 T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman Championship races.

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Historic Festival 43 Transforms Lime Rock Park into a Living Museum of Motorsport

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 3, 2025

Grand Marshal Rob Dyson and Honored Guest David Hobbs lead celebration of motorsport history at Lime Rock Park

LAKEVILLE, CONN. (1 September 2025) – Over Labor Day Weekend, Lime Rock Park hosted the 43rd edition of the track-produced event known as Historic Festival, a five-day celebration of motorsport heritage that drew the largest collection of vintage cars in the circuit’s modern history. With 38 races from nine race groups, three special exhibitions from the Ragtime Racers, more than 300 race entries, 125 parade participants, dozens of collector cars on display and nearly 1,000 rare classic vintage automobiles and motorcycles that participated in Sunday in the Park, the storied Connecticut circuit became a rolling museum of speed and history.

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Pair of Changes Announced for Two September Pro All Stars Series Dates at White Mountain

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 3, 2025

N. Woodstock, NH — In an exciting change announced by Pro All Stars Series officials at the end of last week, two different divisions will take on the White Mountain Motorsports Park for the first time! PASS Officials have added the Mad Bombers, Oxford Plains Speedway’s most popular support division, to the Saturday, September 20 showdown during NASCAR Weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway while the Thunderstock Crown Vics are now a part of the September 27 date during White Mountain’s huge track championship weekend.

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