OL’ BOY CUP X Up Next For Race Of Champions Modified Series At Lancaster Motorplex This Thursday, June 26

by MikeJuly 1, 2026

LANCASTER, N.Y. – The Race of Champions Modified Series returns to Lancaster Motorplex this Thursday, July 2 for the tenth running of the Ol’ Boy Cup, a 60-lap sprint event paying $5,000 to win.

The Ol’ Boy Cup IX marks the Series’ first appearance at the half-mile asphalt oval this season, bringing top-tier Modified action to one of the region’s most storied venues.

Paulie Hartwig, III, of Galloway, N.J., heads into the event with momentum after capturing his first-ever Race of Champions Modified Series victory this past Saturday at Evans Mills Raceway Park.

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Ty Dillon To Make 300th NASCAR Cup Series Start at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday

by MikeJuly 1, 2026

WELCOME, N.C. — Kaulig Racing driver Ty Dillon will make his 300th NASCAR Cup Series start Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway.

“Making 300 starts in the NASCAR Cup Series is so special to me,” Dillon said.

“As a kid, you dream of racing in the Cup Series, starting the Daytona 500 and competing for championships,” he said. “As your career goes on, you realize how important and special it is to keep making starts at this level. I’m proud to reach this mark, and I’m grateful I’ve been able to stick around long enough to gain so many experiences racing at the highest level all over the country. I’m pumped for this weekend and hopeful there are another 300 starts ahead.”

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Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing Team Winward Racing Bounces Back with IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Victory at Watkins Glen International

by MikeJuly 1, 2026

WATKINS GLEN, New York – Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing team Winward Racing successfully renewed its 2026 championship campaign in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge series at Watkins Glen International with a victory in Saturday’s two-hour race on the 3.4-mile circuit with co-drivers Bryce Ward and Philip Ellis in the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT4. A fast-closing Ellis inherited the top spot with less than 20 minutes to go when the team that led the majority of the race slowed with a cut tire.

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Paulie Hartwig, III Becomes The Newest Race Of Champions Modified Series Winner In The Bob Johnson Autogroup Rocket 76’er At Evans Mills Raceway Park

by MikeJuly 1, 2026

EVANS MILLS, NY (June 29, 2026) – Paulie Hartwig III of Galloway, NJ, continued his rise through the Modified ranks Saturday night by charging from the 11th starting position to earn his first career Race of Champions Modified Series victory in the Bob Johnson Auto Group Rocket 76’er at Evans Mills Raceway Park.

Hartwig’s breakthrough victory did not come easily.

Standing between him and Victory Lane was one of the most accomplished Modified racers of the modern era, Matt Hirschman of Northampton, PA.

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The Seven Year Itch – NASCAR Returns to Chicagoland for First Time Since 2019

by MikeJune 29, 2026

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (June 29, 2026) – Since its debut in 2001, Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois, has hosted 94 races across seven series on its 1.5-mile oval. None, however, have been in the last seven years.

When the checkered flag waved on June 30, 2019, to mark the end of the Camping World 400 NASCAR Cup Series race, it also marked the end of racing on Chicagoland’s D-shaped layout. Save for serving as a storage area for pickup trucks awaiting microchips during the global shortage brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and hosting a one-off SuperMotocross event in 2023, Chicagoland has been dormant. Scooby-Doo vibes replaced the “Boogity, boogity, boogity, let’s go racing!” mantra made famous by NASCAR Hall of Fame driver and FOX broadcaster Darrell Waltrip.

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Cadillac Wins Sahlen’s Six Hours on Busy Watkins Glen Weekend

by MikeJune 29, 2026

Three Takeaways: Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen

By John Oreovicz

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Throughout the week leading into the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen at Watkins Glen International, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers were keeping a wary eye on the weather.

“It’s a lot like Le Mans or Spa in that the weather pops up out of nowhere,” said Ricky Taylor, driver of the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R.

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Rain Again Takes The Win Saturday Night At Grandview Speedway – PA 410 Sprint Speed Week Tuesday June 30 Is Next – LDE Modified Match Races Join Show On July 4 – Firecracker 40 July 11 – $10 Back To The 90’s Night July 18

by MikeJune 29, 2026

RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY ON SATURDAYS – AFTERNOON RAINS AGAIN RESULT IN SATURDAY RACES TO BE CANCELLED AT GRANDVIEW SPEEDWAY

PENNSYLVANIA 410 SPRINT CAR SPEED WEEK NEXT UP ON TUESDAY JUNE 30

INDEPENDENCE DAY RACES JULY 4 INCLUDE LOW DOWN THROW DOWN MODIFIED MATCH RACES – FIRECRACKER 40 JULY 11 – BACK TO THE 90’S $10 NIGHT JULY 18

BECHTELSVILLE, PA. – It is no secret that the surrounding Berks County region could use some rain, but it does not have to happen on race day Saturdays!

On and off late morning and afternoon rain showers, which were predicted to continue until close to race time, leaving no time to prepare the track for the evening’s program, caused the cancellation of the race event scheduled for Saturday night June 27 at Grandview Speedway.

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Ron Silk Earns $10,000 Monaco Modified Pay-Day at Wednesday Thompson Special

by Lou ModestinoJune 26, 2026

Thompson, CT — A beautiful afternoon greeted the new and returning fans, teams and supporters at Thompson Speedway Wednesday night. Rookie Charles Beal led the start of the Street Stock main event with outside polesitter Mike Viens going around on lap one. Back under green, Jarrod Soucy stole the lead as Al Stone III and Ryan Lineham joined the picture up front. Veterans Stone and Lineham motored under Soucy by lap six with Ryan Lineham taking the win over Al Stone III and Soucy holding on for third.

Rookies Mikey Flynn and Andrew Brousseau brought the Thompson Sunoco Modifieds to green before Rob Schultz made contact with the backstretch wall to call out the early caution on lap two. Brousseau battled hard with Keith Rocco from then on with the rookie facing the multi-time track championship veteran. Rocco and defending champion Todd Owen made the move under Brousseau before the halfway point and that is how they ran under the twin checkered flags at the end of 35-laps.

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NASCAR Hauler Parade and Pit Stop Party at the White Hart Inn Return to Salisbury on July 9

by Lou ModestinoJune 26, 2026

LAKEVILLE, Conn. (26 June 2026) — Before the engines roar at Lime Rock Park for the LIUNA 150, NASCAR’s arrival to Northwest Connecticut will once again begin on Main Street.

After drawing hundreds of residents and race fans to downtown Salisbury last summer, the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Hauler Parade and Pit Stop Party returns to Salisbury and Lakeville on Thursday, July 9.

Nearly 40 brightly colored NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series haulers will make their way through town enroute to Lime Rock Park, bringing the excitement of the LIUNA 150 race weekend directly to the community.

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All You Need To Know For This Weekend’s IMSA Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen

by MikeJune 25, 2026

By John Oreovicz, IMSA

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen at Watkins Glen International is the first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race since the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in March to feature all four classes – Grand Touring Prototype (GTP), Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2), Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO), and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD). It’s also the third of five rounds in the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup, producing a bumper field of 54 cars.

For GTP, Watkins Glen is already the sixth of nine races, signaling the start of the final stretch of the title fight. LMP2 has run only two of seven events so far this year, so its championship is just getting underway. For GTD PRO and GTD, the Sahlen’s Six Hours marks the halfway point of the season.

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