Highmark Building Efficiency Sponsorship Drives 8th Annual Islip 300 Winner’s Share To $12,000

Highmark Building Efficiency Sponsorship Drives 8th Annual Islip 300 Winner’s Share To $12,000
In January when revealing the 2024 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Series schedule for Riverhead Raceway, track owners Connie Partridge and Tom Gatz announced an $3,000 increase for the winner’s share of the 8th annual Islip 300 to $10,000. Monday, track GM John Ellwood disclosed Rich Gerbe of HighMark Building Efficiency has agreed to becoming the title sponsor of the November 16th Tour Type Modified event, driving the winner’s share to $12,000.

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Wiscasset Speedway Sends off 2024 Race Season with Annual Fall Fury Event

Wiscasset Speedway Sends off 2024 Race Season with Annual Fall Fury Event

– George Haskell took home the hardware in the WGVR Late Models (Jasen Dickey Photography)

After 6 months of racing excitement, Wiscasset Speedway bid adieu to their 2024 race season on Saturday with their annual Fall Fury event. This year’s program included the Wicked Good Vintage Racers, the Ladies Acceleration Tour and a 150-lap Enduro.

The racing action kicked off with a 25-lap feature for the WGVR Late Models. Addison Bowie was a dominant force until lap 20, where he came to a slow on the track, causing the field to check up. George Haskell took over on the restart and never looked back, picking up the feature victory while Bobby Symonds and Parker Long rounded out the podium.

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Talladega Leaves the Door to the Playoffs’ Round of 8 Wide-Open

Talladega Leaves the Door to the Playoffs’ Round of 8 Wide-Open

As the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs move to the Round of 12 elimination race, the Bank of America ROVAL 400 on Sunday at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course (2 p.m. ET on NBC, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) the championship standings actually – and perhaps amazingly – look similar to their position before last weekend’s predictably unpredictable race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.

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Toyota Clinches 2024 ARCA Menards Series Manufacturer’s Championship

Toyota Clinches 2024 ARCA Menards Series Manufacturer’s Championship

PLANO, Texas (Oct. 8, 2024) – For the eighth consecutive year, and the ninth time in its history, Toyota has been crowned the manufacturer’s champion of the ARCA Menards Series.

Toyota has had another exception season in the ARCA Menards Series, winning 14 of the 20 races in the 2024 season. This includes three instances where Toyota won three races in a row, at the start of the year from Daytona International Speedway to Talladega Superspeedway, in the late summer stretch from the Illinois State Fairgrounds at Springfield to the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds and to end the season from Bristol Motor Speedway to Toledo Speedway.

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Mercedes-AMG Competitors Combine for Two Race Wins and Four More Podiums While Mercedes-AMG Secures Third-Consecutive GT America Manufacturer Championship

Mercedes-AMG Competitors Combine for Two Race Wins and Four More Podiums While Mercedes-AMG Secures Third-Consecutive GT America Manufacturer Championship

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – Mercedes-AMG clinched a third-straight GT America powered by AWS Manufacturer Championship to highlight a successful season-ending weekend of SRO America competition at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) that included GT4 and GT2 race wins and a three-day haul of six total podium finishes. The half dozen visits to IMS victory lane included a pair of podium showings by Mercedes-AMG Performance Teams GruppeM Racing and Lone Star Racing. Maro Engel, Jules Gounon and Mikael Grenier drove the No. 130 Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 to a second-place Pro-class finish while the No. 4 Mercedes-AMG Team Lone Star Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Luca Stolz, Fabian Schiller and Alex Palou rallied to third-place Pro honors in Saturday’s Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC) Indianapolis 8 Hour. (more…)

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Sedgwick and PT Autosport Have Plenty to Play For at Road Atlanta

Sedgwick and PT Autosport Have Plenty to Play For at Road Atlanta

MILLVILLE, NJ (October 8, 2024) – PT Autosport with JDX Racing and driver Alex Sedgwick head to the penultimate Porsche Carrera Cup North America this weekend with a clear set of goals in mind: finish the season strong, add to the win column, and capture a hard-fought second place in the series championship.

For Sedgwick, who earned two podium finishes in the Carrera Cup weekend three weeks ago at Indianapolis behind the wheel of the No. 98 PT Autosport Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car, and competed in the Porsche Endurance Challenge by Yokohama two weeks ago at Sonoma Raceway, a recent test at Road Atlanta completed the clean sweep – recalibrating the 25-year-old Warwickshire, UK native’s top three favorite U.S. racetracks. (more…)

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Sunoco World Series Friday Sets Tone for 62nd Running of Three-Day Stock Car Festival

Sunoco World Series Friday Sets Tone for 62nd Running of Three-Day Stock Car Festival

The Outlaw Open Modified Series returns to Thompson Speedway for the Sunoco World Series Dash for Cash with Ronnie Williams (#50) looking to nab another $5,000 prize on the Thompson highbanks! (Alan Ward photo)

Naples, ME & Barre, VT — The 85th season of racing at Thompson Speedway is set to close out for the 62nd time with the action-packed Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing starting with the exciting Friday opener. Headlined by the return of the Outlaw Open Modified Series Dash for Cash, Friday also includes the conclusion of the 2024 track championship for the Thompson Late Models, the Evolve Bank & Trust Pro Truck Series, Thompson Sunoco Modifieds, the R&R Race Parts NH Street Stock Open and a three-peat of vintage racing stars to round out the weekend opener! (more…)

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Here’s How The New England Drivers And Those Who Have Connections With The Six State New England Area Did Over The Weekend At Talladega

Here’s How The New England Drivers And Those Who Have Connections With The Six State New England Area Did Over The Weekend At Talladega
Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. won the Cup race while Corey LaJoie finished 18th with Anthony Alfredo of Ridgefield, CT placing 24th and Joey Logano of Middletown, CT ended up 33rd while Ryan Preece of Berlin, CT finished 35th.  Corey LaJoie is the son of two-time Xfinity Champion Randy LaJoie who served his racing apprenticeship while a resident of Norwalk, CT before moving South to NC.
Sammy Smith ended up having a great day in the Xfinity Series pulling off the win.  Stamford, CT’s Parker Kligerman came in 12th with Blair Perkins finishing 18th then there was Anthony Alfredo doing double duty coming in 29th.  Next was Kyle Weatherman in 31st. Perkins and Weatherman along with Alfredo are teammates in the three-car stable owned by Cape Cod’s Chris Our and his daughter who are residents of Chatham, MA.
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