WALPOLE, N.H. – In the final three weeks leading up to the Granite State Pro Stock Series championship finale, Friday night’s Keen Parts 150 at Lee USA Speedway may be the wildcard of wildcards.
The GSPSS’ second stop of 2025 at “New Hampshire’s Center of Speed” falls on the eve of New England’s NASCAR weekend at nearby New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and one of NASCAR’s top stars is returning to Lee to handle some unfinished business.
Weathering the Weather; IMSA Title Table-Setter; Checkers or Championships, By David Phillips
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – In its 117-year history, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) has witnessed countless motorsports firsts from various vehicles and interesting iterations.
Whether it’s been open-wheel cars, stock cars, motorcycles or sports cars on either the historic IMS 2.5-mile oval or its emerging 2.439-mile road course, now into its second decade in its current layout and incarnation, winning at Indy means you’ve conquered an iconic facility and you’ll engage in a long lip lock with the fabled bricks.
IMSA made a “first” for Indianapolis in 2024 with the first six-hour TireRack.com Battle On The Bricks. What it will serve up for an encore remains to be seen, but per usual, the 53 cars across four IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship classes have a keen eye on being first across that yard of bricks.
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Thompson, CT — Jake Johnson nabbed the pole position with a ‘+5’ handicap earned in heat two with former track champion Brian Tagg lined up alongside for the 50 lap Late Model Fall Showdown. After a pair of quick spin cautions to start the show, Johnson led the single-file line in the early going as Tagg soon fell under pressure from Matt Lowinksi-Loh, Jake Burns and Tyler Chapman. A lap 23 caution for Adam Pettey’s backstretch spin set up Lowinski-Loh’s lead on the restart with a missed shift for Johnson. Later, contact between the two allowed Monahan and Burns a chance at the front with ‘Rowdy’ Burns leading the fray. Burns would later miss a shift on the final restart with four laps remaining to but battled back for a photo finish with Matt Lowinski-Loh at the line. Lowinski-Loh took the $3,000 win by 0.054-seconds over Burns with Brian Tagg taking third.
Concord, NC (September 18, 2025) – Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing today announced the appointment of veteran sports and entertainment executive Chip Bowers as Team President. With nearly three decades of leadership in business operations, sales and marketing with multiple professional sports teams in the NBA, WNBA and MLB, Bowers has a proven track record of success. The move continues RFK Racing organizational evolution as it focuses on long-term growth and expanded opportunities.
Bowers succeeds Steve Newmark, who stepped down from the position in August after more than a decade of dedicated leadership, and will officially begin his role on September 22nd.
BECHTELSVILLE, PA. – The 63rd anniversary season of auto racing action at Grandview Speedway moves into the 55th annual Freedom 76 race weekend, the biggest, most prestigious, and most lucrative racing event of the year for competitors.
The Freedom 76 weekend begins on Friday, September 19 with the 12th annual T.P. Truck Equipment Freedom 38 Sportsman Championship. The race program will follow the Freedom 76 race format with qualifying heats, consolations, Roy Miller II of Keller Williams Real Estate $500 to win cash dash, the Patriot 20, all leading up to the 38-lap Championship feature event that will pay a possible $3063 to win, plus practice time for 358 Modified drivers wishing to participate in the Freedom 76.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (September 18, 2025) – This weekend, Flying Lizard Motorsports heads to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course this weekend for the final two North American rounds of Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America before November’s World Finals. Fielding a pair of Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 entries, the team hopes to close out the weekend with strong momentum into the season’s World Finals finale in Misano, Italy.
LOUDON, N.H. – So it happens that Christopher Bell’s exciting late-race pass for the win last week in the NASCAR Cup Series’ first Playoff elimination race at Bristol, Tenn. sets up this week’s opening race in the Round of 12 at New Hampshire quite perfectly.
Saturday afternoon’s Team EJP 175 (12 p.m. ET on FS1, NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at New Hampshire Motor Speedway marks the first elimination race of the 2025 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Playoffs in the series’ first visit to the New England one-miler since 2017.
This Week in SMX – World Championship Final at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Saturday, September 20
N. Woodstock, NH — The fickle weather of 2025 has made for one wallop of a Saturday at White Mountain Motorsports Park during the much-anticipated weekend of grand national racing at nearby New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Headlined by a twin bill featuring the Pro All Stars Series Super Late Model 150 and the 100-lap championship event for the Wall’s Ford Platinum Late Model Series, Saturday will also feature the New England Supermodified Series, PASS Modifieds and a special visit from the Oxford Plains Speedway Mad Bombers!
