Top Runners, Special Award Winners Honored at Thunder Road Annual Banquet of Champions

2025 Thunder Road champions celebrate their seasons at the annual Banquet of Champions complete with their Hoosier Race Tire Championship Jackets. (L-R) Street Stock champion Kyler Davis, Late Model King of the Road Jason Corliss and Flying Tiger top runner Sam Caron. (Alan Ward photo)

Barre, VT – Saturday saw the Thunder Road family of race teams come together one final time to celebrate the 2025 season at the annual Banquet of Champions. After decades away, the Banquet returned to the famed Barre Auditorium much to the delight of most attendees with the catering courtesy of Jockey Hollow and Good Measure Brewing providing the bartending services for the evening’s festivities.

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Sunoco Race Fuels to Sponsor 2025 Trans Am Young Gun Award

Sunoco, Official Racing Fuel Sponsor of SpeedTour to Award $20,000 to TA2’s Top-Performing Driver Under 25

Sunoco Race FuelsCHARLOTTE (October 14, 2025) — The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli is pleased to announce that Sunoco Race Fuels, the Official Racing Fuel Sponsor of SpeedTour, will sponsor the 2025 Young Gun Award. The Sunoco Race Fuels Young Gun Award will reward the season’s top points earner under the age of 25 in the CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series with a $20,000 cash prize at Trans Am’s year-end awards gala.

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Ted Christopher Drive for Safety Initiative to Award Bell Helmet at Stafford Speedway

Ted Christopher Drive for Safety Initiative(Stafford Springs, CT) — The legacy of one of short track racing’s most iconic figures will once again be honored this Friday night, September 12, as the Ted Christopher Safety Initiative returns to Stafford Speedway for its sixth consecutive season. Established in 2020 by Quinn Christopher, the initiative continues to promote driver safety by awarding one Stafford competitor with a brand new Bell helmet, courtesy of Racing Force.

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AMA Congratulates Class Champions and Special Award Winners of 2025 AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship

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Enzo Temmerman emerges as the 2025 Nicky Hayden AMA Motocross Horizon Award recipient

PICKERINGTON, Ohio — After an outstanding week of competition, the American Motorcyclist Association awarded No. 1 plates to 36 class champions at the 2025 AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship, which ran July 28-Aug. 2 at the famed Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tenn.

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Highmark Building Efficiency Establishes Crew Chief Award For Riverhead Raceway Whelen Modified Tour Events

Highmark Building Efficiency Establishes Crew Chief Award For Riverhead Raceway Whelen Modified Tour Events
  • Honoring Glenn Dixon & Jason Shephard
Behind every successful driver and race team stands a dedicated crew chief who coordinates operations leading up to and through race day. Thursday afternoon Riverhead Raceway and HighMark Building Efficiency announced a $250 Crew Chief of the Race Award for both NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour events scheduled at the historic bullring. The first award will honor Glenn Dixon June 14th, while the second on September 6th remembers Jason Shephard, two Long Island natives who left their footprint on WMT racing.

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FOX NASCAR Honors the Late Jon Edwards with ‘The Byrnsie Award’

FOX NASCAR Honors the Late Jon Edwards with ‘The Byrnsie Award’
  • Award Named for Late FOX NASCAR Broadcaster Steve Byrnes Conferred on Longtime Hendrick Motorsports Communications Professional

FOX NASCAR honored the late Jon Edwards, longtime motorsports communications professional, with “The Byrnsie Award” during Sunday’s NASCAR RACEDAY prerace telecast on FS1 from North Wilkesboro Speedway.

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Longtime NASCAR Play-by-Play Announcer and NSMA Board Member, Doug Rice, Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

Longtime NASCAR Play-by-Play Announcer and NSMA Board Member, Doug Rice, Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (April 23, 2025) – Longtime NASCAR broadcaster, Doug Rice, a former National Sports Media Association (NSMA) board member, will be honored with NSMA’s Lifetime Achievement award, executive director Dave Goren announced today.

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NASCAR Announces Nominees For NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2026, Landmark Award

NASCAR Announces Nominees For NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2026, Landmark Award
  • Busch and LaJoie join ballot for the first time; Wheeler up for Landmark nod

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (April 21, 2025) — NASCAR today announced the 15 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026 and the five nominees for the Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR.

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Noyle Johnson Group Presents Street Stock Hard Charger Award at Thunder Road

Noyle Johnson Group Presents Street Stock Hard Charger Award at Thunder Road
Barre, VT – Thunder Road officials announced on Thursday an increased partnership with Noyle Johnson Insurance of Montpelier, Danville and Bethel. Noyle Johnson Insurance Group has been a longtime member of the Thunder Road family from a lap sponsor in the Vermont Milk Bowl to a billboard owner and now the local insurance experts are adding another role! In 2025, the rk Miles Street Stocks will dig deep for the Noyle Johnson Hard Charger award in all twenty heart-pounding showdowns this year.

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NASCAR Partners With Xfinity to Award One Point for Fastest Lap

NASCAR Partners With Xfinity to Award One Point for Fastest Lap

by Austin Konenski, Motorsports Wire

Starting in 2025, NASCAR will introduce an unprecedented rule change to all three levels. On Tuesday morning, Sports Business Journal’s Adam Stern reported that NASCAR will partner with Xfinity to award one point to the driver with the fastest lap in a Cup, Xfinity, or Truck Series race. It will be called the “Xfinity Fastest Lap.” (more…)

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