By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service
It didn’t take long to bust every bracket in NASCAR’s inaugural In-Season Challenge.
The first two stages of Saturday night’s Quaker State 400 at EchoPark Speedway took care of that. A seven-car wreck on Lap 57 and a colossal 22-car incident 12 laps later wiped out most of the top choices to win the $1-million top prize in the five-race tournament.
(Antigonish, NS), June 26, 2025 – The NASCAR Canada Series resumes this Saturday, June 28, with the Riverside 300, marking the second event of the 2025 season. The event will feature 300 laps of racing on the high-banked 1/3-mile asphalt oval.
Last year’s winner Kevin Lacroix, in the No. 74 Adaptive One Calipers / NAPA Racing Chevrolet, returns to Riverside International Speedway aiming for another strong performance.
Seekonk, MA — At breakneck speed with just two divisions on tap for Wednesday night’s showdown at Seekonk Speedway, the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour thrilled at the Action Track of the East with many of the touring faithful going for their second event in four days at two facilities separated by a seven-hour ride! Through it all, one of the best battles for the lead occurred on the tricky third-mile Bay State oval for all the honors that go with the 50th Spring Green 125.
With time of the essence, one round of heat race qualifying set the field for the second round of the Brookside Equipment Sales Triple Crown on Wednesday evening with Joey Polewarczyk, Brandon Lambert and Derek Gluchacki taking the heat race wins. After driving from dead last to fourth in heat two, D.J. Shaw earned the pole position with a +5 alongside St. Paul, Quebec’s Remi Perreault and his +3 to bring the twenty-six car field to green.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—In the midst of his third full-time season of Street Stock racing at Stafford Speedway, Somers, CT native Jason Raymond is still searching for his first victory. Raymond and his #49 Barn Package Store team have been steadily closing in on the top spot of the NAPA Victory Lane podium, recording a best finish of third during his rookie season in 2023 and two runner-up efforts last season. Raymond’s on-track performances suggest that it’s only a matter of time before he breaks through and takes home a winner’s trophy. What better opportunity than the biggest Street Stock race of the season—the Midstate Site Development Street Stock 30, set for this Friday, June 27—for Raymond to capture his first victory?
Chase Elliott returns to EchoPark Speedway (formerly Atlanta Motor Speedway) with another “DESI9N TO DRIVE” paint scheme, an initiative taken by the Chase Elliott Foundation in partnership with NAPA Auto Parts and Hendrick Motorsports to feature a design by a pediatric cancer patient for Elliott’s No. 9 Chevrolet and his fire suit.
See the design for his 2025 edition before it hits the track in Saturday’s Quaker State 400 (7 p.m. ET, TNT Sports/truTV, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
HOLLAND, NY (June 21, 2025) – The Race of Champions “Family of Series” stormed back into Holland International Speedway for the SealMaster 100 this past Saturday, where four drivers celebrated their first wins of the 2025 season in front of a packed house on the high banks.
Andy Jankowiak, of Buffalo, N.Y., made the most of a return to Race of Champions Sportsman Modified Series action, holding off his protégé Mason Hanel of Clarence, N.Y., to capture the 40-lap feature win.
LEXINGTON, Ohio (June 22, 2025) – Tristan McKee (No. 28 Spire/Gainbridge/SLR-M1 Chevrolet Camaro) earned his first-career CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series victory in style, leading every lap on his way to Victory Lane at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. After claiming the point position when his teammate Corey Day (No. 17 HendrickCars.com/SLR-M1 Chevrolet Camaro) went off course in the first turn of the race, the second-place starter put on a display of pure dominance, driving away from his competitors and repeating the feat for multiple restarts.
In just his eighth career TA2 start, 14-year-old McKee became the second-youngest winner in series history at 14 years, 10 months and 19 days. Only Brent Crews, who won the June 2022 race at Road America at the age of 14 years, three months and four days, was younger.
McKee qualified second and went on to lead all 42 laps of the 75-minute race, beating three-time TA2 champion Rafa Matos across the finish line by a margin of 2.088 seconds. It was McKee’s fourth consecutive podium result and extended his lead atop the TA2 driver championship at the halfway point of the season.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—As Stafford Speedway’s premier SK Modified® division gets set to tackle its second consecutive extra distance feature event this Friday, June 20th with the CBYD Senator’s Cup, Mikey Flynn and the #24 Ballyheigue Farm team are looking forward to the race. Dating back to the 2024 season, Flynn and the #24 team have recorded 4 top-10 finishes in the last 5 extra distance events held at Stafford, including a third place finish in last week’s 80-lap feature event. Flynn finished 6th in the 2024 Senator’s Cup 50-lap feature and he feels good about his chances of adding his first victory of the 2025 season in this year’s CBYD Senator’s Cup.
Barre, VT — The Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour is ready to hit the road once again this Saturday for the Claude Leclerc 150 at Vallee-Jonction, Quebec’s Autodrome Chaudiere. The highbanked Canadian oval is a popular site for teams and fans alike with the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour stars once again set to put on some of the most exciting three-wide racing of the season!
Named in honor of the Iron Man of the American-Canadian Tour, Claude Leclerc has been a staple of the Tour since its inception in 1979. With over 600 starts in ACT-sanctioned competition, Leclerc is the benchmark of longevity in motorsports and continues to battle in the Serie ACT Quebec Tour as well as maintaining several cars of teammates and foes alike.
