Jonathan Cash announced today he will compete full-time on the SMART Modified Tour for the 2026 season with a new team.
Cash will join Hillbilly Racing to compete in the No. 79, teaming with one of the most historic car numbers in southern modified racing history and the entire Hill family, led by David Hill.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (June 25, 2025) – The Virginia Late Model Triple Crown features three of the East Coast’s biggest Late Model Stock races, and 20-year-old Jonathan Shafer has cast his lot with Hettinger Racing for the popular grassroots miniseries that begins this weekend at South Boston Speedway.
Shafer will drive the No. 5 Chevrolet in Saturday night’s Thunder Road Harley-Davidson 200 at the .4-mile oval before tackling the July 19 Hampton Heat at Larry King Law’s Langley Speedway in Hampton and the Sept. 27 ValleyStar Credit Union 300 at Martinsville Speedway.
The fifth race of the SMART Modified Tour season will bring the Sadler-Stanley Racing team to Hickory Motor Speedway this Saturday evening. The Hickory Hundred will take place at the track known as the ‘Birthplace of NASCAR Stars’ as the SMART Tour wraps a busy opening portion of the season.
Modified and Supermodified winner Jon McKennedy announced Thursday a busy schedule for the 2025 racing season. Again for 2025, McKennedy will compete in both the Tour-Type Modifieds and the Supermodifieds, mixed between multiple different divisions with both classes.
Between all divisions, McKennedy has roughly 35 races planned.
The second race of the SMART Modified Tour season is set for this Saturday, March 8 at Anderson Motor Speedway in South Carolina. The Pace-O-Matic, Sadler-Stanley Racing drivers, Luke Baldwin and Jonathan Cash, will both be on the track ready for action.
Both are coming off top-10 finishes in the opener at Florence last weekend, with Baldwin 9th and Cash 10th. They are both looking to build on that run. Baldwin was running second until late contact sent him to the tail of the field. The two drivers topped the only practice session of the day, showing the speed in their mounts.
SMART Modified Tour Powered by Pace-O-Matic Season To Open With Zach Brewer Memorial
Sadler-Stanley Racing (SS Racing) will be back on the track for the first time in 2025 this weekend – set to compete in the opener of the season for the SMART Modified Tour powered by Pace-O-Matic at Florence Motor Speedway.
Joseph Srigley of TobyChristie reports that (e)ven though Stewart-Haas Racing shuttered its operations at the end of the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series campaign, and paved the way for the formation of Haas Factory Team, there isn’t much change within the organization’s program in 2025.
Aside from the hiring of two completely new full-time Xfinity Series drivers, with Sheldon Creed driving the No. 00 and Sam Mayer piloting the newly-renumbered No. 41 Ford Mustang Dark Horse, a lot of things are staying the same. (more…)
