Wiscasset Speedway Ready to Kick Off Action-Packed 2025 Race Season

Written By: Amy Worrey – Chasing the Checkered

The Official Wiscasset Speedway pace car takes to the track for the 2024 Boss Hogg 150. (Jasen Dickey Photography)

After a long 6 months of hibernation, Wiscasset Speedway is prepared to open their gates once again for an exciting 26-event race season.

The most significant change made during the off-season was a new addition to the Group 1 lineup in the Davis Erector Group Crate Modifieds. The division, spearheaded by track owner Richard Jordan, features the first tour-type Modified cars to race weekly in Maine in almost 35 years.

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Go West, Young Woman: Sprint Car Racer McKenna Haase is Going Pavement Late Model Racing in California

Go West, Young Woman: Sprint Car Racer McKenna Haase is Going Pavement Late Model Racing in California

DALLAS (April 16, 2025) – McKenna Haase has always blazed her own trail en route to becoming a professional sprint car racer. But after more than a decade of traversing a dirt-covered career path, the 28-year-old has decided to pave that path with asphalt. Haase is making a career change from 900-horsepower sprint cars to pavement-pounding late model stock cars.

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Riverhead Raceway Introducing Monthly Sunday Rain Dates In 2025

Riverhead Raceway Introducing Monthly Sunday Rain Dates In 2025
Anytime rain interrupts a Saturday night NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series event at Riverhead Raceway, one of the first thoughts among competitors and fans alike turns to, “why not race Sunday”. Thinking outside the box, Riverhead Raceway owners Connie Partridge and Tom Gatz announced during their 2025 schedule release they’ll set aside one Sunday per month for potential rain dates, as well a Saturday in October.

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5th Annual Northeast Classic Finally Ready to Go Green at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Saturday, April 19

5th Annual Northeast Classic Finally Ready to Go Green at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Saturday, April 19

Barre, VT & Naples, ME — Delayed by six days, the 5th annual Northeast Classic at New Hampshire Motor Speedway is finally ready to get underway! Starting with annual Practice Day on Friday, April 18, full-on competition begins at 11:00am on Saturday, April 19 for New England’s most fearless drivers. Headlined by the powerhouse Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour and Pro All Stars Series Super Late Model duo, the Northeast Classic will also include the mighty Tour-type Modifieds, R&R Race Parts Open Street Stocks and the Pro Truck Challenge!

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Advance Auto Parts and NASCAR Partner for “Advance Auto Parts Night at the Races”

Advance Auto Parts and NASCAR Partner for  “Advance Auto Parts Night at the Races”
  • Program to bolster local support in 17 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series track markets throughout the year

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (April 15, 2025) – As the start of the 2025 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series heats up across the country, Advance Auto Parts and NASCAR announced today they are teaming up to accelerate support for local short track racing through new “Advance Auto Parts Night at the Races” in 17 track markets.

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Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway Set for US Legends Spring Nationals Weekend

Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway Set for US Legends Spring Nationals Weekend

Pro Late Models & Street Stocks will join Legends & Bandoleros

(Nashville, TN) Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway is ready to start the 121st season of auto racing and the 2025 season, this coming Friday and Saturday, April 18/19. Both days will feature the US Legends Spring Nationals for the US Air Force Legends and CP Race Wear Bandoleros, while the Pro Late Models and Street Stocks will also race on Saturday night.

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NASCAR Ready To Break the Ice This Wednesday, April 16

The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour roars back into Thompson Speedway on Wednesday, April 16 to complete the 51st Icebreaker festivities at the famous Connecticut oval. (Alan Ward photo)

Thompson, CT — After rain has wreaked havoc on early season plans for Thompson Speedway, the rest of the ice is ready to break this Wednesday, April 16. The second portion of the planned 51st Icebreaker weekend is finally set to go green this Wednesday at 5:15pm with the Thompson Sunoco Modifieds, Late Models, SK Light Modifieds and Street Stocks set to join the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Icebreaker 150 presented by FloSports.com highlighting the night!

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Claremont Motorsports Park Kicks Off 2025 Season with Annual Spring Fling This Weekend

Claremont Motorsports Park Kicks Off 2025 Season with Annual Spring Fling This Weekend

Claremont, NH — The engines come to life this weekend at Claremont Motorsports Park as the track kicks off its highly anticipated 2025 race season with the annual running of the Spring Fling—a two-day event packed with speed, competition, and family-friendly excitement.

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Quick Turnaround after Thompson Midweek Show Cancels Sunoco 604 Modifieds for NHMS

(Alan Ward photo)

Barre, VT & Naples, ME — With weather having rearranged several plans for both the Thompson Speedway Icebreaker season opener and the Northeast Classic showcase at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, an unfortunate casualty has occurred. With the second portion of the 51st Icebreaker set to go green Wednesday night, April 16, both American-Canadian Tour (ACT) and Pro All Stars Series (PASS) officials have chosen to remove the Sunoco 604 Modifieds from the Northeast Classic, now scheduled for Friday Practice Day on Friday, April 18 and race day on Saturday, April 19.

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Two Free To Public Test & Tune Dates Announced For April 12th & April 19th At Riverhead Raceway

Two Free To Public Test & Tune Dates Announced For April 12th & April 19th At Riverhead Raceway
For baseball fans the first crack of a bat at spring training is a welcoming sound a new season is near. For race fans of Riverhead Raceway on Long Island, it’s the roar of racing engines taking to the historic track for the first time welcoming in a new season. On Saturday April 19th the sound of race engines and a sweet smell of Sunoco Race Fuels will permeate the air at as the track hosts the first of two test & tune sessions with free grandstand admission for race hungry fans. A second test & tune day is planned for April 26th, a prelude to the Pack the Track NASCAR opener May 3rd and May Meltdown Enduro lid lifter Sunday May 4th kicking off the 75th Anniversary season.

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