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McGee Hyundai of Barre Super Friday Hits Home Stretch for Thunder Road Championships

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 6, 2024

Barre, VT — Following the Labor Day Classic to open the month of September, the Thunder Road track championship season hits its home stretch starting Friday, September 6 with the rain-postponed McGee Hyundai of Barre Super Friday program! Headlined by a visit from the New England Supermodified Series (NESS), the Maplefield/Irving Late Models, Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers and rk Miles Street Stocks have just two events left in the season to decide their champions while the Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warriors joust in double feature action!

Following his win last Thursday, with his spectacular Labor Day Classic victory not counting towards weekly King of the Road standings, Milton’s Scott Dragon remains in striking distance of Kaiden Fisher’s lead on the Maplefield/Irving Late Models. Dragon has come on strong in recent weeks but has already had a stellar season with the Todd Rueda-owned, CDR Concrete team having taken both the Vermont Governor’s Cup and the Labor Day Classic along with the inaugural Squier Cup triple crown! Capping the 2024 season with his third track championship would put the cherry on top but Fisher still holds a 60-point lead on the veteran. (more…)

Sunday Program Set for Final Thompson Test & Tune Prior to October’s Sunoco World Series

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 6, 2024

Barre, VT & Naples, ME — The 0.625-mile oval at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park is back to rip-roaring action this Sunday, September 8 for the Back to School Bash! Headlined by the Back to School Bash 75 for the Thompson Late Models featuring a $17,000 purse, including a $5,000 winners share, the Thompson Sunoco Modifieds, AZ Roofing SK Light Modifieds, Street Stocks and Mini Stocks make it a full card of Sunday afternoon racing at the Big-T!

The Thompson Late Models are expecting quite the invasion for Sunday’s Back to School Bash 75. Top runners Nick Johnson, Derek Gluchacki and Brian Tagg will be among the weekly track championship faithful ready to hold back the flood gates and battle hard on the highbanks for the $5,000 winner’s prize! Longtime hot-shoe Tom Carey III will make his return to Thompson Speedway in the Brookside Ride while the top American-Canadian Tour rookie Kasey Beattie will also make the trek southward for some practice at the northeastern Connecticut oval. (more…)

Eldora Speedway Hires Levi Jones as General Manager

by MikeSeptember 6, 2024

ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 5, 2024) – Eldora Speedway has hired championship-winning USAC driver and motorsports executive Levi Jones as general manager for the World’s Greatest Dirt Track.

The appointment serves as a homecoming for Jones, with the 42-year-old from Olney, Illinois, having raced for Eldora Speedway owner Tony Stewart in the United States Auto Club (USAC) from 2006 until the midpoint of 2013, winning six of his seven USAC championships with Tony Stewart Racing.

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Bobby Stirk, III Seeking First Late Model Victory in Paradiso Insurance 50 After Piecing Car Back Together

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 5, 2024

(Stafford Springs, CT)—With Stafford Speedway’s Late Model division set to run their annual extra distance feature event, the Paradiso Insurance 50, this Friday September 6, Bobby Stirk, III and the #9 team sponsored by A6A Associates, Tri-State Elevator & Hoist, and Costa & Son Construction are ready to fight for their first Late Model victory. The fact that Stirk will even be at the track to try to win the race would be a small miracle after crashing his car and seeing the front end briefly catch fire in last week’s feature event. But thanks to some hard work by his crew, Stirk will be at the track ready to chase the checkered flag.

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McGee Hyundai of Barre Super Friday Hits Home Stretch for Thunder Road Championships

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 4, 2024

Scott Dragon Takes First NEFCU+VSECU Labor Day Classic at Thunder Road Hometrack

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 3, 2024

Barre, VT — Beautiful skies and full crowds greeted the traveling band of American-Canadian Tour faithful for their second visit of the year to Thunder Road International Speedbowl. The NEFCU+VSECU Labor Day Classic saw thirty-one cars enter the pit gate and qualify for starting position in the annual 200-lap holiday weekend event. ACT Rookie of the Year hopeful and current Thunder Road track championship point leader Kaiden Fisher earned the pole alongside former top rookie Erick Sands with both drivers taking a ‘+4’ in the Plus/Minus handicap system.

Fisher would immediately fall back to the rear with a caution prior to the first completed lap with fellow rookie Cole Littlewood. Another quick spin caution re-racked the field once more out of the gate before the field settled in on the lap five restart. Marcel Gravel and Erick Sands battled hard on the return to green but it was the Thunder Road ace Gravel that put the power down on the outside groove. Soon after, two-time track champion Scott Dragon also rounded the ACT regular and set his sights on Gravel. (more…)

Hovey & Matthews Score Aug. 30 SK Light Feature Wins; Christopher, Gray, Winter, & Hydar Also Notch Maybury Kids Night Wins at Stafford

by Lou ModestinoSeptember 2, 2024

(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway hosted Maybury Back to SKool Kids night with twin SK Light feature events on Friday, Aug. 30th. The big winners of the night were Nickolas Hovey and Chris Matthews, who split the SK Light features between themselves with Hovey notching his third win of the season and Matthews his second. Other feature winners were Michael Christopher, Jr. in the SK Modified® feature, Adam Gray in the Late Model feature, Matt Winter, II, and Travis Hydar. As part of Maybury Kids Night, there were two kids big wheel races and they were won by 6 year old Bentley Walmsley of Franklin and 5 year old Cole Frazier of Agawam, MA.

In the 40-lap SK Modified® feature, Dylan Kopec took the early lead while behind him Andrew Molleur moved into second, Marcello Rufrano third, Tyler Hines fourth, and Jon Puleo fifth. Steven Chapman got out of shape but gathered his car up and rejoined at the rear of the field as the race stayed green. (more…)

$5,000-to-Win 75-Lap Late Model Special Announced to Headline Thompson Speedway on September 8th

by Lou ModestinoAugust 30, 2024

Barre, VT & Naples, ME — American-Canadian Tour (ACT) and Pro All Stars Series (PASS) officials announced today an exciting addition to the Thompson Speedway schedule on Sunday, September 8. The Back to School Bash 75 for the Thompson Late Models will feature a 75 lap, $5,000-to-win showdown on the Thompson highbanks open to all ACT Late Models across the northeast! The big money, extra distance affair is now set as the headliner to the Sunday, September 8 program at Thompson which will also include the Thompson Sunoco Modifieds, AZ Roofing SK Light Modifieds, Street Stocks and Mini Stocks with a 3:00pm Post Time! (more…)

Jet Service Envelope/Accura Printing Rings in Final Thursday Night Showdown at Thunder Road

by Lou ModestinoAugust 28, 2024

Barre, VT — Where has the time gone? This Thursday, August 29, Jet Service Envelope and Accura Printing present the final Thursday night event at Thunder Road for the 2024 season headlined by four divisions of the region’s best stock car racing PLUS the annual Run-What-U-Brung spectator drags! (more…)

Andy Jankowiak Claims Another Victory In The George Decker Memorial In Race Of Champions Sportsman Modified Series

by MikeAugust 27, 2024

Holland, NY – (August 26, 2024) – Andy Jankowiak of Tonawanda, NY, drove to another victory in the George Decker Memorial for the Race of Champions Sportsman Modified Series this past Saturday night during the Busch Light 100 presented by Try-It Distributing at Holland (NY) Speedway this past Saturday.

Jankowiak started 10^th and drove his way to the front topping Jake Vernon from Eden, NY and Kevin Timmerman from Ontario, NY.

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