NASHVILLE, TN – In a post-race development Thursday night at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, Trey Craig has been declared the official winner of the Rackley Roofing Battle of Broadway 150, following the disqualification of Josh Berry after post-race technical inspection.
Zach Evans from Racing America reports that short-track racing legend Mike Eddy, 72, passed away on Thursday morning, May 29, his family confirmed on social media.
Eddy is best known as a seven-time champion on the American Speed Association (ASA) National Tour, an all-time record in the series. His 58 wins with the series place him second only to Bob Senneker, and no one holds more ASA championships than “The Polar Bear.”
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Ronan Glon of The Drive reports that another smalltown short track shuts down in the heart of stock car racing country.
The racing scene just lost another small-town track. North Carolina’s New River All American Speedway announced it has closed its doors.
“Over the last several weeks and months, we’ve had many discussions about the future of New River. Yesterday, we made the tough decision to close the doors,” the track said on its Facebook page. It stopped short of detailing the challenges it faced and why it decided to close.
NASHVILLE, TN — In a highly exciting feature event, Chuck Barnes, Jr. of Louisville, KY powered his way to victory in the CRA Street Stock 30-lap main event Thursday evening at the legendary Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway. The race was part of the highly anticipated Rackley Roofing Battle of Broadway, which brought out some of the top talent in short track racing.
Barre, VT – After officially kicking off the 2025 season last Sunday, Thunder Road is back in action this Sunday with the rain-delayed 27th Community Bank 150 for the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour. The Nation’s Site of Excitement is once again poised to welcome race fans teams from across New England and Quebec as the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour continues their 2025 season.
The Action Track of the East will host the fourth race of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season this Saturday, May 31. The series returns to Seekonk Speedway for the J&R Precast 150 – under the lights in Massachusetts.
Justin Bonsignore heads back to Seekonk looking to visit Victory Lane at the third-mile for the first time since 2018. That season, Bonsignore won at Seekonk en route to his first series championship. In six career Seekonk Whelen Modified Tour starts, Bonsignore has finished sixth or better in all of them, including three podium runs.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—As the saying goes, the only two things in life that are certain are death and taxes. With a third consecutive NAPA Spring Sizzler victory to kick off the 2025 season, Matt Clement and the #59 Utility Services New England Limited Late Model team could be added to that cliché as perpetual winners of the season opening event. Clement’s third consecutive NAPA Spring Sizzler victory was his fourth overall Sizzler victory, meaning that nearly 25% of his 21 career feature wins have come in that event.
SEEKONK, Mass. — With three events in the books for their 2025 season, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour is heading for Massachusetts next. NASCAR’s oldest touring series, celebrating the 40th anniversary this season, returns to Seekonk Speedway on Saturday, May 31, for the J&R Precast 150. The fourth race of the season brings the Tour to the Action Track of the East in the midst of Seekonk’s 80th season of short-track racing.
BECHTELSVILLE, PA. – Grandview Speedway will present a special three-division race card this weekend, as the Pro 4 Racing Series joins the program on Saturday, May 31.
This Saturday night’s show will be a NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series program featuring the T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds, the T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman, along with the Pro 4 Racing Series Four Cylinder stock cars.
By Brandon White, NASCAR.com
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to the northeast this weekend for a trip to the famed Cement Palace of Seekonk Speedway.
Open to the public since 1946, the Venditti family have overseen a proud, vibrant racing culture at Seekonk that includes Modified competition. The list of names who have won a weekly Modified Seekonk includes many of the discipline’s greatest drivers like Bugsy Stevens, Ron Bouchard and Geoff Bodine, among others.
