Riverhead Raceway race teams, staff and their family members filled the banquet room at Giorgio’s of Baiting Hollow to honor the 2025 Riverhead Raceway NASCAR Weekly Series and INEX champions Friday evening. The affair hosted by track owners Connie Partridge, Tom Gatz and GM John Ellwood honored the twelve drivers who earned 2025 championships at the popular quarter mile facility, along with the top five from each division and the 2025 Rookie of the Year winners were feted.
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Motorsports Television Listings, January 27-February 1, 2026
Correspondent Lou Modestino checks in with this week’s RacingTVSchedule motorsports TV listings. All times are eastern.
Two Champions Turned Rookies Ready to Battle in 1764 Sports Bar Late Models
N. Woodstock, NH — With last Friday being the deadline for drivers to renew their 2025 licenses for the upcoming season, so too came a pair of bombshells for the 1764 Sports Bar & Grill Late Models in 2026. For possibly the first time ever, the two defending four-cylinder champions of White Mountain and Thunder Road Speedbowl are both moving up to the Late Model class in a landmark battle for Rookie of the Year at New Hampshire’s Favorite Short Track this summer!
Teddy Hodgdon To Chase NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Rookie of the Year
Hodgdon Also Pairing With JMA Motorsports For Full-Time Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series Effort
A minimum of 25 races are on the calendar for Teddy Hodgdon for the 2026 short-track Modified racing season.
Hodgdon plans to compete full-time on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour in search of the Rookie of the Year award in the familiar No. 55 entry, for all 16 events.
Anthony Alfredo Back With Beard Motorsports For the Daytona 500
Northeastern correspondent Lou Modestino checks in with a Frontstretch report by Kevin Rutherford….
Anthony Alfredo and Beard Motorsports will attempt the 2026 Daytona 500, the team announced Jan. 20.
Alfredo, from Ridgewood, CT, will pilot the No. 62 at Speedweeks for the third year in a row. He failed to qualify for the 2025 edition after making the show in 2024.
Luke Baldwin To Chase Unprecedented Third Straight SMART Modified Tour Championship With Sadler-Stanley Racing
Sadler-Stanley Racing announced Wednesday that Luke Baldwin will return to the Pace-O-Matic No. 7VA for another season of SMART Modified Tour racing in 2026.
Baldwin will be searching for an unprecedented third straight championship on the SMART Modified Tour powered by Pace-O-Matic, after capturing the title in his rookie season in 2024, and following it up with another crown in 2025.
Brookside Equipment Triple Crown Back in Action on the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour for ‘26
Barre, VT — The popular Brookside Equipment Sales Triple Crown will once again highlight the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour schedule of events in 2026. Three popular events at three popular and unique racetracks will make for another run to the finale but make no mistake, it’ll be difficult to top the thrills of last year’s season highlights.
Starting as a Southern New England Triple Crown back in 2022, Brookside Equipment Sales of Phillipston, Massachusetts stepped in for the 2023 season with Falconi Energy and has been presenting the Triple Crown ever since! Center Conway, New Hampshire’s D.J. Shaw took down the first two championships before Erick Sands stepped in with a powerful Haunted Hundred win in 2024 to claim the Crown for the first time.
Motorsports TV Listings – Tuesday, Jan. 20 – Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026
RacingTVSchedule provides our motorsports television listings this week, from today through next Sunday. All times are eastern.
FloSports and Spears CARS Tour West Renew Exclusive Media Partnership for 2026
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (Jan. 15, 2026) – FloSports will continue to be the exclusive media partner for the Spears CARS Tour West in 2026. Today, the pair announced an expansion of last year’s agreement making FloRacing, the leading destination for grassroots motorsports fans, providing streaming and content coverage for all four divisions of the West Coast’s premier stock car series. The 2026 Spears CARS Tour West schedule includes 23 events at 11 tracks across six states.
The season kicks off this weekend with the Spears CARS Tour Southwest Pro Late Models making their series debut at Tucson Speedway with a stout 40-car field for the SoundGear 125. FloRacing will provide live coverage on Saturday, Jan. 17, beginning at 4 p.m. MST / 6 p.m. EST as part of the Chilly Willy weekend.
Bob Tasca Steps From NHRA Funny Car Seat, Hires Champion Austin Prock to Drive His Mustang
As part of a lavish, globally streamed Ford Racing online presentation from Detroit late Thursday and in what he called “a new era” for his organization, Bob Tasca III of Hope, RI announced he is stepping away from the driver’s seat and becoming an NHRA Funny Car team owner only, at least for now.
And he has hired two-time and reigning champion Austin Prock to drive the Dark Horse Mustang, starting in the 2026 season that will kick off in March with the NHRA Gatornationals at Florida’s Gainesville Raceway.