
Lou Modestino checks in with an ARCA race report on Gio Ruggiero, from Josh Calloni | TobyChristie.com…

Lou Modestino checks in with an ARCA race report on Gio Ruggiero, from Josh Calloni | TobyChristie.com…
(NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE) – If you are going to win in front of the hometown crowd, then you had better check all the boxes along the way. Dawson Sutton (Lebanon, TN) took care of that by being the first Tennessee driver to win the All American 400 since Mason Mingus in 2019.
Driving a Tennessee Volunteer Orange Car, Sutton made the most of the weekend by winning the pole and the race, becoming only the eighth driver to do so in the forty-year history of the race.

MARTINSVILLE, Va.—With a heroic, gloves-off drive on Sunday in the crucible that is Martinsville Speedway, William Byron earned a shot at the NASCAR Cup Series title and simultaneously saved the rest of the Championship 4 field from its worst nightmare.
Byron led three times for 304 laps—a career best for a single race—and beat Ryan Blaney to the finish line by 0.717 seconds after a restart with 11 laps left to win the Xfinity 500 elimination race under most exigent circumstances.

Oxford, ME — Fifty-two Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour-sanctioned racers packed the pit area Saturday morning as part of the action-packed Spencer Group Paving PASS 400 Weekend. Originally set for an early-season April showdown, the Pine Tree State 125 presented by Wellman Paving was rain delayed by 175 days for the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour’s third visit to Oxford Plains Speedway this season with thirty cars making the trip. Saturday’s showcase was also a shining moment for the ACT Flying Tigers, rounding out this year’s three-race Tri-State Series with the Vacationland 75.

Thompson, CT — Joshua Gerard and Shane Gendron brought the R&R Open Street Stock Series to green to kick off Friday’s racing action. Gendron shot off like a rocket with Austin Erickson in hot persuit as Ryan Lineham made short work of his march to third by lap ten. While Lineham continued his run to take the lead on lap fourteen, Erickson and Andrew Gillis got physical for third-place before the field strung out in between several caution periods. Ryan Lineham finally took the long-winded win over Jason Woodard and Austin Erickson.
WILLOWS, Calif. (October 11, 2025) – The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli’s Western Championship Race 1 at Thunderhill Raceway Park was a tale of two races, with completely different conditions between TA Cup and CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series competition. While TA Cup points leader Ken Sutherland went on to smoothly dominate, leading every lap on his way to his fourth-consecutive victory, TA2 championship contender Brody Goble experienced engine issues, which led to hard, close racing among the top-four for the win. Tim Carroll was ultimately victorious, earning his first victory of the 2025 season.

LAS VEGAS – Denny Hamlin scored an emotional victory and claimed a significant career milestone with a dramatic win in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series’ South Point 400 Playoff race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Hamlin passed two cars in the final 10 laps, ultimately taking the lead from his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe with four laps remaining then holding off the day’s most dominant driver Kyle Larson by 1.533-second to claim his series’ best sixth win of the season and 60th win of his career.
Perry, N.Y. – (October 6, 2025) – George Skora III (Eden, N.Y.) capped off a remarkable season in Race of Champions Sportsman Modified Series competition by capturing the Fall Shootout at “The Bullring” – Wyoming County International Speedway on Saturday.
The win earned Skora his third victory of the year and a clean sweep of the inaugural Race of Champions Sportsman Modified “Triple Crown.”

Barre, VT – A beautiful, summer-like day greeted the fans and teams of Thunder Road Speedbowl to set the scene for a history-making Vermont Milk Bowl. Three segments of racing awaited the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour / Maplefields-Irving Late Models Sunday morning with Marcel Gravel pacing the pack early in Segment #1. It started with a bang on lap one, in turn one as Brandon Gray, Bryan Wall Jr. and Erick Sands saw their days end early in a crashing of steel and concrete. Gravel set the pace but fell under attack from current Touring point leader Raphael Lessard at lap 10. Gravel regained the high ground on lap 19 and kept the hammer down for the Segment #1 win.