New London-Waterford Speedbowl offers reasonable ticket prices for Thursday Night Thunder.

New-London Waterford Speedbowl returned to the race track Thursday for the third Night Thunder program of the season with mid-week motorsports action. Michael Blaskey of Waterbury landed in the winner’s circle after wiring the INEX Legend Cars feature, Anthony Marvin of Colchester continued a hot start with a victory in the INEX Bandolero race, while Dave Gargaro Jr. of Cranston, RI picked up his second X-Car victory of the year and Brian Norman of Clinton scored top honors in the Super X-Car race. Continue reading →

Todd Szgedy looks for a repeat performance in Friday night’s Valenti Modified Tour race at Stafford Motor Speedway. (Credit: Todd Szgedy photo.)

The Valenti Modified Racing Series returns to action Friday night, Sept 22 for the first of three appearances at Stafford Springs Motor Speedway in Stafford, Connecticut. Continue reading →

Before Jerry Cook became a NASCAR official he raced in the Modified Division and won four consecutive Modified championships. (Credit: Jerry Cook photo collection.)

NASCAR announced today the inductees who will comprise the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2016. The five-person group – the seventh in NASCAR Hall of Fame history – consists of Jerry Cook, Bobby Isaac, Terry Labonte, O. Bruton Smith and Curtis Turner. In addition, NASCAR announced that Harold Brasington won the Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR. Next year’s Induction Ceremony is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, broadcast on NBCSN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, live from Charlotte, N.C.

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Multi-time Thunder Road champ Brian Hoar will try to keep the prize money in Vermont when he drives a PASS Super-Late Model at his home track Thunder Road International Speedbowl. (Credit: ACT Tour photo.)

The 53rd Annual Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic will be held at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road on Sunday, May 24 and is shaping up as one of the biggest ever. The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North Series are making their inaugural visit to Thunder Road, marking the first time Super Late Models take to the high banks in 20 years.

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The tradition of the Spring Green, which began in 1974 at Catamount Stadium in Milton, VT, has moved around over the years from track to track. It has been run at Plattsburgh, NY’s Airborne Park Speedway on 21 occasions, the most of any track. The list of winners is a history book of Late Model racing in the northeast (see below). The 41st edition of the race took place at Airborne last Sunday, arguably one of the favorite tracks the ACT Late Models appear at each year. A perfect day for racing and a spirited battle between friendly rivals Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. of Hudson, NH and St-Denis, QC’s Patrick Laperle kept fans from both sides of the border happy for the entire event. The other seven-team battle that raged for the second half of the event was also an example of great short track racing. Continue reading →

Seth Carlson is ready for the NEMA Midget NY swing this Memorial Day weekend. Especially at Evans Mills Motorsports Park where he won previously. (Credit: NEMA Midget photo.)

As the “second act” in the upcoming “NEMA New York” weekend, the division will bring a strong field to Evans Mills Speedway this Saturday evening. The Evans Mills staff has been busy promoting the event with anticipation of an exceptional show, and NEMA has been participating in the promotional activities throughout the winter and spring months. Last weekend, NEMA star Bethany Stoehr and family visited the Speedway in an effort to promote the upcoming race.

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Belchertown, MA Pro Stock Barry Gray (center) has another opportunity to win a Granite State Pro Stock Series race at Monadnock Speedway on Saturday night. (Credit: Granite State Pro Stock Series photo.)

The Granite State Pro Stock Series will travel to Monadnock Speedway for the third event of the championship series on Saturday night, May 23. The Memorial Day 100 will be the seventh time the series has run at the Winchester, NH ¼ mile, and has seen three different winners (Barry Gray, Matt Frahm, Mike O’Sullivan).

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Connecticut’s Chris Douton made history at the Lee USA Speedway when he won the Northeast Street Stock Tour race at Lee USA Speedway in NH. (Credit: NESST photo.)

Chris “Moose” Douton made history by winning the inaugural North East Street Stock Tour event at Lee USA Speedway fending off Geoff Rollins at his home track.

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NASCAR Modified Doug Coby of Connecticut will be making a NEMA Lite start this Friday night in one of the Bertrand Team cars. (Credit: NASCAR Home Track photo.)

NEMA kicks off its opening weekend action at Chemung Speedrome this coming Friday night, May 22. Two of the headline drivers taking the main stage at Chemung will be 2013 New York State NASCAR Modified Champion Jimmy Zacharias and 2012/2014 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Champion Doug Coby. Zacharias will be behind the wheel of the Motor Cars International 15B Lites car, and Coby behind the wheel of the Bertrand Motorsports #74 NEMA entry.

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Chris Pasteryak of Conn. made his trip up to NH worth while when he won the 2015 opening rounds of the Tri-Track Modified Open Series at the Lee USA Speedway. (Credit Linmat photo.)Chris Pasteryak of Lisbon, CT had the hot hand at the Lee USA Speedway Sunday afternoon when he drove to the Hoosier Tire East 100 feature victory. It was the first stop for the Tri-Track modified series.

Besting a stellar field, Pasteryak qualified well enough to start from the third row and keep the leaders in sight. By lap 10 pole sitter Woody Pitkat of Stafford Springs, CT pulled out to an eight car draft lead, while the next 20 cars ran side-by-side, nose to tail. A lap 18 yellow flag for a scramble in turn one slowed the action briefly. On the restart, Pitkat and hard charging Steve Masse of Bellingham, MA led the field to green and Masse stalked Pitkat until lap 24, when Masse powered by on the inside to become the new race leader.

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