Joel Monahan moves to Stafford’s Late Model division from Monadnock’s Super Stock Division for the 2016 season. (Credit: NASCAR Home Tracks photo.)

After winning Rookie of the Year in 2015 in Monadnock Speedway’s Super Stock division, Whately, MA native Joel Monahan is ready to go for 2 in a row as he embarks on his rookie season in Stafford Speedway’s Late Model division behind the wheel of the #03 Monahan Trucking Chevrolet.  The 18 year old got started racing in Monadnock’s Young Guns division three seasons ago before moving up to Mini Stocks and then the Super Stocks. Continue reading →

The energy is starting to build for Stafford Motor Speedway’s Spring Sizzler on the weekend of April 22-24.

As the 2015 Mr. Rooter Truck Series season came to an end, Ellington native Bert Ouellette was on a hot streak, winning 3 of the final 5 races.  As teams prepare for the 45^th Annual NAPA Spring Sizzler® at Stafford Speedway, Ouellette is looking to put his #151 Cindy Burdick Motorsports Chevrolet in NAPA Victory Lane for a wide variety of reasons after finishing third in the truck race as part of last year’s NAPA Spring Sizzler®. Continue reading →

First time PASS Supper Late Model winner Garrett Hall(center)  picked up his first PASS Tour checkered flag last Sunday at the Thompson Speedway Icebreaker. Second place finisher was Derek Griffith(right)  Dave Garbo(left)  took third  (Credit: PASS Tour photo.)

Garrett Hall of Scarborough, Maine nailed down his first-ever Pro All Stars Series Super Late Model victory in the 75-lap season opener for the PASS North Tour, also offering National Championship points, Sunday afternoon at Connecticut’s Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park.

Hall, driving his Quinn’s Insulation car, numbered 94, outgunned early race leader Trevor Sanborn of East Parsonsfield, Maine midway through the race to claim the top spot after an extended, spirited battle.  He then held off a determined challenge from Hudson, New Hampshire’s Derek Griffith, aboard the LCM Racing 12, to post the win. Continue reading →

There was plenty of hard racing action at the Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park’s Icebreaker.

Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park hosted its 131st Whelen Modified Tour Event on Sunday, April 10th capping off an action packed weekend in the 2016 Icebreaker and kicking off the tour’s season schedule with a first time winner in victory lane. Continue reading →

Long island’s Timmy Solomito had his dream come true after he won Sunday’s Icebreaker at the Thompson Motorsports Park in Connecticut as well as his first NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour race..  (Credit: NASCAR Home Tracks photo.)

Timmy Solomito’s dreams came true Sunday afternoon.

Franklin’s Bobby Santos, III, #44, looks at Stafford’s Sizzler as an opportunity to return his NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour winning ways. (Credit. NHMS photo.)

Between the 2010 and 2014 seasons on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, Bobby Santos, III was the driver to beat when it came to racing at Stafford Speedway.  In the 20 NWMT races held during that time period, Santos won 6 times, including 3 NAPA Spring Sizzlers® and he won 9 pole positions.  Enter the 2015 season and Santos and the #44 Tinio Corporation / Curb Records team saw their performance fall off at the Connecticut half-mile facility with a best finish of 5^th.  With the green flag in the 45^th Annual NAPA Spring Sizzler® right around the corner, Santos is excited about returning to Stafford and looking to get back to his winning form behind the wheel of the #44 Tinio Corp. / Curb Records Chevrolet. Continue reading →

With the late winter and early spring races behind them, the PASS Tour will perform this weekend at the Thompson Speedway in Connecticut.

After an extremely successful start to the southern season, the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Model North season will kickoff this weekend with “The Icebreaker” at Thompson Speedway in Connecticut.  “The Icebreaker” is doubly important as it will mark the halfway point of the PASS National Championship Series, which will once again crown Super Late Model racing’s only true national champion. Continue reading →

Mall shows in northern New England are very popular during the pre-season such as the show at Rutland Vermont’s Diamond Mall.

Winter might be trying to make a late surge in Vermont, but rest assured that the stock car racing season is on its way.   Race fans can head indoors on April 9-10 for a sneak preview of the 2016 season at Devil’s Bowl Speedway at the Diamond Run Mall in Rutland, Vt., as the track again participates in the annual Rutland Regional Racecar Show to benefit the March of Dimes and March for Babies charities.

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