June 23, 2025 — WATKINS GLEN, NY

• #93 MMG Honda duo of Karl Wittmer and LP Montour win from pole
• #89 HART scores a top five finish with Tyler Chambers and Chad Gilsinger

Honda returned to the top step of the podium at Watkins Glen International, as the #93 MMG Honda Civic Type R TCR of Karl Wittmer and LP Montour claimed victory in the LP Building Solutions 120. The fifth round of the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge season contained a great deal of action, with MMG ultimately putting on a triumphant showing.

The day prior, Montour secured the team’s second-consecutive pole position after teammate Wittmer did the same in the previous event in Mid-Ohio earlier this month. As the green flag waved, Montour held position and the team retained the lead for the first 29 laps of the race.

Though they briefly dropped back to fourth place shortly after the halfway mark following the team’s pit stop and driver change, once he took over for his stint, Wittmer was quick to move the Honda back up into the lead by lap 38.

While the race ultimately ended under a full caution, Wittmer took the checkered flag to bring home the win. MMG put on a dominant showing at Watkins Glen International, leading for a total of 49 laps throughout the 57-lap race.

MMG’s win contributed to a weekend sweep for Honda and Acura teams across IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and NTT INDYCAR SERIES—scoring pole position and victories in all three.

Out of the remaining Honda-powered entries, the #89 HART of Tyler Chambers and Chad Gilsinger finished fourth, recovering from contact from a competitor early in the race to score their third top-five result so far this season. The #5 KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering Honda of William Tally and Tim Lewis concluded the race in sixth.

LP Building Solutions 120 Honda Race Results

• Finished 1st – #93 MMG Honda Civic Type R TCR, Karl Wittmer, LP Montour
• Finished 4th – #89 HART Honda Civic Type R TCR, Tyler Chambers, Chad Gilsinger
• Finished 6th – #5 KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering Honda Civic Type R TCR, William Tally, Tim Lewis

Quotes

Karl Wittmer (#93 MMG Honda Civic Type R TCR) Finished first: “That was incredible. We started off the weekend strong. All the sessions were well executed by everybody on the team. Our lap times remained competitive all the way through. When the green flag dropped, LP did a phenomenal stint and perfectly managed going through GS traffic. I jumped in, hit my fuel numbers and we all executed as planned. When good things happen, good outcomes come with it. I’m super pumped, and really happy with what we’ve achieved at HRC US and MMG.”

LP Montour (#93 MMG Honda Civic Type R TCR) Finished first: “I picked the perfect one to win. We did very well this weekend. We topped both practice sessions, qualified on pole, and led 90% of the race. MMG gave us a strong Honda. I think we had a great pit stop, I don’t know how the others were able to get out faster than us, but we were in the right place and Karl was able to fight back for the win. It’s special to get a win here before going to Canada for the next race. We’re just looking to keep that momentum going.”

Next
Honda will return for the sixth round of the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge season, the two-hour Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 120, on Saturday, July 12th at 1:20 PM ET.

CHEVROLET IN THE NTT INDYCAR SERIES Bommarito Automotive Group 500 World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway Madison, IllinoisTeam Chevy Race Advance June 14-15, 2025   DETROIT (June 13, 2025) The Chevrolet-powered drivers and teams in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES get back to work after one weekend break for the eighth round of the year, a Sunday night short oval tilt on FOX under the lights at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway for the Bommarito Automotive Group 500.  The 1.25-mile, egg-shaped oval, located directly across the Mississippi River from the St. Louis Arch in Madison, Illinois, has been a successful favorite for the Bowtie brand since the series returned in 2017.  Team Chevy drivers have won six of the nine races at Gateway since 2017, with Josef Newgarden, the driver of the No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet, driving to victory lane five times. Chevrolet-powered drivers have won seven of the eight (2018 qualifying was rained out) contested poles on the 1.25-mile oval, including the last two by Scott McLaughlin, the driver of the No. 3 DEX Imaging Team Penske Chevrolet. McLaughlin’s teammate, Will Power, at the wheel of the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, has won the pole on four occasions. Drivers wearing a Bowtie on their firesuits have climbed the podium 20 times, including 63% (17 of 27) of the possible podiums in the twin-turbo, 2.2L V6 era, locking out podiums in 2002, 2020 (Race #2) and 2021. The 2019 Gateway podium featured a pair of current Chevrolet team principals, Ed Carpenter (Ed Carpenter Racing) and Tony Kanaan (Arrow McLaren). Pato O’Ward, the driver of the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, has finished on the podium in four of six races since 2020, trailing only Newgarden’s five podiums. A dozen drivers have led 1401 of 2184 laps (64.1%) since 2017, with Newgarden’s 599 laps the most of any driver. Power has led at least one lap in all nine NTT INDYCAR SERIES races at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway since 2017, the only driver to accomplish that impressive feat.  Leading the field to the green flag for Sunday night’s 325-mile-long Bommarito Automotive Group 500 will be the Corvette E-Ray, featuring eAWD capability, 655 horsepower and a lightning-fast 0 to 60mph time of 2.5 seconds. BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP 500 TUNE-IN-ALERT Saturday, June 14 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice #1 – 11:30am (ET)/10:30am (CT)/9:30am (MT)/ 8:30am (MT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying – 1pm (ET)/2pm (CT)/3pm (MT)/4pm (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218NTT INDYCAR SERIES Final Practice – 5:30pm (ET)/4:30pm (CT)/3:30pm (MT)/ 2:30pm (MT) – FS2/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218 Sunday, June 15NTT INDYCAR SERIES Bommarito Automotive Group 500 – 8pm (ET)/7pm  (CT)/6pm (MT)/5pm (PT) – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING (QUOTES): A.J. FOYT RACING David Malukas, No. 4 A.J. Foyt Racing Chevrolet:“We’ve had really good results every single time except unfortunately last season [crashed with Will Power], but we’ve always been there. So, I think what it is with every race, you always want to try and get the best result and go for that win. But for me especially, I feel like I’ve been close, and I just want to get it done that one more step. Obviously, it’s going to be very hard and we’re going to have to get everything perfect, but, as long as we can get consistent results, I just want consistency for the second half of the season and start securing some good points for the team.” Santino Ferrucci, No. 14 A.J. Foyt Racing/Sexton Properties Chevrolet:“Having a clean weekend will be very important. Assuming we have everything kind of set the way we did last year, we should be a contender to win. So that’d be the expectation this year.” ARROW MCLAREN Pato O’Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet: “I’m feeling refreshed and ready to come back to a racetrack I’ve always enjoyed. Short ovals bring a different kind of intensity and World Wide Technology Raceway is the perfect mix of that. I’m looking forward to giving the fans the best show under the lights Sunday night, prime time on FOX.”  Nolan Siegel, No. 6 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet: “World Wide Technology Raceway was where I had my best result last season, so I’m really looking forward to getting back on the short oval this weekend. It’s a place that suits my driving style, and I’m hoping we can use that to our advantage. Detroit was a tough one, but the goal now is to reset, learn from it and get back on the right track here with a strong result.” Christian Lundgaard, No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet:“I’m excited to go short oval racing for the first time in an Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. This team has been strong at short ovals in the past, so I’m looking forward to running with that package this weekend. We’re still in the fight for the championship, so time to get back out there and keep stacking up good results.” ED CARPENTER RACING Alexander Rossi, No. 20 ECR Java House Chevrolet:“World Wide Technology Raceway is one of my favorite events on the calendar as the track does such a good job at putting on a show for the fans. It is going to be very exciting this year to go back to a proper night race on Sunday. I’ve had a lot of good experiences here in the past, so we should have a great opportunity for a strong result.” Christian Rasmussen, No. 21 ECR Splenda Chevrolet:“I’m really looking forward to my first NTT INDYCAR SERIES race at World Wide Technology Raceway this weekend. It’s a track where I’ve had success before in INDY NXT and I feel confident going in. The Splenda Chevrolet has been very strong the past couple of events and I’m excited to keep that going. Racing under the lights on primetime is going to be a special experience!” PREMA Robert Shwartzman, No. 83 PREMA Racing Chevrolet:“St. Louis will be my second oval race and after the Indy 500 event I feel more confident with the car and the idea of racing on ovals. The Indy 500 was obviously very special and for my first time there achieving an incredible result in qualifying gives me a big boost for the upcoming oval races. This is certainly different and we have tested there earlier this season but I feel excited and look very much forward to it.” Callum Ilott, No, 90 PREMA Racing Chevrolet:“Looking forward to the first short oval of the season, we tested there with Robert earlier in the year and I think we found a good starting point. Obviously weather dependant, as it looks like there could be a little bit of rain on the weekend, I think we should be pretty strong. It’s quite nice to getting going again after a week off and I’m excited to get back to Gateway, a place I’ve always got a lot of potential at.” TEAM PENSKE Josef Newgarden, No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet: “Coming on the heels of a solid run in Detroit, it’ll be nice to get to St. Louis where we have been pretty successful over the years. It just feels like we haven’t been able to find our rhythm this year but we know it can turn quickly. We all want to get a win on the board for Chevrolet as well. The PPG Chevy team obviously knows what takes to win there and that is the goal this weekend.” Scott McLaughlin, No. 3 DEX Imaging Team Penske Chevrolet:  What about World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway suits him so well: “It’s probably the closest that you have on an oval or a short track oval that we have that we go to, kind of replicates a road course in some ways. Just fast, sweeping corners, turns three and four. One and two is tight and twisty. Down a couple gears using the brakes a little bit. That’s another thing, it’s very unusual to use a brake pedal on an oval in an INDYCAR. We do that every lap.I just really enjoy that. I enjoy that style of racing. Definitely started to come into my own a little bit. I got asked sort of last week do I enjoy ovals more. I have to say I do now. I think it’s like such a refreshing change for me in my career. Every time I go on an oval, I feel really confident, definitely feel like it’s my kettle of fish. I really enjoy that.  “But at the same time I’ve had a lot of people that I’ve learnt off through this time at the team that helped me along the way, got me comfortable, like Benny, my engineer. It’s all good.” On this year being under the lights: “I think it raced incredibly well last year – better than I thought in some ways. Especially how hot it was, whatnot. We’re always crying for a nighttime race. I think it’s really cool we’re doing it this year. It’s going to be great for what the cars look like, how the track races, as you said. I don’t know. I think we can get that second groove working really well. High line practice, the track takes the grip really well, too. Yeah, seemed to sort of make it work. “It’s a credit to Firestone, INDYCAR and the choices they make in terms of the aerodynamics and whatnot. Four or five years ago, it wasn’t quite like that. Definitely been improvements from the sporting side, but also us as drivers getting up there in the high line practice, doing it properly, clearing that second lane up. I think the key to any oval is getting that second lane working for us. That’s been an ideal thing the last few years.” Will Power, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet: “I’m excited for the fans that get to see us race under the lights on Sunday night. The night racing we have done in St. Louis has been some of the most exciting oval racing we’ve had over the years, and Team Penske has really been on top of our game on the ovals. The Verizon Chevy team has positioned itself inside the top five in points so if we can score a couple of wins here over the summer, hopefully we can make it an interesting race for the championship again.”

Chevrolet and General Motors at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway  WINS General Motors Wins: 8Chevrolet Wins: 7 2024 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2022 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2021 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2020 Race #2 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2018 – Will Power – Team Penske2017 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2002 – Gil de Ferran – Team Penske  Oldsmobile Wins: 12001 – Al Unser, Jr. – Galles Racing POLES General Motors Poles: 9Chevrolet Poles: 82024 – Scott McLaughlin – Team Penske2023 – Scott McLaughlin – Team Penske2022 – Will Power – Team Penske2021 – Will Power – Team Penske2020 Race #1 – Will Power – Team Penske2019 – Josef Newgarden – Team Penske2017 – Will Power – Team Penske2002 – Gil de Ferran – Team Penske Oldsmobile Poles: 12001 – Sam Hornish – Panther Racing PODIUMS General Motors Podiums: 23Chevrolet Podiums 20Chevrolet driver podiums at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway: Josef Newgarden (5), Pato O’Ward (4), Scott McLaughlin (3), Will Power (2), Alex Barron (1), Ed Carpenter (1), Helio Castroneves (1), Gil de Ferran (1), Tony Kanaan (1) and Simon Pagenaud (1)Chevrolet team podiums at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway:  Team Penske (13), Arrow McLaren (4) A.J. Foyt Racing (1), Blair Racing (1), and Ed Carpenter Racing (1). Oldsmobile Podiums: 3Oldsmobile driver podiums at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway: Mark Dismore (1), Sam Hornish (1) and Al Unser, Jr. (1). Oldsmobile team podiums at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway: Galles Racing (1), Kelley Racing (1), and Panther Racing (1) LAPS LED General Motors Laps Led: 1763Chevrolet Laps Led: 1598 Chevrolet laps led by driver at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway: Josef Newgarden (599), Will Power (450), Pato O’Ward (159), Helio Castroneves (137), Gil de Ferran (81), Scott McLaughlin (79), Alex Barron (29), Sebastien Bourdais (18), Simon Pagenaud (14), Alexander Rossi (12), Sting Ray Robb (8), Nolan Siegel (8), Felipe Giafone (2), Conor Daly (1), and Felix Rosenqvist (1) Chevrolet laps led by team at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway: Team Penske (1360), Arrow McLaren (180), Blair Racing (29), A.J. Foyt Racing (26), Mo Nunn Racing (2) and Carlin (1).  Oldsmobile Laps Led: 165Oldsmobile laps led by driver at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway: Sam Hornish (81), Al Unser, Jr. (75), Mark Dismore (8), and Airton Dare (1)Oldsmobile laps led by team at World Wide Technology Raceway At Gateway: Panther Racing (81), Galles Racing (75), Kelley Racing (8) and Team Xtreme (1)

HISTORICAL INFORMATION INDYCAR SERIES Manufacturer Championships (since 1979) 21 – General Motors (Chevrolet and Oldsmobile combined)16 – Chevrolet (6 Championship Auto Racing Teams & 10 INDYCAR)10 – Honda (4 Championship Auto Racing Teams & 6 INDYCAR)9 – Cosworth (9 Championship Auto Racing Teams)5 – Oldsmobile (5 INDYCAR)2 – Ford (2 Championship Auto Racing Teams)2 – Toyota (1 Championship Auto Racing Teams & 1 INDYCAR)1 – Ilmor (1 Championship Auto Racing Teams)1 – Mercedes Benz (1 Championship Auto Racing Teams)

6/12/25 – Andrew Kunas) Roseburg, OR …  James McFadden and the Tarlton Motorsports team may have just become one of the scariest combinations on the west coast, as McFadden came back from a false start penalty and worked his way towards a second straight win to start the Fastest Five Days in Motorsports, taking Thursday’s NARC 410 sprint car main event at the Douglas County Dirt Track.

McFadden, who started on the pole, fell back as far as fifth in the early going, coming after he was called for jumping the initial start, but found his groove as the race proceeded and began picking off the cars in front of him, eventually challenging Justin Sanders with nine laps to go. Getting his car wound up running the outside of the track, McFadden got a run off of Turn 4 as they completed the 22nd circuit and got inside of Sanders on the front stretch. McFadden threw a slider going into Turn 1, and Sanders tried to keep his speed up around the top of the race track, but couldn’t motor back by as McFadden got in front of him. Sanders had to check up and couldn’t turn his car back down, and McFadden had the lead.

After taking the lead on Lap 23, McFadden took off from there and won for the second straight night aboard the American Rock & Rent-sponsored Tarlton Motorsports No. 21 Kistler-powered Maxim. As he did Wednesday night at Southern Oregon Speedway, the Australian star celebrated with his patented “Shoey” celebration, drinking beer from a shoe atop his race car. He again praised the car field by Tom and Tommy Tarlton and the rest of the Tarlton Motorsports team.

“Hats off to my guys. It’s really tough jumping in a new car,” McFadden said. “You know the rules package in Australia is different than it is here, so to get as comfortable as I am straight away is pretty cool, so hats off to those guys, working so hard and giving me a car that’s great…Tom and Tommy Tarlton, their whole family.”

McFadden admitted to struggling in the first several laps, being upset with false start call at the beginning of the race, but gathered himself and changed up how he drove the car and where on the track, leading to his charge to the front.

McFadden had won at the Douglas County Dirt Track in last August’s High Limit Racing event, and added another win in Roseburg to his credit on Thursday. “It’s really cool to get a win here with High Limit, and now NARC.”

Sanders, after leading 14 laps, backed up his third place finish from Wednesday night with a runner-up aboard the Yuba Sutter Aviation-sponsored Mittry Motorsports No. 2x Fisher-powered KPC. This continued a run of strong finishes for the reigning NARC champion, as Sanders continues to work his way back toward the top of the point standings after his roller coaster of a spring earlier this season.

Dominic Scelzi, after finishing second on Wednesday, got his second straight podium finish to start the week as well, taking third aboard the Red Rose Transportation-sponsored Scelzi Enterprises No. 41 Kistler-powered Maxim. Landon Brooks, who led the first eight laps after starting second, eventually finished fourth aboard the Specified Pipe-sponsored Bates-Hamilton Racing No. 21L Kistler-powered Maxim. A night after flipping upside down, Tanner Holmes bounced back with a fifth place run in the Legacy Builder Supply-sponsored Holmes Racing No. 18t Rider-powered Triple X.

Sean Becker, in his first visit to the Roseburg, Oregon track, finished sixth, followed by Jesse Schlotfeldt, Bud Kaeding, Tyler Thompson and Dominic Gorden. Following an engine swap following qualifying, Gauge Garcia came from 22nd to finish 14th and earn the Williams Roofing Hard Charger nod for the second straight night.

Heat races earlier in the evening were won by Sanders, McFadden and Brooks, before McFadden won the Beacon Wealth Strategies trophy dash to secure the pole position.

Scelzi paced the 24-car field in qualifying with a time of 11.889 seconds around the 3/8-mile clay oval.

Hoosier Racing Tires Feature (30 laps): 1. 21 James McFadden (1), 2. 2x Justin Sanders (3), 3. 41 Dominic Scelzi (1), 4. 21L Landon Brooks (2), 5. 18t Tanner Holmes (5), 6. 7b Sean Becker (3), 7. 21s Jesse Schlotfeldt (7), 8. 29 Bud Kaeding (8), 9. 35km Tyler Thompson (14), 10. 10 Dominic Gorden (9), 11. 121 Caeden Steele (15), 12. 15 Nick Parker (13), 13. 77 Levi Klatt (16), 14. 2k Gauge Garcia (22), 15. 26 Billy Aton (11), 16. 14 Mariah Ede (24), 17. 551 Angelique Bell (21), 18. 12j John Clark (19), 19. 21p Robbie Price (13), 20. 2xm Max Mittry (12), 21. 27c Camden Robustelli (20), 22. 88n D.J. Netto (17), 23. 5k Blaine Cory (18), DNS – 22k Jake Wheeler.

METTEC Titanium Lap Leaders: Landon Brooks 1-8, Justin Sanders 9-22, James McFadden 23-30

Williams Roofing Hard Charger: 2k Gauge Garcia 22nd to 14th (+8)

Automotive Racing Products Fast Qualifier (24 cars): 41 Dominic Scelzi, 11.889 seconds

Brown & Miller Racing Solutions Heat 1 (8 laps): 1. 2x Justin Sanders, 2. 29 Bud Kaeding, 3. 41 Dominic Scelzi, 4. 2xm Max Mittry, 5. 35km Tyler Thompson, 6. 5k Blaine Cory, 7. 12j John Clark, DNS – 2k Gauge Garcia.

Kimo’s Tropical Car Wash Heat 2 (8 laps): 1. 21 James McFadden, 2. 21s Jesse Schlotfeldt, 3. 26 Billy Aton, 4. 7b Sean Becker, 5. 15 Nick Parker, 6. 88n D.J. Netto, 7. 27c Camden Robustelli, 8. 22k Jake Wheeler.

WEDG High Performance Karts Heat 3 (8 laps): 1. 21L Landon Brooks, 2. 10 Dominic Gorden, 3. 18t Tanner Holmes, 4. 21p Robbie Price, 5. 121 Caeden Steele, 6. 77 Levi Klatt, 7. 551 Angelique Bell, 8. 14 Mariah Ede.

Beacon Wealth Strategies – Raymond James Trophy Dash (6 laps): 1. 21 James McFadden, 2. 21L Landon Brooks, 3. 7b Sean Becker, 4. 41 Dominic Scelzi, 5. 2x Justin Sanders, 6. 21p Robbie Price.

PEORIA, IL — June 12, 2025 — After a series of second and third-place finishes to start his first season with Team 22 Inc., Drake Troutman was itching to win his first Feature for the team in 2025.

That moment came on Thursday night as the Hyndman, PA driver earned his first DIRTcar Summer Nationals win at Peoria Speedway with a mixture of defense and luck on his side.

Troutman began the night strong with a win in his Heat race, then rolled off in fourth for the 30-lap Feature.

Polesitter Brian Shirley brought the field to the green flag, with Dillon McCowan and Bob Gardner in tow as Troutman fought against three-time Hell Tour champion Dennis Erb Jr for fourth.

Once he got Erb off his tail, he got creative with passing Gardner on Lap 5 by swinging high into Turn 3, then immediately ducked low to get under the No. 4G and pass him through Turns 1-2.

Troutman caught his first lucky break on Lap 13 when McCowan got into the back of a lapped car that sent him spinning from second place and took him out of contention.

While Troutman attempted the opposite lines of Shirley when the green flag waved for the second time, he did not wait long to get his opportunity for the lead as Shirley’s No. 3S suffered a flat tire with 10 laps to go that ended his night at Peoria.

Troutman’s No. 22* endured a new challenge to tackle in the final laps, as Ryan Unzicker and Erb joined the podium positions and did not leave the World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Models presented by DIRTVision Rookie of the Year contender out of their sights as Erb used the low line and Unzicker up top.

Troutman had to block each line while not losing momentum in the lead, and it paid off with a $5,000 check and the honor of being a Summer Nationals winner.

“I hate to get one this way,” Troutman said. “(Shirley) was pretty good, I felt like we’ve been every bit as good as him, but I’ve led races before, and I guess it’s part of racing. But, I gotta thank (GR Smith) for giving us this opportunity. Man, I don’t know, they reached their necks out and gave me a shot when nobody else did, they’ve been believing in us from Day 1.”

Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models and DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals head to Tri-City Speedway in the fourth chapter of the opening week on Friday night, June 13.

If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch all the action live on DIRTVision – either online or by downloading the DIRTVision App.

Feature (30 Laps): 1. 22*-Drake Troutman[4]; 2. 24-Ryan Unzicker[7]; 3. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[5]; 4. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[10]; 5. 4G-Bob Gardner[3]; 6. 18-Shannon Babb[20]; 7. 1-Tyler Erb[13]; 8. 31-Tyler Millwood[11]; 9. 388-Jackson Hise[12]; 10. 14JR-Trey Mills[17]; 11. 15-Clay Stuckey[8]; 12. 25F-Jason Feger[19]; 13. 40B-Kyle Bronson[14]; 14. 75-Dillon McCowan[2]; 15. 09-Michael Leach[9]; 16. 10J-Joseph Joiner[18]; 17. 29-Christian Hanger[6]; 18. 32M-Cody Maguire[21]; 19. (DNF) 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[22]; 20. (DNF) 3S-Brian Shirley[1]; 21. (DNF) 38G-Camden Gardner[15]; 22. (DNF) 38J-Jake Little[16]

Trevor Neville Strikes at Peoria for Fifth Summit Modifieds Feature Win

Rolling with early momentum in the 2025 DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals wins in 2024, Trevor Neville was determined to leave Peoria Speedway as a Feature winner.

The Mackinaw, IL driver had to use his home track skills of the 0.25-mile bullring to drive him towards a fifth career tour win on Thursday night.

Michael Ledford took early command at the start. In contrast, Neville took over second place by beating Cole Falloway to the gas into Turns 1-2, then swinging low around Manix Furqueron in Turns 3-4 at the end of the opening circuit.

While Falloway attempted to battle Neville for second place, Ledford’s lead grew to 0.6 seconds on Lap 4 until Neville reeled in the No. 09 in the following three laps to mount a charge for the lead.

Neville’s chance came on Lap 7 as the two made contact in Turn 1 that helped him get to Ledford’s door, then made contact once more through Turns 3-4 that broke Ledford’s car but did not hamper Neville.

With the lead firmly in his grasp, Neville extended his lead to 3.8 seconds as he drove onto a special first Summit Modifieds home win for the driver of the No. 777 machine.

“We’re only 20 minutes from home, and this is my home track,” Neville said. “This is where we cut our teeth. These fans have probably been watching me for the last five years, and every big race that comes by, I could not win. This one feels really good, but I felt really bad getting into Mikey (Ledford) in Turns 3 and 4. I hit his back bumper in the first two corners, and I only had one move to get by, so it happens, I guess.”

Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models and DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals head to Tri-City Speedway in the fourth chapter of the opening week on Friday night, June 13.

If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch all the action live on DIRTVision – either online or by downloading the DIRTVision App.

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 777-Trevor Neville[4]; 2. 1H-Ben Harmon[8]; 3. 10M-Chris Morefield[10]; 4. 96M-Mike McKinney[5]; 5. 8A-Austin Holcombe[12]; 6. C40-Mike Chasteen Jr[13]; 7. 66-Cole Falloway[3]; 8. 1A-Steve Meyer Jr[16]; 9. 110-Landen Miller[11]; 10. 74M-Manix Furqueron[2]; 11. 242-Degan Dozard[19]; 12. S1-Austin Simpson[21]; 13. 04-Buddy Randle[22]; 14. 3-Carson Friedman[14]; 15. 14-Dalton Lane[17]; 16. 05-Dave Wietholder[9]; 17. 45-Chase Holland[7]; 18. 97-Charles Hess[15]; 19. 89-Noah Faw[18]; 20. 09-Michael Ledford[1]; 21. 72A-Austin Lynn[20]; 22. 48-Casey Lappin[6]

Eastwood, Andrade team to qualify sixth in Hyperpole for TF Sport

LE MANS, France (June 12, 2025) – TF Sport’s Charlie Eastwood and Rui Andrade teamed to qualify TF Sport’s No. 81 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R on the third row of a stacked LMGT3 field for this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. In Thursday’s two-phase Hyperpole session, Eastwood advanced the TF Corvette out of the 12-car field with the second-fastest time of Hyperpole 1 – 3:54.646 (129.929 mph) followed by Andrade’s career-best GT lap at Le Mans in the eight-car Hyperpole 2, a 3:55.740 (129.307 mph) on his final lap to stay on the third row.

It cements the No. 81 Corvette among the lead cars at the start of Saturday’s race, which features a massive field of 24 GT3 cars representing nine manufacturers. Eastwood and Andrade got the chance in Hyperpole after teammate Tom Van Rompuy advanced from Wednesday’s initial qualifying session in fifth place. With Thursday’s results, all three Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs know their starting positions. AWA’s No. 13 Corvette of Matt Bell, Orey Fidani and Lars Kern will roll off 20th in class for the team’s Le Mans debut after winning the IMSA Bob Akin Award in the 2024 season. TF Sport’s No. 33 Corvette – driven by LMGT3 championship leaders Daniel Juncadella, Jonny Edgar and Ben Keating – will start 23rd in class. The 24 Hours of Le Mans is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET / 4 p.m. CET on Saturday, June 14. MotorTrend will air the full race live in the U.S., with full live streaming coverage available through the MAX app in the U.S., and the FIA WEC app internationally. Radio Le Mans also will provide live streaming audio coverage of all sessions as well.

CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R HYPERPOLE DRIVER QUOTESCHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 81 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R – STARTING SIXTH IN LMGT3: “Clearly, the top couple of cars are super-fast, but we haven’t been the sixth-fastest cars since we’ve been here all week. So again, I think all three of us did a really good job… Tom yesterday to get us in and continue on and then Rui had a really good last lap there. In the mix for sure. We’re not the fastest but definitely not the slowest. We can definitely fight from there. The Corvette and the team have been super-faultless. We’ve been tuning the car more and more to a really good place. As we have in the last couple of races, we have executed really well up to now. We just need to make sure we continue to execute this weekend as well.”

RUI ANDRADE, NO. 81 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R – STARTING SIXTH IN LMGT3: “I’m really happy with how things went. Obviously, Charlie’s lap was incredible in H1. So that was our main objective for that session to get to Hyperpole 2. The starting position doesn’t determine your race, but it’s always nice to start up ahead, avoiding a little bit of the mess at the start. It’s a long race and you want to have a nice, easy start to just flow into it. “For me, the lap felt pretty good at the end there. I missed the peak a little bit in the beginning, but in the last lap it felt really good. I’m happy with it. I think that was the most I could have done. The third row is not so bad. I think the whole team has done a really good job so far. There are no issues with the car and everything’s running fine. So I’m happy with it. Now it’s time to relax a bit and then enjoy the race.”

Nos. 12 and 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.Rs set the pace at Circuit de la SartheLE MANS, France (June 12, 2025) – For the first time since 1967, an American automaker has earned the pole position for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. And for the first time, Cadillac will lead the field to the green flag in the iconic endurance race. Alex Lynn, driving the No. 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R, recorded a career-defining lap of 3 minutes, 23.166 seconds in the 15-minute Hyperpole2 session to claim Cadillac’s second pole position in three FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) seasons.

The celebration in the Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA garages grew exponentially seconds later when the Earl Bamber, driving the No. 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R, slotted in second on the time chart with a lap of 3:23.333 on the 13.626-kilometer (8.467-mile) Circuit de la Sarthe to secure the front-row lockout. “Congratulations to the No. 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R on securing pole position in qualifying for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s most iconic endurance race,” said John Roth, global vice president of Cadillac. “We are excited to get back on the track and compete for the overall win this weekend.” Lynn, who qualified second with Cadillac Racing in 2024 and teamed with Bamber and Richard Westbrook to earn a podium in Cadillac’s first race back at Circuit de la Sarthe in 2023 after a 21-year absence, was jubilant and praised “the team effort.”

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“Pole position here at Le Mans and an incredible front row lockout for the team,” he said. “It doesn’t get much better than that. I want to say a huge thank you to everyone at Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA for giving me the car to do that. It’s been a lifelong goal of mine to be on the pole at Le Mans, it’s such an honor.” A Cadillac Racing entry has been either first or second on the time sheet in each of the three free practice sessions, the qualifying practice Wednesday night, Hyperpole1 and Hyperpole2 leading up to the 93rd edition of the race. All four Cadillac Hypercars qualified for Hyperpole1 – a new qualifying format for 2025 in which 15 cars advanced from the 30-minute qualifying practice. The No. 311 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R, with Jack Aitken behind the wheel, topped the lap time chart in the 20-minute session of 15 cars with a blistering lap of 3:22.742 – the lone sub-3:23 lap in either session. By sanctioning body rules, he gave way to Felipe Drugovich for the next round and the Action Express Racing driver qualified eighth with a lap of 3:24.380. The No. 101 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R used Hyperpole1 to run in race trim, testing ride height and other areas, after the crew and Cadillac engineers efficiently changed the 5.5-liter DOHC V8 engine out of precaution during the afternoon free practice.Now the attention turns to the race, with Cadillac aiming to be the first American automaker to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 1969. Norman Nato and Will Stevens, who drove in Hyperpole1, will share time in the No. 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R. Bamber, Sebastien Bourdais, who drove in Hyperpole1, and Jenson Button drive the No. 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R. The No. 12 entry finished fifth and the No. 38 car placed sixth in the most recent race at Spa-Francorchamps.The No. 101 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R driven by Filipe Albuquerque, Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor, and the No. 311 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R driven by Aitken, Drugovich and Frederik Vesti are full-season IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competitors. The Wayne Taylor Racing team is marking its first 24 Hours of Le Mans, though all three drivers and team owner Wayne Taylor have competed multiple times in the event. Cadillac Racing Le Mans 2024-2023 start/result in Hypercar era2024: Seventh (No. 2 Cadillac V-Series.R ) qualified second/start seventh – Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn, Alex Palou        DNF (No. 3 Cadillac V-Series.R) qualified third/start second — Sebastien Bourdais, Renger van der Zande, Scott Dixon        29th overall/15th in class (No. 311 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R) start 18th– Pipo Derani, Jack Aitken, Felipe Drugovich2023: Third (No. 2 Cadillac V-Series.R) start sixth — Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn, Richard Westbrook        Fourth (No. 3 Cadillac V-Series.R) start eighth — Sebastien Bourdais, Renger van der Zande, Scott Dixon        17th overall/10th in class (No. 311 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R) start 13th — Pipo Derani, Jack Aitken, Alexander Sims

What they’re saying

No. 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.RAlex Lynn: “I think every time you have the opportunity to drive this kind of car around Le Mans with low fuel and new tires, it’s an honor. It’s a pleasure to be here in front of all of you tonight. I’m truly honored to be able to put in a performance like that in front of everyone and deliver the car to Cadillac how they deserve – in the first position. It’s a special feeling. I can’t describe it. It’s such a magical circuit, a wonderful place and a place where I really try to perform my best. We’ll enjoy this tonight, have a good sleep and reset.”Will Stevens: “Honestly, that’s amazing for us as car #12, amazing for Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA and amazing for GM. We’ve worked so hard since we got this car and we’ve worked really hard all week. We’ve made some good decisions and I’m so proud of everyone in this program, not only to get pole but to have the 1-2 is something really special. Obviously, the qualifying format here is pretty tricky as you need to prep two drivers, but we knew we could do the job. Alex is our main qualifier so we wanted to make sure that he did Hyperpole2, but this then put the pressure on me to make sure that we got through Hyperpole 1. I had traffic from one of the Ferraris so it was very close but we got it done and what a place to start a 24-hour race from. The hard work really starts now, it’s a long road ahead but after today we’re pretty confident. Let’s keep pushing for the win on Sunday.” Norman Nato: “Honestly, I’m really pleased with all of the work done by the team. All of the credit goes to them. As a driver, even when you have one of the best packages, it’s never easy to do that kind of lap. Especially in WEC right now with the caliber of drivers that we have, the level is at the top. In the end, as drivers, we have the easy part. We complain about everything until the set-up is exactly the way we want it and that’s why all the credit goes to the whole team, everyone who brought us this package and this opportunity. They have all worked so hard. Of course, we’re going to focus now as much as possible for the race ahead but first we need to take a minute to enjoy this very special moment. A front row lock-out at Le Mans is something to savor.”No. 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R Earl Bamber: “What a result for Cadillac and also Hertz Team JOTA… a front-row lockout! We were close on pole last year. As a manufacturer to lock out the front row for the biggest race in the world for us is something pretty special. You don’t get that every day. Big congrats to Alex and the 12 car. It’s going to be nice to sit alongside him Saturday and take the start with Cadillac.” Sebastien Bourdais: “The goal was to get into the top 10, so I was really happy with the first lap. I didn’t overdrive too much. Really happy for the 12 car guys and Earl did a great job in Hyperpole2 to get P2. Looking forward to the race.”No. 101 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R Ricky Taylor: “What an amazing team day. I have never seen a team change an engine during a practice session before. That might be a world record! I am just so proud of Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing, coming to Le Mans for the first time and really proving that the guys mean business and they are to compete and here to win. Because we missed the Practice session today, we treated qualifying a bit as a proving of the car to make sure we had stuff ready for the race. We just have night practice left now and the car needs to be ready to go. I did my best. I think we had the sectors to advance but unfortunately, I made a little mistake on the last lap. Otherwise, I thought we had enough to be into Hyperpole2. That would have been a dream. However, now we can just relax and think about our race. It’s a long one so starting P14 isn’t the end of the world.”No. 311 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R Jack Aitken: “It was a really fun lap. The Cadillac felt incredible. It was just giving more and more. The second lap, I saw the speed was there and I just started to throw everything at the track, and it ended up being quite a good one. It’s always fun to drive these cars on low fuel, and to do it on the biggest and baddest circuit here is really fun.” Felipe Drugovich: “It was actually my first proper try on new tires, and I didn’t even do a quali sim before. I would rather be a bit slower than actually making a mistake. So, I just went with a mentality and got a safe lap. Probably too safe. I could have pushed a lot more, but, you know, it’s the first time for me. It’s a very happy day for the team, for the GM family and Cadillac.”

Eastwood, Andrade team to qualify sixth in Hyperpole for TF Sport

LE MANS, France (June 12, 2025) – TF Sport’s Charlie Eastwood and Rui Andrade teamed to qualify TF Sport’s No. 81 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R on the third row of a stacked LMGT3 field for this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. In Thursday’s two-phase Hyperpole session, Eastwood advanced the TF Corvette out of the 12-car field with the second-fastest time of Hyperpole 1 – 3:54.646 (129.929 mph) followed by Andrade’s career-best GT lap at Le Mans in the eight-car Hyperpole 2, a 3:55.740 (129.307 mph) on his final lap to stay on the third row.

It cements the No. 81 Corvette among the lead cars at the start of Saturday’s race, which features a massive field of 24 GT3 cars representing nine manufacturers. Eastwood and Andrade got the chance in Hyperpole after teammate Tom Van Rompuy advanced from Wednesday’s initial qualifying session in fifth place. With Thursday’s results, all three Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs know their starting positions. AWA’s No. 13 Corvette of Matt Bell, Orey Fidani and Lars Kern will roll off 20th in class for the team’s Le Mans debut after winning the IMSA Bob Akin Award in the 2024 season. TF Sport’s No. 33 Corvette – driven by LMGT3 championship leaders Daniel Juncadella, Jonny Adam and Ben Keating – will start 23rd in class. The 24 Hours of Le Mans is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET / 4 p.m. CET on Saturday, June 14. MotorTrend will air the full race live in the U.S., with full live streaming coverage available through the MAX app in the U.S., and the FIA WEC app internationally. Radio Le Mans also will provide live streaming audio coverage of all sessions as well.

CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R HYPERPOLE DRIVER QUOTESCHARLIE EASTWOOD, NO. 81 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R – STARTING SIXTH IN LMGT3: “Clearly, the top couple of cars are super-fast, but we haven’t been the sixth-fastest cars since we’ve been here all week. So again, I think all three of us did a really good job… Tom yesterday to get us in and continue on and then Rui had a really good last lap there. In the mix for sure. We’re not the fastest but definitely not the slowest. We can definitely fight from there. The Corvette and the team have been super-faultless. We’ve been tuning the car more and more to a really good place. As we have in the last couple of races, we have executed really well up to now. We just need to make sure we continue to execute this weekend as well.”

RUI ANDRADE, NO. 81 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R – STARTING SIXTH IN LMGT3: “I’m really happy with how things went. Obviously, Charlie’s lap was incredible in H1. So that was our main objective for that session to get to Hyperpole 2. The starting position doesn’t determine your race, but it’s always nice to start up ahead, avoiding a little bit of the mess at the start. It’s a long race and you want to have a nice, easy start to just flow into it. “For me, the lap felt pretty good at the end there. I missed the peak a little bit in the beginning, but in the last lap it felt really good. I’m happy with it. I think that was the most I could have done. The third row is not so bad. I think the whole team has done a really good job so far. There are no issues with the car and everything’s running fine. So I’m happy with it. Now it’s time to relax a bit and then enjoy the race.”

The half mile presents a unique puzzle to solve, even for the sport’s bestKNOXVILLE, IA (June 12, 2025) – Few dirt tracks are as difficult to master as Knoxville Raceway.The legendary 1/2-mile dirt track has presented challenges to Sprint Car drivers for decades. It’s home to the sport’s most prestigious race, the NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals presented by Casey’s, so it’s only fitting that Knoxville doesn’t often allow newcomers to conquer. The toughest race to win should be hosted by one of the sport’s toughest tracks.Knoxville is the next destination for The Greatest Show on Dirt. The Premier Chevy Dealers Clash is bringing the country’s best Sprint Car drivers to the Iowa town for two nights of racing (June 13-14). It’s a key opportunity for teams to get important laps and gauge where they stand against the best ahead of the Knoxville Nationals (Aug. 6-9). Any driver will tell you that you can never get enough laps at Knoxville.David Gravel is one of the best, currently, when it comes to competing at Knoxville. The defending Series champion has topped a dozen races on the Marion County Fairground, including the 2019 Knoxville Nationals. Even though his résumé boasts plenty of success, he’s still found it to be a difficult track to get ahold of, especially learning the bottom groove.“You just can’t go around that track and lock your elbows and make laps and win races there,” Gravel said. “Nine times out of ten, it gets technical, and the cushion gets really big and too high up the track, and the bottom comes into play. It’s the most technical track we race at, and it provides the biggest loss in time with mistakes. You make a mistake there, and you lose more time than anywhere else.“Running the bottom to perfection lap after lap is something that’s really hard to do at Knoxville, especially when the track gets really slick and it’s just one-tire width wide on the bottom. It takes a lot of patience, a lot of concentration, and a good race car to do it.”Bill Balog has been making trips to Knoxville for the past two decades. Despite his countless accomplishments up north, including 10 Interstate Racing Association (IRA) titles, the “North Pole Nightmare” has struggled to grapple with the black zook clay. Balog did display improvement last year, finishing fifth on his Knoxville Nationals prelim night to qualify for his first finale.Balog shares similar feelings to Gravel on attacking the lower groove at Knoxville. It’s a challenge shared by many drivers. A major piece of Danny Lasoski’s legacy was running it better than anyone, a trait that helped lift him to four Knoxville Nationalschampionships.“When the bottom is good, you have to be down there, and it’s harder than it looks to keep your speed up down there,” Balog said. “I wish I had all the answers. We’ve had decent nights there, and we’ve had a lot of bad nights. It’s definitely a hard racetrack to get a handle on. If your car’s not good, you’re just not going to be any good. There’s no way around it.”Knoxville has become a home track of sorts for Fresno, CA’s Giovanni Scelzi. After joining forces with the Iowa-based KCP Racing, he relocated to the “Hawkeye State.” Knoxville is now one of Scelzi’s best tracks. He’s won there eight times, most recently claiming a 2024 Knoxville Nationals prelim.“Hot Sauce” views the mental element as another obstacle. Drivers are competing at a facility unlike any other. The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum looms outside Turn 2. It’s flanked by both the Bryan Clauson and Dennis Albaugh Suite Towers. Massive grandstands sit along both straightaways. The history is palpable. You know you’re at the mecca of Sprint Car racing when you make a lap at Knoxville.“I think that, obviously, the stakes are higher there,” Scelzi said. “Even for a local Knoxville race, it’s super intense having a facility with the Hall of Fame and just everything with when you walk in that racetrack, how it makes you feel, you really want to be successful at it.”And just like the others, Scelzi notes the racing surface is tricky for a variety of reasons.“The shape of the racetrack is obviously unique,” Scelzi said. “I feel like it’s probably the best half mile we go to surface-wise. There’re always two lanes, sometimes three lanes. With the corners, it feels like they’re longer than the straightaways are. You’re almost turning more than you’re going straight, so exit there is very important to make sure you get going down the straightaways.”Gravel, Balog, Scelzi, the remainder of the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car stars, and many more are set to invade Knoxville this weekend (June 13-14) for the Premier Chevy Dealers Clash. For tickets, CLICK HERE.If you can’t make it to the track, catch every lap live on DIRTVision.ARTICLE: https://worldofoutlaws.com/sprintcars/mastering-the-mecca-world-of-outlaws-drivers-on-the-challenges-of-knoxville-raceway/EVENT INFO: https://worldofoutlaws.com/sprintcars/schedule/event-info/?event=4547562 TRACK INFO: https://worldofoutlaws.com/sprintcars/tracks/?track=Knoxville%2BRacewayFAN 101: https://about.worldofoutlaws.com/

Brandon Robinson (44) at the Lima Half-Mile during the 2024 Progressive AFT season  [Photo: American Flat Track/Tim Lester] DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (June 12, 2025) – Progressive American Flat Track announced pre-season that the brand-new Mission Triple Challenge will make its highly-anticipated debut when the series rolls into the Allen County Fairgrounds for the Lima Half-Mile on Friday, June 27, and now it’s time. The innovative three-race format now headlines Round Six at the Lima Half-Mile I event.  Three Races, One Night, Infinite Drama  The Mission Triple Challenge compresses a night’s worth of heart-pounding battles into a rapid-fire triple-header that ratchets up the distance—and the stakes—each time the lights go green. Mission Foods will award escalating bonuses to the winners of the opening two races in the SuperTwins class. The winner of Race 1 will receive $2,500, and the winner of Race 2 will take home $5,000, bumping the total bonus up to $7500 compared to the already impressive $5000 awarded to the winners of the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge “dash-for-cash” utilized at the non-Triple Challenge rounds.

*Top-17 points scale shown. Overall event standings are determined by combined points; ties break according to Race 3 finish. Championship points are awarded based on the event’s final classification.  Why Fans Shouldn’t Blink  Non-stop action: Three independent launches, three chances to recover or run the table. Strategy on the fly: Crew chiefs and riders must balance sprint aggression with long-haul stamina as race lengths climb 50 percent, then 100 percent. Meaningful every lap: Points in all three races count, multiplying the value of early momentum and late-race heroics. Flat track racing is all about laying everything on the line, and the Mission Triple Challenge amps that mentality up to eleven. Lima’s famed pea-gravel cushion is the ultimate playground for a format that rewards creativity, courage, and sheer speed—packing a full season’s worth of drama into one electric Friday night. Lima Half-Mile Schedule Highlights – Friday, June 27 (All Times ET) 2:00 p.m. – Gates open to ticketed fans 6:30 p.m. – Opening Ceremonies 6:50 & 7:05 p.m. – Mission Triple Challenge Race 1 (Singles & SuperTwins) 7:40 & 8:00 p.m. – Race 2 9:00 & 9:35 p.m. – Race 3  Catch every second live on FloRacing, with a one-hour highlight show to air on FOX Sports the following week.

June 12, 2025 — TORRANCE, CA.

• Following her rookie debut in 2024, Katherine Legge returns with goal of setting a new front-wheel-drive record
• U.S. Olympic speed skater Rusty Smith will pilot the official pace vehicle – an Integra Type S HRC Prototype
• Honda Racing Corporation USA (HRC US) developed performance parts featured on both vehicles, leveraging the technical knowledge and expertise of HRC race engineers worldwide

Acura and Honda Racing Corporation USA (HRC US) today announced a return to “America’s Mountain” for the 103rd running of The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, presented by Gran Turismo, on June 22. Acura and HRC US will enter the highly competitive Time Attack 1 (TA1) division with the Integra Type S DE5 race car. Driving the #93 Integra is INDYCAR and IMSA veteran Katherine Legge who also returns to the ”Race to the Clouds” following a top-five finish in the TA1 category in 2024. Her rookie outing resulted in a time of 10:51.359, just a few seconds shy of the current front-wheel-drive record of 10:48.094 – set by Acura engineer and Pikes Peak veteran Nick Robinson with a 500-horsepower TLX in 2018.

“It was an honor to compete in Pikes Peak for the first time in 2024, as I had always dreamt of being among the famous drivers who have tackled the mountain,” said Katherine Legge, driver of the #93 Acura Integra Type S DE5. “At Pikes Peak, you’re always competing against yourself, the mountain and the other drivers. It’s my goal to leave my own legacy, setting the front-wheel drive record in the Integra Type S DE5.”

Additionally, Acura will supply the official pace car for the 103rd running of America’s longest running hill climb. The custom-wrapped Indy Yellow Acura Integra Type S HRC Prototype will pace the field on the challenging 156-turn, 12.42-mile mountain course, demonstrating a new line of HRC Performance Parts being developed by championship-winning HRC race engineers. Behind the wheel will be U.S. Olympic bronze-medalist speed skater, Rusty Smith.

Rusty Smith has made Team USA three times, competing in short track at the Olympic Winter Games Nagano 1998, Salt Lake City 2002, and Turin 2006. On the podium, Smith captured a 500-meter bronze medal in 2002 and a relay bronze medal alongside his teammates in 2006. Smith also shares a passion for high-performance Honda and Acura vehicles; he owns several enthusiast models from each brand, including a rare first-generation Acura NSX-T finished in Spa Yellow with a Vivid Yellow interior.

Smith’s stint in the Integra Type S HRC Prototype follows Honda’s announcement as a Founding Partner of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Honda will also serve as the Official Automotive Partner of Team USA, supporting the United States Olympic and Paralympic Teams during the LA28 Games and upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. LA28 plans for Honda and Acura vehicles to act as the official pace vehicles for all LA28 endurance events.

Motorsports, including the premium performance brand’s Pikes Peak efforts, is a critical component of Acura Precision Crafted Performance. This is the 15th consecutive year Acura is competing at Pikes Peak, with the Acura team amassing an impressive 12 first place in-division finishes, over 30 podiums and multiple course records.

Known as the Race to the Clouds, the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado is one of America’s longest running motorsports competitions. Since 1916, drivers from all over the world race against the clock, in a wide variety of vehicles and from multiple motorsports disciplines, as they take on the grueling mountain course, starting at 9,390 feet and climbing to the 14,115-foot summit.

HRC Performance Parts
Based on strong interest generated by the Acura Integra Type S HRC Prototype, which was revealed at Monterey Car Week in August 2024, HRC announced that it will create a new business to produce authentic performance parts for customer use for street, track and off-road applications at the 2024 SEMA Show in Las Vegas.

Southern California-based HRC US has been winning races and championships on and off-road for three decades and is applying this extensive know-how to a new line of authentic performance parts focused on enhancing all elements of the driving experience—
engine, suspension and braking performance—along with significant weight savings. As a successful racing brand for decades, HRC US is uniquely positioned to offer parts to retail customers in North America to enhance the performance of their own Honda and Acura vehicles.

Acura Integra Type S DE5
Eligible for competition in multiple racing series and sold directly to racers, HRC’s Integra Type S DE5 is designed, developed, and assembled inside Honda’s state-of-the-art North American facilities employing groundbreaking technologies in weld, body construction, painting, final assembly and quality confirmation to ensure the highest levels of precision and craftsmanship.

HRC developed the DE5 from the production Acura Integra Type S premium sports compact, and it is the latest in a line of highly successful, championship-winning, HRC-developed touring cars, including versions of the 10th generation Honda Civic Si and Type R and the 11th generation Civic Si FE1.

The competition version of the Integra Type S, which participates in the top class of SRO TC America racing where it won six races in its debut season, is powered by a modified version of the factory 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder K20C8 engine. The racing version of the engine, co-developed by HRC US and HRC Japan, produces in excess of 360hp. That power is then directed to the wheels via a 6-speed sequential, paddle-shift transmission to HRC US developed suspension and brakes.

The purpose-built body shell removes all unneeded street vehicle components – such as soundproofing, underbody coating and seam sealers – and is fitted with a safety roll cage, aerodynamic components and cooling upgrades.

About Acura
Acura is a leading premium auto brand committed to delivering expressive styling, innovative engineering and engaging dynamics, all built on the brand’s Precision Crafted Performance DNA. The Acura lineup consists of two sport sedans, the Integra and TLX, and four sport-utility vehicles, the first-ever ADX, RDX, MDX and all-electric ZDX. High-performance Type S variants further demonstrate the virtues of Acura Precision Crafted Performance.

(6/11/25 – Andrew Kunas) … White City, Oregon – New team? New Track? No problem at all! That was the story for Australian star James McFadden on Wednesday night when he took NARC’s opening feature of the Fastest Five Days in Motorsports at Southern Oregon Speedway.

McFadden ran second early in the 30-lap feature and on Lap 14 muscled past early leader Landon Brooks, running the bottom of turns one and two as Brooks got into the cushion at the top of the racetrack. McFadden took off and never looked back from there to take the win in his first race in the American Rock & Rent-sponsored Tarlton Motorsports No. 21 Kistler-powered Maxim.

After taking the checkered flag, McFadden parked his car on the front stretch and gave the fans his signature “Shoey” celebration, pouring a beer into his shoe and drinking from it atop his car.

McFadden said that early on he felt he couldn’t match Brooks running the top side and worked to make the bottom of the racetrack work and developed a rhythm to eventually get by the leader. McFadden praised his car and the Tarlton Motorsports team, expressing his excitement at winning the first night out with a new team at a track he had never been on.

Brooks, with damage to his car following contact with other cars, had to surrender the second position and go to the work area during a red flag with 18 laps completed. That gave the second spot to Dominic Scelzi, who had been racing with Justin Sanders for third just a few laps earlier. Though he was unable to challenge McFadden for the lead in the closing laps, the former series champion still earned his best NARC finish of the season with a runner-up aboard the Red Rose Transportation-sponsored Scelzi Enterprises No. 41 Kistler-powered Maxim.

Sanders finished third aboard the Yuba Sutter Aviation-sponsored Mittry Motorsports No. 2x Fisher-powered KPC.

A pair of red flags, the first coming with just one lap completed, halted the action along the way and both took out cars that were running in the top. The lap two crash eliminated Robbie Price, who was running second, as well as Tanner Holmes who was in sixth place.

Former series champion D.J. Netto brought out the red flag with 18 laps down when he found himself upside down after running fifth. Luckily, no drivers were injured.

Billy Aton was one of the drivers in the Top 10 who stayed out of trouble throughout the race and finished fourth in the Legacy Glass-sponsored Billy Aton Racing No. 26 Kistler-powered Triple X. Washington visitor Jesse Schlotfeldt, in his first visit to Southern Oregon Speedway, came from ninth to finish fifth in the Grinder’s Automotive & Marine-sponsored JRS Motorsports No. 21s Shark-powered Triple X.

Behind the sixth finishing Dominic Gorden, Gauge Garcia earned the Williams Roofing Hard Charger Award by moving up 11 positions from 18th to finish seventh. Sean Becker, Bud Kaeding and Max Mittry rounded out the Top 10.

Brooks won the Beacon Wealth Strategies – Raymond James Trophy Dash to secure the pole position for the main event. Heat races earlier in the evening were won by Scelzi, Sanders, and McFadden. Robbie Price paced the 24-car field in Automotive Racing Products qualifying with a lap of 11.306 seconds around the large 1/4-mile clay oval.

Hoosier Racing Tires Feature (30 laps): 1. 21 James McFadden (3), 2. 41 Dominic Scelzi (4), 3. 2x Justin Sanders (5), 4. 26 Billy Aton (7), 5. 21s Jesse Schlotfeldt (9), 6. 10 Dominic Gorden (11), 7. 2k Gauge Garcia (18), 8. 7b Sean Becker (12), 9. 29 Bud Kaeding (15), 10. 2xm Max Mittry (8), 11. 121 Caeden Steele (14), 12. 21L Landon Brooks (1), 13. 14 Mariah Ede (21), 14. 35km Tyler Thompson (16), 15. 15 Nick Parker (13), 16. 12j John Clark (17), 17. 551 Angelique Bell (24),  18. 5k Blain Cory (22), 19. 77 Levi Klatt (23), 20. 88n D.J. Netto (10), 21. 22k Jake Wheeler (21), 22. 21p Robbie Price (2), 23. 18t Tanner Holmes (6), DNS – 27c Camden Robustelli.

METTEC Titanium Lap Leaders: 21L Landon Brooks 1-13, 21 James McFadden 14-30

Williams Roofing Hard Charger: 2k Gauge Garcia 18th to 7th (+11)

Automotive Racing Products Quick Qualifier (24 cars): 21p Robbie Price, 11.306 seconds

Brown & Miller Racing Solutions Heat 1 (8 laps): 1. 41 Dominic Scelzi, 2. 26 Billy Aton, 3. 21p Robbie Price, 4. 10 Dominic Gorden, 5. 15p Nick Parker, 6. 35km Tyler Thompson, 7. 22k Jake Wheeler, 8. 77 Levi Klatt.

Kimo’s Tropical Car Wash Heat 2 (8 laps): 1. 2x Justin Sanders, 2. 2xm Max Mittry, 3. 21s Jesse Schotfeldt, 4. 21L Landon Brooks, 5. 121 Caeden Steele, 6. 12j John Clark, 7. 27c Camden Robustelli, DNS – 551 Angelique Bell.

WEDG High Performance Karts Heat 3 (8 laps): 1. 21 James McFadden, 2. 18t Tanner Holmes, 3. 88n D.J. Netto, 4. 7b Sean Becker, 5. 29 Bud Kaeding, 6. 2k Gauge Garcia, 7. 14 Mariah Ede, 8. 5k Blaine Cory.

Beacon Wealth Strategies – Raymond James Trophy Dash (6 laps): 1. 21L Landon Brooks, 2. 21p Robbie Price, 3. 21 James McFadden, 4. 41 Dominic Scelzi, 5. 2x Justin Sanders, 6. 18t Tanner Holmes. Finish determined first six starting positions of Feature.

KANKAKEE, IL — June 11, 2025 — Jason Feger’s muscle on the high side of dirt tracks remains unmatched.

On his home turf at Kankakee County Speedway, the Bloomington, IL driver put his expertise to use on Wednesday night as he led every lap for his first DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Model win of 2025.

Feger began his night with a win in his Heat race, then picked up a front row start for the 30-lap Feature around the 1/4-mile bullring.

Using the outside at the drop of the green flag, Feger ran the cushion and got the edge on polesitter Dillon McCowan to take the early claim.

The Longhorn Chassis No. 25 machine took residence on the top while McCowan and third place runner Brian Shirley had to try both the low and middle lanes of the track in their attempt at squandering Feger’s supremacy at the front.

Through the first half of the Feature, the “High Side Hustler” inflated his lead gap to three seconds as Tuesday winner Billy Moyer and Mark Whitener charged into the top five after starting in 12th and 13th, respectively.

While a caution with 10 laps remaining gave the top five a second life in the fight for the win, the 2010 champion proceeded to rip the high line towards a 2.2-second lead away from the field as he captured the 31st Hell Tour triumph of his career.

“Well, it’s been a rough start to the year for us,” Feger said. “I feel like we’ve been working really hard, getting better and better. Feels good to get a win off Hell Tour early. I mean, second night, it takes that pressure off and now we can focus on racing. It ended up being a pretty good race where I could really manuever to the top, middle or bottom.”

Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models and DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals head for Peoria Speedway in the halfway mark of the opening week.

If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch all the action live on DIRTVision – either online or by downloading the DIRTVision App.

Feature (30 Laps): 1. 25F-Jason Feger[2]; 2. 75-Dillon McCowan[1]; 3. 3S-Brian Shirley[3]; 4. 5-Mark Whitener[13]; 5. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr[8]; 6. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[12]; 7. K67-Braiden Keller[10]; 8. 22*-Drake Troutman[9]; 9. 40B-Kyle Bronson[5]; 10. 14JR-Trey Mills[7]; 11. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[18]; 12. 18-Shannon Babb[17]; 13. 10J-Joseph Joiner[15]; 14. 31-Tyler Millwood[4]; 15. 17SS-Brenden Smith[16]; 16. 1-Tyler Erb[11]; 17. 16-Rusty Griffaw[20]; 18. 15-Clay Stuckey[19]; 19. (DNF) 130-Chase Osterhoff[6]; 20. (DNF) C6-Oakley Johns[14]; 21. (DNF) 29-Christian Hanger[22]; 22. (DNF) 10-Paul Parker[21]

Derek Losh Wins Second Career Summit Modified Nationals Feature at Kankakee

Derek Losh wasn’t going to be denied a second DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals win after four years of anticipation.

Early in the Wednesday program at Kankakee County Speedway, Losh went fastest in his Qualifying group, then proceeded to win the Heat race.

That set him up for a redraw that awarded him the outside of the front row for the Modified’s 25-lap Feature.

The Rensselaer, IN driver beat polesitter Steven Brooks to the gas pedal entering the opening start, as the cushion worked to Losh’s favor to take the lead on Lap 1.

While Losh never relinquished the lead for the remainder of the Feature, he had to keep Owensboro, KY driver Cole Falloway after driving up five spots to take second place on Lap 3.

Losh used the high line while Falloway tried to use the middle lane to have a chance at getting to the door of the No. 21L for the top spot.

When Falloway faltered with three laps to go after smacking the outside wall, Losh locked up his second Summit Modifieds win since 2020.

“This place takes a ton of luck and you gotta be good all night,” Losh said. “Our guys worked thier asses off getting us good here, I’m glad I didn’t tear the nose off. These guys got the No. 21 machine rolling, and thank you to everyone that supports us.”

Up Next: The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models and DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals head for Peoria Speedway in the halfway mark of the opening week.

If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch all the action live on DIRTVision – either online or by downloading the DIRTVision App.

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 21L-Derek Losh[2]; 2. 66-Cole Falloway[6]; 3. 21A-Nick Allen[8]; 4. 99-Hunt Gossum[5]; 5. 45-Chase Holland[3]; 6. 777-Trevor Neville[9]; 7. 5-Steven Brooks[1]; 8. 27-Beau DeYoung[10]; 9. 1TS-Tyler Spalding[14]; 10. 96M-Mike McKinney[12]; 11. 5CS-Curt Spalding[16]; 12. 01-Billy Knippenberg[7]; 13. 7-Brad Deyoung[17]; 14. 1H-Ben Harmon[15]; 15. 25S-Jake Straka[13]; 16. 35-Jason Hastings[23]; 17. 73-Mark Rhoades[18]; 18. 2-Brayden Doyle[19]; 19. 28M-Frank Marshall[11]; 20. (DNS) 0-Travis Kohler; 21. (DNS) 17N-Dillon Nusbaum; 22. (DNS) 71J-Justin VanDrunen; 23. (DNS) 14-Dalton Lane

LONG BEACH, CA (June 4, 2025) — With confidence, horsepower, and momentum on his side, Funny Car driver Buddy Hull and Jim Dunn Racing are charging into this weekend’s Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway, June 6-8, ready to make more noise in the ultra-competitive NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series.   Fresh off a stellar performance at the NHRA New England Nationals, Hull turned heads and proved once again why he’s one of the most exciting drivers to watch in the class. Driving the Mooneyes Nitro Funny Car, Hull powered past No. 1 qualifier Austin Prock in a thrilling first-round upset and advanced to the quarterfinals, putting down competitive passes and showcasing his growing command of the 12,000-horsepower machine.   “The car was strong, I felt locked in, and we came out of New England with a lot to be proud of,” said Hull. “Beating the No. 1 qualifier is never easy, but it shows that this team has what it takes to run with the best. We’re not done yet.”  Buddy Hull and the Mooneyes Funny Car will be looking for more win lights at the Thunder Valley Nationals, photo credit Krista Zivcic PhotosAs Hull returns to the iconic Thunder Valley at Bristol Dragway, the Jim Dunn Racing team will roll out their special Mooneyes 75th Anniversary livery for its last appearance before its return at the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals at the end of this season. The striking yellow-and-black design is a fan favorite and a perfect visual match for Hull’s bold and relentless driving style. Longtime sponsor Compass Facility Services (CFS) will also once again be highlighted on the back wing of the car. This will be fans’ last chance to get Mooneyes merch from their traveling merchandise trailer until the Pomona race.   “This Mooneyes car just feels electric,” said Hull. “The fans love it, we love it, and there’s something special about running it here in Bristol. We want to give everyone one more great memory before it takes a break until Pomona. Fans can even have a souvenir from the race, by grabbing one of our custom hero cards for the event.”   Hull’s recent performances are a testament to his continued evolution as a top-tier Funny Car driver. With each round, he’s sharpening his instincts, building chemistry with the team, and proving that Jim Dunn Racing is a force to be reckoned with.   “Now it’s just about fine tuning my skills in this car. I’m comfortable, I’m keeping it straight, I can pedal it,” said Hull. “In my mind, the runs have gotten really slow. Jim and I, we communicate a lot. I challenge myself with telling him that the car did this at this location on the racetrack, and I’m always spot on or really close. The more runs you make in the car, and the more you pay attention, and the more you get serious about becoming a better race car driver, it makes a difference.”   The Thunder Valley Nationals is the second race of the season to be a back-to-back race. Hull loves the energy you can set in motion when there’s no off-weekend.   “I wish we raced every weekend. I wish we could do three weeks on and one week off, because it’s a momentum thing,” said Hull. “It may not seem like every other weekend is time off, but it’s all about getting into a groove. We’re excited. We’ll go home for a couple days, rest up, regroup, come back and be ready. That’s for sure.”   On the Thursday at 1 p.m. leading up to the race, Hull will be participating in a Speedway Children’s Charity Trap Shooting event. Later in the day, from 3-5 p.m., he will then be signing autographs for fans at a Mission Foods autograph session at Food City (1921 Highway 394, Blountville, TN). The Mooneyes Funny Car will be on display at this event for fans to be able to look at up close and pose for pictures.   In addition to Mooneyes and CFS, Hull will also be repping season-long sponsors Lescure Mechanical Services, Blaze Exhaust Probes, KGC Construction, Vertex Roofers and General Contractors, Crow Safety, Koppl Pipeline Services, True Brand, USD and Wiley X.   “I’m excited to get out to Bristol and get to experience the sound of Nitro Funny Cars echoing in the mountains,” said Hull. “This is one of the most unique venues we have on tour, and it’s impossible not to love it. We’re chasing high speeds and loud volume this weekend.”   Hull and the Jim Dunn Racing team will have two qualifying runs on Friday, June 6 and then two more qualifying runs on June 7 at Bristol Dragway. The 16 Funny Cars with the quickest elapsed times after four rounds of qualifying will advance in competition for a chance to take home a Wally on Sunday, June 8 at 12 p.m. ET with the finals on FSI. For tickets or more information on the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals visit nhra.com.

OCALA, FLA. (June 4, 2025) — Josh Hart is a businessman and team owner that is always in motion. Whether it is overseeing his growing business, Burnyzz Speed Shop, in Ocala, Florida with his wife Brittanie, or running 330 mph in the TechNet R+L Carriers Top Fuel dragster in the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series. This weekend at the Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, Hart will showcase his multi-tasking skills racing Top Fuel and his Dodge Challenger Drag Pak in the Flexjet Factory Stock Showdown class while also promoting Burnyzz Speed Shop with a midway display. Additionally, Hart will be spending time with fans at free autograph appearances before and during the race.

The TechNet/R+L Carriers Top Fuel dragster will be back in action this weekend at Bristol Dragway,
photo credit Krista Zivcic Photography

“I don’t know if I could pack more into this weekend,” said Hart, from the Burnyzzz Speed Shop office. “We raced in Epping last weekend and I flew home right after the race. I have been at Burnyzz and we’ll head to Bristol in a couple days. I spent some time with my family, and we’ll be off again before we know it. Sometimes it seems like a lot, but I also know I am blessed to be able to pursue all these passions. There is no way I could do this without the support of my wife, Brittanie, and three great teams; the team at Burnyzz, my Top Fuel team and the guys at DHDR on the Flexjet side.”

Hart will be looking to continue to move up the Top Fuel point standing racing his red, white and blue TechNet Top Fuel dragster at Bristol Dragway. In four of the previous five races Hart raced to the quarterfinals. Last weekend he dropped his first round race but the early exit will not diminish his focus to get back into the Top Fuel winner’s circle.

“We are just past the halfway point of the regular season and there are a group of teams all bunched up in the bottom half of the Top Ten,” said Hart. “A good weekend in Bristol could move us to the top of that group and then we can start reeling in more drivers. There is a regular season championship on the line and then once we get into the Countdown anything can happen.”

Hart’s history at Bristol Dragway has been challenging since he made his first appearance in 2021. In 2023 he raced to the quarterfinals from the No. 12 spot defeating Mike Salinas in the first round before losing in the second round to eventual race winner Justin Ashley. Last year Hart and the TechNet/R+L Carriers team started from the No. 10 qualifying position and lost a close first round race to Billy Torrence. His best qualifying start at the Thunder Valley Nationals was No. 3 in 2022.

“Bristol hasn’t been very kind to our team but every year we get more data,” said Hart. “Ron and Jason will put their heads together and we will be ready when we come off the trailer on Friday. I am glad we are getting four qualifying runs and I’ll also be on track for the Flextjet series so I will be in race mode all the time. I love being busy at the track so this will be a good weekend for us.”

This will be Hart’s fourth Flexjet Factory Stock Showdown Series race running under the David H Davies Racing banner. Hart’s eye-catching Burnyzz Speed Shop Dodge Challenger has been making consistent progress since its first race at the Gatornationals. The driving skill required is dramatically different from his 12,000-horsepower Top Fuel dragster but the veteran driver who has won in Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Fuel has enjoyed the challenge.

Josh Hart will also be looking to go rounds in the Flextjet Factory Stock Showdown class in the Burnyzz Speed Shop Dodge Challenger, photo credit Auto Imagery

“Driving the Burnyzz Speed Shop Dodge Challenger has been eye-opening and a lot of fun,” said Hart. “When that car come off the line with a nice wheel stand and starts accelerating down the track it’s pretty cool. The guys at DHDR have been awesome to race with and I am looking for more progress in Bristol. In addition to seeing the Burnyzz Dodge on the track we’ll have a Burnyzz Speed Shop display in the midway.”

Hart will join all the stars of the NHRA on Saturday night for a free driver autograph session in the pits that will start 30 minutes after the final qualifying session. This annual event gives hundreds of fans the chance to meet their favorite drivers and get a photo or autograph.

“The great thing about the NHRA is the fan access and the sponsor support,” said Hart. “I am looking forward to seeing the fans on Saturday night after qualifying and then hopefully they will come by the trailer during the race on Sunday.”

Qualifying for Hart and all the Top Fuel teams will start on Friday at 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. with two more qualifying sessions on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Hart will also be hitting the track for Flexjet Factory Stock Showdown qualifying runs Friday at 2:45 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. with a Saturday session at 11:15 a.m. Eliminations for the Flexjet Factory Stock Showdown Series will start Saturday afternoon and the Top Fuel eliminations will commence on Sunday at 12:00 p.m. The race will be broadcast nationally on FS1 starting at 3:00 p.m. ET. For more information fans can check out www.nhra.com.

No. 13 Corvette set for Le Mans debut after taking IMSA Bob Akin Award, Rolex 24 victory DETROIT (June 4, 2025) – With one victory in a 24-hour endurance classic already in-hand, Corvette Z06 GT3.R team AWA is hoping lightning strikes twice, this time at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in its debut at the French classic. The team, its No. 13 Corvette and driving trio of Matt Bell, Orey Fidani and Lars Kern are part of the 24-car field in the LMGT3 class of the famed French enduro. AWA’s Corvette is one of three Z06 GT3.Rs entered for this year’s Le Mans alongside FIA WEC full-season entrant TF Sport, which is supplying logistical support to the AWA effort.

First up for the team is Sunday’s Test Day, which features a pair of three-hour sessions of running around the famed Le Mans circuit.  It also provides the first time for the No. 13 Corvette to run in its predominantly red race livery, highlighting the team’s Canadian heritage. The AWA driving trio are at Le Mans via Fidani’s win in the 2024 Bob Akin Award, which goes to the top-scoring Bronze driver in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. This year’s Le Mans will be the third for Bell – who podiumed in the 2022 LMP2 Pro-Am race – but the first for both Fidani and Kern. Fidani and Kern did, however, race last year at the event in the Road to Le Mans support race in anticipation of a potential invite to this year’s race.

CORVETTE RACING MEDIA INFO Corvette Racing media information is updated and available ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mans for both AWA and TF Sport.  Materials include Corvette Racing event advance and quotes, Corvette Racing stats and figures, Corvette Z06 GT3.R racecar comparisons, Corvette Racing Fast Facts, factory driver biographies and Corvette Racing photography, among other items. Editors: A pre-event advance regarding TF Sport will be distributed Thursday.

Not only did that invitation come to pass, AWA won this year’s Rolex 24 At Daytona in IMSA’s GTD class with its Corvette. In addition, Fidani again is leading the Akin Award standings heading into the next IMSA event at Watkins Glen the weekend following Le Mans. The AWA team will get its first laps around the 8.47-mile circuit during Sunday’s Test Day. It’s the first time since last year’s final lap that cars will have the chance to run on the full Le Mans layout – a mix of permanent racetrack and public roads. The Test Day is valuable with only a three-hour Free Practice on Wednesday ahead of the first round of qualifying later in the day. The 24 Hours of Le Mans is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET / 4 p.m. CET on Saturday, June 14. MotorTrend will air the full race live in the U.S., with full live streaming coverage of all on-track sessions – including qualifying and Hyperpole – will be available through the MAX app in the U.S. Radio Le Mans also will provide live streaming audio coverage of all sessions as well.

AWA PRE-EVENT QUOTESMATT BELL, NO. 13 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “Le Mans is the pinnacle of our sport. It’s the biggest, most prestigious race in the world, there’s just something extra special about it. There are amazing endurance races everywhere, but Le Mans is the crème de la crème. I’ve done it twice and was fortunate to be on the podium my first time. I’ll be looking to replicate that with AWA and Corvette. We’ve got a strong team, and I’m really looking forward to my first GT run with AWA at Le Mans.”(The team’s confidence) “I have huge belief in this team, and everyone on the team does too. We’re a confident group, especially after the Daytona win. We always felt we could compete at that level, and now we’ve proven it. That win definitely raised the bar for us going into Le Mans. I think we’re shooting for a podium, minimum.”

OREY FIDANI, NO. 13 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “We completed a test ahead of heading to Le Mans and it went very well. We’re feeling confident as a team and doing everything we can to be as prepared as possible. I’m incredibly excited to be back on track soon and getting to return to Circuit de la Sarthe for the big show this time. It’s truly amazing what this group has accomplished in the past year, and now we get to show what we’re made of and represent Canada in the biggest endurance race in the world.”

LARS KERN, NO. 13 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “It still feels a bit like a dream. I’ve always said I wouldn’t believe I was racing at Le Mans until the moment I left pit lane. For years, making it to the Le Mans grid felt out of reach. It’s the pinnacle of sports car racing, and I wasn’t sure I belonged there.“Coming here after a Daytona 24 win, driving a Corvette in LMGT3, still feels surreal. But here we are. I can’t thank everyone enough for the trust they’ve put in me, especially Orey and the entire AWA team. They’re an incredible group, and I wouldn’t want to race with anyone else.“Now let’s put that Maple Leaf Corvette Z06 GT3.R on French tarmac and make Canada proud.”

CORVETTE RACING AT LE MANS: By the Numbers• 2: Number of victories for TF Sport at Le Mans (2020 and 2022 in GTE Am)• 3: Number of wins for the Corvette C5-R – 2001, 2002, 2004• 4: Number of wins for the Corvette C6.R – 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011• 4: Generations of Corvette Racing entries at Le Mans since 2000 – Corvette C5-R (2000-04), Corvette C6.R (2005-13), Corvette C7.R (2014-2019) and Corvette C8.R (2021-2023) / Corvette Z06 GT3.R (2024-current)• 11: Number of combined 24 Hours of Le Mans starts for the No. 81 Corvette trio of Charlie Eastwood (five), Rui Andrade (four) and Tom Van Rompuy (two)• 9: Class victories for Corvette Racing at Le Mans – all since 2001• 12: Number of drivers who have won races at Le Mans for Corvette Racing – Olivier Beretta, Nicky Catsburg, Ron Fellows, Antonio Garcia, Oliver Gavin, Ben Keating, Jan Magnussen, Tommy Milner, Johnny O’Connell, Scott Pruett, Jordan Taylor and Nico Varrone• 14: Manufacturer Championships for Chevrolet and Corvette Racing since 2001• 30: Tracks at which Corvette Racing has won races – Baltimore, Charlotte Motor Speedway, COTA, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park/Mosport, Chang International Circuit (Thailand), Daytona, Detroit, Houston, Laguna Seca, Le Mans, Lime Rock, Long Beach, Lusail International Circuit (Qatar), Sepang International Circuit (Malaysia), Miami, Mid-Ohio, Monza, Portimão, Portland, Road America, Road Atlanta, Sebring, Sonoma, St. Petersburg, Texas, Trois Rivieres, Utah, VIR, Washington DC and Watkins Glen• 33: Number of drivers to compete for Corvette Racing at Le Mans. That number grows this year with the additions of all three AWA Corvette drivers• 70: Number of drivers in Corvette Racing entries since 1999. The latest to join the list was Ben Green in GT World Challenge Asia for Johor Motorsports Racing at Mandalika (Indonesia)• 72: Years since Corvette was introduced to the world on Jan. 17, 1953 in New York City. A total of 300 cars were produced that year• 144: Victories worldwide for Corvette Racing – 117 in IMSA, nine at Le Mans, four in the FIA WEC, 12 in GT World Challenge America and two GT World Challenge Asia• 115,625.48: Number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing entries in 25 previous trips to Le Mans. That represents 13,708 laps… or almost five full trips around the Earth at its equator. Corvette Racing combined to go over the 100,000-mile mark at Le Mans in the 2021 race.• 425,552.38: Total number of racing miles completed by Corvette Racing since its inception. To put that in perspective, Corvette Racing is more than halfway to the distance traveled by Apollo 13 – the longest manned spaceflight in history: 622,268 miles. That means Corvette Racing has raced to the moon… and then some! Corvette Racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (wins in bold)2000 – No. 63 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Chris Kneifel/Justin Bell – 4th in GTSNo. 64 Corvette C5-R: Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins/Franck Freon – 3rd in GTS 2001 – No. 63 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Scott Pruett – 1st in GTSNo. 64 Corvette C5-R: Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins/Franck Freon – 2nd in GTS 2002 – No. 63 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Oliver Gavin – 1st in GTSNo. 64 Corvette C5-R: Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins/Franck Freon – 2nd in GTS 2003 – No. 53 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Franck Freon – 3rd in GTSNo. 50 Corvette C5-R: Oliver Gavin/Kelly Collins/Andy Pilgrim – 2nd in GTS 2004 – No. 63 Corvette C5-R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Max Papis – 2nd in GTSNo. 64 Corvette C5-R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GTS  2005 – No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Max Papis – 2nd in GT1No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GT1 2006 – No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Max Papis – 7th in GT1No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen – 1st in GT1 2007 – No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Jan Magnussen – 2nd in GT1No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Max Papis – 14th in GT1 2008 – No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell/Jan Magnussen – 2nd in GT1No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Max Papis – 3rd in GT1 2009 – No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O’Connell/Antonio Garcia – 1st in GT1No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Marcel Fässler – 4th in GT1 2010 – No. 63 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Johnny O’Connell/Antonio Garcia – 12th in GT2 (DNF)No. 64 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Oliver Gavin/Emmanuel Collard – 10th in GT2 (DNF) 2011 – No. 73 Corvette C6.R: Olivier Beretta/Tommy Milner/Antonio Garcia – 1st in GTE ProNo. 74 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Jan Magnussen/Richard Westbrook – 14th in GTE Pro (DNF) 2012 – No. 73 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 5th in GTE ProNo. 74 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Richard Westbrook – 6th in GTE Pro 2013 – No. 73 Corvette C6.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 4th in GTE ProNo. 74 Corvette C6.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Richard Westbrook – 7th in GTE Pro 2014 – No. 73 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 2nd in GTE ProNo. 74 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Richard Westbrook – 4th in GTE Pro 2015 – No. 63 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Ryan Briscoe – DNS (Qualifying crash)No. 64 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Jordan Taylor – 1st in GTE Pro 2016 – No. 63 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Ricky Taylor – 7th in GTE ProNo. 64 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Jordan Taylor – 10th in GTE Pro (DNF) 2017 – No. 63 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor – 3rd in GTE ProNo. 64 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Marcel Fässler – 8th in GTLM 2018 – No. 63 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Mike Rockenfeller – 4th in GTE ProNo. 64 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Marcel Fässler – 15th in GTE Pro (DNF) 2019 – No. 63 Corvette C7.R: Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Mike Rockenfeller – 8th in GTE ProNo. 64 Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Marcel Fässler – 16th in GTE Pro (DNF) 2021 – No. 63 Corvette C8.R: Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor/Nicky Catsburg – 2nd in GTE ProNo. 64 Corvette C8.R: Tommy Milner/Nick Tandy/Alexander Sims – 6th in GTE Pro 2022 – No. 63 Corvette C8.R: Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor/Nicky Catsburg – 7th in GTE Pro (DNF)No. 64 Corvette C8.R: Tommy Milner/Nick Tandy/Alexander Sims – 6th in GTE Pro (DNF) 2023 – No. 33 Corvette C8.R: Nicky Catsburg/Ben Keating/Nico Varrone – 1st in GTE Am (Keating pole, Varrone fastest race lap) 2024 – No. 81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Charlie Eastwood/Rui Andrade/Tom Van Rompuy – 15th in LMGT3No. 82 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Daniel Juncadella/Sebastien Baud/Hiroshi Koizumi – 11th in LMGT3

TEXARKANA, AR (June 3, 2025) — On the heels of a highly attended race weekend in Kansas for the American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) comes a first visit of the season to Texarkana 67 Speedway in Arkansas this Saturday, June 7.

A $4,000 check is in store for the winner of the 13th Series event in history to be contested at the 1/4-mile oval. The Sprint Cars will be supported by the Mod Lites of Arkansas and the local Sportster division. Pit gates will open at 3 p.m., grandstand gates at 5 p.m. and Hot Laps are set for 7 p.m.

Series appearances at the track began with the debut of the national 360 Sprint Car stars in 1998, when three-time champion Tim Crawley took the checkered flag in the event over Mike Ward and Pete Butler. Crawley went on to win twice more there in Series competition (2005, 2009), tying him with Gary Wright — who three-peated in 2000, 2001 and 2002 — for most wins at the track.

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Here are the drivers to watch and storylines to follow this weekend:

CHASING 128 — One week past recording his 80th career American Sprint Car Series Feature win last Saturday at Dodge City Raceway Park, Sam Hafertepe Jr. begins the march toward the top of the all-time wins this weekend.

Hafertepe, the five-time Series champion from Sunnyvale, TX, took sole ownership of the No. 2 rank on the Series’ all-time wins list, breaking the tie between himself and the late Jason Johnson. He now sits 48 wins behind four-time champion Gary Wright, who tops the list with 128 wins.

Historically, Hafertepe has produced mostly top-10 results at Texarkana with four top-10s in six recorded starts with the National Series and in regional competition as well. He’s also the defending National Series winner, topping the field in June of last year.

HOME SWEET HOME — Arkansas native Jordon Mallett will be back in action with the Series this week, now officially a part of the full-time roster.

Mallett, 32, of Greenbrier, AR, has attended each Series event (post-Volusia) thus far and has decided to return to the roster for his fourth chase at a first career national points championship. In four starts on tour so far, he’s recorded three top-10 finishes with a best result of seventh — twice — at Salina Highbanks Speedway and Dodge City.

Despite the track’s location in his home state, Mallett has recorded only two touring event starts at Texarkana with a best result of sixth in the Series’ return last June.

FAMILIAR FACE — Matt Covington has seen success at Texarkana before and will need more this weekend as he continues to hunt Hafertepe for the lead in the points standings.

Covington, 34, of Glenpool, OK, has made nine career starts in ASCS competition, winning once with the former ASCS Lone Star Region in 2012. Last June, Covington drove from ninth on the starting grid to finish third in the national Series event.

He currently trails Hafertepe in the national standings by 61 points and will need a strong finish this weekend after results of seventh and sixth in last weekend’s events.

LOOKING UP — Austyn Gossel recorded his best career finish with the Series on Saturday at Dodge City, crossing the finish line second to Hafertepe to collect his first career national 360 Sprint Car podium.

The 25-year-old from Fort Collins, CO, advanced to ninth in the Series points standings with the finish and now turns his focus to Texarkana, where he recorded his previous best finish in a 17th-to-eighth drive last June.

THIS WEEKEND AT A GLANCE

WHEN AND WHERE 

Friday, June 7 at Texarkana 67 Speedway in Texarkana, AR

TRACK FACTS

• Semi-banked, 1/4-mile oval

• Track Record — 13.226 seconds set by Josh McCord on June 11, 2024

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CURRENT CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS (5/41 Races)

1. Sam Hafertepe Jr. (577pts)
2. Matt Covington 516pts (–61
3. Blake Hahn 505pts (–72)
4. Kyler Johnson 479pts (–98)
5. Seth Bergman 478pts (–99)
6. Jordon Mallett 460pts (–117)
7. Zach Blurton 458pts (–119)
8. Jason Martin 454pts (–123)
9. Austyn Gossel 450pts (–127)
10. Harli White 426pts (–151)

FEATURE WINNERS (4 Drivers):

1. Justin Peck (3 wins)
2. Sam Hafertepe Jr. (2 wins)
3. Matt Covington, Zach Blurton (1 win)

FEATURE LAPS LED (5 Drivers)

1. Justin Peck (65 laps)
2. Matt Covington (30 laps)
3. Sam Hafertepe Jr. (50 laps)
4. Zach Blurton (25 laps)
5. Brian Brown (15 laps)

QUICK TIME AWARDS (5 Drivers)

1. Emerson Axsom, Austin McCarl, Kyler Johnson, Seth Bergman, Matt Covington, Roger Crockett (1 award)

HEAT RACE WINNERS (17 Drivers)

1. Sam Hafertepe Jr. (6 wins)
2. Justin Peck, Matt Covington (3 wins)
3. Scotty Thiel, Blake Hahn, Whit Gastineau (2 wins)
4. Hank Davis, Chris Martin, Cole Macedo, Emerson Axsom, Austin McCarl, Seth Bergman, Sean McClelland, Caleb Saiz, Bradley Fezard, Garrett Benson, Bryan Gossel, Jake Bubak (1 win)

DASH APPEARANCES (30 Drivers)

1. Sam Hafertepe Jr. (7 appearances)
2. Blake Hahn, Matt Covington (4 appearances)
3. Justin Peck, Kyler Johnson, Whit Gastineau (3 appearances)
4. Austin McCarl, Emerson Axsom, Scotty Thiel, Danny Dietrich, Cole Macedo, Brady Bacon, Daison Pursley, Seth Bergman (2 appearances)
5. Hank Davis, Jordan Thomas, Scotty Thiel, Chris Martin, Brian Brown, Sean McClelland, Caleb Saiz, Chance Morton, Bradley Fezard, Zach Blurton, Bryan Gossel, Garrett Benson, Austyn Gossel, Jake Bubak, Jordon Mallett, Roger Crockett (1 appearance)

SMITH TITANIUM LAST CHANCE SHOWDOWN WINS (5 Drivers)

1. Blake Hahn, Emerson Axsom, Tyler Clem, Kyle Clark, Bryant Wiedeman, Jason Martin (1 win)

HARD CHARGER AWARDS (6 Drivers)

1. Austin McCarl, Emerson Axsom, Blake Hahn, Landon Britt, Jordon Mallett, Brady Baker, Jason Martin (1 award)

PODIUM FINISHES (14 Drivers)

1. Sam Hafertepe Jr. (5 podiums)
2. Justin Peck, (3 podiums)
3. Brian Brown (2 podiums)
4. Emerson Axsom, Cole Macedo, Austin McCarl, Seth Bergman, Sean McClelland, Matt Covington, Jason Martin, Zach Blurton, Blake Hahn, Austyn Gossel, Kyler Johnson (1 podium)

2025 SCHEDULE + WINNERS

Race Number. Day, Date / Track / City, State / Winner (Total Wins)

1. Thu, Jan. 30 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Justin Peck (1)
2. Fri, Jan. 31 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Justin Peck (2)
3. Sat, Feb. 1 / Volusia Speedway Park / Barberville, FL / Justin Peck (3)
4. Sat, April 12 / Salina Highbanks Speedway / Salina, OK / Sam Hafertepe Jr. (1)
5. Sat, May 10 / Paducah International Raceway / Paducah, KY / Matt Covington (1)
6. Fri, May 30 / Salt City Speedway / Hutchinson, KS / Zach Blurton (1)
7. Sat, May 31 / Dodge City Raceway Park / Dodge City, KS / Sam Hafertepe Jr. (2)

Pete Stephens has been a consistent piece of Tod Quiring’s team throughout the years

BRANDON, SD (June 3, 2025) – Throughout Big Game Motorsports’ history, there’s been a quiet, reliable presence working hard to help ensure Tod Quiring’s cars remain some of the fastest in the country. 

While a handful of drivers have come and gone, crew member Pete Stephens has almost always been there. He may have had some stints with other teams, but Big Game has remained a priority for 15 years.

That commitment led to him being tapped as the new car chief for David Gravel and the defending World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series champions. He stepped into the role after Stephen Hamm-Reilly vacated the position at the end of the 2024 season.

Stephens’ path to becoming a car chief began in his home state of Washington. He’s from the town of Mount Vernon, which is just a 15-minute drive down I-5 from Skagit Speedway. Attending races with his family evolved into helping a local team to get his foot in the door.

“I started out at Skagit with Chad Hillier when he was young,” Stephens recalled. “He started in the Sportsman class out there. I just knew him through friends and everything and started working with him in the mid to late 90s, probably. I just kind of raced at Skagit with him for a long time.”

Eventually, Hillier got the opportunity to expand his operation nationally, which also allowed Stephens to hit the road for the first time.

“Chad got a chance to go out and run World of Outlaws stuff in 2007,” Stephens said. “I had a business back there at that time, and I always thought working on a World of Outlaws Sprint Car team was one of those things like, ‘Oh man, if I could do anything, that’s what I would do.’ So, he got a break to go run that stuff, and I just kind of called him one time and asked if he knew anybody looking for help because I’d maybe like to go try it, and he said they were. It was basically him and Tyler Swank at the time, so I went out with those guys for a bit and liked it.”

The business Stephens mentioned is part of what instilled his work ethic. He started a hoof trimming operation for cattle, which makes Sprint Car maintenance feel easy by comparison.

“You’re usually up by five-thirty or six in the morning,” Stephens said of a regular day in the hoof trimming business. “You usually got half an hour to an hour drive to your job site. You set up, and you’re usually there for eight to 10 hours, and you’re physically moving non-stop because in the hoof trimming world, if you’re not moving, you’re not making money. You’re physically working most of the day. We did dairy cows, and with the farms getting the size they are, it’s a very labor-intensive job.”

The time on the tour allowed Stephens to make some connections and led to working with one of the sport’s legends in 2009. Sammy Swindell was driving for Tom Rolfe, and Stephens joined the crew. The next domino to fall was heading to Lonnie Parsons’ team with Danny Lasoski in late 2009. Oddly enough, that’s where Stephens first met current Big Game crew chief Cody Jacobs as they both worked with Barry Jackson on the No. 6. The following year, Swindell joined forces with Big Game, and Stephens reunited with “Slammin’ Sammy” in Quiring’s camp for what became a hugely successful stretch.

“That was a lot of fun when Sammy got into that deal,” Stephens said. “We had a good time. We finished 2010 and started 2011 with a pretty light crew. There was only two of us, me and Scott Green was the kid’s name who did tires and stuff like that. That was a lot of fun, 2010, ’11, ’12. We won a lot of races and had a good time.”

Stephens worked for a different team following the run with Swindell but was quickly back in the Big Game shop, this time on Craig Dollansky’s car. But he wasn’t done with Swindell as Stephens returned to the No. 1 team in 2014.

In the late 2010s, Stephens made the decision to head home and focus on business as well as raising his child, but it wasn’t long until involvement with Big Game was back on his calendar. When Cody Jacobs went to the team in 2020, the two talked, and Stephens returned part-time, a period that birthed a nickname.

“Once Cody got here, the joke was kind of that I would only go to the big events,” Stephens said with a laugh. “My one friend Nate, he nicknamed me “Big Money Pete.” So, yeah, I’d go to the larger events and help out and stuff like that.”

Fast forward to the off-season heading into 2025, and Big Game was looking for a full-time car chief. Originally, Stephens had no plans of being on the road this season, but the team’s first candidate backed out. So, Stephens agreed to help get them ready for the season opener and navigate the opening portion of the season. But one thing led to another, and he agreed to come aboard for the entire season of their title defense.

It’s been the right move so far as the No. 2 team has been all but unstoppable in 2025. They’ve already piled up eight wins, 17 podiums, and 23 top fives through 27 races. Their average finish is third, and their worst result is seventh. Gravel owns a healthy 188-point advantage atop the standings.

There’s no doubt Big Game Motorsports is at the height of their powers. The team’s history features many successful chapters, but none quite as impactful as the last four-plus years since Gravel came aboard. Stephens has been around for nearly every step of the way, and he remains a key contributor – a rewarding journey for a Washington kid who wanted more than anything to work with a World of Outlaws team.

“It’s been pretty cool to see it built,” Stephens said. “So many people don’t realize how hard it is. These things are built over time. I don’t care how much money you’ve got; spending money is not going to win a race. It’s people. It’s engines. It’s all the small things that have to come together and work. It’s been really neat to kind of watch Tod and Cody. I mean, I knew Cody when he was in his mid-20s and have watched him grow into this and do what he’s done with Tod. It’s been a lot of fun.”

Stephens, Gravel, and the entire Big Game Motorsports team continue their quest for back-to-back World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car titles this week with four races in five nights. First up is Minnesota’s Jackson Motorplex on Wednesday, June 4, for the FENDT Showdown. Then, the Badger State Triple takes teams to three Wisconsin tracks in three nights with visits to Plymouth Dirt Track (June 6), Beaver Dam Raceway (June 7), and Angell Park Speedway (June 8) on the calendar. For tickets, CLICK HERE.

If you can’t make it to the track, catch every lap live on DIRTVision.

Three Cadillac V-Series.R GTP entries seek to make up ground in 100-minute raceDETROIT (May 30, 2025) – Cadillac Racing’s three Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) entries in Saturday’s Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic will have to contend with traffic from the outset to climb to the front of the pack. And they’ll have to do it efficiently in a 100-minute sprint on a tight and bumpy 1.654-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit around the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit to contend for the victory in the fifth round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.

Jack Aitken, who topped the practice 1 time sheet among the 11 GTP entries, led the Cadillac Racing contingent with a best lap of 1 minute, 06.835 seconds in the No. 31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R for seventh on the grid in the 100-minute race. The No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R driven by Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque qualified eighth. Louis Deletraz, who will share driving duties with Jordan Taylor in the No. 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R, qualified ninth. Both GTP entries lost their quickest qualifying lap because of causing a red flag in practice – the No. 40 in the initial session and the No. 10 in the second — according to IMSA rules. Albuquerque posted a second-best lap of 13 total of 1:06.916. Deletraz’s second-best was 1:07.553. The No. 93 Acura ARX-06 earned its first pole of the season with a best lap of 1:05.762. Jordan and Ricky Taylor have combined for nine sports car racing victories on temporary street circuits in Detroit (Belle Isle and downtown). Ricky Taylor and Albuquerque won the race in 2024 with another manufacturer. A Cadillac DPi won four races and was runner-up in the other at Detroit (Belle Isle) since joining IMSA prototype competition in 2017. There was no race in 2020 because of the pandemic and the GTP class did not compete on the downtown street course in 2023.

Peacock will provide flag-to-flag coverage in the U.S. at 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday (internationally via IMSA.TV and IMSA Official YouTube channel). IMSA Radio will broadcast the race live at IMSA.com, XM 206 and SiriusXM Online 996. Media resources* On-track photos for editorial use * Cadillac at Detroit guide. * Cadillac at Detroit results* 2025 Cadillac IMSA stats. * Cadillac Racing victories. * Cadillac driver photos

What they’re saying

No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R Filipe Albuquerque: “Great effort from the team. I think we did a good lap that was P4, which was only three-tenths off pole position, and the same position that we started last year. Unfortunately, I made a mistake in FP2 that caused a red flag. So, that lap was deleted. And because I got traffic as well in qualifying, I couldn’t do a second great lap. It’s heartbreaking a little bit. I feel sorry for the team because it’s completely on me that mistake. We are between walls trying to search for the limit and it happens.” No. 31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R Jack Aitken: “I think the car was not bad. Just searching for a bit more pace in general. We did make some changes, which would have been nice to preview in FP2, and if we had another stab it I think we could have been even better. We’re going to make the best of it tomorrow and, as they say, anything can happen.”

No. 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R Louis Deletraz: “Tough qualifying and not the result we expected. We have some work to do in the race. It’s tough to pass, so we’ll probably do some different strategy and try to work our way to the front. The Cadillacs run well over bumps and it’s very bumpy here, so we can try to attack and make some good overtakes tomorrow for bringing that Cadillac at home at the front.”

CHEVROLET IN NTT INDYCAR SERIES CHEVROLET DETROIT GRAND PRIX STREETS OF DETROIT DETROIT, MICHIGAN TEAM CHEVY FRIDAY PRACTICE MAY 30, 2025 Chevrolet-powered drivers Scott McLaughlin in the No. 3 TireRack.comTeam Penske Chevrolet, Will Power in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, Josef Newgarden in the No. 2 Astemo Team Penske Chevrolet and Christian Lundgaard in the No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet held spots in the top five of Friday’s first practice on the tight 1.645-mile, 10-turn, downtown Detroit street circuit, in the shadow of General Motors global headquarters. David Malukas, in No. 4 Clarience Technologies Chevrolet (A.J. Foyt Racing), was the quickest driver in the full field session, where the drivers utilized the harder Firestone primary tires (Blacks) with a lap at 62.819 seconds, with McLaughlin and Newgarden were also in the top four. To decrease traffic during the driver’s runs on the softer Firestone alternate tires (Greens), the field was split into two and given 12 minutes to complete a quick lap. Power, Newgarden and Lundgaard were the fastest in the first portion, while the second portion saw McLaughlin and Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet second and third quickest. Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear Friday Practice Results:

Tune-In Alert SaturdayNTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice #2 – 9am (ET)/8am (CT)/7am (MT)/6am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying – noon (ET)/11am (CT)/10am (MT)/9am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218 SundayNTT INDYCAR SERIES Warm Up – 9:30am (ET)/8:30am (CT)/7:30am (MT)/6:30am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix (85 laps) – 12:30pm (ET)/11:30am (CT)/10:30am (MT)/9:30am (PT) – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218  WHAT THEY’RE SAYING (QUOTES): A.J. FOYT RACING David Malukas, No. 4 Clarience Technologies Chevrolet: “It seems that the momentum from the five hundred and indy, the whole month of may, i think we did a good job building the chemistry with the team, and it seems like we’re carrying that momentum here in detroit. We had a good session, obviously, very tough to get track time and try to put it all together. but overall, i thought we were fast. Kind of hard to tell roughly where we’re at, since I think a lot of guys are struggling to get laps in but that’s just the characteristic of Detroit, so very happy to start off this weekend and we’ll carry it into tomorrow.” Santino Ferrucci, No. 14 Sexton Properties / A.J. Foyt Racing Chevrolet: “Okay. Honestly, nice to be back in Detroit, you know, we were just very locked down with the Chevy. Other than that, I’m pretty happy with a bunch of other changes we made, I think we know what the big thing is coming into free practice two tomorrow. Should be fun.”  ARROW MCLAREN Pato O’Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet:  “Back in bumpy Detroit, and we need to make the car a little bit better in the window for Qualifying. We’ll see what we can make better overnight.” Nolan Siegel, No. 6 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet:  “Practice 1 was a bit hectic. We’re back in the swing of things on the street course. I don’t think our pace is bad. I didn’t really do a lap on the Firestone Alternates, at least not a lap that I was happy with. No concerns for the rest of the weekend. I think we’ll figure it out. There is pace in the car. I just need to put it altogether. It’s my first time in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES here, so I’ll give myself a learning session, and we’ll be back at it tomorrow.” Christian Lundgaard, No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet: “At the end of the day, we have a really good package. We’ve had a good package all year. We’ve scored very good points. We’re third in the championship, coming off a career best Indy (500). We’re here to be competitive once again and that’s our main goal. I think my Chevy feels great. We had a good morning session here. I think that’s the first time this year we’ve rolled off relatively competitive, so I think there is a lot of positives to come for the rest of the weekend.”  PREMA Robert Shwartzman, No. 83 PREMA Racing Chevrolet: “I have completed the first free practice here in Detroit. The first free practice for me at this track. I had quite a bit of fun. I finally managed to do a full practice session, which was the first achievement. Later on, we tried a few things. Getting used to the bumps, the turns. Overall, we’re not as bad as I would expect. I think we can have some good potential. Obviously, not with the top, top guys, but to battle in the mid (pack), we can have a chance. Overall, it went pretty decent. We need to have a look at the data. Overall the car and engine felt really good. Thanks Chevy for that. The car overall feels quite good, we just need to find the way to tune it a bit better for the bumps. Hopefully, the car will be a bit faster tomorrow.” Callum Ilott, No, 90 PREMA Racing Chevrolet: “Overall, a good start to the weekend. The car felt good straightaway and we were able to make quick improvements with the car on the damper side and some other little things. Over the bumps, that is the main thing to get right. I think the team has done a good job and the Chevy engine pulls quite well down the straight. Let’s see what we can do tomorrow.”  TEAM PENSKE Scott McLaughlin, No. 3 TireRack.com Team Penske Chevrolet:  “Pretty solid day for us in the TireRack.com Chevy. We went through our paces and went through our laps and we’ve got a pretty good car. I really want to do this for Chevy on their home ground.” Will Power, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet:  “The Verizon Chevy was very good on the softer tire. Struggled a bit on blacks to get it exactly right. Yeah. Big, big difference. The soft tires are not bad. They lasted three, four laps, like, pushing really hard. So maybe that bodes well for the race. You can actually use them. The first two street courses we’ve done, they’ve degraded a lot, but that didn’t feel terrible. That may be okay. But my car is certainly better on reds. We just have to work out what to do for blacks. There’s always a lot of traffic here, a lot of chaos.”  David MalukasPress Conference THE MODERATOR: David Malukas, driver of the No. 4 Clarience Technologies Chevrolet for AJ Foyt Enterprises. Sunday will mark his third Detroit GP, P1 in that alt car session to lead things off here this weekend. Car acting well, are you happy so far? DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, I’m really happy. We managed to get some laps in the beginning. It’s a bit tough to kind of judge where we are compared to everybody else because I think everybody is struggling to get laps. But we got a good lap in, and the lap time was there at the start.Second time around, we were struggling, but I also kind of flew off the track a couple times and didn’t myself.But I think we’re in a happy spot and very comfortable with the car. Q.  Can you elaborate on that a little bit more? Seemed like Turn 1 got you twice.DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, so actually it was kind of just driver error. I started losing the rears on the primaries, so ended up having a moment initially there, so I moved the bias more to the rear because I locked the fronts on the primaries, but then we put the alternates on and then i locked the rears because I never put it back.Yeah, learned my lesson. I think I’ve done that too many times now, so that was kind of the issue we won.Overall, yeah, we’re kind of trying to judge the movement going from primaries to alternates. Didn’t really get that right. We were looking at that first group, seemed like people were taking a little bit of time to get it up to temp and get that peak tire, but for us it kind of came in immediately and we weren’t really expecting that, so caught us off guard. Q.  Is it frustrating when you can only get one lap in during that session? Maybe it’s your fault, maybe it’s other people’s fault, but is it frustrating to only have that one lap on those tires?DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, but it’s kind of just how it’s going to be for qualifying and how it’s kind of been for the street courses.Yeah, it’s frustrating, but it’s kind of been like that so far this season, so… Q.  They went back to the original tire rules. There was that change for Indy Grand Prix. Does it matter to you?DAVID MALUKAS: I think it’s just I prefer the way it is now because I feel like in Indy GP they were kind of cutting us a little bit from options when it comes to race strategy, forcing those rules.But I think here having the option to choose what we want for the race is preferable. Q.  In recent years, this track has been known to create some mayhem. Do you see more or less happening this Sunday?DAVID MALUKAS: Well, with this season, it seems like everything has been a lot less when it comes to yellows. But I’ll be surprised if there’s not going to be a yellow for this race. It’s very — with the way it’s set up, Turn 1, it’s very wide on entry and it looks inviting and then all of a sudden it gets very, very tight on the exit, and it happens a lot around this track.It’s going to be — we’ll see. I’m not going to say anything because I’ve been saying and looking at data and the data says 100 percent chance that it’s not going to be a yellow, and we do setups for it and then there isn’t a yellow and then there is a yellow, and then the data has been incorrect with how it’s been this year. So I don’t know what to say. Q.  Also they’ve changed the start zone. What do you think of that?DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, I think it’s better. Kyle reached out to me, and I think all the drivers have got to give some feedback beforehand. I think it’s a good change, and obviously we’ll see how it goes when we get on track. Q.  Can you just kind of elaborate on that and describe the challenge of this track, how you manage the bumps, obviously the narrowness of it? How hard is this place to drive around, especially coming from Indy to here and the reset that you’ve got to make?DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, it’s very difficult. Thankfully I went on the simulator before coming here and did over 100 laps to kind of prepare for it just because I know that transition is very tough from previous years, going for a whole month on an oval and now coming to I think one of the most technical courses for us.I had a little bit of preparation beforehand but it’s just so tough because the way this track is, all the bumps tend to be mid to out when you’re trying to accelerate, and those bumps throw you what is a wall.It gets very tough, especially entering 8 where the alt start line is. That bump is a big one and it’s very aggressive, so I think it’s catching a lot of people off guard. That’s kind of the one that we’re heavily focused on, but that’s just the general layout of this entire track is all the exits are a little bit more those bumps.But yeah, I enjoy it. The margin for error is very small. Q.  Obviously a really strong 500, but the season before that maybe hadn’t been where we’d seen the team last year on the Santino side. What are the improvements that maybe had to be made from those first five rounds of the season, and are you confident now, especially with the momentum coming from the 500 that a bit of an upswing can be seen?DAVID MALUKAS: I’ve kind of said throughout the start of the entire season that we really are looking forward to the month of May because we’re with the team for the entire month. We can really build on the car and work on the chemistry of each other and really understand what we want and start building some momentum for the second half of the season.I feel like that’s kind of what’s happened, and it’s something that I’ve experienced on my first year in INDYCAR where really things didn’t turn around for me until the month of May. That’s just kind of being with a new team, how it is. We’ve made really good improvements with the setup and different things that we wanted throughout the month of May, and I think it’s going to be shown for us this week. Q.  I’m pretty sure you were the car that Power and Kirkwood went past during their little incident?DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, that was really cool. Q.  What was your view of that?DAVID MALUKAS: I mean, for a second, getting back in the car, for me it just felt like I was back playing iRacing or rFactor. I was like, yeah, I’d totally do that in a video game. It was pretty cool to see him just push Ericsson, and actually in my peripheral vision, because Ericsson went off and Power just blasted through, and I just drove by and I just see Ericsson’s hand like going in the air, like, what the hell is going on.But it was interesting to see. I couldn’t believe it. I was very confused at the start. I thought something was wrong with Ericsson and Power was towing him across like the “Cars” movie. It was interesting at first but then I realized it was not that, so… Q.  Can you elaborate maybe on the dust issue? Is that kind of the nature of street circuits, or is it maybe the time of day —DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, I keep coughing right now because there’s a bunch of dust inside of me. Yeah, it’s always the first session just with the air tube coming in. There’s just a lot of dust and cleaning that we have to do. Unfortunately that dust comes off of that car and goes straight into that tube and straight into my face. That’s the one downside to having the Darth Vader mask, but I only have that issue for the first practice session, and then the rest I just look really cool. Q.  David, at St. Pete the tires for the alternates were the ones that the drivers said were one-lap wonders, and in terms of getting up to speed and then the speed falling off after one lap in qualifying, what do you think they’re going to be like here? Is it a similar situation?DAVID MALUKAS: I think so. We were thinking it was maybe going to take a little bit longer, but it seemed for us it was coming in pretty fast, so I think it’s going to be something very similar. Q.  David, to go back to the whole dust thing, is it exacerbated here because you have IMSA and INDY NXT? At St. Pete you have all different Road to Indy series, MX-5 Cup, limited running here from everybody else to help clean up the track beforehand, quote-unquote?DAVID MALUKAS: Yeah, I mean, that could probably be it, yeah. But I don’t really know. All I know is there’s a lot of dust going in my face, so…

Cruz Pedregon

NHRA – NHRA New England Nationals

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Cruz Pedregon, two-time Funny Car World Champion says:

Fresh off a strong semifinal finish in Chicago, our team is fired up to keep the momentum going as we head into Epping. While Epping is still a relatively new addition to the NHRA circuit, the track itself is rich with history, dating back to the 1970s. As a kid following Eastern funny car racing, this place holds a special spot in my heart. We’d love nothing more than to add our name to the list of winners at such a storied venue.

The whole Snap-on team is really starting to gel, and we’re hitting our stride. That performance we showed in Chicago has given us a boost of confidence. We’re optimistic about continuing that solid run in Epping.

My weekend will kick off with a visit to Park’s Performance up in Maine on Thursday. From there, it’s all about getting ready for qualifying runs on Friday and Saturday and then going all in on race day Sunday. Let’s keep this roll going!

We’re bringing back the new Makers and Fixers paint scheme that our primary sponsor Snap-on designed to encourage all of us who make and fix things for a living to share our stories. It’s important to Snap-on and to us as a team to share stories of professionals who keep race cars and the world running.

Name on the side of Cruz’s car – Snap-on Nitro Franchisee Jacob Ashline

● On the side of Cruz’s Snap-on^® Dodge^® Hellcat^® you’ll see the name of this week’s Nitro Franchisee, Jacob Ashline, who was born and raised in the area.

●In Jacob’s early career, he was a Maker and Fixer, like the design on Cruz’s car…he was a subcontractor in the building trades.

●He took on his Snap-on franchise a year ago and says his favorite thing about owning the business is his customers.

●Cruz is getting to interact with several of those customers at a local shop when Jacob hosts a “Meet and Greet” Thursday before the race.