The 2024 season schedule for Pennsylvania’s Lincoln Speedway features a new event, new divisions, familiar favorites and exciting upgrades.

Lincoln will take center stage during Pennsylvania Speedweek with the $25,000 to win Kevin Gobrecht Memorial. Thanks to Commonwealth Truck Supply and Goofy’s Eatery & Spirits, the 25th annual edition of the race will be the highest paying winner’s share in Speedweek history. The Monday Speedweek race will pay an impressive $10,000 to win.

After unfavorable weather at the end of last season, the rescheduled $20,000 to win 20th Annual Weldon Sterner Memorial for 410 sprints will take place on April 20. The race sponsored by Chuck’s Auto Parts Solutions will also feature the 358 sprints.

A new addition to the 2024 schedule is the Labor Day Duel presented by Schmuck Lumber Company on September 1. The night before Lincoln will host the Labor Day Duel Prelim to make it a two-day event over the holiday weekend. Stay tuned to Lincoln’s social media and website for more details on this new and exciting event.

The season will kick-off with the two-day Ice Breaker Weekend presented by Tyson Fence on February 24 and 25. Both races pay $5,000 to win and are a 410 sprint car only show.

The first new division to be featured in 2024 is the PA Micro Midgets on Saturday, March 2. They will be joined by the 410 sprint cars. The 358 sprints make their season debut the following week on Saturday, March 16.

The World of Outlaws “Gettysburg Clash” returns on Wednesday, May 8. Last year Anthony Macri scored the win for the PA Posse after three years of the traveling series taking bragging rights in the biggest rivalry in sprint car racing.

Another exciting addition to the schedule this year is the Mason Dixon 270 division on July 6 as a part of Crownstone Equipment Night. They will be joined by the Legends, Flying Iron Limited Stocks and Classic Cars.

Lincoln Speedway will host 16 different divisions, with 32 dates for the 410 sprints and 18 dates for the 358 sprints. The super late models will make two appearances including “Appalachian Mountain Speedweek” on June 15.

Along with the new additions to the schedule, many familiar and popular dates will be back for 2024. “Fallen Firefighters Night” is slated for May 18. The $7,300 to win “Kramer Klash” presented by HVAC Distributors is back on August 24. One of Lincoln’s newer events that is quickly becoming a fan and driver favorite is the “Rack Daddies Rumble” presented by L&M Tire & Wheel which is scheduled for August 3 in 2024. Also back in 2024 are the Bob Leiby Memorial on May 25, Steve Smith Tribute Race on June 1, Dean’s Auto Plaza Night on July 13, DCS School of Driving Night on August 10 and the Barry Skelly Memorial on August 17. The season will conclude with the “Night of Champions” on Saturday, October 19.

In addition, there will be special shows featuring kids “Big Wheel” racing, and several auto racing “club” nights. The entire 2024 schedule is available online at www.lincolnspeedway.com/schedule.

According to a report in the Sports Business Journal, NASCAR and the teams that compete in the Cup Series have extended their negotiating window over a new financial structure through the end of the month. 

The sanctioning body inked a seven-year agreement with FOX Sports, NBC Sports, Amazon’s Prime Video and TNT Sports that will reportedly pay over $115 million per season starting in 2025. Combined with a previously announced agreement with the CW Network to air the Xfinity Series over that same length, NASCAR netted 7.7 billion on its broadcast rights.

That a deal came together much later than NASCAR would have preferred also held up the negotiating process with the teams over its financial structure running the length of the agreement. Right now, 65 percent of the broadcast money goes to the tracks, 25 percent goes to the teams and 10 percent goes to NASCAR itself.

The SBJ says team actually get closer to 39 percent of the television revenue when factoring prize money.

That agreement also runs through the life of the current television rights agreement with FOX and NBC that runs through the end of the year. The negotiating window ended at the end of 2023 but NASCAR extended it through January in the hopes that a deal can be struck before it becomes a distraction once the season starts in February.

Some teams were hoping for closer to 45% while some proponents of teams have said that ideally the split should be 50-50. This year, teams are expected to be paid nearly $210M in media rights income, according to information reviewed by SBJ, though there is also track promoter fees and a contribution from NASCAR that add into a larger total, which couldn’t be learned.

The other component to the agreement is NASCAR’s charter system according to Mark J. Rebilas of USA Today,

Charters are effectively NASCAR’s version of a franchise. It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison, but the Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 and Team Penske No. 2 are motorsport equivalents to the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.

In the same way that leagues and teams enter into revenue-sharing agreements across multiple sports, NASCAR and Cup Series teams have a similar deal in the charter system. There are 36 charters and each one permits automatic entry into every Cup Series race and provides anywhere from $5-10 million per season depending on performance.

Cup races start up to 40 cars per race, but the unchartered cars that make the show receive considerably less revenue compared to those that are franchised.

The Cup Series teams are represented by an entity called the Race Team Alliance, who wants to make the charter agreement permanent, but NASCAR has not formally agreed to that model yet.

So what happened if a deal isn’t reached by the end of the 2024 season? It’s basically a doomsday scenario, no matter how unlikely the outcome would actually be.

 

 

If no deal is reached, technically, NASCAR would then be able to seize charters and teams would be able to look into starting or joining rival racing series, two key things they’re typically barred from doing under the terms of the current system. Teams and NASCAR also need to sort out how the money will be split among the 36 chartered cars. Currently there are four sources that contribute to how much a team gets in a given year for its charter: race purse; a fixed owner’s plan; a historical owner’s plan; and a year-end points fund. Those represent a mixture of fixed amounts that each team gets along with varying amounts that depend on how a team has performed on track that year and in recent seasons.

In layman’s terms, the teams that currently comprise the NASCAR Cup Series would be legally free to start their own series with their drivers and crews racing independently of the series that has defined Stock Car racing in the United States since 1948.

It’s also something that the race teams have legitimately considered.

Through its involvement in broadcasting grassroots races on the Racing America streaming platform, a vertical the race teams collectively own, the Race Team Alliance has no shortage of strategic partnerships with cars, tracks and sanctioning bodies that could be the foundation of such a move.

Or at least as the foundation of a negotiating tactic to threaten such a move.

What’s at stake for NASCAR

From a historical standpoint, NASCAR is arguably only the top motorsports brand in North America because something like this actually happened to Indy car racing throughout the 80s and 90s, culminating with the open wheel split.

In 1979, Indy car team owners broke away from the United States Auto Club (USAC) and formed Championship Auto Racing Teams and governed themselves as a sanctioning body while running its marquee event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the legendary Indianapolis 500.

In time, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway formed its own series, the Indy Racing League in 1994 to begin competition by 1996 and rising tensions led to CART teams boycotting the Indianapolis 500. In fact, CART and all the major teams and drivers of open wheel racing attempted to form an alternative to the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, the United States 500 at Michigan International Speedway in 1996.

The short version of that story is that CART and IRL both ran rival series for 12 years with most CART teams eventually migrating away from what was eventually rechristened the Champ Car World Series back to the Indianapolis 500 and the IRL.

Champ Car folded into the IRL by 2008 to become what is now the modern IndyCar Series but the damage was done and NASCAR became a cultural phenomenon in the 90s, in part by racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway themselves in the Brickyard 400.

Everyone involved in the NASCAR and Race Team Alliance negotiations know their history and what’s at stake.

Ultimately, the teams want to be more financially stable and NASCAR will want to get the best deal it can for itself while also protecting its hegemony in North American motorsports. NASCAR has also invested its television revenue into modernizing facilities like Daytona, Talladega, Richmond and Phoenix.

It has invested into its own future with events like the Clash at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Chicago Street Race.

The charter system has been a net positive for the teams in terms of an inherent value that has went from single digit millions of dollars to the latest purchase, Live Fast selling to Spire, costing a reported $40 million.

The Next Gen car, which will soon begin its third year, is meant to eventually become something closer to a fixed cost since it is a single source supplied spec car that doesn’t allow team to R&D and manufacture increasingly expensive parts.

That car continues to evolve, from both a safety and competition standpoint, so it’s not where the whole industry would like it to be from a cost containment standpoint. Some teams, including Denny Hamlin publicly, as suggested that teams could save money by building specific parts themselves.

In other words, each team would be tasked with a specific component and send them to NASCAR, where the parts would be certified and disseminated to their respective teams for competition.

With a car that has its components purchased from single source suppliers, teams have laid off numerous employees since they are no longer doing the work themselves. The teams say they are still operating at a loss and the sanctioning body had previously told teams they needed to be leaner still.

What else is there to cut has been the frequent rebuttal.

NASCAR currently has a deal with all its partner vendors, who each won a bid to produce the parts, that runs through the end of the 2024 season. If you notice the trend of everything running through 2024, that’s by design, as the entire fiscal foundation of the sport is held together by the broadcast rights.

Hate to spend much time on something that may turn out to be nothing, but even if it’s a longshot hope, let’s hope something actually comes of the potential IROC rebirth.

 Hall of Fame crew chief Ray Evernham and venture capitalist Rob Kauffman have announced they have acquired rights to the old IROC brand and intend to go racing with it — albeit in a toes-in-the-tide fashion to start according to Ken Willis of the Daytona News Journal.

At first blush, this seems like a potential winner because along with utilizing modern racing stars — at least we assume that’d be the plan — you have the strong whiff of nostalgia, and boy is nostalgia big with a certain chunk of the race-fan demographic.

Some quick background for the youngsters, as well as any lifers whose recollections of such things may have dimmed a bit.

IROC started by Roger Penske, others

IROC — the International Race of Champions — was put together in 1973 by Roger Penske, Les Richter and Mike Phelps, with Jay Signore running the day-to-day operations. The concept: Four races in 12 equally prepared cars, with 12 accomplished racers from multiple forms of auto racing.

Over time, each of the four races would be part of a NASCAR weekend, starting at Daytona and then three other high-profile tracks through the season. Porsche Carerra was the car in Year 1, but IROC went with American muscle cars thereafter — Chevy Camaro, Dodge Daytona, Pontiac Trans Am.

Mark Donohue was the first season’s champ, with Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt (twice), Bobby Unser and both Al Unsers also winning championships. But as NASCAR grew and swallowed the TV market, IROC eventually became an oval-track series at NASCAR venues, which explains why it was dominated by NASCAR racers over its last 18 years.

That’s not to say “interlopers” like Scott Pruett, Tommy Kendall and Hurley Haywood didn’t give ’em hell from time to time. But best among the outsiders was Little Al Unser, whose willingness to go toe-to-toe with Dale Earnhardt and others — particularly at Daytona — showcased his amazing overall abilities.

IROC at Daytona was a Dale Earnhardt playground

February after February, Daytona’s IROC race, paired on Friday with the old Goody’s Dash Series race, was often the highlight of Speedweeks, in terms of the on-track product.

Six of Dale Earnhardt’s 34 overall Daytona wins came in either a Dodge or Pontiac on IROC Fridays. But it’s his seventh-place finish in ’01 that’s forever etched into the Daytona/Earnhardt memory bank — a broadside from Eddie Cheever, the remarkable save through the grass, followed by all that happened shortly thereafter (you really should look it up).

Following his Daytona IROC win in 2000, Dale Earnhardt plopped down next to NASCAR president Bill France Jr. in the Victory Lane bleachers.

In the midst of all the IROC years, a young mechanic and former racer named Ray Evernham was hired by Jay Signore to help prep the cars. That job got Evernham started on his way to all the eventual NASCAR glory with Jeff Gordon, and he always talked fondly of those early years massaging the cars and working with test drivers Dave Marcis, Dick Trickle and Jim Sauter.

An annual highlight of a long-ago Speedweeks was the day, or two, when nothing was happening but IROC testing. Sitting on the pit wall with those three Wisconsin racers, during a few moments of down time, was always an experience.

Even better when they had an IROC rookie — Steve Kinser, Helio Castroneves, others — peppering them with questions about this vehicular voodoo known as the Daytona draft.

The old IROC brand gives Evernham a head-start

Yep, nostalgia.

That, for now, is what the IROC brand offers. If Evernham and Kauffman can bring some modern life to it, a lot of us are on board. Put some current NASCAR stars up against racers like Josef Newgarden, Scott Dixon, Tom Blomqvist and, of course, Helio, and let’s see what happens.

Scheduling, driver availability and the all-important network components would have to be worked out, but heavier weights have been lifted before.

Ray Evernham and Jeff Gordon were among the most successful crew chief/driver combos in NASCAR history.

Just a few years ago, Evernham was part of the group that developed the Superstar Racing Experience (SRX), which has completed three successful six-race, mid-summer seasons. He gave up any hands-on operation of SRX after the first season and now seems eager to do it again — with differences, we assume, between the ongoing SRX product and what he envisions.

The devil is always in the details, but an established brand — or at least the logo! — gives Evernham and Kaufman a running start, which is always useful when a race is at hand.

Evergreen Raceway will begin the 2024 season of weekly racing at the 1/3-mile paved oval on Sunday afternoon, May 5, featuring the Tour Type Modifieds headlining the stock car line-up along with Street Stocks, Four Cylinders, Rotten-and-Forgotten and the Novice classes.

Racing will get underway beginning at 2:00 pm. Pit gates will open at 10:00 am with hot laps starting at 12:30 pm. Front gates to welcome fans is set for noon.

 The raceway staff is in the process of putting the final touches on the 2024 schedule that will be ready for release shortly. Races will takes place on most weekends from the May 5 Season Opener and through the annual King of the Green slated for the weekends of October 12 and 19.

Regular tracks classes will include Tour Type Modifieds, 602 Crate Modifieds, Late Models, Street Stocks, Four Cylinders, Rotten-and Forgotten and Novices. Sprinkled in throughout the season will be Bangers, a stock, front wheel drive 4-Cylinder car, the TQ Midgets of the American Three Quarter Midget Racing Association and Legends Cars. Plus the JuiceBox Division will be in action on a number of dates.  

Also several weekends are dedicated to the popular Evergreen Drift. The Rusty Wallace Driving School has also inked Saturday, June 8, for their instructional stock car school.

The Evergreen Raceway 2-Seater Ride-Along will be hitting the track this year which gives fans the golden opportunity to strap into a Late Model stock car and experience what if feels like to be in full race conditions.

When the schedule does come out fans and race teams will take notice that along with the traditional Sunday afternoon programs, there will also be a few Friday and Saturday night shows taking place.

Prior to Opening Day there will be a pair of Enduro’s run. First on Saturday afternoon, February 24, with a 4/6-Cylinder Enduro and an Outlaw 8-Cylinder Enduro plus the JuiceBox Division.

On Saturday, April 27, another 4/6-Cylinder Enduro will be held which will follow and open practice for all regular track classes. The following Sunday afternoon, a second open practice will be run in advance of the May 5 opener.

The compete 2024 schedule will be released soon. For additional information please log onto the official Evergreen Raceway website at https://www.evergreenracewaypark.com/. Also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/evergreenraceway

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL) has announced that 5-hour ENERGY® joined the team as a full-season associate sponsor of the No. 30 entry for Pietro Fittipaldi for the 2024 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season. Branding for 5-hour ENERGY® will appear on the team’s race car throughout the season.

5-hour ENERGY® is the #1 energy shot in the US. It is enjoyed by consumers in both its iconic 2oz shot size (in 16 great flavors) and recently added a 16-ounce carbonated energy drink range with 6 flavors. Trusted by hard-working people to get them through a hectic day, 5-hour ENERGY® products are widely available at over 250,000 retail points in the US, including convenience, grocery, drug, specialty stores, club stores and online outlets. It is among the most recognizable energy drink brands in America, with 88% US energy shot market share.

 Jeff Sigouin, President and COO of Living Essentials, LLC, makers of 5-hour ENERGY® said, “Our customers know that 5-hour ENERGY® ‘Fixes Tired Fast’ and we are excited to return to motorsports through this partnership with world-class Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.”

 “It’s exciting to bring 5-hour ENERGY to the NTT INDYCAR SERIES,” added Bobby Rahal, co-owner of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. “There can definitely be long hours of preparation to compete at this level and their products are a go-to source to help power us through the season, on-track and off.”

 “5-hour ENERGY is a globally-recognized brand and we couldn’t be happier to add them to an already-strong partner lineup for our INDYCAR program,” said Mike Lanigan, co-owner of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.

 Fittipaldi, who served as Haas F1 Team’s reserve and test driver the past five seasons and is also a multiple open-wheel champion and race-winning world endurance championship driver, will drive the No. 30 entry for his first full season of NTT INDYCAR SERIES competition in 2024. Fittipaldi, the Brazilian-American grandson of 1989 INDYCAR champion and two-time Indy 500 winner Emerson Fittipaldi, returns to the series after having made nine starts in 2018 and 2021 for Dale Coyne Racing.

 “I’m very proud to be racing with, and representing, the 5-hour ENERGY brand in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES,” added driver Pietro Fittipaldi. “They are an iconic brand and to make it even more special, it’s their 20th anniversary so I’m sure it will be an amazing year for all of us. The whole team is excited to have them on board, including the crew. I’ll definitely be using 5-hour ENERGY throughout the race weekends and especially for the early morning and late evening practices!”

 Fittipaldi, 27, made six starts in the INDYCAR SERIES in 2018 -- three on oval tracks and three on road courses -- with his best start being 10th in Phoenix and best finish of ninth coming at Portland. He had planned to compete in more races, but his program was curtailed midseason after breaking both legs in an accident in the World Endurance Championship 6 Hours of Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in May of that year. In 2021, he split the season in the No. 51 Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware entry with Romain Grosjean, running three of the four oval races. His best qualifying effort came in his Indianapolis 500 debut of 13th place, which earned him the “Fastest Rookie Award” and his best finish was 15th in Race 2 at Texas Motor Speedway.

 The 2024 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season opens Sunday, March 10 on the Streets of St. Petersburg, Florida, for the 20th Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. North America’s premier open-wheel series will crisscross the United States, including a stop for the 108th Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 26, before culminating in Nashville for the championship finale Sunday, Sept. 15. All on-track action can be seen on NBC or NBC’s Peacock Premium streaming service or USA Network. For more information about the series or team, visit www.indycar.com and www.rahal.com.

The year 2023 was another banner year at Big Diamond Speedway for promoters Jake and Jasmine Smulley. Great competition with multitudes of different winners, new champions and visits from some great traveling series and best of all, great crowds each week. It definitely was a year to remember in coal country.

Before we get into the year’s particulars, the track would like to thank the sponsors. Quandel Concrete (358 Modifieds), USS Achey Inc (Crate 602 Sportsman), Red White and Blue Autos (Roadrunners) and Big Creek Concrete (Crate 602 Rookies). We are also happy to announce that each sponsor listed above is returning for 2024.

In the Quandel Concrete 358 Modified division, we had a total of nine different winners with Brett Kressley and Duane Howard leading the way with three wins apiece. The drivers with two wins were Mike Gular, Louden Reimert and Nick Rochinski. Craig Von Dohren, Tim Fitzpatrick, Ryan Watt and Anthony Perrego all registered a single win each. Note: Anthony Perrego also won the SUPER DIRTcar Series but this article is just referring to 358 wins.

There are many signature wins each year at Big Diamond and this year there were no drivers able to win more than one. The season opener Thawl Brawl went to Craig Von Dohren, Duane Howard was the winner of the Money in the Mountains. The Georgie Stevenson Memorial race was won by Ryan Watt. The Prelude to the Coalcracker was won by invader Anthony Perrego with Louden Reimert winning the grandaddy of them all, the Jack Rich Inc Coalcracker 72.

Of course, the main battle each season is for the points championship. After not being able to close the deal in 2022, Brett Kressley came back in 2023 with a vengeance and was finally able to win the title. For Kressley it was his first ever championship in the modified division. Kressley’s season did not get off to a great start as the No. 19K suffered a couple of early season engines woes, Kressley rebounded after that and was able to win three times and very rarely finished outside of the top five enroute to the championship. Quandel Concrete 358 Modified Top Five in points were Brett Kressley, Mike Gular, Louden Riemert, Jeff Strunk and Duane Howard.

The USS Achey Inc Crate 602 Sportsman division was as competitive as ever with seven different drivers finding victory lane. Logan Watt, Jordan Henn and Danny Buccafusca led the victory parade with three wins each. Keven Olenick was the only other driver with multiple wins winning twice. Single wins went to Paulie Hartwig III, Mike Loney and Brandon Edgar. There were some legendary battles throughout the year between Henn, Buccafusca, Watt and Edgar with the winner often determined by who could get through the traffic first to get to the front. By virtue of his three wins, Buccafusca became the all-time leading winner in the crate 602 division. Jordan Henn held off a determined Danny Buccafusca to win the season long points title with Keven Olenick, Logan Watt and Brandon Edgar completing the top five in points.

The USS Achey Crate 602 Crate Sportsman year was highlighted with Buccafusca’s entertaining victory lane interview, Logan Watt winning the first two races of the season, Jordan Henn winning the title and Brandon Edgar winning the Crate 602 Sportsman Coalcracker 40 lap race. It was a fitting end for Edgar who had not won a race all season despite multiple runner-up finishes.

 

The Red White and Blue Autos Roadrunners saw a season long battle between Chuck Fayash and Alex Schoffstall. These two drivers battle tooth and nail until late in the season when Schoffstall missed the final few shows due to mechanical problems. Fayash pulled away at the end to win the championship, but it was Schoffstall who became the division’s all-time leader in wins. The Roadrunner division surely put on some of the most entertaining races throughout the 2023 season.

The year 2023 saw Big Diamond Speedway host a rookie division for the Crate 602 Sportsman sponsored by Big Creek Concrete. The division was a success with many drivers winning throughout the year. The division was led by drivers Jax Yohn, Bryce Bashore, Brennan Chapman who all registered multiple wins and moving up to the USS Achey Crate division as the year wound down. The final race for the rookie division was a historical event for the speedway with the race consisting of an all-female field won by Danica Getz over Brittany Edgar and McKenzie Smith. It was truly a night to remember.

As always, Jake and Jasmine Smulley put together a great schedule with many different series visiting the track. The Mid-Atlantic modifieds made their first ever visit to Big Diamond with former NASCAR standout David Stremme taking the win. The AMSOIL USAC Wingless 410 sprints also made an appearance as part of their Eastern Storm swing with Emerson Axsom taking the popular win. Other divisions appearing throughout the year were the Super Sportsman (Cliff Brian Jr), the PASS 305 Sprints (Zach Rhodes), the URC Sprints (Josh Weller), the 410 Sprints (Freddie Rahmer Jr) and the Super DIRTcar Series with Anthony Perrego getting the big win. 2023 also saw many visits from Doug Borger’s Xcel 600cc Modifies along with the Legends cars. It was a fun year to see so many different classes of race cars visit Big Diamond. Although the 2024 schedule has not been finalized yet, you can bet most if not all of the above listed division will return to bring excitement to the fans.

Bear Ridge Speedway "the fastest dirt track in Vermont" is putting together another year of edge of your seat racing entertainment as they celebrate the 57th consecutive season at the Ridge with a banner line up of events with the return of long-standing sponsors in 2024 C.V. “Butch” Elms with wife April May Preston-Elms continue to host the best short track dirt racing in Vermont, making this one of the few tracks in the United States that has for 57 years always been owned or operated by the same family.

For the 2024 sponsor line up “99ROCK wfrd” is back as Bear Ridge Speedway’s weekly racing series sponsor, Chris is very excited to be returning to the Ridge and looks forward to promoting the best weekly racing in the region! Along with the return of the series sponsor the following division sponsors are signing on once again: Sabil & Sons will be billed as the premier sponsor with their name waving on the DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds. Sabil & Sons has had a long relationship with the Ridge and is still proud to be the sponsor of the Old Timers race night and the beautiful lap counter.

Wells River Chevrolet will be returning as the sponsor of our other premier division featured at the Ridge, the DIRTcar Sportsman Coupes. These two divisions will once again be sanctioned by DIRTcar and are setting up to offer some great racing action for the fans. Everyone knows that the Sportsman Coupes are the exclusive signature division of the Ridge, having been born and raised here, and we are looking forward to a strong car count once again in 2024. Mark your calendars for every Saturday night starting May 4th for the best short track dirt racing in New England!!

 

The LaValley Building Supply gang is returning as the sponsor of the Dirt Stocks. There has been a lot of chatter during the off season already about the car count for this division. In only its fourth year, this division is definitely proving to be one of the must see each and every week.

Two sponsors will be returning for their second year, the Late Model division will once again be caring the banner of the High Country Dispensaries, and Woodsville Power Equipment for the Ridge Runners.

Also on hand will be our other regular divisions the Xtreme DIRTcar DMA Midgets, with a basically every other week schedule and the Joe Mama’s Sporting Goods 4/6 Cylinder Enduro Series, competing once a month. We will also have visits from the Granite State Mini Sprints and the Sprint Cars of New England (SCoNE) throughout the season.

Everyone is anxious to see the 2024 season, the Ridge’s 57th consecutive to kick into gear on May 4th, you will be able to hear April May and Butch as they join Stephen John once again for all the highlights of Bear Ridge Speedway from the week before and what is coming up every Friday morning from 6:45 to 7:00 on WYKR.