By Ernie Saxton / March 16, 2024 / Column, Ernie Saxton, Racing

Former NASCAR driver and racing analyst Kyle Petty is hitting the open road once again to lead the 28th Anniversary Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America – one of the most popular charity rides in the country. From May 4 – 10, 2024, Petty will lead 150 motorcycles across nine states on a seven-day trek, covering more than 2,100 miles in an effort to raise funds and awareness for Victory Junction – a camp dedicated to providing life-changing camping experiences for children with serious and chronic medical conditions.

Presented by Cox Automotive, the Ride will kick-off in Deadwood, South Dakota, on Saturday, May 4 and will end in Greensboro, North Carolina on Friday, May 10 with a celebratory homecoming at Victory Junction. Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider and is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. The company’s brands include Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book and Manheim, which will host breakfast for the Ride at Manheim Indianapolis on Wednesday, May 8.

“Our team is beyond excited to host Kyle and the riders at Manheim Indianapolis for breakfast during their 28th Anniversary route,” said Chuck Werner, general manager for the Louisville-Indianapolis Market Center. “It means so much for us to be included in this inspiring event and we look forward to helping the Ride send many deserving kids to Victory Junction.”

Petty has a jam-packed route planned for the 2024 Ride’s 250 participants, including 30 new riders. In fact, Petty has coined this adventure “The AmerICON Ride,” to pay homage to the iconic American attractions featured on this year’s Ride. Some of the highlights include visiting Mount Rushmore National Monument, stopping at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, exploring Churchill Downs – home of the Kentucky Derby, touring the legendary National Corvette Museum, visiting Bristol Motor Speedway, and so much more.

Spectators along the 2024 route are encouraged to attend one of the Ride’s seven overnight stops or daily pit stops to greet Petty and the riders, purchase memorabilia and make donations.

28th Anniversary Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America Schedule:

Day 1, Saturday, May 4 – Deadwood, South Dakota to North Platte, Nebraska

Day 2, Sunday, May 5 – North Platte, Nebraska to Omaha, Nebraska

Day 3, Monday, May 6 – Omaha, Nebraska to Bettendorf, Iowa

Day 4, Tuesday, May 7 – Bettendorf, Iowa to Indianapolis, Indiana

Day 5, Wednesday, May 8 – Indianapolis, Indiana to Bowling Green, Kentucky

Day 6, Thursday, May 9 – Bowling Green, Kentucky to Bristol, Virginia

Day 7, Friday, May 10 – Bristol, Virginia to Greensboro, North Carolina

“This year marks the 20th Anniversary of Victory Junction, so I immediately knew we had to bring the Ride back to camp to celebrate this incredible milestone. After all, the Ride has been there since Victory Junction’s inception, as a founding supporter in 2004, and has remained the largest cumulative donor,” said Petty. “From riding the Black Hills of South Dakota and crossing the mighty Mississippi River to visiting iconic American landmarks, we are going to experience some truly incredible places on this year’s Ride, but none more so than ending back ‘home’ at Victory Junction – where we can see so many deserving kids light up with happiness and experience the magic that lives at camp.”

Victory Junction has served as the Ride’s primary beneficiary since its establishment by Petty and his family in 2004 in honor of his late son, Adam. Since it first began in 1995, the Ride has raised more than $21 million for Victory Junction and other children’s charities. As a result, the Ride has helped Victory Junction mobilize resources to provide over 115,000 camp experiences for children of all levels of abilities who are living with complex medical conditions at no cost to their families.

Among the celebrities participating in the 2024 Ride are NASCAR Hall of Famers Richard Petty and Hershel McGriff; former NASCAR drivers Max Papis, David Ragan, Ken Schrader and Kenny Wallace; former NFL great and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker; and TV personalities Rick Allen and Rutledge Wood.

Top Fuel driver and reality television star Jordan Vandergriff will be part of the NHRA on FOX team as a reporter for select events during the upcoming 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season.

The season opens at this weekend’s 55th annual Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at legendary Gainesville Raceway and Vandergriff will be in attendance, engaging the audience during the FS1 broadcast and on the NHRA social media pages.

Qualifying coverage begins Saturday at 12 p.m. and FS1 coverage kicks off the season that night with a special Pep Boys Top Fuel All-Star Callout broadcast at 7 p.m. ET.  Qualifying coverage continues Sunday with a recap show on FS1 from 8:30-10:30 a.m. ET, followed by live eliminations coverage of the first two rounds from 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. ET. Final round coverage will conclude on FS1 Sunday night from 9-10:30 p.m. ET with semifinal and final round coverage.

Vandergriff made his Top Fuel debut in 2019, racing at 11 events and advancing to one final round in Dallas. The young standout also participated in a pair of popular television reality shows, and was a star of season 19 of The Bachelorette and season 9 of Bachelor in Paradise.

“This is a great opportunity for me to stay involved in the sport and I’m looking forward to working with NHRA on FOX and NHRA social media teams,” Vandergriff said. “The television side of things has always been a passion of mine, and this is a fantastic chance to learn that side of the sport and be a part of a great team, both on the television and social media side. Hopefully, it can help create some added exposure for our sport and keep me close to the action on the racing side as well.”

Vandergriff has a strong following on social media extending beyond drag racing, with 80 percent of his followers under the age of 34. As a NHRA on FOX reporter, Vandergriff will be in the middle of the action on the starting line and in the pits, delivering unique aspects of the race weekend, while also providing content on NHRA’s standout social media channels.

“Having active racers who can draw on their experience in the car is an important aspect of our broadcast and we’re thrilled to welcome Jordan to our team,” said Steve Reintjes, NHRA Vice President of Broadcasting. “We’ve got a tremendous NHRA on FOX team and it will be great to integrate Jordan into our current group of standout talents. He’s had on-track success and his visibility and following outside the racing universe adds another exciting aspect to having him on the team.”

 

In one of the longest-running and most-successful sports marketing partnerships, DHL and Kalitta Motorsports signed a multi-year contract extension for J.R. Todd’s DHL GR Supra Funny Car, the team announced today.

The 2024 NHRA season is the 17th of the DHL-Kalitta Motorsports partnership. What started in 2007 as an agreement to sponsor race cars is now a relationship that enjoys success on and off the race track, including charitable efforts, business-to-business networking and track-side experiences for DHL customers.

In addition to winning NHRA Funny Car championships with Del Worsham (2015) and current driver J.R. Todd (2018), DHL and Team Kalitta partner in the fight against cancer as well as the fight against food insecurity. Through “The Race to End Hunger,” DHL, Kalitta Motorsports and Kalitta Air worked together last season to raise funds equivalent to one million meals through Feeding America, the largest charity working to end hunger in the United States.

“Kalitta has been an exceptional partner, supporting us in promoting our global brand and engaging thousands of racing fans and employees over the years, as well as collaborating with us on important causes to help our communities. We’re thrilled to extend this valued sponsorship and continue enjoying the full support of the Kalitta Motorsports team,” said Mike Parra, CEO of DHL Express Europe and Head of Global Partnerships. “At DHL, our success relies on providing fast, world-class service. We’ve also relied on Kalitta Air to uphold this standard, supporting our global Aviation network with the same elite performance they demonstrate on the racetrack. It’s been an exciting ride so far, and we anticipate even more success in our journey ahead.”

As the global leader in international logistics and express shipping services, DHL enjoys a decades-long partnership with Kalitta Air, which transports DHL customers’ shipments around the globe. Its relationship with Kalitta Air led DHL to Kalitta Motorsports in a business-to-business development which can encompass all Kalitta Motorsports corporate partners. Each year, Kalitta Motorsports hosts a business-to-business summit among all its partners in hopes of fostering additional business relationships among the attendees.

“DHL is pretty much the best kind of partner you could have,” Team Kalitta General Manager Chad Head said. “They work very closely with Kalitta Air and sponsor our Funny Car, but the relationship is so much more. We fight cancer together, we fight hunger, and we work together to grow each other’s businesses through business-to-business efforts. When you have a multi-layer partnership like that, it’s so much more than dollars and cents. It’s about being part of the family, and that’s how it feels.”

The LIQUI MOLY Autocross Shootout returns to Lime Rock Park in 2024 with even more opportunities for competitors to lay down laps on the FCP Euro Proving Grounds with an incredible 50 track days to choose from.

The Park’s recently enlarged and repaved FCP Euro Proving Grounds has added opportunities for both competition and education as the lightning-quick laps provide significant doses of adrenaline. The increased interest in the LIQUI MOLY Autocross Shootout, as well as the fierce competition levels of the participating drivers, has continued to swell in its three years of operation. Following a record-breaking season for entries with more than 750 drivers of all skill levels participating in 2023, Lime Rock Park organizers added an additional seven autocross dates to the calendar for 2024.

 

At the end of the Autocross season, the top 30 drivers will be invited back to the FCP Euro Proving Grounds for the LIQUI MOLY Autocross Invitational Shootout on October 24 to crown an overall season champion. With a very competitive field for the 2023 finale, only 16 thousandths of a second separated first from second place with the reigning champion Ed Bogue returning to the .68-mile Super Circuit to claim his second consecutive title driving a Porsche 911.

“The LIQUI MOLY Autocross Shootout has grown tremendously over the last two seasons,” said Lime Rock Park Track Programs Manager Stephen Huntley, “Aside from giving car lovers a safe and exhilarating space to push their cars and themselves to the limit, it has created a community. New friendships are formed, advice is given and personal improvement is cheered on by all. As much as I love seeing records broken and handing out awards, the true beauty of our program is seeing the smiles, hearing the laughter and watching the bonds form between the participants, our instructors and myself. From drivers giving each other tips on turns and tire pressures to lending each other tools and even spare tires and wheels, Autocross at Lime Rock is not just about driving fast and setting a time, it’s building friendships, learning new things and being part of an amazing community. I could not be more proud of how this program.”

The 50 track dates include Autocross Lapping Days (36), Track Tapas (12) and Advanced Driver Coaching (2) spread out throughout the season (variety of morning, afternoon, weekend and weekday dates) starting April 3. Drivers participating on the FCP Euro Proving Grounds throughout the season are automatically entered in the LIQUI MOLY Autocross Shootout. Competitors who want even more time on the FCP Euro Proving Grounds can join the AutoX Club at Lime Rock.

For more information visit: https://limerock.com/drive/autox-club/

Back on track.

In 2024, Duane Howard will return to full-time action with the Bob Hilbert Sportswear Short Track Super Series (STSS) Fueled By Sunoco on the NJ Quality Drywall South Region.

The Oley, Pa., native and his team owner Butch Getz have paired together since the 2021 season, and now for the first-time will chase the full South Region.

“I’m having a great time racing with Butch and his family,” Howard proclaimed. “Everything is family oriented and I’m just really enjoying racing with them.

“On top of that, he gives me all the best equipment to go racing.”

Howard has a storied career across Northeast Modified racing, including several track championships at numerous facilities throughout his career.

With all his success, Howard has just one STSS win to his credit, coming at Georgetown (Del.) Speedway in August of 2017 when he drove for Norm Hansell in the iconic No. 357.

Now, in year four as a team, Howard and Getz are set to take their No. 15G on the road chasing the $15,000 NJ Quality Drywall South Region championship.

 

“I cut back and focused on the weekly racing because that is what made the most sense for our team,” Howard explained of his reduced schedule. “I definitely did miss racing with the STSS and all the big races.

“I think that makes you better as a team also, so I definitely missed it.”

Howard and team acquired a Kevlar big-block engine from Glenn Hyneman over the off-season. Howard can’t wait to put it to use.

“I love big-block racing and racing on the bigger tracks,” he explained. “I wanted to do some more racing this year and with the big-block now we can go to places like Port Royal (Pa.), Georgetown, and Delmar (Delaware) and compete.

“I loved racing at places like the big track at Bridgeport (N.J.) so I’m really chomping at the bit to get racing at Georgetown and Port Royal.”

Despite the years away from the STSS, Howard has no doubt he and his team can still run up front.

“I think we can get a win or two and hover around the top five in points,” he stated. “I think that’s a realistic goal for us and we can definitely do it.”

As far as the chances of seeing Howard chase some North races? He says that’s still up in the air.

“We’ll play it by ear,” he proclaimed. “Our bread and butter is the weekly racing at home but if we’re competing and feel like it’s something we can do, it’s definitely something we’ll look at as a possibility.”

River Valley Builders, the region’s leader in custom modular home building, is returning in 2024 for its third season of sponsoring the PA Sprint Series, the area’s oldest and largest IMCA/RaceSaver series.

Based in Selinsgrove, River Valley Builders offers quality-built, custom modular homes to buyers throughout the Northeast. Turnkey packages are available within 60 miles of Selinsgrove, with delivery to buyers farther away, who select their own contractor to finish the job. An astounding 200 different models are available, and customization opportunities are virtually endless.

Once again this year, River Valley’s primary contribution as series sponsor is to fund the PASS points fund, which is designed to reimburse each of the top 25 teams for the cost of its IMCA license.

“These guys are the perfect match for this series,” said PASS Director Rod Ort. “Like RaceSaver, they offer the most affordable options but with something for everybody. They also believe in doing everything the right way.

“From a personal standpoint, they’re also great to work with.”

The 2024 River Valley Builders PASS schedule includes 33 races, with the possibility still existing for late additions. The year fires up on Saturday, March 30, at Path Valley Speedway, which has been hosting the series since 2000. The following weekend, on Saturday, April 6, Port Royal Speedway will run the rescheduled Keystone RaceSaver Challenge (a/k/a the Blue Collar Classic), which was postponed due to weather issues last October.

 

The series, now in its 26th year, will race on nine different tracks in 2024, with Port Royal and Selinsgrove Speedways having the most stops. 2023 Champion Logan Spahr will lead another large contingent of teams aiming for checkered flags. More than 100 drivers ran at least once last year, with one-quarter of them competing in 10 or more events.

PASS is part of the national IMCA/RaceSaver organization that sanctions affordable sprint car racing throughout the United States, with an estimated 700-800 active competitors. For more information, visit www.pasprintseries.com or the PA Sprint Series Facebook page.

Ray Evernham dishes on IROC, split from SRX

The Hall of Fame crew chief wants to slowly revive International Race of Champions

Well respected motorsports journalist Matt Weaver had this to say about Ray Evernham, SRX and  IROC. There were always parallels between Superstar Racing Experience and IROC: The International Race of Champions but to hear Ray Evernham tell the story, the parallels would have been far greater had his particular vision come to fruition.

Speaking as the featured guest on Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s podcast, the Dale Jr Download, Evernham detailed the genesis of SRX, why he parted ways with series ownership after just one year and how everything came full circle with his acquisition of the IROC branding in January.

SRX was announced over the summer of 2020 as the conceptual brainchild of Evernham, fellow NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart, former NASCAR executive George Pyne and sports television agent Sandy Montag.

“The first year, I was the creative control, right,” Evernham told Earnhardt. “I designed the car, right down to drawing the bodies and working with Tony Eury and the folks over at FURY Race Cars, taking one of their chassis and modifying it. The actual look of the car, the racing, the television format, all of that stuff, I was really the creative control running the competition side.

“Then, the partners from New York, Sandy Montag was TV and George Pyne was sponsorship and investors but as far the track format, choices and drivers, all that stuff, did that and loved it. Loved it.

Evernham said he worked on the television minute-by-minute with veteran motorsports producer and director Pam Miller.

“I wanted it to be a mini IROC for drivers like you (Earnhardt,” Tony, Jeff (Gordon) — guys who were retiring younger and younger who didn’t want to race full-time but wouldn’t mind something like that. It was safer, fun and a made for TV type of series.”

The first year, which aired live on CBS on Saturday nights, was a modest hit in terms of television ratings that averaged over a million viewers that first season. A veteran cast of characters like Stewart, Michael Waltrip, Paul Tracy, Marco Andretti and Willy T. Ribbs raced against a local ringer at venerable grassroots tracks like Stafford, Eldora, IRP and the Nashville Fairgrounds.

That was Evernham’s call too.

“I wanted to keep it on a smaller track because of the speeds,” Evernham said. “We didn’t want these guys doing 180 miles per hour. It didn’t need to be at Talladega and Daytona but they easily could have been at Martinsville or at the Charlotte Dirt Track.

“We absolutely looked at (running it alongside a NASCAR weekend) or on a short course at a place like Sonoma but not the whole track. We had conversations with NASCAR, IndyCar, people like that and we were on our way with that.”

Then came the second season, also on CBS, but Evernham was no longer part of the day-to-day operations. He was still legally associated, having something best described as an associate producer credit, but longtime racing everyman Donald Hawk joined the group as CEO.

Evernham said he couldn’t agree with the rest of the ownership group about the creative or financial direction of the series.

“When, as with anything, there’s partnerships and when you have a dream and you all agree, this is the direction this is going to go on, and this is the funding that it’s going to take to do it, (or) here’s my job, here’s your job, and here’s his job,” Evernham said. “At the end of the year, when there’s no moving forward, financially or things like that, you have to have a hard conversation with the partners.

“Like, wait a minute, this is what we agreed on. This is what I think it’s going to take to be successful. And at that time, it didn’t (and) the other partners felt like it was going to take something else for it to be successful, or they could be successful a different way.

“So, I said ‘okay, well you probably need to have somebody else run this then, because I don’t believe that that path that you’re going will be successful’ so I stepped aside. Unfortunately, the it’s not been successful, right and the loser is the fan.”

SRX, after announcing five of six races, and a second season on ESPN announced it was ceasing operations in January.

“The idea was good,” Evernham said. “The drivers supported it. They did. The drivers supported it, they were having fun, they had all those things but unfortunately, the business case or the business plan that they used was not successful.”

Evernham said his version was never going to make use of more than one or two active NASCAR drivers at a time, where the second and third years had numerous. The third season featured Brad Keselowski and Hailie Deegan running a full schedule with Kyle Busch also running multiple races.

The series ditched the local ringer concept come year three, a role filled by the likes of Doug Coby, Bubba Pollard, Kody Swanson, Peyton Sellers and Bobby Santos.

“I’d like to use (Cup) drivers once in a while, you know, same with the IndyCar people but it was really about bringing in the superstars that weren’t racing anymore and then mixing them with a local short track hero, which I think is really important,” Evernham said. “Your local short track hero. …

“That got turned off base there and I can’t really comment, or I don’t know whether that had any problems or not … But I think, once it got off to being a bunch of current Cup guys, it became something much different than I started it to be.”

“As you know, knowing me for a long time,” he said to Earnhardt. “Sometimes I say what’s on my mindset pretty quickly. Yeah. That was basically a phone call where I had given all I could give. And you know, deep down when you give all you can give and somebody’s telling you ‘that just ain’t right,’ well I said ‘you know what, you all have a nice day (and) I’m going to build old cars.'”

Evernham said watching the series in its second and third sesons was like ‘watching your old girlfriend go on a date with someone else.’ He said it bothered him seeing some of the changes that were made.

“It was becoming what we never intended it to do, and I watched some of the turns they made and thought to myself, that’s not going to make it, and unfortunately they didn’t.”

Evernham says he doesn’t know if SRX returns someday but believes there is a place for a series like it — something that was more motorsports entertainment than pure motorsport.

Which leads to IROC, which Evernham actually wanted to call SRX when he first started it with Stewart, Montag and Pyne.

“I wanted SRX to be IROC,” Evernham said. “The other partners didn’t think that was something they wanted to do because they wanted to create their own brand and didn’t think IROC was a big enough brand.”

Evernham was at a car show with Kauffman when he brought up IROC.

“Rob got involved,” Evernham said. “He has legal people, trademarks, this and that. One of the guys that helped us a good bit was Bruce Canepa. Bruce knew the guy that had the (trade)marks and we were able to put a lot of things together. We got the rights to use the name and we want to do some more.”

For now, Evernham just wants to put old IROC cars on the track with those who drove them from the 70s to the early 2000s. He called it a IROC reunion.

“We’re shooting for the fall,” he said. “If there’s interest in this thing, where do we go from there? Our goal is to get those cars back on track and then see how popular it can get.”

Like SRX, Evernham doesn’t believe IROC cars need to be going 180 mph on superspeedways but probably be a short track exhibition.

“I feel like we can (go) 150 (mph) on a small track, bumper to bumper and put on good racing.”

Does Evernham want to promote a series one day under the IROC branding?

“Oh my god yes, that’s my dream,” he said. “I want to make sure that I’m staying in my lane. I always want to be an asset, not only NASCAR but IndyCar because those are our two American series, right? IMSA is getting really strong now too.

“I think there’s a place for IROc, as I see it, to fit in with any of those. I’ll look you in the eyes and say, my dream IROC is to be able to have this thing grow to have country against country compete. A standard car  …

“How cool would it be to someday see Lewis Hamilton versus Josef Newgarden race Kyle Larson or someone like that in a completely different thing.”

But first comes the reunion event and hoping there is an appetite for more.

Matt Weaver is a Motorsports Insider for Sportsnaut. Follow him on Twitter.

 Speedway officials made an announcement of more FREE  fun, live entertainment and excitement planned in Dover Motor Speedway's Fan Zone throughout the upcoming April 26-28 NASCAR tripleheader weekend. Additional announcements, with MORE activities and live entertainment, will continue all the way up to race weekend!

 

The Fan Zone opens at the following times each day:

  • Friday, April 26: Noon
  • Saturday, April 27: 9 a.m.
  • Sunday, April 28: 9 a.m.

Previously announced events and attractions include the World’s Largest Rubber DuckNASCAR’s Kids ZoneWhite Lightning Bar + ArcadeTim Dugger and Friends Tour and the Amish Outlaws. Fans can find a full schedule of announced attractions and shows as it’s updated at www.dovermotorspeedway.com/fans/fan-zone/.

NEW ATTRACTIONS

 

DOCKDOGS: The world’s premier canine aquatics company brings your favorite leaping pooches to the Monster Mile for multiple performances. The group performs dozens of shows around the country each year!

 

MIRROR MEN: With shimmering outfits and fancy moves, these strolling entertainers brighten up any area with their antics and comic abilities.

 

ROBOCARS: These transforming performers are cars one minute and life-sized action figures the next, with highly skilled operators bringing brightly colored, unique, and innovative costumes to life, with amazing driving skills and crowd interaction.

 

STROLLING PLANT: This leafy favorite adapts his hilarious humor and ‘plant-related banter’ for all ages and plays well with the whole family. He can be seen standing or sitting in his flowerpot or driving around, standing on a mini-segway to engage with guests.

 

ALL WEEKEND

 

BUMPER CARS: While watching America’s best drivers on the track, get behind the wheel of these fair favorites off the track throughout the weekend.

 

FEARLESS FLORES THRILL SHOW: As seen on “America’s Got Talent,” this family takes on the famous Globe of Death, 65-foot Sway Pole, the Wheel of Destiny and much more! 

 

MICRO PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING: Talented athletic performers will match up in several professional wrestling battles on April 27 and April 28. The Micro Wrestling Federation has been drawing fans across the nation for more than 20 years for its shows featuring high-flying action, body slams and leaps from the top rope! Formed in 2000, the Micro Wrestling Federation features an entire cast of athletes and performers under 5 feet tall.

 

MTV LEGEND RIKI RACHTMAN: The longtime host of MTV’s “Headbangers Ball” will emcee several events with NASCAR drivers and other personalities, including Saturday’s Monster Mile Bash.

 

STILT WALKERS: Don’t forget to look up and see these extremely tall performers strolling around the Fan Zone throughout the weekend.

 

USO MILITARY VILLAGE PRESENTED BY WASTE MASTERS:  Huge area that displays our country’s finest military assets. Learn how this group assists service members and their families around the world. Check out various military vehicles and apparatus.

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 26

 

ARCA MENARDS SERIES EAST AUTOGRAPH SESSION, 2:15 p.m.: Meet the next generation of top drivers before they take on the Monster Mile in the General Tire 150. First 150 in line will receive a wristband for entry. Wristbands will be available 30 minutes prior to the start of the session.

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 27

 

NASCAR XFINITY SERIES AUTOGRAPH SESSION, 9:45 a.m.: Meet stars of the NASCAR Xfinity Series before they get behind the wheel for 200 laps. First 150 people in line will receive a wristband for entry. Wristbands will be available 30 minutes prior to the start of the session.

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 28

 

MASCOTS/CHEER SQUADS: Your favorite mascots and cheerleaders from area professional teams, colleges, and venues will meet and greet fans near the Monster Monument. Those scheduled to appear include: 

  • University of Delaware: YoUDee, Baby Blue
  • Wilmington Blue Rocks: Rocky Bluewinkle
  • Towson University: Doc the Tiger
  • West Chester University: Rammy
  • Pocono Raceway: Tricky
  • New Hampshire Motor Speedway: Milo the Moose

The Monster Mile’s full 2024 race schedule includes:

  • Friday, April 26: General Tire 150 ARCA Menards Series race (5 p.m., FS1)
  • Saturday, April 27: A-GAME 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series race (1:30 p.m., FS1, PRN, SiriusXM)
  • Sunday, April 28: Würth 400 NASCAR Cup Series race (2 p.m., FS1, PRN, SiriusXM)