Once again, Wiscasset Speedway proved the doubters wrong and beat the weather on Saturday evening, hosting a successful Group 2 program that was presented by the Maine ARMY National Guard.
The racing action kicked off with the 35-lap Pepsi Spotlight feature for the Portland Glass Strictly Streets. Ethan Dinsmore took off with the early lead, but it was utter chaos behind him with 2 and 3-wide battles throughout the entire field. After leading the entire race, Dinsmore came to a sudden slow on the track due to a transmission failure on lap 14, resulting in a premature exit.
Dale Lawrence powered to the lead on the restart and maintained command throughout multiple cautions that followed. “Cowboy” Dan Trask entered the picture just past halfway, climbing to second after starting back in 17th. A late-race caution brought the field back together with just 8 laps to go. This brought opportunity to Trask, who powered to the lead with just 5 laps remaining. As Trask sailed into the victory, Landon Tapley and Chris Burgess (who gained 20 positions) followed in succession, completing the top 3. After scoring his first victory in 7 years, an emotional Trask climbed out of the car and was joined by family & friends. He dedicated his win to his late friend and Wiscasset Speedway Hall of Famer Mike Kimball, who is dearly missed and remembered by many.
WINCHESTER, N.H. – Modified superstar Brian Robie added to his legacy at the great race place Saturday, topping the $5,000-to-win Open Modified Winchester 101 at Monadnock Speedway.
The reigning and multi-time speedway 604 Modified champion set fast time in qualifying and then outran a stout 18-car field to earn the big payday at his home track, the site of scores of feature victories by the Sunapee speedster over the last decade.
In other events Saturday on the high banks, Hillary Renaud survived a wild one to notch her first Limited Late Model victory of the season, Eric Pomasko ended a long drought by topping the Mini Stocks, and Young Guns sensation Dylan Stati won for the fifth week in a row.
Track Promoter C.V. “Butch” Elms saw a window of opportunity to go for it as the sun came out late in the day, before the next wave of weather moved back into the area. It was features only for the visiting R.E. Hinkley Granite State Mini Sprints, Sportsman Mods Limited, Late Models, and Dirt Stocks which were completed along with two segments of the Ridge Runner Madness and the heat races for the Mods and Coupes before mother nature threw the checkers, making the night complete in the record books. The Sportsman Modifieds, Sportsman Coupes and segment three for the Ridge Runner Madness will be completed June 13th before the regular card begins.
The feature winners of the 59th consecutive season week five sponsored by Valley Floors were: race postponed due to rain in the Sabil & Sons DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds; race postponed due to rain in the Wells River Chevrolet DIRTcar Sportsman Coupes; Shawn King in the Dad’s 4 By Tool & Supply Sportsman Modifieds Limiteds; the Xtreme DIRTcar DMA Midgets were OFF, Kelly Miller in the High Country Dispensary Late Models; Keith Mansur in the LaValley Building Supply Dirt Stocks; in the Woodsville Power Equipment Bobcat Ridge Runners Madness Segment one Riley Chaffee, Madness Segment two Zach Audet. In the visiting R.E. Hinkley Granite State Mini Sprints 500cc Jake Wolf, and Cody Willette in the 600 cc.
Two young lions of the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour, Jacob Burns and Kaiden Fisher, showed their stuff at Seekonk Speedway during the 51st Spring Green 126 on Saturday.
Championship hopeful Kaiden Fisher, Seekonk Speedway regular Ryan Flood, and leading rookie Jacob Burns each took heat race wins to set the field.
Surprise entry Tanner Woodard earned the pole position with a +3 while Blainville, Quebec’s Jonathan Bouvrette started alongside. Using the outside groove, Bouvrette led the early circuits before Jacob Burns took over on lap 18. Burns, a former track champion of Seekonk Speedway, began to extend his lead as Kaiden Fisher and Gabe Brown began to enter the picture.
What started out great turned sour for Bouvrette who started to backslide with a right-rear tire going down. It finally gave out completely, sending him spinning in turn one to call out the lone caution of the event. On the restart Burns once again launched off with the lead and drove away, fighting with lap traffic before too long and, unknowingly, setting up his own demise.
Trystin Bodwell launched off with the lead in the Ridge Runner feature showdown as calamity struck in the back half of the field to collect Carl Gagnon and Brad Weismann on lap one. Back under green it was not-so-brotherly love for Josh Hodgdon and Tyler Fish with the two brothers going fisticuffs on track resulting in a blown right front for Hodgdon. Meanwhile up front, Bodwell showed the way as Kam Weir and opening Friday winner Kyle Dumas made their way under a loose Fish. Time ran out for Weir with Trystin Bodwell taking the 20-lap feature and Dumas rounding out the top three.
Donnie Belisle and Jason Curtis brought the Tri-City Lining Street Stocks to bare for their 25-lap main event. Curtis led the field as Mike Williams and Oxford Plains invader Joey Israelson joined the mix for a tough top-three fight. One caution at the halfway point for a stalled Blaine Porman re-racked the field for a last ditch effort at the crown. Jason Curtis kept up what he was doing best to steal the win while Joey Israelson slid in under Mike Williams to steal second at the line.
Once Ashton Tucker took the lead Saturday afternoon at Petty International Raceway, he never relinquished it as he cruised to the checkered flag in the second race of the Fort Garry Industries Pro Stock Tour, the Mr. Lube+ Tires 150. Tucker took the lead on Lap 10 and never looked back for his first win of 2026.
The defending FGI Pro Stock Tour champion pulled away from Jarrett Butcher on the final restart on Lap 91 with Butcher holding off Kenny U-Pull 150 winner Gage Gilby for the runner-up spot. Braden Langille and Robbie MacEwen, both making their Tour debut for 2026, also completed the top five.
Jarrett Butcher and Ashton Tucker won their respective Atlantic Tiltload heat races, qualifying them for the Mr. Lube + Tires 150.
Stafford Speedway was back in action on Friday, June 5th with the Casella Waste SK 80, the $3,000 to win first leg of the Sign Pro Triple Crown. Jon Puleo was the big winner of the night, using a dominating drive to notch his first win of the 2026 season in the Casella Waste SK 80.
Michael Bennett was a Late Model winner for the first time in nearly 5 years at Stafford, Jason Finkbein came out a first-time SK Light feature winner after an eventful finish, Rich Hammann scored his first win of 2026 in the Limited Late Model feature, and Ryan Waterman took down what is already his fourth win of 2026 in the Street Stock feature.
In the Casella Waste SK 80 feature, Glen Reen charged around polesitter Jon Puleo to take the early race lead. Puleo came right back to the inside of Reen on lap-2 to move to the front. Bryan Narducci was third in line with Marcello Rufrano in fourth and Michael Christopher, Jr. fifth. The caution came out with 4 laps complete as Frank Ruocco got into the turn 3 wall and the cars of Wade Gagner, Josh Zentek, and Ethan Durocher all spun.
