NASCAR will host multiple national series events at Phoenix Raceway in early March, with the Cup Series’ Straight Talk Wireless 500 scheduled for March 8 and the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series’ GOVX 200 set for March 7. The Cup Series race will cover 312 laps over 312 miles with a purse of $11.23 million, while the O’Reilly Series event features a 200-mile race with a prize pool of $1.65 million.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series will compete at Darlington Raceway on March 20 in the Buckle Up South Carolina 200, a 200.8-mile race with a purse of $839,700. Broadcast details for all events are available through NASCAR’s media channels.
The Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour has announced a new partnership with California-based Swift Springs for the 2026 season. The performance coil spring manufacturer will award a spring product certificate to the second-place finisher in each Tour event throughout the year, including the non-point Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank on October 4th.
Swift Springs has also awarded the organization four certificates — each good for a pair of springs — to be distributed via blind draw to participating Late Model competitors across the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour, Serie ACT Quebec, Thunder Road Speedbowl, and White Mountain Motorsports Park.
The driver and co-owner of the No. 52 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro for Halmar Friesen Racing, Friesen is a native of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario – about an eight-hour drive west of the track – and now lives only three hours away. He is well aware of the spirit New England and Canadian fans bring to tracks around the U.S. and southern Canada throughout the racing season.
“We have a lot of great race fans from Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick,” said Friesen, who enters this weekend’s Kansas race 11th in the NCTS point standings with one top-five and three top-10s on the season. “We got to race up there last year and meet some of those people, so it’s a great melting pot for the Canadian fans to come down and get their NASCAR fix.”
Loudon, NH — Blue skies and sunshine greeted the teams and fans at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday morning for the 4th annual Northeast Classic. The season opener for the American-Canadian Tour also served as the third round for the PASS Super Late Models and lid-lifter for the R&R Race Parts Street Stock Open Series while also featuring a pair of exhibition events for the Open Tour-type Modifieds and the new Sunoco 604 Modifieds.
Barre, VT and Naples, ME — When the roar of the mighty NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to Connecticut’s quiet corner this Sunday afternoon, it’ll be the 153rdtime the series has tackled the iconic highbanks of Thompson Speedway and the first time in four years that the Tour has competed on Icebreaker weekend. The Icebreaker 150 for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour is set as the first homebase battle for the Northeast teams who regularly compete on the fan-favorite Tour.
