Track Talk – Thompson Speedway Has Three Upcoming Virtual iRaces / Strong List of Modifieds Already Entered for New Smyrna

THOMPSON, Conn. — Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park will come to virtual life three times during the winter months, as a new iRacing series will give drivers and fans a chance to prepare for the 2021 season. In a series promoted by Souza Media, full-time Modified, Late Model & Super Late Model drivers from across New England will compete in three different races — including the virtual historic Thompson 300 — with one-race in January, another in February and a final in March. The series will help preview the real-life season at…

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NIGHTLY COVERAGE OF 2021 DAKAR RALLY BEGINS SUNDAY AT 7:30 P.M. ET ON NBCSN

STAMFORD, Conn. – Dec. 30, 2020 – Coverage of the 2021 Dakar Rally — the world’s most challenging off-road endurance race — begins this Sunday, January 3, at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN, the start of nightly coverage of the 12-stage race in Saudi Arabia.

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Track Talk – ACT Heading to Hickory This April for Twin 125-Lap Events / Stafford Speedway Establishes 2021 Licensing and $33,000 Track Point Fund

Waterbury, VT – The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) is heading south to get an early start on the 2021 racing season. Officials announced today that a pair of ACT Late Model events have been scheduled at North Carolina’s Hickory Motor Speedway for Friday, April 2 and Saturday, April 3.

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Track Talk – Ken Massa Motorsports Re-signs Sponsor / JCR Teaming Up With Shawn Colomito For 2021 / Bear Ridge Speedway Schedule For 2021

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. —  After scoring their second championship together on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour in 2020, Ken Massa Motorsports and Justin Bonsignore have announced that Phoenix Communications Inc. will return to the team as title sponsor in 2021.

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Chase Briscoe Joins Ken Block in ‘Hoonicorn vs. The World’

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (Dec. 28, 2020) – Ford Performance driver Chase Briscoe slayed Chevrolet Camaros and Toyota Supras throughout the entire NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule in 2020, winning a series-best nine races behind the wheel of his HighPoint.com Ford Mustang.

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Track Talk – Virtual Monday Night’s Dirt Derby at Knoxville Won by Klingerman; Alfredo 2nd

Parker Kligerman survived multiple late restarts and overtime to earn his second Monday Night Racing presented by Tufco Flooring victory of the season at Knoxville; Anthony Alfredo of Ridgefield, CT takes the runner-up spot.

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Track Talk – NHRA 2020 Review / Cost to Rent NASCAR Xfinity Series Ride / Bob Lazier Victim of Coronavirus

Lawsuit, Defections, Camping World Highlight Tumultuous Year for NHRA COVID-19 kept a top team on the sidelines, played a role in loss of series’ long-time title sponsor. Note: the NHRA Camping World Series was unable to perform at the New England Dragway in Epping, NH due to the Pandemic. However, the 2021 schedule has that event set for June 11-13, 2021. Source: AutoWeek Somehow, Doug Kalitta and his drastically pared-down staff navigated the 2020 season, got lucky with an abrupt series-sponsor change at the start of its title stretch, and crowned champions…

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American Trucks – We Slapped The BIGGEST Tires Possible On Our 2021 F-150

While the 2021 F-150 has been reviewed a few times already, we haven’t seen much in terms of modifications. Ford claims that this generation shares very few parts with it’s predecessor, so we figured we’d see how different this truck really is… starting with wheel fitment on a stock suspension setup.

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Track Talk – Anthony Alfredo Possibly Joining Front Row Motorsports? / Star Speedway’s Bob Webber Sr. Memorial Grows Bigger For 2021

Sports Business Journal’s Adam Stern reports that Anthony Alfredo of Ridgefield, CT is in discussions with Front Row Motorsports about joining the next season.

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Track Talk – Connecticut’s Stafford Speedway leaving NASCAR in 2021

(Stafford Springs, CT)—After a 60-year partnership working with NASCAR as a sanctioned short track, Stafford Speedway will not operate under the NASCAR Weekly Series banner for the 2021 season due to a conflict regarding ownership of streaming and broadcast rights of weekly racing events.

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Track Talk – NASCAR Champ Joey Logano Shows Off His Car Collection

Middletown, CT’s NASCAR champion racing driver Joey Logano’s garage might not be as expansive or famous as former Tonight Show host Jay Leno’s garage, but he definitely has some interesting rides.

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SRX Racing Series Will Make a Stop at the Connecticut Stafford Speedway in 2021

Presently, the series has nine announced drivers, including Stewart, Tony Kanaan, Paul Tracy, Helio Castroneves, Bobby Labonte, Willy T. Ribbs, Bill Elliott, Mark Webber and Ernie Francis Jr. SRX has been billed as a revival of sorts of the International Race of Champions (IROC) series that ran for 30 years, most recently in 2006, where Stewart won the championship. Like IROC, SRX is built around gathering champions from various racing disciplines and putting them in identical stock cars to test drivers purely on skill.

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ARCA Menards Series East 2021 Schedule Announced

The 2021 ARCA Menards Series East schedule will feature eight races over eight premier short tracks. Three of the eight races on the East Series schedule are combination races with the ARCA Menards Series. The 2021 East Series season will mark its second on the ARCA Menards platform.

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