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Length. 2.000 miles (3.219 km) Turns. 12. Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park (TSMP), formerly Thompson Speedway and Thompson International Speedway, is a motorsports park in Thompson, Connecticut, featuring a mi (1.0 km), paved oval racetrack and a 1.7 mi (2.7 km) road racing course. [2] Once known as the "Indianapolis of the East", it was the ...
Thompson has the highest-banked race track (Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, a 5/8 mile oval and a restored 1.7 mile road course) in New England. This speedway holds one of the biggest race programs in New England, The World Series of Auto Racing, where 16 divisions and about 400 cars show up each fall. Another claim to fame is that the Tri ...
After a one-year hiatus, Thompson Speedway will return to the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour schedule in 2022 with a Wednesday, Aug. 17, race. The storied Connecticut 5/8-mile track has hosted 148 ...
Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Thompson: April 9 2 Carquest Tech-Net Spring Sizzler Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford: April 23 3 Wheeler Brothers 150 Jennerstown Speedway, Jennerstown: June 13 4 New England Dodge Dealers 100 Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Thompson: June 29 5 Connecticut Classic 150 Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford ...
Richie Evans. Richard Ernest Evans (July 23, 1941 [1] – October 24, 1985), was an American racing driver who won nine NASCAR National Modified Championships, including eight in a row from 1978 to 1985. The International Motorsports Hall of Fame lists this achievement as "one of the supreme accomplishments in motorsports". [2]
The King Cadillac GMC Throwback 100 was a NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race that took place at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park in Thompson, Connecticut. The race adopted its "throwback" format in 2017. [ 1] On June 4, 2019, NASCAR announced the cancellation of the 2019 event. [ 2] Ricky Craven had the most triumphs of any driver, winning the ...
The 2015 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour was the thirty-first season of the Whelen Modified Tour (WMT). It began with the Icebreaker 150 at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on April 12 and concluded at the same venue with the Sunoco World Series 150 on October 18.
The last NASCAR race on a dirt track was held on September 30, 1970 at the half-mile State Fairgrounds Speedway in Raleigh, North Carolina. From 1972 through 2003, NASCAR's premier series was called the Winston Cup Series, sponsored by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company cigarette brand Winston. The changes that resulted from RJR's involvement, as ...