Black Creek, BC - The most prestigious event on the Northwest Sprint Tour calendar served as the wrap up for the 2026 season with the running of the Neil Montgomery Memorial Aug. 14th-15th at Saratoga Speedway. 22 cars from British Columbia, California, Florida and Utah showed up to battle for $3,000-to-win each night and $10,000 to the top points earner on the weekend. In qualifying on night one Aaron Willison 12.480 to pace the field, drawing a 10 pill for the inversion in

8/15/26 Alger, WA - The breakout season of Max Mittry continued on Saturday night at Skagit Speedway as the Redding, CA raced to his first victory at the track in the Exclusive Quality Customs 360 Sprint Cars. Mittry would start outside row one of the Exclusive Quality Customs 360 Sprint A Main event and would dominate the A Feature, leading all 30 laps with a seven second advantage over second place most of the way. Mittry would take the top spot ahead of Eric Fisher in sec

Not only was the 2026 Summer Showdown 100 his CARS Tour Northwest debut, but it was also Turner Brown's first late model start. The decorated go-kart driver showed a lot of speed in practice and was able to carry that experience over and find victory lane in his first start. (Photo by Amber Taylor, Elevate Racing Media) "Showing up yesterday morning for practice and looking at the track thinking 'I don't know if I am even going to race' cause I was so scared." Safe to say tha

A pair of young drivers will set the bar as the first drivers out for both the CARS Tour West Super Late Models and CARS Tour Northwest Pro Late Models qualifying for the Summer Showdown. Bryce Bezanson is the first to roll in SLM qualifying, and Turner Brown will be out first for the PLM. (Photo of Turner Brown, PC Amber Taylor Elevate Racing Media) Last year, the pole time for the Summer Showdown SLM was a 21.772, set by Tristan McKee. Qualifying this year will hold a littl

Thursday, August 13th 2026 A hot and sunny start to the 2026 Summer Showdown gave the drivers very similar conditions to what they will face for the rest of the weekend. Jace Hansen set the fastest lap of the day in first practice at a 21.984. The defending Summer Showdown winner feels confident in his car. (Photo by David Nelson, 2026) "I am actually a little surprised we had that much pace, we were really tight right out of the trailer but were able to make adjustments and

"The Concrete Jungle" puts on exciting racing throughout the year, with sprint cars being one of the main attractions at the speedway throughout the year. One of the biggest sprint car races of the year is held at Meridian Speedway every September, and that is the Pink Lady Classic. Rob Grice has competed at Meridian Speedway for years, collecting wins in the weekly series, ISRL Series, and Speed Tour Regional Sprintcar Series. Unfortunately, his most recent highlight was not

Carson Brown is excited to turn his first laps at Evergreen Speedway this weekend during the 2026 Summer Showdown. Brown is fresh off his NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series debut, where he finished 15th at Iowa Speedway. "My expectations going into this race are pretty high but at the same time I feel like my thoughts are very open-minded. I have never truly raced a track like Evergreen and even more so in a super late model, but I attack this weekend just like any other weeke

One of the most successful super late model drivers in the country in 2026 is making his way to Evergreen Speedway for the Summer Showdown. Carson Brown is the current points leader of the ASA Stars National Tour, coming off a win at Newport Speedway in their most recent event. Brown made his debut in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series this past weekend at Iowa Speedway. (Photo by Kyler Hope, 2025) Five drivers are looking to double down on pay days, competing in both the

The crown jewel weekend for both Super Stock and Outlaw figure eight division fired off with a jam packed schedule. Six classes on the schedule and big fields for all. Starting with the Outlaw figure eights which had a strong 15 car field fire off. The field started straight up with No. 83g Zach Larson on the pole. Over the long run the lead would only change three times. Larson would lose out to the No. 676 Ricky Dietz, who would go on to lead the most laps before his motor

Big money has not been a stranger to the Summer Showdown in previous years, and this year there is over $202,000 up for grabs spread out across the CARS Tour West super late models, CARS Tour Legends, and pro late models. The 200-lap main event Saturday night will send a team home with $30,000 for winning the 14th running of this event. Keep an eye out for the full entry list that is expected to be announced early next week. Event Info: Friday Aug 14th Summer Showdown Grandst

8/1/26 Alger, WA - With a week off from California racing, Justin Sanders stayed North at Skagit Speedway and collected a $5,500 prize for winning the Hill’s Meat Company 410 Sprint Car Main Event on Breast Cancer Awareness Night. Sanders pulled off the elusive clean sweep of the evening, setting fast time and winning his heat race before starting on the pole of the main event. Sanders jetted out to the early lead and went the entire distance for the win, easily navigating t

Spokane, WA – Alan Cress continued his recent success at South Sound Speedway (WA) Saturday night, claiming a hard-fought victory in the “Weatherguard Roofing – Kennedy Classic 200” before a packed grandstand. Cress had to come from the back twice to earn the victory in Round #3 of the Northwest Super Late Model Series presented by Knottical Marine, taking home $8.000 for his effort. Cress in now the fifth driver to score multiple wins in the traditional “South Sound / Miller

The pre-entry list for this weekend's "Weather Guard Roofing - Kennedy Classic 200" for the Northwest Super Late Model Series presented by Knottical Marine at South Sound Speedway. 20 Super Late Models are expected with one of those waiting final confirmation. A possible $13,000 could go to the winner with the addition of $8,000 in lap leader money bonuses available from Northern Provincial Pipelines Ltd. Come out on Saturday, August 1st, to see the return of the NWSLMS to So

In the second to last Pro Late Model race of the year on the 3/8 oval, It was a surprise driver crossing the line first with the No. 98 of Greg Bennett holding on to beat No. 00 Naima Lang and No. 33 Kyle Lang. (Photo by Amber Taylor, Elevate Racing Media) The race fired off with No. 12 Chad Fitzpatrick getting to the lead early, before being run down by the No. 78 of Haley Constance. Constance, who set the track record in qualifying has been the driver to beat this year, wit

The Northwest Sprint Tour makes their second and final trip to Evergreen Speedway in 2026 this Saturday, August 1st. Aaron Willison looks to grow his championship lead and win his 6th race on the year in the NWST. A Willison has won every Northwest Sprint Tour race in 2026, with five of them going to the points leader Aaron, and one going to brother Ryan at Agassiz Speedway back in June. Aaron won the first race at Evergreen Speedway back on May 9th, which was the series seas

7/25/26 Alger, WA - On some nights, the racing gods see foot to put the right person in the right place to complete the right story. At Skagit Speedway on Saturday night, we honored Fred Brownfield for the last time at the Fred Brownfield 360 Nationals presented by Bob’s Burgers & Brew and it was the driver in the field who had raced under Fred’s regime the most, Jason Solwold, taking his record setting fifth win at the event. (Photo via Skagit Speedway Facebook) It was the

A jam packed night of action once again descended on the Wenatchee Valley Super Oval on Saturday Night. The nights card featured a little bit of everything, including 4 local classes of racing, the 2nd visit of the year for the Pro Am Drift Tour, and a return for Freestyle Motocross. The hodgepodge rundown brought another large crowd to the ¼ mile as the fans all looked forward to the eclectic night of action. While the Motocross and Drifters wow’d the crowd with their res

7/24/26 Alger, WA - Anything can happen at Skagit Speedway and on big nights like the first night of the Fred Brownfield 360 Nationals presented by Bob’s Burgers & Brew, it usually does. With the Sprint Car Challenge Tour in the house for their sixth round of Western Speedweek, it was Jason Solwold taking the lead with two laps to go and running to the win that stunned and thrilled the crowd on hand on Friday night. Solwold and Max Mittry would exchange the lead a few times

Kevin Harvick went 2 for 2 at Mode Stadium Stateline Speedway by taking home the prestigious Idaho 200 presented by Knottical Marine. Harvick, who had won the Road to the 200 in June, started outside pole for the 200 lap race, his reward for bagging the win in the 150 lap race. Haeden Plybon, who set the new track record of a blistering 12.936 second qualifying lap, jumped out to the early lead. Plybon, a former race champion, set a torrid pace through the first 70 laps, all

7/18/26 Everson, WA - Clap Cuy 43 is in the books and after a fantastic night of racing, two new champions were crowned and two more champions earned Clay Cup wins to add to their trophy case. In the $10,000 to win Speedmart 600 finale, Jared Peterson raced to his fifth career Clay Cup Championship. Jared took the lead from Cody Key on lap seven and developed a gigantic advantage before multiple cautions brought the field back to him. After the final caution on lap 33, Peter