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Thompson, CT — The rolling thunder of the New England Supermodified Series kicked off the stacked feature racing Saturday afternoon with Jon McKennedy quickly taking over the lead from Ryan Battle by lap three. Big brother Jeffrey Battle officially sewed up his championship hopes after taking the green flag and found himself in the top three by lap 15. Facing McKennedy’s near straightaway lead, Battle went on the hunt against PJ Stergios until the final five laps but McKennedy was in another zip code, taking the win as smoke began to spirt out of the tailpipe ahead of Jeffrey Battle and Anthony Nocella.
By virtue of their ‘+5’ handicap earned through the heat races, Keith Rocco and Steven Chapman brought the Thompson Sunoco Modified Clash to green! Todd Owen methodically made his way up to second by lap five, fighting in tandem with Chapman and Danny Cates for the runner-up spot as all eyed Keith Rocco’s lead. Top runner Derek Ramstrom made hard contact with the turn three wall, ripping the right front wheel assembly off his #35 machine to call out the first caution. Back under green, it was a familiar sight with Rocco and Owen going at it out front, hopping lanes around each other in a 110mph game of chess. Keith Rocco would go on to round out the Thompson Sunoco Modified season with the CLASH win over Todd Owen and Danny Cates.
Ethan Williams continued his dominance of the Thunderstock Crown Vic division with the final win of the season, his sixth in a row ahead of invaders Traver and Jake Michaud. Once Rob Richardi Jr. took the lead he was lights out on the field for the Harry Kourafas Memorial win in the New England Pro-4 Modifieds.
New England’s Jon McKennedy and Ronnie Williams ahead of Northampton, Pennsylvania duo Austin Beers and Matt Hirschman brought the 75th annual Race of Champions 150 to green. Justin Bonsignore’s turn two spin on lap 64 brought the whole field down pit road for a single tire change with Ron Silk inheriting the restart lead. Silk’s lead soured quick, falling back through the field with a flattening right rear tire with ‘Big Money’ Matt Hirschman and Patrick Emerling leading the field prior to the mandatory lap 80 fuel stop.
Hirschman continued to show the way back under green as Ron Silk’s monumental recovery found him in third and chasing down Emerling by lap 90. The top three ran nose-to-tail less than half-a-second apart by lap 110. The lap 118 caution for Randall Richard’s lick with the turn one wall saw the field jump pitside once more for their final of three change tires with Emerling beating Hirschman and Silk off pit road. Contact with Silk and Emerling took both out of serious contention during the final circuits allowing Matt Hirschman to take his 10th Race of Champions over Jon McKennedy and Emerling across the line.
Following NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour practice, the Street Stocks took on the Thompson highbanks to round out their 2025 season. Ryan Lineham quickly found his way to the front but just as quickly faced a rearview mirror full of George Baldwin. Baldwin tried the crossover move to no avail as Ryan Lineham made a clean sweep of Street Stock shows on World Series weekend with Larry Barnett nailing down his 7th championship.
Scrapping their heats for time’s sake, Danny Gamache and Austin Goff led the SK Light Modifieds to green before Goff went broadside off turn two for the first caution. Meg Fuller, Nick Hovey and John O’Sullivan made it a three-wide race across the stripe as O’Sullivan returned to the line as the leader. After a pair of spin-induced cautions, Nick Hovey made his way into the lead underneath O’Sullivan on lap 10 and a slugfest ensued throughout the field to the very end of the shortened event. Hovey took down the win and the championship over O’Sullivan and Kevin Davis.
Justin Bonsignore took a 19.048-second lap to earn the pole position in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour World Series 150 and led the field at the onset. Everyone jumped into a single-file line on the outside groove as Cousin Kyle Bonsignore closely stalked Justin with Craig Lutz, Trevor Catalano and Austin Beers in tow. After shocking the crowd to lead much of the time trial qualifying, Catalano worked his way to the lead under Bonsignore on lap 26 just before a big turn one pile-up that claimed Eric Goodale, Timmy Solomito and Brian Sones.
The teenaged Catalano looked like a veteran out front, handling the ongoing pressure of Bonsignore pulling all the tricks of a four-time champion in the rear-view mirror. By lap 50, Ron Silk had worked his way underneath both of them to set sail ahead of the pack, unshackled in his pursuit of yet another Thompson Speedway victory. While Silk ran away with the lead, there were championship implications in the battle for second between Justin Bonsignore and Austin Beers. After over thirty laps of trying all routes around Bonsignore, Beers finally got a run underneath in turn three to take over the third spot after Matt Swanson made his way around the two title fighters mid-battle.
Ron Silk kept it lean and green all the way to the very end for the Sunoco World Series 150 win while Matt Swanson took second en-route to winning the FloRacing Connecticut Challenge and Austin Beer’s third-place run keeps him in good standing for the final championship event at Martinsville Speedway in two weeks.
Time constraints pushed both the NEMA Lites and the Pro Truck Challenge Tour till after the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour event Saturday night. The NEMA Lites saw an impressive battle for the lead between Tiana Kibbe and Kyle Valeiri before Valeiri took off with the lead and never looked back for the win over Randy Cabral and Kibbe.
Likewise, Ryan Kuhn looked shot from a cannon in the Pro Truck 35-lap main event. Kuhn was all but untouchable with Jason Paquette and Jaysin Beal rounding out the final podium of Sunoco World Series weekend.
The 2025 season has now officially wrapped up with the final checkered flag on the 63r Sunoco World Series. American-Canadian Tour managing partner Cris Michaud announced in the driver’s meeting Saturday morning that in conjunction with Tom Mayberry and the Pro All Stars Series, the Thompson Speedway oval will continue under the two sanctioning bodies in 2026. Expect a 2026 schedule to be released by Thanksgiving.
For more information about the American-Canadian Tour, contact the ACT offices at (802) 244-6963, media@acttour.com, or visit www.acttour.com. You can also get updates on Facebook and Twitter at @ACTTour.
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For general Thompson Speedway inquiries, call (860) 923-2280, email oval@thompsonspeedway.com, or visit www.thompsonspeedway.com. You can follow Thompson Speedway on Facebook and Instagram at @ThompsonSpeedway or on Twitter at @ThompsonSpdwy.
63rd Sunoco World Series – Day 2
Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park – Thompson, CT
Saturday, October 11, 2025
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour – Sunoco World Series 150
1. 16 Ron Silk Blue Mountain Machine/Future Homes 150
2. 25 Matt Swanson Ceravolo’s Auto/Mully’s Auto Repair/Casella Snowplows 150
3. 64 Austin Beers G&G Eletric Supply/Dell Electric/Fastrack Electric 150
4. 60 Matt Hirschman Elite Towing/Bar Harbor Bank and Trust 150
5. 46 Craig Lutz Riverhead Building Supply 150
6. 51 Justin Bonsignore Phoenix Communications Inc 150
7. 22 Kyle Bonsignore MTT/ChaLew Performance/Munns Auto 150
8. 1 Patrick Emerling Fleetworks Inc. 149
9. 3 Tyler Rypkema USNE Power/SYP/Northeast Drilling 149
10. 21 Stephen Kopcik* Newtown Pools/Wanick Construction 149
11. 17 Anthony Nocella Keene Towing & Recovery/Copart/Xtreme Autobody 149
12. 44 Chase Dowling S&S Paving/Harshaw Paving 149
13. 56 Trevor Catalano USNE Power 148
14. 82 Woody Pitkat Horton Ave Materials/Gunsmoke Stables Racing 148
15. 55 Teddy Hodgdon IV* Montanari Fuel/Business Time Motorsports 148
16. 11 Eric Berndt Ferguson Motorsports LLC 147
17. 54 Tommy Catalano FX Caprara/USNE 147
18. 18 Ken Heagy Speed 77 145
19. 8 John Michael-Shenette USNE Power Midwest/Eighty-Two Services 145
20. 63 Dylan Slepian Eastport Feeds 144
21. 29 Mike Marshall MLM Diagnostics/Jusczak Electric 140
22. 66 Timmy Solomito USNE/Natural Design/FX Caprara/McKinney Construction 27
23. 58 Eric Goodale GAF Roofing 27
24. 12 Brian Sones* DW Machine & Fabricating Co./Bergen Industries 26
25. 20 Max Zachem USNE/Lu-Mac’s 17
75th annual Race of Champions – (150 Laps)
1. 60 Matt Hirschman Northamption, PA
2. 79 Jon McKennedy Chelmsford, MA
3. 11 Patrick Emerling Mooresville, NC
4. 16 Ron Silk Norwalk, CT
5. 48 Jacob Christman Walnutport, PA
6. 5CT Chris Pasteryak Lisbon, CT
7. 20 Max Zachem Oakdale, CT
8. 9 Austin Beers Northampton, PA
9. 8 Kyle Bonsignore Mooresville, NC
10. 25 Matt Swanson Harvard, MA
11. 51 Jayden Harman Sugarloaf, PA
12. 58 Eric Goodale Riverhead, NY
13. 15 Trevor Bleau Troy, NH
14. 3 Daren Scherer Binghamton, NY
15. 50 Ronnie Williams Lebanon, CT
16. 66 Austin Kochenash Danielsville, PA
17. 0 Randall Richard Port Jervis, NY
18. 07 Justin Bonsignore Wading River, NY
19. 19 Jeffrey Battle Dunstable, MA
20. 73 Andy Jankowiak Tonawanda, NY
21. 81 Jack Ely Northampton, PA
22. 80 Jacob Perry Stonington, CT
Thompson Sunoco Modified CLASH – (50 Laps)
1. 09 Keith Rocco Berlin, CT
2. 81 Todd Owen Somers, CT
3. 2 Danny Cates Chaplin, CT
4. 31 Noah Korner Avon, CT
5. 77 Chase Cook Norwich, CT
6. 01 Bryan Narducci Colchester, CT
7. 14 Steven Chapman Ellington, CT
8. 76 Eddie Gomarlo Swanzey, NH
9. 24 #Nathan Pytko Oxford, MA
10. 1 Andrew Brousseau Charlestown, NH
11. 60 Andrew Major Wales, MA
12. 84 Eric LeClair Easthampton, MA
13. 99 Mike Mayberry Naples, ME
14. 4 Zach Leone Worcester, MA
15. 09x Jeff Rocco Berlin, CT
16. 47 #Zack Sangermano Plainfield, CT
17. 74 Jacob Perry Pautucket,
18. 35 Derek Ramstrom Worcester, MA
19. 96 Nancy Muni-Ruot Harwinton, CT
DNS 51 DJ Burnham E. Hartford, CT
NESS Supermodified Series – (40 Laps)
2025 NESS Champion – Jeffrey Battle
1. 79 Jon McKennedy Chelmsford, MA
2. 14 Jeffrey Battle Barnstable, MA
3. 11 Anthony Nocella Woburn, MA
4. 25 Dan Bowes Epping, NH
5. 52 Dave Danzer Oswego, NY
6. 51 Vern Romanoski Strong, ME
7. 47 Jim Storace Kingston, NH
8. 29 Russ Wood Pelham, NH
9. 22 Mark MacIver Stafford, NH
10. 53 Ryan Battle Barnstable, MA
11. 97 Matt Swanson Harvard, MA
12. 54 Dave Duggan Milford, NH
DSQ 5 PJ Stergios Candia, NH
SK Lite Modifieds – (30 Laps)
2025 Thompson Speedway SK Light Modified Champion – Nick Hovey
1. 16 Nick Hovey Chaplin, CT
2. 15 John O’Sullivan Norwich, CT
3. 10 Kevin Davis Somers, CT
4. 32 Robert Bloxsom III Canaan, CT
5. 18 Tyler Berry Griswold, CT
6. 2 Meghan Fuller Auburn, MA
7. 15x Amanda West Colchester, CT
8. 26 RJ Marcotte Millville, MA
9. 15NY Gerard Giordano Freeport, NY
10. 96 Daniel Gamache Jr. Medway, MA
11. 75 Casey Vogt Windsor Locks, CT
12. 14x Larry Thompson Parlin, NJ
13. 78 Evan Bourgeois Oakdale, CT
14. 14 Kali Trap E. Hampton, CT
15. 24 Dylan Tremblay Oxford, MA
16. 22 Thomas Sekulski Nesconset, NY
17. 07 #Austin Goff Stafford Springs, CT
18. 8 Aiden D’Agata Willington, CT
19. 52 Anthony Forino Waterbury, CT
20. 99 Dylan Houghton Springfield, MA
21. 45 #TJ Tomasi Blackstone, MA
22. 5 Ryan West Brooklyn, CT
23. 51 Matt Brewer Norwich, CT
24. 64 Brett Gonyaw Vernon, CT
25. 12 Rob Schultz Ocean, NJ
26. 76 Eddie Gomarlo Swanzey, NH
27. 34MA Daltin McCarthy Oxford, MA
28. 23 Brady Parolo Agawam, MA
29. 27 Corey Caddick Richmond, RI
Street Stocks – (20 Laps)
2025 Thompson Speedway Street Stock Champion – Larry Barnett
1. 19 Ryan Lineham Warwick, RI
2. LL George Baldwin Lowell, MA
3. 67 Aaron Plemons Uncasville, CT
4. 22x Austin Erickson Ashland, MA
5. 73 Larry Barnett Moosup, CT
6. 38x Jon Porter Baltic, CT
7. 52 Al Stone III Durham, CT
8. 03 Josh Gerard W. Wareham, MA
9. 54 Colby Lambert Westport, MA
10. 116 Jim Silvia Middletown, RI
11. 85 Michael Viens Seekonk, MA
12. 22T Tim Poulin Thompson, CT
13. 66 Tyler Cinamella Willimantic, CT
14. 10 Hank Stott Medway, MA
15. 64 Michael Malbaurn Moosup, CT
DNS 77 Andrew Gillis Ashland, MA
DNS 12 Bo Norman Quaker Hill, CT
Pro Truck Challenge Tour – (35 Laps)
1. 72 Ryan Kuhn
2. 94 Jason Paquette
3. 29 Jaysin Beal
4. 151 Burt Ouellette
5. 47 Todd Taylor
6. 32 Randy Burr
7. 03 Emma Monahan
8. 1 Dennis Charette
9. 12 Tyler Dickey
10. 11RI Nikolas Frechette
11. 78 DJ Thibeault
12. 42 Chris Palamar
13. 20 Evan Heilbron
14. 52 Mercedes Caron
15. 28 John Pereira
16. 33 Jacob Coutu
17. 5 Chris Taylor
18. 14 Ashton Young
19. 90 Cory Coates
20. 6x Andrew Pellegrini
21. 16 Brad Caddick
NEMA Lites – (25 Laps)
1. 17 Kyle Valeiri
2. 47 Randy Cabral
3. 94 Tiana Kibbe
4. 7 Zach Martinex
5. 35 Joey Bailey
6. 28 Michael Pernisiglio
7. 59 Brayden Egan
8. 53 Dylan Coutu
9. 29 RJ Deighton
10. 55 Drew Eldridge
11. 44x Lanson Finoro
12. 3 Chris Vosey
13. 57 AJ Moore
14. 26 Barry Cannon
15. 88 Tyson Adamik
16. 44 Trent Goodrow
17. 99 Greg Klar
New England Pro-4 Modifieds – Harry Kourafas Memorial (22 Laps)
Winner – Rob Richardi Jr.
Thunderstock Crown Vics – (15 Laps)
1. 4 Ethan Williams Promfret Ctr., RI
2. 28 Traver Michaud Lebanon, ME
3. 81 Jake Michaud Lebanon, ME
4. 35 Tucker Haskill Saco, ME
5. 79 Alex Tanguay Plymouth, MA
6. 19 Dylan Cabral Richmond, RI
7. 01 John Robidoux Rehoboth, MA
