Sprint Cars of New England (SCONE) Unveils Exciting 2026 Schedule
Story By: JUSTIN ST. LOUIS / SCONE – BRIDPORT, VT – The Sprint Cars of New England Tour (SCoNE) has announced an exciting schedule of events for the 2026 racing season, with new challenges for the “winged, wild, and wicked fast” warriors. The SCoNE Winged 360 Sprint Cars will hit five different dirt tracks in four states for a total of 14 events on the championship point-counting campaign, plus a post-season special for the SCoNE Tour’s first time on an asphalt surface in 21 years.
The season kicks off in new territory, as Glen Ridge Motorsports Park hosts its first-ever SCoNE Tour event during the Memorial Day holiday weekend on Sunday, May 24. Glen Ridge is a lightning-quick, high-banked, quarter-mile, D-shaped oval located on a mountaintop in Fultonville, NY, overlooking the Mohawk River and the Interstate 90 New York Thruway. “The Ridge” has not had a Sprint Car race since 2021 and is ending that drought in a new pairing with SCoNE; the event will be the westernmost race in SCoNE history. The Glen Ridge event will be streamed live and available for pay-per-view on www.TheCushion.com.
The SCoNE Tour heads home to the familiar confines of Bear Ridge Speedway in Bradford, VT – a historic quarter-mile, which, like Glen Ridge, is perched on mountaintop, overlooking a major river and a busy Interstate route – on Saturday, May 30. That event opens the six-race Bear Ridge Track Championship Series, which will also see the SCoNE Tour visit on June 27, July 18, August 15, August 29, and September 12. All Bear Ridge events – with one exception – will be increased to 30 laps in 2026; the September 12 date will once again see a Monza-style, two-segment, scored race.
The Saturday, August 29 event will be the second annual “Bear Ridge Big Money Classic” event. The race is a unique, community-funded blockbuster for which race teams and other supporters raise money to add into the purse, which is then paid out by running position for each lap of the A-Main feature race. In its inaugural run last year, more than $14,000 in bonuses were added to the track’s established payout, and race winner Matt Tanner pocketed more than $4,000 in total winnings with the last-place finisher earning a cool $600 bonus.
SCoNE will visit the legendary Albany-Saratoga Speedway in Malta, NY on two occasions in 2026. “The Great Race Place” will play host on Friday, June 12, and again on Friday, August 7, and both events will be streamed on www.DirtTrackDigest.TV. SCoNE had an outstanding event at its inaugural visit to Albany-Saratoga last season, showing off its unique brand of Sprint Car racing to a new audience and producing plenty of thrilling two- and three-wide action.
The biggest event of the season will be held on Friday, August 21, as the Sig Sauer Academy Dirt Duels return to The Flat Track at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH. SCoNE takes center stage in front of the largest, loudest, and rowdiest crowd of the year to kick off the NASCAR Cup Series weekend, and will be showcased with time trials, a pair of preliminary A-Main features, and the second annual SCoNE All-Star Showdown to close out the evening. The Dirt Duels – which also host the Granite State Micro Sprints and the Xtreme Dirt Midget Association – will be streamed live on www.FloRacing.com on demand or with a subscription.
Maine’s Unity Raceway will double its fun with SCoNE in 2026 by hosting a pair of doubleheader weekends on July 10-11 and September 18-19. The two-night Friday-Saturday events are a popular can’t-miss, and race fans in the Pine Tree State have routinely packed the covered wooden grandstands to watch Sprint Cars on the super-fast 1/3-mile oval since SCoNE’s debut there in 2023. The September 18-19 weekend will be the final point-counting races on the 2026 SCoNE Tour schedule and will determine the champion for the third consecutive year.
The calendar wraps up on Saturday, October 24 with another “first” as New Hampshire’s Claremont Motorsports Park hosts SCoNE for the first time. The fastest cars on dirt will try out the asphalt of the tricky, 1/3-mile Claremont track in a post-season, non-points exhibition race. The Claremont date marks the first time in 21 years that SCoNE will race on asphalt, since an event at the former Canaan Fair Speedway in October 2005. Details for the race will be forthcoming including rules, tires, and other pertinent information.
“We have some exciting changes for 2026, and after a group meeting earlier in the winter we all came away feeling excited and ready to race,” said SCoNE president Justin St. Louis. “We are opening and closing this season at new venues, we have new teams interested, and we have a wide-open attitude for a fresh start after a long off-season. We’re ready to have a great year and we can’t for our first ‘reverse wave-off lap’ to salute our fans.”
St. Louis indicated that there will be announcements soon regarding overhauls to the handicapping and championship points system, as well as an expansion project with a support series to be run on a trial basis in 2026.
Driver and team registration forms are now available and updated rulebooks will be available soon.
The Sprint Cars of New England Tour is seeking sponsorship and marketing partners for the 2026 season and beyond. To learn more, visit www.nesprintcars.com or find the “SCoNE – Sprint Cars of New England” page on Facebook.
Sprint Cars of New England Tour – 2026 SCHEDULE (subject to change)
- Sunday, May 24 – Glen Ridge Motorsports Park – Fultonville, NY
- Saturday, May 30 – Bear Ridge Speedway – Bradford, VT
- Friday, June 12 – Albany-Saratoga Speedway – Malta, NY
- Saturday, June 27 – Bear Ridge Speedway – Bradford, VT
- Friday, July 10 – Unity Raceway – Unity, ME
- Saturday, July 11 – Unity Raceway – Unity, ME
- Saturday, July 18 – Bear Ridge Speedway – Bradford, VT
- Friday, August 7 – Albany-Saratoga Speedway – Malta, NY
- Saturday, August 15 – Bear Ridge Speedway – Bradford, VT
- Friday, August 21 – The Flat Track at New Hampshire Motor Speedway – Loudon, NH
- Saturday, August 29 – Bear Ridge Speedway – Bradford, VT
- Saturday, September 12 – Bear Ridge Speedway – Bradford, VT
- Friday, September 18 – Unity Raceway – Unity, ME
- Saturday, September 19 – Unity Raceway – Unity, ME
*** Saturday, October 24 – Claremont Motorsports Park – Claremont, NH (asphalt exhibition – non-points event)
