Alex Guénette is thrilled to announce his return to the NASCAR Canada Series for the 2025 season, this time with the newly formed JASS Racing team. Despite being a new entry, JASS Racing brings a wealth of NASCAR Canada experience to the table, led by crew chief Jonathan Côté.

The team is backed by an impressive roster of sponsors, including GL Électricité Automatisation, BetGRW, DLGL, and the Casinos Grand Royal Wôlinak, all proudly supporting Guénette’s campaign throughout his selected events.

“I’m really happy to be back for a partial season with this new team,” said Guénette. “I think we’re going to surprise people. My goal is to achieve as much success as possible, just like last year when we scored three podiums in six races. With the support of JASS Racing and Jonathan as crew chief, we have everything we need to be competitive right from the start.”

The team has confirmed participation in seven races for the 2025 season, beginning with the season opener at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park on May 18. JASS Racing will return to the track on May 31 at Autodrome Chaudière, followed by the inaugural race at Calabogie Motorsports Park on July 27. Guénette will also compete in the prestigious Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières on August 10, where he’ll aim for a second victory at the historic event. He will then head to ICAR on August 23 to race in front of family, friends, and sponsors, as it is his home track. Guénette will conclude his season with races at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park on August 31 and Autodrome Montmagny on September 21.

Jonathan Côté added, “We’re thrilled to have Alex behind the wheel this season. His proven track record and dedication to excellence perfectly align with the values of JASS Racing. We worked hard throughout the winter to prepare competitive cars for each event.”

Fans can follow Alex Guénette’s progress on his personal social media channels and through the team’s official platforms for exclusive content, updates, and special announcements.

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For the third time this season, Max Stambaugh went wire-to-wire with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by PERFIT & ARP, and for the second time this year he was crowned a winner with the Ohio CAT Division at Limaland Motorsports Park.

Stambaugh, who was originally set to roll off third for the 2025 Run for the Rabbit Memorial event, was able to slide to the front row after a penalty was handed out to the original pole. Stambaugh led the field to green alongside two-time Run for the Rabbit and GLSS Champion, Jared Horstman. The only two drivers to win so far this season were the class of the field once again.

With heavy storms breathing down the neck of fans and drivers, Stambaugh quickly reached lapped traffic with well over a straightaway lead on Horstman, who was forced to deal with a pesky Devon Dobie and Chase Dunham early for the second spot. Once Horstman shook Dunham and Dobie he was able to chase down Stambaugh in lapped traffic.

With five laps to go, no cars separated the pair at the front. Horstman was able to draw within two car lengths of Stambaugh in the final two laps, but couldn’t get close enough to make a move on Stambaugh. The Smith Motorsports No.71H went on to collect the win over Hortstman Dunham, Dobie, and Dustin Daggett. 

The win, Stambaugh’s third of the season, is the 21st of his career and keeps him third on the all-time GLSS wins list. Stambaugh now takes a 55-point advantage in the Ohio CAT Division Championship lead, and a slim two-point advantage over Horstman for the GLSS Tour Championship lead. 

Chase Dunham earned the Ti22 Performance Fast Qualifier Award.

Chase Dunham won Engler Machine & Tool Heat Race Number 1.

Max Stambaugh won Howard-Johnson of Lima Heat Race Number 2.

Kobe Allison won Miami Paint Heat Race Number 3.

Luke Griffith was the Operating Engineers 324 Hard Charger advancing eight positions from 15th to 7th.

The next event for the Great Lakes Super Sprints is back at Limaland Motorsports Park on Friday, May 23rd, before heading to Millstream Speedway on Saturday, May 24th, and Waynesfield Raceway Park on Sunday, May 25th. For more information, log onto GreatLakesSprints.com. Find the Great Lakes Super Sprints on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube.

Ohio CAT A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 71H-Max Stambaugh[3]; 2. 17-Jared Horstman[2]; 3. 66-Chase Dunham[5]; 4. 23-Devon Dobie[4]; 5. 85-Dustin Daggett[7]; 6. 5M-Steve Irwin[13]; 7. 11G-Luke Griffith[15]; 8. 13-Van Gurley Jr[9]; 9. 49T-Gregg Dalman[16]; 10. X-Mike Keegan[14]; 11. 11H-Caleb Harmon[8]; 12. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[11]; 13. 24-Kobe Allison[6]; 14. 7C-Phil Gressman[1]; 15. 20I-Kelsey Ivy[12]; 16. 31-Jac Nickles[10]; 17. 83-Adam Cruea[17]; 18. 18-Brian Razum[21]; 19. 21S-Benji Siferd[20]; 20. 37-Noah Dunlap[18]; 21. 33-Jeremy Ferguson[19]

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g begins this weekend when he undertakes a trying commute between three racetracks in two national motorsports series.

Larson is bidding to become the fifth driver to complete the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. To accomplish the feat, Larson will miss NASCAR All-Star Race preparations Friday and Saturday at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, to focus on Indy 500 practice and qualifying at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

After attempting to qualify for the field of 33 for “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” on Sunday at more than 230 mph in an IndyCar, Larson will hustle to the Indianapolis airport for a flight to tiny North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina, where he will race against the Cup Series’ best for $1 million in the NASCAR All-Star Race.

Larson will return to Indy for Monday practice, spend Tuesday in New York on a media tour and bounce between Indy and Charlotte Motor Speedway three times from Friday to Sunday ahead of the Coca-Cola 600.

It’s a daunting journey, but Larson is ready for the harried itinerary.

The Hendrick Motorsports star has squeezed in several dozen dirt races around his annual NASCAR schedule of 38 Cup Series weekends for the past decade.

“Yeah, I mean honestly it just feels like another week for me,” Larson said. “If anything, it’s a little easier of a week than normal.”

That’s in part because Indy 500 qualifying will end an hour later this year, so Larson will be unable to run for the pole position at North Wilkesboro, even if he were to advance to the final round of six drivers.

He already will be on the way to North Wilkesboro as a favorite, along with defending series champion Joey Logano, who led 199 of 200 laps to win last year’s NASCAR All-Star Race. Larson led 145 laps to win the 2023 All-Star Race debut at North Wilkesboro.

After the runaway wins, NASCAR has spiced up this year’s race by adding 50 laps to the distance and a random caution flag that will bunch up the field.

The format changes don’t faze Larson, who has won three of the past six All-Star Races, nor does the lack of track time. He missed practice and qualifying for last year’s All-Star Race and then drove from last to fourth on the recently repaved track.

“I think you could plug any of us in without practice, and by Lap 10 you’re going to be up to speed,” he said. “Last year was probably more of a disadvantage because I hadn’t made a single lap on that surface, but we were able to move forward right off the bat. So, hopefully we’ll have an opportunity to win like we did last year.”

Justin Allgaier will practice and qualify Larson’s No. 5 Chevrolet, but the team will skip Saturday’s 75-lap heat races that set the lineup for Sunday’s main event because Larson will start from the rear for using a replacement driver Friday.

Coming off a dominant victory May 11 at Kansas Speedway, Larson leads the points standings with three wins – making him even more confident of handling his jet-setting lifestyle.

“Every year, there’s one or two weekends where it’s either late nights or cutting it close to making it to a dirt race because practice and qualifying got done later in NASCAR,” Larson said. “This week and next week feel pretty normal to me.”

But what he’s trying to do is far from normal. He crashed Friday — after wrecking last month in a test at Indy — while trying to get up to speed with the extra horsepower that he will have for Indy 500 qualifying.

“Obviously it’s tricky. I spun,” Larson said after leaving the Indy care center. “I don’t know. Kind of caught off guard a little bit there, but I think we’ll be fine. I tend to get over things pretty quickly. I know I spun but my balance felt pretty close to being good.”

Last year, his attempt at the feat known as “The Double” was scuttled because the Indy 500 was delayed four hours by rain, preventing him from racing in a rain-shortened event at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

“It’s something that not many people have gotten the opportunity to do and it’s a challenging day of racing,” he said. “I love the challenge. I’ve looked up to a lot of the guys that have done it, and you want to add your name to the record book somehow. Hopefully, it all goes well, and we can complete ‘The Double’ and live out a dream, but also try and do a good job with it.”

Harrison Burton will be making his All-Star Race debut, even though he last raced the Cup Series in the 2024 season finale. After three years in the No. 21 Ford, Burton lost his ride with Wood Brothers Racing and dropped to the Xfinity Series.

But he was guaranteed a spot in the All-Star Race because of his victory at Daytona International Speedway last August.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NASCAR star Kyle Larson crashed for the second time in the lead-up to the Indianapolis 500 on Friday when he lost control of his Arrow McLaren entry and hit the wall in the final practice session before this weekend’s qualifying runs.

The damage was relatively minor, though, and it only took Larson’s team about an hour to make repairs to the front and rear of the car. That allowed him to get in some precious laps with about 30 minutes left in the 6-hour session.

Larson, who also crashed on April 24 during an open test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, is taking his second shot at trying to complete “the Double” by running the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. Larson finished 18th in the rain-delayed 500 last year, but he never ran a lap in the NASCAR race in Charlotte when rain there ended the race early.

“Obviously it’s tricky. I spun,” Larson said after leaving the care center. “I don’t know. Kind of caught off guard a little bit there, but I think we’ll be fine. I tend to get over things pretty quickly. I know I spun but my balance felt pretty close to being good.”

Larson waited until there were about 90 minutes left in Friday’s practice, which was marked by high temperatures and gusty winds that made for treacherous conditions, before trying his first qualifying simulation. He wasn’t far into the run when his No. 17 car went skittering up the track, bumped nose-first into the wall and then spun around and hit it again.

The crash came several hours after Kyffin Simpson hit the wall hard and nearly flipped his car.

Larson’s damaged car was put on a hoist and taken to Gasoline Alley, where Arrow McLaren went to work fixing it. Along with the late laps he got Friday, the team will have an hour-long practice Saturday morning before qualifying begins at 11 a.m. EDT.

“I’m sure at this point, we’ll want to get out there and shake it down,” Larson said. “If not, you still get time to make a few runs tomorrow. The track conditions will be better and I’m sure we’ll pack a little extra downforce to be safe that first run, and get a run in. Not too worried about it.”

QUALIFYING FORMAT:

NASCAR Road Race style (group) qualifying

STARTING LINEUP PROCEDURES:

1st through 21st have been determined by qualifying

22nd and 23rd will be assigned based on the final 2024 NASCAR Canada Series Championship car owner point standings

Provisional Starting Positions 24th and 25th have been established for up to two additional starting positions which will be available to the highest ranking of the Top 30 drivers in the final 2024 NASCAR Canada Series Championship driver point standings

Provisional Starting Position 26th has been established for up to one additional starting position which will be available to any past NASCAR Canada Series Champion driver who participated as a driver in the 2024 NASCAR Canada Series

RACE PROCEDURE:

Non-Mandatory pit stops for fuel or tires will be allowed. Unless otherwise authorized by the Series Director, the changing of tires(s)/wheel(s) and the addition of fuel will not be permitted during the same pit stop. A maximum of two (2) tires per stop will be permitted.

TIRE ALLOTMENT:

The maximum tire allotment available for this event is as follows: Four (4) tires for practice, four (4) tires for qualifying and to begin the race and four (4) additional tires for use during the race for a total of twelve (12) tires. *If purchasing additional tires for the race, there is a maximum of two (2) left and two (2) right side tires allowed. All teams will be required to have one (1) set of four (4) mounted wet condition tires in their assigned pit stall.

NASCAR Truck Series starting positions for North Wilkesboro Speedway

Later today, NASCAR Truck Series drivers will take the green flag at North Wilkesboro Speedway. Trucks are currently on track for a round of practice. But, due to a brief shower earlier, practice is replacing the qualifying round and the lineup has been set by the rulebook.

View the North Wilkesboro starting lineup for the NASCAR Truck Series below.

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CARS (PLM): Prac/Qual | Race
CARS (LMSC): Prac/Qual | Race
Trucks: : Prac/Qual | Race
Cup : Prac/Qual | Heat/Open Lineups | Heats/Open | All-Star Race

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Corey Heim will start from the pole position in today’s race.

North Wilkesboro Speedway
Starting Lineup
May 17, 2025
NASCAR Truck Series

Pos | Driver

1. Corey Heim

2. Kyle Busch

3. Sammy Smith

4. Gio Ruggiero

5. Jake Garcia

6. Stewart Friesen

7. Daniel Hemric

8. Grant Enfinger

9. Kaden Honeycutt

10. Brent Crews

11. Ben Rhodes

12. Ty Majeski

13. Tyler Ankrum

14. Chandler Smith

15. Matt Crafton

16. Matt Mills

17. Dawson Sutton

18. Rajah Caruth

19. Connor Mosack

20. Andres Perez

21. Toni Breidinger

22. Jack Wood

23. Conner Jones

24. Tanner Gray

25. Spencer Boyd

26. Derek White

27. Layne Riggs

28. Tyler Tomassi

29. Frankie Muniz

30. Luke Baldwin

31. Jayson Alexander

32. Justin Carroll

33. Patrick Emerling

34. Norm Benning

35. Ryan Roulette

North Wilkesboro Speedway
Practice Results
May 17, 2025
NASCAR Truck Series

Pos | Driver

1. Chandler Smith
18.439

2. Corey Heim
18.542

3. Layne Riggs
18.571

4. Ty Majeski
18.597

5. Kaden Honeycutt
18.606

6. Grant Enfinger
18.623

7. Brent Crews
18.670

8. Luke Baldwin
18.676

9. Stewart Friesen
18.676

10. Ben Rhodes
18.684

11. Connor Mosack
18.706

12. Dawson Sutton
18.715

13. Tyler Ankrum
18.717

14. Matt Crafton
18.724

15. Tanner Gray
18.734

16. Gio Ruggiero
18.736

17. Conner Jones
18.766

18. Jake Garcia
18.798

19. Jack Wood
18.801

20. Rajah Caruth
18.809

21. Kyle Busch
18.812

22. Sammy Smith
18.864

23. Daniel Hemric
18.874

24. Andres Perez
18.884

25. Patrick Emerling
18.970

26. Matt Mills
18.980

27. Toni Breidinger
19.224

28. Spencer Boyd
19.340

29. Tyler Tomassi
19.375

30. Ryan Roulette
19.798

31. Frankie Muniz
19.853

32. Jayson Alexander
19.905

33. Norm Benning
19.983

34. Derek White
20.000

North Wilkesboro TV Schedule

Links

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