Front Row Motorsports and 23XI Racing’s trial against NASCAR is officially underway. Last week, the biggest trial in the sport’s history began, with both sides entering court for 10 days of action. However, what will happen if Front Row Motorsports comes out on the losing side? Well, the organization’s future could become really bleak.

According to FOX Sports’ Bob Pockrass, Front Row Motorsports would “likely” shut down within a year of the trial, pending any appeals. It would mean that Zane Smith, Todd Gilliland, and Noah Gragson would become free agents, leaving the three drivers without a ride in the NASCAR Cup Series.

If Front Row Motorsports loses the trial, it could mark the end of what was a long tenure in the Cup Series, but everything is still on the table. 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports want to come out of this trial against NASCAR as winners, hoping that it leads to meaningful changes for the sport.

Parker Eatmon has a new home for the 2026 NASCAR season. Last week, Niece Motorsports announced that Eatmon will drive the No. 42 truck part-time during the 2026 NASCAR Truck Series season. The 19-year-old driver’s 2026 schedule has yet to be announced.

Eatmon primarily spent the 2025 season competing full-time in the zMAX CARS Tour Late Model Stock Series. The Niece Motorsports driver also finished second overall in the Virginia Late Model Triple Crown. In 2026, Eatmon will compete in several Late Model races alongside his Truck Series schedule.

Tyler Reif will be the “anchor” driver of the No. 42 truck, but Eatmon, Conner Jones, and others will run select events throughout the campaign. It might not be many races for Eatmon in 2026, but he will be getting experience for the 2027 NASCAR season, hoping to earn more races.

GREENVILLE — A proposed revision to Greenville’s land use ordinance which involves a new definition pertaining to motorsports businesses has been developed by the planning board. The proposal was brought to the select board at the Dec. 3 meeting and action may be taken at a future meeting.

Planning Board Chair John Contreni said he is reading a book about The Constitution and the author makes a point about it being amended from time to time as living documents. 

“I think of that when I think of our land use ordinance, periodically it needs to be amended because things change within town,” Contreni said.

Land use ordinance amendments big and small have been brought forward in recent years, he said. Now there is a “new definition that we would like to add to the list of definitions, it’s called ‘motorsports sales/service/repair.’”

A motorsports sales, service and repair establishment is a commercial use involving the retail sale, servicing, maintenance and mechanical repair of recreational and utility vehicles powered by internal combustion or electric engines. This use includes but is not limited to boats and electrical watercraft, snowmobile, all terrain vehicles, utility vehicles, small engine recreational vehicles, for example dirt bikes, go karts, and lawn and garden equipment, for example mowers, chainsaws and trimmers, Contreni read aloud.

Such a business would not be permitted in the residential, downtown district 1 and 2, rural, airport and resource protection districts. These would be available for conditional use in village, village commercial, commercial industrial, rural development 1 and 2 districts, meaning the owner needs to come before the planning board to get a permit. 

“We had some interest in somebody opening up a shop to repair 4-wheelers and side by sides and small engine stuff,” Code Enforcement Officer Ron Sarol said.

Some discussions with neighbors revealed they were worried the business could evolve into an automobile garage so instead a specific motorsports definition was developed by the planning board. 

The select board would need to approve the definition and it would then go before residents to be decided at a special town meeting.

Selectperson Richard Peat said he would like more time to look the proposal over, so no action was taken by the board.

In his report, Town Manager Mike Roy said, “As you know Ron here, our CEO, is leaving us on Friday. Ron, thank you for your work and dedication and helping make the town a better place to be and appreciate all your hard work and your work ethic as well.”

The week before two strong candidates were interviewed for the code enforcement position, Roy said. An offer was made to and accepted by resident Tim Post and he began working with Sarol.

“Ron is showing him some things as things come up, showing him around the office and basically passing the baton so to speak,” the town manager said.

“I feel like all the interview committee felt that he was very capable of handling himself with enforcements and making some great decisions and following our town ordinances,” Roy said.

Last month Sarol submitted his resignation letter to the town after having served as code enforcement officer for more than three years. He has known Post, who has lived in Greenville for 33 years and is a former member of the fire department, for the last few years.

Post has been a forest ranger and forester with the Maine Forest Service and oversaw timber harvesting operations. He later served as a field team leader overseeing permitting and supervising three regional enforcement coordinators and two district foresters.

Post has been retired for eight months and thought the code enforcement position would be a good fit for him when he saw the job posting.

The skating rink warming hut was set to arrive the day after the meeting. Roy said a $10,000 donation is helping fund the structure with the remaining $14,545 coming from a capital improvement account.

“Hopefully we can get some cold weather, get the rink flooded and start using it,” Roy said.

Power and water still need to be connected once the warming hut is in place. 

“After that it’s lights on to skate,” Roy said.

Subaru Motorsports USA and Hoonigan have premiered the latest entry in the internet-breaking Gymkhana film franchise, “Aussie Shred.” Set Down Under in the land that coined the term “hoon,” Travis Pastrana’s third Gymkhana film is the wildest in franchise history, featuring the biggest jumps, closest calls and craziest tricks in a Gymkhana film to date.
 
Pastrana takes on the Outback, Sydney’s Harbour and Bathurst’s Mount Panorama, among other locales, from behind the wheel of the Subaru “Brataroo” 9500 Turbo, a re-imagining of a 1978 Subaru BRAT engineered as a purpose-built Gymkhana weapon. Subaru of America and technical partner Vermont SportsCar (VSC) crafted the Brataroo to corner, slide and fly well beyond the capabilities of its predecessors, utilizing no shortage of innovative engineering to create the most advanced active aerodynamics on a Gymkhana car to date. The rallycross-derived machine features a fire-spitting turbocharged 2.0-liter boxer engine delivering 670 horsepower and 680 lb-ft of torque and revving to more than 9,500 RPM.  
 
“The Brataroo is hands down the craziest Gymkhana car we’ve ever built,” said Pastrana. “Every part of this car was designed to take the abuse we threw at it while making this film. From hanging two tires off a pier to flying 160 feet across a 10-story deep canyon gap over a road train. Skimming across a deep lake and scaring myself every step of the way.”
 
In true Gymkhana fashion, the film features a host of cameos from local motorsport icons, including two-time Dakar Rally champion Toby Price, Subaru WRC driver Chris “Atko” Atkinson, Nitro Circus BMX riders Ryan Williams, Jaie Toohey and Will Brown, alongside a field of V8 Supercars drivers who challenged the Brataroo to a rolling drag race down Mount Panorama’s Conrod Straight. The star-studded lineup also includes Moog and Marty of Mighty Car Mods, the last of the V8 Interceptors and the Mad Hueys performing the noblest of Aussie traditions, the shoey.  
 
“Australia had long been at the top of the list of potential Gymkhana Film locations.” said 321 Action Action Director and Hoonigan Co-Founder Brian Scotto. “Ken Block and I attempted to shoot Gymkhana Nine there, but were met with a resounding no, because of the climate of anti-hoon laws at the time. A decade later, when we reapproached the Australian government, we were met with open arms. This combination of the unfinished business we had down under and this being Pastrana’s last film in the series, not only makes it very special to me, but also put the pressure on to push the limit of what we could do both in the car and behind the camera.” 

Aussie Shred explores Australia like no other film before; the juxtaposition of the bustling harbor and the red sands of the Outback created the perfect setting, with due homage to the previous films of Ken Block, whose vision transformed a passion for driving into a global cultural phenomenon with the original “Gymkhana Practice” film.

 

Gymkhana Aussie Shred premieres on Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 9 a.m. ET on the Hoonigan YouTube channel. (WATCH NOW)

 

 

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About Hoonigan Media Machine  

Hoonigan is much more than a brand. It’s an automotive subculture, fueled on the shared passion of going fast and breaking things… then rebuilding them better than before. The company’s signature brand of vehicular savagery is on full display across its network of YouTube channels, serving daily content to a subscription base numbering in the millions. In addition to daily videos and social media content, Hoonigan has long been the production and marketing outfit originally founded by Ken Block and Brian Scotto, and the media machine behind the award-winning series of viral videos, such as Gymkhana, Climbkhana, Terrakhana and Electrikhana. At the heart of it all, however, is a wide-ranging apparel collection that (along with an authentically automotive-obsessed cast of characters) represents the brand’s core ethos: Having fun with cars.