BRIDPORT, Vt. — The McGee Automotive Family Sprint Cars of New England Tour has revealed its schedule for the upcoming racing season and the “winged, wild and wicked fast” warriors are looking forward to their most diverse schedule ever.
Six dirt tracks in four states make up the calendar, for a total of 14 events with the possibility of a 15th race to be added. The schedule remains manageable and family-friendly, with 11 off-weeks interspersed throughout the year and no racing scheduled on the holiday long-weekends for Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day.
McGee SCoNE Tour cars use methanol-powered, fuel injected, 360-cubic-inch engines with an open tire rule. SCoNE celebrates its 22nd season of competition this year.
SCoNE will enjoy its earliest start ever, as the season opens on April 19, at the big, fast Airborne Park Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y. The four-tenths-mile track, located on the shores of Lake Champlain and only an hour’s drive from Montréal, had a grand debut event for SCoNE in 2024, which was won by Canadian star Jordan Poirier.
The SCoNE Tour heads to Airborne’s sister track, Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven, Vt., on May 10, for the annual Mother’s Day Special event. The half-mile track is situated in bucolic Vermont farm country and is the site of the fastest lap in SCoNE history, which was turned by Matt Tanner at the same event in 2024 when he blistered the track in just 14.596 seconds at an average speed of 123.321 miles per hour.
May 31, will bring the first of five monthly visits to Bradford, Vt.’s Bear Ridge Speedway. The rustic, mountaintop quarter-mile has undergone some surface changes in the off-season, and a bit of added banking in the corners is an exciting prospect. Caiden Herbert, in his rookie season, was crowned the champion of the five-race Green Mountain Gear-Heads Championship Series at Bear Ridge in 2024.
One of the most highly anticipated moments in SCoNE Tour history takes place on June 13, as the McGee Automotive Family Sprint Cars of New England make their inaugural visit to the vaunted Albany-Saratoga Speedway in Malta, N.Y. Blair Construction and Chartrand Trucking will present the action as the SCoNE 360 Sprint Cars hit the four-tenths-mile Capital District oval. (Note: The Albany-Saratoga date was originally announced on social media as June 6, but that date has since been adjusted to June 13.)
Bear Ridge returns on June 28, with the Independence Day fireworks event before a busy mid-summer run. Three consecutive weeks of action will see events at Devil’s Bowl on July 12, Bear Ridge on July 19, and Maine’s Unity Raceway holding its first SCoNE show of the year on July 25. The one-third-mile Unity oval has quickly become a fan-favorite on the schedule after its debut last summer.
After a week off, Airborne Park Speedway is back on Saturday, Aug. 9, with a to-be-announced date held open for Aug. 10, and the potential for a doubleheader weekend; more details will be announced soon. Bear Ridge hosts its fourth event of the year on Saturday, Aug. 16 to wrap up the six-week summer run.
Teams will have a three-week break to regroup as the school season nears, and to get ready for the title drive in September. Bear Ridge kicks it off on Sept. 13, wrapping up its five-race track championship series.
Sept. 19 marks the biggest stage of the season at The Flat Track at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, as the lead-off night for the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff weekend in Loudon, N.H. The NHMS event has an exciting new format for SCoNE that will be announced soon. A week later, SCoNE is back at Unity Raceway to crown the champion with a doubleheader weekend on Sept. 26-27.
The schedule was created with the Sprint Car racing community in mind and is intended to avoid as many conflicts as possible with the New York-based Empire Super Series (ESS). SCoNE teams are encouraged to compete in ESS events whenever possible and ESS teams are welcome to race with SCoNE at any time; the ESS Québec swing on Aug. 22-23 is something that SCoNE teams are especially encouraged to support.
“We’re very proud of the schedule that SCoNE has in 2025,” said SCoNE president Justin St. Louis. “We’re excited to be increasing our number of events at Devil’s Bowl and Airborne, and it’s a feather in our cap to be racing at Albany-Saratoga for the first time. September will be the biggest month in SCoNE’s history, as we crown champions at both Bear Ridge and Unity, and in between those races we’ll have a new format to show the NASCAR crowd at NHMS.
“And it’s important that we have as many off-weeks as we do so that our family race teams and officials can enjoy the summer and have the ability to travel and race more if they choose.”
