4/15/2025
Sprint Cars of New England
McGee SCoNE Tour Opens 2025 Season Saturday at Airborne Park Speedway
Hoyt ready for title defense but has plenty of company
PLATTSBURGH, New York (April 14, 2025) – The McGee Automotive Family Sprint Cars of New England Tour (SCoNE) is ready to head to battle for the first time in 2025 on Saturday, April 19. The SCoNE Tour brings New England across Lake Champlain to New York State for its first of two trips to Airborne Park Speedway in Plattsburgh. Race time for the 360-cubic-inch “winged, wild, and wicked fast” warriors is 5:00 p.m.
First-time SCoNE Tour champion Matt Hoyt is ready to begin his title defense on Saturday, and he has a good jumping-off point at Airborne. In SCoNE’s first standalone appearance at Airborne in August 2024, the Campton, NH native blasted through the field from 13th starting position to finish third. Hoyt was outstanding all year in 2024, averaging a fifth-place finish through the full season and scoring a victory at Unity (ME) Raceway.
“The Canadian Cannon” Jordan Poirier will also have plenty of eyes on him. The three-time champion of the Empire Super Sprints (ESS) tour won the SCoNE event at Airborne last year and he has both Airborne SCoNE Tour races on his 2025 calendar. The St-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, QC racer will use the event to kick off his busy schedule, which also includes events with both the World of Outlaws and High Limit Racing during their northern swing in May.
New York State will have plenty of representation at Airborne on Saturday, as Floyd and Travis Billington, Matt Tanner, Chase Moran, and rookies Tyler Chartrand and Mark Reynolds will all be there. Floyd Billington, of South Glens Falls, NY – the tough-as-nails elder statesman among the SCoNE Tour’s full-time competitors – finished a strong second at Airborne last summer, and his son, Travis, is poised to run the full season in the Maine-based Dave Bowser Motorsports entry. Stephentown, NY’s Tanner won three SCoNE A-Mains last year and was a front runner at Airborne, and Moran, from Fultonville, NY, was a first-time SCoNE winner at Bear Ridge Speedway last year.
Chartrand, of Johnsonville, NY, and Reynolds, from Hudson Falls, NY, each made a handful of starts last summer to prepare to run for Rookie of the Year in 2025, with both running the Airborne race. Chartrand took his underpowered, 305-cubic-inch “little engine that can” to new heights by leading 11 laps and finishing fourth.
Even more talented champions, veterans, and young stars will be on hand as well. Two-time McGee SCoNE Tour champion Will Hull of Plainfield, VT finished second in the 2024 standings with three wins, and he has a third title in his crosshairs. Eight-time SCoNE champion Chris Donnelly of Piermont, NH is headed to Airborne and hoping to put together a full season. SCoNE winners Jake Williams and Troy Comeau are also back, as are recent Rookies of the Year Caiden Herbert (2024) and Kadyn Berry (2022), and sophomore Nick Kruger.
The McGee SCoNE Tour is part of a seven-division blockbuster event at Airborne Park Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY on Saturday, April 19; racing begins at 5:00 p.m. To learn more about the Sprint Cars of New England, visit www.nesprintcars.com or find the “SCoNE – Sprint Cars of New England” page on Facebook.
(Bill McGaffin photo)
Submitted By: Justin St. Louis