Statesville, North Carolina (May 1, 2025) – Next on the 2025 agenda is a month in relatively familiar territory for many.  Lonesome Pine Motorsports Park has hosted the Super Cup Stock Car Series each of the past two seasons as well as some memorable races in the mid-2010s and each of the first three years of the series’ existence.  This year a pair of visits bookend the five weekends during May.

 

The most familiar among the local fans may be a driver that does not have any past SCSCS starts at the 3/8-mile oval but has many laps of competition there.  Mitch Gibson grew up in Coeburn, Virginia, involved in racing as a teenager assisting as a crew member for various nearby teams such as Henderson Motorsports, Morgan-McClure Motorsports, and former NASCAR Xfinity Series rookie of the year Danny O’Quinn during his time in the Pro Cup Series.  The experience gained culminated with a Late Model championship at his home track during their 2022 season.  Gibson finished second in one of the races during his SCSCS debut weekend at Kingsport Speedway, putting him third in the current standings early on, and would like nothing more than to break into victory lane in front of friends and family.

 

The last time the SCSCS visited Lonesome Pine was October 2024.  Petersburg, West Virginia’s Brent Nelson only needed to turn in a respectable run to claim his long-awaited first series championship but also wanted to enter the win column at the challenging racetrack for the first time.  He did exactly that twice that night and after an up and down but solid points day that puts him second overall so far to start off 2025, Nelson will be hungry to return to his winning ways this Saturday evening.

 

They will be looking to catch up to Ben Ebeling early in the season after the Hickory, North Carolina driver won both races at Kingsport Speedway.  The 2021 series champion has won at Lonesome Pine twice, including in his first career start in 2016.

 

Lexi Arnold was another driver that turned some heads at Kingsport, capturing the Pole Award her first time out and hanging with the leader until mechanical concerns dropped her out of the race shortly after halfway.  Lonesome Pine will present a new challenge as the Johnson City, Tennessee has never raced a stock car on this facility’s pavement, or any surface that is not the Kingsport concrete, before.

 

Back to the drivers with past experience, “ShoTime” Mike, who brought home a third and fourth in his return to the SCSCS a couple Fridays ago, has competed four previous times in SCSCS competition and even ran twice with the old ASA series at the speedway before a handful of drivers in attendance this weekend were born.  Warrington, Pennsylvania’s Mike Senica is scheduled to be back in the Ashton Racing No. 57 at a track where he gained some knowledge with a third-place result in the 2024 running.  Eric Barber, from Parkersburg, West Virginia, has prior starts at Lonesome Pine too.

 

Will it be a mix of new and familiar, inexperience or prior knowledge, in victory lane? 

Spectator gates open at 2:00 p.m. with racing, including the twin main events for the Super Cup Stock Car Series as part of Nickel Drop Night for the Kids featuring multiple local classes and a Fastor Pastor race slated to begin at 4:00 p.m.  General admission is $15 at the gate with students (11-18) and seniors $12, and kids 10 and under admitted free.

 

The facility will also have their kart track open at 2:00 p.m. with more entertainment for the kids in the midway that includes free popcorn and bounce houses.

 

More information can be found on the Super Cup Stock Car Series official web site supercupstockcarseries.com with interactive updates throughout race days and in between available on Facebook (search Super Cup Stock Car Series), Twitter (@SCSCSRacing), Instagram (SCSCS_Racing), and https://www.youtube.com/SCSCSRacing.