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SCSCS
to Put On a Show in Appreciation for the Fans at Lonesome Pine
Statesville,
North Carolina (May 29, 2025) – Following an earlier in the
month rainout, Fan Appreciation Night will bring back the Super Cup
Stock Car Series for another invite to Coeburn, Virginia.
Lonesome Pine Motorsports Park has played host 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.
The most familiar
among the local spectators 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 in the
driver seat 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.
Competitors will be
looking to catch up to Ben Ebeling after the Hickory, North Carolina
driver won both races at Kingsport.
The 2021 series champion has won at Lonesome Pine twice,
including in his first career start in 2016.
After completing a
successful test over the Memorial Day weekend, Damian Payton will
make his initial SCSCS appearance since the 2022 finale. Now a
resident of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Payton has spent most of
his past time in stock cars on road courses but does have
significant oval experience 
in
Legends cars. West
Virginia’s Larry Frame had a handful of practice laps at Lonesome
Pine last October but ran into mechanical troubles prior to
qualifying and looks to turn his fortune around this weekend.
Back to the drivers
with past experience, “ShoTime” Mike, who brought home a third
and fourth in his return to the SCSCS last month, has competed four
previous times in SCSCS Lonesome Pine 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 the track too.
Will it be a mix of
new and familiar, inexperience or prior knowledge, in victory lane?
Spectator gates
open at 3:00 p.m. with racing, including the twin main events for
the Super Cup Stock Car Series as part of Fan Appreciation Night
featuring several local classes slated to begin at 6:00 p.m.
General admission is only $5 at the gate with kids 12 and
under admitted free.
The facility will
also have specials on drinks, tacos, burgers, pizza, go-kart rides
for $5 each with free popcorn, bounce houses, and race car rides for
the kids.
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.
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