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(CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – June 12th, 2025) – It’s been 24 days since Oyster Bed Speedway’s 2025 season opener, and the last two attempts at hosting event two have been ineffective due to weather. However, forecasts are trending upward with Father’s Day approaching, and the third time may very well be the charm for what has now become event two!
Next in line on the 2025 schedule for Prince Edward Island’s premier auto racing facility is the first of four special events across the summer on Saturday, June 14th, which has become a Father’s Day weekend staple in recent years, annually headlined by the first visit by the Easy-Kleen Super Late Model Series.
The superstars are coming to town for their second of six rounds on the Series calendar, the Universal Truck and Trailer 150. Fresh off a sunny, intense season opener last Sunday at Petty International Raceway, the Series will trek across the Confederation Bridge with plenty of momentum and excitement backing it and ready to entertain fans with another instant classic at the high-banked, quarter-mile bullring.
In house division action, the PiccottCare Legend Super Series will begin its season and sanction its first of four $300-to-win races across the summer. Also on the undercard are the Reliable Motors Beginner and Outlaw Bandoleros, Chris’s Bobcat Services Mini Stocks, and Fitzpatrick Consulting Street Stocks, all running extended-distance features.
Event Information
Date: Saturday, June 14th, 2025, at 6:00pm
Important Times: Pits and grandstands open at 12:00pm, practices from 1:30pm to 5:00pm
Classes: Easy-Kleen Super Late Model Series, Street Stock, Legends, Mini Stock, Outlaw Bandolero, Beginner Bandolero
Ticket Prices: Adults – $30 | Youth (8-15) – $10 | Children (7 and under) – FREE | Pits – $40 with electronic e-waiver
Ticket Info: Tickets can only be purchased at the gates on race day. Cash, credit, and debit are accepted.
eWaiver Link: https://os.speedwaiver.com/
Rain Date: Sunday, June 15th, at 2:00pm
There will be an open practice for all Easy-Kleen SLMS teams on Friday, June 13th, from 5:00pm till sunset. Limited canteen service will be available. $10 per person and an e-waiver is required at pit entry.
Event Storylines
Super Late Model/Pro Stock Racing on PEI Commences This Saturday!
When Oyster Bed Speedway’s 2025 schedule was revealed in March, the biggest storyline was the addition of a Fort Garry Industries Maritime Pro Stock Tour event at the season finale, meaning there are now not three – like last year – but four opportunities for PEI fans to witness the highest level of Maritime stock car racing in Oyster Bed Bridge.
The Easy-Kleen Super Late Model Series headlines the first of the four major regional touring shows between June and September, with a swift turnaround after finally opening their season with clear blue skies and a solid car count last Sunday. While only one round has been completed, the storylines are quickly taking shape, and more will come at the hands of some 2025 debuts.
A strong field of 19 cars is slated to roar around the tight, high banks of one of the region’s most challenging ovals, with 10 Prince Edward Islanders eager to defend their home turf from the mainlanders. Out of the PEI drivers on the list, eight are former Oyster Bed Speedway champions, four have won a major regional touring series event at the track, and others have visited Palmer Automotive and Truck Center victory lane in local competition at some point during their career.
Only one is a previous Easy-Kleen Super Late Model Series winner at Oyster Bed Speedway and is still actively competing – inaugural Series champion and two-time track champion Dylan Gosbee (#16, Cornwall, PEI), whose last win came in the 2023 Universal Truck and Trailer 150.
Fellow multi-time track champion Robbie MacEwen (#40, Sherwood, PEI) returns to his familiar #40 car after driving Darren MacKinnon’s (#18, Charlottetown, PEI) Shaw’s Towing machine to an 11th-place finish at Petty International Raceway last weekend. Both drivers have a combined four Oyster Bed Speedway wins on the Maritime Pro Stock Tour, but still have yet to claim a long-awaited Easy-Kleen Super Late Model Series victory – MacEwen finished on the podium in the last go-around, while MacKinnon has two runner-ups on the Island since 2023.
Young rising star Tanton Wooldridge (#01, Summerside, PEI) will have lots of attention his way after last Sunday, having impressed everybody with a fourth-place effort at the Series season opener, wheeling the 01 Motorsports Troy Burke car. The 2021 Bandolero champion showcased patient and precise racecraft while battling against and defending himself from multiple veterans. His first full-time Super Late Model campaign continues with a run at home, where he previously finished seventh in the 2024 Chapman Bros. 150 last August.
Four-time track champion Kent Vincent (#8, Crapaud, PEI) – alongside MacKinnon – aims for his first major race win in a decade. Other notable track champions within the field include two-timer Matt Palmer (#28, Lot 16, PEI), 2016 Pro Stock titleholder Chris Hughes (#32, Stratford, PEI), reigning Street Stock victor Brandon Albert (#37, Summerside, PEI), and 2017 Pro Stock conqueror Mark LeClair (#51, Brackley Beach, PEI). Brodie Lewis (#22, West Covehead, PEI) starts his 2025 campaign on home soil after missing the season opener.
Many of those names and numerous mainlanders will attempt to dethrone Cory Hall (#83, Jolicure, NB). The reigning Series championship runner-up swept the Oyster Bed Speedway races in 2024, leading 209 of 300 total laps. Ryan Messer (#1, Harvey, NB) enters this Saturday’s event as the Series points leader – his previous best run in Oyster Bed Bridge was a podium finish in the 2023 Universal Truck and Trailer 150.
Former New Brunswick track champions Lonnie Sommerville (#23, Barnesville, NB) and Dave O’Blenis (#48, Boundary Creek, NB) are the two previous EIT Race Radios polesitters for the Universal Truck and Trailer 150. While they have yet to carry forward heat race and passing points momentum into the feature, both drivers will be favourites to bring a trophy back across the Confederation Bridge.
Cal Hatfield (#11) will be a first-timer at Oyster Bed Speedway this weekend, carrying multiple Super Late Model and Sportsman starts in New Brunswick in recent years. Braden Langille (#26) is set to compete on PEI’s red dirt for the first time since 2019, fresh off a superb podium run at Petty International Raceway, and “Canada’s Ironman” Gary Elliott (#36) will make an appearance as part of his 57th season of racing.
For more Easy-Kleen Super Late Model Series storylines and info, visit SLMS.ca.
Universal Truck and Trailer 150 Entry List
Legends Back in Local Championship Action for First Time in Six Years!
For the first time since 2019, Oyster Bed Speedway will crown a Legend champion.
The PiccottCare Legend Super Series is set to embark on its 2025 schedule with round one of four this Saturday. The new four-race series – currently scheduled to award a championship on Labour Day – features an eye-catching $300 winning prize for each 30-lap feature and will have a combined $2,500 awarded to the top three best drivers in overall points at season’s end – to clarify, all other positions will be paid too!
As a result of numerous weather conflicts and postponements, the Legends will be – knock on wood – racing for three consecutive weekends between June 14th and June 28th. It will be an action-packed month, offering some drivers valuable seat time ahead of the Maritime League of Legends season, set to begin on July 18th, and other noteworthy Legend events across the region.
The parity within the division will guarantee exciting battles and an electrifying championship chase, as the main roster (counting just registrants) includes a mix of young guns doing double duty between Bandoleros and Legends, veterans of the sport, and regional standouts, particularly Maritime League of Legends competitors.
PiccottCare will be donned in two ways – the division title sponsor and on a familiar, home-to-PEI Legend car. Fourth-generation talent Stephen Piccott, Jr. (#34, Charlottetown, PEI) – son of PiccottCare president and former MASCAR driver Steve Piccott – started his racing career in Ontario in 2012 and captured a Canadian Mini Indy Series championship in 2014. In 2023, he took his racing endeavours to the Maritimes, where he competed full-time on the Maritime League of Legends one year later – he finished 10th in points and claimed Rookie of the Year honours.
Back at it for another busy season in 2025 with additional support from King Competition, Piccott Jr. sets his sights on a local and regional breakout season, which started last weekend with a sixth-place run at Petty International Raceway. With a home track championship now up for grabs, this is his time to shine in the spotlight in front of a home crowd. Piccott will also be racing in honour of his late grandmother Diane, who recently passed away – this Saturday’s race will be in memory of her and another recent passing in former Street Stock champion Donnie “Old Man” McNeill.
Piccott will have a familiar competitor in Tanton Wooldridge (#0), who is slated to compete double-duty between his Legend and 01 Motorsports Super Late Model. While his focus this summer is primarily on continuing to make an impression on the Easy-Kleen Super Late Model Series, Wooldridge won’t hesitate to challenge for a second home track title if his future schedule and time permit. He has one Legend championship across the region, winning at Petty International Raceway in 2023, and carries nine career Maritime League of Legends podiums across 32 starts since 2021.
Two drivers with years of Super Late Model experience across the Maritimes will make their Legend debut and challenge the youth. Tyler Smith (#27, Brackley Beach, PEI) was once a regular competitor in Oyster Bed Speedway’s Pro Stock division in the 2010s, notably finishing third in points in 2019, and has 14 career Maritime Pro Stock Tour starts. His most recent start on PEI was in the 2024 BJ’s Truck Centre 150 last July, where he finished 18th.
Joining Smith is Allison MacKinnon (#07A, Oyster Bed Bridge, PEI), a multi-time Oyster Bed Speedway race and award winner with over two decades of experience across Modifieds and Super Late Models and 37 career major regional touring series starts. Allison will tag alongside his son and former Bandolero Rookie of the Year Hunter MacKinnon (#07H, Oyster Bed Bridge, PEI). Hunter is coming off a monumental runner-up feature finish at the Reliable Motors Outlaw Bandolero season opener on Victoria Day and looks to use momentum from then to have a strong showing this weekend.
Hunter and Wyatt Peters (#33, Oyster Bed Bridge, PEI) will each make their double-duty debut on Saturday, and we’re hopeful to have Irelyn Rose (#47, Halifax, NS) within the mix too.
Out of last year’s Bandolero class, one graduate is poised for a big season at the next level. Former Outlaw Bandolero championship runner-up Cole Doyle (#12, Stratford, PEI) embarks on his fifth year of racing at Oyster Bed Speedway and is excited and ready for a standout performance in his Legend debut, having taken advantage of plenty of testing due to Mother Nature’s clashes.
Four House Divisions Enter Round Two Fresh Off Dramatic Season Opener
The Reliable Motors Beginner and Outlaw Bandolero, Chris’s Bobcat Services Mini Stock, and Fitzpatrick Consulting Street Stock divisions are back in action for their second rounds of the 2025 season, while the Alvin’s Auto Sales and Repair Bombers and Moore Well Drilling Outlaws are on an off week.
Recalling the 40th Anniversary A&S Scrap Metals Season Opener and how things played out then, it’s still too early to tell who’s a clear-cut championship favourite, but what we do know is the on-track battles will continue to ramp up and we’ll soon find out who learned their opening day lessons the best. Saturday will be even more interesting knowing that, as a special event, only heats and features will be contested, and the features will be extended-distance. And welcome back to the inverted point average system!
Charlee Rayner (#24, Summerside, PEI) leads the Reliable Motors Beginner Bandolero championship as the opening day feature and triple winner ahead of Regan MacBeth (#34, Pisquid West, PEI) and Landon MacBeth (#32, Pisquid West, PEI). The youngest duo of racers at the track already look speedier and more confident than last year, right off the hop, and will undoubtedly only get better from here.
Mason Gillis (#9, Morell, PEI) sits atop the Reliable Motors Outlaw Bandolero point standings coming off his first career triple win on Victoria Day, which came at the hands of a dramatic feature finish. Gillis and three other drivers – Wyatt Peters (#33), Simon Doyle (#91), and Hunter MacKinnon (#07) – are within a 15-point bubble for the championship lead. Peters and MacKinnon finished on the podium while Doyle won each of his qualifiers but fell short of the feature win in a last-lap, final-corner incident. Irelyn Rose (#47) came agonizingly close to a first career feature win after leading the most laps.
The first Chris’s Bobcat Services Mini Stock feature of the season was won by Rookie of the Year and current points leader Campbell Stewart (#3, Oyster Bed Bridge, PEI), who saved his best performance for last, which was further helped by opening day draws putting him up front to dominate. Mikey MacDougall (#7, Sydney, NS) swept the qualifiers and sits one point back in the standings.
Sophomores Austin Corrigan (#10, Dromore, PEI) and Corbin MacAulay (#17, Charlottetown, PEI) performed strongly – Corrigan started his season with a runner-up feature result, and MacAulay almost won both qualifiers and ended the day with a top-five finish. Veterans Ricky Bedell (#2, Montague, PEI) and Randy MacTavish (#76, Cornwall, PEI) are other drivers within a seven-point bubble between first and fifth – MacTavish finished third in the feature ahead of Bedell.
Opening day consistency has Mike Duskey (#42, Hampshire, PEI) commanding the Fitzpatrick Consulting Street Stock division. The former Piston Cup champion never finished worse than second and collected a close win in the semi race. He sits 10 points ahead of Matthew Ford (#86, Ellerslie, PEI) and 13 points ahead of multi-time track champion Randy Millar (#77, Freeland, PEI) – Millar was the division’s first race winner in 2025 in the heat race.
They are followed by two-time champion Colton Ford (#35, Oyster Bed Bridge, PEI) and rookie Devin Gallant (#36, Rustico, PEI), with the latter claiming a first career Street Stock feature top five on opening day. Tyler Gauthier (#30, Oyster Bed Bridge, PEI) went back-to-back in feature wins, dating back to last year’s season finale, executing a monster of a hard-charger performance while substituting for Sarah Jay (#30, Oyster Bed Bridge, PEI).
Randy Snow (#26, Oyster Bed Bridge, PEI) will return behind the wheel of the #26 Oyster Bed Esso machine on Saturday. At the season opener, after Dave Griffin had an accident in a qualifier that forced him out of the car during his first start in several years, Snow hopped in and completed the event with a sixth-place feature result. It was Snow’s first run since last August. A multi-time qualifier winner in 2024, can he finally reclaim feature glory for the first time in years?
Race Day Format
Opening ceremonies will include a moment of silence and a memorial lap in honour of Diane Piccott and Donnie “Old Man” McNeill.
Easy-Kleen SLMS driver introductions and the national anthem will be directly before the Universal Truck and Trailer 150.
More Information
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About Oyster Bed Speedway
Oyster Bed Speedway is Prince Edward Island’s premier auto racing facility and features fun and excitement with multiple stock car racing events throughout the season. The 1/4 mile paved oval is located in Oyster Bed Bridge at the intersection of routes 6 and 7, halfway between Cavendish and Charlottetown on beautiful Prince Edward Island.
Website: www.oysterbedspeedwaypei.ca
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