{"id":63282,"date":"2026-03-24T13:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=63282"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:29:56","slug":"nl-racer-sara-thorne-gearing-up-for-full-time-run-at-scotia-speedworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=63282","title":{"rendered":"NL racer Sara Thorne gearing up for full-time run at Scotia Speedworld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56557&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SCOTIA SPEEDWORLD:<\/strong> After a successful season at home along with a handful of Sportsman starts on the mainland, Sara Thorne and Team Thorne Racing are eyeing a full-time run at Scotia Speedworld and the Bay Equipment Rentals Weekly Racing Series in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chance Cove, Newfoundland driver took home the 2025 Eastbound Park Sportsman Championship and, in turn, the NASCAR Local Racing Series Provincial Championship for Newfoundland and Labrador. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the mainland, Sara competed in three Bay Equipment Weekly Racing Series races, finishing a high of seventh in the Shriners Classic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team also competed on the MASS Sportsman, finishing runner-up on the Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56511&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thorne not only has established herself as a championship caliber race car driver but she is a role model and inspiration to many on the East Coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three-time TCM Most Popular Driver Award winner has participated in the last two Fuelling Change: A Celebration of Women in Motorsports nights at Scotia Speedworld, a night in 2025 where she scored her first heat win in Halifax.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out Sara and Team Thorne Racing as they begin their quest for a Bay Equipment Rentals &amp; Sales Weekly Racing Series Championship on Saturday, May 16 at 2pm at Scotia Speedworld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>(Information from Scotia Speedworld\/Tim&#8217;s Corner Motorsports)<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56560&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTIA SPEEDWORLD: After a successful season at home along with a handful of Sportsman starts on the mainland, Sara Thorne and Team Thorne Racing are eyeing a full-time run at Scotia Speedworld and the Bay Equipment Rentals Weekly Racing Series in 2026. The Chance Cove, Newfoundland driver took home the 2025 Eastbound Park Sportsman Championship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1419,10620,50,10621,561,640,10622],"class_list":["post-63282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-car-racing","tag-chance-cove","tag-halifax","tag-sara-thorne","tag-scotia-speedworld","tag-sportsman","tag-tims-corner-motorsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}