February 2026: The Freezer February 22, 2026 | Jim Kostinden February 21 2026 “The Freezer” While the New England area prepared for a Nor’Easter impacting the area the day after the race, a smaller storm dropped several inches of snow overnight resulting in a lighter than usual turnout for the seventh ECO race of the season. Twelve racers showed up at Lenjet for “The… Read More
January 2026: The Blizzard Beat Down January 25, 2026 | Jim Kostinden January 24, 2025 “The Blizzard Beat Down” With the New England area expecting one of its biggest snowstorms, aka blizzard, of the season in less than 24 hours, the “Blizzard Beat Down” was an appropriate name for today’s East Coast Outlaws (ECO) race event. With temperatures in the single digits and windchill temperatures below… Read More
January 2026: The New Year Challenge January 4, 2026 | Jim Kostinden January 3, 2025 “The New Year Challenge” Happy New Year!!! “The New Year Challenge” was an appropriate name for today’s race as it was a “challenge” to get out of bed this morning with temperatures hovering in the single digits for our NH racers, to low 20’s for our southern racers in CT and… Read More
December 2025: The LenJet All Star Race December 21, 2025 | Jim Kostinden December 20, 2025 “The Lenjet All Star Race” The 4th race of the ECO 2025-2026 race season was also the last race for 2025. While it was the last race for 2025, we also had the first inaugural ECO TFX race. TFX is a new class that was voted in earlier this year during… Read More
November 2025: The Skidmark 500 November 23, 2025 | Jim Kostinden November 22, 2025 “The Skidmark 500” The East Coast Outlaws 2025-2026 season’s third race event took place on November 22nd at FB Raceway in East Hartford, CT. Light rain accompanied the racers as they arrived at FB Raceway, but just as racing was to start later in the morning, the sun broke through, helping… Read More
October 2025: The LenJet 500 October 19, 2025 | Jim Kostinden October 18, 2025 “The LenJet 500” The second race event of the East Coast Outlaws 2025-2026 season took place on October 18th at the amazing LenJet Raceway in Ashland, MA. The 3 races for this event would be: 1) Indys on the Shamrock Glen raceway, 2) E-Fray on the Bear track, and 3) Fray… Read More
September 2025: Showdown at Silvermine September 21, 2025 | Jim Kostinden September 20, 2025 “Showdown at Silvermine” The first race event of the East Coast Outlaws 2025-2026 season took place on September 20th at Dave Lockwood’s place in Norwalk, CT. This event kicks off the 18th season for the East Coast Outlaws. Happy 18th birthday!! It was perfect weather for a late summer day, with… Read More
2024-2025 Season Wrap-Up Report June 13, 2025 | Jim Kostinden East Coast Outlaws 2024-2025 Race Season Wrap Up Report Introduction With another successful race season behind us, as I did last year, I’ve written up a season ending report, looking at attendance and podium finishes. As you know, throughout the year I have kept track of race statistics, so this report will take a deeper… Read More
May 2025: Museum Madness June 1, 2025 | Jim Kostinden May 31, 2025 “Museum Madness” Wow!! Time flies when you are having fun. The last race of the ECO 2024-2025 season took place at the fantabulous Lenjet Raceway in Ashland. MA. With 13 racers in attendance, including Peter Lentros who participated in 2 of the 3 races, the racers were ready to do battle for… Read More
April 2025: Up In Smoke April 27, 2025 | Jim Kostinden April 26, 2025 “Up In Smoke” April is the month that two ECO races are held. For the second race of the month and the 9th ECO race event of the 2024-2025 season, the ECO racers headed to Hingham, MA to battle it out on the South Shore Speedway. Paul Ryer was our gracious… Read More