Listen. NASCAR and FloSports made it official Thursday: the 2026 Virginia Triple Crown presented by FloRacing carries a $50,000 purse, with $20,000 going to the driver who wins the whole thing. Same number as last year. Same presenting partner as last year. Three tracks: South Boston, Langley, Martinsville.
That is real money in Late Model Stock racing. Twenty thousand dollars to the overall champion is the kind of figure that gets a team's hauler driver to write the schedule on a whiteboard in the shop.
The schedule is locked:
- Saturday, June 27 — Thunder Road Harley-Davidson 200 at South Boston Speedway
- Saturday, July 25 — Hampton Heat at Larry King Law's Langley Speedway
- Saturday, September 26 — ValleyStar Credit Union 300 at Martinsville Speedway
Three races spread across three months. To win the championship — and the $20K — you have to enter all three. Skip one and you're out. The whole purse pays out at Martinsville after the final lap of the ValleyStar 300.
And here's the thing — finishing isn't enough. The payout ladder rewards depth.
| Finish | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1st | $20,000 |
| 2nd | $10,000 |
| 3rd | $7,500 |
| 4th | $5,000 |
| 5th | $2,500 |
| 6th–10th | $1,000 each |
Top 10 in all three races and you bring home a thousand bucks. Top 5 in all three and you've cleared rent. First place and you've gone home with a number that pays for an engine.
Past champions of the Triple Crown — established in 2012 — include Peyton Sellers, Lee Pulliam, Trevor Ward, and Bobby McCarty. That is the Late Model Stock Hall of Fame draft board.
The reigning champion is Connor Hall, who won the 2025 Virginia Triple Crown for JR Motorsports. Hall opened with a win at South Boston, ran second at the Hampton Heat, then survived the Martinsville finale with an 11th-place run that gave him a 4.66 average finish — enough to clinch. "I remember my first Triple Crown race when I was 18 or so," Hall said after sealing it. "Kind of a decade of work put in." Parker Eatmon finished second in the 2025 standings; Carson Loftin third.
That's the field. That's the bar.
"We're proud to continue our partnership with NASCAR and further grow the Virginia Triple Crown," said Michael Rigsby, GM of FloRacing. "This event represents everything that makes Late Model racing special: elite competition, passionate fans, and historic tracks."
"The Virginia Triple Crown is late model stock racing at its best," said Joey Dennewitz, NASCAR's Vice President of Industry Development. "Tough, gritty and intense."
"With the continued support of FloRacing and NASCAR, the Virginia Triple Crown has never been stronger," said Martinsville Speedway President Clay Campbell.
(That's three different men telling you the same thing in three different ways. Take it.)
The bigger story here, folks, is the regional racing investment trend. FloRacing came in with a partnership last year, kept the $50K bar where it was, and is doubling down for a second straight season. That's not nothing. The Triple Crown's long-running pull was always reputation — win it and your name lives. Now it's reputation AND a check that means something.
Three Saturdays. Three tracks. One crown. Twenty grand to whoever can survive a South Boston opener in late June, the Langley Hampton Heat in July, and the Martinsville ValleyStar 300 in September with the entire season's investment riding on the last green flag.
Mark June 27 down.