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Newsmaker of the Week // Chili Bowl – Logan Seavey

The 2023 Chili Bowl has been run. Six days of non-stop Midget racing produced a young Chili Bowl A Main winner in Logan Seavey, a popular winning car ownership team in Kevin Swindell and Tim Bertrand, a huge prelim win for upstart Hank Davis and the New England based Seymour Racing Team, and a drive from 23rd to ninth in the …

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This Week in AARN // January 10, 2023

TOP HEADLINES Anthony Sesely Wins Indoor Auto Racing Series TQ Midget Opener In Allentown’s PPL Center In Wheel To Wheel Thriller Grandview, Bridgeport, Lernerville Among High Limit 410 Sprint Series Race Date Recipients Richard Tobias To Promote Bloomsburg Fair Raceway; Will Feature SpeedSTRs, 602 Crate Sportsman Cars With 12-Race, Thursday Night Calendar Alan Kreitzer Is Among Inductees Into National Sprint Car Hall …

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Newsmaker of the Week // Anthony Sesely

Anthony Sesely drove to victory Saturday night in the PPL Center Indoor Auto Racing Series TQ A Main, taking charge of a dramatic event that featured wheel to wheel action throughout. Sesely, who has been known for embracing a ‘clean-sheet-of-paper’ approach to race car design, teamed up with upstate New Yorkers Jeff Ulrich and Ricky Kluth a year ago to build a …

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This Week in AARN // December 13, 2022

TOP HEADLINES Matt Sheppard’s 42 Win In 96 Starts Sets 2022 Racing Win Standard Selinsgrove Speedway’s New Operator Stephanie Baker Outlines Her Action Plan For 2023 Season STSS Modifieds To Head To Kutztown Action Track For First Time Aug. 1; Two Canadian Races Planned In July Hoosier To Make New Left, Right Rear Sprint Cars Tires; To Be Debuted At …

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Newsmaker of the Week // Turkey Derby

Wall Stadium’s 49th running of the Turkey Derby, a three-day annual extravaganza at the New Jersey Shore Speedway, produced some spirited racing and two late race winners in Matt Hirschman and Steven Reed. In the 150-lap Open Tour Modified race, Hirschman took advantage of late race opportunity to pit for fresh tires, knifed his way through the field and won …

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This Week in AARN // November 29, 2022

TOP HEADLINES Matt Hirschman Wins Wall Stadium Turkey Derby Tour Modified 150 Last Lap Off-Track Pass Carries Steven Reed By Blake Barney For Dramatic Victory New Jersey To Require Fire Suppression Systems In Race Cars For 2023 USAC Turkey Night Midget Grand Prix In Ventura Won By Justin Grant; Buddy Kofoid Is Champion Anthony Perrego Closes Out Northeast Dirt Modified …

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This Week in AARN // November 22, 2022

TOP HEADLINES John Blewett, Sr., Racing Family Patriarch, Passes At Age 90 Racing Dad Al Michael Passes At Age 80, Guided Careers oF sons Chris, Sean & Curt Bloomsburg Township Officials Amend Town Noise Ordinance; Fairgrounds Racing Now In Peril Accord Speedway’s Gobbler Is Last Northeast Dirt Modified Event For Season Wall Stadium Gears Up For 49th Running Of Turkey Derby This …

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Newsmaker of the Week // John “Grandpa” Blewett, Sr.

John “Grandpa” Blewett, Sr, patriarch of the Blewett racing family, died Friday night at his home at the age of 90. He was a self-made man who built his life around the creation of an auto salvage yard that branched into many other facets. John became involved in auto racing with his namesake son in the early 1970s, adopting what …

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This Week in AARN // November 15, 2022

TOP HEADLINES AARN’s Annual Car Builders Edition Features Stories On Every Aspect Of Race Car Building Islip 300 At Riverhead Raceway Is Won By Anthony Nocella In Final Eight Laps Brent Marks Brings Central PA 410 Sprint Season To A Close With BAPS Victory; Mike Gular Claims 358 Mod Closer STSS Cajun $20,000 Big Block Mod Finale In Louisiana Is Taken By Ryan …

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Newsmaker of the Week // Anthony Nocella

Riverhead Raceway is a notoriously difficult place for outsiders to come in and beat the regulars. The weekly runners were out in force Saturday for the sixth annual running of the Islip 300, three-hundred wheel to wheel laps around a quarter mile track with no room to spare. The odds favored the locals but somebody forgot to tell Woburn, Mass. …

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