Even with more than 500 career feature wins to his credit, Matt Sheppard’s race to the checkered flag Saturday in the Short Track Super Series Port Royal Speed Showcase was one he’ll especially savor for a long time. It was the product of a dominant drive and it was worth a stunning $65,000 in winnings, between an outright $50,000 for …

TOP HEADLINES Stewart Friesen Preserves Right Rear Tire Long Enough To Claim Jake Marine Memorial STSS Georgetown Modified Northeastern Season Opener Second Straight SMART Modified Tour Win Grabbed By 15 Year Old Sensation Carson Loftin Annual Syracuse Motorsports Expo Show In Syracuse Last Weekend Attracted Promoters, Manufacturers, Drivers, Fans Top Northeastern Dirt Sportsman Team Of Joe Toth & Andy Belmont Split Right …

Though the basic object of auto racing is to drive cars faster than anyone else, winning races has always been the overriding goal. The winner isn’t necessarily the fastest driver, but more often than not, is the smartest. That was the case Sunday afternoon at Delaware’s Georgetown Speedway where Stewart Friesen combined the game of tire management with the skill …

TOP HEADLINES Dirt Modified Stars Anthony Perrrego, Billy Pauch, Jr. Claim East Coast Dirt Nationals A-Mains In Trenton Maude Sammons, “The First Lady Of Area Auto Racing News”, Passes Away At Age 95 Rick Grosso Out At New Egypt Speedway, Track Owner Fred Vahlsing Back In Charge Jimmy Horton Not Stepping Back From The Sport; Will Run For 51st Season …

Auto racing, indoors and outside, attracted the attention of the racing world this past weekend. Inside Trenton, NJ’s CURE Insurance Arena, 83 Micro Sprint teams battled for 24 starting spots in two nights of racing on a manmade dirt track that was in perfect shape. Billy Pauch, Jr., and Anthony Perrego, a pair of Dirt Modified aces, won the A-Mains with …

Trenton, NJ – Maude Sammons, the first lady of Area Auto Racing News, passed away early Sunday morning, six weeks short of her 96th birthday. After battling dementia in recent years, she died in her sleep in a nursing home. Maude and her husband, Leonard J. Sammons Jr. who passed away in May of 1991, started Area Auto Racing News …

TOP HEADLINES Sweet, Gravel, Courtney & Haudenschild Claim World of Outlaw Openers At Volusia; Gravel Gets Third ‘Big Gator’ Sheppard Takes Three Out Of Four On STSS Sunshine Swing; Friesen Fastest In $10,000 Finale Defending Champion Silk Smooths Over NASCAR Modified Tour Opener For Second Straight Year Six Winners In Six Races Send Off Lucas Oil Late Model Winternationals At …

In 2023, Ron Silk used his victory over Justin Bonsignore in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour opener at Florida’s New Smyrna Speedway to launch towards his second title. Fast forward to 2024 and it was like déjà vu all over again as a late race restart set up a fight to the finish between the top two Tour combatants with …

TOP HEADLINES All-Tech Lucas Late Model Win Saturday Worth $15,000 For Tim McCreadie; Ricky Thornton (2), Hudson O’Neal Also Score Davie Franek Wins Hendry County USCS 360 Sprint Opener; First Win Since Serious Knoxville Crash Annual Racing Extravaganza Show At York Fairgrounds Showcases Central PA Racing In A Big Way Denny Hamlin Prevails In Cup Busch Light Clash At LA Coliseum – …

From adversity, victory! Just six months removed from suffering serious arm injuries in a Sprint Car crash at Knoxville Raceway, Davie Franek was ready to go racing again. His objective was Central Florida, where a series of 360 and 410 Sprint races over a three week period are a test for any racer and race team. Franek first ran three …