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Newsmaker of the Week // Donny Schatz

For the eleventh time in his incredible driving career, Donny Schatz has won the Knoxville Nationals. He did so while in the midst of several consecutive frustrating seasons. He came from way off the pace in the first half of the race to pass car after car, and finally got the job done with a slider-to-end-all-sliders to take the lead …

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Newsmaker of the Week // North Wilkesboro (NC) Speedway

Bucking the trend of the bad news of race tracks closing, North Wilkesboro (NC) Speedway was reborn last week, featuring a two race mid-week asphalt Modified racing program. Ryan Newman and Matt Hirschman were the Modified race winners and Paulie Hartwig, III swept the Sportsman races. While the winners celebrated, the real winners were the fans of the North Wilkesboro region, …

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Newsmaker of the Week // Ryan Godown

Ryan Godown is in the midst of a career season in 2022 and nowhere is his racing talent more on display than at Bridgeport Motorsports Park. A month ago, Godown won the Bridgeport Super DIRT Series race, arguably one of his highest profile wins yet. Since then, Bridgeport Victory Lane has been his personal luxury suite. Last week, Godown won the …

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Newsmaker of the Week // Brad Sweet

Three-time and reigning World Of Outlaws Sprint Car champion Brad Sweet came east this past week with three Central PA races to run. A World Of Outlaws A Main winner just once in the first 40 races of the 2022 season, Sweet was nevertheless still leading in points. After finishing 13th at Port Royal, and fourth at Williams Grove Friday, …

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Newsmaker of the Week // “King Brent” Marks

What a week for Brent Marks! The Myerstown, PA 410 Sprint Car wheelman won two of the biggest, richest Sprint Car races in the country just three days apart. There’s no question that $275,000 is a lot of money and that’s what the Eldora Historical Big One and the Kings Royal paid together. There is also no question that Marks, …

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Newsmaker of the Week // Jimmy Blewett

Wall Stadium’s winningest active driver, Jimmy Blewett, suited up last Saturday night to drive the highly regarded Tommy Baldwin No. 7 NY in Wall’s first NASCAR Whelen Modified Touring Series race in three years. In an uncharacteristic drive, Blewett held back for the first 125 laps of the 150 lap race. Then, as the events unfolded, he took off, vanquishing …

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Newsmaker of the Week // Brent Marks

With four straight wins last week during PA Speedweek, Brent Marks was as close to being invincible as is possible. Not only did Marks end up winning five of nine Speedweek races, he also finished no worse than third in any of them. That’s amazing. Marks has stepped up his game every year he’s been a 410 Sprint driver. And he’s …

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Newsmaker of the Week // Tim McCreadie

Tim McCreadie’s $50,000 victory Saturday night in the Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series race at Lernerville Speedway was a textbook effort by the 2021 Series champion. There was a lot on the line at Lernerville in this year’s Firecracker 100, which had been a World Of Outlaws Late Model Series sanctioned affair since its inception until 2022. And by …

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Newsmaker of the Week // Logan Seavy

With seven races scheduled at six venues on consecutive days, the USAC National Sprint Series raced in the annual Eastern Storm last week, with the seventh race, a USAC Silver Crown event, making for a Port Royal double-header. Logan Seavey was the tornado of the Eastern Storm, winning the Sprint race at Bridgeport and orchestrating a masterful USAC Sprint and USAC Silver Crown …

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Newsmaker of the Week // Jonathan Davenport

Inflation notwithstanding, a million dollars is still a big pile of money. Last weekend, the best Super Late Model drivers in the nation converged on Eldora Speedway with the opportunity to win ‘The Eldora Million”. Jonathan Davenport got the big money. $1,002,022 to be precise, and became the toast of the racing world. It’s difficult to imagine the pressure Davenport …

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