On an Indoor Auto Racing Series weekend filled with outstanding performances, the winning TQ Midget feature ride authored by Scott Kreutter was exemplary. The western New York driver, whose main career focus is on open wheel 360 Winged Sprint Car racing, has a second passion, racing TQ Midgets indoors. On Saturday night in Allentown, Pa., Kreutter blitzed a quality-laden field of TQ drivers …
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Cliff & Diane Krause Sign Lease To Operate NJ’s Wall Stadium For 2018 and 19
Posted by: Earl Krause – Decemeber 28, 2017 WALL TWP., NJ — Racers and fans of N.J.’s famed Wall Stadium Speedway received a Christmas and New Year’s present on December 28. That’s when track operators Cliff and Diane Krause confirmed that they had signed a new lease, that day, to operate the historic, third-mile high-banked paved oval for the 2018 …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // East Coast Indoor Dirt Nationals
The East Coast Indoor Dirt Nationals held inside the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton, N.J. was a first time event for Len Sammons Motorsports Productions and the Indoor Auto Racing Series. The idea of running an indoor race on a dirt track, as logistically daunting as it was, proved to be one of the most artistically successful races of the year. …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Jimmy Blewett
AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER FOR THE WEEK OF TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2017 At last weekend’s Turkey Derby XLIV, 2017 track champion Jimmy Blewett entered no less than five of the races including the two majors. By the end of the weekend, Blewett had swept to victory in the 150-lap Tour Modified race, the 100-lap Wall Modified feature and the …
Read More »This Week in AARN // November 28, 2017
TOP HEADLINES First East Coast Micro Dirt Nationals Goes This Weekend In Trenton’s CURE Insurance Arena Jimmy Blewett Sweeps Turkey Derby Modified Races; Grabs Late Model Win Too Andy Bachetti Wins Accord’s Gobbler After Titanic Battle With Mike Ricci NASCAR Stars Bell, Larson, Run One-Two In Turkey Night Grand Prix In California Outlaw Speedway Announces Ambitious Season With All Star Sprint, SDS, STSS Modified Shows …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Martin Truex, Jr
Martin Truex, Jr. did it! The born and bred ‘Jersey boy’, who learned how to race from watching his uncle, father and cousins compete for years at New Jersey’s Wall Stadium, won the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship Sunday at Homestead, capping off a winning season. Truex faced adversity throughout the ten-month, 36-race grind. A key team member died. …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Matt Kenseth
It’s been said that it’s better retire a winner than to hang on too long. Matt Kenseth, who made it fairly clear that he was not walking away willingly from NASCAR Sprint Cup racing, had the last laugh Saturday at Phoenix Raceway when he won the Cup race in what is to be his next-to-last career start. The normally staid …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // @MattSheppard
Matt Sheppard concluded his remarkable 2017 season with a come-from-behind championship drive in the final race of the Super DIRT Series. Sheppard’s win was the 41st of his season and the twelfth of the Super DIRT Series. What sets this one apart is the fact that Sheppard’s season title came despite missing two point races, and being stripped of points …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Matt Hirschman
Conventional wisdom in auto racing is that to win lots of races, you have to enter lots of races. While that axiom may be true for most drivers, Matt Hirschman certainly subscribes to an opposite philosophy. This past Saturday at Seekonk (MA) Speedway, Hirschman raced his way to his fifteenth victory of 2017, and it came in just his 30th start. …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Brandon Grosso
Few things are more captivating in the sport of auto racing than witnessing a young driver ascend through the ranks to greatness. So it was this past weekend when Brandon Grosso, whose progression from from Crate Sportsman to Modified has been swift, won the high profile All Star Cup Modified feature at New Egypt Speedway this past Saturday. That came …
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