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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2015 Kenny Trenont, Jr. is at the stage of his driving career that the phrase ‘ageless veteran’ has become a term of endearment. Tremont has rebounded spectacularly in 2015, after a succession of lean years, to be a contender for the Albany-Saratoga and Lebanon Valley track championships. Yet …

Posted by: Len Sammons, August 4, 2015 Without a well known father, a big checkbook or a brillant career in dirt track racing, Daniel Hemric is advancing towards NASCAR’s highest levels of competition. Hemric, 24, has carved his own path to the top with winning performances at every stop. This year he’s a full-time rookie on the NASCAR Camping World …

AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK – TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2015 Stewart Friesen, by his talent and gregarious nature, is a newsmaker. He has done things on the race track over the past several years that define the term ‘living legend.’ The standard, therefore, for a habitual newsmaker to make news is one with a high threshold. Here’s …

Posted by: Steve Barrick, July 28, 2015 Andy Bachetti was in no mood for polite post-race back-slapping Wednesday night after finishing second to Stewart Friesen in Brett Deyo’s Short Track Super Series 48-lapper at I-88 Speedway. His anger was sufficiently aroused that he invoked the time honored chestnut, ‘if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything’ by refusing to …

AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK OF TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015 They came, they raced, they got their doors blown off. The ‘they’ in this case is the World Of Outlaws, the most versatile, talented Sprint Car drivers in the world. The blowers off of doors were Danny Dietrich and Stevie Smith. whose back-to-back triumphs over the WoO …

Posted by: Len Sammons, July 21, 2015 Drivers on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour are undisputedly the best in the business. On Friday, they proved the point once again while racing three-wide for the lead on the final lap on the New Hampshire mile in the special 40-lap All Star Shootout. Woody Pitkat came out the winner, but so were …

AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKERS FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 21, 2015 Big winners on big stages are newsmakers by definition. It takes a special effort to win when the stakes are highest and the rewards the most generous. This past Saturday, two drivers, one on asphalt in New England and another on dirt in the Midwest, excelled. Todd Szegedy …

Posted by: Len Sammons, July 14, 2015 The future of auto racing on the New York State Fairgrounds mile in Syracuse, N.Y., might be on life support, but it’s not dead. A comment made by Acting Fair Director Troy Waffner during a recent Syracuse Channel 9 interview appeared to tell viewers that the frontstretch main grandstand was going to be …

Trenton, NJ, July 17, 2015 Advance sale tickets for the first annual Allentown (PA) Indoor Auto Race, featuring TQ (Three Quarter) Midgets and Slingshots, will be going on sale on Friday, July 31 at 10 a.m. The Len Sammons Motorsports Productions (LSMP) event is set for Saturday, January 2, 2016 at the new PPL Center in Allentown, PA. The Allentown race, new this year …

Last weekend, in three different regions of the racing spectrum, 100-lap, high dollar races were held for asphalt Modifieds. Stafford (CT) Motor Speedway’s SK 5k, Holland (NY) Speedway’s RoC Tour race and Wall (NJ)  Stadium’’s Garden State Classic were three events and each of them were tinged with controversy. At Stafford, Ryan Preece came from the rear three times, missed two leaders …