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The sport of racing is a swinging pendulum, from the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, often within days of one another. Pennsylvanian Cody Darrah’s first pinnacle came when he earned the ride in Kasey Kahne’s World Of Outlaws team. He savored life on the road at Sprint Car racing’s highest level for several years. Then, the axe …

Posted by: Len Sammons, April 21, 2015 Ryan Watt didn’t win Sunday’s 40-lap Short Track Super Series feature event at Bridgeport Speedway, but to the fans in the grandstands he was the star of the show. Rick Laubach won the $5,000 plus South Jersey Shootout, the first ever event of the STSS South Series, from the pole position while leading …

For Jackie Brown, Jr., Thanksgiving dinner came four and a half months late. That’s because the delayed ‘Gobbler’ at Accord Speedway was finally completed last Tuesday night. For Brown, it was well worth the fast. By the time the lap money, purse, and other cash incentives were tallied Brown earned over $7,800 for his efforts. Brown’s win was the richest …

Posted by: Len Sammons, April 14, 2015 THOMPSON, CT – Hoosier Tires are now $40 cheaper for competitors on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. The same tire that sold for $190 last year is now being offered, before taxes, for $150. Hoosier’s contract with NASCAR was up at the end of last season. They got a scare when competitor American …

Domination. That’s what driver Doug Coby asserted over the field of NASCAR Whelen Modified Touring Series competitors in Sunday’s Icebreaker, the opener of the 2015 Tour season at Thompson (CT) Motorsports Park. Demoralized. That’s the feeling rivals must have had when they left Thompson after Coby started up front and stayed there, save for a few laps when desperate pit strategies …

‘Ryan’s World’. That’s what a trio of like named Newsmakers turned the racing fraternity into this past weekend with fourhigh profile wins in three states. The first ‘Ryan’ is Pennsylvanian Smith, who shocked the 410 Sprint community with a win Saturday at Attica (OH) Raceway in the first points race for Tony Stewart’s All Star Sprint Series. For Smith, it …

Posted by: Len Sammons, March 31, 2015 MECHANICSBURG, PA – Royersford, Pa.’s Steven Buckwalter will make an assault on both the USAC National Midget Car and Silver Crown Serie this season. Buckwalter told AARN he’s got two Midgets of his own design (Elite Chassis) and one good motor ready in hopes of racing all but one of the 19 events …

It was as powerful a statement as could possibly be made by a Sprint Car driver. Danny Dietrich’s aggressive drive to victory Friday on the hallowed soil of Williams Grove Speedway came with some heady driving on a challenging track. The triumphant charge singled out Dietrich as the man to beat in the year to come at ‘The Grove’ and …

Posted by: Len Sammons, March 24, 2015 TRENTON, NJ – The 2015 New Egypt Speedway season was extended last week when track owner Fred Vahlsing and special events promoter Brett Deyo agreed on terms for a special co-promotion that will now end the track’s season. The first annual ‘Mid-Atlantic Championship Weekend’ will be held on Friday and Saturday October 30-31. …

The racing community was dealt a double dose of sorrow this past week with the sudden deaths of two of its most prominant people. Andrew Fusco, noted New York State attorney, lifelong race fan, the legal council behind the formulation of the DIRT orgnization, died suddenly. He was 62. Three days later, Earl Baltes, builder, owner and promoter of Eldora …