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Two Central 410 Sprint Car drivers are lucky to be alive after a savage collision during Friday night hot laps at Williams Grove Speedway. Seriously injured was Jimmy Seger, who was practicing at full throttle, charging into the third turn, when he ran into a flipping car. Shaken but uninjured physically was Ryan Slothower, 38, who through no fault of …

USAC’s Eastern Storm is a once-a-year frenzy of racing which brings the best open wheel, non-wing drivers and teams from their midwestern bases into the northeast. This year’s Eastern Storm lived up to its advance billing in two radically different ways. The three races that were completed were inspiring events as drivers stormed from the back to the front, challenging …

I am one of those involved in the business of motorsports that Bones Bourcier wrote about in his most recent Speedway Illustrated column. “Death Isn’t Kid Stuff” is the heading on the column. In that column the final paragraph read, “Shame on us. Shame on every sanctioning body and speedway that allows this nonsense to go on. And shame on …

Justin Haers races as a hobbyist on DIRTcar racing’s biggest stage, competing against full time professional drivers and car owners. On Tuesday, May 24, Haers drove to his first career DIRTcar Big Block Super Dirt Series win, at Brockville Speedway, chased across the finish line by two Mod giants, Brett Hearn and Billy Decker, who happent to have ten Syracuse …