From the Paper

Drivers, car owners, and fans in the Capital District area were surprised on Friday by rumors that Mike Sowle, promoter of Glen Ridge Motorsports Park, had plans to move his Sunday night DIRTcar sanctioned program to Friday nights—not at the end of the year, but starting this Friday, June 20. Sowle confirmed those rumors for AARN stating, “…everything is going …

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 …

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 …