Newsmaker of the Week

Opportunities for asphalt Modified drivers to win more than a single major event in a weekend are exceedingly rare. That’s why Justin Bonsignore’s weekend sweep at North Wilkesboro Speedway of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and the SMART Modified Tour races back to back has the racing community saying, “Wow.” There was added significance on the NWMT side in that …

Stewart Friesen had the field covered at Super DIRT Week in the Billy Whittaker Cars & Trucks Big Block Modified 200 at NY’s Oswego Speedway. First Stewie set a new track record for Big Block qualifying. Then he utterly dominated his qualifying heat. Setting quick time and winning his heat was a mere prelude of what was to come. Starting up front …

Carson Macedo was the man Saturday night in Williams Grove Speedway’s World Of Outlaws Sprint Car National Open. After having been forced to use a provisional starting spot in the earlier Grove prelim race, Macedo and Jason Johnson Racing righted the ship just hours later when Macedo won his second career Grove National Open, a win worth $75,000 as well …

He didn’t necessarily have the fastest car for the Stafford Motor Speedway Fall Final, but Matt Hirschman had elevated himself into the mix for the win as the race laps ticked off. A late race brush for the lead between Hirschman and Anthony Nocella decided the outcome, giving Hirschman two major Asphalt Modified wins in successive weeks. Stafford Motor Speedway …

Young Alex Yankowski’s career evolution knows no limits. He races everywhere, wins often, and gives a hundred percent effort in each race he runs. Saturday night at Grandview Speedway, Yankowski won one of the biggest races, the fabled Freedom 76er. It was a $30,000 plus financial score and came with an upset late race pass of Jeff Strunk, one of …

The long time Supermodified team of driver Otto Sitterly and car owner John Nicotra have known great success in their many years together. Sitterly is the Master Of Supermodifieds at Oswego Speedway, Nicotra has become a promoter with the ISMA/MSS Series, and together the pair keep on winning. September has been good to Sitterly and Nicotra, culminating in a sweep of …

Though flat-out is Rico Abreu’s typical way of winning 410 Sprint races, his victory in Port Royal Speedway’s prestigious and rich Tuscarora 50 Saturday night was achieved as much by tire conservation on what was a difficult race track. Abreu held back when the track rubbered up, and took the checkered flag with a bald right rear tire – but …

Tyler Thompson won the Oswego Classic for Supermodifieds for the second time in his young career last Sunday afternoon. Unlike his first win, a race in which Thompson admitted to having had no particular race strategy in mind, this Classic drive was carefully orchestrated in advance. He held back, planning to go all out for the last 50 laps. But …

Garrett Alberson had been suiting up for Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series races for nearly five years. He took his licks, learned the ropes, improved weekly. This year, Alberson seemed poised for a breakthrough. And break through he did Friday night at Port Royal Speedway when he raced from third to first on the final lap, taking the lead …

When the racing world learned early Friday morning that Scott Bloomquist, the Super Late Model Super Star who for decades was THE man to beat in races of consequence, had been killed in a private plane crash, the coast-to-coast reaction was one of profound shock. Widely viewed as being a master car builder, an innovative mechanic and an uncompromising race car …