Newsmaker of the Week

There are few things in racing more enjoyable than seeing a hometown driver defend his turf by turning back an invading crop of full time racers. That’s what Jordan Watson did Saturday night at Georgetown Speedway when he swept to victory in the Short Track Super Series South Region Modified season finale. On the heels of winning the track championship …

Stewy! After winning $10,000 Thursday night in the Hard Clay Finale Short Track Super Series race at Orange County Fair Speedway, Stewart Friesen flew to Martinsville, VA to practice, qualify and race the Halmar NASCAR Gander Outdoor Series Truck through Saturday afternoon. He then returned to OCFS to race a Small Block Saturday night (with modest success). It was all but …

Readers of AARN, whether racers, owners, mechanics, promoters, officials or fans know how difficult it is to win. Winning in the rugged ranks of Central PA 410 Sprint racing is even more daunting. How much more difficult must it have been for a racer who spent most the previous season working his way back from back and chest injuries – …

Mat Williamson did it! For the twenty-first time this season, the fleet Canadian drove to victory, this time in the biggest, most prestigious Dirt Modified race of them all, the Super DIRT Week Big Block Modified 200. Williamson also won a pair of satellite 358 Modified races, at Utica-Rome and at Brewerton that set the stage for his monumental win. This …

Brent Marks literally traveled thousands of miles to win the biggest race of his 410 Sprint Car career at the track closest to his Myerstown, PA home. A regular on the World Of Outlaws circuit for the past three years, Marks has faced down adversity repeatedly. He was winless in his first WoO season, took three wins last year, and was …

Stewart Friesen’s win at Fonda Speedway was anything but a routine drive in a race that was anything but routine itself. For one thing, Friesen had plenty of competition, not unexpected with $53,000 on the line for winning. For another, the variable of weather, which interrupted the race for two hours, took away any momentum or perceived strategic advantage. Then …

Mike Gular won last Saturday’s Freedom 76’er at Grandview Speedway. The 2018 track champion spent most of the year racing at Orange County Fair Speedway instead of Grandview, racing at his former home track just once earlier in the year and again at this race. He won both. The soft spoken Gular, a second generation racer, was just as consistent, …

The auto racing community is mourning the death of asphalt Modified and Late Model great Mike Stefanik, who was killed in a plane crash Sunday. The similarities to the death of Ted Christopher, almost two years to day of his fatal accident, are strange, even eerie. What is clear is the profound effect Mike Stefanik, the race car driver, and …

Aaron Reutzel proved himself to be one tough Texan in Central Pennsylvania last weekend. The All Star Sprint Circuit’s defending champion and current points leader started out dominating the Thursday night race at Bedford. He was firmly in command of the Port Royal Friday night feature until he had a tire go down. Then on Saturday, with $52,000 on the …

A seventeen year old kid won the Oswego Classic last Sunday afternoon. The richest, most difficult Supermodified race in the country to win. Tyler Thompson defied conventional wisdom in this race. He built huge leads when most were conserving their fuel usage and their tires. He made daring moves in and out of lapped traffic when veteran drivers behind him …