Newsmaker of the Week

There aren’t many $100,000-to-win races in the United States and to win one is to win big. This past weekend at Mansfield (OH) Speedway, an incredible open competition 410 Sprint event took place for the first time. With mega bucks on the line, veteran driver Tim Shaffer rose to the occasion. Shaffer has made a career of winning big races …

The first all new track in the northeast hosted its first action this past Sunday night. Design for Vision/Sunglass Central Speedway, less formally known as Bridgeport Speedway’s 3/8ths, came up a winner in its debut. Track owner Brian Ramey sought to create a smaller version of the big Bridgeport 5/8ths that has been in place since 1972. And he did …

In the deep south at Bristol Motor Speedway, an undeniably talented New England driver won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race this past weekend. In victory, Ryan Preece proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he belongs in NASCAR’s upper echelons. This was a winning drive achieved with style, the kind of effort that can – and should be – …

If Justin Bonsignore’s 2016 season on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour was one to savor, his 2017 racing year was one to forget. In short, he went from being a title contender two years ago to a mid-pack runner at most races last year. The scrappy Long Islander has come out swinging once again 2018. He finally got his Indoor …

The $5,000 first place prize Brian Montieth claimed for winning Lincoln Speedway’s 410 Sprint Spring Championship last Saturday night was a noteworthy achievement in its own right. But this one had added drama. The Lincoln win, for the second time this Spring, came after Montieth had flipped a car at Williams Grove in his previous start. Undaunted, ‘The Edge’ swept …

There’s a new kid in town on the World Of Outlaws 410 Sprint Car Circuit and this one’s looking like the real deal. Sheldon Haudenschild certainly has the bloodlines. His famous father Jac ‘Wild Child’ Haudenschild was a Buckeye favorite before taking his show on the road nationwide with the World Of Outlaws. Sheldon did the same thing last year, …

Two major events, one on dirt one on pavement, one in the Northeast, one in the South, vied last Saturday for the headlines. In Georgetown, Delaware, where Dirt Modified racing got started this year, Ryan Watt out dueled Matt Sheppard to win it all. Further down the eastern seaboard, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Jon McKennedy drove Tommy Baldwin’s Asphalt …

[winners] ASCS 360 Sprint: Mesquite, TX; (Fri.)  ROGER CORBETT ; (Sat.)  RAIN Georgetown, DE:Melvin Joseph Memorial  ;(Fri., SBM) CRAIG VON DOHREN ;(Sat., STSS Mods) RYAN WATT Lincoln, PA;(410 Sprints) BRIAN MONTIETH LOLMDS: ;Atomic, OH (Fri.) WEATHER ;Brownstown, IN (Sat.) WEATHER NASCAR: Bakersfield, CA ;(KN West)  DEREK KRAUS NASCAR: ;Myrtle Beach, SC ;(Mod Tour) JON McKENNEDY NASCAR: Phoenix, AZ: ;(Cup) MARTIN …

When it’s your day, it’s your day. 410 Sprint standout Lucas Wolfe has been in enough races to know that there are no guarantees. So when he redrew the pole position for the 25-lap feature Sunday afternoon at Williams Grove Speedway, Wolfe knew that while he had just gained an advantage, winning was not anywhere near a sure thing. Wolfe …

Chad Trout’s perfect race in Lincoln Speedway’s 410 Sprint and Central PA’s overall season opener was the product of a top notch team that had been recently tested by adversity. Trout remembered his late car owner Jim Walker, the man who gave him a shot at 410s, in his post race remarks. Randy & Steph Oberlander, who now own the team, …