Newsmaker of the Week

Up until a week ago, the immediate future of Orange County Fair Speedway was in grave doubt. Its racing heritage dating back to 1919 might well have been over. Yes, there were vague thoughts about running the Eastern States Weekend again this October, but the words spoken were vague and laden with contingencies. Then last week, a ray of hope …

Grandview Speedway has a reputation of being very difficult for invading drivers to conquer. With $7,500 to win on the line in Saturday night’s Bruce Rogers Memorial Money Maker, it was assumed that Grandview’s highly regarded regulars would be fighting for the top prize. Instead, native New Yorker Mike Mahaney came into Grandview with, of all things, a Big Block motor …

It was no surprise at Richmond International Raceway last Friday that Justin Bonsignore and Ron Silk would spend most of NASCAR Whelen Modified Touring Series race battling up front for the race win. The pair fought hard for most of last season, swapping positions, and on occasion, swapping paint. And here they were again, side by side, as the laps were …

And the winner of the SMART Tour $20,000 to win South Boston race is – Luke Baldwin? The 17 year old third-generation racer is, by any account, a racer far beyond his years. But this was a high dollar race with a quality field of competitors each looking for one of the biggest Asphalt Modified payoffs ever offered. To win it, Baldwin …

Even with more than 500 career feature wins to his credit, Matt Sheppard’s race to the checkered flag Saturday in the Short Track Super Series Port Royal Speed Showcase was one he’ll especially savor for a long time. It was the product of a dominant drive and it was worth a stunning $65,000 in winnings, between an outright $50,000 for …

Though the basic object of auto racing is to drive cars faster than anyone else, winning races has always been the overriding goal. The winner isn’t necessarily the fastest driver, but more often than not, is the smartest. That was the case Sunday afternoon at Delaware’s Georgetown Speedway where Stewart Friesen combined the game of tire management with the skill …

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon at Lincoln Speedway, Anthony Macri raced to a hard fought 410 Sprint victory. This wasn’t just another win for the Dillsburg, PA ace, rather his first since PA Speedweek, 2023. It was just days after that series concluded that Macri and his family-owned team split.  It’s hard to contemplate the range of familial emotion that swept …

Auto racing, indoors and outside, attracted the attention of the racing world this past weekend. Inside Trenton, NJ’s CURE Insurance Arena, 83 Micro Sprint teams battled for 24 starting spots in two nights of racing on a manmade dirt track that was in perfect shape. Billy Pauch, Jr., and Anthony Perrego, a pair of Dirt Modified aces, won the A-Mains with …

After winning three of four Short Track Super Series Dirt Modified races the week before at All-Tech Raceway, Matt Sheppard headed for Volusia Park Speedway Park with a rare opportunity: the next time he won a feature, it would be the 500th of his driving career.    And that’s exactly what Sheppard did, winning the Wednesday night Super DIRT Series race. …

In 2023, Ron Silk used his victory over Justin Bonsignore in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour opener at Florida’s New Smyrna Speedway to launch towards his second title. Fast forward to 2024 and it was like déjà vu all over again as a late race restart set up a fight to the finish between the top two Tour combatants with …