AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER FOR THE WEEK OF TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2016 Anthony Sesely is a guy who likes to run the road less traveled when it comes to building race cars and making them go ever faster. His approach to Indoor racing was to adapt a dirt Micro Sprint chassis to the rigors of indoor racing, all the …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016 “Oh. the weather outside was frightful, but the Show was so delightful. Though we all had some place to go, we had snow. we had snow we had snow.” That little ditty, if improvised a bit, summarizes the 2016 PPB Motorsports Race Car & Trade Show Presented By …
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Who else but Rico? Rico Abreu made major news on many fronts this past weekend. He got the Chili Bowl off to a good start by winning his Wednesday night preliminary, a race that had thousands cheering his name. Two days later, he announcd at a press conference that he has a full time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ride …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER FOR THE WEEK OF TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016 The newsmakers this week are many. There’s Total Wrecking and Environmental of Tonawanda, N.Y., the company that blew up the Syracuse grandstand. There’s Joanie Mahoney. the Onondaga County, New York Executve who smiled and giggled as a publicly funded structure imploded into a cloud of dust. There’s …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR JANUARY 5, 2016 Auto racing returned to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley this past Saturday for the first time since Nazareth Speedway closed its gates in 2004. Len Sammons Motorsports Productions brought racing back to Center City Allentown, Pa., in the PPL Center and boy, what a reception the race got. It was a …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR DECEMBER 15, 2015 Except for folks who have been recent attendees at Glen Ridge (NY) Motorsports Park, the name Peter Demitraszek may be wholly unfamiliar. That’t about to change. Against some heavy hitters an against some long odds, Demitraszek emerged as the man chosen by the Fonda (NY) Speedway Fair Board to run …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR DECEMBER 8, 2015 The notion of racing in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York in late November seems preposterous. And the idea of running the first week in December after an unfortunate rainout is, well, a little crazy. So much for conventional wisdom! Last Saturday, Accord Speedway and ‘Gobbler’ …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKERS FOR THE OF DECEMBER 1, 2015 Edition Who could have ever imagined that 2015 Super DIRTcar Series champion Matt Sheppard and his car owner Al Heinke could have parted ways less than a month after being lauded for their collective achievements? And who could have ever imagined Stewart Friesen and Jimmy Horton racing at Orange …
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Area Auto Racing News Newsmaker of the Week for November 24, 2015 Edition When the chips were down, Kyle Busch got up. Often criticized for his brashness as he battled his way into the front lines of NASCAR racing, Busch became a sympathetic figure in February when he broke a leg and an ankle in a Daytona Xfinity crash. From that …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR THE WEEK OF TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2015 It was the end of the line for the New Jersey Dirt Modified and the Central Pennsyvania Sprint Car circuits this past weekend, bringing to a close nine months of continuous racing. Just as the first races of a new year are newsmaking events, …
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