Newsmaker of the Week

It’s hard enough to win an Open Competition Dirt Modified race when a team is totally prepared. It’s well nigh impossible when a team is ready to run at one track and winds up, by happenstance, at another. That’s what Stewart Friesen was facing Saturday when, after assessing the forecasts, he prepared to run at Selinsgrove (PA) Speedway’s Race Of Champions …

AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR MARCH 15, 2016 Youthful race car drivers Anthony Perrego and Tyler Dippel demonstrated this past weekend at two race tracks a thousand miles apart that the overused term ‘Young Guns’ doesn’t apply to them. ‘Top Guns’ is more appropriate. Perrego put a hurtin’ on the Dirt Modified field at the Short …

AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 8th, 2016 What does it take to formulate a new racing series in March with the racing season just around the corner? Only one person can know the answer to that question, Chris Zacharias. With the Race Of Champions Series heading toward litigation, Zacharias has seized the moment to pick …

AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK OF MARCH 1, 2016 There is no more successful driver in Indoor TQ Midget racing than Erick Rudolph. After winning the first of the three-race Len Sammons Motorsports Productions TQ races in Allentown, Pa., in early January, Rudolph stumbled a bit in Atlantic City. He was  back on form in Trenton. First, he …

It’s an annual happening, Speedweek in Central Florida. What was once Daytona Speedway-focused has blossomed into Series racing at dirt and paved tracks, involving Late Models, 410, 360 and wingless Sprints, Modifieds, Street Stocks and Mod Lites. It’s grueling, with some Dirt Late Model teams running as many as sixteen races in a month and some speedways hosting a dozen …

AREA AUTO RACING NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 16, 2016 It isn’t often that an up-and-coming driver shines in in the spotlight of a national stage. Yet that’s exactly what 23-year old Mason Zeigler from Chalk Hill, Pa., in western Pennsylvania did when he waited until the sixth and final night of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series …

 For area businessman and Modified Stock Car driver Tyler Siri, the second time was the best.  That’s because Siri thought he had a signed, sealed and delivered deal in hand to buy Black Rock Speedway a few years ago only to have it come unglued at the eleventh hour. Now, he has the proverbial keys in hand, proving that in …

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 …

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 …

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 …