AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2015 The 44th running of Super DIRT Week is at hand. This year, as Area Auto Racing News rolls out its annual Super DIRT Week issue, at 116 pages, it does so for a SDW that is in fundamental transition. It will be the last at the New York …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2015 Call at the shot heard ‘round the racing world. The shot was from behind, delivered by a wholly unapologetic Doug Coby to the back bumper of Ryan Preece at Loudon, N.H. Saturday. It sent Preece spinning and Coby to Victory Lane. The sounds ‘round the racing world were …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR SEPTEMBER 22, 2015 When a racer becomes known by his initials, that’s a sign that he’s a true competitor. CVD – Craig VonDohren – is just such a driver. This past Saturday, VonDohren dominated Grandview (PA) Speedway’s annual Freedom 76, a Small Block Modified race offering a lifetime of prestige and $25,000 …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR SEPTEMBER 15, 2015 It is hard to explain the season that 410 Sprint Car driver Brent Marks has endured. Long considered to be part of one of the top teams in Central Pennsylvania racing, Marks came into Labor Day Weekend winless. He now is a three time winner, all of the …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 Makers Of News aren’t necessarily persons and the events that make news aren’t always reflective of happy times. As the cold, stark, sobering reality sinks in that after this coming Columbus Day Weekend tbere will be no more racing at the New York State Fairgrounds, anger, bitterness, disbelief and …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK FOR SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 To borrow an old racing axiom and improvise a bit, the only thing better than choosing between being lucky or good is to be both lucky AND good. Stewart Friesen proved it last Tuesday, August 25 in Lebanon Valley Speedway’s Mr. DIRT USA title race when he moved from …
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Which is the more newsworthy aspect of Donny Schatz’s Knoxville (IA) National win last Saturday? Is it that he has now won 23 races this season? Is it that he led all the way and won $150,000? Or is it that he has now won this race and its top prize for nine of the last ten years? There aren’t …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2015 Kenny Trenont, Jr. is at the stage of his driving career that the phrase ‘ageless veteran’ has become a term of endearment. Tremont has rebounded spectacularly in 2015, after a succession of lean years, to be a contender for the Albany-Saratoga and Lebanon Valley track championships. Yet …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK – TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2015 Stewart Friesen, by his talent and gregarious nature, is a newsmaker. He has done things on the race track over the past several years that define the term ‘living legend.’ The standard, therefore, for a habitual newsmaker to make news is one with a high threshold. Here’s …
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AREA AUTO RACING NEWS NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK OF TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015 They came, they raced, they got their doors blown off. The ‘they’ in this case is the World Of Outlaws, the most versatile, talented Sprint Car drivers in the world. The blowers off of doors were Danny Dietrich and Stevie Smith. whose back-to-back triumphs over the WoO …
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