Newsmaker of the Week

Brett Hearn’s storied racing career has had many peaks and very few valleys. It takes a special confluence of events for Hearn to truly stand out, to actually make news. And so it was this past week. First, Hearn won Lebanon Valley Speedway’s richest event, the $17,500-to-win Mr. DIRT Title Race. It was an event Hearn won for the eleventh …

Kevin Ward, Jr. was a 20-year old kid with aspirations of being a professional race car driver. He demonstrated considerable prowess over the past couple of years, building a team into a contender, developing his driving skills well. Last Saturday night, Ward came out on the short end of a racing accident at Canandaigua Speedway when he and Tony Stewart …

Earning high dollar wins in high profile races last week, two virtuoso drivers were the classes of their fields in a pair of events as dfferent as night and day. On Wednesday, Danny Johnson dominated the Super DIRTcar Series race at the three-eighths mile dirt Albany-Saratoga (NY) oval by setting a blistering pace that blistered tires. Not his tires, but …

There were two different, high stakes, high profile races two hundred miles apart last week. One was on dirt, the other on asphalt. One was promoted by an energetic lessor, the other by the second generation track owner. Both drew big fields, aiming not just for the first prize payoff but for some proportionately good money down the line. And …

The biggest 410 Sprint Car race of the summer in the east is the Williams Grove Summer Nationals. To win it, whether a World Of Outlaws regular or ‘PA Posse’ homestander, is to win big. This year’s running had the added drama of a Posse favorite beating the Outlaws at their own game and in the process, racing to a milestone …

Pennsylvania Speedweek is a regional showcase of 410 Sprint racing that brings together the very best teams from all of area tracks, spiced some invaders. Individual race wins are important but this mini-series’ championship carries immense prestige. Lucas Wolfe, past World of Outlaws full timer, was the 2014 Speedweek champion and the adversity he overcame to prevail is incredible. He …

Two Dirt Modified drivers roared off the final turn at Penn Can Speedway on Tuesday, June 10 and headed into a rendezvous with destiny. At stake was victory in ‘The Clash At The Can’ Mega winner Danny Johnson was on the inside of the track and Kevin Hartnett a multi-time Penn Can track champion, was on the outside. As they sped …

USAC’s Eastern Storm is a once-a-year frenzy of racing which brings the best open wheel, non-wing drivers and teams from their midwestern bases into the northeast. This year’s Eastern Storm lived up to its advance billing in two radically different ways. The three races that were completed were inspiring events as drivers stormed from the back to the front, challenging …

Justin Haers races as a hobbyist on DIRTcar racing’s biggest stage, competing against full time professional drivers and car owners. On Tuesday, May 24, Haers drove to his first career DIRTcar Big Block Super Dirt Series win, at Brockville Speedway, chased across the finish line by two Mod giants, Brett Hearn and Billy Decker, who happent to have ten Syracuse …