Newsmaker of the Week

Last Saturday’s Fonda 200 had a little bit of everything. There was an ungodly 13-car crash halfway through the race that delayed the show for an hour while cars were towed off and drivers were tended to. Those thrills over, that’s when the race heated up between two Dirt Modified heavyweights, Stewart Friesen and Matt Sheppard. At stake? A $53,000 …

The world of Super Late Model racing has any number of high paying races. But the one race everybody covets is the Eldora World 100. It is a race with a long and storied history. This year’s race winner was second generation ace Hudson O’Neal, who had never won it before. His father, Don O’Neal, had tried for years to …

Last lap victories are, by their very nature, events that make News. This past Sunday, two races at different ends of the spectrum had dramatic changes in the final lap, each of them paying $20,000 to win. At New York’s Oswego Speedway, Michael Barnes was on his way to victory in the 67th running of the Oswego Supermodified Classic with …

Hudson O’Neal soared Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway to win the Rumble At The River Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series race and $50,000. To win it, O’Neal had to recover from a bad start in which he lost a couple of spots. Then he had to run down Jonathan Davenport and Brandon Overton. As if that were not …

The 410 Sprint drivers of PA Posse are legendary for their ability to beat up on invaders from traveling Sprint Car groups. This past Saturday, the excitement of a hometowner beating the outsiders played out in Central New York when the All Star Sprint Series teams came to play on the Utica-Rome Speedway clay – and walked off empty handed. The man …

For the second time in his incomparable career, Kyle Larson has won the Knoxville Nationals. Larson was among the pre-race favorites and did not disappoint, taking the lead on the first lap and staying in front for each of the 50 laps. The win was Larson’s second Nationals score and it was well received by the sellout Knoxville crowd. The …

The idea of putting full-fledged Dirt Modifieds on the fifth-mile Kutztown Action Track was a much anticipated event. Many drivers and many more spectators wondered what they might expect, and much of the supposition wasn’t at all flattering. How wrong the naysayers were! Mike Gular free-wheeled his way to the Short Track Super Series race win in the 50-lap main …

Rico Abreu is one red hot 410 Sprint driver right now, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. After winning the $20,000 Williams Grove Summer Nationals a week ago Saturday, Abreu passed Kyle Larson in the High Limit Sprint Car race at Grandview Speedway Wednesday, earning $23,000 and change. Still not done, Abreu won an All Star Sprint …

The stars of NASCAR’s Cup and Xfinity were in town to race at Pocono Raceway this past weekend, and racers that they are, Kyle Busch, Sheldon Creed and Kyle Larson did some dirt racing as well. Kyle Busch made the A Main at Kutztown’s 600 Speedweek race, transferring into the 26 car A Main – from a field of 114 …

Logan Schuchart is a millionaire! The Hanover, PA driver, grandson of Sprint Car driving legend Bobby Allen, led every lap in last Thursday’s Eldora Million, winning the biggest prize in the history of Sprint Car racing. Schuchart had his opportunites in the race to make a mistake, and made none. His car, usually bullet-proof, were all that and then some …