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New Midwest Sprint Car Series

2009-11-07T12:58:48-05:00

A rumor is going around that TSR and Steve Kinser are going to be racing in new sprint car series. The new series is also going to use Hoosier tire instead of goodyear like the WoO.

Is there about to be another split in winged sprint cars?

Fantasy Dirt Racing Has A New Look!

2009-11-02T16:12:41-05:00

WARREN, OHIO----As of November 1st 2009 http://www.fantasydirtracing.com
has a new look! Fantasy Dirt Racing has been redisigned to better
improve the user experience and to add new site features. In just its
first season Fantasy Dirt Racing had 2,500 Fantasy teams register into
leagues and with the new site will be able to double that number next
season!

Fantasy Dirt Racing has teamed with The All Star Cercuit of
Champions, Lowe's Dirt Track, Knoxville Raceway, Lernerville Speedway,
PPMS, and ran a league for Eldora Speedway, and has given out a
impressive list of prizes that include tickets to the Knoxville
Nationals, 360 Knoxville Nationals, Late Model Knoxville Nationals,
World 100, Kings Royal, The Dream, Prelude to the Dream, The Colossal,
Outlaws Showdown, Topless Showdown, World Finals, Multiple All Star
Sprint and All Star Late Model Events, and Shirts, autographed
merchandise from Tony Stewart.

Fantasy Dirt Racing offers Ultimate Challenge Leagues ($5.95 per
team) and Free Fantasy Leagues, all leagues offer prizes! The Ultimate
Challenge leagues give fans a chance to join a public or private
league, live drafts, roster sets, prizes include tickets to events,
magazine subscriptions, cash, and merchandise. The Free Leagues (All
Star Sprint, Late Model, Lernerville, Knoxville, PPMS) offer the
chance to pick your team, and roster sets for a chance to win great
prizes. If you are interested in how your track or organization can
team up with Fantasy Dirt Racing to offer fantasy leagues, or if you
would like to advertise on the new site contact us at
pr at fantasydirtracing dot com, Ultimate Challenge leageues are currently taking registrations and
free league registrations for 2010 will be available soon! For more
information visit http://www.fantasydirtracing.com

Dayton Speedway Hall of Fame

2009-10-28T21:21:01-05:00

Inaugural class of the Dayton Speedway Hall of Fame to be inducted.

Dayton Speedway closed in 1982, but the memories live on at http://www.daytonspeedwaylives.com

The track was a high banked 1/2 mile similar to Winchester and Salem and was in operation from the 30's up through the 80's. ARCA sanctioned many races there including the grueling Dayton 500 and USAC sanctioned many as well for the Sprint Cars plus a Championship Car event in 1956.

Here is the inaugural Hall of Fame class of 2009. They will be honored Sunday Nov. 1 at the historic Baum Opera House in Miamisburg, Ohio.

DAYTON SPEEDWAY HALL OF FAME

CLASS OF 2009

CLARENCE “MUTT” ANDERSON
EARL BALTES
LEAL BEATTIE
BUSTER BLACKFORD
ELBERT “PAPPY” BOOKER
DICK DUNLEVY, JR.
CHARLIE ENGLE
DICK FREEMAN
FRANK FUNK
RUSS GEORGE
WILLIAM C “CHICK” HALE
BOB KORN
JOHN “SHORTY” MILLER
LEE RAYMOND
NEAL SCEVA
HARVEY SHAPIRO
HAROLD SMITH
DON THOMPSON

Frank Kimmel Street Stock National

2008-11-13T18:21:23-05:00

Polar Bear 150 at Rockingham Speedway, NC is scheduled for January 1st, 2009. Happy New Year street stock drivers! Open Test is being held December 13 at the track. No info yet on any possible tv coverage, but I should think someone will be there with a camera. Did I forget to mention they will start up to 99 cars? Doubt that many will show up, but even 60 cars will be cool!
http://www.streetstocknationals.com/

Props to Gary Whipkey

2009-10-20T10:57:11-05:00

Congrats to Doylestown, Ohio's Gary Whipkey for his fourth straight Main Event Racing Series championship.

And to Michigan's Terry Senneker for being the first 2-time winner of the season ending Main Event in the events 22 year history.

WoO Sprints have Goodyear exclusive tire rule in 2010

2009-10-18T00:47:20-05:00

I can't believe nothing has been posted on here about the WoO Sprint Cars going to a Goodyear exclusive LR and RR tire rule in 2010. Anybody have any thoughts on this?

I think this is bad for the sport. Any type of tire monopoly is bad. Many tracks and many drivers have Hoosier deals so I think this is going to do nothing but split WoO up.

Syracuse Super Dirt Week

2009-09-17T13:41:27-05:00

I wish these guys still raced at Syracuse. It was awesome racing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bantam10/3929664928/

USAC Midget Gold Cup at Tri-City

2009-10-06T13:40:51-05:00

Second year for this great event is anyone from the boards going to be coming out for it?

GOLD CROWN MIDGET NATIONALS!
Wed. Oct.7th (Gold Crown Midget Nationals 3 Day Event)
“Gold Crown Midget Nationals” (Open Practice) 6:00pm – 9:00pm (3 Day Event!)

Thur. Oct 8th
USAC & POWRi Midgets $1500 to Win
600cc Outlaw Micros $750 to Win

Fri. Oct.9th
USAC & POWRi Midgets $1500 to Win
410 Non Winged Sprints $2000 to Win
600cc Outlaw Micros $750 to Win

Sat. Oct. 10th
Dupont Presents“Gold Crown Midget Nationals”
USAC & POWRI Midgets $15,000 to Win! $1,000 to Start “A” Main
600cc Outlaw Micros $1,500 to Win

http://tricityspeedway.net/

Winchester Old Timers 2009

2009-10-06T10:17:31-05:00

Here is a ten minute video from the Old Timers meet at Winchester Speedway. There are other videos listed at the site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2SzbhPXaQ0

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Back from Flamborough Speedway--some thoughts

2007-05-14T10:09:53-05:00

Got back from a FRIGID night at Flamborough Speedway, I promised myself if I wasn't gonna get my racecar running this season, I'd at least go to a bunch of races.

Thanks to the constant wind and frigid temperatures, and the Darlington race on TV (which rained out anyway) the stands were basically empty. It was a perfect example for our "is NASCAR killing short track racing?" thread... They certainly did kill it this weekend, usually Flamborough is PACKED.

I was again impressed by the quality of the track and the tight ship they run in terms of scheduling. Great food, great parking, fairly easy to find. Four classes and we still managed to finish up by about 11 pm.

I'm starting to notice a trend, and I wanted to know if any of you have noticed it as well... I often go to local short tracks when I hear of an "attraction" on that night... for example, the SOS cars at Ohsweken, Super Modifieds at Delaware, or in this case, the CanAm Midgets and Vintage Modifieds at Flamborough (neither of which I'd seen before.)

But what I've noticed, on every racenight that I can remember, EXCEPT the Canadian Sprint Car Nats last year, the best racing was in the local classes! I came to see the Vintage Modifieds, as I love building scale models of them (cheap plug: http://www.tigersdenhobbies.com)... And the racing wasn't terrible, but there was only a field of 16-17 of them, with a fair bit of attrition (understandable), and the feature was sort of run away with. Couple of good close races in the heats though.

And the Midgets, wow what a sound out of those 750cc motors; I'd never seen them, and wasn't disappointed in watching them lap (15 second laps on a 1/3 mile, just brutal speed), and lifting their inside wheels out of turn 2. But it was very much a follow-the-leader kind of race, particularly the feature... It was only attrition that changed the lead, as I recall. Maybe it was the track, maybe it was the class, I don't know enough about Midgets to say.

But the Thundercar feature had AWESOME racing all throughout the top 5, and the 4 Cylinder class had two great underdogs, one in a purple BMW 2002 and the other in a Volvo 240 fighting in the top 5... the Volvo held on for 3rd, and the BMW, unfortunately, had mechanical failure. The #16 Mustang came from 18th to finish 2nd, and there was lots of close racing all over the track. I thoroughly enjoyed both home classes.

Does this tend to happen to you guys a lot? I notice it a lot when I go to Ohsweken on the dirt and Barrie on asphalt as well--Awesome racing in the 4 cylinder and Thundercars, and kinda "meh" racing in the premiere classes (Sprints at Ohsweken, Late Models at Barrie.)

Here's a few good pics from the weekend btw:

http://www.efnetcars.net/view_album.php?set_albumName=album06