Eldora Speedway
Pittman Wins Historical Big One
Daryn Pittman won Saturday night’s Historical Big One at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.
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03/04/2003: SOD Plants Seeds For a Bright Future
“Sanction a safe, affordable, and entertaining venue that benefits our sponsors, fans, promoters, participants, and the entire racing industry”.
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TJ’s Notes and Quotes from Rumble in the Expo 2002
Mike Fedorcak became the first driver to win midget features at both the Memorial Coliseum and Exposition Center in Fort Wayne after his victory on Friday night. Fedorcak may limit his racing now to the confines of indoor arenas, but he is still a threat to win every time he straps in a car. Fedorcak uses the indoor races as motivation to keep in shape all year.
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World Series Sprintcars Vs The Parramatta Posse?
Saturday morning while most people in America will be sleeping (or out partying) the Australian version of sprint car civil war will be taking place at Parramatta City Raceway as the World Sprintcar Series takes on the strongest weekly program of sprint cars in the land Down Under.
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Just when you think it can’t get any better…you know the rest!
This is unofficially the 136th story to appear on TJ Slideways.com about Gas City I-69 Speedway that uses the phrase “Just when you think it can’t get any better, it somehow does”.
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Quickie Version of the Labor Day Weekend 2002
When a person goes to races as long as I have in my short lifetime only a few weekends really stand out amongst the others. I have a feeling down the road this past Labor Day weekend will be one of those as I took in four different tracks in four nights. During those four events I saw Late Models (I’m not proud), AVSS, USAC Midgets, All Star Sprints, and 305 sprints.
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TJ’s Notes and Mostly Quotes from GLOSS at Hartford
Paul McMahan continued our thought that one never knows who might show up at any GLOSS event. McMahan took advantage of Kraig Kinser’s crash while Kraig was leading the feature event handily before crashing in turn three.
Knoxville Nationals
Schatz Wins Thursday Feature For the Ages at Knoxville
Donny Schatz came out on top of a tremendous battle with Tyler Walker and Danny Lasoski to take the victory Thursday night at the Mopar Parts Knoxville Nationals. For Schatz, Walker, and Lasoski swapped the lead back and forth several times, even racing three wide on occasion before Schatz took command on lap 23 and pulled away the last two laps to take the victory in the Parker Stores sponsored #15 car.
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Notes and Quotes Fit For a King (Joey the XIXth that is)
Joey Saldana scored the biggest win of his career on Saturday at the 19th annual Kings Royal at the Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. Joey is now the ninth different driver to wear the crown. Saldana’s previous best finish was a fourth place during his previous eight starts.
Attica Raceway Park
Alvin Roepke Wins ‘Brad Doty’ At Attica
Elmore’s Alvin Roepke took one home for the regular Attica Raceway Park racers, winning the 14th Annual Brad Doty Classic, presented by Wirtgen America.
Attica Raceway Park
Holy Moly, Roepke Wins the Doty
Elmore’s Alvin Roepke took one home for the regular Attica Raceway Park racers, winning the 14th Annual Brad Doty Classic, presented by Wirtgen America. The Attica points leader’s win was worth $14,000. Roepke passed Butch Schroeder on lap six and dominated the remainder of the race. Dean Jacobs came from a tenth place start to finish second over a late-charging Dale Blaney.
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Gas City Valvoline Indiana Sprintweek Notes and Quotes
By T.J. Buffenbarger Indiana finally received some much-needed rain on Friday. The only twist is the rain came just a few hours before hot laps for the opening night of USAC Valvoline Indiana Sprintweek at […]
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Michigan Sprint Cars Liberated
By TJ Buffenbarger (June 15, 2002) — I had not planned to do any racing this Saturday, but a late start putting an end to my Toledo trip on Friday made me itch to see […]
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One Can Really Go Home Again
Two weeks ago Friday night rolled around and I ended up getting out of work quite a bit later than I had originally planned. After figuring out how much time I had vs. how much time it would take to drive to my original destination, I called my Dad and told him I was going to Ionia Raceway Park this week. This trip was not for a sprint car race, but mainly to check out what is going on at the track I call home.
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DRC Indy Makes a Huge Splash at Hartford
Imagine pouring your heart and soul into designing and building your very first race car and having a future NASCAR star drive it into victory lane the first night out of the box. Joe Devin could never imagine in his wildest dreams a debut for the new DRC chassis as took place at Hartford Speedway Park during the All Star Circuit of Champions event. Kahne drove the new car to victory in it’s very first outing lapped up to the eighth place car.