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The week of the 42nd Kings Royal at Eldora Speedway will be the busiest in event history for race teams and fans with racing throughout the start of Ohio kicking off tonight at Fremont Speedway with the High Limit Sprint Car Series and culminating in the $200,000 to win finale on Saturday night at Eldora Speedway. […]
Justin Peck not giving up after losing the lead, Sweet’s mistake that could be a pivotal championship moment, and the how ending races at a decent hour is a great way to build fan equity in the spot are all covered in the takeaways from the 2025 Mace Thomas Classic at Butler Motor Speedway. […]
The 2024 Chili Bowl Nationals are in the books. Here are my takeaways from a great week of racing at the Tulsa Expo Raceway. […]
Looking ahead at the Tuesday preliminary for the 39th Chili Bowl Nationals… […]
The opening night of the 42nd 4-Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway kicked off the the Be4theCrowns Showdown on Friday with a highly entertaining and efficient night of racing. Here are some takeaways from the opening night of 4-Crown weekend. […]
Van Gurley’s loyal fan following endures 22 year absence, why I think Chase Ridenour and the Williams Racing Team could have a stellar 2025 season, and how T.J. now prefers going to Butler over medical procedures now that the track is heading in the right direction. […]
T.J.’s thoughts on how it’s okay for a race or event to just be okay and other notes from around the country. […]
There are times where bad situations just end up working out well in the end. Dan McCarron has experienced that over the past two weeks with the lows of a grinding crash that took it’s toll on his race car and body to ending up in victory lane at the same racetrack two weeks later. […]
Finding different ways to explain that Tyler Roahrig is a good race car driver, Jake Trainor’s rising star status, and hopes of a repeat of the 500 Sprint Car Tour weekend highlight’s T.J.’s Takeaways from Saturday night at Berlin Raceway. […]
Even with all of his success is Tyler Roahrig still underrated, why Kalamazoo Speedway is the best pavement track for sprint cars, and how the Kenyon Midget program was a reminder of how far behind Michigan is with divisions for development of race car drivers. […]
The focus of the Michigan sprint car racing scene focuses to pavement racing this week with only two races on the docket this weekend featuring the 500 Sprint Car Tour making a rare two-night appearance Friday at Kalamazoo Speedway in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Saturday at Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan. […]
After a couple of days of wondering if we would see any racing this weekend Butler Motor Speedway pulled off a sprint car double header on Saturday night featuring their weekly 410 sprint cars joined by the touring Great Lakes Super Sprints. […]
The story of Kelby Watt this year could be billed as a young driver navigating their way through the sprint car ecosystem down an unexpected, winding road through the 2024 season using an extraordinary amount of persistence that led to unexpected opportunities. […]
One can make a strong argument that driver Max Stambaugh and car owner Steve Smith have become the sprint car team to beat on the 360-sprint car scene in the state of Michigan. In an era with as many good car owners and teams that are currently participating, the Smith/Stambaugh combination has been on quite a run over the past three years. […]
T.J’s commentary on how there has always been great west cost talent in the short track world, but they are choosing to stay in the winged sprint cars longer rather than jumping to another division to get noticed. […]
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