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T.J’s Notebook: Brown Back on Top During Knoxville Nationals Preliminary Night

Thursday’s victory for Brian Brown ended a recent run of disappointing performances in preliminary nights at the Knoxville Nationals and has returned to being a serious contender to win the Saturday finale.

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T.J.’s Takeaways From Opening Night of the 2021 Knoxville Nationals

The first night of racing during the 60th Annual NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals presented by Casey’s General Stores is complete. Here are a few of my takeaways from BRANDT Professional Agriculture Qualifying Night.

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T.J.’s Notebook: Long List of Contenders for the 60th Knoxville Nationals Title

T.J. reveals a long list of drivers he feels are contenders for the 2021 Knoxville Nationals title.

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T.J.’s Notebook: Kemenah Called off the Bench for Surprise Knoxville Effort

Chad Kemenah talks about the trip to Knoxville that was close to not happening and a handful of other notes leading into Monday’s Front Row Challenge.

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Great Lakes Edition: Ken Mackey Wins in Five Decades; Darin Naida Making First Sprint Car Start Friday

Seeing Ken Mackey in victory lane at Butler Motor Speedway not a new occurrence. Mackey is one of the most decorated drivers in the track’s long, storied history. Last Saturday Mackey put himself in rare air among Michigan race car drivers.

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T.J.’s Takeaways: Don’t Discount the East Coast Sprint Car Drivers

After a short absence the first of what we hope is more takeaway columns from the previous night of racing.

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T.J.’s Takeaways from the 37th and 38th Kings Royal

After witnessing two, $175,000 to win races Saturday at Eldora Speedway filled with all kinds of twists and turns that intertwined the 37th and 38th editions of the Kings Royal, here are my takeaways from the event.

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Great Lakes Edition: McCarron Teaming Up with Conway for Kings Royal Run

Dan McCarron is the lone representation of the Great Lakes State this weekend during the 2021 Kings Royal Weekend at Eldora Speedway. McCarron’s Kings Royal effort this year is made possible with assistance from another Michigan sprint car driver, Joe Conway

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T.J.’s Notebook from the Joker’s Wild

Carson Short turned up at the Kings Royal as the latest driver of the Pete Grove 70 car. Short, a World of Outlaws feature winner in 2020 at Tri-State Speedway, is making his first appearance at the Kings Royal in what turned out to be a last-minute deal.

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T.J.’s Takeaways from the Joker’s Wild at Eldora Speedway

After a wild night of racing and almost two years away from Eldora Speedway, here are a few of my takeaways from the Jokers Wild event that opened the 2021 Kings Royal weekend at Eldora Speedway.

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Great Lakes Edition: Notes from an Enjoyable I-96 Double and More

T.J.’s thoughts on a solid sprint car double header at I-96 Speedway and other notes from around the state.

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Great Lakes Edition Column Focus: All Stars Coming to Town

After a high paying two division sprint car program last week I-96 Speedway brings another major event to the area with the Floracing All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1 visiting the 3/8-mile facility on Friday.

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T.J.’s Notebook: Possible Parts Shortages, Drama, and Good Racing

Reading through the race results and reports from around the country every week racing appears to be making strong comeback from the COVID situation that decimated the 2020 season. While many things are starting to trend toward being normal in the racing world, new issues from the COVID shutdowns are starting to pop up in 2021.

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T.J.’s Notebook: New Nostalgia Created With Eldora/Winchester Weekend

One of the best memories I had race chasing in my youth was loading up the car or camper for a spring trip to Eldora for a chilly night of racing on Saturday followed by a sunny Sunday afternoon at Winchester Speedway.

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Great Lakes Edition: All Sprint Car Weekend Coming Up at I-96

One of my favorite racing weekends from the 2019 season was the first appearance of the American Sprint Car Series National Tour at I-96 Speedway. That weekend was circled on my 2020 calendar to cover because of the proximity and to see a series that had only made one previous appearance in Michigan would be received by the race fans.

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