The Performance Racing Industry trade show is filled with cool cars, seminars, vendors, and great nightlife. That’s all fun, but the one thing I look forward to every year are schedules. Opening day of PRI has become Christmas Morning for racing fans ready to officially unwrap schedules from some of their favorite National and Regional touring series. Thursday was no different with six schedules being released. […]
By T.J. Buffenbarger Danny Smith was the most notable winner from the past weekend of racing with the Ohio Valley Sprint Car Association at Brushcreek Motorsports Complex. The victory kept a winning streak alive for […]
Travis LaCombe goes sprint car racing, Paul McMahan out at CJB Motorsports, McCune heads to South Africa… […]
By T.J. Buffenbarger Silly season is already in high gear towards the end of 2015 in preparation for next season. So far there has been plenty of series, track, and event news released. This week […]
Morning news and notes to get your Tuesday started… […]
By T.J. Buffenbarger Last Saturday’s World of Outlaws sprint car program at Berlin Raceway was another successful venture with a huge crowd, improved car count, and surprising finish with Donny Schatz passing Daryn Pittman off […]
Looking for someone that might be able to beat Donny Schatz for the first time in four years at Knoxville? Sunday’s podium finishers might be the best place to start… […]
Donny Schatz is having a season for the ages. Not since the days of the prime of Steve Kinser and Doug Wolfgang has a driver rolled through the sprint car world like Schatz has this season. Internationally Schatz has 26 victories this season with 20 of them coming in World of Outlaws competition. To win nearly half of the races in what is the toughest sprint car series in the World is nothing short of remarkable. […]
Last night’s Hoosier Hundred featured a 29 car field of USAC Silver Crown cars with 27 starting the feature. Compared to just a few years ago this is a complete turnaround for a series that was on life support. Having the Silver Crown division alive and healthy is good for open wheel racing overall for a multitude of different reasons. […]
T.J.’s notebook centers around the “Mother of All Sprint Car Weekends” at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio… […]
By T.J. Buffenbarger When the World of Outlaws / USAC Amsoil National Sprint Car Series Mother of All Sprint Car Weekends” at Eldora Speedway was announced this winter it was instantly the most anticipated weekend […]
Saturday’s Engine Pro Sprints on Dirt presented by ARP event at Crystal Motor Speedway went off without a hitch. While that doesn’t seem out of the ordinary for a series that has been around for over 30 years ago, it took a tremendous last minute effort by Adrianna Irwin and her SOD staff to pull it all together. […]
By TJ Buffenbarger (April 25, 2006) — 56 cars, six 10-lap heat races, and three 25 lap sprint car features later my first visit to Paragon Speedway is complete. To put it mildly Paragon is […]
Two weeks ago, the entire Bob, Rod, Todd crew was taking in a great sprint/midget double header at Bloomington Speedway. During the sprint car feature all of us took notice of something we hadn’t seen in a very long time. Jack Hewitt poking around the lead in a sprint car race. […]
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