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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. […]

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It’s Just Gas City, and Gas City Rocks!

After driving through clouds dark enough to make myself think, “This has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever done”, the trip was made worthwhile as the rain held off so I could see another instant classic at the Gas City I-69 Speedway. The stellar field of cars put on one whale of a show from the heat races all the way to the feature event. […]

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Indy Brings Out the Kid in Me

After starting the year with gale force winds, arctic conditions, and lots of rain mother nature finally spotted the Slideways crew a decent weekend last week when we headed out to Gas City I-69 Speedway, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and US 24 Speedway in Logansport, Indiana. […]

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TJ’s Notes & Quotes from Eldora All Stars

The biggest pre race news was the involvement of Joe Darmofal buying a controlling interest in the All Star Circuit of Champions. Joe has sponsored teams in the past, and was formerly the head of the Motorsports Alloys division of TW Metals. Joe has been a staunch All Star supporter and will do a great job leading the group into the future. To avoid speculation, a press release from the All Stars will be forthcoming and we will have an interview with Darmofal this weekend. […]

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Gearing Up For a Triple Variety Weekend!

The 2002 season kicked off with a rather auspicious start with openers at Attica Raceway Park and Eldora Speedway getting cancelled due to inclement weather earlier in the week. Both Janet Holbrook and Earl Baltes did a great job forgetting the word out early about the cancellation. […]

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Ohio “4 four all” Shows Potential

This week the United States Auto Club officially announced plans for an Ohio swing to feature the National Sprint Car and Midget series at four prominent dirt tracks. Ohio was the founding ground of the “Speedweek” format where winged racers crisscross the Buckeye state. Now USAC has taken this concept into a four-day weekend that makes way too much sense in a sport that does not make sense very often. […]

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Mike Linder Dominates SOD Season Championship at Hartford

Mike Linder from Fremont OH took his first career SOD checkers by lapping all but second place during the Sprints On Dirt Season Championship at Hartford Speedway Park. “We have come close a couple times,” stated Linder, “but the breaks finally went our way tonight.”
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Winged Sprint Car Racing’s Grand Slam: Is it possible?

Last week at Eldora as Mark Kinser passed cars high and low after Karl Kinser tweaked his car during a red flag, some of the sports talk consuming the rest of the country suddenly hit me, can Mark Kinser win what I consider the ‘Grand Slam’ of sprint car racing? After Mark’s Lernerville victory this question can be asked more frequently. […]

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Wilson Wins Speedweek Show at Limaland

Greg Wilson outdueled Kelly Kinser Friday night in the All Star sprint 30-lap Ohio Speedweek feature at Limaland Motorsports Park. His fourth win of the season paid Wilson $6,000 and came in front of another sellout crowd in Bob Hampshire’s No. 63. […]