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Bares Tackles Gas City in 2010, Test and Tunes Galore

Six and a half hours separates Joe Bares from his latest sprint car racing endeavor. Last Friday Bares began in hew racing adventure traveling from his home in Traverse City, Michigan, where Bares is a traffic investigator for the Grand Traverse County Sherriff’s Department, to complete the weekly sprint car program at Gas City I-69 Speedway. […]

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Eight Races Make Up Traditional Sprint Series

If you like sprint cars backin’em in at the flag stand with the front tires hiked in the air, or the excitement of wheel-to-wheel racing, then a new, special eight-race series for the traditional sprint cars will get your blood pumping in 2010. […]

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TJSlideways.com 4th Anniversary Racing Vacation

This past weekend the Bob, Rod, Todd crew and company celebrated the fourth season of the TJ Slideways Midwest Sprint Car Racing Page by taking in four races featuring six of the divisions that have made this page worth reading on a regular basis. From midgets on pavement to the World of Outlaws, we pretty much saw everything we cover here on the Slideways page. […]

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Gas City I-69 Speedway: Best Show In the Country

Last week I made the three hour trip down Interstate 69 to the Gas City Speedway. This wasn’t to see USAC, All Stars, World of Outlaws, or any other group. I went just to see a typical Friday night at a local race track. In fact, it was fan appreciation night. For $5.00 general admission fans got to see a full program of traditional sprint cars, UMP Modifieds, and the Street Stocks. I can honestly tell anyone though it’s worth driving twice as far as I have to for what might be the best short track going in the United States today.
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November Stuff I Wanted To Write About

It’s mid-November and my life is still going 100 miles per hour. Just when racing season starts to quiet down throughout the Midwest, college really starts to pick up and I wonder where I ever found time to go to the races. Actually since changing my major to Computer Networking I have found a lot more free time to go out and have some fun this semester. I really have about two more weeks to do that, and then I start preparing for finals. So if you see a link that doesn’t work, please be nice about it. We are probably aware of it, but just don’t have much time for the next month to fix it. […]