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T.J.’s Notebook: Best of the Weekend
T.J. highlights some of the best things from the past weekend of racing.
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T.J.’s Notebook: Season Starts for Ohio and Indiana
When you live in the Michigan/Indiana/Ohio area the last two weeks of March takes on a different feel.
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T.J.’s Notebook: Brooms Galore!
By T.J. Buffenbarger The past weekend of sprint car racing saw plenty of brooms being handed out for weekend “sweeps” of feature events. The sweep receiving the most press was Donny Schatz winning both World […]
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T.J.’s Notebook: Fresh Faces Could Produce New All “Stars”
When the Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions push off for their first event of the 2017 season Thursday night at Bubba Raceway Park the series the makeup of the teams viaing for the 2017 series championship will look vastly different than 2016.
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T.J.’s Tuesday Notebook: the Calm Before the Storm
This past weekend and this weekend are the closest thing to quiet before things ramp up with Florida Speedweeks. Races in United States are starting to pick up and drivers that have competed overseas are starting to make their way home to start the 2017 season.
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T.J.’s Notebook: Classic from the Couch
The longer I run TJSlideways.com my interest in International sprint car racing grows. Thanks to the wonders of technology I rolled out of bed Sunday morning at 5:00 a.m. to catch the last two B-Mains and the feature during the finale of the Lucas Oil Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic at Premier Speedway in Warrnambool, Australia. My morning of “Classic from the Couch” was a great way to start the day.
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T.J.’s Notebook: Mansfield Removing Pavement is a Game Changer
Mansfield Speedway announced on Wednesday the scope of the track’s conversion to a dirt racing surface changed by removing the existing blacktop surface. Originally the plan was to lay the dirt over the blacktop, but after evaluating the surface and potential pitfalls the decision was made remove the asphalt. Thursday the first images appeared of the work taking place.
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T.J.’s Notebook: Chili Bowl, the Classic, Schedules and More
With racing in Australia and New Zealand on New Year’s Day the racing seasons starts in earnest during the Chili Bowl Nationals. That is when things pick up from the holidays and continue fast and furiously until after the PRI Show.
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T.J.’s Notebook: Friday Picks for the 2017 Chili Bowl
The final preliminary night for the 31st Annual Chili Bowl Nationals pushes off tonight. My 2017 picks have been…something. There is no truth in the rumor of victory lane confetti being made up of torn […]
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T.J.’s Notebook: Picks for Thursday at the 2017 Chili Bowl
By T.J. Buffenbarger Predictions for the Chili Bowl Nationals might be the most challenging of any year since I started writing these pre-race columns. Of the drivers that have locked in through the first two […]
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T.J.’s Notebook: Wednesday Picks for the 2017 Chili Bowl Nationals
Its been a busy day with schedules and news while trying to wrap up news from Tuesday’s prelminary event at the Chili Bowl Nationals. Here are my picks for Wednesday’s program. Picks to lock in […]
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T.J.’s Notebook: Schedules, Drug Testing, and more
After a busy week with PRI, catching up on schedule overload, and digging out from over 20 inches of snow I do have a few noteworthy items from the past week in racing.
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Michigan Sprint Cars Liberated
By TJ Buffenbarger (June 15, 2002) — I had not planned to do any racing this Saturday, but a late start putting an end to my Toledo trip on Friday made me itch to see […]
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Get Slideways: Hewitt’s Drive One of the Ages
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.