With heavy rain forecasted through the majority of California this weekend, Ventura Raceway and Perris Auto Speedway have been forced to cancel this weekend’s events. Ventura Raceway was supposed to hold the USAC Racing “ARP Fall Classic” hosting the National and Regional Midgets. Also on the card was the Ford Focus Young Guns Midgets. (NOVEMBER [...]
Bakersfield Speedway hosted the annual George Steitz Memorial this weekend for a special two day event. Five divisions were on hand with Modifieds being the headliner. Hobby Stocks, Street Stocks, Mini Stocks and American Stocks were also in attendance. On Friday night 2010 Bakersfield Speedway IMCA Modified Champion Brad Pounds held off Robby Sawyer in [...]
Ventura Raceway hosted the third and final 2010 All Coast Challenge race with Nic Faas returning and collecting the tracks biggest purse of the year. Forty VRA 360 Sprint Cars were on hand with $5,000 on the line. Dave Darland, John Stanbrough and Ryan Bernal visited ?The Best Little Dirt Track In America,” taking on [...]
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VENTURA, CA ? OCTOBER 20, 2010? A huge purse will be up for grabs this Saturday, October 23rd, at Jim Naylor’s Ventura Raceway. Featuring a $5,000-to-win and $300-to-start main event, an additional $5,000 will be awarded to series champion of the All Coast Construction 360 Challenge. With a possible $10,000 payday to the winning driver, [...]
Oct 182010
This past weekend… Troy Rutherford?became the newest VRA Sprint Car Champion finishing second place to Josh Ford in the main event. Heavy rainfall postponed Merced’s $1,000 to win modified to next weekend. Terry Schank Jr. passed Wes Guttierez on lap 19 to go on and win the USAC West Coast 360 Sprint Car race at [...]
After scoring a hat trick and picking up his 200th career victory last weekend at the Budweiser Nationals, California on Dirt’s Bobby Hogge IV made the trip to Chowchilla Speedway in his Victory Circle Chassis 2h modified in search for a $5,000 pay day. Hogge did just that picking up another big pay day to [...]
October 16th Ventura Raceway Report by Cliff Morgan Troy Rutherford became the newest VRA Sprint Car Champion on Saturday night by clinching the 2010 championship with a second place finish in the 30 lap feature event. Rutherford?s accomplishment comes in a year when he has consistently run up front in a tough series. He has [...]
Merced Speedway ww.racemerced.com Heavy downpours in the afternoon caused Sunday?s program at Merced Speedway to be postponed even though the sun came out at race time. The Championship Night program has been rescheduled on Sunday evening, October 24 at 5 p.m. ?The track just absorbed too much moisture,? Promoter John Soares explained. ?We had watered [...]
For Immediate Release Santa Maria Speedway Oct. 16th, 2010 by David Castaneda Thirty-three Mini-Stocks from all over California made their way to SMS to run the second Toste Grading & Paving Mini-Stock Nationals vying for a $1000 first place payday. Both front-wheel drive and rear-wheel drive race cars ran multiple heat races and two B-Mains [...]
Friday night was the final night of action at Watsonville’s Ocean Speedway. In attendance was the 360 sprint cars and mini stocks. In the sprint cars Tim Kaeding picked up a feature win after finishing second to track champion Tommy Tarlton in his heat race. Adriane Desousa made a clean sweep of the night winning [...]
Merced Speedway, www.racemerced.com By Mike Adaskaveg October 10, 2010 Merced, Calif. – Dereck Colvin is the man to beat in the modified stock car division at Merced Speedway. For the second week in a row, the 20-year-old local driver has fought off all challengers. Sunday night?s feature event saw him in the thriller of the [...]
Won’t have computer access tomorrow, so here is your Friday Fast Lane. This weekend’s line up… Antioch Speedway: OPEN SHOW: Modifieds, Super Stocks and Hobby Stocks Bakersfield Speedway: Bud Nationals, Friday night: Late Models, Street Stocks, Hobby Stocks and Modifieds. Saturday night: Late Models, Street Stocks, Hobby Stocks, Modifieds and American Stocks. (Live updates both [...]
Rip-Roaring Championship finale Saturday.? Field filled with champions. Close point races to be decided. By Bob Burbach Marysville CA – October 3, 2010 — Once again, a host of championship drivers will be headed for Marysville Raceway Park?s final event of 2010. Not only will the field be peppered with stars, the season championship in [...]
COLVIN STAYS AHEAD OF TROUBLE IN MODS; RODRIGUEZ SCORES FIRST WIN OF SEASON Merced Speedway www.racemerced.com by Mike Adaskaveg October 3, 2010 Merced, Calif. – Derick Colvin of Merced out-ran the trouble behind him as he scored his second win of the season in a caution flag-filled modified stock car feature Sunday night at Merced [...]
Chowchilla Speedway had their final night of local racing on Saturday night. Tim Prothro held off Michael Shearer in the Sportsman division with Gary Hildabrand coming out on top in his sports mod. Michael Shearer visited victory lane in his Super Stock along with Dan McCabe in his mini stock. The hobby stock finish was [...]
