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  BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA (November 18, 2014) –  An all-star cast of the world's best Sprint Cars will hit Kern County Raceway Park this Sunday afternoon, in the highly anticipated inaugural King of the Wing "George Snider Classic".  Sunday's 2014 season finale for the brand-new asphalt oval in Bakersfield, CA will see 160 mile per action in a 40 lap feature for the first-ever national championship.  NASCAR Spec Modifieds and 911 Series will join the "open-wheel only" festivities with Zambelli Fireworks lighting up the sky after the show.   Korean War veteran and viral sensation Donald Lora, age 85 of Bakersfield, will present the national anthem.  A display of more than a dozen race cars, including vintage open wheel machines and some of the 2014 KCRP track champions, will line the concourse for fans to check out as well.   The series will compete at Madera Speedway on Friday November 21st, Irwindale Speedway on...

  CONCORD, N.C. - Nov. 6, 2014 - Daryn Pittman and Joey Saldana kicked off the opening night of the Bad Boy Buggies World of Outlaws World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte by scoring qualifying quick-time awards. Pittman out-qualified the 56-car World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series field by turning a lap of 12.579 in his No. 9 Great Clips car during the first qualifying session which set the field for Friday's event. It was the sixth quick-time award of the season for the Kasey Kahne Racing with Mike Curb driver. Pittman credited his team as they work to end the season on a high note. "It just shows how hard the guys kept working - it doesn't matter if it's the last race, they put in the same effort for it as they do for the first," Pittman said. "Good to get quick time and we qualified really solid for the second night too. Hopefully that's a good sign for how our weekend will roll, and we'll just try to stay on top of the race track and get...

  CONCORD, N.C. - Nov. 4, 2014 - Brad Sweet and the World of Outlaws announced Tuesday they would partner to return the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series to Placerville (Calif.) Speedway during the 2015 season. The event, Brad Sweet Presents the Placerville Short Track Outlaw Showdown, will be Wednesday, April 8, 2015, as part of a robust tour through the West Coast that will be announced later this fall. "Placerville Speedway has always been a special place for me," said Sweet, a native of nearby Grass Valley, Calif. "It is where I grew up competing and where my passion for sprint car racing developed. The opportunity to partner with the World of Outlaws in returning the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series to Placerville is exciting. I look forward to making the event a success for the fans and my fellow competitors." Sweet drives the No. 49 Surepoint Medical car for Kasey Kahne Racing in the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series. This is...

(Photo Credit: Mike Spivey) Lonnie Wheatley, LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (October 10, 2014) – He has been just one position short of the $15,000 winner’s share over each of the past two years. Now he is ready to take another swing at the big money in two weeks at I-30 Speedway’s 27th Annual COMP Cams Short Track Nationals presented by Hoosier Tires. Norman, Oklahoma’s Christopher Bell is among the latest batch of entries for the $15,000-to-win, $2,500-to-start event set for October 23-25 after the blockbuster week gets under way with the $2,000-to-win Short Track Nationals Open on Wednesday night, October 22. Now 19 years old, Bell virtually introduced himself to the Sprint Car racing world with an eye-opening runner-up finish to Paul McMahan atop the high-banked, ¼-mile I-30 Speedway clay oval in 2012. Then last year, Bell backed up his maiden STN performance by racing from tenth to take runner-up honors once again, this time behind...

(Photo Credit: Joe Orth) WHEATLAND, Mo. (September 27, 2014) - The fourth running of the Jesse Hockett / Daniel McMillin Memorial found a first time winner at the Lucas Oil Speedway as Derek Hagar grabbed the lead from Jeff Swindell in slower traffic for his second Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series National Tour victory of 2014. "This means a lot," commented Derek before taking a pause to gain his composure. "Me and Jesse were team mates the year that he passed away at Manzanita in the Silver Crown cars, and at Indianapolis at the mile. That was the only time I ever heard Jesse say he was scared of the racecar was at the Indy mile. I had to look at him twice like, ''Did you just say that Jesse?'' He goes, ''Man, you guys are rolling these things into the corner. I'm used to throwing her in there, not driving her straight in wide open" but I know Jesse will always be with me, we were pretty good buds, and I'm glad this trophy is going in the house on the...

(Photo Credit: Casey Jones) FT. WORTH, Texas (September 13, 2014) - The Port-a-Cool U.S. Dirt Track National Championship added a new name to the list of winners on Saturday night as Washington's Seth Bergman topped the field for his second Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour win of the 2014 season. "We've been coming here the past three years looking at these things drooling on them and going back to the hot shop in the summer wishing we had one. I was talking with my crew guy Ryan, saying how cool it would be to get one these from y'all and bring it to the shop. I'm just so happy for people like you, doing things like this to give back to us racers. It means a lot," commented Seth as he was presented with his Port-a-Cool Cyclone 3000, along with Hat, Helmet, and $4,000 check. Working into the night's redraw through his Heat Race, Seth drew the sixth starting spot for the night's 30 lap feature event. Racing into fourth by lap five, the race for the lead was the...

(Photo Credit: Richard Bales) W. SILOAM SPRINGS, Okla. (September 7, 2014) Same track, different day for Seth Bergman who parked the Corridor Electric No. 23 in Victory Lane with the American Bank of Oklahoma Sooner Region on Sunday at the West Siloam Speedway. Seth's eighth overall win of the season, the victory is his second of the year with the Sooner Region at the track he won at on April 18. Working from sixth, Bergman avoided a flip on the start, moving quickly from there to snag the lead from Alex Sewell. Even with damage to the nose wing that rendered it useless, the Oil Field Equipment and Manufacturing No. 23 went unchallenged for the night's $2,000 prize. Alex Sewell crossed second with Kyle Clark third. Mickey Walker from eleventh snagged fourth with Kyle Bellm rounding out the top five. Chance Morton, Shawn Petersen, Brad Graham, Jamie Passmore, and Dustin Morgan completed the top ten. Morgan had run from last to fourth before having to...

TULSA, Okla. (August 12, 2014) - The ASCS Frontier Region heads into their final eight nights of the season with two rounds of competition this weekend at the Gallatin Speedway in Belgrade, Mont. on Friday, August 15 and the Billings Motorsports Park just north of Billings, Mont. on Saturday, August 16. Joe Ramaker carries the field into the weekend double-header with a slim 11 point advantage over Canada's Kelly Miller. Sitting 58 markers back in third is Trever Kirkland with 2013 champion, Phil Dietz and Paxton Lambrecht making up the top-five in series standings. A weekend matchup on July 25 and 26, Trever Kirkland and Joe Ramaker split the weekend checkered flags with Kirkland scoring his first victory of the 2014 season, and Ramaker his fourth. Gallatin Speedway kicks off at 7:35 P.M. (MT) on Friday, August 15 with races presented by Samurai Sam's Teriyaki Grill and Taco Time. Tickets are available for $13. Discounts are in place for children. Support classes...

(Photo Credit: Serena Dalhamer) Bryan Hulbert / Bill Wright - KNOXVILLE, Iowa (August 2, 2014) A loud scream of satisfaction echoed across the grounds of the Knoxville Raceway as Brian Brown finally marked the Arnold Motor Supply 360 Knoxville Nationals off his bucket list in his fifteenth attempt at the $10,000 to win event. Brown's fifteenth 360cid Sprint Car victory at the Knoxville Raceway, the FVP No. 21 led start-to-finish in the 25 lap championship event. "Man this feels good. I'm just thankful for everybody on this team," said Brown. "I'm almost out of breath, but this one's pretty cool." Asked about having to change his line through traffic, Brown replied, "The car felt good up there the whole feature. Believe or not, I didn't want to lap anybody. I just didn't want to get off it. That Impact Signs, Awnings, and Wraps Scoreboard was pretty handy. I saw where Sam [Hafertepe] got by Sammy [Swindell] but didn't know where he was running once he got...

PETALUMA, CA – July 26 - Hot Petaluma temperatures led to a smooth sealed surface on Five Corners Automotive and Western Auto Body Night at Petaluma Speedway Saturday Night.  Sacra mento’s Billy Butler blazed a rapid lap of 12.456 as he collected fast time honors in the Pit Stop USA Winged 360 Division. Alissa Geving and Zack Lynskey were victorious in the pair of heat races.  Bradley Terrell got the better of Wayne Katen on the initial start of the 25-lap feature. Lynskey vaulted past Butler and Katen in the first two circuits from his fourth starting positon and set sight on Terrell.  Terrell in his familiar family owned #43 dueled with Lynskey on laps six and seven before Lynskey, working his favored high line, cleared the defending track champion on lap eight. Sixth starting Geving also got the better of Terrell on lap 11. On the move was current point leader Herman Klein as he entered the top five on lap 16.  Lap 19 saw Jake Haulot...