Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Next Race: Toyota/Save Mart 350 The Place: Sonoma Raceway The Date: Sunday, June 25 The Time: 3 p.m. ET TV: FS1, 1:30 p.m. ET Radio: PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Distance: 218.9 miles (110 laps); Stage 1 (Ends on lap 25), Stage 2 (Ends on lap 50), Final Stage (Ends on lap 110) Larson Wins Second Race Of Season, Takes Back Points Lead Kyle Larson led a race-high 96 laps on his way to his second win of the season in last Sunday’s FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway. In the process, he passed Martin…
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By JM Hallas EDNA, Texas – After a big night of racing to begin forming the A-main fields, Texana Raceway Park began the final night of their Summer Showdown. Thirty-two drivers, split between four classes, had already secured their spot for Saturdays big money pay day. Tonight was the last chance for driver to make charge into finale. Recapping Friday nights action, it was Lawrence Mikulencak and Steve Whiteaker jr. grabbing the Limited Modified wins and front row starting spots for Saturdays A-main. Jason Fitch and Michale Pesek were the first to the checkers in the Street Stocks, while Joseph…
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]By JM Hallas EDNA, Texas – After the rebirth of racing at Texana Raceway Park this season, the 5/16 mile, semi-banked, paperclip-shaped, black gumbo track held its first big event with the Summer Showdown. The event featured increased payouts for the four classes over the two-day racing show. The Limited Modifieds would run for $1,000 to win, while the Mod-Lites, Street Stocks and Pure Stock all featured a $750 to win pay out. After closing midway through the 2015 season and remaining silent during 2016, Tony Blankenship approached the owner late in 2016 about renting the…
By JM Hallas PLEASANTON, Texas – After a full night of racing on Friday night, 32 drivers were locked into tonight’s finales at I-37 Speedway. Tonight’s action would fill the fields for the Inaugural Summer Kick-Off A-main events in the Cash Bred Off Road Modifieds, Swenson Racing Products Sport Modifieds, SABFI Transportation Street Stocks, All In Designs Pure Stocks and Brown ChevroletSport Compacts. Friday’s qualifiers saw Greg Dinsmore take the win in the Cash Bred Off Road Modifieds, along with five other drivers making the transfer. The Swenson Racing Products Sport Modifieds ran two qualifiers taking 4 from each. Lawrence Mikulencak and Steve Whiteaker jr. got the victories. In the SABFI Transportation Street Stocks 6…
By JM Hallas PLEASANTON, Texas – I-37 Speedway finally got to run its previously scheduled Memorial weekend, Inaugural Summer Kick-Off Friday night, with the first of two nights full of racing. Mother Nature claimed the first attempt back in May, but storms stayed just west of the track tonight. With extra money up for grabs in all the classes several new drivers made the trip to the ¼ mile, semi-banked, dirt oval a little south of San Antonio. Friday night’s scheduled action saw the Cash Bred Off Road Modifieds, Swenson Racing ProductsSport Modifieds, SABFI Transportation Street Stocks, All In Designs Pure Stocks and Brown Chevrolet Sport Compacts running heat…
By JM Hallas STEPHENVILLE, Texas – As part of the big Memorial weekend racing 281 Speedway hosted the Memorial Showdown on the ¼ mile, semi-banked, dirt oval just north of town. This weekend’s feature class was the IMCA Stock Cars with a meet-n-greet and autograph session on the front pit road prior to the night’s events. Along with the IMCA Stock Cars, the IMCA Modifieds, Southern Sport Mods, Hobby Stocks and Sport Compacts, plus the Factory Stocks were also in action. The IMCA Modified portion of the show was a $1,000 to win Fast Shafts IMCA All Star Race qualifier.…
By JM Hallas MARION, Texas – San Antonio Raceway hosted the Nitro Funny Cars Friday for qualifying and Saturday for eliminations. Along with the special show it was another round of IHRA Summit Super Series bracket racing on the 1/8 mile drag strip just outside of San Antonio. While most of the south-central tracks, both circle and drag strips, were falling to rain outs, San Antonio Raceway dodged the storms to get the event in. A brief shower brought a halt to time trials, but once it passed it was back to racing. The potential for rain probably held back…
By JM Hallas PLEASANTON, Texas – After suffering a rain out one-third of the way through last weekends event, Pleasanton’s I-37 Speedway was back in action Saturday night. Along with all six of the regular track classes(Cash Bred Off Road Modifieds, Swenson Racing Products Sport Modifieds, SABFI Transportation Street Stocks, All In Designs Pure Stocks, Brown Chevrolet Sport Compacts and the Nogalitos Gear Limited Late Models) the Dwarf Car Racing Series of Texas were headlining the evening. The DCRST is a touring series of 1100-1200cc motorcycle powered replicas of the old coupes of the 30’s. For added fan and youngster…
By JM Hallas PLEASANTON, Texas – Saturday night began the third round of racing at I-37 Speedway on the ¼ mile, semi-banked, dirt oval. So far this year the twelve feature races have seen twelve different winners, by class. Talon Minten has, however, won twice but in different classes, once in Modifieds and once in Sport Modifieds. So who would take home the checkers tonight? The track put up some bonus money ($300) in a challenge to the Sport Modified class to beat the car count from opening night where 27 cars signed in. With another south Texas track already…
By JM Hallas Pleasanton, Texas – It’s been five years since the ¼ mile, semi-banked, dirt oval saw racing action, but tonight that all changed. After two open practice sessions, one last week and again Friday night, I-37 Speedway by R&M Promotions saw racers from the south/central Texas area take the track for competition. Over the past several months a lot of work has gone into not only refurbishing the track and its facilities, plus cars that have been sitting idle for years. Many of the tracks past champions returned to action, while other began their hopes of a season…