FORT WORTH – It was another big dirt track weekend as the 4/10th mile, semi-banked, dirt oval held its 15th Annual Texas World Dirt Track Championships. This years event featured the ASCS Lucas Oil National Tour and combined Red River Region series’ along with the Limited Modified and Factory Stocks. All three classes will be running for a big payday, and perhaps most of all, the prestigeous Texas Motor Speedway trophy and cowboy hat. This year Snohomish, Washington driver, Seth Bergman has a chance to make history becoming the first driver to score three wins, and in a row, no…
Author: Jay Hallas
BAYTOWN – Photojournalist J.M. Hallas provides a photographic account of some of the racing action at this past weekend’s NHRA SpringNationals event at Royal Purple Raceway. Click below to see a collection of photos of the Alcohol, Pro Mod, Pro Stock, Sportsman and Nitro classes. The slide show also includes a behind-the-scenes look at the action in the pit area called Nitro Alley. (Click on pictures to advance through slide show).
By JM Hallas Kyle, TX. – It didn’t start out as your typical full moon night racing, but it turned out like it. Central Texas Speedway hosted its second race of the season, the Budweiser 250, on the 3/8 mile D-shaped, semi-banked, paved oval just south of Austin. The schedule had a full racing card of Pro Late Models, Pro Modifieds, NAPA Trucks, Super Street Stocks, Fox’s Pizza Den Grand Stocks, Sport Compacts, plus the Lone Star Legacy Series, A-Line Auto Parts Dwarf Car Racing Series of Texas and the Texas Pro Sedans. Drivers in the Pro Late Models, Pro…
By JM Hallas Paige, TX.,- Cotton Bowl Speedway hosted a regular weekly program Saturday night on the 3/8 mile, semi-banked, clay oval just east of Austin. On the racing card were all four IMCA Classes(Modifieds, Southern Sportmods, Stock Cars and Hobby Stocks) plus the Nesmith Late Models and Street Stocks and CBS Stocks. It was a good night of racing especially in the IMCA Stock Car heat races. There were battles all over the track with racers going, at some point, five wide with little to no contact. They toned it down a bit in the feature limiting the…
By JM Hallas MARION, TX. – Saturday it was time to start handing out the coveted IHRA Drag Racing Series ‘Ironman’ awards. But first, the Pro classes still had some fields to settle in qualifying for Nitro Funny Cars, Pro Mods, Pro Stocks and Nitro Motorcycles after postponement of yesterday’s events. Also looking for their first chance of an ‘Ironman’ for the weekend were the Sportsman racers in Top Dragster, Top Sportsman, Super Stock, Stock, Quick Rod, Hot Rod, Super Rod, NTS 11.50 index class and three Jr. Dragsters categories. It was a good field of cars in Top Sportsman,…
By JM Hallas Marion, TX. – After an interesting look into the inner working of the newly revamped IHRA Drag Racing Series during an earlier media day, it was time for the sounds of roaring engines and screeching tires and the smells of burning rubber, racing fuel and Nitro! But Mother Nature had other plans. First she threw scattered showers at the track and racers. If that wasn’t enough, she decided to change the wind direction. What had been a near true head wind out of the east changed to a blustery north wind. The Sportsman kicked off their…
By JM Hallas Marion, Texas – No fooling. Continuing a San Antonio tradition starting back in 2003, the IHRA Drag Racing Series rolls into town for its more traditional scheduling spot in the spring. The IHRA program has gone through some changes during the off-season including the naming of new president, Mike Dunn. Dunn comes from a huge racing background as not only a driver in Top Fuel and Funny Cars, but more recently years of being a broadcast annalist for nationally televised events. Going back in time whenever IHRA came to town the weekend’s events started with a media day…
By JM Hallas KYLE – It was a double-header season opener of sorts with Central Texas Speedway kicking off its 2016 schedule with 9 classes on hand. As the track part of the show the Pro Late Models, Pro Modifieds, NAPA Trucks, Super Street Stocks, Fox’s Pizza Den Grand Stocks, Dwarf Car Series of Texas, Lone Star Legacy’s, Legend Cars, Sport Compacts and Bandoleros were in action. Also making their season debut were the Texas All-Star Limited Modified Series competing on the 3/8 mile, semi-banked, D-shaped, paved, oval. New for 2016 the TALMS will run both dirt and paved tracks making…
By JM Hallas Marion, TX., – San Antonio Raceway hosted one of the biggest money races with $50,000 on the line for Bounty Hunter No-Prep Nationals Big Tire Class winner. As you would guess some of the baddest hot rods around came looking the big pay day. Several other classes were also in action, with a nice chunk of change awaiting the winner. In the Small Tire Class, $10,000 was there for taking with $7,000 for the Sportsman Class, $5,000 for the Truck Shootout. Some of the big names were in attendance including Kye Kelly from Street Outlaws, James “Birdman”…
By JM Hallas CORPUS CHRISTI, TX. – Friday night saw a full night of exciting action as the sixth Annual South Texas Shootout set part of each field for Saturday night’s pay day. Six drivers in the Limited Modifieds and Pure Stocks and two in the Econo-Mod class had their places set for the fields making up the final night of the show on the ¼ mile, high-banked, dirt oval. In the Limited Modifieds Steve Whiteaker Jr., Cody Smith, Shane Hoefling, Tracy Denby Jr., Dustin Butcher and Craig Oakes secured their spot. Others notables still looking for a guaranteed spot…