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On a history-making night at the 81 Speedway where crew members, fans and racers honored the late Grant Junghans and paid tribute to hall-of-fame promoter C. Ray Hall, a young driver from Chatfield, Minnesota, named Jacob Bleess forever etched his name into dirt modified racing lore. With the champagne still not dry on the Featherlite Fall Jamboree trophy he took ...

November 16th, 2019 A Modifieds A Feature 1 40 laps | 00:24:43.781 Pos Start Driver Hometown Car 1 3 RC Whitwell Tucson, AZ 96T 2 10 Jake O’Neil Tucson, AZ 0 3 4 Cody Laney Torrance, CA 5L 4 8 Tim Ward Chandler, AZ 4TW 5 12 Jason Hughes Watts, OK 112 6 5 Chaz Baca Mesa, AZ 75JR 7 ...

November 15th, 2019 A Modifieds A Feature 1 25 laps | 00:25:26.777 Pos Start Driver Hometown Car 1 7 Cody Laney Torrance, CA 5L 2 4 Tim Ward Chandler, AZ 4TW 3 12 Jake O’Neil Tucson, AZ 0 4 21 Ricky Thornton Jr Adel, IA 20RT 5 8 Kellen Chadwick Oakley, CA 83 6 25 Jason Beaulieu Campbell River, BC ...

Rodney Sanders rolled to his 11th main event victory of the season Friday as the United States Modified Touring Series kicked off the final weekend of the season with the 3rd Annual Chisholm Trail Showdown at the 81 Speedway in Park City, Kansas. Coming into the night as the newly-crowned and now three-time USMTS National Champion, Sanders emerged from a ...

November 14th, 2019 A Modifieds A Feature 1 25 laps | 00:20:15.965 Pos Start Driver Hometown Car 1 9 Tom Berry Jr Newburg, ND 11X 2 5 Terry Phillips Springfield, MO 75 3 2 Jeff Aikey Cedar Falls, IA 48A 4 7 Ethan Braaksma Newton, IA 111E 5 11 Jeff Taylor Cave City, AR 5T 6 3 Robert Hellebust Minot, ...

SECOND TO NONE Williamson’s runner-up finish to Decker in Can-Am World Finals clinches Canadian’s first Super DIRTcar Series championship CONCORD, NC — Nov. 9, 2019 — The entire 2019 Super DIRTcar Series season came down to Saturday night’s Can-Am World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte. Seven-time champion Matt Sheppard was on the pole opposite the hottest driver on ...

Super DIRTcar Series Drama Lifts Williamson to Championship Lead Over Sheppard as Phelps Powers to Can-Am World Finals Win CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS! CONCORD, NC — Nov. 8, 2019 — High drama for the Super DIRTcar Series championship exploded on Friday in the Can-Am World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte. While Mat Williamson and Matt Sheppard waged ...

BIG STAGE SUCCESS: First-time winners and returning stars shine bright at DRIVEN Racing Oil World Short Track Championship   From first female winner to undefeated champion, The Dirt Track at Charlotte had it all   CONCORD, NC — Nov. 2, 2019 — After 13 Features and four Invitationals with more than 400 racecars across nine divisions, the DRIVEN Racing Oil ...

More Than 400 Race Cars Turn Up the Heat on Opening Night of DRIVEN Racing Oil World Short Track Championship   CONCORD, NC — Nov. 1, 2019 — More than 400 race cars across nine divisions took to The Dirt Track at Charlotte on Friday for the opening round of DIRTcar Racing’s Fourth Annual DRIVEN Racing Oil World Short Track ...

by Brian Neal Donnellson, IA (Sunday, October 27, 2019) – Mother nature tried to put a damper on the final event of the 2019 racing season at the Pepsi Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, Iowa, as cool temperatures, along with rain showers, forced the 21st Annual Shiverfest to be pushed back one day to Sunday, October 27th. The Shiverfest event ...

USRA B-Mods A Feature 1 00:00:00 Pos Start Driver Hometown Car 1 3 Nick Rivera Las Cruces, NM 8N 2 1 Calvin Iverson Eleva, WI 27X 3 2 Josh Cain Rio Rancho, NM 3J 4 4 Nathan Smith Anthony, NM 88 5 12 Collen Winebarger Corbett, OR 17 6 8 Jaime Torres Tortugas, NM 44JT 7 7 Derek Stuhler Elephant ...

IMCA HOBBY STOCK A Feature 1 20 laps | 00:14:59.446 Pos Start Driver Hometown Car 1 3 Kaden Reynolds Cedar Rapids, IA 1 2 8 Jason Fusselman Avoca, IA 55 3 1 Miciah Hidlebaugh Adel, IA 72H 4 5 Cody Williams Minneapolis, KS 77 5 20 Austin Mehmen Cedar Falls, IA 5M 6 12 Curt Reed Des Moines, IA 4C ...

R.C. Whitwell staved off a mid-race challenge from Jake O’Neil and a late-race threat from Bobby Pierce to claim the checkers on night two of the 20th Annual Rancho Milagro USRA Fall Nationals at the Vado Speedway Park. The ace from Tucson, Arizona, started on the pole for the 25-lap Rancho Milagro USRA Modified qualifying feature, but his path to ...

The Marshalltown Speedway sprang back to life on Friday night for the first of two nights of late October racing. Mother Nature had caused the postponement of the originally scheduled 13th World Nationals two-night event back in September. There were 148 race cars in four divisions checked in for late fall fun on the High Banks. The first of the ...

Celebrating their first season of operation, the fabulous Vado Speedway Park kicked off the 20th Annual Rancho Milagro USRA Fall Nationals on Friday with a packed pit area featuring some of the hottest dirt track racers on the planet. In the headlining Rancho Milagro USRA Modifieds, Cade Dillard earned the right to visit Western Tech Victory Lane following a nail-biting ...

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Portsmouth Raceway Park October 18th, 2019 UMP Modifieds A Feature 1 00:24:26.390 Pos Start Driver Hometown Car 1 5 Eddie Carrier Jr Salt Rock, WV 1C 2 4 Donnie Moran Dresden, OH 2A 3 21 Nick Hoffman Mooresville, NC 2H 4 7 Eric Wells Hazard, KY 18 5 2 K.C. Burdette Parkersburg, WV 44 6 8 Jesse Wisecarver Zanesville, OH ...

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