Shane Stickel made his first ever trip to Kawartha Speedway on Sunday afternoon and earned a top-ten, ninth-place finish with the OSCAAR Modified tour.
Tyler Hawn started deep in the 21-car field on Sunday night at Kawartha Speedway, but a clean, consistent run led the veteran driver to a seventh-place finish. The top-ten result is Hawn’s best-career finish at the high-banked 3/8-mile oval with the OSCAAR Super Late Model tour.
For the second consecutive race, carbon monoxide poisoning inside the cockpit of the No.54 Stemac/Millenium Crane Cadillac of Mike Beyore shortened his race at Kawartha Speedway on Sunday night.
This is often the time of the year when drivers start to slow down as their equipment begins to feel the wear and tear from a long season. That’s not the case for Tracy Hines, who continues to rack up solid finishes and contend for wins across all three USAC national series. The past week was another busy week for the veteran driver with a trio of races and just as in the prior two weeks, he finished among the top-10 in each and every race to extend his streak of top-10 runs to nine straight races.
Seventeen year-old Erik Jones showcased his talent Saturday night at Berlin Raceway dominating the 200-lap Primera Plastics event earning his first career ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards Series victory.
With the biggest week of the year in sprint car racing — the FVP Knoxville Nationals — now in the books, it’s often said that the season begins to slow down. That’s not the case for Kraig Kinser and his fellow World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series competitors as they’ll return to the track this week for three races in a six-day stretch, beginning in Nebraska and concluding with a pair of races in North Dakota.
The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 makes its annual trek eastward to the Canadian Maritimes for a date at Riverside International Speedway in Antigonish, N.S., for the Wilson Equipment 300 Supporting Red Cross Disaster Relief on Saturday, Aug. 17.
Of the nine drivers to win races in the 2013 IZOD IndyCar Series season, four have been first-time winners (James Hinchcliffe, Takuma Sato, Simon Pagenaud, and most recently, Charlie Kimball).
The 35-year-old Preece from Berlin, Connecticut, led 46 of 200 laps and outlasted sleet conditions and numerous on-track chaos to become the 27th competitor to win the Clash.
Josh Berry won the Last Chance Qualifier race while Austin Cindric outbattled Corey LaJoie for the second spot after a spirited side-by-side battle over the closing laps. Berry and Cindric will compete in the Clash Main Event at Bowman Gray Stadium
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin was made available to the media on Wednesday prior to practice for the NASCAR Cup Series Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium.
