Shawn Smith to race in the NSCS

by Andrew Kunas, NSCS Publicist

NAMPA, Idaho - Imagine being a driver who competes in a series that doesn’t even race in your own home state.

That is exactly what Shawn Smith has been doing for a while now. Several times a year, Smith tows from his hometown of Nampa in southern Idaho across the Columbia Basin to race either in western Oregon or western Washington. He’ll be doing it again in 2007 with the new Northwest Sprint Challenge Series. Read more

Van Dam in the NSCS chase

by Andrew Kunas, NSCS Publicist

ENUMCLAW, Wash. - Henry Van Dam will be a force to be reckoned with in the Northwest Sprint Challenge Series in 2007.

The 25-year-old from Enumclaw, Wash. is the pick of many to win the first NSCS championship, and Van Dam already has some momentum on his side already as he is coming off a win in last Saturday’s regular event at Skagit Speedway. Read more

Knoxville: TSR, McMahan look forward to first event at legendary track

INDIANAPOLIS – For Paul McMahan and the rest of the World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Series competitors, this Saturday’s event at Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway will kick off the annual pilgrimage to the crown jewel of winged sprint car racing, the Knoxville Nationals. Read more

United Racing overcomes some adversity at Tuscon

by Dave Grayson

When the United Racing teams joined their fellow ASA Go Fast Speed Truck Challenge competitors, April 21st, at the Tucson Raceway Park they arrived at the track with a great deal of enthusiam not to mention momentum from the success of the previous event in Lake Havasu City-Arizona.

United Racing drivers Bear Rzesnowiecky and Darren Young finished one-two at the Havasu 95 Speedway in their matching Chevrolet trucks sponsored by United Nissan, Sudden Impact and Quaker State.Both drivers arrived in Tucson tied for third in the series’ points standings. Read more

Secord winning, enters SRL race at Shasta

SAN BERNARDINO — Sinister Motorsports team leader Eddie Secord gave himself an early 36th birthday present Saturday night with a victory in the ASA Pro 4 main event at Orange Show Speedway. It was the second win in three races at Orange Show and the second in eight days for Secord, who had won a Pro 4 open competition race at Tucson a week before.

Secord, who will celebrate his birthday on Monday, started third in the 10-car field, but moved into second on the first of the 35 laps over the quarter-mile paved oval, then took the lead from Yucaipa’s Tim Carruthers on lap 10. Victorville’s Rex Lockwood, the Orange Show winner three weeks ago, also moved past Carruthers for second, but never was able to mount a challenge to Secord’s Ford-powered Pontiac Grand Prix.

“We had a few minor handling problems to deal with in the heat race and Trophy Dash, but we got them solved before the main,” said Secord, who won the season opening race but was unable to start three weeks ago due to a broken clutch fork. “The car was really loose getting into the corners. We tightened it up a little and it came around. The car was good, it was stable and we didn’t make any mistakes.”

Secord’s next race is the the opening event in the SRL Late Model touring series May 5 at Shasta (Calif.) Raceway Park.
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Nutter throws his hat into the NSCS ring

by Andrew Kunas, NSCS Publicist

CENTRAL POINT, Ore. - Former Northern Sprint Tour champion Billy Nutter of Oregon has announced that he intends to go after the inaugural Northwest Sprint Challenge Series championship.

With so much spot light on the Northwest’s younger drivers recently, the popular Central Point driver, who will soon turn 45, will be looking to teach the youngsters how to do things on the dirt tracks of Washington and Oregon. Nutter has over 20 years of racing experience to back him up, including the last 15 in a sprint car. Read more

Meier leads Irwindale ROY hunt

Las Vegas, NV – After two races in the Late Model Division at Irwindale Speedway, Jace “the Ace” Meier is the leading rookie, qualifying and finishing higher than any other rookies in both races and leading “Rookie of the Year” by 20 points.  Meier is racing for Tim Huddleston’s High Point Racing team.   Huddleston is a past Late Model division champion and owner of one of the top Late Model teams in Southern California.  Read more

Funk has mixed weekend at Madera

by Andrew Kunas

MADERA, Calif. - Evan Funk is wishing things could’ve gone better in Saturday’s Gerhardt Classic at California’s Madera Speedway.

In his first visit to Madera, Funk piloted his family’s Frontier Chevrolet-sponsored #8 wingless 360 sprint car to a tenth place finish in the 40-lap USAC Western Sprint Car Series main event, won by Kody Swanson, after qualifying 14th with a time of 15.102 seconds around the 1/3-mile asphalt oval. Read more

Jones and Hines Look Forward to USAC Sprint Doubleheader

INDIANAPOLIS – The waterworks that Mother Nature has imposed upon the competitors of the USAC National Sprint Car Series have seemingly come to an end as the series gears up for a season-opening doubleheader at Indiana’s Lawrenceburg Speedway on Saturday (April 21) and Winchester Speedway on Sunday (April 22). Read more

McMahan to tackle Midwestern bullrings

INDIANAPOLIS – Tony Stewart Racing’s (TSR) Paul McMahan knows that when the World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Series sweeps through the Midwest, he may as well be carrying a bull’s-eye on the No. 20 TSR/Bass Pro Shops/Eagle machine. The region is saturated with some of the best talent in the sprint car arena, and a chance to rob a WoO Sprint Series regular of a victory is at the forefront of the local competitors’ minds. Read more

UNITED NISSAN RACING READY FOR THE TUCSON CHALLENGE THIS SATURDAY

by Dave Grayson

When the teams from the ASA Speed Truck Challenge roll their haulers into the pit area of the Tucson Raceway Park this weekend there’s one thing that can be expected: those two black trucks from United Nissan Racing are going to be well prepped and the team’s two drivers are going to respond to the challenge, of the .375 mile track’s multi banking, and charge to the front. Charging to the front is simply how United Nissan Racing’s drivers like to roll. Read more

Secord gets Pro 4 win at Tucson

Sinister Motorsports driver Eddie Secord made his weekend in Arizona a successful one by winning the Pro 4 main event Saturday night (April 14) at Tucson Raceway Park.

Secord, 35, of Oak Hills, finished about four car lengths ahead of Kyle Cline in a raced that featured many of the drivers who regularly compete in the Pro 4 class at Orange Show Speedway in San Bernardino, Calif., and in the Southwest Pro 4 Series. Read more

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