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First Time Winners Dominate Easter Holiday Weekend
During the Easter
holiday weekend three drivers claimed their first career win with the
respective national touring series. Two Illinois drivers defended their
home turf when the World of Outlaws Late Model series invaded Farmer City Raceway
(IL) for the annual Illini 100 weekend.
Friday night would see local driver Mike “Opie” Spatola hold off fellow local
drivers Ryan Unzicker and Bobby Pierce for his first career feature win with
the national traveling series. With
multiple regio
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Apr 09, 2021
Rodney Sanders Goes Back to Back
With the final race
of the 2020 USMTS National Championship season concluding at the RPM Speedway
in his home state of Texas, Rodney Sanders would fight to a 15th
place finish and clinch his second straight and fourth overall points title in
one of the premier modified touring series. Sanders stats would almost
mirror the 2019 championship season with 10 wins and 27 top ten’s in 40 starts
during the 2020 season in his MB Customs modified. Fellow Allstar drivers
also in the top five woul
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Nov 19, 2020
Midwest Junior Dragster Super Series Crowns Class Champions
Indianapolis, IN (Oct 13th, 2020) The
Midwest Junior Dragster Series would make the trip to the Lucas Oil Raceway in
Indianapolis for their championship weekend presented by Allstar
Performance. After capturing his first ever event victory back on August
31st at Crossroads Dragway, Ty Gortney was looking to close
out the season with another victory and collect his first ever Quick 16
championship. Lead by dad Ryan, mom Angee and brother Lane he would
qualify number one before bowing o
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Oct 20, 2020
Sam Hafertepe Jr. Collects Unprecedented Fifth Consecutive ASCS Nation Sprint Tour Championship
Mesquite, Texas (Oct 17th,
2020) Already having a commanding lead in the ASCS National Sprint Tour
Sam Hafertepe Jr. wanted close out the final weekend of the season with a clean
sweep and win his fifth consecutive series championship. During the first
night of the 47th Annual Winter Nationals he would earn his series
leading 8th victory of the season and take one step closer to his
season goal. Starting on the pole he would lead every lap but not without
pressure from the second and t
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Oct 20, 2020
Brian Shirley Clinches Fourth DIRTcar Summer Nationals Championship
LAKE CITY, MI – What started just 45 days ago in Illinois is now
all said and done. With seven Feature victories to his credit, Chatham, IL’s
Brian Shirley is a DIRTcar Summer Nationals champion for the fourth time in his
career.“I’m
just proud of my team, proud of everybody that’s a part of this deal. I just
can’t thank those guys enough for the support we get. We’ll just keep going
until we can’t go anymore,” Shirley told Summer Nationals announcer Ruben
Mireles in Victory Lane.Shirley
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Aug 24, 2020