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Monday, September 6th, 2010MINERAL WELLS, WV (September 5, 2010) – Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, TN won his first career Hillbilly Hundred on Sunday Night at West Virginia Motor Speedway. The defending Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series National Champion collected $42,000 for his win, which came before one of the largest crowds in the track’s history. Bloomquist took [...]
Mike Marlar goes the distance for Tazewell Speedway win
Monday, September 6th, 2010
By Richard Allen
Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tennessee led all the way to grab the $3,000 first prize for the NASRA sanctioned Buddy Rogers Memorial 44 at the Tazewell Speedway on Sunday night.
Marlar started from the pole position after drawing the top number among the four heat race winners. That inside front row starting spot proved [...]
Bulls Gap sets Labor Day weekend program for Saturday night
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010BULLS GAP, Tenn. The last weekly racing event of the season at Volunteer Speedway is scheduled Saturday, Sept. 4, with a Fastrak Racing Series-sanctioned Pro (Crate) Late Model 35-lap, $1,000-to-win feature on tap, along with a 25-lap Hobby Stock race and a “Crash ‘em Up … Smash ‘em Up” Demolition [...]
Jimmy Owens extends lead in ApplianceZone.com standings
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
CORONA, CA (August 18, 2010) -Jimmy Owens of Newport, TN, extended his lead in the special Appliancezone.com point’s category after winning this past weekends 28th Annual Sunoco Race Fuels North/South 100 Presented by Lucas Oil. In front of a capacity crowd at Florence Speedway, Jimmy passed Earl Pearson Jr. on lap 98 of the 100-lap [...]
‘Summer Sizzler Shootout at The Gap’ scheduled for Thursday, August 19
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010BULLS GAP, Tenn. A special mid-week racing program will be held on Thursday, Aug. 19 at Volunteer Speedway with NASCAR in the East Tennessee region at Bristol Motor Speedway.
The “Summer Sizzler Shootout at The Gap” will showcase Super Late Models for a 50-lap, $3,000-to-win main event. Also racing will be [...]
Owens grabs North/South 100 away from Pearson
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
By Richard Allen
Fans of the North/South 100 at the Florence Speedway in northern Kentucky saw the best finish for that race since, well, last year.
Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tennessee and Earl Pearson, Jr. of Jacksonville, Florida exchanged the lead twice over the course of the final thirteen laps with Owens making the deciding pass as [...]
Tennessee drivers and car builders fare well in North/South qualifying
Saturday, August 14th, 2010
By Richard Allen
Friday night’s qualifying session for the $50,000 to win North/South 100 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series race provided some of Tennessee’s finest drivers and car builders an opportunity to grab the spotlight on one of dirt late model racing’s biggest stages.
Dale McDowell may be from Rossville, Georgia but his Warrior Race Car [...]
North/South 100 qualifying filled with intrigue
Saturday, August 14th, 2010
By Richard Allen
Have you ever watched qualifying at a late model dirt race? I mean have you ever really watched qualifying at a late model dirt, particularly one as big as the North/South 100 at the Florence Speedway?
Dale McDowell of Rossville, Georgia drove his Clint Bowyer owned Warrior Race Car around the half-mile clay oval [...]
‘Dirty White Boy’ charges to 411 victory
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
By Richard Allen
Anthony White of Clinton, Tennessee came to the 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour looking to claim the $1,000 first prize in the fourth and final installment of the Tennessee RV Tuesday Night Tango Series and that is exactly what he did.
The driver known as the ‘Dirty White Boy’ started the 40 lap late [...]
There’s more to Herman Goddard’s life than racing
Monday, August 9th, 2010
By Richard Allen
Herman Goddard began racing around the dirt tracks of east Tennessee at the age of 19 and he has enjoyed over 50 years of thrills in that endeavor. Not only has he raced for all that time but he has won. From the time of his first race in the 1950s until just [...]