Former Chicago racer and resident Bill Venturini and his Venturini Motorsports team enjoyed the fruits of victory as the North Carolina-based team saw John Wes Townley wheel one of its four entries to victory at Daytona Int’l Speedway in Automobile Racing Club of America stock car action
The AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Series put on three great shows at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, Fla., winding down promoter “Bubba the Love Sponge” Clem’s ambitious Speedweeks schedule that brought area fans and visiting Yankees the All-Star sprint cars and WoO late models prior to the invasion of the non-winged sprinters.
Daytona 500 weekend is upon us and with the usual flurry of racing activity in the Sunshine State during mid-February there has been a lot to talk about on and off the track
A new one-hour Lucas Oil MAV-TV American Real TV show titled “Won & Done” was taped at the Irwindale Dragstrip Feb. 7. Future shows will be taped on the first and third Thursdays of each month at the Irwindale Dragstrip weekly street legal drag racing “test and tune” events from 4 to 10 p.m. Rich Christensen served as show host
Driving to Orlando for a business trade show and a weekend of racing, Levi Jones discussed his schedule for the coming year
The 2012 SuperFans entries have been reviewed and ranked and we’re ready to announce the winner in the professional category
It’s been like a whirlwind the last month or so for me, Lee Beard and the entire Rapisarda Autosport Int’l Top Fuel drag racing team
This winter I recalled my major 2012 bucket list accomplishment. Fellow racing writer Norm Bogan and I for years had a similar bucket list goal — drive through the New England states and visit as many auto racing speedways as possible
The line between entertainment and sport in today’s world of professional motorsport is a blurry one. It is, though, one — blurry or not — that has been perfected by NASCAR, the same NASCAR that owns the Grand American Road Racing Ass’n
Before getting too far into the New Year, let’s take a look back at auto racing in the Chicago area 25 and 50 years ago. The years were 1988 and 1963
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