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The Slick 50 World Sprint Car Series

The Slick 50 World Sprint Car Series

One does not have to gaze into the crystal ball for long to predict the media landscape will continue to evolve rapidly and move in unforeseen directions. Today with the right tools at your disposal if you wish to hear a favorite song all it takes is to make the…
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BUFFENBARGER: Oh, Canada

BUFFENBARGER: Oh, Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges throughout motorsports, many of which are still being felt today. As challenging as the situation as for us in the United States, our sprint car racing counterparts in Canada had bigger hurdles to overcome. The COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges…
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ARGABRIGHT: Tod Quiring

ARGABRIGHT: Tod Quiring

Earl Baltes, meet Tod Quiring.Quiring is a couple of generations removed from Baltes, one of the greatest promoters in the history of motorsports who left us in 2015. But the two men share one key trait: The guts to do something audacious, something big, something that elevates the landscape.
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Lady Luck

Lady Luck

The 74th Lucas Oil Little 500 at Indiana’s Anderson Speedway did not disappoint. The race featured new faces and sponsors, but the same excitement and drama the 500-lap sprint car race has always produced. The 74th Lucas Oil Little 500 at Indiana‘s Anderson Speedway did not…
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HOLLAND: Bloomsburg

HOLLAND: Bloomsburg

The closest dirt track that runs sprint cars to my Drums, Pa., address used to be Big Diamond Speedway in Minersville. However, since they built a dirt track inside the horse track at Bloomsburg Fairgrounds, I have a much closer dirt track to my residence. The…
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Wally Pankratz

Wally Pankratz

With the 2020 season a write-off thanks to the pandemic, Don Kazarian and his staff were giddy at the prospect of swinging the gates open at Perris Auto Speedway again. A new year brought renewed hope that normalcy could be restored; thus, the appearance of…
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PPM – Full Speed Ahead

PPM – Full Speed Ahead

If one were to devise a checklist of predictable activities and behaviors endemic to the life of those in their 20s, being probed by needles, subjected to a series of MRI’s and CAT scans and devoting hours to consultation with a battery of doctors is not included.
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ARGABRIGHT: Special & Meaningful

ARGABRIGHT: Special & Meaningful

After all these years, Bob Frey came home to a town where he’d never been. After all these years, Bob Frey came home to a town where he‘d never been. He seemed genuinely surprised; that‘s hard to figure when a guy is one of the all-time…
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SULLIVAN: Civility

SULLIVAN: Civility

I have been an educator for three and a half decades so I can speak with some authority about how one can end their college career prematurely.There are obvious precipitants like simply failing or not attending class. I have been an educator for three and a…
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STEEL Blocks

STEEL Blocks

With the costs to race sprint cars continuing to escalate, the new Steel Block Sprints Association is a breath of fresh air With the costs to race sprint cars continuing to escalate, the new Steel Block Sprints Association is a breath of fresh air. The second-year,…