Author Archives: Stan Kalwasinski

Author Archives: Stan Kalwasinski
Stan Kalwasinski

Thiel Goes 2-For-2 In IRA Sprints

Thiel Goes 2-For-2 In IRA Sprints

Two-for-two so far this season, Scotty Thiel won the 30-lap Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association feature race for winged sprint cars at Sycamore Speedway Saturday night
Author Archives: Stan Kalwasinski
Stan Kalwasinski

Neuman Tops 86th Badger Season Opener

Neuman Tops 86th Badger Season Opener

The AFS Badger Midget Series visited the Sycamore Speedway Saturday night for the series’ season opener with Jake Neuman scoring the victory in the opening 25-lap headliner of the season. 
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Stan Kalwasinski

Grundy Season Opener Postponed

Grundy Season Opener Postponed

Mother Nature wins another one as the Grundy County Speedway was forced to postpone its stock car racing season opener scheduled for Friday night.
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Stan Kalwasinski

Chicagoland Racing

Chicagoland Racing

Grundy County Speedway kicks off its 2022 stock car racing season this coming Saturday, April 30.
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Stan Kalwasinski

Briscoe Is Talladega Sprint Car Star

Briscoe Is Talladega Sprint Car Star

It took Chase Briscoe only two nights to pick up his first United Sprint Car Series victory.
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Stan Kalwasinski

The SAFE Circuit of Champions

The SAFE Circuit of Champions

SAFE stood for the Society of Autosport, Fellowship and Education and during the first part of the 1950s, the organization went toe to toe with NASCAR, the American Automobile Ass’n and the Midwest Ass’n for Race Cars in sanctioning stock car racing.
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Stan Kalwasinski

Bill Davis — A True Racer

Bill Davis — A True Racer

Northwest Indiana stock car racer Bill Davis, of Chesterton, Ind., died on March 10 at the age of 82. Stan Kalwasinski wrote this story on Davis about two years ago
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Stan Kalwasinski

Thaw Brawl Moves To Davenport

Thaw Brawl Moves To Davenport

A tradition for the opening of stock car racing in the Upper Midwest each Spring, the 11th annual Thaw Brawl presented by Hoker Trucking LLC dirt late model stock car special moves to the Davenport Speedway with the two-day event set for March 25-26
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Stan Kalwasinski

Midwest Midget Ace Bill Krueger, 80

Midwest Midget Ace Bill Krueger, 80

Midwest midget racing champion Bill Krueger died here on Jan. 10. He was 80 years old
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Stan Kalwasinski

KALWASINSKI: Chicagoland Champions

KALWASINSKI: Chicagoland Champions

MAPLE PARK, Ill. — Two-for-two so far this season, Scotty Thiel won the 30-lap Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association feature race for winged sprint cars at Sycamore Speedway Saturday night.  The program marked the return of 410 sprint cars to the third-mile dirt oval for the first time in…