With late model division qualifying just about over, rains and high winds hit the Grundy County Speedway Friday night, forcing officials to cancel the speedway’s opening stock car racing program of the season.
On its Facebook page Friday afternoon, Daugherty Speedway announced the cancellation of the planned Saturday night stock car racing program at the dirt speedway.
George Hill, wheeling a 1965 Chevelle, won 17 features in 1970 to grab championship honors in late model competition at Raceway Park, the tight, quarter-mile, paved oval near Blue Island
Bill Van Allen set a single-season record for feature wins at Blue Island’s Raceway Park as he captured 29 late model stock car main events in his 1960 Studebaker Lark.
A midget racer for some nine years with the United Auto Racing Ass'n midget group, Jerry Matter passed away at his home in Nauvoo, Ill., on Jan. 25 at the age of 85.
A fixture and winner for years on southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois modified stock car circuits, Johnnie Reimer died on Jan. 18 at the age of 85
