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KERCHNER: Friday Morning Heat Race

One of the things we’ll be watching this weekend will be IndyCar Series veteran Marco Andretti competing in the NASCAR Craftsman...
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MARTIN: IndyCar Is Trending Upward

INDIANAPOLIS – After years of trying to shake its troubled past, IndyCar is on an upward trend. That was never more evident...
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Ferns: Weathering The Storm

Ironically enough, my column headline a couple months ago, prior to the start of the racing season, was “The Calm Before...
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Friday Morning Heat Race

Five drivers already enshrined in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame have won 410 winged sprint car features this season...
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HOLLAND: A New Book About Sprint Car Racing

DRUMS, Pa. – Five or six years ago, Richard Golardi told me his idea of writing a book about the history of sprint car racing...
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WADE: The Sky Isn’t Falling

MESA, Ariz. — NHRA Top Fuel owner/driver Antron Brown uses the phrase “plain and simple” a lot in conversation. And for ...
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KERCHNER: 107th Indy 500 Was A True Classic

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — It’s no secret that this writer’s passion for motorsports grew from a foundation formed by annual family...
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SHEHEEN: A Good Night For Late Model Racing

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — If you were a rock band playing an outdoor amphitheater during the summer of 1982 and Van Halen was ...
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Friday Morning Heat Race

Anyone who didn’t expect Buddy Kofoid to end up in a 410 sprint car ride that was supported by Toyota Racing Development...
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LEMASTERS JR.: What Other Tracks Deserve A Comeback?

CONCORD, N.C. – With the return of historic North Wilkesboro Speedway to the NASCAR landscape, it got me thinking: What ...