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Todd Gilliland and the No. 38 Rasmussen Air & Gas Energy Ford Mustang Dark Horse Kansas Speedway Competition Notes

by MikeSeptember 25, 2024

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (September 24, 2024) – Todd Gilliland is back in action this weekend as the NASCAR Cup Series returns to the Kansas Speedway.

Following a 32nd place finish at the Bristol Motor Speedway, Gilliland and the team look to regain their momentum at the 1.5-mile oval. Quincy Compressor returns with Front Row Motorsports and Gilliland for the event and will bring along their partner, Rasmussen Air & Gas Energy for the 400-mile event. Alongside their partners, Quincy Compressor and Chicago Pneumatic, Rasmussen Air & Gas Energy is excited to enter the NASCAR world. (more…)

Layne Riggs Returns to the Kansas Speedway with Infinity Communications

by MikeSeptember 25, 2024

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (September 24, 2024) – Layne Riggs returns to the Kansas Speedway this weekend with Infinity Communications in search of his third straight win.

In the last four races, Riggs has earned two 5th-place finishes and two wins, most recently at the Bristol Motor Speedway last Thursday. Riggs and the No. 38 Ford F-150 team look to continue their streak of Top-5 finishes this weekend at the Kansas Speedway and best their May finish at the 1.5-mile track. (more…)

AO Racing and Rexy Triumphant at Indy with Drive from Last to First

by MikeSeptember 24, 2024

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (September 24, 2024) – Sunday afternoon’s Battle on the Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a day sports car racing fans and the team at AO Racing will not soon forget. Determined as ever to keep their championship points lead, the team drove an incredible race from last position on the grid to first place, expanding the championship points gap for Rexy, the Porsche 911 GT3 Rawr. Spike the Dragon also had an impressive podium run going until contact from another car took the LMP2 car out from the top three in the final hour. (more…)

Phoenix Raceway Announces Sellout for NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race on Sunday, Nov. 10

by MikeSeptember 24, 2024

PHOENIX – As a number of regional businesses and community guests gathered at Phoenix Raceway on September 12 to celebrate the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs and raise funds for the Fighter Country Foundation, the track announced that grandstand seats are sold out for the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race on Sunday, Nov. 10. It marks the seventh consecutive Cup Series event to sell out at the mile-long doglegged oval and the fourth consecutive sellout for the Cup Series Championship.

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Connor Hall Again Reigns Supreme to Capture Back-to-Back NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series National Championships

by MikeSeptember 24, 2024

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (September 24, 2024) – The path to the title may have been different this year versus last, but at the end the results were the same, as Langley Speedway-based Connor Hall captured his second consecutive NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series championship.

A year after Hall became the first Langley driver to win the championship in the top division of the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series in the 74-year history of the track, he became the first to repeat. The feeling was just as sweet the second time around.

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Wright Motorsports Kisses the Bricks After IMSA Victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

by MikeSeptember 24, 2024

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., (September 24, 2024) – Sunday evening at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Wright Motorsports celebrated a win that was a long time coming for the No. 120 Porsche 911 GT3 R of Adam Adelson, Elliott Skeer, and Jan Heylen. The win in the inaugural Battle on the Bricks endurance race marked the first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship win for Adelson and Skeer. The successful result and consistent performance during the race, rocketed the team up from 13th to fourth in the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup, the endurance championship within the full-season IMSA WeatherTech championship. One race remains in the season, the ten-hour Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, on October 12. (more…)

Mercedes-AMG Clinches 2024 IMSA GTD Manufacturer Championships in Indianapolis as Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing Teams Target Year-End Team and Driver Honors at Petit Le Mans

by MikeSeptember 24, 2024

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – Winning Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing teams Winward Racing and Korthoff Preston Motorsports clinched the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar GT Daytona (GTD) Manufacturer Championship right at the start of the Battle on The Bricks and then spent the remainder of the wet and wild six-hour endurance race closing in on more year-end team and driver honors Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). The No. 32 Korthoff Preston Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 finished third in GTD after co-drivers Mikael Grenier, Mike Skeen and Kenton Koch battled in the lead pack the entire race from the pole starting position. WeatherTech Championship GTD points leaders Winward Racing took the checkered flag just seconds after the No. 32 team for a fifth-place finish with team drivers Russell Ward, Philip Ellis, and Indy Dontje in the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3.

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PaintBox Labs Joins B-Mod Nationals at Brownstown Bullring to Bring Lights, Cameras, and Action to Raceway Fans

by MikeSeptember 24, 2024

Dirt Track Racing Goes Hi-Tech with ThinkDiffusion’s Generative AI Designed Race Car Wraps

NEW YORK, September 23, 2024 (Newswire.com) – Today, PaintBox Labs, a minority-owned digital media production company and partner to ThinkDiffusion, an AI creative platform and studio launched in 2023, has announced that it will be joining forces with the B-Mod Nationals at Brownstown Bullring in Illinois to film the raceway event as part of a sports media platform and film project, which will showcase how it integrates AI technology in telling the stories of determined people defying the odds to ascend from underdogs to champions. (more…)

Jeff Strunk & Logan Watt Are 2024 Track Champions At Grandview Speedway – Freedom 76 Weekend Recap – Opening Day For 2025 Is Saturday, April 5

by MikeSeptember 23, 2024

JEFF STRUNK AND LOGAN WATT ARE 2024 GRANDVIEW SPEEDWAY TRACK CHAMPIONS

BRETT KRESSLEY AND LOGAN WATT ARE TOP WINNERS IN HIGHLY COMPETITIVE 2024 SEASON WITH TWELVE DIFFERENT MODIFIED & FOURTEEN DIFFERENT SPORTSMAN FEATURE WINNERS

GRANDVIEW SPEEDWAY TO HOST TWO MORE ENDURO & VINTAGE RACING EVENTS IN 2024

BECHTELSVILLE, PA. – The 62^nd anniversary season of auto racing action at Grandview Speedway for the T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modifieds and the T.P. Truck Equipment NASCAR Sportsman concluded this past weekend with two exciting and action packed racing events during the Freedom 76 weekend of racing. (more…)

Mitch Guthrie Jr. Will Race Ultimate Class at 2025 Dakar Rally With Ford

by MikeSeptember 23, 2024

27-year-old American racer Mitch Guthrie Jr. will make his debut in the Dakar’s Ultimate class behind the wheel of brand-new Ford Raptor T1+.

Californian Mitch Guthrie Jr. joins Ford’s newly assembled Dakar Rally team alongside reigning champion Carlos Sainz. In 2025 the Ford Raptor T1+ makes its Dakar debut and Guthrie Jr. steps up to the elite category of the world’s toughest rally. (more…)