Barre, VT — Officials with the Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour are excited to announce that 2019 American-Canadian Tour champion Rich Dubeau has joined on as Technical Inspector for the traveling international tour as well as select ACT-sanctioned events. Dubeau will work alongside ACT Director of Competition Pete Knights throughout the 2026 season.
BECHTELSVILLE, PA. – The Grandview Speedway racing fraternity begins this week of racing in mourning after the passing of long-time race announcer, public relations expert, and one of a kind personality Ernie Saxton.
Saxton, who had retired from active announcing at Grandview following the 2013 race season, and serving as the track’s public relations and marketing mainstay for over 50 years from 1967 until his complete retirement in 2021, passed away on Sunday after a brief stay in the hospital last week.
Jan Kopecký fended off a challenge from Jon Armstrong to claim victory at Barum Czech Rally Zlín in round six of the FIA European Rally Championship.
Driving a Škoda Fabia RS Rally2, the 2013 ERC champion, co-driven by Jiří Hovorka, secured a stunning 12th Barum win after edging Armstrong by 10.7sec across 13 challenging asphalt stages.
Fans of all sports hear it all the time as broadcasters mention many athletes never forget where they came from. Such is the case with former four-time NASCAR Modified champion Kyle Soper of Manorville who Saturday morning stopped by Riverhead Raceway to donate all the trophies he accumulated for his 45 victories across four divisions; it is Kyle’s wishes the re-purposed hardware would go to INEX Bandolero winners starting Sunday July 27th.
As reported by Lou Whitmire from the Mansfield News Journal, (f)ormer NASCAR driver and entrepreneur Matt Tifft, along with his wife Jordan Tifft, have officially acquired Mansfield Speedway.
Almost 100 classic and collectible cars worth a combined value of around £2m have found new homes following H&H Classics first Cambridgeshire auction of the year.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (March 25, 2025) – Wrestling a racecar for 400 laps around Martinsville (Va.) Speedway necessitates a strong upper-body and powerful legs, connected with a tight core. The flat, paperclip-shaped .526-mile oval makes for a physical race where drivers have to pull their steering wheel hard to the left 800 times while stabbing their brake pedal at the end of each, 800-foot-long straightaway. Whether one’s car is lightning quick or could use a jolt of lightning, Martinsville pushes the boundaries of human performance as much as a car’s mechanical limits.
By Brian Linder | blinder@pennlive.com
A former NASCAR driver and his son were among those pardoned by President Donald Trump earlier this year for their involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Tighe Scott, 75, who is a native of Pen Argyl, and his son Jarrett Scott, 48, were taken into custody along with two other Pennsylvania men last June, ABC News reported. The site said they faced two felonies each “as well as multiple misdemeanor offenses” after prosecutors say they were involved in assaults at the Capitol.
As reported by Nick Geddes of ON3, Bill Weber, the former “NASCAR on TNT” broadcaster, passed away Dec. 13, 2024, the National Motorsports Press Association announced Monday.
He was 67.
The Loring Timing Association race track is currently the longest asphalt LSR surface available in the world today. Land speed racing at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine.
