East Tennessee racing fans will have to wait a little longer to find out the fate of the Cleveland Speedway. Action had been scheduled to take place in the bankruptcy court in Chattanooga on Thursday, December 12. However, that action has been delayed until next week. The scheduled date of hearings for that…
InsideDirtRacing.com has learned that Lenoir City based chassis builder Chip Vineyard has tabbed McCarter Brothers Racing to be the exclusive dealers of his CVR brand race cars. The deal will go into effect immediately. Along with brothers Pierce and Mack McCarter and Matt Henderson, a number of top east Tennessee…
For several years now, I have been an avid user of social media. I enjoy using both Twitter and Facebook to interact with people and promote my websites. The conversations held on those two sites often lead to new stories or blogs, and this is one of those cases. I…
Wartburg Speedway will be under new leadership in 2014. Raymond Shepard has moved from the Spring City Raceway after running that track for the past two years to assume the roles of track manager and race director at Wartburg. Track owner Mike Kittrell announced Shepard’s hiring on the track’s MRMracing.net…
Riley Hickman didn’t necessarily plan on going for the Southern All Stars Dirt Racing Series title when the 2013 season began, but he did plan to race as many times as he possibly could. As it turned out, he did both win a championship and race a lot. So what…
By Richard Allen Rusty Ballenger has learned the secret to success over the long haul of a racing season. That secret is consistency, and consistency comes from hard work and dedication. In 2013, the 23 year old Seymour, Tenn. driver applied what he has learned and was rewarded with the…
Randy Weaver has been one of East Tennessee’s most successful dirt late model racers over the past decade or so. And in 2014, the Crossville, Tenn. star hopes to take that success to an even higher level. The three time Southern All Stars Dirt Racing Series champion(2009, 2010 & 2012)…
It’s an age old question for dirt track owners and promoters. On a night when a track is hosting a special event, such as a touring Super Late Model series, what is the right number of support divisions to run along with the visiting class? I recently posed this question on…
The Wartburg Speedway has released its 2014 schedule and it looks to be a busy season on the high banked quarter-mile track. A total of 23 race dates are set, highlighted by a couple of lucrative Late Model shows. The track will operate primarily on Saturday nights. Classes figuring to…
The ownership of the Smoky Mountain Speedway made the decision a couple of years ago not to host a weekly racing program on their track. Instead, the historic Maryville, Tenn. oval has become the home to special events from a number of dirt racing series’. The track has proven itself…
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