The 1st annual East Tennessee Dirt Track Racing Kickoff Show took place on Saturday at the Knoxville Center Mall. Indications are the show was a success with plans for the 2nd annual show next year. The show idea came from Chris and Leslie Corum. With the Food City Race Night…
It was announced in a press release put out on Monday night that 411 Motor Speedway owners Mitch and Tanya McCarter along with sons Pierce and Mack will assume control of the Volunteer Speedway located in Bulls Gap, Tenn. Joe and Phyllis Loven will remain as the owners of the…
During Saturday’s drivers meeting prior to the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series race at the Golden Isles Speedway it was announced by series director Rick Schwallie that the use of provisionals would be enforced differently by that series. The change was brought on after defending series champion Scott Bloomquist…
Chris Corum is back into promoting oval track racing. Corum, who has spent the last four years as the promoter and owner of I-40 Motocross, is the new general manager of Tazewell Speedway. Gary Hall, owner of Tazewell Speedway, made the official announcement earlier today. Hall and Corum have been…
The 2016 season should be considered a successful racing season by many of the tracks in the east Tennessee area. Lots of fans turned out and lots of good car counts on most weeks. Many of those tracks are putting some money into their facilities as the off-season has begun for…
Tazewell Speedway has released their 2017 schedule. There are a number of special events and some noticable changes to this year’s schedule. The 2017 schedule features a number of open dates throughout the season. The weekly racing program has been scaled back to more of a special events-type schedule, though…
Smoky Mountain Speedway in Maryville, Tenn. will offer fans of the east Tennessee region a 2017 schedule filled with high-profile races. As has become the custom for the 4/10-mile clay oval facility, the schedule will feature special events with sanctioned Super Late Model features making up the vast majority of…
Eric Wells of Hazard, Kentucky made the short drive to Ponderosa Speedway and collected $10,000 by winning Saturday’s Southern Nationals Bonus Series event. Wells led flag-t0-flag in capturing the win. Wells started off the night by setting fast time out of 37 qualifiers with a time of 13.346 seconds. Well…
*Photos for this story provided by Volunteer Speedway PR Director Robert Walden. Track owner Joe Loven is looking to make improvements to the racing surface at Volunteer Speedway and new clay is being brought in to the track located in Bulls Gap, Tenn. to provide exactly that. The facility, which…
Donald McIntosh won the first heat race on Friday night to claim the pole position for Saturday’s Tennessee State Championship race at Crossville Speedway. McIntosh set fast time in the first group in time trials in the Blount Motorsports entry. Brandon Overton won the second heat race. Chris Madden was fast qualifier…
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