With a number of east Tennessee drivers competing in the Ice Bowl at the Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Alabama, here is a recap of Saturday’s activities so area fans can keep up with their local heroes. Information was obtained from Race Monitor as well as several Twitter and Facebook…
The 411 Motor Speedway offered a full slate of action to start off the 2014 racing season in the track’s 4th Annual Hangover race. aside from the Late Models, also competing were drivers in the Sportsman, Thunder & Lightning, Street Stock and Mini Stock classes. Wayne Rader emerged as the…
Cory Hedgecock picked up right where he left off last season at the 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour, Tenn. The young driver scored the win in 2014’s first Late Model feature race when he captured that track’s 4th Annual Hangover event on Wednesday afternoon. Hedgecock, who won the 2013 finale at…
Just before Christmas, a press release was sent out to announce that David Duplissey and Dale McDowell had acquired Boyd’s Speedway from Richard and Robert Harvey. The new ownership team have since gone to work in preparation for the 2014 racing season at the Ringgold, Georgia facility. But the story of…
The ownership team at the Smoky Mountain Speedway in Maryville, Tenn. has been very aggressive in their efforts to bring major dirt late model events to that track. Likewise, the National Dirt Racing League under the leadership of owner John Kennedy and series director Kelley Carlton have aggressively worked to…
Add one more track to the list of those around the east Tennessee region that is undergoing change. Chattanooga area Boyd’s Speedway will be under new management when the 2014 season gets underway in the Cabin Fever event on February 1st. David Duplissey and Dale McDowell have assumed ownership of…
As part of their season ending banquet held on Saturday night in Knoxville, the Southern All Stars Dirt Racing Series released a tentative 17 race schedule for 2014 that includes eight events to be held in east Tennessee. Most notably, four races on the tour are scheduled to take place at the…
The Southern All Stars Dirt Racing Series assembled on Saturday evening at the Bearden Banquet Hall in Knoxville to celebrate their 2013 season. Awards and money were doled out to several drivers, crew members and supporters of the series from the past year. New series announcer Ray Tennyson stated that the…
Tazewell Speedway has released their 2014 schedule. As in past years, the schedule is loaded with all kinds of special events and double features for its own divisions. Twenty-eight dates are on the schedule for the 1/3-mile speed plant. The season kicks off Saturday, March 22 with the fifth annual…
According to a story posted by the Cleveland Daily Banner on December 18th, a Chattanooga area real estate development firm appears poised to take possession of the property where the historic Cleveland Speedway currently sits. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chattanooga could decide the track’s fate as early as Thursday…
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