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Short-Track Roundup: World of Outlaws champion Jason Meyers to step away from ...
AutoWeek
Two-time defending World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series champion Jason Meyers will be stepping away from racing following a 14-race All-star Appreciation Tour to begin the 2012 season. Meyers made the announcement in a letter to fans, sponsors and media ...
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American drivers dominate sprints
Stuff.co.nz
American drivers dominated the New Zealand sprintcar championship raced over two nights at Ruapuna Speedway. Open wheel superstar Sammy Swindell lifted the title on Saturday night from defending title holder Jonathan Allard, with Austen Wheatley ...

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WoO: Reigning Champ Meyers Headed For Retirement?
SPEEDtv.com
~Ed.) In January of 2004 with the help of Guy Stockbridge and eventually Chris Luck in 2006, I set out to build a World of Outlaw sprint car team capable of winning the World of Outlaws Championship. Over the past eight years, seven seasons of Outlaw ...
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Sprints Return to Michigan's I-96 Speedway August 10
WhoWon.com
by Dick Jordan INDIANAPOLIS -- The USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Series returns to Michigan August 10 for a race at I-96 Speedway in Lake Odessa. The race will be the first for the series on dirt in the Great Lakes State in 16 years!

50th Anniversary of USAC Racing to be Celebrated in Grand Style
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ROSSBURG, Ohio -- In celebration of the 50th anniversary of USAC (United States Auto Club) Sprint Car racing at Eldora Speedway, one giant night of racing, Saturday July 28, has been inked. It will live up to the traditional Eldora standards of ...

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Dynamics Fielding Ocala Sprints for Bacon and Hagen; Benic Selects East ...
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by Dick Jordan INDIANAPOLIS -- New driver/car combinations are expected to be highlights of next week's 2012 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car openers at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, Fla. “Bubba's Winter Dirt Games” presented by eBay Motors will showcase ...

Rankin puts breakdowns behind him
Warrnambool Standard
AFTER running hot for the past two weekends, Tim Rankin's sprintcar has had a makeover in the workshop. The Simpson 23-year-old had to retire from the C main at the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic in Warrnambool before finishing 16th in the B main at ...

Broken Hill Speedway star on the rise
ABC Online
After achieving success in the Junior Sedan category, Brendan progressed to Wingless Sprintcars where he excelled before moving to his current category, 360 Sprintcars. "Last year I stepped up to the 360 and it's my second season now and we've got some ...

Local Auto Racing Notebook: Perris Speedway raises prices
Ventura County Star
By Rich Romine Perris Auto Speedway has announced price increases for the 2012 USAC/CRA Sprint Car racing season, beginning Feb. 25 with the Sokola Shootout at the Riverside County Fairgrounds dirt complex. "The ticket and pit pass increases this year ...

World of Outlaws Sprint Cars Look Ahead to West Coast March
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by Shawn Miller CONCORD, NC -- While most of the off-season attention is focused on the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series season-opening event in Florida, a month-long trip to the West Coast awaits the teams. Following the 41st annual UNOH DIRTcar ...

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Fasten your seat belts . . .
The Ashburton Guardian
Honeywell will contest the New Zealand Sprintcar Championships at Ruapuna Speedway on Saturday, and then make an overdue return to his home track at the Ashburton Speedway's Sprintcar Spectacular on Sunday. The sprintcar storm that has moved over the ...

Californian keen to keep national sprintcar title
Star Canterbury
For the second successive year NZ sprintcar drivers are looking at seeing their national title head overseas when it is contested at the Ruapuna Speedway tonight and tomorrow. Californian Jonathan Allard led two of his fellow countrymen to sweep the ...
Fasten your seat belts . . .The Ashburton Guardian

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World of Outlaws Sprints Gearing Up for 2012
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World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series drivers and teams are busy preparing for a grueling 83-race schedule in 2012 that begins with the invasion of Florida's Volusia Raceway Park on February 17th. Two-time and defending series champion Jason Meyers will ...

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Front Row Challenge/Ultimate Challenge 'Best of Both Worlds' Ticket Renewals ...
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And for the first time, the Monday program will also feature a preliminary night for Tuesday's Ultimate Challenge for non-winged Sprint Cars – so race fans will get to see the best of both worlds of 410 Sprint Car divisions for the price of one!

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Young sensation set to boost Sprintcar lead
The West Australian
Promising youngster James McFadden looks to continue his strong recent form during the 25th anniversary World Series Sprintcars competition in the Kalgoorlie round tonight. McFadden, 21, finished eighth in the points tally last season but then spent ...

Swanson brothers to race in new car series
Kingsburg Recorder
The auto-racing Swanson brothers of Kingsburg have committed to race in the Must See Racing Xtreme Sprint Car Series this year. Kody Swanson, 23, announced last week he will race sprint cars for Wilshe Motorsports. Younger brother Tanner Swanson will ...

A dirt path to fame
Log Cabin Democrat
Bobby Ward, soon to be inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame, looks over some clippings for a 19-year racing career. DAVID MCCOLLUM PHOTO By David McCollum It began with one of those “my Chevy is faster than your Ford' type of challenges.

Hamburg's Haus wins fifth straight late model title
Boyertown Berk Montgomery Newspapers
Mike Wagner, of Harrisonville, took home top prize in the Aumillers Insurance 410 sprint car division. The title was the second of his career at Port Royal, also having claimed laurels in 1991. Scott Haus, of Hamburg, was honored as AB Auto Glass late ...

Levi Jones Opens Pursuit of USAC Title #8 with AJ Foyt's All-Time Record of 11 ...
WhoWon.com
That pursuit begins February 9-11 when the AMSOIL National Sprint Cars open their 2012 campaign with 'Bubba's Winter Dirt Games” at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, Fla. The 2011 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Champion and Traxxas Silver Crown king now ...

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Steve Kinser: “I've Had Enough Time Off. I'm Ready to Go Race.”
Auto Racing Daily
For a guy like Steve Kinser, the King of the Outlaws and the winningest driver in sprint car history, it isn't any different. “Right now all of the guys are trying to get these cars finished up and head to Volusia,” he said. “I've had enough time off.

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