After differing trials and tribulations kept him out of victory lane in the past, 14-year-old George Kurtz finally collected his first career USAC Eastern Midget Ass’n victory on Saturday night at Hickory Motor Speedway.
After differing trials and tribulations kept him out of victory lane in the past, 14-year-old George Kurtz finally collected his first career USAC Eastern Midget Ass’n victory on Saturday night at Hickory Motor Speedway.
Johnny Petrozelle said prior to Sunday’s 17th running of the Sumar Classic at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track that his goal with the Cornell Racing Stables team was “just to have fun” in the duo’s USAC Silver Crown Series debut.
Just six weeks into Tony Stewart’s much-publicized and long-awaited ‘Return to Dirt’, the former three-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion is a sprint car winner once more.
After Brian Gerster closed his 2016 season with a vicious crash at Owosso Speedway last August, destroying one of the most productive winged asphalt sprint cars to ever hit the race track, the two-time Must See Racing Sprint Car Series champion is hoping to erase those bad memories this year.
If dirt track open wheel racing lost its definition of a badass when Bryan Clauson tragically lost his life last August at the Belleville Midget Nationals in Kansas, then pavement open wheel racing suffered the same loss Saturday night with the passing of Dave Steele in a sprint car crash at Desoto Speedway.