The most magical mile of them all is the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds. That’s been true since the day it was built and remains true all these decades later as the USAC Silver Crown National Championship makes its annual once-a-year pilgrimage to the southern Illinois dirt mile for the TedContinue Reading
Defending race winner William Sawalich (No. 18 Starkey/SoundGear Toyota) claimed the General Tire Pole for tomorrow’s Sprecher 150 ARCA Menards Series race at The Milwaukee Mile. It’s the eighth ARCA Menards Series pole of the season for the 17-year-old who comes into Sunday’s race on a personal three-race win streak,Continue Reading
Doran Binks Racing and driver Kody Swanson recorded their best dirt-track finish of the 2024 USAC Silver Crown season to date with their Mission Foods No. 77 when they placed second in the 61st running of the Bettenhausen 100 Saturday on the 1-mile track at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. SwansonContinue Reading
William Sawalich (No. 18 Starkey/SoundGear Toyota) scored his sixth ARCA Menards Series win of 2024 in Sunday’s Springfield ARCA 100 on the one-mile dirt oval at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. Sawalich held off a furious final lap charge by Venturini Motorsports teammates Isabella Robusto (No. 20 JBL Audio Toyota) andContinue Reading
The Illinois State Fairgrounds have and always will occupy a special place in the racing career of Justin Grant. The Ione, California driver’s first career USAC Silver Crown victory of any kind arrived at the Springfield Mile in 2017. Three years later in 2020, Grant clinched his first USAC Silver CrownContinue Reading
NASCAR is back in the Midwest and Michigan International Speedway where the Cup and Xfinity Series take battle as both regular seasons continue to wind down. The ARCA Menards Series holds two races this weekend, one at Michigan on Friday and the other at the Illinois State Fairgrounds on Sunday.Continue Reading
A forecast calling for thunderstorms on race day has forced cancellation of the Thursday night, August 15, Salute to Levi Jones program featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship at Red Hill Raceway in Sumner, Illinois. The 3/8-mile dirt oval in southeastern Illinois was set to host the series’Continue Reading
No. 18 Starkey/SoundGear Toyota Camry News and Notes: Twitter: @WilliamSawalich I Facebook: William Sawalich I Instagram: @williamsawalich From the Driver’s Seat:William Sawalich: “The ARCA dirt races are challenging for me. I don’t have a ton of dirt experience and we don’t really have opportunities to practice on dirt. We wereContinue Reading
The Morrow Brothers Ford, Inc. MOWA Sprint Cars return to action this Friday, August 16 at Lincoln Speedway for the “Night Before The Mile” presented by Farm & Home Supply. It’s the first MOWA event contested since the Tom Knowles Memorial at Spoon River Speedway on July 20, where KyleContinue Reading
Springfield’s Kelly Kovski has watched as friend Justin Allgaier drove into victory lane before a raucous Illinois State Fair crowd in 2006, and again as crew chief on his own car when Grant Enfinger won the ARCA Allen Crowe 100 in 2017. Seven years later, after recuperating from injuries andContinue Reading