Here is a recap of our 2019 season!
NARC NEWSLINE – MARCH 1, 2021, By Jim Allen … Wouldn’t you know it? The more things change, the more they remain the same. Everybody opened their 2021 sprint car calendar with promise and hope, desperate to sit in the main grandstands and watch some dirt track racing in California. Next thing you know, the…
NARC NEWSLINE, December 13, 2020, By Jim Allen … As you have probably already seen, the 2021 NARC King of the West Fujitsu General Racing Series has been published for the masses. The broad overview of this sprint car campaign is simple, featuring 20 410 sprint car events at 10 different dirt oval tracks … assuming…
(12/11/20) Sacramento, CA … The Northern Auto Racing Club has rolled out its 2021 King of the West 410 Sprint Car Series schedule, featuring 20 racing events at 10 different dirt tracks throughout California. The series, which will feature Fujitsu General as the title sponsor, is backloaded to the second half of the year in…
(11/10/20), Stockton, CA … The Northern Auto Racing Club presented the coveted Billy Albini Mechanic of the Year Award to veteran crew chief, chassis builder, and car owner Rodney Tiner at the Stockton Dirt Track Saturday. The one-of-a-kind trophy, which features a gold plated wrench and a mural of the late Billy Albini, was presented…
(11/7/20) Jim Allen, Stockton, CA … Justin Sanders put forward a dominating green-to-checkered victory performance Saturday night at the Stockton Dirt Track to claim the Tribute to Gary Patterson race in NARC King of the West Fujitsu Sprint Car Series action. Sanders, driving Larry Antaya’s potent Alkaline 88 Water/Fire Protection Management sprint car, started the…
(11/3/20) Jim Allen, Sacramento, CA … The NARC King of the West Fujitsu Sprint Car Series will close out its 2020 racing campaign with the 37 Annual “Tribute to Gary Patterson” at the Stockton Dirt Track on Saturday Night (November 7th). This marks the fourth race of the originally scheduled 19-race campaign that was totally…
(11/7/20) Jim Allen, Stockton, CA … Justin Sanders put forward a dominating green-to-checkered victory performance Saturday night at the Stockton Dirt Track to claim the Tribute to Gary Patterson race in NARC King of the West Fujitsu Sprint Car Series action. Sanders, driving Larry Antaya’s potent Alkaline 88 Water/Fire Protection Management sprint car, started the…
(10/10/20) Jim Allen, Hanford, CA … Kyle Hirst and Dominic Scelzi each drove matching Williams Motorsports team cars to exciting victories in the twin-20 NARC King of the West Fujitsu Sprint Car Series main events in the Morrie Williams Legends Tribute races at Keller Auto Speedway. Tim Kaeding, on the basis of a second and…
(July 18, 2020) Watsonville, CA, By Jim Allen … Four-time NARC King of the West Fujitsu Racing Series champion Kyle Hirst held off Justin Sanders in a fierce sprint car battle to score a stout $5000 payday in Saturday’s 10th Annual Howard Kaeding Classic at Ocean Speedway. Hirst, piloting the famed Williams Motorsports number 0…
(June 20th) Jim Allen, Hanford, CA … It was all about Spencer Bayston at Keller Auto Speedway on Saturday night. The Indiana driver made an impressive NARC King of the West Fujitsu Sprint Car Series debut by completing a clean sweep of the racing program and leading all 30-laps of the “season opening” headliner. Driving…
(11/2/19) By Joe Shivak, Stockton, CA … Shane Golobic won the King of the West by NARC Fujitsu Sprint Car Series season finale at the Stockton Dirt Track Saturday night, while D J Netto was crowned the overall champion. Golobic drove his familiar Matt Woods Racing NOS Energy Drink No. 17w from the pole position,…
(10/12/19), By Jim Allen, Hanford, CA … Rico Abreu scored his third King of the West by NARC Fujitsu 410 Sprint Car Series win of the 60th Anniversary season with a solid victory in Saturday’s 30-lap Penny Newman Grain Cotton Classic at Keller Auto Speedway. Abreu, piloting his own Abreu Vineyards/Golden State Restaurant Group sprinter,…
NARC NEWSLINE – MARCH 1, 2021, By Jim Allen … Wouldn’t you know it? The more things change, the more they remain the same. Everybody opened their 2021 sprint car calendar with promise and hope, desperate to sit in the main grandstands and watch some dirt track racing in California. Next thing you know, the…
NARC NEWSLINE, December 13, 2020, By Jim Allen … As you have probably already seen, the 2021 NARC King of the West Fujitsu General Racing Series has been published for the masses. The broad overview of this sprint car campaign is simple, featuring 20 410 sprint car events at 10 different dirt oval tracks … assuming…
NARC NEWSLINE – November 1, 2020, By Jim Allen … Here’s something that has never been said in the 61-year history of the Northern Auto Racing Club during the month of October: “Welcome to our third race of the season!” Such was the case when the King of the West Fujitsu 410 Sprint Car Series…
NARC NEWSLINE – August 2, 2020, By Jim Allen … Let’s face it, motorsports in general has been pretty lucky over the past 120-days or so. While just about every sport on the planet was completely shut down due to the COVID-19 panic, racing was the first to get its game face back and actually…
NARC NEWSLINE, April 9, 2020, By Jim Allen (Includes two special race reports!) … Okay, I’ll admit it! I’m bored out of my mind! Yes, I said it in public! Do we all agree that there’s a huge difference between enjoying a nice relaxing weekend at home to recharge the batteries and “having” to stay…
NARC NEWSLINE – March 25, 2020, By Jim Allen … And just like that, racing season and every other sport in America gets slam dunked by a China-borne virus named after a popular Mexican beer, which is hawked by a former Dallas Cowboy quarterback! What are the odds? Who saw that one coming? I didn’t! …
Is it just us, or can you envision Louie Vermeil in heaven looking down at Calistoga Speedway and just shaking his head?
