NARC NEWSLINE, By Jim Allen, September 10, 2017 … Walking into the annual Calistoga Speedway Hall of Fame Dinner is literally like stepping into a time warp of open wheel racing in California. Hey, isn’t that LeRoy? And over there … there’s only one guy who wears that 10-gallon hat. That’s got to be Johnny…
(08/26/17) Petaluma, CA … Bud Kaeding won a high speed game of cat and mouse with Bobby McMahan and went on to score Saturday’s King of the West-NARC Fujitsu Sprint Car Series 30-lap headliner at Petaluma Speedway. Kaeding, piloting the potent Williams Motorsports Alviso Rock Maxim, started on the outside of the front row and…
(8/21/17) Petaluma, CA … The high powered 410 cubic inch open wheel sprint cars of the King of the West-NARC Fujitsu Racing Series will be making their final appearance of the year at Petaluma Speedway on Saturday, August 26th, with a hotly contested championship point battle on the line. Leading the field of 20 sprint…
NARC NEWSLINE, (8/16/17) By Jim Allen, … The problem with racing season is that once it gets going …, well … it really gets going. You start stringing together several exciting sprint car weekends and …. BAM … the season is darn near over. With the cancellation of our August 5th show at Antioch, it…
(7/11/17) Sacramento, CA … The exciting open wheel sprint cars of the King of the West-NARC Fujitsu Racing Series will be battling for a $5000 winners payday this Saturday, July 15th, when the traveling series invades Ocean Speedway (Watsonville, CA) for the Howard Kaeding Classic. This will be one of the richest events on the…
NARC NEWSLINE, (06/29/17) By Jim Allen … Now that we’ve got 10-races in the official King of the West-NARC record books, it’s time to award some mythical “mid-season awards.” They represent a compilation of highlights, lowlights, and a few other things you’ve probably already forgot about. Enjoy. THE “HEAT RACE GOD” AWARD: If there was…
06/24/17 – By Jim Allen – Calistoga, CA … DJ Netto drove a solid 25-laps and found himself at the right place at the right time to claim top honors in Saturday’s King of the West-NARC Fujitsu Sprint Car Racing Series Dirt Classic before a capacity crowd at Calistoga Speedway. The event, which was co-sanctioned…
6/17/17 – By Jim Allen – Petaluma, CA … Chase Johnson outdueled Bud Kaeding in a thrilling open wheel battle at Petaluma Speedway to capture his first career King of the West-NARC Fujitsu Sprint Car Series feature event victory Saturday night. Johnson, piloting the potent Shawn & Cyndi Thomas-owned, Wesmar-Champion Machine-powered Maxim, played cat and…
(6/11/17) Petaluma, CA … The lightening fast 3/8 mile oval of Petaluma Fairgrounds Speedway is set to host the 900-horsepower King of the West-NARC Fujitsu Sprint Car Series on Saturday, June 17th. Leading a contingent of 20 sprint car teams to Petaluma will be current championship point leader Giovanni Scelzi of Fresno. The red hot…
06/10/17 – Tulare, CA … Gio Scelzi continues to be the hottest sprint car driver in the King of the West-NARC competition by scoring his second consecutive Fujitsu Racing Series 30-lap headliner Saturday night at the Thunderbowl Raceway. Scelzi has captured three of the past four races on the schedule in the potent Roth Motorsports…