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…
(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…
(11/4/18 – STOCKTON, CA, By Joe Shivak & Jim Allen) … Rico Abreu won the 30-lap season finale for the Fujitsu King of the West-NARC Sprint Car Series at the 35th annual Tribute to Gary Patterson at the Stockton Dirt Track on Saturday night. Abreu, aboard his familiar blue and yellow Abreu Vineyards/Alpinestars No. 24…
10/30/18 – Stockton, CA … The winged 410 sprint cars of the King of the West-NARC Fujitsu Racing Series will wrap up their super-competitive 2018 campaign, this Saturday, November 3rd at the Stockton Dirt Track with the 35th Annual Tribute to Gary Patterson. Also on the program at this championship event is the Sprint Car Challenge…
NARC NEWSLINE – October 21, 2018, By Jim Allen One of the best things about open wheel racing is that it’s almost always unpredictable. Every time you think you’ve got this gig figured out … BAM … the unexpected! Somebody jumps a wheel, somebody else scores a perfectly timed victory, and next thing you know,…
10/13/18, Hanford, CA – By Jim Allen … Mitchell Faccinto pulled off a dramatic last corner pass of King of the West-NARC Fujitsu Sprint Car Series championship point leader Kyle Hirst to score a thrilling Cotton Classic victory at Keller Auto Speedway. Piloting Stan Greenberg’s TSG Waste Disposal-Western Metals KPC, Faccinto scored his second consecutive…
(Sacramento, 10/9/18) … For some open wheel racing fans, Saturday’s (October 13th) 33rd Annual Penny Newman Grain Cotton Classic at Keller Auto Speedway might represent a slice of sprint car heaven. Consider it a sprint car racing extravaganza or sprint car racing-squared! In an unprecedented event, there will be three traveling series invading the 3/8…
7/24/18, Jim Allen, Sacramento, CA … The exciting King of West-NARC Sprint Car Racing Series will be invading Placerville Speedway this Saturday, July 28th to compete in the Fujitsu Summer Nationals. This marks the 13th stop on the ultra-competitive 16-race campaign, and the final appearance of the year for the series at the action-packed quarter…