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Illinois Sprint Invaders Weekend Doubleheader Ahead!

| August 15, 2022
Illinois Sprint Invaders Weekend Doubleheader Ahead!

    (Bill W) August 15, 2022 – The Sprint Invaders have a busy weekend planned this Saturday and Sunday in Illinois after lengthy absences.  On Saturday, August 20, the Sprint Invaders hit the Peoria Speedway quarter-mile for the first time sine 2015.  Sunday, finds the group moving over to the Adams County Speedway in […]

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Breidinger Looks to Be First Woman to Enter Springfield Mile Victory Lane This Sunday

| August 15, 2022
Breidinger Looks to Be First Woman to Enter Springfield Mile Victory Lane This Sunday

  By Jay Hardin Track Enterprises California’s Toni Breidinger comes into the ARCA Menards Series Atlas 100 at the Illinois State Fair seeking to become the first woman to win a major national championship auto race on the Springfield Mile, August 21.  Breidinger is currently 5th in the ARCA Menard’s title chase with 4 top […]

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Hawkins takes East Moline Speedway Sport Compact cash

| August 15, 2022
Hawkins takes East Moline Speedway Sport Compact cash

  Nezworski, Denning, Reed, Cottom, Freeburg, Lamar also win   BY ROB HINCKLEY   EAST MOLINE, Ill. (Aug. 14) – Four cars wide, dirt trailing off the tires and speedy competition is not uncommon for the Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compacts at East Moline Speedway. Sunday evening, that was taken to a new extreme in […]

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Standerfer Completes Clean Sweep at Macon Speedway

| August 14, 2022
Standerfer Completes Clean Sweep at Macon Speedway

  By BZ   (Macon, IL) It all starts with qualifying. At least for the Decatur Building Trades Pro Late Models and the BillingsleyRewards.com Modifieds, it does. The other divisions draw for their starting positions. As for Rodney Standerfer in the BillingleyRewards.com Modifieds, qualifying was just the beginning of his success. Of the 17 cars […]

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Taylor Doubles Up Bennett Memorial

| August 7, 2022
Taylor Doubles Up Bennett Memorial

  By BZ   (Macon, IL) Guy Taylor is at it again and again. Sounds like a broken record. But its true. Taylor took the checkered flag in two of the six features ran during the special 4th Annual Diane Bennett Memorial–a night dedicated to all drivers racing in the features with bonus money handed […]

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Ripple’s Auto Body Night Filled With Great Action At Macon Speedway

| July 31, 2022
Ripple’s Auto Body Night Filled With Great Action At Macon Speedway

  (Macon, IL) Nearly 100 cars were pitside for the Ripple’s Auto Body Open Wheel Extravaganza at Macon Speedway this past Saturday night. Joining the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets were the Built Ford Tough MOWA Sprint Cars for the top notch doubleheader. Three other classes also raced.   “The Dauminator” Zach Daum took all […]

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Vandermeersch Scores Topless 40 Victory

| July 24, 2022
Vandermeersch Scores Topless 40 Victory

  By BZ   (Macon, IL) Dennis Vandermeersch ran the top of the Macon Speedway on a hot and humid Saturday night to secure a 40-lap feature win while the Weddle Performance Engines division ran the evening without a roof on the racecars. It was nothing new to Vandermeersch as he claimed his fifth straight […]

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Chase Randall Wins Teen Challenge with Sprint Invaders at East Moline!

| July 18, 2022
Chase Randall Wins Teen Challenge with Sprint Invaders at East Moline!

  (Bill W) East Moline, IL, July 17, 2022 – Youth has definitely been served this season with the Sprint Invaders series.  Fellow teens Chase Randall and Tyler Lee duked it out Sunday night at East Moline Speedway, with Randall emerging with his third win with the series of the year.  The Waco, Texas native […]

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Randall speeds to East Moline checkers

| July 18, 2022
Randall speeds to East Moline checkers

  Denning, Owen, Gustaf and Forbes also win   BY ROB HINCKLEY   EAST MOLINE, Ill. (July 17) – The bottom groove worked just fine for Chase Randall. He took to the lower shelf of East Moline Speedway, moved by Tyler Lee and went on to win the 25-lap Sprint Invaders feature Sunday evening. “I […]

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Johnson & Parga Split Double Features at Macon Speedway

| July 17, 2022
Johnson & Parga Split Double Features at Macon Speedway

  By BZ   (Macon, IL) Thanks to a rain-shortened event on June 25th, Macon Speedway hosted a double feature night of racing for the Decatur Building Trades Pro Late Models. All 14 of the cars who were at Macon on that final June Saturday were in attendance to run that race as well as […]

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