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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 31 TO JUNE 3

    May 30, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    Street Vibrations Spring Rally

    RENO, NV (May 30) – Racing Preview for this week has several events in our region as well as national and internationally plus events streamed live on the Internet. One of the big events for Reno is the annual Street Vibrations Spring Rally. It’s all downtown and begins Friday and runs through Sunday. Another Sunday event is the first weekend of the month Reno Cars and Coffee meet, from 10 until 2 p.m. at the Kietzke Starbucks on Sunday. Great way to see the cars, check out some great looking motors and just socialize with local gear heads. On Saturday

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  • OTHG NATIONALS AT FERNLEY

    May 28, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    OTHG Nationals

    FALLON, NV (May 27) – The Reno chapter of the Over The Hill Gang (OTHG) hosted the second round of National Motocross Championship. Its two days of racing with a traditional BBQ and party Saturday night. Friday night’s rain help set up the dirt leading into a cool and windy Saturday. On Sunday the temperature warmed up although there was still a breeze. The event consists of two motos daily and a rider’s total score determines their final finishing position in each class. Like golf one wants the lowest score, which is how they finish each moto. As an example

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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 24 TO 27

    May 23, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    Monaco Grand Prix

    RENO, NV (May 23) – As we head into the biggest racing weekend of the year Racing Preview has events listed for this region as well as national and international. First of all there are a couple of cancellations to note. Originally this weekend was supposed to be a triple-header for local racers but it’s not to be as both Lovelock Speedway and Fernley 95A Speedway have canceled their events. Not all is lost as on Saturday Rattlesnake Raceway in Fallon is going to run with the car and outlaw karts. As usual there is a 6 p.m. start to

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  • AMERICAN E-KART CHAMPIONSHIPS AT NEED2SPEED

    May 22, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    Need2Speed

    RENO, NV (May 22) – Need2Speed, our local indoor electric go kart track is part of the new American E-Kart Championships sponsored by Monster Energy. Local tracks around the country are hosting a series aimed at selecting a local champion, who competes in the finals for a national title. Need2Speed general manager Matt Bowen explained what his track is doing as part of this series. “What we’re having here is us an about 15 other tracks across the country that aren’t related to each other are working as a team to develop this E-Kart association league,” he said. The contestants

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  • LOVELOCK SPEEDWAY: SATURDAY NIGHT RACES

    May 21, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    Lovelock Speedway

    LOVELOCK, NV (May 20) – Lovelock Speedway hosted the second point’s race of the year for the Nevada Pro Stock Association as well as IMCA Modifieds, the Outlaw Dwarf Cars and Hobby Stocks. For one Fallon driver it was a great night to say the least. “Wow, car was fast. I thought we lost the motor in the heat race and luckily it was just a valve cover gasket, rallied back, my crew was awesome. I want to thank Royce Goetz as he jumped in and helped so that was pretty awesome,” Travis White said after winning the Pro Stock

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  • NORTHERN NEVADA KART CLUB: RACE #2

    May 21, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    NNKC

    STEAD (MAY 20) – Northern Nevada Kart Club (NNKC) hosted its second point’s race of the season under almost perfect weather. The drivers responded by staging some hard fought races during the day. One of the closest came in the Senior/Master LO206 event that combines both of these classes. It pitted a local driver against the visitor from San Jose. “This whole day we’ve had a good race back and forth,” said eventual winner Grant LeClaire, who was talking about his race with local NNKC member Jacob Ciari. “I think we passed three or four karts along the way and

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  • HOT AUGUST NIGHTS SPRING REVIVAL

    May 18, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    HAN Spring Revival

    RENO, NV (May 18) – Today and tomorrow Virginia Street in downtown Reno is the site of the annual Hot August Night’s Sprint Revival. It’s a preview of this year’s festival that celebrates Cars and music. Teresa’s Garage Radio Show was represented by her 1950’s vintage Chevy.  In the front there were free stickers that advertised the radio show. She kept her car’s motor stock but did paint the valve cover pink. Many of the cars have been restored like a 1970 VW Bug or a Corvair Corsa. The street was lined with many cars of all types. There were

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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 17 TO 20

    May 16, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    NASCAR

    RENO, NV (May 16) – We’re a week away from the biggest racing weekend of the year and things are ramping up here as well as across the country and world. Things get going at 5 p.m. Saturday when the Lovelock Speedway hosts its regular classes plus the Nevada Outlaw Dwarf Cars and the Nevada Pro Stock Association. Promises to be a great night of racing. Down in Feather River Country, starting at 7 p.m., the American Valley Speedway in Quincy stages another of its points races. Over the hill the biggest motocross event of the year, Hangtown will be

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  • SPRINT CAR CHALLENGE AT 95A SPEEDWAY

    May 15, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    Sprint Car Challenge

    FERNLEY, NV (May 12) – Saturday evening looked like an epic night for Fernley 95A Speedway on Saturday evening. The Sprint Car Challenge Tour was visiting, a large crowd was on hand and Willie Croft set a blistering fast lap of 13.70 seconds during qualifying in his Americoat-Holy Smoke BBQ sprint car.Rounding out the show was a field of 18 IMCA A Modifieds that also had some fast times in the clay track. The night started full of promise and blazing speeds for the fans. In addition three Northern Nevada drivers were in the sprint car field for their only

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  • BATTLE BORN MX AT THE SANDBOX

    May 14, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    BBMX

    FERNLEY, NV (May 13) – Racers competing in the Battle Born MX (BBMX) spring series returned to the Sandbox for the final time. Rain the previous night set the dirt up for some hard racing. One class that featured hard and close racing was the 250/450 pro motos. Two riders kind of turned the second moto into their own private duel although third place wasn’t that far behind them. When the gate dropped Austin Johnson and Austin Serpa took off with Dylan Galliett not far behind in third. Lap after lap they tore around the course usually less than a

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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 10 TO 13

    May 9, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    Fernley 95A Speedway.

    RENO, NV (May 9) – This week’s Racing Preview is another buffet of varied events both in this region as well as nationally and internationally. One local event brings a traveling series here for its only visit this season. The weekend actually begins on Friday at 7 p.m. as Rattlesnake Raceway has the car classes racing on the oval. Then on Saturday, starting at 5 p.m. the Outlaw Karts will get their turn on an evening where they plan a pot-luck dinner as well as other things for these young drivers. Biggest show of the weekend will be at Fernley

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  • ENDUROFEST VISITS WILD WEST MOTORSPORTS PARK

    May 8, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    Elevated Action Sports

    SPARKS, NV (May 6) – Promoter Matt Musgrove brought his Endurofest back to Wild West Motorsports Park this weekend. Unlike previous editions this one had a bonus for the rider that scored the most points in four events. Sunday began with a Junior Enduro for the youngest riders and Caleb Bonneville won that event. The event was 45-minutes long with obstacles designed with the younger riders in mind. Bonneville was able to complete 13 laps while second place Chris Newell only had 12 and third place C.J. Conder only got in 10-laps. Later the course workers were briefed by Musgrove

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  • AMERICAN VALLEY SPEEDWAY: DWARF CAR NATIONALS

    May 7, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    Dwarf Car Nationals

      QUINCY, CALIF. (May 5, 2018) – This weekend American Valley Speedway in Quincy, Calif. hosted the 5th annual Dave Richardson & Leroy Kay Memorial Race. The event is also the Western States Dwarf Car Association Nationals and it drew around 60 of these little cars. There is racing on Friday but the finals are run Saturday. Before the event got underway Kay’s nephew Gene Kay, who drove in a supporting race, led the field in a 4-wide salute to those two drivers that were lost six years ago. After that things got going as there were some heats, a

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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 3 TO 6

    May 2, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    Dwarf Cars.

    RENO, NV (May 2) – This weeks Racing Preview is another banquet of events, something for almost every kind of race fan. One can either see it live or watch one of the races either on TV or the Internet. The weekend in our area gets rolling with the Dave Richardson & Leroy Kay Memorial Race. It’s dedicated to a pair of Dwarf Car driver lost a few years ago. The site is American Valley Speedway in Quincy, California. Hot laps begin at 6 p.m. with racing starting at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. On Saturday the Lovelock Speedway hosts

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  • VIRGINIA CITY GRAND PRIX: DAY TWO, BACK ON THE COMSTOCK

    May 1, 2018 Author: Dan McGee
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    VCGP

    VIRGINIA CITY, NV (April 29) – The Virginia City Grand Prix presented by Rhyno Built Welding is a two-day affair and both days are quite different from those racing as well as the course. Sunday is a mix of Novice, Women, Vintage and some veteran riders competing on a 22-mile course, which is a bit shorter than the one used Saturday.. The Vintage bikes race on a six-mile course due to the age of these machines. Saturday has four hours between the start and when the checkered is displayed. On Sunday its only three hours from green to checkered and

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