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  • BATTLE BORN MOTORSPORTS: DRIFTING IN NORTHERN NEVADA

    May 18, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (May 15) — Battle Born Motorsports is the creation of Adrian Buyten. He created it after seeing a need for his favorite motorsport, drifting and has been working to develop it to this area. Asked how he got interested in drifting Buyten said, “I had an 85 Merkur XR4TI, a super rare Europen Ford rear drive with a 2.3 liter turbo motor. It happened in the rain getting sideways and that kicked the rear out a little bit. I’ve been hooked every since.” That was in 2003 and he started sliding around parking lots, especially after it snowed.

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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 14 TO 17

    May 13, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (May 13) – This Racing Preview has some good news for a change. Yes racing is back although in a limited form but I’m seeing light at the end of the tunnel. CAR MEETS & CRUISES: • The weekend gets off to a rolling start Friday from 7 until 9 p.m. That’s when the weekly cruises up and down the main street of Fernley begin hosted by Reno Sparks Cars & Pizza. • Saturday is Armed Forces Day and Fallon had a celebration planned. Sadly due to the scare over this virus Churchill County had the organizers cancel

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  • INFINITE VELOCITY MOTORSPORTS

    May 11, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (May 8) – Infinite Velocity Motorsports or IV Motorsports as its now called is a small but well equipped shop at the end of East Freeport Blvd. where it crosses Stanford Way. This shop has been around for a long time. “Its been 22 years as we opened in July of 1998,” owner Jay Reynolds said. “The Camaro versus Mustang or the Fox Body F Body was the rage. So I came and opened as a Mustang shop originally. Since then we’ve gotten into circle track racing, drag racing and all kinds of that stuff as well as

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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 7 TO 10

    May 6, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (MAY 6) – Racing Preview this week has more news about things starting to happen or will happen in the near future. Some events are postponed so this fall will be a busy time. CAR MEETS AND PARADES: • When this article was posted Sparks Cars & Coffee had not posted if they were going to have a meet/cruise on Sunday or not. One might want to check their Facebook page sometime Friday. • Saturday afternoon will be a big day for both Reno Cars & Coffee as well as Carson Cars & Coffee and anyone else that

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  • SCUDDERS PERFORMANCE: AIR COOLED VW SPECIALISTS

    May 4, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    SPARKS, NV (May 4) – The Reno/Sparks area is blessed with many shops catering to a niche market and Scudders Performance is one of them. Owner Clayton Scudder is good example of how chance can lead one into a career. “I’ve been doing this since 1979 and had a residential carpenter license at 18 so was building and framing houses. My claim to fame is building Lakeside Apartments as that’s where I started,” he said. He explained back then winters were stronger than they are now so the carpentry  work only lasted six months out of a year. He had

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  • RACING PREVIEW: APRIL 30 TO MAY 3

    April 29, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (April 29) — This weekend’s Racing Preview has some new developments, a great cruise as well as other racing news and programs to watch. The month of May just might bring us live racing once again. CAR MEETS:  • Reno Cars & Coffee will have it’s first of the month meet at the Keitzke Starbucks. As usual the meet time is 10 a.m. and people are asked to either stay in their cars or remember social distancing. Then at 10:20 everyone will leave for a long cruise that takes them south over Kingsbury Pass, north along Lake Tahoe

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  • REAL PERFORMANCE SPEED SHOP

    April 27, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (April 27) – The automotive service and customization world is full of small shops started by entrepreneurs that have followed their passions. Gabe Sweeney is one of these as his passion has evolved into a business. “I started street racing with an old Chevelle I had and it just kind of grew from there to doing everybody’s car out of my garage,” he said. “I worked for GM for a while then started doing it for everybody else and opened the shop in April 2012.” By then he had built up a good body of clientele, which made

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  • RACING PREVIEW: APRIL 23 TO 26

    April 22, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (April 22) – Racing this week has some live events, more announcements, plus an early heads up. Also have the Simracing schedule for the weekend. CAR MEETS, CRUISES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: • Sunday morning the Shasta Outlaws 775 has a combination meet and cruise. Location is the 76 Station in Fernley and the meet goes from 10:00 to 11:10 a.m. when the cruise leaves. The destination is Walker Lake and the weather should be great. • On the down side Hot August Nights announced the annual Spring Fever Revival has been cancelled and rescheduled for 2021. • Registration for

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  • PRO 1 AUTOMOTIVE: OPEN AND READY

    April 20, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (April 17) – Pro 1 Automotive has been around since 1986 and owner Ricky Stebbins is an example of making lemonade when life hands you a lemon or two. “I decided to start the business when I was 25 and working at the Shell gas station at Mill and Terminal,” he said. “The boss got a rumor that someday I might want to open my own business. To my surprise, like a week later, he handed me my paycheck and said, ‘see you later.’” After that the young mechanic took about a month off and looked at his

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  • RACING PREVIEW: APRIL 16 TO 19

    April 15, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (April 15) – Once again racing is in hiatus but there are still things to watch and the motocross crowd can get in practice sessions. CAR MEETS: + This week’s Reno Cars & Coffee meet has been canceled. Hopefully things will be opening up so the next time, on May 3rd, the meet can be held again. + There is a cruise planned for Sunday at the Spring Thaw Rally is going to be held. The gathering point is the Safeway in Donner Pass Road in Truckee at 9:30 a.m. People are asked not to congregate so remember

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  • LOOKING AHEAD TO RACING RESUMING

    April 13, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (April 13) – This Monday’s article is going to be a very different one. This is due to the shut down we are enduring due to this virus that thankfully seems to have or will round a corner. Hopefully we’ll see racing starting in the next few weeks. • Oval Tracks: + First I’ll look at the two tracks that are in Northeast California. One I’ve been covering for a long time while the other I hope to visit a couple of times this year. Both tracks are fairground facilities as American Valley Speedway as well as Diamond

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  • RACING PREVIEW: APRIL 9 TO 12

    April 8, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (April 8) – Racing Preview this weekend is going to be a bit empty due to the Easter holiday. However there was a special event Wednesday. Jake Ewing was turning 10 and his family wanted to do something special for him. He suffers from non-verbal autism so can’t speak but sure showed how excited he was. Lance Freitas, who heads Reno Cars & Coffee, saw his mother’s plea on Face Book and decided to do something about so organized a convoy that traveled from Reno to Dayton. They where joined by other Cars and Coffee groups, as well

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  • NEW SPONSOR: G.I.S. LAND SERVICES

    April 6, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    We want to welcome G.I.S. Land Services to the family of sponsors helping support nvracingnews. Although not directly related to racing the inspiration to start the business came from the sport. “Growing up in Southern California we raced in AMA District 37 that included old mining camps like Mojave and Randsburg, California. There are numerous rock formations, old prospects and mines that catch your eye and that’s how I became interested in prospecting,” Greg Ekins said. He caught the gold bug and this sparked an interest in geology. “Over the decades my gold prospecting has included panning, sluicing, dredging and

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  • RACING PREVIEW: APRIL 2 TO 5

    April 1, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (April 1) – Due to the current situation this week’s Racing Preview will be a bit short. Hopefully this might be over by May and green flags will wave again. CAR MEETS: • Since it’s the first weekend of the month Reno Cars and Coffee will have a meet, well sort of. It starts Sunday at 10 a.m. in the parking lot by the Kietzke Starbucks but this time everyone is asked to stay in their cars. At around 10:15 everyone heads out for a cruise into the Sierras. At Truckee the cruise splits in two parts so

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  • SOCIAL DISTANCING WITH DIRT BIKES

    March 30, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    LEMMON VALLEY, NV (March 28) – In these unusual times one-way people can protect themselves is to exercise Social Distancing. That means is to keeping a space between two people and one group, area dirt riders, are doing just that. On Saturday this reporter went out to Lemmon Valley out at Chickadee where I met three riders taking advantage of the nice weather. They were all practicing social distancing as no one parked close to each other and of course when they were riding social distancing isn’t a problem. First rider was Clinton Jones and he said, “I bought a

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