By: Ron Burt I want to remind high school football fans I will be giving high school scores every Friday night on Facebook Live, on the “Ohio Sports Blitz” at 9:35PM and 10:40PM. If you’re a die-hard football fan I will cover 20 conferences. Locally this includes WBL, MAC, NWOAL, GMC, NWC, BVC and 14…
By: Ron Burt If you are new to this weekly column. I have limited space here. For full race results and point standings and up-coming races for tri-state short tracks, asphalt and dirt please visit my Facebook page, Ohio Sports Blitz. The 39th annual Dirt Car Summer Nationals has come to an end. The grueling…
By: Ron Burt Last Friday, Limaland Motorsports Park celebrated Independence Day weekend with Firecracker Friday and Tribute to “Mr. Excitement” Tim Allison. Kasey Jedrzejek drove the 11N to his first ever Limaland victory in the Great Lakes Super Sprints competition. Dylan Woodling took the win for the second straight week in DIRTcar UMP Modified feature…
By: Ron Burt I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July extended weekend. It was busy for short tracks all over the tri-state. Some tracks broke away from tradition and hosted several big races. Seventeen year old Bryce Lucius, from Findlay had to get rid of the nerves and let the car come to…
By: Ron Burt We are very early into the 2024 racing season but in the UMP DIRTcar Late Models, veteran driver Rusty Schlenk is making everyone take notice. Last Friday at Attica Raceway Park he led the first 20 laps of the rained out make up feature from last week before his radiator hose broke…
By: Ron Burt Attica To Increase Payouts This week we have more news from Attica Raceway Park. Justin Liskai, the speedways Director of Operations sent out a statement this week. Attica Raceway Park will increase both its weekly purses and its point funds in 2024. “The cost of racing has increased, and we recognize that…
By: Ron Burt Racing fans had to say goodbye to a couple of well-known racetracks. The Midwest lost Rockford Speedway. This was a ¼ mile high banked paved oval that hosted many special racing events including the National Short Track Championships for several classes of cars. Southwest lost the famous Devils Bowl Speedway outside of…
By: Ron Burt History was made this month at Eldora Speedway. It was Kings Royal week with all the top sprint car drivers invading the ½ mile racing shrine. For the first time a winning sprint car driver won $1,002,023.00. The Eldora Million for sprint cars was the 2nd highest paying event in motor sports…
By: Ron Burt USAC Midwest Thunder Midget driver Zach Wigal has now won three features in 2023. His most recent win was last Friday at Williamsburg’s Moler Raceway Park. He started outside row 2 in the feature, and by lap three had the lead, and never looked back leading the remaining 17 laps as he…
