By: Ron Burt Let’s start this week by sending congratulations to Great Lakes Super Sprint driver Max Stambaugh. He was honored to be the 2024 Dayton Auto Race Fans Club, Dirt Driver of The Year. Great Lakes Super Sprints is an exciting traveling sprint series of full sized winged sprint cars that travels the Great…
By: Ron Burt I wish all of you a very fun and safe Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for supporting my weekly racing column and for supporting my Facebook page, Ohio Sports Blitz and my Facebook Live scoreboards. I’m still doing weekly high school football playoff scores for every game in the state and starting this…
By: Ron Burt Last weekend was the North vs South Shootout at Garaway Speedway for the big block ISMA/MSS Supermodifieds. The drivers, crews and fans took the drive to Sophia, North Carolina. Caraway Speedway is a .455 mile asphalt short track located near Asheboro that runs weekly races and several series. They also run several Whelen Southern Modified…
By: Ron Burt I have big things going on at Ohio Sports Blitz on Facebook, which is a part of the Left Turn. All fall I have been going Facebook Live every Friday night announcing football scores. I’m currently announcing all the state football playoff scores live at 9:35 and 11:15PM on Fridays until the…
By: Ron Burt Eldora on the last weekend of racing for 2024. Congratulations to the regular race night (local) track champions. Modified Division was won by Jonathan Taylor and the Super Stock Champion is Doug Drown. The Eldora Speedway Facebook page has a link to the 2024 Tracks Top 25 point standings for both classes.…
By: Ron Burt Congratulations to Rusty Schlenk, UMP Dirt Late Model driver from McClure Ohio. Rusty races most Fridays at Attica Raceway Park and Oakshade Raceway on Saturdays, but he also races the American Ironman Late Model Series. Recently he was crowned the 2024 Series Points Champion in Richmond, KY. After his 4th place feature…
By: Ron Burt Two weeks ago, all the area racetracks fell victim to rain. Last week all the local tri-state tracks were able to run. Next week I will cover Winchester Speedways’ big weekend featuring the annual Winchester 400 on the historic world’s fastest paved half mile. Larry Boos and his staff have worked hard…
By: Ron Burt Another Fremont Speedway Jim Ford annual weekend has come and gone and as usual it was full of exciting sprint car racing both Friday and Saturday at “the track action built”. Kalib Henry was unstoppable at Fremont Speedway Friday, Sept. 13. The Sacramento, Calif. Driver started the 17th Annual Jim Ford Classic weekend…
By: Ron Burt Football Scoreboard Starting Friday at 9:30PM and 11PM the Ohio Sports Blitz Facebook page will be giving local area football scores live. If you miss the broadcast, you can replay it anytime. This year we will be giving scores from over 20 Ohio high school football conferences, the state top 10 football…
By: Ron Burt There’s a reason Fremont Speedway is called “The Track That Action Built”. All three classes last Saturday were competitive. Kalib Henry switched lanes and won 410-feature. Jamie Miller must have watch Henrey and made the same move in the non-wing sprints to get a win. Dustin Keegan held on for the truck…
By: Ron Burt It was another busy week of short track racing in the tri-state. Friday on Toledo’s high-banked ½ mile asphalt oval, it was the 100 lap CRA/Jegs All Star Late Models. Delaware Ohio’s, Cody Coughlin took care of business and put his #72 in victory lane. Kyle Steckly was able to hang onto…
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…
