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 It was a busy week for tri-state short track racing. Every car class you can think of had big races. The highlight was the reopening of the historic Millstream Speedway near Findlay Ohio. The tracks last race was 2016. This year they are running a limited schedule trying different car classes. Friday,…
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 If you are a 410 Winged-Sprint Car fan last week I started talking about Attica Raceway Parks impressive 2024 schedule and the visits this class will make to the famed NW Ohio track. If you missed it, the issue is online in the West Bend News archives. My column also covered the…
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 I have some breaking news; Zach Wigal will be running some test laps in a Chad Boat Industries National Midget. This took place Friday night (July 14) at Ohio Valley Speedway, during intermission and at the conclusion of the racing program. He started at the age of seven racing mini wedges at…
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…
