Sides Captures First Outlaws Victory of Season at Spring Classic
Dollansky repeats as Federated Auto Parts Ironman 55 champion in afternoon event
PEVELY, Mo. – Oct. 13, 2012 – Jason Sides crawled from his sprint car with an exhausted – and thrilled – look on his face.
Reeling from the passing of a close friend earlier this week, Sides carried a heavy heart into Saturday’s World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series doubleheader at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 – the culmination of a pair of rainouts earlier this season.
And after a total 95 green-flag feature laps on the high-banked track on a humid and windy Midwest day, Sides captured the Spring Classic after recording a third-place finish in the Federated Auto Parts Ironman 55 presented by Summit Distributing/Coors Light in the afternoon.
“I had Mark Hardee riding with me,” Sides said. “It wasn’t his time to go, but the cancer got him and we hate that. He’ll be with us a lot in our hearts and everything, so hopefully we’ll get us a couple more wins with him riding with us.” (more…)
BROCKVILLE, ONTARIO – Oct. 13, 2012 – Friday’s Pro Stock Series 50-lap finale at Brockville Ontario Speedway took Stephane LeBrun to Victory Lane and brought Joey Ladouceur his third series championship title, his last before moving on to the Sportsman division.
WAYCROSS, GA (October 13, 2012) – Capping off another exciting year of racing, the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series heads to the 2012 season finale – the Red Buck Dirt Track World Championship – presented by “Borrowed Blue”. Jimmy Owens, of Newport, TN will secure his second LOLMDS National Championship in a row, once he rolls through the gates and enters the final event at Portsmouth Raceway Park next weekend. Owens, who has won six (6) LOLMDS feature events in 2012, has been consistently racking up valuable points all season long to stay in front of the series points battle. Owens is leading Don O’Neal into the final event by 430 points. O’Neal leads the series with eleven (11) wins in 2012 but has suffered several DNF’s, costing him valuable points towards the series national championship.
The Top Gun Sprints return to Bubba Raceway Park on October 12 & 13, for what looks to be a very action packed weekend. The Florida State Sprint Car Championship will be on the line.
CONCORD, NC – Oct. 10, 2012 – Rick Eckert of York, Pa., finally conquered The Dirt Track at Charlotte, breaking into Victory Lane at the four-tenths-mile oval with a powerful performance in Wednesday night’s 50-lap Circle K World of Outlaws Late Model Showdown.
(TOLEDO, Ohio) – A review of 2012 results in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards shows that points leader Chris Buescher has edged Frank Kimmel by just 10 race positions over the entire year, but that doesn’t tell the entire story of their championship pursuits.
HAYS, Kan. (Oct. 9) – The IMCA Modified main event pays $5,000 to win at RPM Speedway’s sixth annual Fall Nationals Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 11-13.
Waycross, GA (October 9, 2012) – The excitement is building for what is expected to be one of the biggest dirt late model events of the year. The 32nd Annual Red Buck Dirt Track World Championship featuring Borrowed Blue will take place at Portsmouth Raceway Park in Portsmouth, Ohio on October 18th, 19th and 20th. This year’s event will have the largest purse in the history of the event with over $200,000 up for grabs during the three day weekend. Not only will the winner of the prestigious trophy take home a cool $50,000 and the feature event paying $2,000 to start, there also is a Non-qualifiers race paying $3,000 to the winner and an open wheel modified feature event paying $3,000 to the winner.