By Jay Hardin Track Enterprises August 29, 2023 - (DuQuoin, IL)-Minnesota’s William Sawalich earned his second ARCA Menards Series win of 2023 as the series headed for the Milwaukee Mile. While he did so in dominating fashion, the 150-mile race was not without incident as his Toyota rubbed and leaned on the Toyota of ARCA Menards [...]
By Jay Hardin Track Enterprises DuQuoin, IL-(August 28. 2023)-Defending Ted Horn 100 winner Logan Seavey and six-time national champion Kody Swanson have been locked in a season long battle for the 2023 USAC Silver Crown title. Just 7 points separate the two as the championship battle heads to DuQuoin and the Ted Horn 100 on Saturday, [...]
By Jay Hardin Track Enterprises Staff August 17, 2023-Springfield, IL-California’s Jesse Love led 73 laps to become the third 17-year-old winner of the ARCA-Menard’s Dutch Boy-Allen Crowe 100 on the Springfield Mile in 2022. A year older, with more dirt experience, the 18-year-old comes to Springfield as the ARCA point leader and favorite to repeat at [...]
By Jay Hardin Track Enterprises Staff August 15, 2023-Springfield, IL-The entry list for Sunday’s Dutch Boy 100 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds gets younger with the addition of fifteen-year-old Brent Crews of Hickory, North Carolina. Crews’ entry adds yet another “dirt track ringer” for the first of the two Illinois dirt mile events on the ARCA [...]
By Jay Hardin Track Enterprises Staff August 15, 2023-Springfield, IL-Kaylee Bryson made the USAC Silver Crown world stand up and take notice last October in the rain delayed Bettenhausen 100 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. She became the first female driver to lead a championship dirt car race at the storied Springfield Mile in nearly 90 [...]
By: Richie Murray – USAC Media Springfield, Illinois (August 14, 2023)………One of the largest fields in recent USAC Silver Crown history is set for battle during the 60th running of the Bettenhausen 100 Presented By Hunt Brothers Pizza this Saturday, August 19, at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. The entry list of 43 entries for Saturday’s [...]
By Jay Hardin Track Enterprises Staff August 10, 2023-Springfield, IL-Twenty-three-year-old Midget standout and Oklahoma University student Taylor Reimer of Tulsa is the latest rookie to join Venturini Motorsports and make her ARCA Menard’s Series debut on the clay of the legendary Springfield Mile. The pilot of one of Keith Kunz Motorsports Midgets in USAC, POWRi, and [...]
Sportsman entries have been rolling in for next weekend’s Sportsman nationals at the Illinois State Fair. Just a few reminders for Sportsman competitors… * Pre-Entry deadline is Monday for discounted early entry * Body rules will be enforced per the dimension sheet HERE * Shock claim is $150 per shock and top three finishers will [...]
Enters Springfield August 19 Event As A Favorite By Jay Hardin Track Enterprises Staff August 9, 2023-Springfield, IL-While Kody Swanson has been the dominant force in USAC’s Silver Crown Series for nearly a decade, southern Illinois fire chief and second-generation driver Shane Cockrum has begun to emerge as one of the masters of the Illinois [...]
For the second consecutive season, the ARCA Menards Series and Performance Seed will offer a bonus to the driver who can win both of the two races the series runs on one-mile dirt tracks. The races at the Illinois State Fairgrounds and DuQuoin State Fairgrounds both date to the 1950s, and both have carried the ARCA sanction since the early 1980s. The Performance Seed [...]
