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• TRACKSIDE: Sprint car event could generate close racing

  One of the hottest and most competitive weekends of the 2012 motorsports season gets under way tonight at the Terre Haute Action Track with the scheduled running of the Tony Hulman Sprint Car Classic.

  May 24, 2012  

• TRACKSIDE: Mulling over the biggest weekend in motorsports

  We’re approaching what has traditionally become one of the busiest and most prestigious weekends in all of motorsports.

  May 16, 2012  

• TRACKSIDE: Helfrich: Short-track racing has good future

  When questions arise regarding the current state of sprint car racing, whether they be at the local or national level, one doesn’t have to search much further for the answer than veteran promoter Tom Helfrich.

  May 2, 2012  

• TRACKSIDE: Near-capacity crowd turns out for opening night of racing

  Opening night at one of the midwest’s premier short track operations can be like no other time of the year.

  April 12, 2012  

• TRACKSIDE: Racing season has promise

  With several “test and tunes” sessions and season openers having already taken the green flag, it’s a sure sign the Wabash Valley racing campaign is shifting into high gear.

  April 4, 2012  

• TRACKSIDE: Valley racing showed best, worst of times in 2011

  A look back on the 2011 Wabash Valley auto racing season reveals the best and worst of times the sport has to offer.

  January 1, 2012  

• TRACKSIDE: Menard's victory at Brickyard momentous for family, race fans

  Who says one of those familiar bright fluorescent-colored Menards race cars can’t find its way to victory lane at Indianapolis?

  August 3, 2011  

• TRACKSIDE: After a delayed start, the Terre Haute Action Track gets season cranked up

   Its arrival may have been delayed by several months — for a host of reasons — but the 2011 Terre Haute Action Track season is finally out of the blocks.

  July 20, 2011  

• TRACKSIDE: Changes come up on Indiana racing scene

  With the highly anticipated USAC Indiana Sprint Week sprint card on tap at the Terre Haute Action Track tonight and the Tony Hulman/Don Smith Classic and a host of events leading up to the Brickyard 400 looming on the horizon, it would appear that it’s the best of times for Wabash Valley racing buffs.

  July 13, 2011  

• TRACKSIDE: Fortunes of dirt track racing at Action Track can be written in the dust

  In the 40 plus years of covering motorsports, it would appear the process of writing this weekly race column would come together rather routinely.

  July 6, 2011  

• TRACKSIDE: Auto racing in May in Indiana runs on history and tradition

  Possibly nowhere in the sports world does history and tradition play such a key role in an event’s success and future as that found in auto racing.

  May 25, 2011  

• TRACKSIDE: Wabash Valley racing ready to take green flag — even Action Track

  Despite having already lost several bouts to the elements, the 2011 Wabash Valley motorsports season has taken the green flag and will soon be shifting into high gear on several fronts.

  April 20, 2011  

• TRACKSIDE: Fitzpatrick on track to continue impressive start to racing career

  One of the top stories on the Wabash Valley motorsports stage last season was the emergence of Blake Fitzpatrick as a legitimate front-runner on the national sprint-car scene.

  March 9, 2011  

• Frightening finish to season at Terre Haute Action Track

  The 2010 Terre Haute Action Track season came to a climactic close over the weekend. Unfortunately, the campaign closed on a near-tragic note for the second consecutive year.

  October 12, 2010  

• Trackside: Attractive USAC sprint car card this weekend

  With the area circle track season rapidly drawing to a close, fans will have a pair of attractive USAC sprint car cards to attend this weekend. Back-to-back shows at Lincoln Park Speedway and Terre Haute Action Track not only offer fans a final opportunity to see the sprints in action one final time, but they also serve as pivotal stops in the chase for the USAC sprint car drivers championship.

  September 8, 2010  

• Trackside: Sadler’s wreck brings up memories for Terre Haute racer Sizemore

  One of the many fans that viewed Elliott Sadler’s wild crash at Pocono over the weekend with more than casual interest was former Terre Haute racer Paul Sizemore.

  August 4, 2010  

• Trackside: Talented young racer Blake Fitzpatrick savoring USAC success

  The dust has long settled. The congratulatory phone calls and handshakes are becoming less frequent but that first taste of victory remains as fresh and sweet as ever for the U.S. Auto Club’s newest first-time sprint car feature winner.

  July 28, 2010  

• Trackside: Positive story lines in USAC

  Reflections on events surrounding a highly successful USAC Indiana Sprint Weeks while looking forward to a crowded schedule of events leading up to this weekend’s Brickyard 400.

  July 20, 2010  

• Trackside: Round four of USAC Spring Week ready to roar tonight at Action Track

  The stage is set for what annually has become the biggest event of the year at the Terre Haute Action Track.
  Round four of the U.S. Auto Club-sanctioned Indiana Sprint Week is slated to roar off this evening amid a host of track managerial changes and highly competitive field of cars and drivers.

  July 13, 2010  

• Trackside: Ryan Newman hasn’t forgotten his Indiana roots

  He may call the tar hills of North Carolina home and stock car his brand of racing, but NASCAR star Ryan Newman has not forgotten his Indiana or open-wheel racing roots. The popular Sprint Cup driver returned to the Hoosier state last week to meet with employees and officials at the Dixie Chopper Lawn Mower Manufacting center located just east of Greencastle.

  July 6, 2010  

• TRACKSIDE: Putnam County has two of Indiana’s racing gems

  With two of Indiana’s higher profile race tracks nestled within its boundaries, Putnam County is best known for its open-cockpit brand of racing.

  July 1, 2010  

• After strong showing, Lincoln Park Speedway could become USAC fixture

  Two of the more pressing issues for Wabash Valley racing fans in recent months have been the uncertain future of USAC midget racing at Hoosier ovals and whether Lincoln Park Speedway could remain a viable fixture on the Midwestern motorsports scene.

  June 23, 2010  

• Trackside: Random 500, Hulman Classic thoughts

  Some random thoughts, notes and quotes surrounding the recent running of the Tony Hulman Classic and Indianapolis 500: Despite the troubling times in IndyCar racing, the 500 still carries a strong measure of mystique even to the most casual race fan.

  June 9, 2010  

• Trackside: ‘Super teams’ have become all too familiar, even in dirt-track racing

  June 2, 2010  

• Trackside: Rolling with Jon Stanbrough in Action Track’s season opener

  If you’re looking to pick a winner for Saturday night’s season opener at the Terre Haute Action Track, look no farther than the familiar No. 53 Foxco Sprinter driven by Jon Stanbrough.

  May 12, 2010  

• Trackside: Rev up those engines, it’s time for Valley racing season

  With the sounds of race engines roaring to life at Wabash Valley racing facilities, it’s a sure sign the 2010 racing season is about to shift into high gear.

  April 28, 2010  

• Trackside: Action Track season ends on scary note The checkered flag has fallen on what appears to be another successful year at the Terre Haute Action Track. Unfortunately, it came to an abrupt and near tragic end.

  September 30, 2009  

• TRACKSIDE: Action Track finalé sends fans home buzzing It may not have been the Hut Hundred with its traditional 33-car field of midgets, but the final USAC program of the season at the Action Track didn’t disappoint those in attendance Saturday night.

  September 15, 2009  

• Trackside: IMS considering adding endurance racing

  September 10, 2009  

• Trackside: Rain wreaks havoc on best laid racing plans Back-to-back postponements on the NASCAR Nextel Cup circuit over the past couple weekends reveals how vulnerable the sport is to the elements. Unfortunately, the havoc of a rainout is not limited to the higher profile race series. Short tracks across the country face a constant battle with mother nature.

  August 11, 2009  

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