Mike Kerchner
Editor-in-Chief at SPEED SPORT
Lifetime racing fan who has worked with SPEED SPORT Magazine and National Speed Sport News since 1991.
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6 days ago |
speedsport.com | Mike Kerchner
PEVELY, Mo. — Cannon McIntosh has kept the winning momentum rolling forward. The reigning Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series presented by Toyota champion had to work from a seventh-place starting spot to score his third feature win in the last four series races Friday night at I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park. 2022 series champion Zach Daum and rookie Michael Faccinto led the field to the green flag, with Daum taking the lead by running his familiar bottom lane of the track.
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1 week ago |
speedsport.com | Mike Kerchner
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Friday marked the final practice day for the 103rd Running of The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, presented by Gran Turismo. While participation was optional, more than half of the 73 competitors scheduled to challenge the mountain on Sunday elected to get in one more day of preparation for the event.
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1 week ago |
speedsport.com | Mike Kerchner
After a work-induced lull that was indeed too long, the Friday Morning Heat Race is back. From hot laps to the main event, here’s what’s on our mind this week. Hot Laps: Weather Reports? Is it me or are more races canceled today because of “unfavorable” weather forecasts than ever before?
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1 week ago |
speedsport.com | Mike Kerchner
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Late model superstar Ricky Thornton Jr. is among the latest drivers to enter the seventh running of the BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors on July 1-2 at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The field has reached 26 drivers and cars thus far as part of the rapidly growing USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship entry list on the fifth-mile dirt oval.
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2 weeks ago |
speedsport.com | Mike Kerchner
Editor’s Note: In a nod to our 90 years of history, each week SPEED SPORT will look back at the top stories from 15, 30 and 60 years ago as told in the pages of National Speed Sport News. 15 Years Ago — 2010News: A legend in the NASCAR community known to most simply as Coach, Les Richter died Saturday after a long illness. He was 79. A veteran motorsports executive, Richter became the executive director of Riverside Int’l Raceway in 1959.
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