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CARQUEST GASOLINE ALLEY NEWS
Posted by: | CommentsAllentown, PA: CARQUEST Gasoline Alley Welcomes "The Angel In Flames" Alissa Geving, "The Diva On Dirt" Steff Palmai, "Showtime" Danny Tyler, Brad Grim And Nick Petrilak To Monday Night's Show
By:Steve Pados, GA Motorsports Media
The extremely popular and nationally acclaimed CARQUEST Gasoline Alley TV/Internet Show cranks up the airwaves on Monday evening with another fabulous edition of their show on Monday evening show, February 21st as they play host to another blockbuster lineup of talented racing stars and personalities who join the Gang for the fastest, funniest, and most informative racing show in the country today. The show airs from 6 to 8 PM every Monday evening on channels 103 and 137 and worldwide on the Internet. The Gang has been serving the racing world for the past eight years on the airwaves and is well noted for their well noted "theme" show format and will host the 513th edition of their show since they hit the airwaves and their 301st show since joining forces with the party channel at WALN Digital Cable and "Happy Jack" Burns on Channels 103 and 137. The Gasoline Alley Team of Ed and Steve Pados is looking forward to more of the same great format they have been following since the inception of their show back in 2002.
With this edition of the show the Gang will focus their attentions on five racing personalities who enjoyed successful seasons in 2010. The interviews will kick-off with Sportsman racing star Nick Petrilak joining the Gang to talk about his great season in 2010 where he captured ROC wins at both the Five Mile Point and the Penn Can Speedways during the season and added another win at the Afton Speedway in his first time appearance at the track. "Showtime" Danny Tyler rejoins the show to talk bout his great season at the competition tough Accord Speedway. Tyler enjoyed a solid sixth place finish in 2010 and seeks to contend for the track title in 2011 with some freshly minted equipment in 2011. "The Angel in Flames" Alissa Geving rejoins the show to talk about her initial season in the Golden State Challenge Series in which she earned Rookie of the Year honors as well as a solid fourth place finish in the final points. The 2011 season will find Alissa racing with the California Civil War Race Series as well as running select shows at the Petaluma Speedway where she is a past two time champion at the speedway. Lehigh Valley resident Brad Grim joins the Gang to talk about his step up into the world of the 358 Modifieds in 2011 with his recent pairing with the Jim Reid owned race team for action at the Grandview Speedway. Grim is a former Sportsman titilist at the Five Mile Point Speedway in New York State and ran a limited a schedule in 2010. "The Diva on Dirt" Stef Palmai joins the Gang for her initial interview after a great rookie season in TSRS 305 sprint car competition where she finished third in the final point tallies. Palmai enjoyed great success in the Micro Sprints and was a quick study to adapt to the faster speeds of the sprint cars.
Miss WALN Cable Radio Vickie Kidd will join the Gang for this edition of the show.
The Gang will be providing additional updates regarding the upcoming IRCO Dirt Track Heroes show held at the Phillipsburg Mall that will run from March 6th until the 12th. This will be the fourth consecutive season the Pados Brothers will be hosting the nightly stage shows in Phillipsburg and have a great and diverse series of events scheduled for the racing fans all week long.
The popular award winning TV/Internet show offers a live internet video feed to all of the Internet subscribers to view the wide assortment of the many racing videos that are played while the show is in progress and to enjoy the chat sessions with the many great personalities from within the racing community who pay the Gang a visit to discuss racing. As always, a surprise or two will be expected as the Gasoline Alley Gang continues to bring the racing community the fastest, funniest and most informed racing show on the airwaves today. All shows produced by GA Motorsports Media are carefully researched, authenticated and fully scripted to produce for our loyal sponsors, guests and racing fans the best show on the airwaves today.
CARQUEST Gasoline Alley TV/Radio/Internet Show continues with its outstanding line-up of talented guests with this week's edition of the show. The Show's programming is available on WALN Digital Cable Radio, Internet www.walncableradio.com for the Audio portion and: livestream.com/walncableradio/old for the video portion. The Show is available on Service Electric Digital Cable TV, Channels 103, and 137 and is live from 6 to 8 PM and later tape delayed on Channel 50 at 11 PM.
Join the Gasoline Alley broadcasting team of Ed and Steve Pados on Monday evening February 21st as they take you on a two-hour circular journey with their well documented, very informative and extremely funny show.
Should you have questions on how to be a part of the show through advertising, appearances or remotes, please contact Steve Pados at: 610 573 9706; Ed Pados at: 610 739 0391; or the WALN Studios at: 610 791 1818. You may also email: steveswp@ptd.net
RACING NEWS THE WAY IT IS MEANT TO BE
THE DEMON (GARDNER) 4-FOR-5 AFTER SATURDAY’S OCALA FEATURE WIN!
Posted by: | CommentsOcala, FL……..Damion Gardner of Concord, Calif. led all but the first lap of Saturday night’s 30-lap USAC AMSOIL National Sprint race at Ocala Speedway, posting his fourth feature win in the last five USAC Sprint races in the Sunshine State! Gardner passed Blake Fitzpatrick on lap two in his Pace Lighting Eagle/Shaver and led the rest of the way to take the “Bubby Army Sprint Nationals” finale over Fitzpatrick, fast qualifier Levi Jones, Hunter Schuerenberg and Casey Shuman. The win put Gardner back atop the series standings going into April 8 and 9 races at Tony Stewart’s Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. Fitzpatrick’s runner-up finish was his second in as many nights at the 3/8-mile dirt oval. Gardner also won Thursday night’s feature and won both races last year at East Bay Raceway in Gibsonton.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: February 19, 2011 – Ocala, Florida – Ocala Speedway – 2nd “Bubba Army Sprint Nationals”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-14.758; 2. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-14.919; 3. Bryan Clauson, 7, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-14.928; 4. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-144.970; 5. Chris Windom, 5x, Baldwin-14.982; 6. Casey Shuman, 4G, Cook-15.008; 7. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-15.008; 8. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-15.080; 9. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.178; 10. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-15.223; 11. Scotty Weir, 1G, Gorby-15.281; 12. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-15.283; 13. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-15.293; 14. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-15.329; 15. Bill Rose, 10T, R & B-15.409; 16. Brady Short, 36, Short-15.425; 17. Shane Cottle, 10E, Edison-15.435; 18. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-15.439; 19. Kyle Robbins, 17R, KR-15.531; 20. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-15.554.643; 21. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-15.575; 22. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-15.643; 23. Dave Darland, 39, Goodnight-15.648; 24. Steve Irwin, 42G, R & M-15.752; 25. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-15.818; 26. Kent Christian, 1c, Christian-15.965; 27. Mike Weber, 22w, Weber-16.968; 28. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-NT; 29. Steve Thomas, 20T, Thomas-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Jones, 3. Stockon, 4. Gardner, 5. Ballou, 6. Gulick, 7. Windom. 2:04.00
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Coons, 2. Fitzpatrick, 3. Schuerenberg, 4. McIntyre, 5. East, 6. Shuman, 7. Christian. 2:03.00
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Robbins, 2. Darland, 3. Clauson, 4. Weir, 5. Riggs, 6. Rose, 7. Weber. 2:04.00
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Irwin, 2. Grant, 3. Kaeding, 4. Hines, 5. Stanbrough, 6. Short, 7. Gross. 2:06.00
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Riggs, 3. Stanbrough, 4. Shuman, 5. Ballou, 6. East, 7. Short, 8. Rose, 9. Gulick, 10. Christian, 11. Gross, 12. Weber. 3:04.00.
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Blake Fitzpatrick, 3. Levi Jones, 4. Hunter Schuerenberg, 5. Casey Shuman, 6. Casey Riggs, 7. Jon Stanbrough, 8. Jerry Coons Jr., 9. Bud Kaeding, 10. Bobby East, 11. Bryan Clauson, 12. Robert Ballou, 13. Tracy Hines, 14. Shane Cottle, 15. Dave Darland, 16. Brady Short, 17. Chris Windom, 18. Wes McIntyre, 19. Kyle Robbins, 20. Chase Stockon, 21. Steve Irwin, 22. Justin Grant, 23. Scotty Weir. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Fitzpatrick, Laps 2-30 Gardner.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Gardner-194; 2-Jones-172; 3-Clauson-171; 4-Schuerenberg-160; 5-Stanbrough-159; 6-Fitzpatrick-145; 7-Kaeding-137; 8-East-118; 9-Riggs-115; 10-Weir-110.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: April 8 – Rossburg, OH – Eldora Speedway
NASCAR Makes Another Change Before Today’s Daytona 500
Posted by: | CommentsDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - NASCAR is making another change to cars for the Daytona 500, this one because temperatures are expected to reach 80 degrees during the season-opening race.
Sprint Cup officials say teams can add an extra inch to grill openings, allowing more air to flow to engine-cooling radiators.
The change was made following the final practice session Saturday and should help drivers keep their engines cooler at speeds nearing 200 mph around Daytona International Speedway on Sunday.
NASCAR made three changes earlier in the week, reducing the size of the horsepower-sapping restrictor plates, adding a pressure-relief valve to cooling systems and reducing the size of grill openings. The moves were made to slow downs cars after speeds topped 206 mph.
FRIDAY OCALA USAC SPRINT RACE RESULTS
Posted by: | CommentsAMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: February 18, 2011 – Ocala, Florida – Ocala Speedway – 2nd “Bubba Army Sprint Nationals”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-15.211; 2. Bryan Clauson, 7, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-15.288; 3. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.391; 4. Scotty Weir, 1G, Gorby-15.424; 5. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-15.473; 6. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-15.590; 7. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-15.605; 8. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-15.729; 9. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-15.753; 10. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-15.762; 11. Casey Shuman, 4G, Cook-15.764; 12. Shane Cottle, 10E, Edison-15.777; 13. Bill Rose, 10T, R & B-15.779; 14. Kyle Robbins, 17R, KR-15.787; 15. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-15.791; 16. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-15.804; 17. Dave Darland, 39, Goodnight-15.856; 18. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-15.861; 19. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-15.884; 20. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-15.924; 21. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-15.929; 22. Chris Windom, 5x, Baldwin-15.956; 23. Brady Short, 36, Short-15.981; 24. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-16.197; 25. Steve Irwin, 42G, R & M-16.283; 26. Kent Christian, 1c,
Christian-16.342; 27. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-16.362; 28. Mike Weber, 22w, Weber-17.537; 29. Steve Thomas, 20T, Thomas-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Riggs, 2. Kaeding, 3. Fitzpatrick, 4. Jones, 5, Darland, 6. Rose, 7. Irwin. 2:09.00
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom, 2. McIntyre, 3. Clauson, 4. Robbins, 5. Grant, 6. Stockon, 7. Christian. 2:14.00
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. East, 3. Short, 4. Schuerenberg, 5. Coons, 6. Gardner, 7. Shuman. 2:08.00
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Weir, 2. Gulick, 3. Cottle, 4. Hines, 5. Ballou, 6. Gross, 7. Weber. 2:09.00
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Stockon, 3. Ballou, 4. Grant, 5. Coons, 6. Rose, 7. Shuman, 8. Darland, 9. Gross, 10. Christian, 11. Irwin, 12. Weber. 3:16.00
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2, Blake Fitzpatrick, 3. Scotty Weir, 4. Damion Gardner, 5. Hunter Schuerenberg, 6. Robert Ballou, 7. Shane Cottle, 8. Jon Stanbrough, 9. Levi Jones, 10. Bud Kaeding, 11. Casey Riggs, 12. Tracy Hines, 13. Chris Windom, 14. Bobby East, 15. Justin Grant, 16. Bill Rose, 17. Brady Short, 18. Coleman Gulick, 19, Jerry Coons Jr., 20. Chase Stockon, 21. Wes McIntyre, 22. Kyle Robbins. 8:27,00
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-22 Fitzpatrick, Clauson 23-30.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Clauson-130; 2-Gardner-129; 3-Stanbrough-112; 4-Jones-105; 5-Schuerenberg-98; 6-Kaeding-95; 7-Weir-92; 8-East-84; 9-Fitzpatrick-81; 10-Ballou-77.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: February 19 – Ocala, FL – Ocala Speedway – 2nd “Bubba Army Sprint Nationals”
THURSDAY OCALA USAC SPRINT RACE RESULTS
Posted by: | CommentsAMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: February 17, 2011 – Ocala, Florida – Ocala Speedway – 2nd “Bubba Army Sprint Nationals”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-14.801; 2. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-14.941; 3. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.028; 4. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-15.109; 5. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-15.186; 6. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-15.216; 7. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-15.220; 8. Bryan Clauson, 7, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-15.258; 9. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-15.296; 10. Brady Short, 36, Short-15.299; 11. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-15.307; 12. Shane Cottle, 10E, Edison-15.349; 13. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-15.478; 14. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-15.510; 15. Casey Shuman, 4G, Cook-15.514; 16. Bill Rose, 10T, R & B-15.529; 17. Chris Windom, 5x, Baldwin-15.534; 18. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-15.572; 19. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-15.677; 20. Scotty Weir, 1G, Gorby-15.784; 21. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-15.822; 22. Dave Darland, 39, Goodnight-15.857; 23. Steve Irwin, 42G, R & M-15.933; 24. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-15.979; 25. Kyle Robbins, 17R, KR-16.032; 26. Kent Christian, 1c,
Christian-16.188; 27. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-16.240; 28. Steve Thomas, 20T, Thomas-16.806; 29. Mike Weber, 22w, Weber-17.165; 30. Jimmy Simpson, 21, RacePro-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Kaeding, 3. Schuerenberg, 4. Jones, 5. Ballou, 6. Robbins, 7. Weber, 8. Grant. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Darland, 4. Short, 5. Riggs, 6. Fitzpatrick, 7. Christian. 2:21
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Coons, 2. Gulick, 3. Gardner, 4. Shuman, 5. Stockon, 6. McIntyre, 7. Irwin. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. East, 3. Weir, 4. Clauson, 5. Rose, 6. Gross, 7. Thomas. 2:08
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Riggs, 2. Fitzpatrick, 3. Rose, 4. Ballou, 5. Grant, 6. McIntyre, 7. Robbins, 8. Gross, 9. Christian, 10. Stockon, 11. Thomas, 12. Weber. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Bryan Clauson, 4. Levi Jones, 5. Bud Kaeding, 6. Brady Short, 7. Bobby East, 8. Coleman Gulick, 9. Bill Rose, 10. Hunter Schuerenberg, 11. Chris Windom, 12. Robert Ballou, 13 Jerry Coons Jr., 14. Casey Shuman, 15. Dave Darland, 16. Scotty Weir, 17. Casey Riggs, 18. Tracy Hines, 19. Wes McIntyre, 20. Blake Fitzpatrick, 21. Justin Grant, 22. Shane Cottle. NT
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**Grant flipped during the first heat. Riggs flipped on lap 6 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-29 Stanbrough, Lap 30 Gardner.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Gardner-70; 2-Stanbrough-65; 3-Clauson-59; 4-Jones-58; 5-Kaeding-55; 6-East-52; 7-Short-50; 8-Gulick-46; 9-Schuerenberg-45; 10-Windom-39.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: February 18 – Ocala, FL – Ocala Speedway – 2nd “Bubba Army Sprint Nationals”
CARQUEST GASOLINE ALLEY NEWS
Posted by: | CommentsAllentown, PA: CARQUEST Gasoline Alley Goes Topside With Sprint Stars Gary Wright, Kyle Larson, Zach Zimmerly And Seth Bergman On Monday Night's Show
By:Steve Pados, GA Motorsports Media
The extremely popular and nationally acclaimed CARQUEST Gasoline Alley TV/Internet Show cranks up the airwaves on Monday evening with another fabulous edition of their show on Monday evening show, February 14th as they play host to another blockbuster lineup of talented racing stars and personalities who join the Gang for the fastest, funniest, and most informative racing show in the country today. The show airs from 6 to 8 PM every Monday evening on channels 103 and 137 and worldwide on the Internet. The Gang has been serving the racing world for the past eight years on the airwaves and is well noted for their well noted "theme" show format and will host the 512th edition of their show since they hit the airwaves and their monumental 300th show since joining forces with the party channel at WALN Digital Cable and "Happy Jack" Burns on Channels 103 and 137. The Gasoline Alley Team of Ed and Steve Pados is looking forward to more of the same great format they have been following since the inception of their show back in 2002.
With this edition of the show the Gang will focus on the "pushin the cushion" world of Sprint Car racing and have followed Horace Greeley's advice as they head to the West Coast to chat with a gifted group of racing personalities who have enjoyed great success in the sport and look to add to their fame and glory with the upcoming 2011 racing season. The interviews will kick-off with 16 year old teenage sensation Zach Zimmerly, who last season became the youngest winner ever in the California based Golden State Challenge Series for 410 sprint cars. Zach jons the Gang for the first time and is already approaching 100 wins in his young and exciting career in racing. 18 year old Kyle Larson, who captured a win on Saturday evening with a wire to wire triumph at the Giant Speedway in Hanford, California rejoins the Gang to talk about the win and his recent pairing with the famed Keith Kunz Racing Team in Indiana as Kyle gears up for a run at the USAC National Midget title in 2011. "The Texan" Gary Wright will be on the road and heading home from California as the Gang hopes to catch up with him for an interview. Gary is the all-time leading sprint car winner in ASCS competition having scored 126 wins and four consecutive titles from 2004 to 2007. Seth Bergman, the Grays Harbor sprint car champion in 2010 joins the Gang for the first time to talk about the title and his aggressive plans for hitting the road this year as part of the ASCS National Tour.
Miss WALN Cable Radio Vickie Kidd will join the Gang for this edition of the show.
The Gang will also be providing additional updates regarding the upcoming Phillipsburg Mall show that will run from March 6th until the 12th. This will be the fourth consecutive season the Pados Brothers will be hosting the nightly stage shows in Phillipsburg and have a great and diverse series of events scheduled for the racing fans all week long.
The popular award winning TV/Internet show offers a live internet video feed to all of the Internet subscribers to view the wide assortment of the many racing videos that are played while the show is in progress and to enjoy the chat sessions with the many great personalities from within the racing community who pay the Gang a visit to discuss racing. As always, a surprise or two will be expected as the Gasoline Alley Gang continues to bring the racing community the fastest, funniest and most informed racing show on the airwaves today. All shows produced by GA Motorsports Media are carefully researched, authenticated and fully scripted to produce for our loyal sponsors, guests and racing fans the best show on the airwaves today.
CARQUEST Gasoline Alley TV/Radio/Internet Show continues with its outstanding line-up of talented guests with this week's edition of the show. The Show's programming is available on WALN Digital Cable Radio, Internet www.walncableradio.com for the Audio portion and: livestream.com/walncableradio/old for the video portion. The Show is available on Service Electric Digital Cable TV, Channels 103, and 137 and is live from 6 to 8 PM and later tape delayed on Channel 50 at 11 PM.
Join the Gasoline Alley broadcasting team of Ed and Steve Pados on Monday evening February 14th as they take you on a two-hour circular journey with their well documented, very informative and extremely funny show.
Should you have questions on how to be a part of the show through advertising, appearances or remotes, please contact Steve Pados at: 610 573 9706; Ed Pados at: 610 739 0391; or the WALN Studios at: 610 791 1818. You may also email: steveswp@ptd.net
RACING NEWS THE WAY IT IS MEANT TO BE
Speedway announcer Tom Carnegie dies at 91
Posted by: | CommentsImage of Tom Carnegie, courtesy IndyCar.com.
Indianapolis - Legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway announcer Tom Carnegie has died.
Carnegie passed away at the age of 91. He served as the voice of the Speedway for more than 60 years, taking the job in 1946. He was hired by track owner Tony Hulman to announce the first race under Hulman's ownership.
"I go out there fat, dumb and happy, you know, and announce a little event and Tony Hulman and Wilbur Shaw come over and say, 'You want to work the 500?'," Carnegie said at a party for his 90th birthday in 2009. "I don't know what came out, but it was good enough. I think they were just too embarrassed to fire me, so I stayed there for 61 races."
He retired from the Speedway in 2006.
According to the IMS website, Carnegie was born Carl Kenagy on September 25, 1919. A manager at the Fort Wayne radio station where he worked changed his on-air name to Tom Carnegie.
Carnegie's link to Indianapolis sports history extended beyond the Brickyard. He was the announcer at Hinkle Fieldhouse when Milan High School won the 1954 state basketball championship on Bobby Plump's infamous shot, which became the basis for the movie "Hoosiers."