South Boston Speedway opened its season to one of its largest crowds in recent memory. Track general Manager Brandon Brown believes pavement racing is seeing
Author: Mike Adaskaveg
Mike Adaskaveg has written hundreds of stories since the website’s inception. This year marks his 54th year of covering auto racing. Adaskaveg got his start working for track photographer Lloyd Burnham at Connecticut’s Stafford Motor Speedway in 1970. Since then, he’s been a columnist, writer, and photographer, in racing and in mainstream media, for several outlets, including the Journal Inquirer, Boston Herald, Stock Car Racing, and Speedway Illustrated. Among Adaskaveg's many awards are the 1992 Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA) Ace Lane Photographer of the Year and the 2019 National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) George Cunningham Writer of the Year.
Derek Iser: The Saving Grace Behind His Worst Wreck
The good news: sport compact driver Derek Iser survived his worst wreck in 20 years of racing. However, on the ride back home, tears began
Austin Jahnz: The Story Behind the Tape
Hobby stock driver Austin Jahnz didn’t realize what he created when he constructed his makeshift sun visor out of three colors of tape. That is
Ark-La-Tex Speedway Solo 275: $10,000 to Win and a Ton of Fun
The Solo 275 at Ark-La-Tex Speedway may very well have assembled the oddest collection of cars for a race. Luke Johnson hauled a school bus-bodied
Gene Knaub Wins with an Engine Built to Rules 10 Years Ago
Who needs the newest, shiniest equipment — certainly not Gene Knaub. With a five-year-old late model and a 10-year-old engine, he beat out a field