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Hamilton Spectator
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Hamilton Spectator
More Sprint Car success for Dylan Westbrook
Dylan Westbrook has been having a good season racing his 360 Sprint Car. The 26-year-old from Scotland, Ont. took another A-Main at Ohsweken Speedway last week, his fifth win in six races on the dirt oval — a streak that includes a $10,000 payout for his victory in the recent Summer Sprint Showcase. He also races at the dirt tracks of Merrittville, Buxton and Brighton, where he has made his name in SOS (Southern Ontario Sprints) competition, recently winning on the Buxton oval. With that win, Westbrook secured the all-time A-Main (feature) record of 33 victories, surpassing a decades-old mark set by Rick Wilson. He is a four-time SOS champion, including the last two seasons in a series that began in 1996. So, what is the secret to his success? 'I guess it's a little bit of everything,' he noted. 'Good car prep, a good crew and some luck.' Westbrook has been behind the wheel of a 360 Sprint Car (so-called for its engine displacement of 360 cubic inches) for 10 years. The open-wheeled, winged single-seater produces about 800 horsepower and can hit 100 m.p.h. down a track's straight section and is worth about $80,000 in race trim. Starting with karts, Westbrook has progressed to faster and more powerful cars. He had a stint in a Crate Sprint Car, which resembles his present racer but has a less powerful engine. He has also taken a few laps in the Ultimate Sprint Car (a version with a 410-cubic-inch engine and 200 more horsepower, used in the World of Outlaws series). In 2022, he got the chance to drive a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Chevy pickup on the Knoxville Iowa dirt oval for Jordan Anderson Racing. Westbrook said he is content with his present ride and hopes to maintain his winning pace. He mentioned he does not have a favourite track, but added he leans toward Ohsweken for his success there. He thanks his crew, his father, Jim Westbrook, and finance, Julia Fiore, for their support, along with main sponsors Hills Racing and Miska Trailers. When asked if he has any special pre-race rituals, Westbrook said he doesn't go off in a corner to mentally prepare himself or wear a favourite trinket under his driving suit. 'I just go out there and have fun and hopefully win,' he said. Bits and Pieces: Quebec's Bruno Spengler , a prominent road racer in European competition, will race in the Nissan Sentra Cup event during the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières in August … Another local driver having a successful season on the dirt tracks is Dave Bailey . The Hagersville driver runs a Camaro in the Hoosier Stocks division at Merrittville Speedway and has won eight features so far and leads in points. Although he is third in points at Ohsweken Speedway, he has five feature wins in nine races in the track's Middleport Mechanical Thunder Stock division. Vittoria's Ryan Beagle has four wins and leads the points race, and Trevor DeBoer of Hagersville is second … Delaware Speedway and the APC Late Model Series have announced some big payouts for the Great Canadian Race Weekend Sept. 26 and 27, including a purse of $90,000 for the Castrol 300 to be run on the half-mile paved oval … Kyle Steckley of Milverton won the APC United-London Recreational Late Model 100-lapper at Flamboro Speedway recently. Brampton's Lane Zardo won the Dayco Super Stock feature at the Millgrove track and Rodney Rutherford of Dundas took the Canadian Vintage Modified feature … Sesame Street's Cookie Monster will serve as Grand Marshal for the Brickyard 400 presented by PPG July 27 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which has to be one of the coolest moves in the sport.
Newsweek
17-07-2025
- Automotive
- Newsweek
How to Watch Joker's Jackpot at Eldora Speedway: Live Stream Racing, TV Channel
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Sprint car fans don't get many chances to watch races on television, but FOX Sports 1 will air the Joker's Jackpot at Eldora Speedway on Thursday night, the first nationally televised sprint car racing since World of Outlaws aired during COVID. If you haven't had a chance to watch the High Limits series, this is your chance to catch the action. Tony Stewart #14 takes the checkered flag to win the Camping World Superstar Racing Experience event at Eldora Speedway on June 26, 2021 in Rossburg, Ohio. Tony Stewart #14 takes the checkered flag to win the Camping World Superstar Racing Experience event at Eldora Speedway on June 26, 2021 in Rossburg, Ohio. How to Watch Joker's Jackpot at Eldora Speedway Date: Thursday, July 17, 2025 Time: 7:00 PM EDT Channel: FOX Sports 1 Stream: Fubo (TRY FOR FREE) Last year, David Gravel won this race and the $100,000 prize, winning a chaotic 40-lap race that featured multiple issues for other contenders. Tyler Courtney and James McFadden were both running in the top five when flat tires derailed their shot of winning, while Giovanni Sclezi crashed from the lead with just seven laps left to go. Donny Schatz finished second last year, followed by Brad Sweet, Justin Peck and Rico Abreu. NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson was in the field and was running second late, but a mechanical issue slowed his car and he finished just 20th on the night. This race is part of King's Royal Week at Eldora Speedway, one of the biggest dirt track weekends in the world. It's capped off by Saturday's Kings Royal, a World of Outlaws event paying $200,000 to the winner. Eldora Speedway has long been one of the top dirt tracks in the country. The half-mile oval in Rossburg, Ohio, has been owned by former NASCAR and IndyCar champion Tony Stewart since 2004. Live stream the Joker's Jackpot at Eldora Speedway on Fubo: Start your free trial now! Regional restrictions may apply. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
NBC Sports
10-06-2025
- NBC Sports
NTSB rules Scott Bloomquist plane crash intentional, suicide
The crash that claimed the life of Scott Bloomquist on August 16, 2024, has been determined as intentional by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), ruling his death a suicide. Dan Beaver, A statement from the NTSB concluded: 'The pilot departed from a private airstrip and overflew his property. The airplane subsequently impacted a barn adjacent to the airstrip. The airplane sustained substantial damage, and the fuselage was mostly consumed by the postimpact fire that ensued. The pilot was fatally injured. An autopsy of the pilot was performed by the William L. Jenkins Forensic Center, Johnson City, Tennessee. The autopsy report listed the cause of death as blunt force injuries and the manner of death as suicide.' The full NTSB report is available here. At the time of the crash, Bloomquist was struggling with a series of health issues that included lower-body injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash during 2019 Daytona Bike Week, a diagnosis of prostate cancer, back surgery, and a recent hospitalization due to complications from a horsefly bite that went unnoticed due to numbness from the 2019 motorcycle crash. Bloomquist was one of the winningest drivers in Dirt Late Model history with 94 victories in 502 Lucas Oil Late Model starts, plus 33 victories in the World of Outlaws. Included in his victories were eight wins in the Dirt Late Model Dream and four World 100 triumphs.
Miami Herald
10-06-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
Kyle Larson unhurt in violent sprint car crash
NASCAR star Kyle Larson escaped uninjured from a violent crash on Friday night in a sprint car race in Wisconsin. The former Cup Series champion was running second in a World of Outlaws race at the Plymouth Dirt Track when his winged vehicle flipped end-over-end before slamming into the catch fence. Larson, 32, who was able to climb out of the car unscathed, said that the right rear axle 'or something' broke. 'It just kind of launched me, and I was along for the ride,' he said, per 'Bummer, but I felt really good pacing Rico (Abreu) there and just finally catching traffic and get racing there. Glad I'm OK, big hit but all-in-all, feel fine.' In addition to racing stock cars and sprint cars, Larson has also competed in the Indianapolis 500 in each of the past two years. Larson is scheduled to be behind the wheel of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in Sunday's Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway. The 2021 Cup Series champion has three wins and 10 top-10 finishes this season and ranks second in the Cup standings, 48 points behind leader William Byron. Field Level Media 2025 - All Rights Reserved
Miami Herald
10-06-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
Chase Briscoe claims 3rd straight NASCAR Cup Series pole at Michigan
Chase Briscoe claimed his third consecutive NASCAR Cup Series pole position Saturday morning, with the Joe Gibbs Racing driver taking top honors at Michigan International Speedway for Sunday's FireKeepers Casino 400. Briscoe's No. 19 JGR Toyota turned a lap of 195.514 mph for his fourth pole of the season -- just besting Richard Childress Racing's Kyle Busch, who will start alongside with a lap of 195.317 in the No. 8 Chevrolet. This equals Busch's best start of the season (also second at Talladega, Ala.). Briscoe's work marks the first time a driver has won pole positions at three consecutive races since Hendrick Motorsports' Kyle Larson did it last April at Richmond, Michigan, and Texas. 'I was surprised truthfully it held on,'' the 30-year-old Indiana native said of his fast lap. 'It was not as easy as I thought it was going to be just holding it wide open. But our Bass Pro Shops has been pretty fast in race trim and I thought we could have been even better. 'It will be nice starting up front and we've been able to do that now three weeks in a row but haven't been able to execute with it, so hopefully third time is a charm and hopefully we can finally get one on Sunday.'' Briscoe's Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Denny Hamlin, was third quickest in the No. 11 Toyota and will start alongside the current NASCAR Cup Series points leader, William Byron in the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Interestingly, neither of those two championship teams has won on the 2-mile Michigan oval in a decade. The last win for Hendrick came in 2014 and the last for Gibbs in 2015. However, Hendrick's lineup now boasts a three-time Michigan winner in Larson, who scored his career first series victory at the track in 2016 while driving for Chip Ganassi Racing. The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion Larson will roll off fifth Sunday alongside another former Michigan winner (2023) Roush Fenway Keselowski's Chris Buescher. 'I feel fine, that was an unfortunately part failure there,'' Larson said, assuring he was okay after flipping his car in a World of Outlaws race Friday night. 'Felt good there today and held it wide open in qualifying, as did the whole field. 'Hopefully, we can find a little more turn tomorrow. I think all of us being very similar on speed it will be difficult in traffic so having some turn will be a benefit. That's our main objective at this point. 'But overall happy to qualify fifth there. That's honestly a little bit better than I thought we would be. Now we'll rest up and study and try to be ready for tomorrow.'' Defending race winner, 23XI Racing's Tyler Reddick was 12th in qualifying - along with last week's Nashville race winner, Team Penske's Ryan Blaney suffering a tire problem in practice. Blaney will roll off 13th. RFK'S BUESCHER FOR THE WIN Judging by the past two years, the summer months have been productive for Buescher. Last year he earned his only win of the season in September at Watkins Glen. Two years ago, the driver of the No. 17 RKF Ford scored all three of his victories in the summer - back-to-back at Richmond (July 30) and Michigan (Aug. 7), then won again at the end of August at Daytona International Speedway's regular season finale. Heading into this week's Firekeepers Casino 400 at Michigan, Buescher is the only one among the three RFK drivers ranked above the Playoff cutoff line - 15th in the championship by Playoff standings; six points up on Kyle Busch in that last Playoff position and only eight points up on his RFK teammate Ryan Preece in 17th. Buescher is of course hopeful that he can reclaim some of that Michigan magic on the two-miler. He led a race high 52 of 200 laps and beat Martin Truex Jr. by a slight 152-second for his win two years ago. He has only three top 10s in 14 Michigan starts - but two in the last two races (win and sixth last year). It's not enough to make him over-confident but does give him some optimism heading into the all-important summer months of competition. With points so close, a victory may be the best option to earn a Playoff bid. 'You can't depend on points to get you in the playoffs when it's as tight as it is every week,'' Buescher said. 'I think that's been our mindset, which means that ultimately wherever we bounce around that [Playoff cutoff] line we'll be aware of it, but it's a matter of figuring out how to go win races and we haven't done that yet. 'We've not been quite good enough and we're working on trying to clean up some of the detail work and study a little harder and be better from my end behind the wheel and make it to where we basically lock ourselves in on that side of it and don't have to have any of that thought in the back of our heads. 'But I certainly don't want it to be what we're sitting here thinking of how can we get two points here, three points there and try and just feel like we can skate our way in. It doesn't work. Ultimately, you can't count on that when it comes down to the end.' HOCEVAR AND STENHOUSE In last weekend's race at Nashville Superspeedway, 22-year-old Carson Hocevar and veteran Ricky Stenhouse Jr. collided on track -- ending the day for Stenhouse. But Hocevar was able to rally to a second-place finish - tying his career best showing in the NASCAR Cup Series. After the race, Stenhouse was understandably riled, but both drivers report that they have spoken, and all is good moving forward even if they don't necessarily agree on how last week played out. 'Me and him both have the reputation, I guess, of being aggressive at times and everything, so at that one point, we both reminded each other that even with those reputations, we've raced each other very well together, right?'' the Michigan-native Hocevar said Saturday morning, before practice. 'It clashes together. So, yeah, I mean we've had no issues before, as he had said, and I feel like we've had a decent relationship leading up to this.' Stenhouse told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio this week that he was satisfied with the conversation between the two, 'I thought it was productive and, based off his comments, I felt like it was received productive.' Hocevar, who qualified 14th for the NASCAR Cup Series race and is also competing in Saturday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race, seemed at peace with where things sit and conceded he would rather be talking about his No. 77 Spire Motorsports team's improvement. He's already had a career best pair of runner-up efforts and also earned three top-10s - half of his full season total last year. Asked Saturday if he was satisfied to be known for his aggressive driving style - some reporters comparing him to his hero Dale Earnhardt - Hocevar insisted he's just being himself. 'Everything about me is real... like I'm not trying to play a part, try to fit a role or trying to pretend to be anybody,'' he said. 'But, you know, it's for everybody else to decide on what they get and perceive of me. I know who I am and, you know, ultimately, I want to be known as me and sometimes that leads to comparisons.' PENSKE FOCUS Last week's Nashville race winner, Team Penske's Ryan Blaney was asked about the relief he felt finally earning that first trophy of the year -- and guaranteed Playoff position -- after being so close to wins multiple times this season. He insisted nothing would really 'change' for his or his team's approach going forward. 'It's really nothing different,' the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series champion said. 'We approach every week trying to win the race and no matter what spot you're in, whether you're not locked in on wins or you are. We did a great job last week of finally closing one out and you just try to do it again. 'A lot of people talk about that. Is there a mindset change when you win and you get locked in? I've never really believed that. I've always, to me at least and our group, it's just we prepare every week like you're trying to win the race, whether you've won one, zero or five it's the same thing.' BABY WATCH Joe Gibbs Racing's Denny Hamlin remains on 'baby watch' for the second weekend. His fiancee, Jordan, is due to give birth to a baby boy -- their third child -- at any time. Hamlin flew back to his Charlotte-area home following Saturday afternoon qualifying to be with Jordan and will return to Michigan just prior to Sunday's green flag. Field Level Media 2025 - All Rights Reserved
