Matt Hagio of Palmade finally found his way to victory lane at Bakersfield Speedway.
The American Nostalgia Racing Association opens its season on Saturday at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, which also means it’s time to honor the 2017 series champions.
Make no mistake about it. When it comes to Super Late Model racing on the West Coast, Bakersfield’s Derek Thorn is the standard bearer.
Shane Golobic found what he thought would be the fast way around the Dirt Track at Kern County Raceway during a couple of quick warm up laps.
Nicholas Johnson climbed from his race car and pounded his fists against the roof as if he were beating a drum.
The NARC King of the West Fujitsu Racing Series kicks off its 2018 racing season at The Dirt at KCRP but it will be a day later than planned.
Former Bakersfield Speedway champion Nick Spainhoward opened the IMCA Sports Mod season at Bakersfield Speedway on Saturday night with a victory in the 30-lap feature.
Kern County Raceway kicked off its regular season last Saturday night as Super Stock and Spec Mod drivers took to the paved half mile oval while Legends were on the quarter mile.
For most of the night, Jason Johnson was the fastest Outlaw at Bakersfield Speedway on Saturday night.
It took three extra weeks, but the Bakersfield Speedway racing season, which was supposed to kick off on March 1, finally got under way on Saturday night.
Former Mesa Marin racer Tom Devitt now traveling the U.S. as Technical Director for World of Outlaws
At 54 years of age, former Arvin resident Tom Devitt is enjoying life touring the country with his wife, Sharene.
For the fourth straight week, Scott Schweitzer is looking toward the skies, eyeing weather forecasts and working hard to try to get his season underway.
Digger Helm lived life in the fast lane.
Heading into his first ever race at Kern County Raceway Park, Monster Energy Cup star Kevin Harvick repeatedly said it wasn’t about him, it was about trying to grow grassroots racing.
The timing could not be better for Bakersfield’s Kevin Harvick to be making his racing debut on Thursday night at Kern County Raceway Park.
For the third straight weekend Scott Schweitzer will be hoping to open the gates and get the Bakersfield Speedway season in gear.
Bakersfield native Kevin Harvick never won a NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at the old Mesa Marin Raceway while working his way toward what has been a lengthy career at the top echelon of stock car racing.
The opening night of action at Bakersfield Speedway will have to wait one more week.
Bakersfield Speedway will try to kick off it’s 73rd consecutive season of racing on Saturday night and once again it appears weather will be a deciding factor.
Bobby Cottrell made his the slowest run of the week in the Funny Car final Sunday at Auto Club Famoso Raceway.
It didn’t rain much, or often Saturday at Auto Club Famoso Raceway.
A year ago, Nostalgia Funny Car driver Dan Horan Jr. honored the memory of his father by having the rear quarter panel of his car adorned with a depiction of his father’s front-engined dragster doing a burnout.
Without a doubt, variety has long been a staple of drag racing.
Drivers got some early runs in Thursday as the annual March Meet comes to Auto Club Famoso Raceway.
Officially, it took just 5.59 seconds for Mendy Fry to become a March Meet Top Fuel champion a year ago at Auto Club Famoso Raceway.
There was no catching Kyle Busch Saturday afternoon at Kern County Raceway.
Some of the best short-track drivers from throughout the country rolled into Kern County Raceway for the Fourth Annual Spears Winter Showdown, but it was a pair of local drivers who stole the show Friday.
Lawless Allen held off Tim Huddleston to win the split 80-lap Late Model feature on Friday night at Kern County Raceway.
There’s nothing much that Kyle Busch likes to do more than race.
Seasoned short-track stars, young guns and a host of champions — including Kyle Busch, the 2015 NASCAR Cup Series champ — are part of an impressive field of drivers for the Fourth Annual Spears Winter Showdown.
Some of the top racers throughout the country are likely to be taking laps around the tenth-mile indoor clay oval on Wednesday night at the Bakersfield Karting Experience.
The Fourth Annual Winter Showdown on Feb. 2-3 kicks off a 20-event racing schedule this year at Kern County Raceway Park.
Some how, some way Irwindale Speedway manages to keep one step ahead of the grim reaper.
It seems like the racing season just ended (it did, last month), but the roar of engines at local race tracks is just around the corner. Kern County Raceway hosts the fourth Annual Winter Showdown on Feb. 2-3; Auto Club Famoso Raceway’s biggest event — the 60th March Meet — runs March 1-4 an…
Five years after its much-anticipated opening, one of the nicest short-track racing facilities west of the Rocky Mountains could be in a transition phase.
Kern County Raceway is for sale, but will continue to operate as usual in 2018, according to track operators.
NASCAR star Kyle Busch will be returning to Bakersfield for his second straight appearance in the SRL Winter Showdown at Kern County Raceway Park.
Winning is priority No. 1 for Derek Thorn and the Campbell Motorsports team.
The sparks flew late in the George Snider Classic King of the Wings Sprint Car race Sunday night at Kern County Raceway.
Brady Bacon wasn’t the fastest driver on the track early Saturday evening at Bakersfield Speedway.
Midgets on dirt and winged Sprint Cars on asphalt are on tap this weekend as Bakersfield Speedway and Kern County Raceway close out their season with major events.
Christian Payne was born to ride.
Toddy Gilliland did his best but there was no catching Derek Kraus on Saturday night in the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame 150 at Kern County Raceway Park.
A record number of entries, several drivers capable of coming away with a victory, and a championship to be determined between teammates.
The student was quicker in qualifying, but when it came time to race the teacher served up another lesson.
Former Bakersfield resident Kevin Harvick is returning to his roots.
Racing has never scared Derek Thorn.
Sometimes dreams do come true.
Kurt Cruise of Sacramento had a bit of trouble in his AA/Fuel Altered Sunday during the 26th annual NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion at Auto Club Famoso Raceway. Cruise was uninjured.
Jason Rupert got a win Saturday afternoon at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, but he was the biggest loser of the day at the California Hot Rod Reunion.
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