The next to last race of the four race North Vs. south showdown between Victorville Auto Raceway and Perris Auto Speedway’s Street Stocks was held on Saturday night at the South’s home facility in Perris, California.
Dietzsch Gets Low in The 3rd Race of North Vs. South Showdown
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July 26, 2010
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Our project car hits the track for Race 4 and Race 5 on the season and manages two Top 5 finishes. This is our story and we’re sticking to it.
Tall Tom pointed out several “invaders” on the print-out of who was racing Saturday night. Mathew Reed, out of Scoresby, Australia, Jamie Veal from Warmambool, Australia, Keith Bloom from Anderson, California, and sixteen year old Justyn Cox, from Clarksburg, California. Tall Tom wandered away, smile on his face, while I started studying the papers he had given me. I spent the rest of the night of fine racing watching how our invaders did, knowing that it wasn’t so much about how they did tonight that mattered, but what they could learn before Nationals.
One week after the hard racing North VS. South Shootout Street Stock race, the Street Stock drivers put their cars back together for another points race at the VAR. After the crash festival in the North-South Shootout, no one expected to see a full house of Street Stocks. On raceday, 21 cars showed up to wage battle and put on another show for the fans.
Perris Auto Speedway and Victorville Auto Raceway’s North VS South. Round Two
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June 10, 2010
The much anticipated round 2 of the North VS South competition between the Street Stock racers from Perris Auto Speedway and Victorville Auto Raceway kicked off at the high desert track of Victorville, California last Saturday Night. Round 1 had the Southern track holding home court advantage with most of the leaders calling the “PAS” their home track. What remained to be seen was if the Street Stock racers from Victorville could use some home cookin’ to their advantage and protect their home court. Also on the schedule for the evening’s program were the VAR Sprints, IMCA Modifieds, Pick-a-Part Street Stocks and the All Americans.
onedirt’s Race Doctor Reviews The Knoxville World Of Outlaws Event
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June 7, 2010
Brooke Tatnell, Randy Smith, Jac Haudenschild, and Sammy Swindell took home the money at the the Knoxville Raceway Thursday and Friday nights, and a few newly minted Hall of Fame inductees took home some historic hardware and racing immortality on Saturday afternoon. A drenching rain that evening sent us all home with damp clothes, squeaky shoes and a little disappointed as the races were cancelled. But as always, the fans were the big winners at the Knoxville Raceway when the World of Outlaws came to town. We locals knew something big was coming when the RV’s started rolling into town early in the week, and the traffic grew thick as crankcase oil with faces we don’t regularly see.
A Cold Wind Blows in Victorville as MacDonald and Dietzsch Repeat
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April 11, 2010
A brisk wind was blowing through the high desert with many guessing that the track surface at Victorville Auto Raceway would dry out early. It was not to be however, as the track held as did the repeat Champions in the Sport Compact and Street Stock classes. One week removed from the North VS South challenge race at Perris Auto Speedway, Curtis Dietzsch returned to back up his season opening VAR win at the North track. Also seeing action in the street stocks pulling double duty on back to back weekends at the two tracks was Mark Nustad, Tim Salch, Jeff Singer and Alan Grubel.
It started with a phone call and became the North Vs. South Challenge, a bragging rights event to prove the superiority of dirt track racing in the Inland Empire of Southern California. When Victorville Auto Raceway’s promoter Mike Gibson called Perris Auto Speedway’s promoter Don Kazarian to unify the rules in the street stock class, a move designed to allow racers to compete at both tracks without having to worry about changing parts to meet rules at the different tracks, a discussion about having points races at the opposing tracks entered the conversation. According to Don Kazarian; “we talked about having a couple of Perris point races at Victorville and a couple of Victorville points races at Perris to encourage the racers to frequent both tracks”. After several phone calls and discussion between the two promoters, the Inland Empire Street Stock racers ended up with universal rules between the two tracks, race scheduling between the two tracks that did not have conflicting dates, and a special mini traveling series that would pit drivers from the Victorville Track against the Perris Track as teams and individuals.
Perris Auto Speedway Hosts the First Race In the North/South Challenge
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April 4, 2010
With the racing season at Perris Auto Speedway barely underway, major events have already shaped this season’s street stock class. In the opening night event for PASCAR Stockcars, fan favorite driver Ronnie Everhart experienced a stuck throttle and collided with the wall in turn one. The spectacular crash broke the racer’s shoulder and sidelined her for at least one race. Two time PAS Street Stock Champion and last year’s Victorville Auto Raceway Champion in the street stocks has begun the season on a hot streak winning the opening day events at both tracks. The economic recession has impacted several local race teams which has dropped the car count in every division. Adding to the mix was the inaugural race of the North/South Challenge which pits drivers from Victorville Auto Raceway against drivers from Perris Auto Speedway for bragging rights in the Inland Empire dirt track racing scene. All of these factors played into Saturday night’s race at the PAS.
The weekend of January 17-18 saw the two-race season opener for the Southwest Racing Associations’ (SWRA) 12-race schedule. OneDirt.com was there to cover both days of racing action, under clear 75-degree Southern California skies.
VAR Results 6/13/09. Street Stocks have a long night on the tech pad
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February 26, 2010
In one of the best nights of racing that we can remember in a long time, Mike Gibson’s Victorville Auto Raceway (VAR) hosted the Dirt Late Models, Street Stocks, Victorville’s Sport Mods and the very serious Mini Dwarfs on June 13, 2009.. Fans that missed this show really missed a great night of racing.
Photo Gallery from the 2009 Prelude to the Dream and the World 100
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February 26, 2010
Mike Morten of Sweethouse photography captured some amazing photos from the 2009 Prelude to the Dream and the World 100. Mike wanted to share these photos with our viewers to enjoy. Anyone wanting to purchase a hardcopy of any of these photos can order them from the link at the bottom of the page.
