Once again it’s going to be a jam packed weekend of racing action.

Motorsport Preview for this weekend is another buffet that’s large enough to satisfy any fan, not matter what their hunger is for racing.

The big event in our region is the grand reopening of Hawthorne Speedway, a track that’s been dark for almost 20-years. It’s a festival down there as Saturday is Armed Forces Day.

There will be a parade then a concert and finally the track opening itself. Gates open at 4 p.m. with racing beginning at 5 p.m.

It will also be the site of the next round for the Nevada Pro Stock Association so the night will be action packed.

Nevada Pro Stock Association’s logo.

To help Hawthorne with its opening Fernley 95A Speedway has decided to go dark.

In other racing Lovelock Speedway begins its season Friday night with a 7 p.m. start of racing.

South of Fallon the Top Gun Raceway will start the weekend with $5 Fridays. Then ET and Jr. Dragster rounds 5 and 6 will be run Saturday and Sunday.

On Saturday they’ll also have Street Legal drag races and on Sunday 1/8th mile drag racing. Things get going around 9:30 a.m. on both days.

On Sunday, beginning around 10 a.m. the Northern Nevada Kart Club will have a make up race for its season opener that was rained out. As usual they’ll be at Desert Park Raceway, located a quarter mile past the pavement’s end on Lemmon Valley Drive.

In the two-wheeled world Livfast Exit 28 Motocross track has practice sessions Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Down in Gardnerville, Testa Motorsports will be having a car wash, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. to help fund team members going to the big race in Mammoth later this summer.

But the big race is over the hill at Prairie City at the Hangtown Classic Motocross event. The first days are for amateurs but Saturday will be when the pros race.

Hangtown Classic Motocross poster. The event begins the outdoor season for the AMA Motocross racers.

As a result Carson KTM will close at 3 p.m. Friday and be closed Saturday as they’ll be at Hangtown.

Over in TV land there is also a buffet of events.

This weekend NASCAR returns to its home in Charlotte, North Carolina. Thursday begins at 9:30 a.m. with Camping World Truck practice on Fox Sports 1. Then at 11 a.m. MAVTV will start its broadcasts for the World Rally Championship, this time from Portugal.

Friday kicks off at 10:30 a.m. with practice session from Charlotte on Fox Sports 1 followed at 4 p.m. by the Sprint Cup All Star Showdown. Then 5:30 p.m. the network airs the Camping World Truck Series race.

MAVTV, at 11 a.m., airs more of the World Rally.

ABC gets Saturday rolling, starting at 1 p.m. with qualifying for the 100th anniversary Indy 500.

Then at 4:10 p.m. Fox Sports 1 has NASCAR All Star qualifying followed at 6 p.m. by the three-part race.

CHARLOTTE, NC – MAY 16: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Express Toyota, leads the field to the green flag to start the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 16, 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/NASCAR via Getty Images)

Over at the Hangtown Classic MAVTV will show the first motos beginning at 1 p.m. then at 4 p.m. NBC Sports will show the second set of pro motos.

If you can’t watch those and have Internet go to www.promotocross.com. They will stream the first set of motos from Hangtown from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. then the second set from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m.

If you miss those check the site early next week and you can watch all four motos on the Internet.

Over on www.fanschoice.tv they will stream four short track races starting at noon, 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday.

Sunday begins at 1 a.m. on MAVTV when the network has two live shows from the World Rally Championship event in Portugal.

Qualifying for the Indy 500 resumes at 11 a.m. then at 1 p.m. on ESPN 3. Finally at 4 p.m. the coverage for Pole Day switches over to ABC for the final rounds.

This weekend the field will be set for the 2016 Indy 500, the 100th anniversary of the event.
Photo courtesy – WNAX.com.

At 11 a.m. Fox Sports 1 begins coverage of the NHRA event from Topeka, Kansas.

NBC Sports has coverage of the Indy Lights starting at 10 a.m. followed an hour later by a Global Rally Cross event.

CBS Sports also has racing beginning at 9 a.m. with German Touring Car action followed at noon by Super Karts racing and at 1 p.m. by Formula Drift around the Grand Prix circuit at Long Beach.

That’s it for this week and once again, if you can get out to a live racing event. There is nothing like it.

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