RENO, NV (Aug. 140 – Racing Preview this week has several events in our state including the longest off-road event in the country. It will be hot and sometimes dusty racing during the dog days of summer.
CRUISES/SHOW N’ SHINES:
• FRIDAY:
+ Summit Racing, from 6 until 8 p.m. has another Cruise In. There cars to see and a D.J. is supplying the music and there is at least a ice cream and pizza truck on hand. The location is at 960 E. Glendale in Sparks.
• Saturday:
+ Northern Nevada Camaro Club returns to Summit Racing as they have a gathering from 10 until 11 a.m. when their cruise starts.
• Sunday:
+ Reno Cars & Coffee has it’s third Sunday of the month meet at the coffee shop located at the corner of MaeAnne and McCarren by the Big O Tire store. The meet begins at 10 a.m. is brings in all types of cars.
+ Dolan Lexus Cars & Coffee will also be having at meet, starting at 10 a.m. at the dealership located at 7175 South Virginia Street.
REPORTER’S NOTE: Be sure to check Reno Cars & Coffee just in case the Dolan event replaces the usual one.
RACING (REGIONAL):
+ Biggest race of the weekend is the General Tire Casey Folks Vegas to Reno event. At 550 miles long it’s the longest off-road race in the country.
Racers will start on the course Friday and the race actually runs into Saturday morning. Live timing is available and one can access that from the event website at www.bitd.com.
Saturday:
+ Top Gun Drag Strip, located south of Fallon has a one-day event this weekend. It’s $5 Saturday from 6 p.m. until midnight, a great time for grudge racing or to find out how one’s car will do in the quarter mile.
Top Gun, on its Face Book page, put out an advisory. Even though it’s hot weather be sure to wear appropriate clothing to the event.
For example if you’re going to be around the starting line long pants and closed toe shoes are needed. Leave the flip flops at home.
+ That same night at 6 p.m. Rattlesnake Raceway, just east of downtown Fallon, will have another of its points races.
+ Further west, also at 6 p.m., Fernley 95A Speedway is scheduled to have another race that will include Sprint Cars.
+ Another race, also starting at 6 p.m. is in Quincy, California at the American Valley Speedway. It’s the Fair Race Enduro.
Sunday:
+ The American Valley Speedway has its annual Fair Races starting at 6 p.m. Since the concessions are located at the fair grounds, right next door, it’s a good time to go early, enjoy the fair then see the races.
+ This week one of the Northern California motocross tracks has a race while the others have practice except one that has a Sunday ride day.
+ MMX Racing has practice from 9 until 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
+ E Street MX Park had practice from 9 until 2 p.m. Saturday. Sunday is a ride day for the OTHG from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. in an effort to beat the heat.
+ Prairie City has practices from 9 until 2 p.m. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
+ Riverfront has practice from 5 until 10 p.m. on Thursday.
Saturday is race day with gates opening at noon, practice begins at 4 p.m. with racing to follow. Then Sunday, from 9 until 2 p.m. is open practice.
RACING (NATIONAL):
• Thursday:
+ NBC Sports at 7 a.m. has Xfinity practice from Bristol then at 2 p.m. airs NASCAR America.
+ Over on www.fanschoice.tv the K&N Pro East series race at Bristol is streamed starting at 3 p.m.
+ Fox Sports, at 5 p.m. has delayed coverage of the Gander Outdoors Truck Series qualifying then at 5:30 p.m. broadcasts the truck race from Bristol.
• Friday:
+ At 4 p.m. Fox Sports 1 has Friday Nitro Live from the NHRA Brainerd Nationals. Over on NBC Sports at 4:30 p.m. has the Xfinity race at high-banked Bristol track.
• Saturday:
+ Once again, unless they subscribe to NBC Sports Gold, fans of the Lucas Oil Motocross series will be doing some channel switching.
+ MAVTV has the first 250 moto at 10a.m. then at 11 a.m. the first 450 Moto. Over on NBC Sports the second 250 moto will be aired at 1 p.m. while at 2 p.m. the second 450 moto will be shown.
+ Then at 4:30 p.m. NBC Sports has live coverage of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup race from Bristol. It’s usually an action packed event as the race is akin to having rocket ships in a bathtub and it’s at night.
+ The day ends at 8 p.m. when Fox Sports has Saturday Nitro Live from the NHRA event.
+ Switching back to the Internet, www.fanschoice.tv has several races that will be streamed.
Among the group is the Peoria TT that is part of the American Flat Track Series. Action begins at 10 a.m. then at 6:30 p.m. the network streams the K&N Pro West series from Evergreen Speedway in Washington state.
•Sunday:
+ Fox Sports 1 gets the day rolling at 11 a.m. with the NHRA Brainerd Nationals. As we get closer to the U.S. Nationals this is an important event for drivers wanting to get into the final countdown, which is key to winning a class championship.
+ At 11 a.m. NBC Sports has the Indy Cars on the Triangle or Pocono. There are some wide-open parts to this track, which isn’t really banked too much.
+ MAVTV at 11:30 a.m. shows the ARCA race from the Springfield Mile. It’s part of a double header at the Illinois State Fair but Saturday’s races apparently won’t be televised or streamed. However this will be full sized stock cars on a dirt mile.
That’s it for this weekend. If possible do get out and see a race live. There is nothing like it as you get to experience the sound, color and speed of live motorsports.
We here at nvracingnews want to offer our best wishes to all the racers, especially from Nevada, at the Vegas to Reno event.
OTHER RACING NEWS:
• Teresa’s Garage Radio Show, from 2 until 3 p.m. is on Tuesday afternoon. If all goes well we should have a special guest from the upcoming flat track races in Carson City at Fuji Park.
I have a preview section at 2:15 and you can either hear the show live over the air, streamed on the Internet or watch us live on Face Book.
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