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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 28 TO 31

    May 27, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (May 27) – This week’s Racing Preview brings good news, it’s time to celebrate as racing has returned to our region and nationally as well. This in addition to car meets/cruises and a birthday parade slated for this weekend. CAR MEETS: •  On Saturday Reno Carss & Coffee gets things rolling with a Lake Tahoe cruise. The meeting time is 10:45 and the place is the Century Summit Sierra south of town. • A little earlier that day at 10 a.m. the Mustang 775 Club is hosting a car meet at Mills Park in Carson City. • Then

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  • MEMORIAL DAY WEEK RACING

    May 25, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (May – This week begins with Memorial Day but racing and other events continue today and to the weekend. As a result this article will be abbreviated. This weekend Battle Born Motorsports had a drifting and grip event at 95 Speedway. That’s the road course behind the 95 Motor Sports Complex oval. Promoter Adrian Buyten said many people camped out there Saturday night and he was very pleased with the event. “It went really, really well and there were about 40 cars,” he said. Any promoter needs some people or team to help them. In Buyten’s case Kyle

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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 21 TO 25

    May 20, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (May 20) — For racers and fans things are looking up and this week’s Racing Preview has a lot of information. Once again there is a job opportunity from one of our sponsors posted toward the end of the article. If you are qualified and need a job please check it out. CAR MEETS: • When this was posted Carson Cars & Coffee had not entered anything about a meet this Sunday. However just in cast be sure to check their Face Book page on Friday. RACING (REGIONAL): • This weekend Battle Born Motorsports is hosting an invitational

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  • BATTLE BORN MOTORSPORTS: DRIFTING IN NORTHERN NEVADA

    May 18, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (May 15) — Battle Born Motorsports is the creation of Adrian Buyten. He created it after seeing a need for his favorite motorsport, drifting and has been working to develop it to this area. Asked how he got interested in drifting Buyten said, “I had an 85 Merkur XR4TI, a super rare Europen Ford rear drive with a 2.3 liter turbo motor. It happened in the rain getting sideways and that kicked the rear out a little bit. I’ve been hooked every since.” That was in 2003 and he started sliding around parking lots, especially after it snowed.

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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 14 TO 17

    May 13, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (May 13) – This Racing Preview has some good news for a change. Yes racing is back although in a limited form but I’m seeing light at the end of the tunnel. CAR MEETS & CRUISES: • The weekend gets off to a rolling start Friday from 7 until 9 p.m. That’s when the weekly cruises up and down the main street of Fernley begin hosted by Reno Sparks Cars & Pizza. • Saturday is Armed Forces Day and Fallon had a celebration planned. Sadly due to the scare over this virus Churchill County had the organizers cancel

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  • INFINITE VELOCITY MOTORSPORTS

    May 11, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (May 8) – Infinite Velocity Motorsports or IV Motorsports as its now called is a small but well equipped shop at the end of East Freeport Blvd. where it crosses Stanford Way. This shop has been around for a long time. “Its been 22 years as we opened in July of 1998,” owner Jay Reynolds said. “The Camaro versus Mustang or the Fox Body F Body was the rage. So I came and opened as a Mustang shop originally. Since then we’ve gotten into circle track racing, drag racing and all kinds of that stuff as well as

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  • RACING PREVIEW: MAY 7 TO 10

    May 6, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (MAY 6) – Racing Preview this week has more news about things starting to happen or will happen in the near future. Some events are postponed so this fall will be a busy time. CAR MEETS AND PARADES: • When this article was posted Sparks Cars & Coffee had not posted if they were going to have a meet/cruise on Sunday or not. One might want to check their Facebook page sometime Friday. • Saturday afternoon will be a big day for both Reno Cars & Coffee as well as Carson Cars & Coffee and anyone else that

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  • SCUDDERS PERFORMANCE: AIR COOLED VW SPECIALISTS

    May 4, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    SPARKS, NV (May 4) – The Reno/Sparks area is blessed with many shops catering to a niche market and Scudders Performance is one of them. Owner Clayton Scudder is good example of how chance can lead one into a career. “I’ve been doing this since 1979 and had a residential carpenter license at 18 so was building and framing houses. My claim to fame is building Lakeside Apartments as that’s where I started,” he said. He explained back then winters were stronger than they are now so the carpentry  work only lasted six months out of a year. He had

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