RENO, NV (Feb. 17) — Now that the Super Bowl is over racing is really taking off. This weekend even has a traditional event that starts racing in Northern Nevada.
CAR MEETS:
• Since it’s the second Sunday of the month Reno Cars & Coffee is meeting at the Human Bean, located by the corner of Moana Lane and Keitzke. The location has good freeway access and as usual 10 a.m. is he start time.
RACING (STATEWIDE):
• President’s Day weekend the traditional start of the MRANN season gets rolling. It’s the “Return of the Lost Lama,” staged by the Trail Blazers motorcycle club and is located about 20 miles north of the Nightingale Exit on I-80.
Saturday starts at 10 a.m. when the Pee Wees tackle a 1.5 mile track then at 11:15 the V Women, Bombers and Mini Bikes race for 90 minutes on a 20 miles course. On Sunday the big bike race starts at 10 a.m. the long course, over 40 miles long.
• Closer to home the first Rally Cross event will be held Saturday at the Reno-Fernley Speedway. You use the normal entrance but continue past the oval to the road course.
Rally Cross uses part of the road course as well as a new dirt course. On You Tube there is a Safety Meeting for Reno Rallycross 1. Helmets are requires, no bike helmets but the kind you’d use for racing.
The video has directions to the track as well. Spectators are free but the meeting will either be at the top of the hill, please drive slowly.
Right now load in is at 8 a.m. after the driver’s meeting there will be a track walk around 9:30 then the first green will be around 10:15. The event will go until 4 or 5 p.m.
They will listen to any suggestions about the track and the event. There won’t be any food for sale there but they’ll have water available.
• To the south Best in the Desert is staging the Shock Therapy UTV Legends Championship race. The site is outside of Laughlin, Nevada and the event begins on Friday with Saturday being race day as trophies will be handed out on Sunday.
• On Saturday night the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a short paved oval, has President’s Day Races. Gates open at 5 p.m. with racing beginning at 7 p.m.
RACING & PRACTICE (Motocross):
• MMX has practice from 9 until 2 p.m. Saturday on the main, sand and kid tracks. Then from 9 until 3 p.m. on the vintage, main and kids tracks. This weeks round of the 2022 Frigid 6 series will be held on Sunday using the sand track.
• E Street MX will have practice from 9 until 2 on Saturday and Sunday using the front and back tracks.
• REP Racing MX had to shut down Tuesday practice for Riverfront MX Park but Thursday, from 4 until 9 p.m. might be a go. Practice is still scheduled from 9 until 2 p.m. Sunday on all the tracks.
Prairie City is slated to have practice from 9 until 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For further information please check both track’s Face Book pages.
RACING (NATIONAL):
• Race fans always look forward to when the Super Bowl is over. Now the top series here get started with their seasons.
• Qualifying for the Daytona 500 only sets the first row but the NASCAR Cup Duels set the remaining places for the race. On Thursday FOX Sports 1 has both races with the first starting at 4 p.m. followed at 5:45 p.m. with the second.
• Friday, at 4:30 p.m. Fox Sports 1 has the Camping World Truck Series starting its year at Daytona. Then at 7 p.m. the network airs the NHRA Qualifying Show #1 from Pomona.
• Saturday has Fox Sports1 broadcasting two races from Daytona. The first at 10:30 a.m. is ARCA Racing followed at 4:30 p.m. by the Xfinity race. A little later CNBC and Peacock at 2 p.m. air the Supercross race from Minneapolis. After the west coast stops the series heads east.
• Sunday gets rolling early at 4 a.m. when Fox Sports 1 has the NHRA Qualifying Show #2 then at 7 p.m., on a delayed basis, the network broadcasts the final rounds of the Lucas Oil Winter Nationals from Pomona, California.
Finally at 11:30 a.m. its time for what has been called the Great American Race. Now we’ll see how the NextGen NASCAR Cup cars fare in the Daytona 500. Could be a wild event and the track sold out of tickets over a week ago.
That’s it for this weekend folks. While we might get a bit of weather this week it actually should be pretty good. Hope to see all of you next week so have a great weekend and be safe out there.
OTHER RACING NEWS:
• Wednesday night the Fernley City Council met and due to the attendance Mayor Edgington had the discussion about the Fernley Motocross Track moved to the front of the agenda. At this meeting there was no public discussion as the council members discussed and shared their views about referring the matter to the city staff.
While two raised some questions, mainly regarding financing and insurance Mayor Edgington cited the example of the town’s BMX track. It has been a success, that organization maintains the facility and there have been some national championship events held there.
Once the motion was discussed to refer it to staff was put to a vote. The result was three for and two against so it will be referred to the staff and hopefully next month be on the agenda.
At that time public comments will be entertained. Hopefully more from the motocross community can attend the meeting.
• Teresa’s Garage Radio Show is on the air from 2 until 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. In northwest Nevada, it can be heard over the air at 1060 AM.
There is also a Podcast at amm.streamon.fm or it can be seen live on Face Book. The show is focused on all things automotive, trends, new developments and trivia.
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