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  • RACING PREVIEW: APRIL 8 TO 11

    April 7, 2021 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (April 7) — Racing Preview this week highlights an increase in racing now that the Easter Weekend is behind us. Helping things is some great spring weather. CAR MEETS & CRUISES: • The Fernley Main Street Cruise, from 7 until 9 p.m. Friday evening gets this weekend rolling. As usual the Wigwam is the assembly point. There is a car meet on Saturday as well as a cruise. • The Fernley/Fallon Cars and Coffee group has a meet in Fallon. It goes from 9:30 a.m. until noon. The meeting place is 1805 West Williams Avenue. • In Sun

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  • DIAMOND MOUNTAIN SPEEDWAY STARTS SEASON

    April 6, 2021 Author: Dan McGee
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    SUSANVILLE, CALIF. (April 3) — Diamond Mountain Speedway opened its 2021 season with a Friday/Saturday show on Easter weekend. Good car counts, fans in the stands were a positive sign for the upcoming season. Before the main events began there was an Easter Egg hunt on the infield. Dozens of plastic colored eggs were put out as youngsters from the stands and pits converged on the area. Many carried Easter baskets and on the signal the rush was on. The made quick work of the eggs but those that collected a gold one found there were three one dollar bills

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  • RENO CARS & COFFEE AT THE HUMAN BEAN

    March 22, 2021 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (March 21) — Reno Cars & Coffee moved it’s third weekend of the month meet to the Human Bean Coffee stand. Its located by the corner of Moana and Keitzke Lane, very close to the freeway and the turn out was massive. At these meets several will bring older cars, ones they give new life to. They vary in age but the result is the same; renewed life on the road rather than winding up at Pick N’ Pull. One example is a 1970 Barracuda owned and lovingly restored by Greg and Stacy Johnson. One feature is a

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  • RACING PREVIEW: MARCH 18 TO 21

    March 17, 2021 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (March 17) — Racing Preview is slowly filling up as the seasons open. Much is going on this week and through the coming weekend. CAR MEET: • Big news is Reno Cars & Coffee has a new location for its third weekend of the month meet. It’s the Human Bean coffee stand located by the corner of Kietzke and Moana. As usual the meet begins at 10 a.m. and the new location is about block west of the freeway (580). Should be good weather with lots of cars, trucks and some motorcycles. MOTOCROSS (RACING AND PRACTICE): • This

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  • NORCAL STARTS SXS SEASON AT FERNLEY

    March 16, 2021 Author: Dan McGee
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    FERNLEY, NV (MAR. 13) — Norcal Rock Racing began its season with an event presented by California Custom Trailers and Power Sports. The even was for the SxS series and there was a good turn out and great weather. After a pair of heat races and some track maintenance everyone was ready to go. First on track were the youth classes and one group even had a 7-year-old driving. The UTV 170 Stock Class lined up first and on the green both Alex Ranuio and Tayson Messersmith were side-ty-side as they passed the flagman. Going up the first hill Ranuio

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  • RACING PREVIEW: FEB. 25 TO 28

    February 24, 2021 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (Feb. 23) – Announcements for some changes start this weekend’s Racing Preview. A little less racing than last weekend but the season is just getting started so there is more to come starting in March. ANNOUNCEMENTS: • For those that follow or compete in VORRA they announced a change in the triple crown series. Due to the restrictions the Yerington 300 has been moved to the weekend of September 3-4. CAR MEETS: • This Sunday there are a pair of car meets and both begin at 10 a.m. Sparks Cars & Coffee will assemble by Buffalo Wild Wings

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  • RENO CARS & COFFEE GETS MONTH ROLLING

    February 8, 2021 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (Feb. 7) – As usual Reno Cars & Coffee got the month rolling with its first weekend car meet. The event was blessed by great weather and a huge turn out. Reno C&C head Lance Freitas said it might be the largest meet they’ve had. There were cars of ever type in fact one row was mainly Corvettes while another had a good selection of Subarus while others had a mix of many different cars. One of the exotic cars is a 2020 McLaren LT600 Spider owned by Kurt Fehling. “I’ve had this one almost two years. Had

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  • LOOKING AHEAD: PART II

    January 11, 2021 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (Jan. 11) – Time for another look ahead as we head into the New Year. Yes there is racing going on and tracks in our region are hoping for a “normal” season if they can have one. There schedules will come later. LOCAL NEWS: • Go kart racers please note that Desert Park Raceway is closed through Friday due to construction on Northern Nevada Kart Club’s home track. There will be an update and the hope is to have everything ready by Saturday. Their website is www.nnkcreno.com. RACING (NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL): • Another event that actually is starting

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  • RACING PREVIEW: DEC 24 TO 27

    December 23, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (Dec. 23) – Racing Preview for this Christmas weekend is mostly in he re-run zone but there are a couple of things happening. Apparently there may be a storm headed out way so be sure to check for any live event that’s listed. CAR MEETS: • This Sunday at 10 a.m. by Buffalo Wild Wings Sparks CaRs & Coffee is having it’s second meet of the month.  • At that same time Carson Cars & Coffee is having their second meeet at the month by the Dutch Brothers Coffee. MOTOCROSS PRACTICE:  • When this was published the hoped

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  • OVAL TRACK REVIEW: PART 2

    December 22, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (Dec.21, 2020) – Need one more look back at the 2020 Oval Track season. This time won’t have many pictures but there is some news to report. Diamond Mountain Speedway, like other tracks had a stop-and-start to the season. However there were enough events to crown class champions at the season’s end although for many races spectators weren’t allowed. Looking at the IMCA Modified ranks Ryan McDaniel earned the crown witeh 258 points while local Riley Simmons was second with 251 or a scant seven points. Nick Trenchard was third ahead of Chris Nieman in fourth. Apparently tragedy

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  • RACING PREVIEW: NOVEMBER 26 TO29

    November 25, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    RENO, NV (Nov.25) – Yes racing is winding down but everything it taking a slight pause here in America for the Thanksgiving holiday. Still there is some racing to see, both live and on repeat broadcasts. CAR MEETS: • Since this is the fifth weekend of the month there are no car meets scheduled for this weekend. However there is an on going event that Reno Cars & Coffee will be part of on December 6th. Right now Reno Harley Davidson is hosting the 40th Anniversary Reno Toy Run. People are asked to bring in a new, unwrapped toy and

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  • BBMX FERNLEY: PHOTO GALLERY

    October 27, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    Here is the photo gallery from Sunday’s race. Had to switch computers. Getting used to switching between two laptops. Sorry for the delay in getting this out. Next time things will go much smoothers. Hope everyone is thawed out by now. See one you like? You can purchase a print if you want. Just contact me.

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  • SEASON ENDING RACES: 95 MOTOR SPORTS COMPLEX

    October 12, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    FERNLEY, NV (Oct 11) – A Two-Day Show ended the 2020 season at the 95 Motor Sports Complex this weekend. The first day was Saturday evening while the second day began at noon and ended just as the sun was going down. The honor of ending the racing year fell to the IMCA Modifieds and prior the start they did a 4-wide salute to the fans.. It was quite a race with a come-from-the-pack victory for a California driver. When the green waved on the 20-car field Shawn Natenstedt took off and left everyone in his dust. Behind him Matt

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  • 95 MOTOR SPORTS COMPLEX: PRO STOCKS SHINE

    September 21, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    FERNLEY, NV (Sept 19) – The 95 Motor Sports Complex hosted a race that featureD  pro stocks as well as its regular classes. It was a night full of racing with some close finishes. After the dust settled on the Pro Stock main Jay Sears said, “It as fun, I have so many fun races with Jeff. Me and him raced so many years together we’re pretty courteous and clean so we have a lot of fun out there. Track was definitely difficult, a little bit hard to get it figured out but once you got it figures out you

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  • RATTLESNAKE HOSTS NORTHERN NEVADA MODIFIED TOUR

    August 24, 2020 Author: Dan McGee
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    FALLON, NV (AUG.21) – Rattlesnake Raceway hosted the first stop on the new Northern Nevada Modified Tour. There were good fields during the night as well  IMCA and Northern Sport Modifieds. The tour is a marathon of four races over three days at four different tracks. And the big prize is a provisional at this year’s Duel in the Desert. It took three heat races to set the 22-car main event. That race featured a green to checkered run by the winner Chris Nieman. “Yea it was green to checkered but I still needed to get out front on that

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