Author Archives: Bill Sessa

Author Archives: Bill Sessa
Bill Sessa

Calistoga Speedway Remains In Limbo

Calistoga Speedway Remains In Limbo

Calistoga residents have soundly rejected a special tax to purchase the fairgrounds that sits in the middle of this Napa Valley town, leaving the future of the historic but shuttered Calistoga Speedway unsettled for the third time in four years
Author Archives: Bill Sessa
Bill Sessa

Justin Sanders: No Time For Slacking

Justin Sanders: No Time For Slacking

Calistoga residents have soundly rejected a special tax to purchase the fairgrounds that sits in the middle of this Napa Valley town, leaving the future of the historic but shuttered Calistoga Speedway unsettled for the third time in four years. In a monthlong mail-in election limited to about 2,700 city…
Author Archives: Bill Sessa
Bill Sessa

Sanders Dominates, Tuttle Gets First Stockton Win

Sanders Dominates, Tuttle Gets First Stockton Win

Justin Sanders was a smooth operator on a rough racetrack, dominating all 30 laps at Stockton Speedway Saturday night to win the season finale for the Sprint Car Challenge Series.
Author Archives: Bill Sessa
Bill Sessa

Teenager Meyers Tops Adobe Cup

Teenager Meyers Tops Adobe Cup

Sixteen-year-old Joel Meyers Jr. broke into the winner’s column for the first time in his sprint car career Saturday night
Author Archives: Bill Sessa
Bill Sessa

Golobic Holds Off Larson At Chico

Golobic Holds Off Larson At Chico

Shane Golobic walked a tightrope between needing to stand on the gas and having no brakes to win the Sprint Car Challenge Tour to open Gold Cup weekend at Silver Dollar Speedway Wednesday night
Author Archives: Bill Sessa
Bill Sessa

Paul McMahan’s Final Call

Paul McMahan’s Final Call

As Paul McMahan stepped out of the trailer, his moist eyes said more than anything he could put into words. The finality was beginning to creep in
Author Archives: Bill Sessa
Bill Sessa

Luck Fuels Forsberg At Petaluma

Luck Fuels Forsberg At Petaluma

Andy Forsberg won the Sprint Car Challenge Tour at Petaluma Speedway Saturday night with a healthy dose of luck after twice losing the lead over the 35 laps.
Author Archives: Bill Sessa
Bill Sessa

Paul McMahan Takes Tri-C Machine Sprint Car For One Last Spin

Paul McMahan Takes Tri-C Machine Sprint Car For One Last Spin

For Paul McMahan, the Dave Tartar Memorial at Chico’s Silver Dollar Speedway Saturday night was both a homecoming and a fond farewell.
Author Archives: Bill Sessa
Bill Sessa

New Hope For Calistoga Speedway

New Hope For Calistoga Speedway

City officials in Calistoga are preparing an offer to buy the local fairgrounds from Napa County, reviving the most slender of hopes of re-opening Calistoga Speedway, which has been shuttered for three seasons during a standoff between the two agencies over ownership of the property
Author Archives: Bill Sessa
Bill Sessa

West Coast Sprint Car Team Owner Clyde Lamar, 86

West Coast Sprint Car Team Owner Clyde Lamar, 86

Calistoga residents have soundly rejected a special tax to purchase the fairgrounds that sits in the middle of this Napa Valley town, leaving the future of the historic but shuttered Calistoga Speedway unsettled for the third time in four years. In a monthlong mail-in election limited to about 2,700 city…