Marc Johnson claimed his third DIRTcar big-block modified victory of the season and his second in three weeks Friday night at the Albany-Saratoga Speedway
The seventh annual running of the Fonda Speedway’s Firecracker 50 looked like yet another big payday for five-time event winner Stewart Friesen Wednesday night until he blew a tire on lap 28 and came within inches of blasting the turn-two wall
The recent passing of big-block modified icon Bob McCreadie at age 74 hit us hard, as he was a few years younger than us and we’d known him from his early days wheeling the Price Brothers asphalt modified at Fulton Speedway, long before the track was covered with dirt
The 76-lap Don Davies Memorial held in honor of the late Area Auto Racing News columnist, drew a huge crowd and a stellar field of 46 DIRTcar modifieds to the Albany-Saratoga Speedway Tuesday night
Newspapers and tv stations around the Capital District have held the attention of the region’s racing community this week with stories and broadcast interviews concerning the closing of the venerable Albany-Saratoga Speedway — a fixture on Route 9 for nearly 60 years
