John Grega and CJ Rayburn Team Up in Kentucky

Michigan Hall of Fame Driver John Grega has teamed up with CJ Rayburn of Rayburn Chassis to drive the 2010 Rayburn house car at Ponderosa Speedway in Junction City, Kentucky this weekend. Considered as “Kentucky’s Baddest Bullring” Ponderosa Speedway will be a homecoming for CJ Rayburn. Junction City is where his passion started for racing.

The Rayburn chassis is widely recognized as one of the leaders in Late Model Dirt Racing. Grega's 16 Dirt Track Championships as well as 5 more on Pavement combined with Rayburn's top notch equipment have both parties anxious to race this weekend.

On Friday night April 2nd they will compete in the "8th Annual Spring 30". On Saturday April 3rd their efforts will turn to the "3rd Annual Chris Estes/Brad Pena Memorial" This event will feature the Good Neighbor Pharmacy Super Late Models in competition in a 40 lap, $3,000 to win main event. Both Race programs get under way a 7:00

Keep Checking back here for updates and results throughout the weekend.

Bill May Lifetime Driver Pass

Considered one of the best "Pitchman" of all time Bill May took time from his schedule to do an infomercial for the 2010 Thunderbird Raceway season. For his service May was given a lifetime pass to Thunderbird Raceway. Widely recognized for his "As seen on TV Ads" May recently went underground to stay away from paparazzi.

Bill May stated while his reimbursement was not quite like his endorsements of Oxy Clean, Might Putty and Awesome Auger he could not think of a better place to donate his time.

Arena Racing Looks forward to next season

More Quarter Midgets and possibly go-karts and lawn mowers in Arena Racing's future
By Steve Kaminski |
The Grand Rapids Press

Mid-Michigan Raceway Park: Test & Tune

We will will hold a test & tune session this Saturday 4-3-10
From 1pm till dark, cost is $5 per car and $10 per person.
General addmission stands will be open for spectators to come out and watch the test & tune session FREE of charge.

It appears mother nature is going to cooperate. The weather man is calling for 75 degrees on Saturday.

Thank you,
Mike Myers

Crystal Motor Speedway Opens April 17th

With an opening night of April 17th, the racing season at Crystal Motor Speedway is less than three weeks away and things are heating up at the track as final preparations are made. The 2009 season was a great one with high car and fan counts all year long and track promoter, Ron Flinn looks to make 2010 an even better year. Many new cement pads are being poured in the pits and the final track prep continues as the ground thaws. Track officials were highly encouraged after the annual drivers meeting in early March saw well over 22 new, never before registered drivers.

Improvements are in progress all around the track but the most
noticeable is the new "Crystal Motor Speedway Media Tower" as it nears completion. The new building literally "towers" over the grandstands with four floors from top to bottom. CMS scorers will be perched high above the racing surface to afford them the best possible view while the third floor serves as a VIP booth. The second floor will house the Races On The Web Media Center from which racing events will be streamed live over the Internet.

A 'Test and Tune' weekend is scheduled for April 10th and 11th. Further information as well as the 2010 schedule can be found on the track website at www.crystalmotorspeedway.com or by calling the office at 989.235.5200.

Dave Sensiba Wraps Up Arena Racing Title

By Steve Kaminski | The Grand Rapids Press
March 28, 2010, 12:05AM

WALKER -- Competitors often praised driver Dave Sensiba during the Arena Racing Series season for the guidance he gave young drivers.

Apparently, Sensiba didn’t tell them all of his secrets.

Sensiba, of Middleville, locked up the circuit’s season championship at the season finale at DeltaPlex Arena on Saturday night. All Sensiba needed to secure the title was to start the 50-lap Top Dog feature. He finished third in the race, behind winner Brandon Hermiller of Grand Rapids and runner-up Mitch Meppelink of Zeeland.

It has been 25 years since Sensiba last celebrated a championship, having won Sportsman titles at Berlin Raceway and Kalamazoo Speedway in 1985. He has kept busy the past two decades racing in the defunct AC Delco Challenge Series, as well as driving Late Models across West Michigan, never staying at one track to run for points.

But Sensiba dedicated his efforts to winning an indoor title, and he led the point standings from the season’s start to finish. Sensiba, who received a $10,000 bonus for the championship, opened the season by winning the first three Top Dog features, and no one was able to run him down.

“We started out good, but you have to finish,” said Sensiba, who won six of the 15 features. “We have had some bad luck -- breaking a motor, breaking a clutch a couple of weeks ago. We had two drops, but that’s all we needed because we broke twice. We come out to race to win, and we let the points fall where they fall.

“It’s special. The guys who work on the crew haven’t experienced anything like this. I have won championships at Berlin and Kalamazoo, but this is neat because it’s the first time in the series for me.”

West Catholic’s Hermiller, 17, won his second consecutive Top Dog race. Hermiller was running second to Meppelink when caution waved on lap 34, bunching up the field. Meppelink took the inside groove and Hermiller was able to drive around him one lap after the race went green.

“If (Meppelink) would have taken the outside, he would have won,” said Hermiller, who won four Young Guns feature races at Berlin last summer. “I don’t know why, but whenever we take the outside in practice, we have trouble passing. But whenever we get in the race, I don’t know what happens, but I just hold it down to the floor and it goes.”

Also winning features were Aaron Langlois in the 50-lap C Main. Sensiba won the A feature.

Quarter Midgets raced as well, and Cole Listerman of Ionia, Chase Ridenair of Perry, Nate Frazier of Mattawan, Rachel Carpenter of Laingsburg and Uriah Hale of Jackson won features.