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ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. — The long-awaited start of the Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Weekly Racing Series points chase is fast approaching. A 27-week season, highlighted by a financial boost in year-end points fund awards, will bloom into national championship battles in multiple divisions starting with the week of March 29th through the week ending Oct. 3. Competitors from a steadily-growing list of 37 current sanctioned tracks chase precious points and compete for national titles in five...more

MODOC, S.C. (March 20) — Carrying some early-season momentum from last year’s championship season on the Newsome Raceway Parts-sponsored Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series, Wil Herrington of Hawkinsville, Ga., closed out the Adairsville, Ga-based organization’s 2021 Winter Shootout Series with a $10,000 victory in the Modoc 100 Saturday night at Modoc Raceway. Herrington led from start to finish at the Jim and Ann Cushman-owned facility, and crossed the stripe ahead of Mark Whitener,...more

ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. — Despite repeated efforts without success to find a suitable makeup date, Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Winter Shootout Series officials and Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway track promoter William Scogin have agreed to cancel the Crate Late Model portion of the annual Tuckassee Toilet Bowl Classic that was scheduled to take place at the 3/8-mile oval. The original date of the event was Feb. 25-27, and it was going to mark the organization’s first-ever involvement with the...more

ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. (Feb. 24) — A dismal weather forecast combined with currently wet grounds at Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway has forced postponement of the 17th annual Tuckassee Toilet Bowl Classic weekend scheduled Feb. 25-27 at the 3/8-mile oval, which was scheduled to include a $4,000-to-win show for the Adairsville, Ga-based Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series. The Crate Racin' USA portion of the program will be rescheduled at the high-banked oval, and an official announcement regarding...more

ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. (Feb. 6) — When the 2021 version of the increasingly-popular Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series was announced in early December, it was a schedule that promised more events than any previous season in the 6-year history of the miniseries. It also seemed to promise that it might draw more interest than has ever been witnessed in the five previous years it has been held. Nine races, and a $2,500 championship on the line, and the possibility of enough excitement and drama to...more

GIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 6) — The scoreboard flashed the 45th lap of 50 scheduled trips around third-mile East Bay Raceway Park, and Kyle Hardy of Linden, Va., was heading to what he later termed his biggest-career victory in a 50-lap Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series event that served as part of the annual Florida Winternationals at the semibanked track. He knew it wasn’t going to be a cakewalk toward the $5,000 first-place prize, because Mark Whitener of Middleburg, Fla., who was fresh...more

GIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 5) — The laps were steadily winding down Friday night at East Bay Raceway Park, and not a caution flag had yet appeared. The race had an apparent rhythm, and it looked and felt like one might not come out, and that’s when Mark Whitener of Middleburg, Fla., tightened his grip on the steering wheel in his Barry Wright Race Cars-built machine. “It was time to go elbows up, because it didn’t look like we were going to get a caution to help us close the gap, or to have a...more

GIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 4) — While loading his car for the trip to East Bay Raceway Park to compete in a 30-lap main event that kicked off a three-race weekend for the Newsome Raceway Parts-sponsored Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series, Mark Whitener of Middleburg, Fla., suffered an injury to his foot. The 40-year-old driver was rolling his car into the team’s hauler at their shop, stepped into a void space near the liftgate, and ended up with a badly-bruised and very sore appendage that he...more

ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. — Series officials with Crate Racin’ USA are proud to announce a new affiliation with Sweet Victory Apparel Co. that will make the Genna Gentry-owned company the official souvenir vendor for the Adairsville, Ga-based sanctioning body for the 2021 racing season. Gentry’s brand new trailer will be on hand at many events on the Newsome Raceway Parts-sponsored Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series schedule, which was released in early December as a 22-event season but will...more

ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. — Three down. Five to go. The Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series continues to roll down the highway with no regard for speed limits, and a three-day stop in the Sunshine State at East Bay Raceway Park looms just around the bend. The always-racy, often-tricky, third-mile oval in Gibsonton, Fla., will host the Adairsville, Ga-based traveling circuit for three nights, with three separate races scheduled for the sanctioning body’s highly-popular Crate Racin’ USA Newsome...more