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ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. — Heading into its 17th season of competition, the Adairsville, Ga-based Crate Racin' USA organization will soon embark on a growth-oriented campaign that will help continue and expand the company's leadership role across the country for Chevrolet Performance 604 Late Model competitors. The long-standing Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin' USA Dirt Late Model Series highlights the 2021 racing season with 22 events at 13 different tracks in six states. The season opens April...more

Adairsville, Ga. — A brand new racing season will kick off on an improved track surface when the recently-established E-Z-GO $100,000+ Challenge stages its inaugural event during the New Year’s Battlefield Bash scheduled Dec. 31, 2020, through Jan. 2, 2021, at Cochran Motor Speedway. The Adairsville, Ga-based Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series, which is title sponsored by Newsome Raceway Parts, will be co-featured in a 75-lap event that pays $10,000 to the winner, but will carry no points...more

Adairsville, GA – Officials at Cochran Motor Speedway along with the Crate Racin’ USA staff have made the decision to postpone the Street Stock World Championship and New Year’s Bash event set for December 31st through January 2nd, 2021. “Weather forecasts over the last few days have not improved and have actually pushed the possibility of rain into Saturday as well as heavy rain Thursday and Friday,” stated Crate Racin’ USA Series Director Adam Stewart. “Chris Martin and I talked and decided...more

Prestigious Ice Bowl Slated Jan. 7-10 at TST EASTABOGA, Ala. — Yep! It’s close to that time again. Four different Crate Racin’ USA divisions will be featured in the 30th annual Ice Bowl slated Jan. 7-10 at high-banked Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala. The Adam Stewart-managed organization’s classes that will be featured during the giant four-day weekend will be the Newsome Raceway Parts-sponsored Dirt Late Model Series ($3,000 to win), Crate 602 Late Model Sportsman ($1,500 to win),...more

Adairsville, GA – Crate Racin’ USA officials have had to make the decision to cancel the 2020 Annual Awards Banquet and Southeastern Promoter’s Workshop that was scheduled for January 22-23, 2021 at the Gatlinburg Convention Center in Gatlinburg, TN. With current gathering restrictions in place and more pending as the number of COVID-19 cases are on the rise, series officials feel it is in the best interest of safety for the guests and to meet guidelines regarding social gatherings to cancel...more

ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. — An early-season rainout has set the stage for a history-making event as the second annual DIRTcar Racing-presented Sunshine Nationals scheduled Jan. 14-16 at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., will now include the very first E-Z-GO $100,000+ Challenge event in the history of the Adairsville, Ga.-based Crate Racin’ USA organization. The opener of the nine-race “series within a series,” which is a collection of events paying at least $10,000 each to win, was slated to...more

BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 16 — Armed with a new ride for the Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series while he waits for his own cars to be constructed, Jake Knowles of Rome, Ga., enters tonight’s Sunshine Nationals finale at Volusia Speedway Park riding fourth in the nine-race miniseries points standings after completion of the first two events of the season. The overall Winter Shootout points champion will receive $2,500, and the next big events for the series will be a three-race engagement...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

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

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