Spencer Davis, 19, has run four races this season on the Camping World Truck Series in trucks fielded by Kyle Busch Motorsports. He started eighth in the season opener at Daytona International Speedway and finished seventh. He qualified fourth at Atlanta Motor Speedway and finished 13th, and repeated those stats at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Greg Fielden has written 16 books on the history of NASCAR racing and worked for 24 years in the televising of Winston Cup events. From the highly acclaimed Forty Years of Stock Car Racing Series, to the history of the Beach Road racing events at Daytona entitled High Speed at Low Tide, the hard to
Five legendary racers are set to be inducted as members of the 2018 Class of the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Hall of Fame in Dawsonville on Aug. 11. The five are Charlie Hughes, Dan Elliott, Dick Anderson, the late Rance Phillips and the late Russell Nelson. Hughes, a dirt
The Fast 15 semi-finalists in the voting for the 2018 Class of the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame include a driver who dominated dirt racing nationwide in 1976, all four women on the ballot, a motorcycle racing champion and two members of the famed Elliott Racing team from Dawsonville. Dalton’s Charlie Hughes, who won the
Jonathan Ingram, who for the past 41 years has been one of America’s top motorsports writers, is the 2017 recipient of the Jimmy Mosteller Award from the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame. The award is given annually by the Hall of Fame to honor racing journalists for their lifetime contributions to the sport. Ingram, now
With 18 victories, 27 top-five and 32 top-10 finishes so far on the short tracks of the Southeast, Casey Roderick of Lawrenceville was the unanimous choice of a media panel to be the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame’s Driver of the Year. Roderick, who drives primarily for Georgia Racing Hall of Famer Ronnie Sanders and
A big win on the West Coast, a SpeedFest triumph at Watermelon Capital Speedway and an All-American 400 victory at Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville, Tenn., propelled Senoia’s Bubba Pollard to his second Driver of the Year Award from the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame. Pollard, who has more than 90 career Super Late Model victories
Long-time motorsports journalist Joe Cawley of Augusta is the 2016 recipient of the Jimmy Mosteller Award from the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame. The award is given annually to a journalist in recognition of lifetime achievements in Georgia motorsports. Cawley, who was born on Nov. 15, 1945, in Austin, Texas, where his father was stationed
Jeff Gordon’s upcoming first-ever authorized biography, Jeff Gordon: His Dream, Drive & Destiny – http://jeffgordon.com/book. The 8.5” x 12” fully-illustrated 192-page hardcover book retails for $39.95. The book is a sort of hybrid – it’s a cross between a traditional text only biography and a photo intense coffee table book. It’s over-sized for a biography,
On many a Friday or Saturday night back in the 1970s and ‘80s, Ricky Williams of Fayetteville and Stan Massey of Mableton went door-to-door racing for checkered flags on the dirt tracks in Atlanta suburbs like Douglasville, Senoia and Woodstock. Now the two again will be sharing center stage as members of the 2016 Class