Hammer Down Racing Report

This week we speak with veteran outlaw super late model racer and current point leader at Flat Rock Speedway, Paul Pelletier. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former 305 sprint track champion Jordan Ryan finally earned his first career Attica Raceway 410 sprint car victory last Friday. We speak with him about that his season so far. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we speak with 410 sprint car wheelman Craig Mintz and dirt late model pilot Devin Shiels, who is coming off two consecutive wins at Oakshade, on the costs of racing and why racers do it. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with Ohio CAT GLSS championship contender and winner at Waynesfield on Sunday, Devon Dobie. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fifteen-year-old JGR ARCA Menards East driver Max Reaves made history at Flat Rock Saturday night winning the Dutch Boy 150 and becoming on the second driver in ARCA Menards Series East history to win in his first three starts and he plans to become the only driver to win in his first four career starts. We speak with Max and cover all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2024 American Late Model Iron Man Series Champion Rusty Schlenk is undefeated at Attica Raceway Park this season with five consecutive feature wins. We speak with him about his success. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are back this week with motorsport author Mike Hembree on his upcoming book Pearson Vs Petty: The Rivalry That Shaped NASCAR plus, Oakshade Raceway promoter Christina Henricks is scheduled to join us to talk about the upcoming race season. We will also catch up on the all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Randy Maggio of Lorain Raceway Park, Gerry Keysor of Limaland Motorsports Park, Rich Lushes of Sandusky Speedway and Tim Wilber of Butler Speedway join us to preview what's on tap for the 2025 race season at each track. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with Toledo/Flat Rock Speedways GM/Marketing Director Brandon Hamby on the upcoming race seasons with the Toledo Speedway Rollie Beale Classic & CRA Jeg's All Star Tour opener this weekend. Fremont Speedway promoter also joins us to talk about all the exciting things Fremont has in store for this season. Plus Scott Warner is in the studio to talk about the newest Speedy Sponsors web site to connect the entire racing community including racers, sponsors, tracks and series. We will also have all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt & Beth Cogley of Millstream Speedway joins us to talk about the upcoming race season at the Findlay, Ohio speed plant scheduled to kick off this Sunday. Duane Hancock from the AFCS Sprints Series also joins us to talk about the latest with this years 410 and 305 AFCS seasons. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Promoters Ryan Sutter (Montpelier Speedway and Jason Flory (Wayne County Speedway) join us to talk about the upcoming race seasons that are scheduled to begin this weekend! Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are talking fire safety this week with USAC racer and President of Inferno Armor Kevin Thomas Jr., Inferno Armor President Kevin Thomas Sr. and another racer that knows a little about fire safety, sprint car racer and founder of Bulldog Safety & Performance, Jimmy McCune. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We speak with I-96 Speedway owner Larry Curtiss about the 2025 race season at the Michigan speed plant. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Attica Raceway Park Director of Operations Justin Liskai joins us to talk about the upcoming race season at Attica that is set to kick off this Friday evening! Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former racer TJ Peterson has been working on a Hammer Down Dirt Track Racing computer game that includes many local area tracks and racers. We will get the latest on the games production and how you can download the demo. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Micro Racer Owin Halpain channeled his inner Ricky Bobby after a win at Millbridge and went viral. He is the oldest of three brothers that race and we'll speak to him about his racing and victory lane speeches. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The week we speak with the family that has run Oakshade Raceway for 49 years and is set to start the 50th year of racing about all the history the NW Ohio track has witnessed. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we once again speak with former NASCAR racer, FOX Sports race reporter, SiriusXM radio host, current dirt modified racer, host of the Kenny Wallace Show on YouTube and St. Louis Blues hockey fan, Kenny Wallace. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the ARCA Menards Series gears up for Daytona next weekend, we thought we would bring in our old pal Charlie Krall who is the communications manager for ARCA to talk about the upcoming season. Plus all the latest racing news, results and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we speak with Barry Marlow of GLSS, GLTS and GLLS about the upcoming sprint car seasons and about the future of ice racing in Michigan. We also touch on the scary Brian Shirley fire at Needmore. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Box Stock Light class champion from Palmyra Speedway Karen Vanpelt joins us to talk about her championship go kart season. Then we speak with thirteen-year-old Matt Meggitt who will be making the transition from go kart racing to a 410 sprint car this summer. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak with NASCAR driver Garrett Smithley on his racing plans this season and about his father who has been piloting an air tanker to help with the fires in the L.A. area. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we look back on a lost NW Ohio dirt track that last ran in the 1990s; Bryan Motor Speedway in Bryan, Ohio. Former racers and more will share their memories of the former speedplant. Featuring: Hillard Miller, Rick Spangler, Rody Schroyer, Joe Nickloy, Todd Sherman, Duane Hancock and more! Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are back with the first show of the year and what a better way than to cover the first racing event of the year in the area; the Sandusky Speedway Hangover Race. We will talk to all the feature winners from Wednesday's event. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the last show for 2024 and we are going to prepare for the annual Sandusky Speedway Hangover Race coming up on New Year's Day with Race Director Rich Lushes. Plus we will have 2024 Sandusky Speedway Champions Bryant McCoy (Renegades), Rich Dewitt Jr. (Pure Stocks) and Nick Mihalick (All American Iron). As always, we also cover all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FAST Series owner Aaron Fry joins us with a look into the 2025 FAST race schedule and new sponsor Honest Abe Roofing. Plus we will speak with 2024 Eldora Speedway point champions Jonathan Taylor (Mods) and Doug Drown (Stocks). Cory McCaughey stops in the studio to talk about his new role as Competition Director at Fremont Speedway and his Showdown Series plans for 2025. We will also have all the latest racing news and results including a lot of 2025 race schedule announcements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2024 Angola Motorsport Speedway Champions Tanner Jack (Late Models), Hunter Jack (Modifieds) and Chris Heintzelman (Front Wheel Drive) join us. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2024 Butler Motor Speedway Champions Van Gurly Jr. (410 Sprints), Travis Kyle (Street Stocks) & Dominic Morehouse (4 Cylinder) join us. We also discuss the latest with Duane Hancock on the re-emergence of the All Star Circuit of Champions with Fremont Speedway's Rich Farmer at the helm. Plus all the other latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2024 Limaland Motorsports Park Champions Todd Sherman (Modifieds) and Tony Anderson (Thunderstocks) join us. We also welcome 2024 Lorain Raceway Park Pure Stock Champion Will Yuravak to the show. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are back this week and we will speak with 3x Attica Raceway Park 410 Sprint Champ Cap Henry and Late Model Champion Kyle Moore. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2024 Oakshade Raceway Season Champions Carter Murday (Late Model), Ryan Davis (Sportsman), Jarrett Rendel (Super Stocks) and Jason Deshler (Compacts) join us this week. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Flat Rock/Toledo Speedway Champions Conner Zbozien (Super Late Models), Kenyon Knight (Street Stocks), Kyle Metdepenningen (Factory 500) and Brad Turner (Factory Stocks) join us to talk about their championship seasons. Also, a lot happened Friday night at Fremont Speedway to talk about plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First time Fremont 305 Sprint Champion Jamie Miller and 3x Dirt Truck Champion Keith Sorg join us this week. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ARCA Menards Series racer Lavar Scott sits second in points ahead of this weekend's ARCA finale at Toledo Speedway. He is also the first African American driver to earn the Bounty Rookie of the Year award in series history. He joins us Thursday to talk about his season and what's ahead. Plus a teammate of his pops in as well! We will also preview this weekend's Hammer Down Clash at Millstream Speedway, plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Youngster Caiden Black has been making his mark this year in dirt late model racing. He joins us on the show this week along with all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was an eventful weekend in the world of racing. Former ARCA and NASCAR driver, Matt Tifft returned to the asphalt for the ASA STARS National Tour Glass City 200 at Toledo Speedway on Saturday and was involved in an incident that took him out of the race early. After the race there was an altercation between Tiftt and the another driver's team in which Tiftt was taken to the ground and kicked in the face. We will get the latest on that incident. Also, we welcome young dirt Sportsman racer to the Dominator Race Products studio to talk about his first year in a full size race car and already earning a feature win last month. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dirt late model and super stock racer Doug Drown joins us this week on the show. Plus all the latest racing news and results! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg Stillwell Jr. joins us this week to talk about his top three top 10 finishes at Winchester Speedway and about his season. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fresh off his West Coast swing, Kalib Henry returns to Ohio and we speak with him about his season so far. Plus all the latest racing news and results. And we honor a good friend of ours and race director at Sandusky Speedway, Chris Mize who passed away unexpectedly earlier this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we speak to sprint car racer DJ Foos who won Monday's Kiss The Cow Fair Race at Fremont Speedway on Monday night. We will ask him about kissing the cow and the race and stuff. Pluss all the latest racing news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Devin Moran currently sits second in Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series points and is coming off three second-place finishes in the North/South 100 weekend at Florence. We speak with him plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rusty Smith picked up his first ever dirt late model feature win a week ago at Saturday at Oakshade Raceway and he followed that up with a second consecutive win this past weekend. We speak with him and Jamie Miller joins us to talk about making his debut in his new dirt late model this weekend. Noah Wagner also joins us to talk about the Fall Festival at Fremont Speedway in October, plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fresh off his first win in FAST Series action at Wayne County Speedway, we speak with Leyton Wagner this week. Plus we have a BIG announcement involving several area tracks along with all the latest racing news and results. #HammerDownClash Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we speak with legendary sprint car mechanic/car builder who has worked with Bobby Allen, Sammy Swindell. Brad Doty and more! Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Both Dylan Burt and Shawn Valenti have been piling up the wins. Burt is coming off his third Dominator Super Stock A Main win of the year and he is doing it with some older technology in his car. Valenti has won the last 4 straight Fremont Speedway Dirt Truck features and has a feature win in a Thunderstock at Limaland. We will speak with both drivers and try to uncover their speed secrets. Plus all the latest racing news including High Limit Series Big Announcement Rusty Schlenk Vs. Devin Shiels Sting Ray Robbs wild IndyCar ride at Iowa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Attica Raceway Park and Wayne County Speedway Late Model point leader Kyle Moore has been on a roll at both tracks in recent weeks. We speak with him this week as we are back live. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cap Henry picked up the AFCS win Friday at Attica and earned this year's Ohio Sprint Speedweek championship. We will speak with him on that and how his season has gone so far. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Asphalt racer Mike Young joins us in the studio this week & we will speak with new Owosso Speedway owner Rex Wheeler who has been making a lot of improvements to the facility. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Millstream Speedway will open the gate to the public for the first time in almost 10 years. We will once again chat with the new owners, the Cogleys, about Friday's big event which is also an Ohio Sprint Speed Week show. Plus we speak to UMP Modified driver Brennan Sherman on his very first win this past Friday at Limaland. And of course, all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We check in with Brian Ruhlman to get his thoughts on dirt late model racing and what he has going on for the rest of this race season. Plus all the latest racing news and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dirt late model racers Ryan Markham and Ryan Missler address the rising costs in the sport. Plus all the latest racing news and results Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices