Off The Beaten Track

Since its inception in 2011, the Kentucky Chapter of SCC has distributed over $536,000 in funding and assistance in their local service area, including $227,000 in grant funding over the past three years On Thursday, June 15th, from 6-8pm a special dinner will be held at The Montgomery Inn Boathouse in Cincinati, honoring NASCAR hall of famer and Kentucky native Darrell "DW" Waltrip.This is a intimate setting with a limit of 40 guests. Sponsorships are available at various levels. Attendees strongly encouraged to RSVP asap or until the June 2nd deadline. To RSVP or make a donation, contact Dayna Winslette, Kentucky Chapter Director, at  859-567-3417 or email dwinslette@kentuckyspeedway.com All proceeds from this event are awarded to local non-profit children’s organizations through SCC’s Grant Distribution Program. Funding stays locally in Kentucky, Southwest Ohio and Southeast Indiana

Evergreen Raceway is a 1/3-mile asphalt oval that has produced some of the finest short track racers since the 50s. Located in St. Johns, PA (near Hazleton) and it’s nestled in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains, the track and it’s racers provide ground pounding excitement for all ages. It’s family atmosphere helps bring race fans back on a weekly basis to see many of the greatest drivers in the northeast battle for victory. Evergreen Raceway is located minutes from Hazleton, PA, in between routes 93 and 309. For more information regarding Evergreen Raceway, including the entire season schedule, directions and divisional payouts, please visit www.evergreenracewaypark.com and don’t forget to like their Facebook page as well. 

Rev Racing is the competition arm of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity Program and serves as the NASCAR-supported racing team charged with developing female and minority drivers, and pit crew members in the NASCAR development series for future competition at NASCAR’s highest levels. NASCAR shares Rev Racing’s belief that minority and female audiences are underserved in America’s second largest sport Cabre started racing at the age of four in motocross and has found success on the track ever since. Between 2011 and 2013, Cabre earned 12 race wins in 21 starts in a 600 Mini Sprint Car. He was also a two-time Fall Brawl Champion at the Ocala Bullring. In 2016, at Hickory Motor Speedway, he averaged a 4th place finish, as well as setting two poles throughout the season.    2016 Highlights  Completed 83% of finishes in top-5 - Limited Late Model (Hickory Motor Speedway)  Completed 50% of top-3 - Limited Late Model (Hickory Motor Speedway)  Won two poles - Limited Late Model (Hickory Motor Speedway)  Average finish of 4th place for the season  Two-time Fall Brawl Champion  Chip Ganassi Axe Racing Contest Winner  • 2011 – 2013: 12 wins in 21 starts in 600 Mini Sprint Working as driving instructor for Richard Petty Driving Experience Finished 7th in points at Hickory Motor Speedway points after missing the first half of the season due to shoulder injury • Chip Ganassi Generation G Applicant   Twitter: Cabre_Chase Facebook: ChaseCabreMotorsports Instagram: @chase_cabre Personal Website:  chasecabre.com  

RacingVirginia.com is an unprecedented collaboration among Virginia’s motor sports venues providing exclusive news and information about racing action in the Commonwealth.   Racing in Virginia comes in many forms, from running on dirt tracks, to paved ovals, on drag strips and even on road courses. There are currently over 25 motorsports facilities in operation throughout the Commonwealth with more than half a million fans expected to attend racing events from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean.   NASCAR hosts a pair of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race weekends at Martinsville Speedway and Richmond International Raceway each year. With weekly races at local tracks around The Commonwealth, there are over 400 racing events on the calendar for 2017.   The Racing Virginia platform shares news and information from racing venues from Langley to Lonesome Pine, making it easy for fans to have access to news, schedules, and tickets. RacingVirginia.com showcases exclusive original content each week from regular contributors including two of the most respected personalities in the sport, Joe Moore and Randy Hallman.   There are also bio pages developed for local drivers, which give local racers an opportunity, at no cost, to promote themselves, their activity, and most importantly, their local sponsors who help them go racing every weekend.   The comprehensive master schedule of racing events in the Commonwealth is a one of a kind showcase of motorsports activity in Virginia. Whether you are logging on to the website from your home computer, or your phone, you will be able to connect with racing events nearly every weekend of the year.

The one-fifth mile paved short track located on Indy’s east side is famous for its thrilling Figure 8 racing and intense oval action. Its signature event is the annual World Championship 3-Hour Figure 8 Endurance Race held each September.We will speak with Johnathan Byrd, the new track president and general manager. One of the oldest auto racing venues in the United States, the historic Lincoln Tech Indianapolis Speedrome, is now entering a new era under the ownership of Kevin Garrigus. “I am very proud to own the Speedrome“, stated Mr. Garrigus. “And I am extremely excited about its future. There are 75-years of great history behind us and many more years of motorsports entertainment ahead of us”.

We will be talking to Shaun Courchesne who has owned and operated RaceDay CT, the most comprehensive news source for auto racing in CT.

Located in Epping this 1/4 mile, asphalt, drag strip features Modified, Street, Motorcycle, Jr. Dragster, Quick Rod Series and Top Bike classes. Opening day is April 1st, 2017, and the track is the only one locally that boasts about something called "The List" where being an "Outlaw" pays off. In June the track will host the NHRA Nationals.  The track also hosts Street Nights, Test and Tune sessions, the Lucas Oil Divisionals and "Jet Cars Under The Stars" Tune in on February 23rd to find out more!  

What is it like to own a small family race team that struggles to find sponsors to keep them on the track for another weekend? Tim Evans and his son Mark, who has been racing since the age of 12, will be on the next show to talk about issues that face small family race teams and explore solutions on how sponsors can help with free sevices, donated or low cost materials, etc.   

Steven Wilson will be joining the podcast to talk about the 2017 NASCAR season and what it takes for his crew to cover all 3 racing series (Xfinity, CWTS and Cup). Find out what makes headlines for racing news, get schedules, find out what stories are making the cut and more! 

Mike Neff is an accomplished short track writer, announcer and sits down with crew chiefs once a week on his Tech Talk show and writes for his Thinkin Out Loud post race column. Off The Beaten Track will ask Mike what he does on his off time (if he has any ) and get the "dirt" on his short track knowledge.

Ever wanted to see Christmas light displays that take up a whole 2 mile local race track, including the infield and pit road areas? My guest Gavin from NHMS talks about how much effort goes into putting together a display like this and we talk about the money raised going twoards the NH chapter of Speedway Children's Charities 

Toby Christie’s earliest memory of NASCAR is watching the 1993 Daytona 500. That day was the infamous “Dale and Dale show,” and Toby has been hooked ever since. As a kid Toby grew up in Texas, so there wasn’t a NASCAR-sanctioned track nearby until 1997, but from that day forward he’s never missed a race at Texas Motor Speedway. A contributing writer since 2008, and field correspondent since 2010 for RubbingsRacing.com and BleacherReport.com, Toby now strives to report the news as quickly and accurately as possible for the readers of dailypitstop.com (formerly sicknissified.com), a site he co-founded, and thefinallap.com. Toby was also the host of the “Hammer Down” podcast on RubbingsRacing.com, a weekly race recap show. Starting in 2012, Toby became the co-host of The Final Lap Weekly, an hour long,  weekly NASCAR radio talk show.

Speedway Illustrated magazine's Karl Fredricksburg will join us on the next show to discuss keeping a local magazine thriving in a digital world when big names like NASCAR Illustrated are closing shop, A magazine that was started by Dick Berggren of national racing fame, it faced closure in 2009 but was brought back in 2010 and is still going strong as a monthly publication. Racing enthusiasts, mechanics, car builders and fans alike subscribe to this colorful publication chock full of stories by such greats as Kenny Wallace, Dick Beggren, J. A. Ackerly and Karl himself. From short track racing to the big time, Speedway Illustrated covers it all