by JD Green | Oct 3, 2016 | Behind The Scenes
Another week another great track. This night had two extra features to finish from the September 24, 2016 races (A Mods with 5 laps down and the Sport Compact). If we confused you, we apologize, but these races were scheduled after the Mod Lite heat races. The reason...
by JD Green | Sep 26, 2016 | J.D.'s Take
Yesterday was a sad day which has led to grieving for several of us. In one day the world lost Arnold Palmer, Gary Davis, and Jim Siewert’s brother. Gary and Jim are part of our local racing family. Gary Davis passed away from his battle with cancer. Gary was friend,...
by JD Green | Sep 26, 2016 | Behind The Scenes
Let’s start this week off with the social media comment of the week from E-Mod Driver Randy Smith: “One bad ass job tonight to all the I-35 workers”. The same can be said to all 83 race car drivers who came to compete in their respective classes. In this day and age...
by JD Green | Sep 20, 2016 | J.D.'s Take
What went right at your racetrack this past weekend? In this day of Facebook, Twitter, Snap Chat, or any of the social media outlets we can all find out and discover what went wrong at a racetrack. On any given weekend we can read the track was too rough, the track...
by JD Green | Sep 18, 2016 | Behind The Scenes
We are a racing family and a huge part of our family at I-35 Speedway is taking the time to get to know each other, especially our racing fans. We lost a very special fan this past week to leukemia in 16-year-old Tanner Sipes. This night began with a tribute from his...
by JD Green | Sep 11, 2016 | Behind The Scenes
Mother Nature helped out Mike Johnson, again, on Friday night she decided to provide the track with 2.75 inches of rain. Like two weeks ago, she once again provided drying power and with Mike working his magic the track was super smooth and somewhat dry slick. All the...
by JD Green | Sep 7, 2016 | Events
A Memorial fund has been established at Platte Valley Bank in honor of our racing family legend Mike Knight. As many will know Mike worked at the following race tracks the last 22 years, I-70 Speedway, Lakeside Speedway, Linn County Speedway, and most recently I-35...
by JD Green | Sep 5, 2016 | Behind The Scenes
One hundred and fourteen (114) racecars entered the pits for competition on this race night! Nineteen of these cars entered after the first heat race lineups were posted. You might ask how I would know that information, well now for a little behind the scenes...
by JD Green | Sep 5, 2016 | J.D.'s Take
Today we induct a new Hall of Famer to the Racingkc racing legends and oh what a legend he became. It is with a heavy heart I write this article because the inductee is none other than Mike Knight, who passed away overnight, September 5, 2016. Mike is truly a behind...
by JD Green | Aug 30, 2016 | J.D.'s Take
Today we induct into the Racingkc.com Hall of Fame a long time stalwart of Kansas City area racing, truly a behind the scenes person, and someone most racers did not want to see, but truly a person every race track needs, former fireman, Butch Smeltzer. Butch became...
