Posts Tagged “Brett Hearn”

Episode 27 ..::.. ‘Tis The Season

We go a little off the beaten path in this episode, visiting first with Mike Welch, a storied stock division racer with many Canandaigua Motorsports Park accolades to his credit before chatting with Ryan DeLong, the winner of the first derby Chris went to this season. We dive head-first into the debate: Is combative motorsports [...]

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Episode 26 ..::.. Dedication to Racing

We look at the upcoming schedule for Rolling Wheels Raceway, argue the value of handicapping versus open draws at weekly venues, and welcome multi-time 2012 winner Brett Hearn and first-time ESS winner Sammy Reakes IV to the program. Watch our most recent episode on FingerLakes1.tv  |  Listen on Stitcher Sammy woke up Sunday with thinking [...]

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Episode 25 ..::.. Hammer On It

Mike misses the event due to a baseball game, but we press on and welcome Chris Hile and Billy Dunn to the studio. Hile discusses how his third-place showing is like a victory following the off-season fire that claimed the team’s hauler. Dunn talks about running modifieds and sprint cars; we chat with him about [...]

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Episode 23 .::. By Any Name, It’s Still Racing

Our first spontaneous call-in listener visits us on the air – twice – and asks if we have any tickets to give away before revealing he lives next door to Buzzie Reuitmann. We chat with Mike Mahaney about his upset win in the Ice Jam at Fonda Speedway and a 50-some racing schedule mapped out for 2012. [...]

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Episode 19 .::. Cut’em No Slack

John Baumes stops in to talk about the difficulty of running his own (fantasy) racing tour. Bobby Varin talks about the challenges of racing a sprint car and modified, selling his cows to get a start in racing, his first laps in a street stock, and racing side-by-side with his son Danny at Glen Ridge [...]

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Episode 15 ..::.. A Full Table

Three guests helped make a slow start quite lively… we chatted with DIRTcar legend Alan Johnson about his plans for 2012, visited with Canadian racer Luke Whittaker after wrong-numbering one of his closest neighbors, and Kyle Weiss shared insight into having Johnson drive his car in the Freedom 76′er and unveiled some of his racing [...]

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