NAPLES ME – (December 14, 2010) Interest in the $75,000.00 to win Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South super late model showdown at historic North Wilkesboro Speedway has exceeded the series' expectations . To date the mega-buck event has drawn entries from eleven states and three Canadian provinces.

2010 PASS South and National champion Preston Peltier leads the latest list of short track superstars that will attempt to take home the big bucks on April 9th. Randy Gentry, Quebec ace Patrick LaPerle, Legends Million winner Daniel Hemric and Arizona';s Mark Shaffer have all filed paid entries; Jimmy Weller earned his breakthrough PASS South win in 2010;. Dustin Hubbard will make the tow from Maine as will PASS North regular Scott Alexander.

Ryan Blaney claimed three PASS South victories on his way to a close second place finish in the 2010 title chase and he'll have to be considered one of the favorites. PASS South stalwarts Heath Hindman and Clete Caywood are now on the roster, joining Mainer Randy Turner in the all star lineup. Maritime racer Greg Proude will make the trip from Prince Edward Island Canada and Granite State racer D.J. Shaw will attempt to make the field in Julio and Rita Miglioli's Precision JLM ride.

PASS President Tom Mayberry is encouraged by the early response from racers..” It's still four months away but THE RACE at Historic North Wilkesboro has generated a lot of interest. THE RACE already has the makings of one of the finest super late model fields ever assembled. PASS is well represented with four series champions and a host of regulars already entered. But, we are also seeing many entries from outside the series like Sterling Marlin and David Stremme, drivers that recognize the significance of this race and want to be a part of it. It's encouraging for sure.”

There's still plenty of time to snap up advance tickets for Christmas giving and save ten dollars on an adult general admission. A $25.00 advance ticket will give fans a remarkable afternoon and evening of racing: Last Chance qualifying for the race, a 100 lap feature for tour type modifieds and 300 laps under the lights for the fastest field of short track cars and stars ever to take on the storied North Wilkesboro oval. Advance tickets for youth ages 6-12 are just $10.00, and there will be no charge at the gate for youngsters under six.

A printable ticket order form, entry blanks, the full three day schedule for THE RACE and much more is on line at www.proallstarsseries.com .

NAPLES, ME ( November 24, 2010) Two time Daytona 500 winner Sterling Marlin has filed his  early entry for THE RACE at North Wilkesboro. Slated for April 9, 2011, the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) sanctioned race at North Wilkesboro Speedway will pay a minimum of $75,000.00 to the winner.

Marlin has  ten Sprint Cup and 2 Nationwide Series wins under his belt but early in his career he captured three consecutive championships at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, a storied short track that has produced so many  racing talents. He has plenty of experience at North Wilkesboro too, with a number of top ten results during his cup career.

The latest additions to the pre entry list come from almost every corner of the continent. Ryan Moore is a Mainer who's run up front in many of his PASS starts, and “Texas Trey” Mitchell earned fifth in the final PASS South standings despite missing an event. Big news from the Mulkern Racing stables. Mulkern will field two entries, one for himself and a second for Mike Rowe. A Maine racing legend, Rowe has 17 PASS North and 2 PASS South wins under his belt, not to mention a PASS South title.

There's a distinct Canadian flavor to the latest batch of entries for THE RACE with the addition of Lonnie Sommerville and Dean Clattenburg. Both men hail from the Canadian Maritime and they both have the talent to run up front at North Wilkesboro.

2010 PASS South Mason Dixon Meltdown winner Justin Wakefield has filed his early entry, as has David Stremme Racing. There's no driver listed for the cup and nationwide star's super late model but you can bet this ride will carry a first rate talent, if not Stremme himself.

Aaron Ricker is a weekly racing regular at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough Maine, and he gives the PASS North regulars fits whenever the traveling road show visits his home track. Ricker will make the trip from Tamworth New Hampshire for his first PASS South start.

Advance ticket sales for the April 9 2011 300 lap short track mega race are available now. Adult tickets are just $25.00 dollars in advance, $10.00 for youngster aged 6-12. That ticket give fans two super late model last chance races and a 100 lap tour type modified feature in addition to THE RACE. They make a great gift your favorite short track fan, so take a moment to visit www.proallstarsseries.com , print an order form and put those tickets under the tree!.

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (October 31, 2010) – Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway's inaugural Short Track Shootout weekend wrapped up Sunday with victories by Jeff Choquette in the Sunoco National Tour Kings Ransom 150 and Wayne Harrington in the Walls Roofing UCAR 40-lap Clash.

Other race winners during the three-day event were Matt McCall, Late Model; Justin Sorrow, Limited Late Model; Bubba Gale, Rolling Thunder Modifieds; Alan Carter, United States Super Trucks; Kevin Eby, Street Stocks; and Tyler Hill, Allison Legacy Series.

In Sunday's Sunoco National Tour race, Choquette came from the back of the field twice to lead 127 laps in the 150-lap event on the 0.625-mile track.

“The car was really good. I was just the lucky guy behind the wheel that gets to hold the steering wheel,” Choquette said after his third career victory in the Sunoco National Tour Series. “This was my first year ever winning in the Sunoco National Tour. (It's) really big for the team, really big for me. You never know when it's going to be your last one, so you've got to go out and give it your all every time.”

Choquette, who defeated Sean Bass by 5.787 seconds, qualified on the pole with a 117.371-mph lap. However, the field was inverted for the start of the race that was divided into two 75-lap segments. After the first segment, there was a 5-minute break before the second began. The top six were inverted for the start of the second segment.

Bryan Ortiz, the series top rookie, was the race's leader at the start of both 75-lap segments, but he lost the power steering on his car. That eventually relegated him to a fifth-place finish.

“It was tough physically, it was destroying and mentally I have to be very careful on the braking,” said Ortiz, who was selected to compete in the NASCAR Driver for Diversity Combine in mid-October. “On a straight line, this track have a bumps, so it moved the car 'cause without power steering the tires move you. It was tough. I know now what to do if something like that happen.”

In the UCAR 40-lap Clash, Wayne Harrington of China Grove, N.C., dominated the race, earning the pole with a 92.547-mph lap and then leading all but the first three laps. Will Smith, who started on the outside of the front row, was the race's only other leader.

Harrington said he couldn't explain what the victory at the historic track meant to him.

“I grew up wanting to come here and I've been to a thousand races up here and I've always wanted to race here,” said Harrington, whose uncle was Herb Nab, a crew chief for Cale Yarborough in the 1970s when he drove for Junior Johnson. “I've got a lot of tradition in my family that's been in racing all their lives. My uncle Herb lived up here for years. I hope he seen that. I think he was with me.

“I won a championship at Concord [N.C.] last year. This tops anything that I've ever done. If I don't ever race again, this is at the top of the list and always will be.”

Harrington said he changed the engine in his car by himself on the eve of the race.

“I went down there to Dillon [S.C.] last week and these guys blistered me down there and I blew a head gasket,” Harrington explained. “I wasn't going to race this week, but I decided at the last minute yesterday evening that I wanted to do this. We got up at four o'clock this morning and left at five this morning and got here. It takes about an hour and 20 minutes to get here. I got done at 11:45 last night [Saturday].”

Unlike a week ago at Dillon, it was Harrington who was the class of the field, finishing 1.361 seconds ahead of Travis Miller of Jacksonville, N.C.

With the conclusion of the three-day Short Track Shootout, Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway ended its 2010 season. Racing resumes at the short track in North Carolina's northwest foothills in April with the North Wilkesboro 300 PASS event. For more information about Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway during the off-season, go to www.historicnws.com.

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (Oct. 30, 2010) – Matt McCall inherited the lead in Saturday's Late Model 150 at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway when Rebecca Casten was black-flagged for jumping a restart, then held off Steven Wallace to claim his third victory in five races this year by less than a second.

“Man, it's pretty stout,” McCall responded when asked how the victory stacked up for him. “It's a pretty good accomplishment.”

McCall, from Denver, N.C., said he thought his Ford had a “little more drive” than Wallace's Chevrolet.

“When I was behind him I felt like I had a little more drive off the corner,” McCall said. “He would step out a little bit more than I would. That's the biggest thing and that's what we worked on. If you give up the center a little bit, make sure you get off the corner and it seemed to pay off.”

McCall, Wallace and Casten were the only leaders in the 150-lap event on the 0.625-mile track with Wallace dominating the race's first half. The third-generation driver and the son of 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup champion Rusty Wallace thought he had the car to beat in Saturday's race, extending his lead by as much as 3 seconds in the early going. At the halfway mark, the drivers made a mandatory pit stop. Adjustments could be made, but only two new tires received.

When the race restarted following the mandatory pit stop, Wallace was leading, McCall was second, Robert Johnson third and Casten fourth. Casten scooted under Johnson on lap 80 for third, then chased down McCall and took second two laps later. It was lap 94 when Casten finally stuck her nose under Wallace in turns three and four and assumed the lead as they exited turn four.

With 30 laps remaining, Casten, Wallace and McCall had pulled away from the field and were running nose-to-tail. Then, on lap 126, Kyle Mansch's car broke a spindle in turn two while battling Johnson and his car coasted to a stop in turns three and four, bringing out the final yellow flag on lap 127. When he race restarted, Casten was leading with Wallace second and McCall third. McCall quickly snatched second from Wallace and then took the No. 1 position when Casten was black-flagged for jumping the restart. She was later disqualified by the race director for “unsportsmanlike like conduct.”

Finishing third behind McCall and Wallace was Danny O'Quinn Jr. Kyle Grissom, son of former NASCAR driver Steve Grissom, took fourth. Fifth went to Mack Little. Robert Johnson, son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Junior Johnson, finished sixth.

McCall admitted it was difficult for him to pace himself in the race.

“My dad, he was getting excited, thinking we were messing up, falling back, and when somebody is getting excited in your ear it makes you drive a little bit harder than you wanted to,” the two-time UARA champion said. “I'm like, 'No, no don't do it.' A lot of discipline man, I'm telling ya. That's probably one of the hardest races I've had to drive as far as not getting on the throttle. We had a little bit of luck there. I'd like to have passed all of 'em to show 'em I could, but, hey, we'll take it how we got it.”

In the Limited Late Model race, Justin Sorrow edged Gary Davis by 0.011-second in a green-white-checker finish to claim his first-ever victory in Late Model racing.

“It was all about tire strategy, saving what I had and being there at the end and it paid off,” Sorrow said.

The heart-stopping finish was created when Rock Harris spun in turn three while leading after getting bumped by Jesse Little on the backstretch. Little was sent to the rear of the field for bumping Harris and Harris was sent to the rear for causing the yellow flag. That left Sorrow in the lead and Davis second on the restart. Davis attempted to loosen Sorrow's car as they exited the fourth turn on the final lap, but fell short of victory by a half-car length.

“I knew he was on me and he got into me a little bit, getting there in (turns) three and four, taking the checkered flag, but I held him off coming off a little sideways,” Sorrow said when asked about the final lap. “He drove me clean.”

After the checkered flag, the two got together in turns one and two and wrecked.

“I think he [Davis] got in a little hot down there (after the race) and spun out in front of me,” Sorrow said. “I couldn't do anything so I kind of tapped him, but I think he's all right. I need to go to talk to him.”

Ryan Gibbs, son of former NASCAR crew chief Gordon Gibbs, finished third, while Luke Fleming took fifth. Nick Waycarter rounded out the top five.

Harris finished ninth, but Little, the son of former NASCAR driver Chad Little, was relegated to last for “unsportsmanlike like conduct.”

In the other four races Saturday at the historic track, Tyler Hill won the Allison Legacy Series Tar Heel Oil 35 presented by Addison Inn. Justin Allison, grandson of former NASCAR driver Donnie Allison, finished second. Rounding out the top five, respectively, were Bobby McCarty, Jantzen Stirewalt and Dale Ogburn. John Hunter Nemechek, son of NASCAR driver Joe Nemechek, placed 10th, one lap down.

Kevin Eby edged Jon Waterhouse and Robert DiVanna for the Street Stock 50 victory. In the season finale for the United States Super Truck Series, Alan Carter, from Murfreesboro, Tenn., took an easy 2.153-second victory over Andy Johnson, from Mt. Juliet, Tenn., in the Lucky Dollar 75, but it was Larry Fitzsimmons' third-place finish that provided the Crystal, Minn., driver with the series championship. Fitzsimmons entered the race with a 51-point lead over Camden Murphy, from Itasca, Ill. Murphy finished eighth in Saturday's event.

Cale “Bubba” Gale, from Winston-Salem, N.C., edged Chris Hoylman, of Petersburg Va., in the Rolling Thunder Modified feature.

Racing resumes at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway on Sunday at 1 p.m. with the 40-lap UCAR race. The Kings Ransom 300 Sunoco National Tour event, which concludes the Short Track Shootout weekend, will immediately follow.

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UPDATE 1: Cars on track for final practice and qualifying. Over 450 laps of racing in 6 classes starting at 1:00pm.
UPDATE 2: Qualifying results: POLE Positions - Late Models #20 Matt Di Benedelto, Limited Late Models # 16 Kenny Bost, Allison Legacy # 2 Tyler Hill, Rolling Thunder Modifeds # 1Y Brandon Oakley, USST Super Trucks #3B Alan Carter
UPDATE 3: Allison Legacy Winner - Tyler Hill
UPDATE 4: USST Super Trucks #3 Alan Carter

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (Oct 28, 2010) - Three Wilkes County companies seeking to capitalize on short-track racing's fan appeal have signed on as race sponsors for this weekend's Short Track Shootout at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway, it was announced Wednesday by Alton McBride Jr., president of Speedway Associates Inc.

Lucky Dollar, a Wilkesboro wholesale liquidator that purchases various merchandise, is sponsoring the 50-lap United States Super Truck Series season finale. Saturday's race will be known as the Lucky Dollar 50.

Tar Heel Oil Inc., a company providing fuel oil, kerosene, and propane for residences and businesses in Wilkes, Watauga, Ashe, Allegheny, Yadkin, Surry, and Caldwell counties, will be the primary sponsor of the 35-lap Allison Legacy Series event. The Addison Inn will be the race's associate sponsor. A Wilkesboro-based business for 25 years, the Addison Inn has 115 comfortable rooms, affordable rates and a free continental breakfast. The Allison Legacy Series race will now be known as the Tar Heel Oil 35 presented by the Addison Inn.

“We are extremely happy to have these three businesses join our family of race sponsors in our first year of returning racing to the historic North Wilkesboro Speedway,” McBride said. “SONIC sponsored the PASS Labor Day Classic Limited Late Model race and, now, to have these three companies join us for our inaugural Short Track Shootout, well, needless to say we are overjoyed. We believe this shows that when racing and the fans feel connected, there are still marketing opportunities for companies wanting to promote their products.”

The Short Track Shootout begins Friday with practice and qualifying for Saturday's events. Anyone wishing to attend the on-track activities Friday can gain admission between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. by bringing two non-perishable food items in non-glass containers to the speedway. The food is being donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank. At the end of Friday's on-track activities there will be a drawing for a $50 Lowes Foods gift card.

Five series – Allison Legacy, USST, Late Model, Limited Late Model and Street Stock – will race on Saturday. The UCARS will kick off Sunday's racing card with the Sunoco National Tour Kings Ransom 300 concluding the weekend. Tickets may be purchased in advance for Saturday and Sunday either online at www.historicnws.com or at the speedway's office. Advance tickets for Saturday are $12 for adults and $6 for children, ages 10 to 15. Advance tickets for Sunday are $17 for adults and $9 for children, ages 10 to 15. Children under age 10 will be admitted free on both days.

It is also possible to purchase a two-day ticket. In advance, those are $26 for adults and $12 for children, ages 10 to 15.

Ticket prices will be higher if purchased on race day.

Pit passes may also be obtained. A weekend arm band is $50, while Saturday and Sunday arm bands are $30 each day if purchased separately.

Camping discounts also are available. RV track-side overlooking turn 3 is available, as well as back straightaway RV and tent camping.

Racing isn't the only activity at the speedway this weekend. After the on-track activity has concluded Friday and Saturday, the Black Glass Band will perform as part of the Budweiser Fall Concert Series. Matt Dylan and his band also will perform Friday evening. Race day admission and pit passes include the concert. However, anyone wanting to attend just the concert must purchase an $8 ticket.

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (Oct 14, 2010) - Fans of the ground-pounding, fist-pumping, tour-type Stadium Modifieds that produced a thrilling race earlier this month at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway will return to the five-eighths-mile oval in April 2011, track officials announced Thursday.

The Modifieds, whose popularity has exploded this season largely due to the History Channel's show “Mad House”, will be the companion event to the history-making Pro All Stars Series 300 weekend. That weekend PASS will set a record with its richest Super Late Model event in Southern short-track racing history.

The April 9 Modified race will be 100 green-flag laps and pay $5,000 to the winner with $600 going to the last-place finisher. Also, just like this year's race on North Wilkesboro's Apple Festival weekend, the teams will be limited to a one-tire stop where they can change only two tires.

“The bottom line is we have great fans and a great heritage at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway and the Modifieds need to always feel that we are their home away from home when they are not racing at Bowman-Gray Stadium or on Tour,” Speedway Associates President Alton McBride Jr. said. “We hope to race them every chance we get, which realistically can be a handful of times each year.”

Tickets for the April weekend go on sale Oct. 22. They may be purchased at the speedway office or at www.historicnws.com.

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (Oct. 4, 2010) - Jeff Agnew finished the Brushy Mountain 250 Sunday afternoon at Historic North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway exactly where he started: first.

Agnew rallied from a lap down and survived a green-white-checkered dash to score his second victory of the 2010 USARacing Pro Cup Series season, beating Clay Rogers to the finish line .775 seconds – about three car lengths.

The win was also a big payday for the Floyd, Va., native.  He captured the WIX Filters Challenge, a $7,000 bonus for winning from the pole, pushing his total earnings for the event to $13,000.  Agnew said the victory was “as good as any of ‘em” in his career and riding the elevator to victory lane accomplished longtime career goal.

“We’ve come here in a late model and finished second two or three times and I’ve always wanted to ride the elevator,” Agnew said.  To finally get it in this series coming back here after its been shut down for so long, it’s just a wonderful feeling.”

That wasn’t the case when he fell a lap down just past the 100-lap mark.

“I thought we were sunked and flunked and everything else,” Agnew said.  “I thought it was over.  When the caution come out there a little bit later and we got to put our tires back on and we come back and  passed everybody I was like, well, now we’ve got a shot because we’ve got a good enough car.  We just about had to do that.  We were making some adjustments there on that fuel stop at first that we really needed to make, which that probably allowed the car to be as good as it was at the end of the race.  Sometimes a blind hawk will find an acorn every once in a while and we found one today [smiles].”

Unlike his driver, crew chief Doug Weddle, wasn’t anxious because he knew he could make up the lost distance.

“No, I didn’t think I was sunk because I kept telling myself when we get new tires on we’re going to drive right back by ‘em,” Weddle.  “When that leader goes by you it’s a heartbreaking feeling but it worked out.  We knew that new tires were going to be really important and we tried to keep that in mind.  When that first caution fell it was within two laps of being within our fuel window and we made a call to go with fuel and try to keep two new sets of tires for the end.  And gosh, man, it almost bit us.”

Agnew was comfortably ahead of Rogers on lap 244 when J.P. Morgan spun, bringing out final caution of the day and setting up a three-lap dash to the finish.

“We were out there 10, 12 car lengths, whatever it was, ahead and you never want to see a caution,” Agnew said.  “But we knew it was coming because it’s just the way it works for us.  You really got to pay attention on the restarts here after a few laps because you spin your tires so bad.  I didn’t spin my tires too bad and I got a little bit of a cushion there and just able to hold on to it until the end.”

Agnew collected his second victory of the 2010 season and his 16th in 222 career starts.  He grabbed his sixth top-10 in 11 starts this season and claimed his first pole.  He led five times for 104 of the event’s 250 laps, the first time this season Agnew has led the most laps in a race.

Rogers placed second, his 11th top-five in 12 starts this season.  Rounding out the top-five: Lucas Ransone, Caleb Holman and Stephen Nasse.

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (Oct. 4, 2010) - Jason Myers held off a hard charging Junior
Miller in a green-white-checker finish to Sunday's scheduled 100-lap Modified race to emerge
victorious at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway, but it was a pit road shouting match that
erupted between pole winner Burt Myers and Zach Brewer following the checkered flag that
sent race officials and security officers scurrying to disperse the agitated crews and families.

The furor erupted after the third place Burt Myers stopped his car on pit road and the fourth-
place Brewer halted his car next to Myers.

“The 11 car [Brewer] ran into me all day long and then after the race, coming down pit road, I
pulled up beside him and he cut left into me again,” Burt Myers said in explaining the incident.

Meanwhile, the younger Myers was celebrating his narrow victory that occurred after he and
Shane Hmiel tangled on lap 98. The two were dueling for the lead when they collided and
Hmiel shot into the second-turn wall. Hmiel escaped injury, but the race was halted while the
cleanup occurred.

“He knew I had a lot better car and the only way for me to get around him was to push him
up out of the groove and that's what I did,” Jason Myers said in explaining the incident on the
0.625-mile track. “I gave him a nice clean shot up off the corner. It moved him up and when I
got under him, he turned right back into the side of my car and when it did it shot him right into
the wall. If he had stayed in his line and gave himself some room, he could have come out of
here second today.

“I really hate it for him. I really hate that anybody's car gets torn up that bad.”

Hmiel, whom Jason Myers described as a “wild race car driver”, escaped injury but had to
settle for an 11th-place finish.

“Not taking away anything from him, Shane's a wheel-man, but Shane's wild,” Jason Myers
continued. “We pitted at the same time and did the same pit strategy and Shane wore his
(tires) out a lot quicker than I did because he was a little too aggressive with his race car and
mine was better in the long run. Like I said, I bumped the man coming off the corner. With five

to go in the race, I'm not going to let him win just like he's not going to let me win.”

Myers led three times for eight laps, including the final seven, in the race that was extended
to 106 laps due to the green-white-checkered flag finish. However, it was his good restart
following the final caution that sealed the victory for him.

“My strategy at that point is to get as far away from him [Miller] as I can,” Myers said. “I wasn't
counting Junior out. I knew if Junior could get to me getting into that first corner Junior was
going to give me a good shot and get me up out of the way. I knew if we got into (turn) one
and got away from him without him hitting me, our car was definitely good enough to stay
away from him. We had a great race car, (but) I could have given this race away on that
restart. If I'd have spun the tires, which I did a little bit, if I'd have got loose getting into (turn)
one, any small mistake could have cost me the race on that restart. I was real careful. I got it
going straight and got out front.”

Miller said he simply didn't change enough tires on his final stop to give him the victory edge.

“We were saving our tires that first run and, shoot, we burned 'em up,” said Miller, who led
once for two laps. “We put a couple on there with about six to go and some of these cars got
three tires. We just didn't put enough tires on or we'd have been there. We had a good race
car that last time. If there had been a few more laps, I believe I'd have got that 4 car [Jason
Myers]. We were just a couple of car lengths short of winning the race.”

Jason Myers averaged 74.632 mph in the race that was slowed by five caution flags for 23
laps. There were 14 lead changes among five drivers with Hmiel being the top lap leader,
setting the pace on four occasions for 50 laps

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (Oct. 2, 2010) -- Jeff Agnew claimed his second pole of the season Saturday during qualifying at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway for Sunday's USAR Pro Cup Series Brushy Mountain 250.

Agnew, a Floyd Va., native, posted the fifth quickest speed in Saturday's two practice sessions. However, the late qualifying draw of 14th proved advantageous to the veteran who claimed the pole with a 20.271-second, 110.966-mph lap. Currently, Agnew is fifth in driver points, 93 points behind standings leader Clay Rogers.

Brandon Ward, of Winston Salem, N.C., earned the other front row starting position with a 20.321-second, 110.723-mph lap. It was the first time Ward had cracked the top 5 Saturday, as he recorded the sixth and 15th fastest times during practice.

Rogers will start third. The Mooresville, N.C., driver recorded a 20.731-second, 110.451-mph lap. Entering the event, Rogers possesses a 34-point advantage over Caleb Holman, who qualified fourth with a 20.472-second, 109.906-mph lap. That lap on the 0.625-mile track was his best of the day.

Raybestos Rookie-of-the-Year contender Stephen Nasse, of Pinellas Park, Fla., rounded out the top 5 with a qualifying lap of 20.522 seconds, 109.356 mph.

The Brushy Mountain 250 will be the second race in Sunday's “Triple Header” at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway.  Racing begins Sunday at 12:30 p.m. with a 50-lap Street Stock race. The Brushy Mountain 250 is slated to receive the green flag at 2 p.m. A 100-lap Modified race will conclude the racing weekend.

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (Oct. 2, 2010) – Logan Ruffin's Turner Motorsports team produced a flawless performance in Saturday's USARacing Pro Cup Series 2010 Pit Crew Challenge at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway to edge standings leader Clay Rogers' Lamb & Robinson Racing crew.

Ruffin's team, the last to compete in the annual event, produced a four-tire change in 22 seconds. That was 1.18 seconds faster than Rogers' team's four-tire stop which was 23.18 seconds. Neither team was assessed any penalties.

“It's a big morale booster for them for tomorrow,” the 16-year-old Ruffin said about his team winning the Pit Crew Challenge. “It shows that we can go and have good runs in the pits and not lose anything. It shows that these guys are very good at what they do.”

Caleb Holman's Henderson Motorsports crew placed third with a total time of 26.24 seconds. That included a 2-second penalty for a loose lug nut.

Fourth went to Tyler Young's team. Young Motorsports was assessed a 4-second penalty for two loose lug nuts, giving that crew a time of 31.73 seconds.

Gibson Motorsports took fifth due to a 12-second penalty for six loose lug nuts. That increased the team's 26.92-second base time to 38.92 seconds.

Chase Elliott's team finished sixth due to 18 seconds in penalties. The Bill Elliott Racing team produced a 26.37-second base time, but was assessed a 10-second penalty for one crewman crossing the wall too soon and an 8-second one for four loose lug nuts. That left the team with a 44.37-second stop.

The USAR Pro Cup teams are in action Sunday at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway in the Brushy Mountain 250, which begins at 2 p.m.

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (September 23, 2010) - In an effort to put on the best race weekends possible this fall, USA Racing and HNWS have announced the tire rules for the following 2 races. “It is important that we make the tough decisions that will sustain racing for the fans, competitors and marketing partners. We all have to live and race through these times” Said Alton McBride Jr. President of Speedway Associates

“This tire rule amendment now allows modified teams who otherwise could not come to HNWS, to now race the left over inventory of 30s and 45s that would sit over the winter in their shops. We commend Mr. Freeman and his company for understanding the importance of keeping racers racing this fall at HNWS. Let me stress the fact that the official strict procedures have not changed, but rather only the ability to race existing tire inventory.” Said Jimmy Wilson Series Director of USARacing.

Modified Teams will be required to run Hoosier M30 on left and M45 on right of car.  There is no limit to number or type of practice tires.  For the race teams will be limited to a maximum of six (6) new or scuffed tires in any combination thereof as long as M30's are on the left and M45's on the right.  Tires cannot be altered or softened in any way at any time.  Race/Qualifying tires MUST be put into impound by a specified time by event officials.  That time will be announced to teams during the 7:30am drivers meeting on Saturday, October 2nd.

Late Model - GOODYEAR D-2925

Limited Late Model GOODYEAR D-2902

Street Stock Hoosier F-45

Late Model, Limited Late Model and Street Stock tires will be provided by MTP Tire & Racing Center.  For more tire information for Street Stock, Limited Late Model and Late Model please contact Kevin Piercy directly at 828-217-0002.

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (September 18, 2010) - Eleven USARacing Pro Cup Series drivers participated in a test session Saturday at Historic North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway in preparation for the Oct. 3 Brushy Mountain 250.

While all of the teams were busy learning how to manage tire wear on the 0.625-mile speedway, two drivers were particularly attentive to every detail: Clay Rogers and Logan Ruffin.

Rogers leads Caleb Holman by 34 points in the battle for the series championship.

Ruffin leads the battle for Raybestos® Rookie of the Year and is seeking respect from his fellow competitors.

Another series title would be Rogers’ fourth and tie him with Bobby Gill for the most championships in Pro Cup Series history.

“For me it would be big,” Rogers said. “It’d be my fourth championship and that would tie me with Bobby Gill with four championships. That’s a pretty elite group to be in with guys like him. Nobody’s got five so I’m happy with four.”

Not smiling is second-place Holman, who knows the only way to win the championship is to beat Rogers – and that means winning races.

“If we don’t win he’s going to,” Holman said. “That’s the bottom line, that’s all there is to it. This is his kind of race track and we’ve just got to beat him. We’re going to have to outrun Clay and he’s probably going to finish second if we win.

“I feel like we’re probably the best two in the series right now as far as race teams. If we don’t win, I feel like he’s going to be right there and at least finish top two or three. That’s what it’s going to take.”

After a half-day of track time, Rogers had a clear understanding of what it would take to be successful at Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway.

“It’s all going to be about tire conservation,” Rogers said. “You’re going to see a lot of people sitting back and riding. It’ll be similar to our races that we have at Myrtle Beach.

“In our case, we’ll have to go hard for the first few laps and try to get bonus points for leading a lap and then after that we go into conservation mode and start backing out early. Right now everybody is looking for speed, but consistency is what it’s going to be all about. Whoever is going to have the fresher tires at the end of the race is going to be the one to beat.”
While Rogers and Holman are locked in a battle for the series crown, Logan Ruffin is trying to earn respect, win races and take home the Raybestos® Rookie of the Year award.

“I’ve been fighting that since I was 13 years old my first time that I ran Late Models,” the 16-year driver said. “If you can race around the guys that have been doing it for years and years, don’t wreck ‘em and rough ‘em up, drive with ‘em and be clean, be smooth, finish the races and if you finish well, then you start catching their attention to say this is a kid that we can go race with. And that’s been my goal since I started running the Late Model or even the Pro Cup cars.

Guys like Jeff Agnew, J.P. Morgan, Clay Rogers and Benny Gordon, you have to gain their respect.
These are all guys who have been doing this for a long time, much longer than I have, and I’ve had to go out and prove that I’m not going to come up behind you and just wreck you. I’m going to race you clean, I’m going to do the best I can.”

Ruffin said capturing top rookie honors in the series was a primary objective for the team since the 2010 season started.

“That was our goal going into the season and that’s what my team owner Steve Turner told me, that his goal this season was for us so we’re going to try to get it,” Ruffin said. “It would mean a lot.

'This is the first time in a long time that I’ve run a whole season of something in the same series. Like my last years in Late Model everybody was telling me that ‘We don’t want you to go out and run for a championship. We want you to go run the biggest, fastest race tracks that you can and get as much experience as you can.’

So I went from running an ASA car to a PASS car to a CRA car to running a local track car once in a while. But this is the first time that I’ve been in something racing for points. I think it’d be really neat to go out and be able to say that we finished this whole season and we won the championship or Raybestos® Rookie of the Year or both.”

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (Sept 17, 2010) - Coming off the Labor Day Classic where we saw over 7,500 people attend the PASS Super Late Models race watching the young Chase Elliott take the checkered flag, and watched the track pole speed record be shattered, North Wilkesboro Speedway now moves on into the fall duo of races in October. For the first time the USARacing Pro Cup Series will run at the speedway in a 250 lap late model brawl, also coming back to the speedway after a 14 year hiatus will be the Whelen style modifieds who will pound the pavement once again for the Brushy Mountain 100 lap event on October 3rd.

However the big news out of North Wilkesboro Speedway is the massive First Annual Short Track Shootout weekend featuring 4 days of racing action from 8 different racing series from around the US, and ending with the season championship of the Sunoco National Series, Kings Ransom 300 formerly ran at the now shuttered Memphis Motorsports Park. “We are excited Ron Varney and the Sunoco National Series choose North Wilkesboro Speedway to end their 2010 season here, it shows that NWS is a class act and can bring in the bigger series to run here at our track.” said Alton McBride.

Over the 4 days of racing action we will begin the weekend on October 28th with a full day of practice that will move into Friday to begin qualifying for the weekend’s events. That’s just the start of it all, on Saturday the track will come alive with heat races beginning at 11:00am and racing action from the Rolling Thunder Modifieds, Limited Late Models, Late Models, Allison Legacy, US Super Trucks, and more taking to the track at 1:30 for a combined 450 plus laps.

Sunday will prove to be a huge day in North Wilkesboro Speedway history as the Walls Roofing UCAR Clash Series will take to the track at 12:30 for 50 laps of action before we see the Sunoco National Series battle it out in the King’s Ransom 300 for the Sunoco National Series National Championship.

As part of this amazing weekend North Wilkesboro Speedway will play host to 80’s Arena Rock band Black Glass will play 2 shows throughout the weekend, both Friday and Saturday night immediately following on track activates around 9:00pm. All fans with any weekend race day tickets are invited to come and watch the shows as part of the Shootout Weekend festivities, tickets for the concert either night are $8 without race day tickets. As an added bonus if you attend any Black Glass show throughout the weekend you will be able to come to the ticket office and exchange your Black Glass concert ticket for a $5 credit towards any race day ticket.

“We are very pleased to bring in such a high profile great band. Black Glass is the epitome of 80s and 90s rock. They have a great all ages following throughout the south and it is an honor to have them as part of the Shoot Out. These guys are the best and HNWS fans deserve nothing but the best.” Said Alton McBride(President – Speedway Associates)

Tickets and camping for this historic weekend are on sale now at Ticket Page . More information on Black Glass Band can be found at www.blackglassband.com.

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (Sept 16, 2010) - Schedule for the 2010 NWS Shootout can now be downloaded on our event page.

CONCORD, N.C. (Sept. 14, 2010)-Drivers from the USARacing Pro Cup Series, Bowman Gray/Tour Type Modified and Street Stock Series are invited to test Saturday, September 18 at Historic North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway.

The test is in preparation for the October 3 triple header at the .625-mile speedway featuring the Brushy Mountain 250 Pro Cup Series race, 100-lap Bowman Gray/Tour Type Modified event plus a 50-lap Street Stock race.

Competitors from all three divisions are invited to test throughout the day.  Haulers are scheduled to enter the track at 8 a.m. with testing for the USARacing Pro Cup Series scheduled to begin at 11:40 a.m. (on track activity will conclude at 7 p.m.).

For all media in attendance, Pro Cup Series drivers will be available for a brief media availability session during the test from 12:45 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Chase Elliott Winner of the PASS Super Late Models Labor Day Classic 200

Labor Day Classic 200 Winners

Limited Late Models - Mack Little III
Stadium Stock - Michael Tucker
Allison Legacy - Gus Dean
PASS - Chase Elliott

Live Updates from North Wilkesboro Speedway - First Race Winner Limited Late Models, Mack Little III - Second Race Winner Stadium Stock - Michael Tucker. Allison Legacy Series on track now.
UPDATE 2: Allison Legacy Winner - #56, Gus Dean.
UPDATE 3: Green flag in the air for the PASS Super Late Models 200 Laps. Mike Staley son of track founder Enoch Staley giving the green flag.
UPDATE 4: Keep checking in on Savethespeedway.net and our Facebook Page for live flag to flag coverage of the PASS Super Late Models 200.
UPDATE 5: 34 Laps in the books caution out for blow motor of Trey Mitchell
UPDATE 6: Working lap 80 of 200, green flag for 46 laps, Jody Lavender leading the field.
UPDATE 7: Working lap 128 caution out for debris on the track. All cars in the pits for fuel.
UPDATE 8: Chase Elliott son of Winston Cup Champion Bill Elliott is your winner in the Labor Day Classic 200 at North Wilkesboro Speedway.

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C.(AUGUST 30, 2010) -Coming off a weekend of testing at North Wilkesboro Speedway bringing over 20 cars to an open testing session for the Labor Day Classic featuring the PASS Super Late Models, Stadium Stock, Limited Late Models, and Allison Legacy.

North Wilkesboro Speedway saw legends returned to the track, over the weekend Chase Elliott son of NASCAR Winston Cup Champion Bill Elliott, graced the track turning solid laps for the upcoming 200 lap feature. Also turning laps this past weekend we saw the son of Dave Blaney turning laps and the 5/8th mile North Wilkesboro Speedway.

On September 4th the 63 year old speedway will roar back to life when the ground pounding PASS Super Late Models run a 200 lap feature at the speedway, backed up by several support series.

Returning back to the speedway for the Labor Day Classic will be legends Donnie and Bobby Allison who will be the Grand Marshalls for the weekend throwing out the first green flag laps at the speedway since 1996 when the NASCAR Winston Cup Series ran their final race at the speedway. “This is a awesome deal to have to great racing legends return to North Wilkesboro Speedway and we are honored to have them” said Alton McBride, President of Speedway Associates.

Tickets for the upcoming weekend are on sale at North Wilkesboro Speedway Tickets, gates open at 7am with practice at 9:30, green flag for the Labor Day Classic at 2pm.

North Wilkesboro Speedway Labor Day Weekend TV Commercial

NORTH WILKESBORO N.C.(August 10, 2010) - Set in the Brushy Mountains of western North Carolina, lays Wilkes County with a deep history of NASCAR. It is the site of the North Wilkesboro Speedway which hosted NASCAR events for 50 years.

This year on the way to Bristol for the races Wilkes County will be hosting the First Annual “Bristol Stop” on race weekend, Wilkes County hotels will be offering deeply discounted hotels at several of the local hotels that include, Wilkesboro Holiday Inn, Addison Inn, and the Hampton Inn all in the Town of Wilkesboro and close to the North Wilkesboro Speedway, and within 2 hours of Bristol, TN.

Anyone stopping in town on race weekend with a Bristol ticket will be able to take their ticket down to the North Wilkesboro Speedway and take a lap around the track in your street car. Also that weekend on August 21st at 7:00pm, Tim Dugger will be performing in concert at West Wilkes High School, tickets prices are $10 each and will be available during check-in at all participating hotels, all proceeds from the Tim Dugger concert will go to the Benny Parsons Athletic Complex to be built at West Wilkes High School. More.

Pro All Stars Series (PASS) officials today released the schedule of events and support divisions for the upcoming Labor Day Classic at the Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway.   The PASS South Super Late Models will bring stock car racing back to North Wilkesboro Speedway on September 3-4 for the first time since 1996.   PASS South headline the Labor Day Classic with a 200 lap event featuring the top Super Late Model drivers from around the country.   In addition to the PASS South cars, the Allison Legacy Series, Limited Late Models, and Stadium Stocks will complete the weekend of racing.   Rules and entry forms for the Limited Late Models and Stadium Stock divisions are now posted on the web at ProAllStarsSeries.com.

8/05/2010 - North Wilkesboro, NC - One historic event deserves another.

While the Brushy Mountain Apple Festival has been a must see event in Wilkes County, N.C., for years, the county’s racing history – dating back to the moonshine days and the birth of NASCAR – has been on a 14-year hiatus.

Once home to nationally televised stock car racing events at North Wilkesboro Speedway, the track has sat dormant for more than a decade.  Thanks to a new ownership group and national attention, the speedway comes into focus again on the weekend of October 3.

The Apple Festival weekend will see the return of the Fall “Triple Header” which includes open wheel modified competition.  Speedway officials confirmed the addition of a 100-lap Modified race and a 50-lap Street Stock race in conjunction with the Brushy Mountain 250 USARacing Pro Cup Series Championship race on Sunday, October 3, 2010. More.

Tim Dugger - Sunday Drive Filmed at North Wilkesboro Speedway with Richard Childress Racing and Austin Dillon.

Hundreds of motorists took the "Dream Ride" at the old North Wilkesboro Speedway on Saturday.For the motorcycle and classic car enthusiasts, the chance to do two laps on the speedway was one they didn't want to miss."It was a lot of fun," said biker Wendy Sieck. "I felt like I was in a racecar.""If they'd let us go a little faster it would have been all right," said biker Michael Lloyd. More.

Fresh off the win at Sonoma, Ca. Chad Knaus and the Hendricks Motorsports team 48 laid down a solid day of laps at Historic NWS. Landon Cassill wheeled the #48 car and had alot of positive input regarding NWS. Its a challeging track and it really makes you manage wheel spin. Said "Landon Cassill " More.

06/21/2010 -NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. - Winners from the NWS Crit Bicycle Series ran bi-weekly at North Wilkesboro Speedway are now posted in the stats section.

PURLEAR, N.C. (June 5, 2009) – Benny Parsons Rendezvous Ridge was damaged by fire Friday night after receiving a direct lightening strike during  a severe thunderstorm.

No one was injured in the fire and all of 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup champion's Benny Parsons' racing memorabilia was saved thanks to the quick work of the four fire departments that responded and the wedding party that was having a rehearsal dinner at the vineyard when the fire occurred. The groom was a former firefighter with the Concord [N.C.] Fire Department and immediately took charge when the lightening strike occurred and thick black smoke billowed from the trophy room's walls.

“Someone was definitely watching over us,” vineyard owner Terri Parsons said Saturday. “Cell service is sporadic here and everyone immediately dialed 911, hoping someone's cell signal would get out. Everyone's cell phone made the 911 call.

“The fire chief told me the house Benny designed before his death was the best built house he had seen in a long time and that was what saved it, because no air was able to get into the walls where the fire was burning. However, the wine tasting room will be temporarily closed while repairs are made. We will continue to service our restaurants, wine shops and special events and to ship our wine to our loyal customers while repairs are made.”

Benny Parsons Rendezvous Ridge opened for business in July 2007. It is located on land that has been in the Parsons family for more than 100 years. Please go to www.rendezvousridge.com for updates on the reopening of Benny Parsons Rendezvous Ridge, producer of the affordable wine with the unaffordable taste.

06/06/2010 - NORTH WILKESBORO, NC - An open test session Saturday at North Wilkesboro Speedway for the PASS Super Late Model Touring Series provided the competitors with a glimpse of what they will face when they race on the historical 0.625-mile track Labor Day weekend.

“It doesn't have a lot of grip, but that's just typical of North Wilkesboro,” said Brandon Ward, who will compete in the Sept. 4 PASS event and the Oct. 3 USARacing Pro Cup Series race. “It's always been that way here. It's a challenging race track because both ends are different. You're downhill on the front straightaway and uphill on the back straightaway, so it makes it a lot different than anywhere else we race.” More.

5/27/2010 - NORTH WILKESBORO, NC - In the second official open test weekend at North Wilkesboro Speedway on June 5th, the super late models of the PASS series will bring their machines to the Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway in preparations for their September 3rd 200 lap event.

In addition to the PASS Super Late Models, the speedway is inviting all teams in the area to bring their cars and test throughout the day, there is no cost per car to test, just a pit entrance fee of $20 per person on the team. Fuel will not be provided on site and the public is welcome to come watch the test for free in the grandstands on the front stretch.

This test is also a very special event that will help out the community at 11am the Wilkes Amazing Race presented by GoWilkes.com has selected the Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway as their starting point for teams to begin the race with a lap around the track before tackling their first challenge. All proceeds from the Wilkes Amazing race will benefit local charity Samaritan’s Christian Ministry of Wilkes and their mission to feeding the hungry of Wilkes and the surrounding areas

5/15/2010 - NORTH WILKESBORO, NC - The doors of North Wilkesboro Speedway reopened this weekend and the roar of engines once again graced the historic speedway. In 1947 at the first race Ford Flathead moonshine cars took to the track and opened the speedway, 63 years later the speedway reopened its doors again to the Legendary Ford Flathead series. Winning the first race since the reopening is none other then Bill Blair in his #2 car. In historic fashion Bill as a baby attended the very first race in 1947 and won the reopening race in 2010.

As another note of this historic day, the very first female won at North Wilkesboro Speedway the #67 of Susan Kimel took the checkered flag in the Carolina Vintage race. Photos of the weekend can be found on our Facebook page. Thank you to everyone who showed up for the first event back at the speedway.

One week before Austin Dillon's 20th birthday, Richard Childress' grandson tested his NASCAR Camping World Series truck at North Wilkesboro Speedway, a track he once rode around while sitting on telephone books.

“Dad was in the front seat with me, so I was able to do that when I was real little,” Dillon recalled during a break in his Wednesday afternoon test session. “It was raining and I got in the van and I got to ride on the top of the telephone books. I also watched my dad [former Nationwide Series driver Mike Dillon] run here. I actually came out here when they tested here for one of his Late Model races.” More. Photo Gallery.

North Wilkesboro Speedway is no longer for just 4 wheels racing anymore, yesterday was a very historic day for North Wilkesboro Speedway, for the first time a bike racing series graced the historic speedway. Put on by Pirate Race Productions of Boone, NC about 30 racers took to the track in 3 classes for their first endurance race of 2010. More.

NORTH WILKESBORO, NC - After more than 20 years of absence from North Wilkesboro Speedway the Southern Truck and Tractor Pullers Association, announced today they will again return to the historic track in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina on July 3, 2010 for a double show beginning at 5pm. More.

Short Track Weekend Coming to North Wilkesboro Speedway

Speedway Associates, Inc. (SAI) will bring a 4th Motorsports race event to the 2010 schedule setting October 29th through the 31st. The 1st annual Historic NWS Short Track Shootout Weekend will be a great event that all can look forward to.

On the event bill will be an exciting 7 race series of classes all in 1 action packed 3 day race weekend. Late Model Stock Car 150 laps, Limited Late Model 75 laps, United States Super Truck Series 75 laps, Street stock 50 laps, Rolling Thunder Modified 50 laps, UCAR Clash Series 40 laps, Allison Legacy Series 35 laps.

“We want to develop this event for our present and future racers where they are able showcase their talents in front of Historic NWS and the eyes upon it. Our loyal fans and competitors deserve this event and we are going to give it to them” Bosco Lowe of Speedway Associates.

The weekend will be a family fun atmosphere with an affordable admission price for the combined 3 days of racing. There will be trick or treating for the kids in the pits with the race teams. Stay connected to www.historicnws.com for more details regarding scheduling of events and related info to the 1rst annual Historic NWS Short Track shoot Out Weekend.

This event is another great opportunity for those interested presenting sponsors and affiliates who would like to rally their respective product and service with this great 1rst annual event action packed weekend.

5/27/2010 - NORTH WILKESBORO, NC -Welcome to the new Save The Speedway website, after 5 years of hard work the speedway has reopened this year. As a fitting tribute to the speedway reopening we have redesigned the website to not only cover the history of the speedway and our efforts to Save The Speedway, we will also be covering and documenting the events at the speedway. There are still a few things to be worked on i.e. the message board and the detailed history of the races ran at North Wilkesboro Speedway, please be patient with us as we continue to update the site. We hope that you enjoy the new site.