REAL
RACIN USA LIVE! 2009
March 19,
2009
LIVE
FROM EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK
A great lineup of racers from around Florida for this show. Currently
the state's top sprint car driver is Gene Lasker. Lasker talks about his
beginnings at East Bay in the Street Stock, the move to sprints in 1990,
and the success that has followed one of Florida's most entertaining drivers.
Sprint car promoter Don Rehm, currently promoting the Top Gun Sprint Car
Series (dirt) and the Checkered Flag Sprint Car Series (asphalt),sits
in with Gene and the two compare notes on the current sprint car scene.
Promoter
Bobby Diehl (Charlotte County Motorsports Park) talks about the reasons
behind the success he is having as a track owner and other current racing
topics.
ASA Late
Model Series drivers Jeremy Gerstner and Ross Chastain share the stage
with Sean Bass, an asphalt late model driver who has recently started
racing on the dirt at East Bay.
Jeff Mathews
is dedicating this year to try and win both the late model and modified
championships at East Bay. He is presented with the Hilderbrand Jewelers
Driver of the Month award for February, presented of course by the Real
Racin USA Monday night show, "Inside Florida Racing". He was
joined at the microphone with East Bay Raceway park co-owner Todd Hutto.
Susan and Rick Auriemma, promoters of the FAST Mini Cup Series introduce
one of their new drivers, Bobby Rogers, a spry 60 year old who now has
time ( and energy) to go tackle the short tracks. The duo also announce
their addition of Bronson Motor Speedway to their 2009 schedule.
Debi Garcia,
owner of Ambassador Racing, talks about the karting and quarter midget
programs in Florida and upcoming events. Jamie Frankland sat with Debbie
Garcia) driver in the Florida Oldtime Modifieds.
Also on the
agenda tonight was a discussion of the Ric Flair as Honorary Race Director
debate and other current events.
The two hour
show was hosted by Rick Anges, Jack Smith and Bill Green. The Real Racin'
USA Live show is at East Bay the third Thursday of each month. Sponsorship
and advertising opportunities are available. For more information call
941-228-8359 or 941-920-3370 or 941-518-2234.
February
19, 2009
LIVE
FROM EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK
Guests include local dirt late model talent Travis Varnadore
and Keith Nosbisch. From Delaware racer, track promoter and noted
author Buck (Bob) Buckholz; also NeSmith (of the Late Model Series)
rep Rodney Tapley talks about the series and the success of NeSmith's
involvement in racing. Longtime Florida and current East Bay photographer
Russ Calabrese and Florida racer andbig time fan Rex (Boneman)
Hollinger talked midget racing, electric car racing and disect Florida
racing in 2009. The folks from the Hall of Fame Cafe stopped by
to review the menu with Bill Green. Kenny Gross from Danville,
Indiana chatted with Bill Jack and Rick about his East Bay adventure.
Something for everyone in this very entertaining 2 hour show.
FEBRUARY
5, 2009
LIVE
FROM EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK
Sponsored by FASTLANE RACING COLLECTIBLES
Guests include superstars of dirt late model racing Donnie Moran
and Rick Eckert, plus former Florida promoter Rick Day and
others. Kim Stewart, owner of Fastlane Racing Collectibles and
Apparel, sits in for a segment of the show.
JANUARY
21, 2009
LIVE
FROM EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK
CeCe
Brooks and Rob Elting joined host Bill Green, Rick Anges and Jack Smith
kick off the return of Real Racin' USA Live! Johnny
Collins was on hand and surprised to receive the Pandora
Jewelers DRVER OF THE YEAR AWARD.....The best of the Best Awards are
announced.....also racers Steve Darvalics and Larry
Burkins....and photographers Bob Wing and
Mike Horne talk about the thrills of being really close to
the action.
REAL
RACIN USA LIVE! 2008
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July 30,
2008 -- Skip Wall & Jack Smith in a special Real Racin USA show featuring
NASCAR's oldest sanctioned speedway Bowman Gray Stadium and the ADVANCE
AUTO PARTS promotion for the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour. Bowman
Gray promoter Gray Garrison is featured along with Tour PR man Jason Mitchell
and drivers Burt Myers and Robert Jeffreys.
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May 6, 2008 --
Very
special guest Dave Argabright, noted sprint car expert, columnist, author
and announcer, joins Real Racin' USA for an inside peek at this year's
Little 500 Sprint Car race. Must
See Racing's President Jim Hanks on the Internet TV broadcast of the
Little 500 this year.
The Pass Super Late Model Series is in the spolight with recent winner
Perry Brown and Head Tech Man Scott Reed featured.
Greg Wood, Operations Director from the CRA Super series discusses the
S.E.A.L. motor program and the issues surrounding current Stock Car Racing
motor programs.
Skip Wall reports his first hand experiences for Real Racin' USA inside
the ARCA Carolina 500 from "The Rock".
April
29, 2008 -- Real Racin USA Live! took the week off...
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April 22, 2008 - Top stars of dirt and asphalt
stock car racing, plus two of America's best F1 Boat racers are featured.
Jeff Choquette and Jay Middleton are preparing for a return to USA International
Speedway. Last time there during Speedfest 2008, they finished 1-2. This
time it's the Florida debut of the ASA Asphalt Southeast Tour at the 3/4
mile track.
Dirt Racer Mark Whitener, former NLMS tour Rookie of the Year is now alos
competing and winning with the UDLMCS dirt tour. Not sure what that is?
Well, guest Ken Kinney is the promoter of the series and he will tell
you all about it.
Formula
1 Boat racers Terry and Randy Rinker are featured. The duo are the pilots
in one of America's top boat racing teams. 120 mph on the straight and
then a 5 G turn and back the other way. Awesome!
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April 15, 2008 - Ed Otto was equal partners
with Bill France in the early days of NASCAR. Ed Otto was perhaps the
greatest racing promoter ever, but he owned the North! Here the incredible
"Real Story of NASCAR". Nothing about "moonshiners"
and such, from the man who was there and watched his father, together
with France, start an empire. Edgar Otto is a very special guest.
Also an interview with legend Bugsy Stevens and a more recent legend of
racing, recently retired, Fritz Augustine.
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April 8, 2008 - Around the wide world of motorsports, talking Indy Light
and Pro Mazda racing with Dan
Anderson, owner of Anderson Race Park, a testing ground for
up and coming open wheel stars.
- Also,
from the world of stock car racing: Friendship
Motor Speedway in North Carolina is going back to its former status
as an exciting dirt track, with promoters Dennis Wood and Phil Hall at
the reins.
-Dennis Nixon is the promoter of the stock car side of the South
Georgia Motorsports Park, a dual purpose venue with top level drag
racing and stock cars also. Motor confusion is making it difficult for
promoters of late model events according to Nixon, and he has some answers.
- Drivers Jim Crabtree (SuperCup) and Johnny
VanDoorn (CRA Series) share their racing story with fans.
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April 1, 2008 - Stellar lineup of heavy hitters! Dennis Huth, owner of
the American Speed Association -
Don Nerone, one of the South's long time stock car promoters - Doug Smith,
GM at ACE Speedway, a protege of
Humpy Wheeler - Billy Ausburn, co-host of the Trackside
Tonite radio show & former flagman/race director at Volusia Speedway
Park - Chris Fontaine, former
Craftsman Truck driver now running the ASA Southeast Asphalt Tour - Casey
Smith, Texas super late model racer around the southeastern US -
Jimmy Lang interview from the ASA Late Model Series win at Bronson
- Skip Wall of SouthernMotoRacing.com
with SuperCup, Whelen Modified and Hooters ProCup news.
Real Racin USA did not air on March 25, 2008.
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March 18, 2008 - Sprint Car ace David
Steele and TBARA Sprint Car President Lenny
Puglio talk about the series under new leadership this year. Motorsports
writer Walter Elliott
gives fans an in depth look behind the scenes at the Wall Speedway closing
the gates for good this week. Regular contributor to Real Racin' USA Live!
Skip Wall joins Rick & Jack to talk with
Super Cup driver Megan Reitneour and Whelen
Southern Modified Public Realtion Director. Duane
Goins is taking over the top spot at old Thunder Valley Speedway
in North Carolina. The new name is Cleveland County Speedway, and yes
there IS dirt racin' in NC.
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March 11, 2008 - "Motor Wars" in the second hour
with drivers Jeff Choquette and Rob Elting
with noted engine builders Steve McInnis (Progressive),
and DeWaine McGunegill (McGunegill) .....
In the first hour guests include owner of Hot Licks
Racing, Dennis Gibson. What does it take to race boats at 250 mph
in the 1/4? Lots of technology.
Joining us from South Carolina and Florida are "Staging"
Stevie LeTempt and Diana Dickerson with Lakeland and Ridge HD to
talk about Diana first experience with high speed (120 MPH) motorcycle
road course racing. Dirt late Model racer Billy
Moyer Jr. is getting ready for the AMP Series. That apple didn't fall
far from the tree, as you will discover if you are a fan of the dirt late
models.
Breaking news about the pending sale of the Hooters International. What
does it mean for the ProCup? Tune in.
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March
4, 2008 -Guests include Wayne Anderson, Shane Williams,
Joe Linebarier, Dalton Zehr, Blake Lehr, Ken Minney and Jacob Goede.
Shane Williams rec'd the PANDORA JEWELERS DRIVER OF THE MONTH AWARD. Anderson
fresh off a 2nd place run at The RATTLER, Jacob Goede is hunting the ASA
Late Model Championship in 2008 and holds the fastest time at Bristol
in a stock car. Dalton Zehr and Blake Lehr are both Florida drivers hunting
success by different paths, Ken Kinney has the pedal to the floor promoting
his new United Dirt Late Model Challenge Series, and Joe Linebarier is
warming up his chords for a new season at Volusia Speedway Park and with
Trackside Tonite! Give it a listen and let us know what you think.
SPECIAL
EVENT: United Dirt Late Model Challenge
Series LIVE from Ocala Speedway with Announcers Scott McAllister and Rick
Anges. February 29, 2008
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February
26, 2008 - Scott McAllister sits in for host Rick Anges in this major
preview of the first race of the United Dirt Late
Model Challenge Series and the return on Friday Feb 29 of Florida's
Ocala Speedway return to dirt racing. UDLMCS owner
Ken Kinney is in the spotlight in an in depth interview with one
of the brightest stars on the short track promotion scene. Other
guests include Ocala media writer BJ Cavin,
and drivers Evan Becton and Tyler Ivey. Ken
Kinney interview is 50 minutes, with Jack Smith and Scott McAllister delving
into what makes a good promoter tick.
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February 19, 2008 - 2 1/2 hours of lively interviews and information about
breaking news you won't find anywhere else. Real Racin' USA Live hosts
Rick Anges and Jack Smith talk with Toronto Motorsports
Park Race Director Neale Armstrong about the pending changes in
laws regarding leaded fuel that is about to drastically alter the future
of Canadian motorsports, and soon to have major impact on Americans as
well.
Also featured is "hot as fire" Jeff Choquette,
Florida racer on a remarkable roll in Super Late Models, Jim
Hanks from MUSTSEERACING.com
reviews the 42nd annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing, and
Valerie Thompson outlines her plan to break
the 7 sec mark on the NHRA motorcycle racing circuit and her awesome new
sponsor EYE-ON. Racing writer and historian Marty
Little reviews he recent Modified Reunion party held at New Smyrna
Speedway with the biggest names from the 60s and 70s. Co-host Skip Wall
joins Rick and Jack in a discussion with veteran
racer Lonnie Rush on the subject of the Hooters ProCup and the
expense versus reality factor of racing. Lonnie is sure to give most every
racer some well intentioned food for thought. Finally the remarkable promoter
of the AMP dirt late model series Christy Hudson along with the first
female driver to join the series Rachel York. Christy outlines her latest
plans and promotions for 2008 and Rachel talks about her racing career
and expectations for her first season in the AMP Series.
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February 12, 2008 -
Skip Wall's latest article " Has USAR Lost
Its Ways"
is discussed with this sometimes controverisal motorsports observer. Jerry
Binner, organizer of the Modified Reunion at New Smyrna Speedway, Megan
Reitneour of the Super Cup series, Blake Isenberg and Mason Mingus, racers
in Mini Cups and Baby Grand Late Models are featured. Allen Tippen is
moving to the AMP Dirt Late Model Series and his reasons why might be
something promoters might be advised to pay heed to.
NO SHOW FOR FEB 5, 2008
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January 29, 2008 - Guests include Travis Kittleson (Late Models, Craftsman
Trucks & Busch Series - this year moving to the ProCup Series) - Michelle
Theriault (ProCup, Busch East, ARCA) - Shane Sawyer off a 3rd place run
at Speedfest 2008 in Lakeland, Fl - Martin Pierce, Promoter and owner
of Huntsville Speedway, a bullring in Alabama. Also Larry Sams from the
American Sprint Car Series, ready to roar into action at East Bay Raceway
Park. Reporter Dave Westerman gives his look back at Speedfest 2008.
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January 22, 2008 -What a show for stock car buffs. Starts off with John
Kee (Marketing Director) from the ASA Southeast Tour (super late models)
with the best TV package of any short track late model series in the country
beginning in March. Joe Schmaling (Co-owner)from the SuperCup Series details
some of the reasons this steel bodied ProCup type car based series is
going to be a hit. Hint: it may have to do with some pretty cool women
drivers. Dennis Nixon joins in from South Georgia Motorsports Park in
his role as head of the short track operations at the multi-dimensional
facility. The North Carolina Motorsports Association is an idea whose
time finally came. Shawn Stewart explains the impact of racing on the
community and how North Carolina is preparing to turn the corner on bringing
short track racing out of the closet. Yes my friends IT IS STILL IN THE
CLOSET.....listen, you'll see. Two young talented and well spoken drivers
grace the show this evening. Blake Lehr (super late models) and Andy Zeuss
(Whelen Modifieds) are two young guns on the fast track to success, tune
in and find out what sets them apart..
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January 15, 2008 - Glenn Luckett (CRA Super Series) on the 2008 Speedfest
at Lakeland, news about Kyle Busch and possibly Ray Everham to race in
the event.
Randy Dye, host of the long running "Trackside Tonite" radio
show out of Daytona, Fl.
Ken Kinney updates fans on the United Dirt Late Model Challenge Series.
Skip Wall from Southern Motor Racing talks about the life and passing
of Herb Schoolfield, and the inspiration Herb's work in racing media.
Susan & Rick Auriemma talk about the successes of their Fast Mini
Cup Series and the heartache of peronal attacks from a media source.
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JANUARY 8, 2008 - Guests include Jim Hanks (co-owner of Must See Racing
which will broadcast live Internet TV from New Smyrna Speedway's World
Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing in February. Shannon McIntosh is set
to start her Dirt Late Model career under the guidance of Tony Izzo, Jr.
Things really get fired up when Guy Webb, President of the All Star Circuit
of Champions sprint car series, talks about the issues facing promoters
these days. Webb also is excited about the series event scheduled at North
Florida Speedway on Feb 1-2.
Frankie Lloyd, the promoter of Golden Isle Speedway in Georgia talks about
the $500,000 combined pirse Super Bowl of Racing coming to his track,
one of the biggest national dirt late model events of the year. "T-Bone"
Terry Wall is excited about the new NASCAR based fan call in show he and
Buck Bucklholz recently got started. Great Stuff!
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