Archive for category: Featured News

  • Valley’s teachers trade chalk for asphalt, race at Meridian Speedway

    Valley’s teachers trade chalk for asphalt, race at Meridian Speedway

    Featured News May 16, 2013 7:13 pm no comments

    by Jon Brown, MERIDIAN, Idaho – As a teacher, Nathan Dearing is not only shaping young minds in the classroom, he’s building a fan base at ASA-sanctioned Meridian Speedway. One of several running gags among the speedway’s announcer JT Thomas and Brent Arte is that Dearing’s fifth-graders from Boise’s Hillcrest [...]

     
  • Barton sweeps to Project Filter All-Star Challenge win at Meridian

    Barton sweeps to Project Filter All-Star Challenge win at Meridian

    Featured News May 12, 2013 2:57 pm no comments

    by Jon Brown, MERIDIAN, Idaho – Joe Barton redefined dominance Saturday night after winning the Project Filter All-Star Challenge. “Sometimes you’ve got to be lucky,” the Nampa, Idaho racecar driver said after winning the perpetual trophy for the third time in its five-year history at ASA-sanctioned Meridian Speedway. Following Barton’s [...]

     
  • Caldwell collects another victory at Meridian Speedway

    Caldwell collects another victory at Meridian Speedway

    Featured News May 12, 2013 6:54 am no comments

    by Jon Brown, MERIDIAN, Idaho – Dylan Caldwell didn’t want to be left out Saturday night at ASA-sanctioned Meridian Speedway. Even though he didn’t have the best qualifying time, he found a way to be in the right place at the right time at the end of the night, winning [...]

     
  • Segment race challenges Pro-4s during Meridian’s military appreciation night

    Segment race challenges Pro-4s during Meridian’s military appreciation night

    Featured News May 9, 2013 3:03 am no comments

    by Jon Brown, MERIDIAN, Idaho – Saturday’s Project Filter Pro-4 All-Star Challenge shapes up as a test of man and machine each year — just how the sponsor likes it. Kenny Chandler also seems to be up for the challenge no matter how the format at ASA-sanctioned Meridian Speedway changes through [...]

     
  • Legends champ gets off on the right foot at Meridian

    Legends champ gets off on the right foot at Meridian

    Featured News May 5, 2013 3:52 pm no comments

    by Jon Brown, MERIDIAN, Idaho – Phyl Zubizareta started 2013 at ASA-sanctioned Meridian Speedway the way he finished off last season. Out in front. The reigning Domino’s Pizza Legends champion shot to the lead after the two drivers in front of him tangled with 16 laps remaining the season-opening 40-lap [...]

     
  • Mechanical problems end lengthy win streak at Meridian Speedway

    Mechanical problems end lengthy win streak at Meridian Speedway

    Featured News May 5, 2013 2:53 pm no comments

    by Jon Brown, MERIDIAN, Idaho – Even the guy who ended Shelby Stroebel’s 18-race winning streak at ASA-sanctioned Meridian Speedway seemed a little remorseful Saturday night. “That’s certainly not the way we wanted to take the win away from Stroebel,” Nampa, Idaho’s Jentry Pisca said. “That was bad luck. What [...]

     
  • Tillman tackles next goal — Legends championship at Meridian

    Tillman tackles next goal — Legends championship at Meridian

    Featured News, News May 2, 2013 10:41 pm no comments

    MERIDIAN, Idaho – The rivalry continues with a renewed fervor Saturday when the Domino’s Pizza Legends racing season opens at ASA-sanctioned Meridian Speedway. Casey Tillman of Kuna, Idaho, has set his sights on a division championship this season. That quest begins this weekend, and will include a pursuit of reigning [...]

     
  • Pavlacky flies to Heath Memorial title at Meridian Speedway

    Pavlacky flies to Heath Memorial title at Meridian Speedway

    Featured News April 28, 2013 6:47 am no comments

    By Jon Brown, MERIDIAN, Idaho – The Animal’s family turned out Saturday – all 2,000-plus of them. Forty-five Tates Hornets drivers, 2,000 fans and a pits packed full of people with good memories of the Master of Disaster Art Heath, strapped in for the Art Heath Memorial Hornet Enduro 200 [...]

     
  • Meridian Speedway remembers Nampa racer with Hornet Enduro

    Meridian Speedway remembers Nampa racer with Hornet Enduro

    Featured News April 27, 2013 1:51 am no comments

    MERIDIAN, Idaho – It’s a well-established fact that local auto racing is a fraternity. No matter what the rivalries or what the beefs, racers will help racers when the time comes. The “family” at ASA-sanctioned Meridian Speedway is no different, and many racers, crewmembers and others have come together to [...]

     
  • WESCO Sprintcar Season Kicks Off

    WESCO Sprintcar Season Kicks Off

    Featured News April 25, 2013 4:44 am no comments

    The 2013 season championship is up for grabs with defending series champion Tony Berry only committed to a partial schedule. The two leading front runners happen to come out of the same McLees Racing stable; five-time WESCO Champion, Doug McLees and 2012 Rookie of the Year and points runner up, [...]