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If the pre-entry list is any indication, Saturday’s Champion Racing Association (CRA) Super Series Super Late Model event is going to produce plenty of thrills for fans attending the season-opening race at Gresham Motorsports Park in Jefferson this Saturday.

A total of 27 Super Late Model teams and drivers have already entered the 125-lap event with several others expected to be on hand with the 2010 season takes the green flag this Saturday.

A longtime staple of the Gresham facility when it was known as Jefco, Georgia International and Peach State Speedways, Saturday’s race will mark the first time the Super Late Models have competed at GMP since 2008. [Full Story »] 

After taking command around lap 150, NASCAR Sprint Cup series regular Kyle Busch set sail and never looked back as he cruised to his second straight SpeedFest Super Late Model victory at Lanier National Speedway Sunday.

Busch held off charges from pole sitter and NASCAR Nationwide series regular Steven Wallace and from Georgia racer Bubba Pollard to take the victory. [Full Story »] 

Lanier National Speedway will play host this weekend to the 2010 Speedfest Late Model event, being held Saturday and Sunday January 30 and 31.

Speedfest is the year’s first big short-track stock car event attracting drivers from all over the country. This event has attracted some of NASCAR’s biggest stars over the years. The event, which was originally held at Lakeland Speedway in Florida, moved to Lanier in 2009. [Full Story »] 

Gresham Motorsports Park has announced its 2010 stock car racing schedule - a mix of national, regional and local events – to be contested on the facility’s all-new half-mile oval.

Headlining the 12-race calendar is a NASCAR Camping World Series East race on Saturday, August 28. The event marks a return of NASCAR to the track that originally opened with a NASCAR Late Model Sportsman (now Nationwide) race in 1967. [Full Story »] 

Gresham Motorsports Park added some sizzle to its 2010 schedule last week with the announcement that the totally renovated facility would play host to a NASCAR Camping World Series East event next season.

According to Gresham Motorsports Park general manager Dan Elliott, the Camping World Series East race will mark the return of NASCAR to the historic half-mile Georgia oval on Saturday, August 28, 2010. [Full Story »] 

Several local charities and community agencies will be the big winners at the Gresham Motorsports Park Grand Opening free community festival this Saturday, November 7.

Multiple events at the totally refurbished Gresham Motorsports Park facility will raise funds, food and toys for several local groups that day, according to GMP General Manager Dan Elliott. [Full Story »] 

For a while, it looked like Casey Roderick had picked up his second GAS series win Saturday night at Lanier National Speedway.

But after failing post-race tech, Braselton’s Shane Sawyer inherited the win, his first GAS victory of 2009.

“I really hate it for Casey,” said Sawyer. “We have lost some that way as well. This isn’t the way that I wanted to win tonight’s race, but a win is a win.” [Full Story »] 

Braselton’s Shane Sawyer started up front and finished in the same place, recording another Pro Late Model victory at Lanier National Speedway Saturday night.

Sawyer fell back on the drop of the green flag, and then charged back to take the lead on the fourth lap. He would lead the next 46 circuits to take the victory.

It was a double race night for the truck division, as it was a make-up night for last week’s rain out. Kristin Wallace recorded her first win of the year in one race, while Paul Antley recorded his seventh victory of 2009 in the other. [Full Story »] 

No matter how hard it rained Saturday, it wasn’t going to ruin Casey Roderick’s parade.

The Lawrenceville native was out front in the GAS series event at Lanier National Speedway when the skies opened up on lap 88 of the 100-lap Pro Late Model event. When the event was called due to the rain, that gave Roderick his first career GAS series win.

Roderick, piloting the number 19 Bill Elliott Motorsports Ford, started on the outside of the front row, alongside Bill Elliott’s son, Chase, who is also Roderick’s teammate. [Full Story »]