Monthly Archives: April 2020

Jefferson, South Dakota Races.

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As mentioned in the previous post, Park Jefferson Speedway and The New Raceway Park held races over the weekend but without fans. The call was made to not have fans do to pressure from the community involving death threats towards the promoter. In my opinion, it was the right call to not have fans so the risk of an outbreak would be far smaller. Fans were still able to watch the dirt fly live on Speed Shift TV Saturday and Advantage Racing TV Sunday. Now the races itself was pretty good itself too. Brock Zearfoss from Jonestown, Pennsylvania took the win in the 410 Sprint car race Saturday night while Ricky Thornton Jr. of Adel, Iowa bested the field of IMCA Modifieds. Sunday night saw Anthony Clark from Omaha, Nebraska win the Sport Compact feature, Johnathon Logue from Logansport, Iowa win the Sports Mod, Sioux City, Iowa’s Craig Clift won the Hobby stock feature, Travis Barker out of Sioux City, Iowa won the Stock Car feature, and Ricky Thornton Jr. went back to back on the weekend besting the field of IMCA Modifieds.

  • Photo Credit: David Hill Photograph Artistry
Brock Zearfoss and crew in Victory Lane

Races to be held at Jefferson, SD

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Jefferson, South Dakota, towards the way southeast corner of the the state, is home to not one, but two race tracks. Park Jefferson Speedway, which is a 3/8th mile, semi banked dirt oval will feature the IMCA Modifieds and 410 Sprint Cars on Saturday, April 25th for their Open Wheel Nationals.

The following day the modified drivers will be able to just travel right across the road to race at The New Raceway Park which is a 1/4th mile gumbo dirt oval for their season opener. Also racing will be IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Northern Sports Mods, IMCA Hobby Stocks, and IMCA Sport Compacts. Both tracks have but a limit on the number of fans you can attend as well as driver entries. Also everyone will be required to wear a mask.

Kyle Larson Fired.

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Kyle Larson is a very well liked and respected race car driver. Some would say the 27 year old NASCAR phenom is only now entering the prime of his career after joining the cup series in 2014 when he won Rookie of the Year with Chip Ganassi Racing and has been with them ever since. Kyle came up through the racing ranks starting in a sprint car which is ran on dirt so that is where he has my respect from. With this whole pandemic going on all sporting events have came to a halt… including racing. There has been an alternative however to fuel the need for speed in “Iracing”, which is an online racing simulator game. In the latest online racing event, Larson was under the impression his mic wasn’t working and let out a racial slur comment. Well his mic was indeed working so the whole world heard him say “hey n****r” on live broadcast. Larson almost immediately lost his McDonald’s, Credit One Bank, Clover and Chevrolet sponsors. The sponsors will however continue to work with Chip Ganassi Racing. On April 14, 2020, Chip Ganassi Racing announced they are parting ways with Larson. Larson has made an apology video via Twitter and is required by NASCAR to take sensitivity training before he can return from his indefinite suspension.

Kyle Larson’s apology video.

My Experience During the Corona Virus.

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I never used to be one to worry about much growing up. Being raised on a farm near a small town doesn’t present to many things to cause anxiety. This Virus literally came during the worst time possible for me personally. I just changed my major in January of 2020 and was really getting comfortable with my new classes. Also I’m a huge sports fan so I was really looking forward to watching my Oregon Ducks bring home the titles this year. Now I’m okay with all the online classes and well I already know the Ducks were going to cut down the nets. Also I had pretty much been social distancing for the past 20 years of being a home body. Hey, at least I still have racing to look forward to… they can’t cancel the race season. Oh but they pretty much did. This is when it became personal, Corona went to far. In a way to sum up all of the clutter above, I’m back home with my family, board as heck and got nothing to look forward to. Thanks China.

Brown County Speedway Revamped!

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Brown County Speedway is under new management for this coming 2020 race season and the racing community has reason to be excited. During the last 5 to 10 years of racing at the speedway there has been many different promoters bringing along many different inconsistencies. Brown County Speedway is actually owned by the Brown county so promoters don’t know how long they may have the track. This inconvenience has discouraged past promoters to make an investment in the track to make improvements. With all this being said the new promoters instantly started to make major improvements to the track by bringing in new dirt and reshaping the track back to it’s old glory.

Action shot at Brown County Speedway by John Davis