Justin Davis powers to Midnight Special victory under the lights
By Mike Henle – Special to SNORE The KC HiLites-sponsored Midnight Special off-road race is again in the books after its journey into the darkness of Southern Nevada July 24-25, and as usual, the Southern Nevada Off-Road Enthusiast (SNORE) group went home feeling good about themselves – and for good reason. You see, while off-road […]
Mark Martin may have lost at Craig Road, But he won big-time at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
The year was 1977 and Craig Road Speedway was a buzz of activity. The annual Fall Open competition event had lured an estimated 200 top-top notch stock cars from all over the country. The Fall Open Competition had drivers from Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Wisconsin, Utah, Canada, Colorado and Oregon, to name a few. A tiny […]
So, what happened to the old fans of Craig Road Speedway?
When Craig Road Speedway died in 1983, the victim of a sudden economic collapse, endless people that had spent long hours frequenting the track must have felt as though they had been kicked to the curb. Started clear back in the 1960s, CRS was a home-away-from-home every weekend from Easter all the way into October […]
Vegas short track racing at CRS had great times during the era of the 1960s until the 1980s
When I was a young Las Vegas sports writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in the late 1970s, I loved every minute of the beat simply because I’m a nut for motorsports. No matter what the phase of motorsports, I covered the event. No matter, I was eager to tell the world about an auto […]