By Robert Haugh

Having clinched the Bay Cities Racing Association Dirt championship prior to the final
BCRA Dirt race -- becoming the first female to win a major Midget championship,
Shannon McQueen collected her championship accolades at the BCRA awards banquet
in Stockton, CA on January 28.

In addition to decisively claiming the BCRA Dirt driver and Dirt car owner’s titles,
McQueen also claimed fourth overall in driver’s points and sixth overall in owner’s
points, as well as receiving the best appearing car award.

In 13 BCRA races, McQueen finished in the Top 10 every race, with 12 Top five runs,
including a feature victory at Marysville Raceway Park on April 16, five Heat race wins,
Trophy Dash win and two fast time awards, including a new track record at Silver Dollar
Speedway (August 5). McQueen amassed six second-place finishes and nine Top 3 runs.

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SACRAMENTO, CA (January 17, 2012) – The annual talent search known as The Shoot-Out always sorts out the top talented young drivers from across the nation.  Making the Shoot-Out is an honor in itself. Winning the Shoot-Out and earning a spot in Ron Sutton’s Winner’s Circle driver development program, along with big sponsorship dollars, is the goal.

In the previous year’s Shoot-Out 14 of the 933 drivers that applied made the cut. This year only 9 super talented young drivers won spots from the 965 applicants for the RSWC program and Star Racing Supply sponsorship dollars. “We had slightly more apply for 2012, however we were simply more selective in this year’s Shoot-Out,” stated RSWC Owner Ron Sutton.

With the driver search complete, nine new talented drivers coming from all over the US will join the returning 11 drivers from last year’s RSWC driver roster. These 20 drivers, each with $6,000 to $25,000 of sponsorship dollars from Star Racing Supply, will train and race with the RSWC driver development program with the goal of working their way up the ladder to professional stock car careers. Each driver stood out uniquely and drove impressively in the Shoot-Out to earn a position in the RSWC program.(...)
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K&N PRO SERIES WEST

Source — GSR Racing

Date Posted — January 12, 2012

Cassie Gannis will return with GSR Racing for a full season and make a run for

RTY honors. 17- year old Trevor Cristiani will be Cassie’s teammate and will make

his K&N racing debut and will also make a run for RTY honors. Greg Rayl, last

year’s full time driver for GSR, will be stepping out of the driver’s seat to play a

role of car chief/crew chief for both teams. “We had a great 2011 season improving

from 12th in points in 2010 to 11th in 2011”. Greg said, “Winning the NASCAR

sportsmanship award in 2010 was the highlight of my K&N career, but finishing a

couple races in the top ten this year came real close”!

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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. – January 12, 2012) – Brian Keselowski Motorsports has announced that Sloan Henderson will drive the No. 29 Dodge in the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 at Daytona International Speedway.

“This offseason has been anything but an offseason,” Keselowski said in a team press release. “We worked really hard to put things together and kick off this new venture. We really look forward to working with Sloan and will do everything in our efforts to help her launch her racing career in the right direction. I was very happy with her performance during our testing session and I am confident that she will put her best efforts into our team as well for a great outcome.”

Keselowski, owner and driver of the K-Automotive Motorsports No. 92 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team, is now the proud owner of Brian Keselowski Motorsports (BKM), fielding race cars in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards (No. 29 and No. 92) and in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and West (car numbers TBA) with new up-and-coming drivers, providing them their start into stock car racing.

K-Automotive Motorsports will continue to be the primary company for Keselowski’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series efforts in the future.

Said Henderson: “I’m truly blessed to have this opportunity to work with BKM and run in the ARCA Racing Series Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 at Daytona International Speedway. After a great test session with the team, I’m excited about the possibility and feel comfortable that we can do very well.”(...)
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Johanna Long will drive the ML Motorsports No. 70 car in the Nationwide Series for 21 races in 2012, the team announced Thursday.

Long will drive for Mary Louise Miller, one of the few female team owners in NASCAR. The car will have sponsorship from Biomet and Foretravel Motorcoach.

Long, who has competed in 24 races in the Camping World Truck Series with a best finish of 11th at Texas last June, will compete for Nationwide rookie of the year. Her 21-race schedule begins with the season-opening event at Daytona.

The 19-year-old Long won the 2010 Snowball Derby Late Model race and has primarily run for her family-owned team.(...)
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Daytona Beach, Florida (Jan 3, 2012) Leilani Münter, race car driver and passionate environmentalist, is bearing down on her goal of driving a “The Cove” themed race car at Daytona International Speedway, arguably one of the most famous race car tracks in the world. The ARCA race at Daytona is February 18 and will air live on SPEED television, which is available in 79 million homes. This will be the first ever ocean awareness themed race car to race the high banks of Daytona. Münter is seeking corporate and philanthropic donations for the remaining funds required, which is $30,000. Leilani has already raised $15,000 in donations prior to this story. To make a tax deductible donation, please visit opsociety.org/securedonation.htm and be sure to write “For Daytona” in the notes.

The Academy-Award winning documentary “The Cove” exposes the annual slaughter of thousands of dolphins in a small cove in Taiji, Japan. It also exposed the undeniable connection between dolphin parks and dolphin captivity, and the largest slaughter of dolphins in the world.  ”The Cove forever changed me. I know race fans will respond to it, they just need to know about it,” said Münter. “The race falls on my birthday, and my greatest wish is to end the slaughter and the ongoing abuse of these beautiful ocean creatures.”

This campaign in designed to educate and engage 75 million race fans in the United States. Director of “The Cove” Louie Psihoyos has committed to giving away 1000 DVDs of “The Cove” at the race, and in addition, will be in attendance for the race alongside dolphin activist Ric O’Barry autographing DVDs of the film. People donating $50 or more will be entered into a raffle to win two pit passes for the Daytona race and two other lucky fans will win two garage passes each. Münter will be wearing a helmet painted for “The Cove” during the race, which will then be auctioned off with all the proceeds going to Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project to continue the fight on the ground in Taiji. To donate to “The Cove’s” awareness campaign at Daytona,click here and be sure to write “For Daytona” in the notes. (...)
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Christmas, Hanukkah 2011

Dear Friends, Family, and Fans:

I want to take this opportunity to send you and yours my warmest wishes for a holiday season filled with much love and wonder. For many of us, this year has been filled with a variety of emotions. We’ve had challenges to be sure, but we’ve also had moments of great warmth, happiness, laughter and adventure. I send you my deepest thanks and immense gratitude for being there for me in all of them!

Together we’ve shared in community outreach work. The opportunity to meet and work with many wonderful, gifted, strong, and courageous people, dedicated to the support and continued growth of charitable and service organizations has been the highlight of 2011. From the 101 Days of Summer, which brings programs of interest and education to our brothers and sisters in the military, to the Be The Match, Breath of Life and Hope Kids organizations, the energy and commitment of those involved in this work is the stuff life is made out of!! Through this work, I have learned about the strength of the human spirit and the power of hope. Thank you for this!! I look forward to many more adventures with all of you!(...)
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She is a Wallace. Therefore she races.

It’s almost that simple.

Chrissy Wallace is the 23-year-old daughter of Mike Wallace. Mike is one of three Midwestern brothers – along with Rusty and Kenny – who rolled south to score varying levels of success in NASCAR. His two brothers now represent the sedate side (Rusty) and the animated side (Kenny) of racing television.

Before them, there was Russ, the recently deceased family patriarch who started the whole Wallace racing thing and had mild success while giving his sons a foundation upon which to build.

Chrissy is the latest to try to turn four wheels into fame and dollars. This all might have seemed a passing fancy in her teenage years, but she’s quite serious about it. She gave up a college softball scholarship to make a go at running in circles.

Despite proving her abilities at lower levels, and despite an effervescent personality that makes her instantly the star of the room, Wallace is finding the going difficult as she tries to gain a foothold either at the lower rungs of NASCAR or in the wide open spaces of ARCA.

The problem is the pox that has hit many – from the mighty to the minors. Sponsorship money. Or, more accurately, the lack of it.(...)
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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (December 12, 2011) – Alli Owens is back. The new mother will return behind the wheel of Andy Belmont’s No. 1 BABY JOCK-sponsored car for ARCA Series testing at Daytona International Speedway December 16-18. The session will mark Owens’ first time on a race track since February 2011.

Owens decided to take the 2011 season off to get married and start a family. In October she gave birth to a healthy baby girl named Braelynn and is anxious to get back in the seat of a competitive race car for 2012.

“I can’t put into words how great it feels to know that I’ll be testing at Daytona,” Owens said. “I’ve been so anxious to return to the track. Now that I’m settled in with being a wife and mother, it’s time for me to go racing again. I’m so excited to be a mom and get back in the driver’s seat.

“While I was away, I did everything I possibly could to prepare for my return. I’ve been exercising and working on my fitness so that I’ll be at the top of my game. I’ve been calling on companies and organizations to secure a sponsorship. Hopefully it will all come together.”(...)
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Last week at PRI (full blog about that soon) GoRacingTV.com interviewed three of the lovely ladies we cover here on the site. Click below to watch them. There is several interviews with other people on there as well you can skip over them if you like.

Beth Chryst

Sloan Henderson

Collete Davis

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