Courtesy of Chick-O-Motorsports.com

PENNGROVE, CA (7-24-10) – In any sport, hard work, determination and perseverance routinely pays off. Penngrove sprint car racer Alissa Geving is witnessing the truth of that philosophy as she nears the completion of the 2010 Golden State Challenge Sprint Car Series. After a night of great success last weekend, Geving has officially advanced in the top five point standings of the competitive King of California Sprint Car Series.

“When I made the decision to run this series for the year my main goal was to get into the top five in the point standings,” said Geving. “I’ve made it to that goal. Now we just have to give it our all in the next two races and hold on to it. I’d really like to thank my team and crew for all their hard work lately. Our recent race was one of our strongest runs and I have them to thank for it, the car was just great at Marysville.”

For the first time in her racing career, Geving competed at the quarter-mile Marysville Raceway Park in Marysville, Calforinia last Saturday night. The event marked Geving’s first ever start at the north state facility and it was the first time in nearly a decade that the Golden State Challenge Series competed at the track. After many improvements to the facility in recent years, a total of 24 cars showed up to an exciting night of 410 sprint car racing. Read More

By Bill Sullivan, Chicko Motorsports Media 

PENNGROVE, CA (6-19-10) – Following several months on the road, Penngrove’s Alissa Geving enjoyed the opportunity to race close to home last Saturday night as a break permitted her to return to the likes of Petaluma Speedway. The venue was the annual United States Auto Club-CRA Wingless Sprint Car night at the 3/8 mile dirt track located on the Sonoma-Marin County Fairgrounds.

Returning from Western Speedweek in the Pacific Northwest on Wednesday afternoon, Geving’s Chicko Motorsports Team went to work to prepare for two nights of wingless racing with the USAC Series. A last minute decision took the team to Watsonville on Friday night to prep for Saturday’s return to Petaluma Speedway in an event that Geving nearly won the previous year. Read More

PENNGROVE, CA (5-1-10) – Two time Petaluma Speedway champion Alissa Geving of Penngrove continued her campaign in the 2010 Golden State Challenge King of California Sprint Car Series Saturday night. For the first time in her racing career, Geving took to the fast bullring Santa Maria Speedway in Nipomo, California for the sixth round of the traveling series for 410 sprint cars.

In her first venture on the high banks of Santa Maria, Geving was amidst one of her strongest runs of the year in the Golden State Series but a mechanical woe forced her our of the 30-lapo feature event just after the green flag. Despite the disappointment for the 18-year-old open wheel ace and her team, Geving still advanced in the series point standings.

In qualifying on Saturday night, Geving clocked in the seventh position, turning an impressive 14:042 second lap. The strong qualifying lap positioned her to later compete in the prestigious dash midway through the program to determine the fate of her starting position in the 30-lap A-feature. Read More

Anyone who knows Alissa Geving knows that she is an overachiever that simply never gives up, even in times where it seems that doing so is to no avail. Last Saturday night such was the case as Geving was faced with adversities from the first green flag of the night in round four of the Golden State Challenge Series. For Geving, the mechanical woes shadowed her return to her hometown track of Petaluma Speedway but once again, the 18-year old resident of Penngrove never gave up.

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Nation’s youngest female champion invited to pre-race meet and greet in downtown Placerville

PLACERVILLE, CA (3-27-10) – After strapping into a sprint car for the first time of the season one week ago, 18-year-old Alissa Geving will return to the high banks of Placerville Speedway this Saturday night for another high profile series opener.

Geving will be behind the wheel of her 410 cubic inch powered Tillet Tool-Matt Cordeiro Enterprises-Pit Stop USA sprint car for Saturday’s Golden State Challenge Series opener at Placerville Speedway. The Golden State Challenge is California’s premier race series for fire breathing 410 sprint cars. For Geving, a busy schedule in the year to come prevents her from competing in the popular campaign and two time Petaluma All Pro Series champion is looking forward to another night on the Placerville bullring.

“Last week I was feeling really good at Placerville, the set up on the car felt right and I was really focused on starting a new year ,” said Geving, who started her year in the Civil War 360 sprint car series last week. “It just seemed like I was always in the right place at just the wrong time throughout the night and I got caught up in a couple of incidents in the feature that ended our night.”

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16-year old third generation driver becomes youngest female to ever win a sprint car championship title

PETALUMA, CA – Alissa Geving grew up in the sport of sprint car racing. On Saturday nights she sat in the grandstands near turn four with her mother Melissa and cheered her father, the competitive Gary Geving, to numerous wins and championships at Petaluma Speedway. When she wasn’t at the track she was helping her hero work on his #3x sprint car at their family home. Since those early childhood days Geving dreamed of one day becoming a sprint car champion like her father. Saturday night, Geving’s dream became reality when she officially locked the 2008 All Pro Points Series championship at Petaluma Speedway. Read More

PENNGROVE, CA (5-25-08) – Sixteen year-old Alissa Geving returned to the likes of Silver Dollar Speedway for two consecutive nights of racing over the Memorial Day weekend. The double header event took place beneath the backdrop of the annual Silver Dollar Fair, an event Geving and the Chicko Motorsports team all look forward and concluded their weekend with a 13th place finish and advancement in the competitive Civil War Sprint Car Series.

After using Saturday’s non-points event to test and tune her new 2008 Pit Stop USA, Matt Cordeiro Enterprises Maxim Sprint Car, Geving’s highlight of the two day weekend was Sunday’s Hoosier Racing Tires Civil War Sprint Car Series event, the fourth segment of a 15-race series that competes at six different California Speedway’s throughout the season.

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PETALUMA, CA (3-29-08) – Penngrove’s Alissa Geving returned to her home track of Petaluma Speedway Saturday night for the opening round of the 2008 All Pro point series at Petaluma Speedway. Despite a number of adversities in preliminary competition, Geving used patience and skill to charge her way to another impressive top three finish at the conclusion of the night aboard the Chick-O-Motorsports – Pit Stop USA #3 sprint car…. Read More

Her ascendancy continues. Penngrove’s Alissa Geving was given the prestigious Paul Tyler Rising Star award Wednesday night by the Motor Sports Press Association (MSPA) for her achievements during the 2007 Sprint Car season.

Geving, 16 and a junior at Ursuline High School, won four main events on dirt tracks in 2007, her first full season in Sprint Cars. Winning two events in Antioch, Geving finished the season in second place there, just eight points away from winning it. She won two main events at the Petaluma dirt track. She also won five heats and a top five season-ending placement at Petaluma. She was named Rookie of the Year at both Antioch and Petaluma tracks.

The highlight of her 2007 season, however, was not finishing first but finishing ninth out of 45 drivers last July at the half-mile Calistoga track. Calistoga runs only two races a year there, as drivers reach 150 miles an hour down the straightaway. It is regarded as the fastest dirt track in California. It is an intimidating track that has attracted and challenged veteran racers for years. Geving managed to win the B-feature event and finished ninth in the A-feature.

In order to win the award, named after a legendary motor sports photographer who befriended countless young racers, the qualifications were simple. The nominee had to be 18 years of age or younger and, according to MSPA by-laws, had to achieve something “phenomenal” during a race season. Did she?

“Oh, my, yes,” said Beth Gribbin, MSPA president of the state-wide organization that honors dirt racers along with motorcycle and open-wheel drivers.

The awards ceremony — the MSPA’s 45th annual postseason Awards and Green Flag dinner — was held at an Oakland restaurant and featured nine other award winners. None, however, were women, just as Geving was the only female competing in Sprint Cars in 2007, as has been her usual experience.

Fifteen at the time Geving is the youngest female driver ever to win a Sprint Car feature event.

Geving, who maintains a 4.14 grade point average at Ursuline while taking all Advance Placement courses, will now step up to the ultra-competitive Civil War Series. The Civil War Series offers bigger, faster cars, 360 cubic sprints. More than $100,000 is available in combined winnings and championship funds at six different tracks for a total of 15 events.

The Civil War Series allows Geving to maintain her Petaluma Speedway weekly schedule, the Civil War Series’ 15 events run on different weekends. One of 40 drivers to compete in the Civil War Series, Geving would like to win Rookie of the Year honors, an award almost as significant as winning the series.

Geving’s first Civil War series race is March 15th at Placerville Speedway.