~ By Tom Boggie Fans who haven’t followed Joe Williams’ racing career might have been a little perplexed by his comments last Sunday after winning the opening-night sportsman feature at Albany-Saratoga Speedway. “I killed them on the blacktop here,” he … Continue reading →
~ By Tom Boggie No matter how hard I try, it seems like every time I write about Kim Duell, it turns into a history lesson. I talked to Kim last Friday at Albany-Saratoga Speedway’s practice session, and stayed focused … Continue reading →
~ By Tom Boggie There’s an idiom that states you can’t keep a good man down. That’s why I think Ken Tremont Jr. is going to have a bounce-back year at Albany-Saratoga Speedway. The 13-time modified champion at Malta is … Continue reading →
~ By Tom Boggie Turn out the lights, the party’s over. Yeah, I realize there’s still some dirt track races to be run, but as far as I’m concerned, the Eastern States 200 pulled the curtain on the 2020 racing … Continue reading →
~ By Tom Boggie The more things change, the more they stay the same. Remember the 2019 racing season? Cars at Albany-Saratoga Speedway parked out to Route 9 on a Friday night. A record 22 consecutive nights of racing. The … Continue reading →
~ By Tom Boggie Who would have thought that the biggest story coming out of the six-night DIRTcar OktoberFAST series would be a debate about bump stops? Mike Mahaney, the 2020 Albany-Saratoga modified champion, was coasting along in OktoberFAST. After … Continue reading →
~ By Tom Boggie One of the first lessons you learn as a journalist is that there’s no cheering in the pressbox. Sportswriters are supposed to be impartial observers, reporting what they see, not how they feel. So, no rooting … Continue reading →
~ By Tom Boggie Can he do it again? That’s the big question when DIRTcar’s six-race OktoberFAST series kicks off at Albany-Saratoga Speedway on Tuesday. Can Demetrios Drellos, “The Greek Streak”, pull off another big upset? The Queensbury driver stunned … Continue reading →
~ By Tom Boggie When Josh Coonradt was standing in victory lane at Albany-Saratoga Speedway last Friday after winning the final pro stock feature of the regular season, I asked him if he was disappointed because he didn’t successfully defend … Continue reading →
~ By Tom Boggie Let’s play a little game. It’s called which of these things is not like the others? Your choices are Stewart Friesen, Mat Williamson and Andrew Buff. If you said Andrew Buff, you’re wrong. Actually, it was … Continue reading →