Posts Tagged ‘Tanner Klingele’
As curtain closes on dirt track season, attention turns to prepping Quincy Raceways for 2025
QUINCY — One season ends, another begins. The final checkered flag Sunday night simultaneously marked the end of the dirt-track racing season at Quincy Raceways and the beginning of what promises to be an interesting offseason at 8000 Broadway. New track owner Jeff DeLonjay, who with wife Renee bought the track about two months ago…
Read MoreBecerra completes three-peat with modified track championship, Klingele wins first sport mod crown
QUINCY — Austen Becerra provided the perfect punctuation for his three-peat. Becerra rallied in the closing laps to both get past and turn back a trio of challengers in Sunday night’s modified feature, capping his latest run to a track title with a slam-bang win in the main event on Championship Night at Adams County…
Read MoreRacing notebook: Adams County Speedway to crown track champions in all six classes Sunday
QUINCY — In his position as co-promoter of the Adams County Speedway, Jim Lieurance is constantly thinking about the future and planning ahead. But he’s currently trying to put the brakes on that mindset and simply enjoy the final weeks of the 2024 season. “It’s been a good year, and I’m trying not to think…
Read More‘It’s all about momentum’: Havermale captures first crate late model feature victory
QUINCY — Spencer Havermale is a quick learner. “There are no slouches in this division,” Havermale said following his first two weeks in the crate late model series at Adams County Speedway. And even though Havermale is only in his first season in a crate late, the Quincy driver has already earned the right to…
Read More‘Open the flood gates’: Klingele wins first sport mod feature of Adams County Speedway season
QUINCY — Tanner Klingele has come oh-so-close to that elusive first sport mod title, but has yet to raise a championship trophy. Four times in the last nine years he has finished runner-up in the points standings at Adams County Speedway. He has knocked on the door virtually every season since the inception of the…
Read MoreSuccess of sprint cars could lead to more dates at Adams County Speedway on future schedules
QUINCY — Paul Nienhiser’s comment might wind up proving prophetic. Nienhiser, one of the Midwest’s more accomplished sprint-car drivers, won Sunday night’s Sprint Invaders feature at Adams County Speedway. “Hopefully, we can race more in Quincy,” Nienhiser said after his relatively easy flag-to-flag dominance in the 25-lap main event. Nienhiser, who has been racing in…
Read MoreTaking the high road: Klingele’s sling shot coming out of turn four leads to sport mod victory
QUINCY — Tanner Klingele says it’s one thing to reach the proverbial mountain top, but staying there is another story in itself. Klingele, the points leader in the super-competitive sport mod division at Adams County Speedway, solidified his No. 1 position Sunday night with a thrilling — and that’s likely a major understatement — victory…
Read MoreMeet-and-greet allows race fans to become as excited as drivers for upcoming Speedway season
QUINCY — The excitement in Tanner Klingele’s voice made it perfectly clear the dirt-track racing season is drawing close. Klingele, who will be a contender in the rugged sport mod class at Adams County Speedway, was one of the drivers on hand Saturday at the first day of the annual preseason race show at the…
Read MoreKlingele captures career-best fourth feature victory of season in sport mod division
QUINCY — Looking back, Tanner Klingele will readily admit there are some feature finishes he would like to have the opportunity for a do over. Specifically, two finishes. Only twice this year has the 27-year-old sport mod driver wound up outside the top 10 in the series’ 15 main events at Adams County Speedway. And…
Read MoreKlingele, Girard score feature victories in highly competitive sport mods class at Speedway
QUINCY — The sport mods arguably have been the most competitive class this season at Adams County Speedway. Sunday night — and early Monday morning — helped cement that claim. Tanner Klingele and Dakota Girard collected sport mod feature victories before an appreciative July 4 weekend gathering that saw six classes and a whopping 103…
Read MoreKlingele shows high way can be right way to victory at Adams County Speedway
QUINCY — Tanner Klingele was living the high life. Literally. Normally, the 27-year-old driver prefers to work his way around the low groove at Adams County Speedway, but Sunday night saw Klingele take to the high line to eventually outlast Adam Birck, Joe Bliven and Nicholas Profeta in a dandy four-car battle for the checkered…
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