TQ Midget, Slingshot, Champ Kart Drivers In Town For First Weekend Races At Times Union Center In Downtown Albany; Track Construction Complete, Justin Bonsignore, Erick Rudolph To Fight For Indoor Auto Racing Series Season Championship Over Two Days Of Racing

admin2018-02-08T22:27:03-05:00ALBANY, NY – The elaborate reconfiguration of the Times Union Center Arena from a comedian’s stage to a competitive car racing track took place over the course of Thursday, Feb. 8, and now is readiness for the green flag to drop Friday, Feb. 9 and Sat., Feb. 10. The applause had barely died down from ventriloquist-comedian Jeff Dunham’s performance when four truckloads of concrete barriers were brought onto the arena floor, marking the course for the historic race meet. A small army...

Albany-Saratoga Speedway Dirt Modified Racer Marc Johnson To Drive TQ Midget At Times Union Arena This Weekend; Demetrious Drellos Is Slingshot Entrant; Champ Kart Class Added

admin2018-02-06T01:35:49-05:00ALBANY, NY - Marc Johnson, the 2016 Modified champion at Albany-Saratoga Speedway, has entered the Indoor Auto Racing Series Fueled By VP Racing Fuels TQ Midget competition this coming weekend, February 9-10, 2018 at the Times Union Center in downtown Albany, N.Y. Johnson will be driving the highly regarded Sharpe-Shifter Motorsports No. 21 TQ Midget owned by Ken Sebring. The effort will be supported by BOSS Mechanical. “It’s a great opportunity for me to race in front of a hometown crowd,” Johnson said. “I’ve never run...

Tidaback Remains Critical After Atlantic City Crash; TQ Racer Brandon Azzalina, Kart Driver Cameron Carter Released From AC Hospital

admin2018-02-03T18:48:26-05:00ATLANTIC CITY, NY - Two of the three drivers who were injured over the January 26-27 weekend at the Indoor Auto Racing Series events in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall have been released from the hospital. Driver Mike Tidaback, 50 of Brick, N.J., remains hospitalized. “Mike Tidaback is in critical condition at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Atlantic City Campus,” reports Jennifer Tornetta, director of Media Relations at the hospital. “His family has asked that we extend its thanks for the support and concern...

Albany Racers // Trailer Parking and Schedules

admin2018-02-01T22:34:11-05:00Racers competing at Albany - Thank you for your TQ Midget or Slingshot entry into the first annual Indoor Auto Races at Albany’s Times Union Center. Please find the information you will need for trailer parking and unloading at the Center. It is much the same situation used successfully in Allentown. If you forget to bring the below Trailer Parking and Unloading information with you it will also be available on our website, indoorautoracing.com. Please note that the Champ Karts have been added...

Heading Into Indoor Auto Racing Championship Albany Finale, Justin Bonsignore Leads In Battle For TC Memorial Championship Cup

admin2018-02-07T19:42:38-05:00ALBANY, N.Y. - All signs indicate an exciting conclusion to the VP Racing Fuels Indoor Auto Racing Championship. With three top-3 finishes at the Indoor events at Allentown, Pa., and Atlantic City, N.J., have enabled Justin Bonsignore to build a 28-point margin over, defending Series Champion, Erick Rudolph heading into Friday, February 9 and Saturday, February 10 -- the two final rounds of competition, held in the Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y. Bonsignore, of Holtsville, Long Island, N.Y., has his sights...

Tidaback Remains Hospitalized After Friday Crash In Atlantic City

admin2018-01-29T17:00:17-05:00 During Friday qualifying for Saturday’s TQ Midget Gambler’s Classic at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, 2008 event champion Mike Tidaback was involved in a crash which resulted in serious injuries. Tidaback was attended to at the track by the on-site Indoor Racing Series safety team, then transported to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center just blocks away. As of Sunday afternoon Mike is currently in critical condition at that facility. As per a statement from his wife Renee, the Tidaback family requests your...

Ryan Flores Wins His First Gambler’s Classic In Atlantic City; Cale Ross Claims Champ Kart Feature, Brett Bieber Wins Slingshot Main

admin2018-01-28T04:21:49-05:00Photo: Jim Smith ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Ryan Flores gained the lead with thirteen laps left in the sixteenth running of the Indoor Auto Racing Series Fueled By VP Racing Fuels TQ Midget Gambler’s Classic Saturday night inside Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall when leader Tim Buckwalter went spinning off turn two, and then held off Jimmy Blewett for the final thirteen laps of the race to claim his first Gambler’s Classic win. “I want to apologize to Timmy,” Flores said in Victory...

Blewett, Paules, Tidman & Timmy Catalano Are NAPA Know How Friday Night TQ Midget Masters In Boardwalk Hall; Flores Fastest In Time Trials; Karts, Slingshots Complete Qualifying; 16th Annual Gambler’s Classic Set For Sat. Night

admin2018-01-27T04:40:30-05:00 ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Jimmy Blewett, Howell, N.J., Earl Paules, Palmerton, Pa., Ryan Tidman, Holland, Pa., and Timmy Catalano, Ontario, N.Y., each punched their tickets into Saturday night’s Gambler’s Classic TQ Midget feature by winning their twenty-lap A-Main Qualifiers Friday at Boardwalk Hall in day one action of NAPA Know How Weekend in Atlantic City, N.J. The winning quartet plus the top five drivers in accumulated Indoor Auto Racing Series Fueled By VP Race Fuels point standings, which...

Dirt Track Star Tim Buckwalter Is Fastest In Boardwalk Hall TQ Practice For NAPA Know How Weekend In Atlantic City; Drives Injured Timex Morgan’s Car To Quick Time Over 48 Others; Tickets Available For Fri., Sat. Races

admin2018-01-26T05:15:59-05:00ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Dirt track ace Tim Buckwalter of Royersford, Pa., was fastest Thursday night in practice for this weekend’s TQ Midget Indoor Auto Races inside Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. In so doing Buckwalter served notice to his rivals that he will be among the favorites for victory in in Saturday night’s Gambler’s Classic. Buckwalter, a dirt track driver who is equally proficient with Midgets, SpeedSTRS, Micro Sprints and Stock Cars, stopped the clocks in 8.171 seconds, one tenth...