Archives 2015

For immediate release, October 14th, 2015,(Mooresville, NC)

K&N driver, Austin Hill, has once again teamed with Empire Racing Group and Grumpy’s Performance. Team organizers have been working on a 3-race deal to carry both Hill and team ERG to finish the 2015 year race season in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

Hill will field Empire Racing’s Ford F-150 truck in the NCWTS events at Talladega on October 24th and Martinsville on October 31st.  ERG will support Breast Cancer Awareness Month for both racing events.

Also on-board at Talladega and Martinsville will be, Doug Herbert’s, “Putting on the B.R.A.K.E.S” defense driving school foundation.

“Partnering with ERG is a great way to advocate, raise awareness and educate the NASCAR fans and their families about B.R.A.K.E.S. “, Doug Herbert said.  Comment from Doug

More info to come soon!

 SYRACUSE, N.Y. – October 7-11, 2015

“The State of New York has made a 10-year commitment to Super DIRT Week to keep the event in Central New York,” DIRTcar CEO Brian Carter said. “We are excited to announce today Central New York Raceway Park in Hastings will be the new home for Super DIRT Week after this year’s ‘Finale at the Fairgrounds.’”

The joint announcement today at the fairgrounds, where the gates open next Wednesday for this year’s event, is the next step in a plan between Super DIRT Week and the State of New York to move the event to a new, state-of-the-art facility that is currently under construction about 20 minutes north of Syracuse.

“After next week’s 44th NAPA Super DIRT Week, our team is looking forward to the challenge of bringing Super DIRT Week, the Super DIRTcar Series and its fans to a brand new venue,” Carter said. “We are eager for our entire staff, from ticketing to operations, to begin working on next year’s event as soon as the checkered flag waves on this year’s Syracuse 200.”

Sean Corr will be piloting his 2015 Shelby Mustang Sunday at Syracruse Fairgrounds for the final Dirt Week that will be run at this venue. Corr, who is a veteran dirt car driver and owner of Empire Racing Group will run for the win at the one mile track.

 Austin Hill finished the 2014 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season with back-to-back wins in the year’s final races at Greenville Pickens Speedway and Dover International Speedway. Despite the all-new NASCAR K&N Pro Series race car chassis and body, Hill managed to continue this momentum into the 2015 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season opener at New Smyrna Speedway just south of Daytona International Speedway.

Austin Hill is part of the 2014-15 NASCAR Next program designed to help promote young drivers in the NASCAR national and touring series. Hill made his debut in the in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East at Columbus Motor Speedway in 2012 and recorded his first win in September of 2013. It took another year before Hill claimed the top spot in a NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race and it seems as if that win may have given him the confidence he needed to chase down a NASCAR championship.

Hill’s 2015 season got off to an excellent start when he claimed his first 21 Means 21 Coors Light Pole Award for his qualifying time of 18.483 seconds at 93.491 miles per hour. He took this push with him as the race began on the .48-mile high-banked oval race track just south of Daytona. Hill would go on to lead all 150 laps of the race, with only a small challenge coming from rookie Dalton Sargeant on a restart. “I was getting worried on the restarts, five laps was about when my car would really start to get up and really go,” Hill said. “So about five laps I would have to hold them off and then it would finally get going.”