FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Owners, New Name: Kern County Raceway Park Renamed Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway Harvick Continues to Make Impact on Bakersfield Community Bakersfield, California – (November 29, 2023) - Kern County Raceway Park in Bakersfield, Calif., founded in 2013 by Charlie Beard, Rusty Risi, and James Vernon, is undergoing [...]
Bakersfield, CA – In what proved to be an emotional win, Buddy Shepherd earned his first Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series victory at Kern County Raceway Park (CA) in the 35th Annual “Bulwark / Tencate October Classic 135”. For Shepherd, it was his third series victory, but the first [...]
Congratulations to Sean Woodside for winning the "Sigma Performance Services 54 presented by Motor City Buick GMC" on October Classic weekend at Kern County Raceway Park. Woodside beat 2023 Spears Pro Late Model Series champion Linny White to earn $5,400. 2022 series champion Seth Wise was third with Christian [...]
Johnny Bedingfield is a former Track Champion at Kern County Raceway Park. But the Bakersfield driver has been absent from the racing wars for the last six seasons. That absence will come to an end on October 15th, when Bedingfield will make his first start in the Spears SRL [...]
1999 NASCAR Winston West Series (now ARCA Menards Pro Series West) champion Sean Woodside will return to the "October Classic" this Sunday for the "Sigma Performance Services 54 presented by Motor City Buick GMC" for the Spears Pro Late Model Series. Woodside is a former three-time winner of the [...]
Cassidy Hinds and Naake – Klauer Motorsports Announce Ambitious October Classic Schedule Arvada, CO racer Cassidy Hinds made her Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series debut in August, when the series visited her home track, Colorado National Speedway (CO), for the first time since 2007. Hinds drove her team’s #3 Super [...]
Monday Memory: From the 1995 through the 2000 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour Series seasons, Lee Elder was the Media Coordinator for the popular series. Many of his memories involved the “October Classic” at Mesa Marin Raceway (CA), the predecessor to this weekend’s “October Classic” at Kern County Raceway Park [...]
Saturday, October 14th, 2023 – Practice Day 1:30 – 3:00pm Team Owner’s Meeting Pros 1:30-2pm, Mods 2-2:30pm, SLM 2:30-3:00pm at KCRP Main Office 3:00pm Pit Gates Open (Lift gates remain closed until directed) 4:15 – 4:30pm SPEARS SRL Pro Late Model Series 4:30– 4:45pm Spears Manufacturing Modified Series 4:45 – 5:15pm [...]
UPCOMING EVENTS: September 16th XTREME Sidecar State Championship, KCRP Flat Track Series & Speedway* October 7th George ‘Ziggy’ Snider Classic USAC 360 Sprint Cars, USAC Western States Midgets & SoCal Dwarf Cars * October 7th CenCal Take Over - Truck Show October 14th AMA U21 National Speedway Championships, Flat Track – [...]
Bakersfield, CA - Jacob Gomes made it four victories in five 2023 Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series features, when he crossed the line first in the "JM ENVIRONMENTAL, INC. Wild West Shootout – For Those About to Rock 107” at Kern County Raceway Park (CA) Saturday night. Gomes earned [...]
