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Cinco de Mayo Celebrates GLSS Mich

Cinco de Mayo Celebrates GLSS Mich...

4/13/2017
Merrill, MI - On the eve of the NCRA Great Lakes Super Sprints season opener at Limaland Raceway Park in Lima, OH, we have been busy preparing for our Michigan opener at I-96 Speedway near Lake Odessa. Cinco de Mayo actually celebrates the defeat of the French in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico. But this year it will also be celebrating the Ice Breaker Opener at I-96 Speedway. We're looking forward to getting dirty on Cinco de Mayo this year! So come and join your...more
Horstman Holds off Sauder to Take

Horstman Holds off Sauder to Take...

5/5/2017
Lake Odessa, MI: On a beautiful early spring evening, after a receiving rain 4 of the previous 5 days, Great Lakes Super Sprints rolled into I-96 Speedway for the 2017 Michigan Ice Breaker Opener. It was the first sprint car race in Michigan of the 2017 racing season. The buzz on twitter and Facebook was blowing up on Friday and anticipation was high. The 23 cars that did make the trip, did not disappoint. Barry Marlow, owner of GLSS, kicked off the drivers meeting...more
Horstman dominated return of 360 s

Horstman dominated return of 360 s...

5/12/2017
ATTICA, Ohio – Cloverdale, Ohio’s Jared Horstman dominated the return of 360ci sprint car racing to Attica Raceway Park Friday night, May 12. He took the lead in the Great Lakes Super Sprints (GLSS)/K&L Ready Mix National Racing Alliance (NRA) feature on lap three and, despite a caution with two laps to go, easily earned his first victory at “Ohio’s Finest Racing” speedplant on Underground Utilities Inc. Night. It was Horstman’s third win of 2017 and his second GLSS...more
Double Header Weekend for NCRA Gre

Double Header Weekend for NCRA Gre...

5/24/2017
Park City, Kansas – May 22, 2017 - It will be a Memorial Day weekend double-header for the NCRA Great Lakes Sprint Series as the tour makes their second appearance of the season at Limaland Motorsports Park in Lima, Ohio on Friday night (May 26) before making their first appearance of the season at Waynesfield Speedway in Waynesfield, Ohio on Saturday night. Both night’s will be co-sanctioned by the National Racing Alliance (NRA). On the strength of three straight...more
Horstman Bags 4th Straight Feature

Horstman Bags 4th Straight Feature...

5/26/2017
Lima, OH - Memorial Weekend will no doubt be a memorable one for Jared Horstman. Qualifying 7th quick, but winning his heat race, put him in the front row for the feature. Horstman was challenged early by Phil Gressman, but then Gressman relinquished his spot to a hard charging J.R. Stewart, who started 9th. Dustin Daggett clawed his way into 4th, challenging Gressman for 3rd. As Daggetts car loosened up late, Chase Ridenour worked his way up from 8th and over took...more
HURRICANE HANNAGAN BLOWS INTO WINN

HURRICANE HANNAGAN BLOWS INTO WINN...

5/27/2017
Waynesfield, OH – The threat of bad weather had passed and the evening was perfect for racing. However, with the weather radar showing clear, the Waynesfield Raceway Park fans witnessed a weather anomaly as Hurricane Hannagan hit the area Saturday night! Drawing a 1 in the redraw, Randy “Hurricane” Hannagan would be sitting on the poll of the feature. Hannagan would have the honor to carry the American Flag out on the track and lead the missing man formation in honor...more
TRI-CITY  -  CRYSTAL DOUBLE HEADER

TRI-CITY - CRYSTAL DOUBLE HEADER...

6/3/2017
Auburn, MI - Next weekend kicks off the heart of the Great Lakes Super Sprints schedule with 9 races in 4 weeks. This Friday will be the first of 3 visits to Tri-City Motor Speedway (TCMS) this season. TCMS is a driver favorite which attracts the best cars and drivers in the Tri-State area! This weeks race won’t disappoint, with last years GLSS Champion Chase Ridenour and National Racing Alliance 2015 and 2016 Champion and last years feature winner at TCMS, Jared...more
4th SHOW ADDED FOR JULY 4th WEEKEN

4th SHOW ADDED FOR JULY 4th WEEKEN...

6/13/2017
Merrill, MI – If you love sprint cars and love traveling to different tracks, you need to plan on being in Ohio in 3 weeks!!! July 4th weekend is shaping up to be a Holiday Speed Weekend!!! With the addition of Atomic Speedway, the NRA Sprint Invaders and Great Lakes Super Sprints will be running at Limaland,Motorsports Park, Fremont Speedway, Atomic and Waynesfield Raceway Park! $2,000 to win on Friday, June 30th at Limaland Motorsports Park, located at 1500 Dutch...more
WASHED OUT WEEKEND

WASHED OUT WEEKEND

6/17/2017
Montpelier, IN - The wait for the return of winged sprints to Montpelier Speedway was over! Saturday, June 17th brought a field of 18 NRA Sprint Invaders and Great Lakes Super Sprints into town. The track was watered and prepped and the drivers were chomping at the bit to get out on it to turn some laps. As the cars were getting ready to qualify, all eyes were fixed to their smart phones looking at their weather apps. With only a 5% chance of rain, a rain cell...more
Horstman Wins Wild GLSS/NRA Featur

Horstman Wins Wild GLSS/NRA Featur...

6/23/2017
LAKE ODESSA, Mi. (June 23, 2017) – Jared Horstman scored his sixth win of the season winning the Great Lakes Super Sprints / K&L Ready Mix National Racing Alliance feature Friday night at I-96 Speedway. Horstman passed Chase Ridenour for the lead with seven laps to go and raced through slower traffic relentlessly for the victory. Horstman had to overcome being penalized on the initial start of the race along with fellow front row starter Phil Gressman. “I put myself...more
RIDENOUR WINS AT THUNDERBIRD

RIDENOUR WINS AT THUNDERBIRD

6/24/2017
Muskegon, MI - Chase Ridenour took the checkered flags for his first feature win of the 2017 season at Thunderbird Raceway Saturday night! That gives Ridenour 2 A-Main wins in a row at Thunderbird, with his first coming last season on August, 13, 2016. Day two of the I-96 Corridor Challenge between the NCRA Great Lakes Super Sprints and the K&L Ready Mix NRA Sprint Invaders started out with clear blue skies and 16 of the 25 cars from the night before rolling into the...more
DUSSEL 1, HANNAGAN 1, MOTHER NATUR

DUSSEL 1, HANNAGAN 1, MOTHER NATUR...

7/21/2017
Lima, OH – Fourth of July weekend was shaping up to be all we had hoped for! Last winter when K&L Sprint Invaders and Great Lakes Super Sprints sat down and started dove tailing their schedules together, 4th of July stood out to be a big weekend. We were looking at Limaland, Fremont, Millstream and Waynesfield for 4 great nights of racing. With Millstream not opening, it left us with a void for Sunday night. Early in June Brad McCowan, the owner of Atomic Speedway...more
HORSTMAN TAKES NIGHT 1 OF TRIPLE H

HORSTMAN TAKES NIGHT 1 OF TRIPLE H...

7/21/2017
Auburn, MI – Jared Horstman (Cloverdale, OH), starts 6th in the feature and works his way past 5 cars to take the lead in the 6th lap. With a few cautions and a red flag stoppage, Horstman was still able to hold off a hard charging Matt Foos (Fremont, OH) who worked his way up to a car length behind Horstman from 12th place. With his 2nd feature win this year at Tri-City Motor Speedway, tonights win is Horstmans 7th of this season, solidifying his lead in the points...more
HORSTMAN DOUBLES UP ON NIGHT 2

HORSTMAN DOUBLES UP ON NIGHT 2

7/24/2017
Lake City, MI –Jared Horstman (Cloverdale, OH) slides his way past Matt Foos (Fremont, OH) in lap 17 and wins the feature at Merritt Speedway on Night 2 of the Triple Header Weekend. Making it his 8th feature win of the season and the second in a row this weekend. On a beautiful northern Michigan evening, 21 cars were registered for Night 2 of the Triple Header Weekend at Merritt Speedway! The NCRA Great Lakes Super Sprints rolled out for qualifying to get the night...more
DAGGETT WINS THRILLER IN NIGHT 3

DAGGETT WINS THRILLER IN NIGHT 3

7/25/2017
Lake Odessa, MI – Pulling off before the start of heat 2 with a broken spark plug, Dustin Daggett started at the rear of the B-Main to win it, giving him the 17th starting position in the feature where he worked his way through the field for his first feature win of the season, on night 3 of the Mid-Summer Triple Header. With the best weather of the weekend, 27 Great Lakes Super Sprints/NRA cars, 19 MTS non-wing sprints and 22 IMCA Modifieds were in the pits for the...more
DAGGETT WINS RUN FOR THE RABBIT fo

DAGGETT WINS RUN FOR THE RABBIT fo...

7/28/2017
Lima, OH – The 17th Annual Run for the Rabbit, honoring the late Travis “The Rabbit” Miller was won by Portland, MI native, Dustin “DD” Daggett in front of a packed stands. With 23 cars, representing Canada, MI, IN and OH, in the pits for the GLSS/NRA co-sanctioned race a couple brief showers threatened the “Run for the Rabbit” for the second time this year. However, Mother Nature co-operated and cleared off enough to get the races in. As cars rolled on the track for...more
HANNAGAN SETS TRACK RECORD AND WIN

HANNAGAN SETS TRACK RECORD AND WIN...

8/18/2017
Lake Odessa, MI - Randy "the hurricane" Hannagan, (Pittsboro, IN), set a new track record tonight at I-96 Speedway of 14.275 or approximately 107 mph during qualifying. Then winning the Home Pro "Hammer Time" Dash over Dustin Daggett, (Portland, MI) and Devon Dobie (Wapakoneta, OH) .
HANNAGAN WINS 3rd FEATURE OF YEAR

HANNAGAN WINS 3rd FEATURE OF YEAR...

8/18/2017
Lake Odessa, MI – With overcast skies and 15 mph winds out of the south, Hurricane Hannagan blows into I-96 Speedway Friday night and captures his 3rd feature win this season with the NCRA Great Lakes Super Sprints. Great Lakes Super Sprints rolled into I-96 Speedway Friday night for their last visit of the 2017 season. There was no chance of rain in the forcast, however the overcast skies looked like it could open up and rain any minute. Mother Nature was providing...more
LAMANCE RECOGNIZED ON MARFC FAN NI

LAMANCE RECOGNIZED ON MARFC FAN NI...

8/20/2017
Lake Odessa, MI – Last Friday night at I-96 Speedway was Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club (MARFC), fan night! It was a great night to honor racing fans with the NCRA Great Lakes Super Sprints and Lane Automotive MTS Traditional Sprints on hand. Representatives from MARFC traditionally recognize a local racer that demonstrates good sportsmanship and has had some tough luck. MARFC could not have found a better candidate than David (DJ) Lamance, Jr from Delton, MI who...more
HORSTMAN WINS 10TH FEATURE AT THE

HORSTMAN WINS 10TH FEATURE AT THE...

8/25/2017
Onekama, MI – It’s Fair time up North in Michigan at the Manistee County Fair Grounds, with elephant ears, corn dogs & French fries, and now Jared Horstman, (Cloverdale, OH) who took home his 10th feature win of the season. Nestled on the east shores of Portage Lake, Onekama, MI is the home of the Manistee County Fair Grounds. Last year new lighting was installed around the narrow flat ½ mile track that is in the shape of a capital D. Laying more clay on the surface...more
RIDENOUR WINS AT THUNDERBIRD...AGA

RIDENOUR WINS AT THUNDERBIRD...AGA...

8/27/2017
Muskegon, MI – The Kid Rocket, Chase Ridenour (Perry, MI), wins his 2nd feature of the 2017 season and his 3rd feature win in a row at Thunderbird Speedway Saturday night. With a “chamber of commerce” Day, the Great Lakes Super Sprints rolled into Thunderbird Speedway after a night of racing up North at Manistee County Fair Grounds. The new red clay on the track was looking pretty inviting and the drivers were anxious to get on it! After getting heat in the motors and...more
GAS CITY/PLYMOUTH DOUBLE HEADER

GAS CITY/PLYMOUTH DOUBLE HEADER

2/6/2018
GAS CITY, IN – June just got a lot more exciting in northern Indiana! Great Lakes Super Sprints will be traveling to Gas City I-69 Speedway for their first ever visit on Friday, June 8th. Then traveling approximately 80 miles NW, GLSS will make their first visit of the season to Plymouth Speedway on Saturday, June 9th. New promoter of Gas City I-69 Speedway, Jerry Gappens, is excited about the opportunity to bring back a weekly Friday night racing program to the fans...more
$5,000 to Win, $500 to Start

$5,000 to Win, $500 to Start

5/22/2018
$5,000 to Win, $500 to Start Merrill, MI – Labor Day weekend will be $5,000 to win and $500 to start Saturday night for the 1st Annual Great Lakes Fall Sprintacular at Tri-City Motor Speedway. Friday night, Aug 31 will be the final race of the regular season and payout $2,500 to win and $350 to start. Tri-City Motor Speedway located near Auburn, MI was built as a ¼ dirt track in 1947. It was transformed to a ½ mile multi-turn asphalt track, more famously known as the...more
DAGGETT WINS AT TRI-CITY

DAGGETT WINS AT TRI-CITY

5/25/2018
Auburn, MI – Dustin “Double D” Daggett (Portland, MI) wins the first night of the Great Lakes Super Sprints Triple Header Weekend at Tri-City Motor Speedway in Auburn, MI . Friday, May 25th was a beautiful, clear and sunny day in Central Michigan, but the 90 degree temperatures and afternoon winds challenged the TCMS grounds crew as well as the 23 sprint car teams that traveled North to race this weekend. With qualifying groups determined by the drivers pill draw, our...more
STAMBAUGH WINS AT CRYSTAL

STAMBAUGH WINS AT CRYSTAL

6/23/2018
Crystal, MI – After being fast qualifier tonight, Mad Max Stambaugh (Elida, OH) holds off a strong field of cars to take his 2nd win this season with Great Lakes Super Sprints. Pretty much everyone counted on tonight’s race at Crystal Motor Speedway to be rained out with the forecast that had been predicted all week on the weather channel! Fortunately we only had to deal with clouds which finally cleared allowing us to witness a beautiful sunset and enjoy a perfect...more
DAGGETT WINS BATTLE OF SPEED

DAGGETT WINS BATTLE OF SPEED

6/29/2018
Lake Odessa, MI – Starting on the pole, Dustin Daggett (Portland, MI) slipped behind Brett Mann (Goshen, IN) and Phil Gressman (Helena, OH) early and had to work his way back and forth with them before he was able to take the lead for good in the 17th lap, holding off a charge by Gressman and a late charging Ryan Ruhl (Coldwater, MI) for an exciting win at the checkered flags. With clear skies and a light breeze, the evening turned out to be a great night for racing. ...more
LIGHTS OUT IN MERRITT

LIGHTS OUT IN MERRITT

6/30/2018
Crystal Lake, MI – On May 26th there was a 15% chance of rain and it rained. Saturday there was a 0% chance of rain and they were right, no rain. However we couldn’t have foreseen the chance of a power outage, shutting down the lights around Merritt Speedway Saturday night! We rolled into Merritt Speedway for a make up race from May 26th. It was hot, but not unbearable and we had 21 cars present at our drivers meeting. We went over the normal things and asked the...more
DRIVER POSTERS AVAILABLE

DRIVER POSTERS AVAILABLE

7/21/2018
Merrill, MI – It’s always more fun to be at the race track watching sprint cars fly around the track, going high, going low…but if you can’t be at the track, the next best thing would be having an autographed poster of your favorite Great Lakes Super Sprints driver on your wall! We just received our first posters back of our top 4 drivers and they look great! In the coming weeks we will be adding the rest of the top 12 drivers and past champions. The posters are 18...more
TRIPLE HEADER WEEKEND...MOTHER NAT

TRIPLE HEADER WEEKEND...MOTHER NAT...

7/22/2018
Merrill, MI – On a triple header weekend that kicked off the second half of our season, Mother Nature scored 2 ½ rainouts and we got in half of last nights race at I-96 Speedway. With an unusual summer weather pattern rotating into the Great Lakes Region Friday afternoon our Friday night race at Tri-City Motor Speedway was cancelled. This race will not be re-scheduled and we will be back at Tri-City on Friday, August 31st for our Championship night and last points...more
DAGGETT WINS THE BATTLE IN BORDER

DAGGETT WINS THE BATTLE IN BORDER...

7/28/2018
Montpelier, IN – Dustin “Double D” Daggett (Portland, MI) raises the checkered flag in victory at Montpelier Speedway in Border Wars 3, where the National Racing Alliance (NRA) and the Great Lakes Super Sprints (GLSS) came together and put on a great winged sprint car race in front of an enthusiastic crowd. Making our first visit to Montpelier Speedway and our second visit to Indiana this year, we had a great field of 31 cars…in spite of a few teams that stayed home...more
DALMAN TOPS FIELD AT HARTFORD

DALMAN TOPS FIELD AT HARTFORD

8/3/2018
Hartford, MI – Gregg Dalman (Bellevue, MI) who finished 2nd behind points leader Dustin Daggett (Portland, MI) twice this year, was able to flip the table on Daggett tonight at Hartford Motor Speedway for his first feature win of the 2018 season! Making our first appearance at Hartford since the track was reconfigured from a half to a 3/8ths mile track, many of the Great Lakes Super Sprints drivers had some adjusting to get used to turns 3 and 4. With a strong field...more
HORSTMAN KEEPS GRESSMAN FROM 2 IN

HORSTMAN KEEPS GRESSMAN FROM 2 IN...

8/4/2018
Plymouth, IN – Jared Horstman (Cloverdale, OH) was at the Knoxville Nationals, but decided to head home and race at Plymouth Speedway with Great Lakes Super Sprints Saturday night on the way. Phil Gressman (Helena, OH) won at our first visit to Plymouth Speedway in June and had his sights on making it two in a row. Horstman who drew an 8 in the feature, had other ideas…he didn’t just drive 8 hours for tow money! We lost a couple cars from night 1 of Borders Clash,...more
The Ohio Gas Man Wins 2nd Feature

The Ohio Gas Man Wins 2nd Feature...

8/18/2018
Muskegon, MI – Taking advantage of the great track conditions and showing the great Thunderbird Raceway fans how he got his name “the Ohio Gas Man”, Phil Gressman (Helena, OH) took the checkered flag ahead of the 2017 GLSS Champion, Jared Horstman (Cloverdale, OH) and 2018 GLSS Points Leader, Dustin Daggett (Portland, MI)! With 32 cars at I-96 Speedway Friday when our show was cancelled due to heavy rains, we were able to have a strong showing of 29 cars Saturday night...more
Order Your Fall Sprintacular Shirt

Order Your Fall Sprintacular Shirt...

8/19/2018
Merrill, MI – Get your Great Lakes Fall Sprintacular shirt today! This is the first official shirt that Great Lakes Super Sprints has ever had available for our fans! The past 3 years have flown by, trying to build the series and we are just getting time to put some things together.! Thanks to the help of all the drivers that have been following our series and to the tracks for giving us a place to run and of course to our growing fan base coming out to see us! Click...more
DRIVER REGISTRATION GROWING FOR SP

DRIVER REGISTRATION GROWING FOR SP...

8/29/2018
Auburn, MI – Saturday’s show is shaping up to be a must see show of 2018, with the best local and regional drivers in the tri-state area. With only 3 days to go for the first annual Great Lakes Fall Sprintacular show, below is a list of drivers currently registered for Saturdays show. This Friday will be Great Lakes Super Sprints final points race of the season at Tri-City Motor Speedway, Auburn, MI. Dustin Daggett (Portland, MI) leads the points with a commanding...more
OCTOBER SHOW ADDED 10/13

OCTOBER SHOW ADDED 10/13

9/6/2018
Lake Odessa, MI - I-96 Speedway owner Jeff Dice and the drivers from Great Lakes Super Sprints have one thing in common...they all wanted one last sprint car race to end the season! Since our race on Friday, August 17th was cancelled because of rain, many of our drivers were hoping to get one last race at I-96 Speedway. I-96 Speedway will be running a two day, end of year race on October 12th and October 13th. Dice asked if we could run on either one of the those days...more
GLSS GOES INTO HURRICANE FLORENCE

GLSS GOES INTO HURRICANE FLORENCE

9/14/2018
Fayetteville, NC – Great Lakes Super Sprints Owner, Barry Marlow (Merrill, MI), started last Friday preparing and assembling a crew to head south ahead of Hurricane Florence to be in place to assist in refueling generators and emergency and relief equipment after Hurricane Florence comes to shore. Marlow, has been doing emergency work for ice storms, flooding, forest fires and hurricanes for the past 13 years. “This is the 19th hurricane that I have helped with since I...more
PERFIT CORPORATION/ENGINE PRO ON B

PERFIT CORPORATION/ENGINE PRO ON B...

4/14/2019
Merrill, MI - Great Lakes Super Sprints is pleased to announce our newest partner for the upcoming 2019 race season! The Perfit Corporation/Engine Pro will be coming on board this year as the Perfit Heat Race Sponsor, powered by Maxima Racing Oils. Perfit/Engine Pro has been dedicated to servicing the wholesale market and is the largest engine parts warehouse network in the USA. The Perfit/Engine Pro headquarters is located in Grand Rapids, MI, with branches in...more
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