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Coca-Cola 600 winner Ziggy Moonglow enjoys all sporting action. "We bought a Nashville Sounds ticket on Amazon to celebrate our win last week. When it arrived, it was a photograph of the ticket! Our jack-man Biff used scissors to crop it out, but his fingers got jammed. We used a pruner to yank it off. Fortunately, his appendages are still in tact." Compared to Trae Larkin's jar accident last May, this is just par for the course at Delta Sim Racing. Zach Michael earns his first pole since the 2024 Russ Charneski 500! A Coca-Cola sweep, with Moonglow sporting the vintage colors during last week's victory. Points leader Tony Pizzaro took the helm on lap 2. Craig Lee followed suit, with Chauncey Redmond Jr. leading his first laps since his Talladega victory in April. Wizards of Speed teammate Molemar Diggs never made it to the green flag, finishing dead-last with Redmond enduring battery issues throughout the day. Redmond, Alex Crapser and Zakk Miller roared through the field as points leaders Michael and Pizzaro fell to mid-pack. Each took their turn at the helm, signifying their strength early as usual Speedway masters Donald Stewart and Dave Miller struggle to find prowess outside the top-30. Tony Gunk's usual "Kelpo Cam" failed to make the field, leaving Mike Carroll's "Spam Cam" to show Miller waddle violently through the corners as they race for 41st. Bink Lucas, Zakk Miller and Dakota Wilkins dominated the ensuing 20-lap stint. All three search for their first victory of 2025, combining for seven last year with Dakota taking home the Bepis 400 trophy! Previous Nashville winners John Tharp and Rick Jackson stalked the front-runners early, hoping to capitalize on a veteran-style victory after enduring three first-time winners since the Rebel 400. William Perry takes the lead! His motor ignites four laps later, failing to re-capitalize his fortune while dropping outside the top-20 in points. John Battista leads his first laps since Talladega in a surprisingly quiet year. Only one top-5 after a second-best fifteen in 2024, struggling with the handling while enduring three DNF's in the last five events. He, Rick Jackson, Zakk Miller and Bink Lucas led the field through green flag stops. Battista's Wendy's #39 Chevrolet came out on top! He, Ryan Heuser, Bink Lucas and Zakk Miller scattered the top-4 positions, with Heuser and Lucas dominating the remaining run. Battista shuffled back to fourth, with Markell Murphy, Steven Spears and Jimmie Stevens crawling into the top-10 running similar lap times to the leaders. Towards the back, Kevin Corbat blew an engine, with Steve Inkman the first to drop a lap on speed. Points leader Tony Pizzaro goes a lap down! He and teammate Ken Pettit failed to find grip, dropping the "Fenway Frank" machine to 39th and the third car to drop to the leaders. Zach Michael would finish only 118 points back. Michael Henson blows an engine while running mid-pack, dropping to 30th in the standings. Up front, Ryan Heuser pulled to a four-second gap out of the pits, cruising to the Halfway Bacon Bonus while tying Pizzaro for his tenth race led in 2025. Markell Murphy takes the lead on lap 172! He, John Battista, Dave Miller, Bink Lucas, Jimmie Stevens, Dalton Lucas and Zakk Miller tag-teamed to the front with slightly fresher tires and cycloned towards the #47. Unfortunately, contact between Dalton and Timothy McDonnell sent the #88 Little Caesar's Chevrolet into the turn-3 wall, bringing out the first yellow with 105-to-go and ... Read more » |
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Newspapers once banned red-ink due to the toxicity of cinnabar residue. It would soak into kicthen tables, corrupting the wholesome family meal as they breathed in the fumes. Fortunately, the digital era starts a new wave, with Ziggy Moonglow's #02 Coca-Cola Chevrolet dominating the headlines after a $10,000,000 night! Nicknamed the newfound "Crimson King", Ziggy ends the theory that red racecars can't find victory lane. Tony Pizzaro painted the back of his car green to disuade the voodoo. Cristian Torres and Kevin Corbat never won a race, prompting their sponsors to change the color of their company emblems. They were both denied that request. Zach Michael just pretends his car is not red, successfully defeating the gremlins with seven victories in the #20 Coca-Cola Mustang. The riches of Extravaganza's new superstars have enhanced their spirit! "My new vacuum cleaner is diesel!" said Molemar Diggs, referring to the square footage of his Sudbury, Massachusetts mansion across from Willis Pond (where Babe Ruth dropped his piano). "I can finally afford a slim jim cannister!" said Chauncey Redmond Jr., forgetting that his father made more money than the Pope. "They no longer sell it, so I bought some jiffy pop instead." Ziggy Moonglow sold his Japanese Baseball board game to start Delta Sim Racing in 2023, hoping to buy it back after his Coca-Cola 600 victory. "It was my only hobby. I tried Chinese Checkers, but even our oriental gas man couldn't figure it out." Still basking in his glory, William Perry bought a new hammock after his unprecedented Pizza Hut 400 victory! The "Flex Fuel" veteran currently stands 15th in points, just 68 back from Craig Lee who remains hindered from carbon monoxide poisoning. "Craig and I go way back. We used to visit the Woodbury catacombs at Williams Hill." said Perry "The crypt was darker than Scott Jackson's paint job, though he managed to find a rusted fishing pole. He still uses it today, calling it "Creeper"." Hopefully Perry and Lee can "creep" to the front at Nashville. Friday, June 6th, 4:00 ET |
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The Coca-Cola 600 is here! Bottle caps fly into the air like confetti, decorating the grandstands with high-density polyethylene. "Pepsi uses low-density polyethylene" said Coke public relations man Solomon Cosgrove. "Combined with their low-density recipe, they are a complete joke! When Extravaganza races a 600-inch event, they can sponsor that." The acrimony between the soda-giants continue, with Ryan Heuser suffering withdrawals from his favorite beverage since 2020. "I sneak a can inside the roll cage" said crew chief Mustard Mahoney. NASCAR independent Sappy Sackson beat out the competition during the first World-600 in 1964. That year it was 99 degrees, as the factory teams could not handle the heat. He was later vanquished of his earnings after using an over-sized radiator, along with a secret airflow compartment to keep the engine cool. What strategy will the underlings use to defeat the competition this year? Some say it is Coca-Cola. Ziggy Moonglow and Trae Larkin put Coke bottles inside their roll-cages, just as Ryan Heuser enjoys his Pepsi cans. "Solomon told us to do it. It's merely a marketing stunt, but I'll do anything for the man!" Logan Sheets wins his first career pole in 128 attempts! He'll be on a mission for victory, earning 18 top-5's without a win since his Daytona 500 debut in 2021. The Quaker-State #58 held off the field for eight laps before Rick Jackson took the helm, leading the field after a three-wide move from the Gods! Zakk Miller made a similar maneuver on lap 29, towing the field through the first green-flag stop. Craig Lee, Ryan Heuser, Tony Pizzaro and Logan Sheets were your top-5 runners through the 60th lap. Ken Pettit and Mike Carroll tangle! A turn-1 crash puts Marley and SPAM into the fence, each trying to stay inside the top-35 in points. Neither driver remained competitive, with Carroll dropping to 35th in the standings and Pettit and unprecedented 37th after a league-leading 6th DNF. Steven Spears went for a spin off the back of NOS-man Ryan Heuser, clipping the inside backstretch wall with the rear. Miraculously, he would continue seemingly unhindered. All-Star Heat winner Jeremy Hebel got tapped by NOS-man Craig Lee, slamming the outside wall while breaking the TV panel and spoiler apart. He'd limp to 28th place. Points leader Tony Pizzaro stole the top-spot from Zakk Miller after green flag stops, leading the field through lap 91. Ben Geer took the position away, relinquishing again to Pizzaro before Johnny Reed Foley took the helm on lap 105. Both drivers earned their league-leading tenth race led in 2025! They would remain a 1-2 punch through the halfway-point, with only Kansas winner William Perry running anywhere near the lead-duo. 23 cars were lapped during the stint, including pole-sitter Logan Sheets, Craig Lee, John Tharp, Matthew Dominique, Bink Lucas, Molemar Diggs, Chauncey Redmond Jr., Rick Jackson and Timothy McDonnell. A horrible crash on lap-220! Rob Scarberry and Zakk Miller fight maniacally to stay on the lead lap, sending the Bepis-man hard into the outside wall. Leader Johnny Reed Foley and John Battista tangle trying to avoid the spinning car, with Foley pulverizing Miller's quarter-panel, sliding passenger-side first into the outside wall before John Tharp creamed his clock. In fact, a Rolex watch was spotted amongst the debris after the impact! Matthew Dominique failed to avoid the aftermath, leaving all four cars out of the race. Miraculously, nobody was seriously injured. Foley dropped from third to fourth in the points standings. Miller fell to 27th after a fourth DNF, with Tharp dropping outside the top-20. 23-cars remain on the lead lap! A Timothy McDonnell crash knocks out CFM Motorsports, finishing 41st and 42nd in a career-worst effort for the team. Up front, Tony Pizzaro's "Fenway Frank" machine held th ... Read more » |
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Craig Lee is back! Carbon Monoxide couldn't bring him down, but his jackman's fish-stick casserole knocked him out cold. "It was better than my wife's cactus pot pie" said Lee. The #101 NOS Energy Quick-Silver Chevrolet will start on the outside front-row. Logan Sheets nabs his first career pole in 128 tries! He'll pray for his first top-8 effort of 2025. Rising Bonanza star Larry Sheldrake earns a spot in the 45-car field! Tony Pizzaro, Zach Michael and Johnny Reed Foley have a realistic shot of coming out with the points lead, each gridding between 10th and 20th. Friday, May 30th, 4:00 ET |
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A big prayer to Craig Lee. After the event, he was rushed to the infield care center and stuffed with an oxygen mask. Carbon Monoxide took ahold of his insides, spreading havoc throughout his blood and respiratory streams. Lee was rushed to the Atrium Health Medical Center, where he's currently listen in stable condition. A Bojangles sandwich was seen as reporters stalked his medical room. Hopefully it was consumed. |
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The 2025 All-Star Race is here! $10,000,000 on the line and a trophy the size of an ostrich egg. A fitting tribute to Zakk Miller by winning the pole, qualifying fifth or better in seven of twelve races so far. He's started better that twelfth in all but one, hoping to capitalize after a disappointing month of crashes and detonations. Hopefully he can "detonate" his Bepis power- plant to the checkered! Zakk Miller pulls ahead! Dakota Wilkins, Ben Geer, John Battista and Johnny Reed Foley battle for second place, with Foley and Geer winning the fight. Only William Perry could keep up with the top-3, passing Geer for third with Miller taking the $1,000,000 for leading the 25th lap. Towards the rear, Matt Raboin, Timothy McDonnell, Jeremy Hebel, Zach Michael and Molemar Diggs struggled to keep pace. Johnny Reed Foley's blue and red Chevrolet pulverizes through the field! He maneuvered from the seventh starting spot to take the lead on lap 29, hoping to earn his first All-Star Race victory in immaculate style. William Perry, Zakk Miller, Chauncey Redmond Jr., Ben Geer, Adam Crapser, Alex Crapser, Matthew Dominique and Dakota Wilkins remained within four seconds of the AC-Delco-man by lap-55. Pit stops commense! An early tire change for William Perry and Ben Geer hope to catapult themselves to the front. Zakk Miller and Dakota Wilkins come in one lap later, with Johnny Reed Foley, Chauncey Redmond and Alex Crapser in play for the tire advantage. As everything settled, Perry's independent Flex Fuel Dodge enjoyed a miraculous four-second advantage over the field! A free ice cream cone is in the works. Perry's advantage dwindled once Zakk Miller passed Ben Geer for second place. He and Dakota Wilkins tag-teamed to erase the gap, dropping to a two-second disparity with 18 laps-to-go. Wilkins made a quick pass on Miller, pulling the top-8 within striking distance. The #77 Colorado Rockies Chevrolet made his move on lap 91, pulling ahead before Johnny Reed Foley rummaged to second place! The #3 ran out of time. Dakota Wilkins wins his first career All-Star Race and the $10,000,000 grand prize! A winless campaign with moderate success turns into the payday of the century! Dakota Wilkins becomes the third $20,000,000 man behind Johnny Reed Foley and Ryan Heuser, hoping to catch both by mimicing his 2024 summer-stretch. A free pepperoni stick goes to the man who spun the wedge wrench! Congratulations to Dakota, crew chief Joe "Novacane" Densham and the rest of the Blazin' Pedals Racing organization for a fantastic victory! |
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Craig Lee is rushed to the hospital. A carbon monoxide attack puts him out of the second heat, recovering at the Atrium Health Medical Center. Jonathan Skrabacz will take his place in the 20-car field. "My wife made me scrub too many floors, and my girlfriend broke the other!" said Skrabacz, referring to his recent arm injuries. That pales in comparison to Tony Pizzaro's Jiffy Pop accident in 2020. Bink Lucas and Ben Geer will start on the front row. "I quit smoking for a whole year when I was in a coma." said Extravaganza super fan Larry Wayne. He'll be rooting for Dave Miller to make the show; a last ditch effort to prove that cigarette's are still in vogue. The top-4 drivers will advance to the feature. Miracle-man Dalton Lucas passes Bink on the first lap, dominating the first five circuits before Timothy McDonnell, Dave Miller and Jeremy Hebel flew by on the inside. Bink can't keep up! A loose condition sends him to the back, tangling with Doug Spark on lap-15 to bring out the first caution. Mark Heron broke a rear gear under the yellow, leaving 18 cars spotless for the 30-lap finale. Timothy McDonnell's #22 Caterpillar Volkswagen leads the field through the halfway mark, hoping to earn a spot and win his fifth career All-Star Race feature. Jeremy Hebel makes a smooth move on the frontstretch, clearing the #22 as McDonnell fends off the forces behind. Dave Miller, Scott Jackson, Ken Pettit, Dave Miller, Ben Geer, Markell Murphy and Dalton Lucas all swap the top-8 positions, with McDonnell, Pettit, Geer and Murphy claiming the top-5 spots with three-to-go. Geer beats Murphy for the final transfer by an eyelash, with Hebel narrowly holding off McDonnell to win the $500,000 grand prize! Hebel held off McDonnell for the final two laps to earn his first career Extravaganza Series victory and first All-Star race clinch! He and Ziggy Moonglow finally feel like winners, basking in the Charlotte moonlight as the fireworks crackle the skies. Congratulations to Jeremy, crew chief Toby Roberson and the entire Blazin' Pedals Racing crew for an excellent win. Also congrats to Timothy McDonnell, Ken Pettit and Ben Geer for clinching the feature! |
