Posted on 02 March 2010.
There will be Oval racing in Calgary for 2010 at Race City Motorsport Park. The Calgary Oval Racing Association (CORA), a Non-Profit Association was formed December 03/08 for the purpose of setting up and operating safe and fair motor races. Continue Reading
Posted in Events, Motorsport, Oval
Posted on 09 February 2010.
Race City’s uncertain future appears to be a little brighter today after owner Art Mackenzie reported he had reached a tentative deal with City Hall to keep the motorsport facility open for another two seasons. Continue Reading
Posted in Calgary, Featured, Motorsport
Posted on 09 February 2010.
Art Mackenzie appears to have bought two more racing seasons for Calgary motorsport fans. After that, under a tentative deal reached last Thursday, Race City Motorsports will close its doors for the last time. Continue Reading
Posted in Calgary, Motorsport
Posted on 29 September 2009.

Race City's popular Secret Street program will continue for another five years after City Council voted to honour Race City's existing lease
City Council’s 8-7 vote Monday afternoon to honour the lease with Race City until 2015 has been hailed by motorsport fans, but those closest to the issue are more cautious. They warn that the process still depends on City officials, the bureaucrats who worked so hard over the past year to break the lease in the first place, to negotiate new conditions with Art Mackenzie, the race track’s owner. If that fails to happen Race City could be right back where it started, forced to leave the 64 hectare parcel of land on 114 Avenue SE to make way for expansion of Shepard Landfill. Continue Reading
Posted in Featured, Motorsport
Posted on 28 September 2009.

Bryan Macdonald, an admitted former street racer, waits in line to race his car at Friday's Secret Street event at Race City
The Calgary motorsport community is applying a full court press on local politicians ahead of Monday’s City Council vote on SE alderman Ric McIver’s motion to honour the lease with Race City, with mixed results to date. Friday’s Secret Street event was well attended by race fans and racers, but a planned competition for fastest cop was cancelled after Edmonton’s Blue Line Racing Association pulled out and local RCMP and Alberta Sheriff’s teams followed suit amid allegations of political interference. And a war of words is brewing between Mayor Dave Bronconnier’s weekend remarks supporting the closure of Race City drew an angry retort from the Calgary Motorsport Council. Continue Reading
Posted in Featured, Motorsport
Posted on 23 September 2009. Tags: police, Race City

2003 Tiberon race car of the Blue Line Racing Association

Amanda Preece, SECN reporter
Calgary’s motorsport fans are in for a treat this weekend as police from Edmonton descend on Race City Motorsport Park to test out their racing prowess. Members of Edmonton’s Blue Line Racing Association will be taking part in races along with teams from the Alberta Sheriff Department and the R.C.M.P. this Friday, Sept. 25, from 7 p.m. The Blue Line Racing Association is a non-profit organization formed by members of the Edmonton Police Service. Continue Reading
Posted in Drag
Posted on 18 September 2009.

Renault race cars heading out on the track for another practice session. I drove car #22.By Markham Hislop, Editor
Coming out of the turn, getting on the throttle, the back end of the car in front of me fishtailed. Rain on my visor made it tough to see, but I was only a car length behind (the racing instructors would have been unhappy to see me that close), and I knew I was in trouble. Just as my brain told my right foot to ease up on the gas, my car’s rear end slipped and in a fraction of a second I was spinning out of control, eventually ending up on the grass, looking back at the treacherous corner I had almost navigated. Thank goodness I was last in the line up of student racers following the Honda Civic around Race City Friday afternoon. Continue Reading
Posted in Motorsport
Posted on 07 September 2009.

Local drag racing veteran Harry Svinger makes his last run at Race City
Sunday afternoon may have seen the last deafening roar from the straight pipes of high horsepower cars at Race City. The venerable motorsports facility is set to close after this season thanks to the City of Calgary’s insatiable demand for land to expand the Shepard Landfill. Continue Reading
Posted in Drag, Featured
Posted on 20 August 2009.

Junior members of the CRKC helped present a cheque to STARS Air Ambulance
Back in May the Calgary Kart Racing Club held a celebrity enduro race to raise money for STARS Air Ambulance. Alert readers will remember that your intrepid reporter was a driver in the race and lasted a grand total of five laps before breaking a rib taking a corner too fast. Wednesday, junior drivers and club members gathered to present the STARS crew with a cheque for more than $4,000. Continue Reading
Posted in Karts
Posted on 07 August 2009. Tags: Canadian national kart racing championship, Joey Guyon, racing
The 2009 National Karting Championship is underway at Goodwood Karting in Stouffville, ON, just outside Toronto. And Joey Guyon of Motordrive Sports, one of Calgary’s leading racing kart shops, is there to blog the racing for us. Check back early and often as Joey describes the action and follows Alberta drivers Gianfranco Sartor of Calgary and Noel Dowler of Edmonton. Continue Reading
Posted in Karts