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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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