Racing Nuggets

This week on the Racing Nuggets Podcast, PJ and Dan chat with Ricky Brooks, the well-known tech official in auto racing--who is also involved in the Trans-Am Racing Series and is a promoter in the SRL National Tour and SRL Sportsmen Tour.

This week on the Racing Nuggets Podcast, PJ and Dan sit down with Jack Deery to chat about this season being the "Final Lap" at Rockford Speedway, the track where he and his siblings grew up learning all about promoting and putting on a race program from their parents, Hugh and Jody Deery. Jack shares some excellent insights, family stories, and racing memories from over the years at the famous northern Illinois short track where so many in NASCAR cut their teeth.

This week on the Racing Nuggets Podcast, PJ and Dan chat with Edgerton, Wisconsin hot-shoe, Casey Johnson to learn about his racing plans for 2023. He has a big one on his schedule for the first one out of the gate! We also learn about a new teammate he will have in 2023 and hear a memorable story about his first-ever race in a late model at 16 years old. Plus, other nuggets from his family life.

This week on the Racing Nuggets Podcast, PJ and Dan sit down with Wisconsin Legend--Scott Hansen. Scott has had an incredible racing career and made incredible connections and friendships with so many key people. We catch up with him in his winter "home" in Arizona and find out what he's been up to lately and reminisce about his past adventures in racing.

In this week's episode of the Racing Nuggets Podcast, Dan and PJ chat with the 2022 Midwest Tour Rookie of the Year, Harley Jankowski. As part of his prize for being the ROY, he had the opportunity to go down to Daytona International Speedway and test drive an ARCA car. We catch up with him on how that went and review his season, as well as look forward to what is on the horizon for 2023 for him. Some people may not know it, but Harley has some health challenges as well--he's a kidney transplant recipient and will be needing another one as they only last about 10 years. He discusses that situation with us as well.

If you'd like to connect with Harley, you can find him on Facebook HERE.

This week on the Racing Nuggets Podcast, PJ and Dan chat with former La Crosse Speedway and Tomah-Sparta Speedway announcer, Dan Deicher. He's technically announced at A LOT of tracks and he shares plenty of colorful stories here. He is also preparing to announce in his new home state of Florida at the Freedom Factory for their Winter Warm-Up on February 3rd and 4th in Bradenton. There will be plenty of Midwest flavor there with several drivers running in the National Compact Touring Series.

For more information on the event and to get your tickets, head HERE. Otherwise, you can check out the Freedom Factory Facebook page that Cleetus McFarland has set up for it.

This week on the Racing Nuggets Podcast, PJ and Dan chat with the father-son duo of Steve and Nick Murgic from Rosemount, MN. Steve shares some stories from his racing days and we get a glimpse of what it was like for Nick to grow up immersed in motorsports.

This week on the Racing Nuggets Podcast, PJ and Dan chat with James Swan, driver and champion of so many different series'. You've watched him behind the wheel of the Midwest Truck Series, the Mid-American Stock Car Series, Sportsmen, Superlate Models, and more!

He shares some great stories of his early days in racing, stories of his family, and how he ended up with the iconic Alan Kulwicki look on his car, among other tales from the track.

This week on the Racing Nuggets Podcast, PJ and Dan chat with Superlate Model hero, Steve Holzhausen. Steve recently retired from his full-time job and immediately had his third surgery on his ankle that sustained severe damage when the throttle stuck on his race car at Dells Raceway Park about a decade ago. He shares some fun and interesting stories from his racing career and life in the signature Holzhausen delivery.

This week on the Racing Nuggets Podcast with PJ and Dan, we catch up with Sportsmen racer, Dave Trute who is preparing to make the trek down to South Carolina again to run at Dillon Motor Speedway in South Carolina. Several other Sportsmen drivers from the Midwest will join the caravan to the southeast to run in the New Year's Bash event on January 6-8, 2023. Trute shares some fun backstories from his career, how he landed on his number (2), growing up racing at Tomah-Sparta Speedway when his parents owned that track, past trips down to South Carolina, his core group of guys, and some of his other adventures at other events, like Oktoberfest at La Crosse Speedway.