Latest news at the top of ths page...Archived news at the bottom December 2, 2008 ALSPACH BROTHERS UP TO TEST AGAINST 50 LEGENDS CAR RACERS AT WALL TOWNSHIP TURKEY DERBY WALL, N.J. – Zack and Trevor Alspach, along with hundreds of other Mid Atlantic racers, made their return to Wall Township Speedway this past weekend for the 35th annual Turkey Derby at the historic Jersey Shore speedway. The weekend marked the reopening of the high-banked one-third mile oval after the track’s ownership group announced in March that the facility would be put up for sale for development. Promoters and numerous volunteers worked together over the past weeks to have Wall Stadium ready for its first race in a year. Read More...
August 14, 2008 CONCORD, N.C. – With their summer stay in North Carolina winding down, New Jersey brothers Zack and Trevor Alspach have an important semi-pro legends car doubleheader planned for Friday and Saturday. On Friday, the brothers will travel Hudson, North Carolina’s Tri-County Motor Speedway for an INEX regional qualifier race for the semi-pro legends division. The winner of that race will automatically qualify for semi-pro national championship event, held Oct. 2-4 at Elko Speedway in Minnesota. “Friday at Tri-County is an important race,” said Zack. “We’ve run better on the bigger tracks this season so I think we should do pretty well. I’m looking forward to going up to Tri-County and seeing what we can do. It’d be great to win the race and qualify for the nationals.” Read More... July 30, 2008 CONCORD, N.C. – Both Zack and Trevor Alspach finished in the top 10 in Tuesday night’s semi-pro legends car 20-lap feature in the Quaker Steak & Lube Summer Shootout at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Trevor, 15, started eighth and finished ninth while Zack, 17, started in a deep 22nd position and made his way up to finish 10th in the 28-car field. “It was another wild race,” Zack said Wednesday morning. “We started back a ways and dodged a few wrecks and then passed some cars to get up to the top 10. I could see my brother there at the end and I was catching him but ran out of time. We just keep doing the best we can and the car is getting better each week. I’m glad to see Trevor pick up a good run, too.” Read More... July 23, 2008 CONCORD, N.C. – New Jersey legends car racers Zack and Trevor Alspach have spent the last number of weeks living in North Carolina and racing out of the Kyle Beattie Racing stable. The last week has been their best to date with Zack claiming a semi-pro legends car win Friday night at Caraway (N.C.) Speedway and Trevor garnering his first semi-pro top-five finish of the Quaker Steak & Lube Summer Shootout season with a fine fifth-place run Tuesday at Lowe’s Motor Speedway Read More... June 19, 2008 CONCORD, N.C. – New Jersey’s Zack Alspach crossed the line second Tuesday night in the INEX Legends car Semi-pro feature at Lowe’s Motor Speedway’s Quaker Steak & Lube Summer Shootout. Upon further review, INEX officials made the decision to disqualify Alspach and the No. 7 car that he was battling with for the win. Officials deemed overaggressive driving as the reason for the disqualification. Originally, officials disqualified only the No. 7, leaving Alspach as the race’s victor. The decision was made Wednesday morning to disqualify Alspach as well. Read More... June 11. 2008 CONCORD, N.C. – The Alspach Brothers Racing team traveled from their New Jersey home to North Carolina Tuesday for the first of 10 INEX-sanctioned, 600 Racing Quaker Steak and Lube Summer Shootout events at Lowe’s Motor Speedway’s quarter-mile oval. Zack Alspach, 17, had to use the B-Main to qualify for the 20-lap Semi-pro Legends car feature while an accident in the same B-Main forced Trevor Alspach, 15, to go off on the hook and not qualify for the night’s feature. Read More... May 20, 2008 SHENANDOAH, Va. – Team Full Throttle NASCAR Driver Development racing brothers Trevor and Zack Alspach finished third and sixth Saturday in the Legends car race at Virginia’s Shenandoah Speedway. Trevor, 15, started ninth in the 15-car field and methodically moved to the front of the field before finishing third, less than one second behind the winner of the 25-lap affair. “We can’t complain,” Trevor said. “We passed a bunch of cars and our car was running really well. Toward the end of the race we started to lose the brakes. I think there’s a problem with one of the brake lines. We’ll get it fixed and hopefully get a win next time.”Read More... May 13, 2008 (Shenandoah, VA) Team Full Throttle NASCAR Driver Development racers Zack and Trevor Alspach faced an evening full of obstacles at Shenandoah Speedway in Virginia last Saturday night. They arrived late and missed the first round of practice, and then spent the final round of practice (which doubled as your qualifying session) breaking in new tires. They started eleventh and eighteenth in a competitive 24 car field and rallied for six and ninth overall (third and fourth in Semi-Pro) in the combined feature event. Read More...
WILLINGBORO, N.J. – Team Full Throttle (TFT) NASCAR Driver Development racer Trevor Alspach plans on taking the INEX Legends car experience he gained throughout 2007 back on the road in 2008. The 14-year-old New Jersey young gun will compete at a variety of racetracks and series this season, most notably the 10-race Summer Shootout Series at Lowe’s Motor Speedway’s quarter-mile oval in Concord, N.C. “The shootout is very important,” Alspach began. “At Lowe’s, we get the opportunity for television time and there are a lot of important people around so you want to do well to try to get recognized. There is more pressure, but I really enjoy going to North Carolina each week in the summer. My brother (Zack, 16, another TFT member) races too, so it’s a family trip each week with my parents and it’s a lot of fun.”Read More... ZACK ALSPACH HAS LEGENDS, LATE MODELS PLANNED FOR 2008 WILLINGBORO, N.J. – Team Full Throttle NASCAR Driver Development racer Zack Alspach recently tested a late-model at Hickory Motor Speedway (N.C.) and plans on it not being the last time he’ll strap into a full-size stock car in 2008. Alspach’s test was part of the Team Full Throttle’s Late Model Shakedown Day on Feb. 2. “We got about 40 laps in Ed Cox’s Tri-Star Motorsports car and it went really well,” the 16-year-old Alspach began. “I feel like I got a good feel for the car and the extra horsepower it has. The test was the best thing for me in preparing to race a late-model later in 2008. I want to thank TFT for putting the day together for us." Read More...
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