HAPPY NEW YEARS to All - 2014 is going to be exciting!!

Josh Ford Motorsports would like to wish all our fans, partners, racing family and everyone a Happy New Year!! We are excited about our drivers, the schedule and opportunities for 2014!!

Nic Faas and Marcus Niemela, two of the sports best, will be driving JFM for this coming year. We can go on and on about these talented drivers! Faas is coming off an incredibly successful 2013 coming in 3^rd in the USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series Points and Niemela was in the running for the top spot of the USAC West Coast Sprint Series Points through most of the year, finishing 4^th overall.

Our full schedule will be posted soon as we are focusing on the 2014 Chili Bowl coming up here in just 12 short days!! There are 284 entries as of yesterday, December 31^st for this 2014 sprint car kick off event. Driving for JFM at the Chili Bowl will be Nic Faas and Trey Marcham.

2014 Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals
1/13/2014 -  Practice -  Event Details
1/14/2014  Tulsa Expo Raceway - Tulsa, OK -  Event Details
1/15/2014  Tulsa Expo Raceway - Tulsa, OK -  Event Details
1/16/2014  Tulsa Expo Raceway - Tulsa, OK -  Event Details
1/17/2014  Tulsa Expo Raceway - Tulsa, OK -  Event Details
1/18/2014  Tulsa Expo Raceway - Tulsa, OK -  Event Details 

We know we will be running all the West Coast Sprint Car Series races posted for 2014 and all of the USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series races for 2014. We will also run most all of the Honda USAC National Midget that coincides with the CRA and/or West Coast races.

Again, the full schedule will be available soon on our website.

2014 is going to be a great year for the sport. We look forward to seeing everyone at the track. Be sure to follow us @JFM_Racing for the Chili Bowl and all races for real time updates!

Josh Ford Motorsports in 2014 | SCHEDULE | DRIVERS | FOCUS

JFM is putting together a 2014 Schedule geared toward competing strongly in both the USAC CRA Sprint Car Series and the West Coast Sprint Car Series.

We will have the skilled wheelman Nic Faas out of Huntington Beach, running the CRA and West Coast races while the talented Marcus Niemela from Rauma, Finland will be running the West Coast and some of the CRA as well. Both of these drivers are very well known and have been racing in some form or another from a very early age. These two drivers are veterans, we have high aspirations for them and are thrilled to have them in our racing family for the 2014 racing year!! @nic_faas | @markusniemela

Josh Ford Motorsports will be in several NON-USAC sanctioned events throughout the year as well as some National races, though we will be focused on the CRA and West Coast Series’. We have not finalized our 2014 Schedule just yet, though our intentions are to run every race in each of these series’ and race for points.

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2014 USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR SCHEDULE

DATE - TRACK - LOCATION

January 24: *Canyon Speedway - Peoria, AZ (Winter Challenge / $2,000-to-Win / Non-Points)
January 25: *Canyon Speedway - Peoria, AZ (Winter Challenge / $2,000-to-Win / Non-Points)
January 26: *Canyon Speedway - Peoria, AZ (Winter Challenge / $3,000-to-Win / Non-Points)
January 30: *Canyon Speedway - Peoria, AZ (Winter Challenge / $2,000-to-Win / Non-Points)
January 31: *Canyon Speedway - Peoria, AZ (Winter Challenge / $2,000-to-Win / Non-Points)
February 1: *Canyon Speedway - Peoria, AZ (Winter Challenge / $5,000-to-Win / Non-Points)
March 6: *The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway - Las Vegas, NV (Sin City Showdown / $2,500-to-Win / Grudge Series)
March 14: Thunderbowl Raceway - Tulare, CA
March 22: Bakersfield Speedway - Bakersfield, CA
March 29: Kings Speedway - Hanford, CA (Gary Jacob Memorial)
April 25: #Kings Speedway - Hanford, CA
April 26: #Thunderbowl Raceway - Tulare, CA
May 16: #Ocean Speedway - Watsonville, CA
May 17: #Thunderbowl Raceway - Tulare, CA
May 31: #Thunderbowl Raceway - Tulare, CA
June 7: Kings Speedway - Hanford, CA
June 21: Thunderbowl Raceway - Tulare, CA
July 19: Kings Speedway - Hanford, CA
August 2: Kings Speedway - Hanford, CA (Billet Cup / $2,500-to-Win)
August 8: #Ocean Speedway - Watsonville, CA
August 9: #Chowchilla Speedway - Chowchilla, CA
September 27: *Canyon Speedway Park - Peoria, AZ (Brawl For It All / $2,500-to-Win / Grudge Series / Non-Points)
November 6: *Perris Auto Speedway - Perris, CA (Oval Nationals / $2,500-to-Win / Grudge Series)
November 20: *Canyon Speedway Park - Peoria, AZ (Western World Championships / Non-Points)
November 21: *Canyon Speedway Park - Peoria, AZ (Western World Championships / Non-Points)
November 22: *Canyon Speedway Park - Peoria, AZ (Western World Championships / $7,500-to-Win / Non-Points)

* = Co-Sanctioned Event with USAC Southwest Sprints.
# = Co-Sanctioned Event with USAC Western Classic Sprints.
This schedule is subject to change.

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2014 AMSOIL USAC/CRA Sprint Schedule

DATE - LOCATION - TRACK 

February 28 - Peoria, AZ/Canyon Speedway Park
March 1 - Peoria, AZ/Canyon Speedway Park
March 15 - Perris, CA/Perris Auto Speedway
April 12 - Perris, CA/Perris Auto Speedway
May 3 - Perris, CA/Perris Auto Speedway
May 10 - Ventura, CA/Ventura Raceway
May 24 - Perris, CA/Perris Auto Speedway
June 14 - Perris, CA/Perris Auto Speedway
June 27 - Watsonville, CA/Ocean Speedway
June 28 - Petaluma, CA/Petaluma Speedway
July 4 - Perris, CA/Perris Auto Speedway
Jul 5 - Santa Maria, CA/Santa Maria Speedway
August 16 - Perris, CA/Perris Auto Speedway
August 30 - #Calistoga, CA/Calistoga Speedway
August 31 - #Calistoga, CA/Calistoga Speedway
September 4 - #Chico, CA/Silver Dollar Speedway
September 5 - #Watsonville, CA/Ocean Speedway
September 6 - #Santa Maria, CA/Santa Maria Speedway
September 13 - Perris, CA/Perris Auto Speedway
October 11 - Hanford, CA/Kings Speedway
November 7 - @Perris, CA/Perris Auto Speedway
November 8 - @Perris, CA/Perris Auto Speedway
November 14 - @Peoria, AZ/Canyon Speedway Park
November 15 - @Peoria, AZ/Canyon Speedway Park

# = Co-Sanctioned Event
@= Also Award National points

Also throughout the year, we will race several select Midget races as it works into our schedule, though again we are focused on the USAC CRA and USAC West Coast.

When our schedule is finalized we will post it here and on the site on our Schedule Page. This year by the start of race season we will have a Feedback Page and soon a JFM Forum. We already have all of the highlights from last year at our JFM Blog.

Please follow us every race @jfm_racing throughout the year! We will update continuously during the race all the latest. #jfmracing |www.joshfordmotorsportsinc.com

We look forward to an incredibly exciting and successful 2014 and appreciate all our fans, partners and racing family for helping make this all possible!

JFM Announces the drivers for Chili Bowl Nationals 2014!

Nic Faas and Trey Marcham will be driving for Josh Ford Motorsports in the 2014 Chili Bowl.

LUCAS OIL CHILI BOWL NATIONALS
presented by General Tire
National Midgets

NIC FAAS - #73

Nic Faas, born Sptember 29^th, 1989, out of Huntington Beach, CA has been racing his whole life, ad racing well! Nic moved quickly from BMX racing at age 5 to Quarter Midget racing at 7, where he had an illustrious 7 years with many championships including 3 Regional Southwest Championships, 5 California Monza Championships, 4 Winter National Championships, 2 100 Lapper Championships and 1 National Championship!

Faas started racing Midgets in 2006 getting a Ford Focus Midget where he ran a full season in the Dirt Series. In 2007 he ran both pavement and dirt and had a successful rookie year winning the dirt and getting 2^nd on pavement. In 2008 he was signed to run for Western Speed Racing moving up to the 410 Sprints where he won Rookie of The Year.

Nic has placed in the Top 10 in his last 10 races, winning the last 2 sanctioned races!

Nic has always loved racing, always places in the top with whatever he drives and is just, well, a talented driver! www.nicfaas.com | Twitter @nic_fass | Instagram nic_faas

We are just one month away from the one of best and biggest national midget events of the year! Kevin Swindell has dominated the Chili Bowl Nationals for years. JFM with Nic Faas and Trey Marcham will look to put a stop to this dynasty.

TREY MARCHAM - #73x

Trey Marcham out of New Castle, OK is an experienced driver with over 11 years’ experience racing A-Class, Non-wing, and Multi/Outlaw dirt cars on tracks in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, and Illinois.

He has experience racing USAC and BCRA midgets in California and Arizona.

He also has two years’ experience racing NASCAR late models on asphalt in North and South Carolina and Tennessee, running in both the Southeast Limited Late Model and the United Auto Racing Association (UARA) series. Given the multiple venues and styles of cars, he has proven that he is able to read the track and other driver styles to be able to make appropriate adjustment, find fast lines, and pass other drivers to take the lead. He is a 6-time point champion and 3-time Rookie of the Year winner. Recent honors include winning the USAC Western States Midget Rookie of the Year honors, winning the BCRA midget race in Petaluma Speedway in California, sweeping two twin late model feature races at Myrtle Beach Speedway, and winning both the A-Class and Non-wing A Features at the 2012 Inaugural Donnie Ray Crawford Memorial/Race4Life in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

www.marchamracing.com | @TreyMarcham32

In our next blog we will present Nic and Trey and more on their driving careers and bio's.

1/13/2014 - Practice - Event Details

1/14/2014 Tulsa Expo Raceway - Tulsa, OK - Event Details

1/15/2014 Tulsa Expo Raceway - Tulsa, OK - Event Details

1/16/2014 Tulsa Expo Raceway - Tulsa, OK - Event Details

1/17/2014 Tulsa Expo Raceway - Tulsa, OK - Event Details

1/18/2014 Tulsa Expo Raceway - Tulsa, OK - Event Details

JFM will be providing more details in the upcoming weeks as we get closer to Chili Bowl 2014 - 30 Days!!

Josh Ford Motorsports – 2013 – Another incredibly exciting and winning year!

JFM wraps up another successful year of Sprint and Midget racing throughout the west coast and nationally. Headlines like, “Winning the final race of the year, Dave Darland takes the checkered flag at PAS for the 73^rd Running of the Turkey Night Grand Prix!!” and “Bernal and JFM are 2013 Western Classic Champions!” were all too common for JFM this 2013!

-          JFM 2013 Highlights

Winner of 12 Feature Races
Top Ten finishes 34 Feature Races
Winner of 8 of 12 races consecutively
Winner of the Western Classic Sprint Series 2013
Winner of the 73^rd Running ‘Turkey Night Grand Prix’

We are so appreciative of all our fans for following us and our drivers each weekend, through Nationals Week and for all the Special Events we were a part of this season! Our fans and racing family are the driving force behind the scenes that keep us all of us at JFM inspired and always aiming for the Winners Circle!

-          JFM 2013 Drivers

Josh Ford Motorsports, Inc. has been putting some of the best and most talented drivers over the more than 22 years we have had this team. In 2013, we literally put the most talented and prolific drivers this sport has seen in some time.

Kyle Larson

Bryan Clauson

Ryan Bernal

Bud Kaeding

Jon Stanbrough
Matt Mitchell
Dave Darland
Jac Haudenschild
Kevin Thomas Jr
Troy Rutherford
Greg Edenholm

We can’t say nearly enough about our amazing partners for their time and generosity with everything they put into to this team. We recognize everything they do and know we could not be where we are today without their part in this.

-          JFM 2013 Partners

Berry Pack

A&A Precision Machine CNC

King Racing Products

Pacific Coast Maintenance Service

Cam2 / Blue Blood Racing Oils

CSI Competition Suspension

Bob Wirth Racing Engines

Lee Power Steering

Fontana Racing Engines

Factory Khane Shocks

Michael Payne's SEO

Josh Ford Motorsports, Keith Ford, George Ito, Josh Ford with Crew Chief Jimmy May and Mikey Evans and the whole JFM Team is looking to 2014 with even higher expectations than this past year. We are securing some elite talent to pilot our always fast and competitive sprint and midget cars! 

Turkey Night Grand Prix 2013!! 98 Lap Feature Race!!

November 28th, 2013

Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
USAC National and Western Midgets

Josh Ford Motorsports looks to continue the Turkey Night tradition with another strong showing for the final race of 2013! Last year we placed 3^rd and 4^th with Ryan Bernal and Nic Fass. This year we have got Dave Darland, Kevin Thomas Jr., and Jac Haudenschild!

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FROM Perris Auto Speedway – www.perrisautospeedway.com

Spectator gates will open at 2:00 PM, qualifying will begin at 6:00 and the first race will take the green flag at 7:15.

“It is going to be a full day of racing and fun for the entire family,” longtime Perris Auto Speedway promoter Don Kazarian said on Monday. “There will be autograph sessions for early arriving fans, a live band and, of course, the best racers in the nation competing for Midget racing’s most prestigious title and a chance to kiss the Agie trophy. We also hope a lot of fans come out early in the day to tailgate in the spectator parking lot.”

There will be two autograph sessions before the race. The first one will be from 2:30 – 3:30 on the front straightaway of the famous Riverside County clay oval featuring all of the drivers and cars entered in this year’s race. From 3:30 to 4:30 there will be another autograph session in the track’s sports bar featuring some of the legends of the Turkey Night Grand Prix including this year’s Grand Marshal Sleepy Tripp, past Turkey Night winners Rick Goudy (1978), Kevin Olsen (1983), Chuck Gurney (1988 & 1989) and Jordan Hermansador (1994).

In the racing portion of the show, the fastest 14 cars in qualifying will be locked in to the 98-lap main event. All of the other cars will contest a pair of qualifying races with the top eight from each of those gaining their tickets into the feature. Those who do not proceed to the main event from qualifying or the qualifying races and who have a provisional, will be eligible to join the main event as well.

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Follow @JFM_Racing throughout the race for updates.

Josh Ford Motorsports and the 73rd Running of the Turkey Night Grand Prix

Josh Ford Motorsports will have a stellar line up of incredibly talented drivers for the 73^rd Running of the Turkey Night Grand Prix!

Agajanian Promotions and Perris Auto Speedway
The 73rd Running of the Turkey Night Grand Prix
USAC National and Western Midgets
November 28^th, 2013

JFM is happy to announce the drivers we will have for Turkey Night! 

Lincoln, Indiana’s Dave Darland will be wheeling the Jimmy May tuned King Racing Products / A&A Precision CNC Machine / Berry Pack Midget Spike/Fontana #73. Dave won the 18^th Annual Oval Nationals right here just earlier this month on November 2^nd. Darland has had an incredible year, once again… “Anytime Dave Darland is on the racetrack, he is a potential winner,” Perris promoter Don Kazarian said. “He is one of the greatest open wheel drivers of all time and on top of that, he is one of the nicest guys in all of racing. A true winner and a class act all the way.” We are thrilled to have Dave for this race!

Also running for JFM this Turkey Night, will be Kevin Thomas Jr. out of Cullman, Alabama. Thomas, 22, tied champion Bryan Clauson and Darland for the most wins in the USAC National Sprint Car Series with 7 in 2013. Kevin has placed in the top 10 every one of his last 10 races, winning at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, IN.

And, we will have the “Wild Child” Jac Haudenschild from Wooster, Ohio. Jac has won 3 of his last 10 races, has strong roots in Southern California and has been racing and winning since 1974.

All of us at JFM are excited to have such talent running for us on Turkey Night! We hope to see everyone at the track.

Follow us throughout the race @JFM_Racing

This is the third and final day of WWC! Darland and JFM are locked in to the top 8 for both the Sprints and Midgets!!

Canyon Speedway Park – Peoria, AZ – 11/16/2013 – Day 3

Honda USAC National Midgets 46th Annual ‘Western World Championships’
Honda USAC National Midgets
USAC Southwest vs. USAC West Coast Sprint Cars

Day 2 of Western World is complete. All the Sprint qualifying is done. Clauson took the Sprint checkered flag as Hagen edges out Bacon for the Midgets. It all comes down to what happens tonight! Third and final day of WWC is on the horizon.

MIDGETS - Cars locked into Saturday’s dash to line up the first four rows of the “Western World Championship” feature midget race are Bell, Hagen, Bacon, Abreu, Armstrong, Darland, Clauson, and Tracy Hines. All other cars will run heat races during Saturday’s championship program. Darland is tied for 6^th we believe, with 295 points, the leader Bell has 329.

Last night, Darland and JFM put in some solid racing.

-Official-

MIDGETS –Day 2

Heat 1 – 5^th – 8 Laps
First Qualifier – WINS (2^nd) – 8 Laps
Feature – 4^th (5^th) – 30 Laps

SPRINTS – As Dave Darland wheeling the JFM #73 Sprint took 4^th on Thursday and the top four from each preliminary night (Thursday and Friday) “A” Main event will lock into Saturday’s finale.  Those eight will engage in a Revenge Draw during Saturday’s opening ceremonies to determine the Dash lineup.  The Dash finish will determine the alignment of the front four rows of the main event.

The balance of the field will be lined straight up according to preliminary night point totals in twin “B” Mains (as well as a “C” Main if necessary) to set the balance of the “A” Main starting lineup.

It’s going to be an exciting finish and we are right in this with both the Sprints and Midgets!

Come to the track and follow Darland and JFM @JFM_Racing