Our Story

May 30, 1997 – the first issue of RaceStar Publications was published and distributed at three local racing facilities. Over the next two decades, RaceStar transformed into the place for local racing news of all types. If you remember, back in 1997, most households did not have a home computer, or the world-wide web. News came in to the RaceStar office via fax, and all news stories and results needed to be typed up and put into the weekly newspaper format.

In 1999, things took a media turn when instant news was at nearly everyone’s fingertips with the internet. RaceStar was online for two years by then, and “last week’s racing news, this week” was a thing of the past. So, on July 31, 1999, RaceStar went online only.

We’ve been local track photographers, we’ve even built, shown and utilized our very own pace cars to pace local racing, on any given race night. Check out the build page of our Street Legal Pace Car HERE. We earned the Harry Molenaar Award of Excellence from Illiana Motor Speedway in 2010, a very prestigious honor for us. Read the story about this award HERE.

RaceStar has grown to feature over 45 different area race tracks; we hope to add more this year.

We want to thank, and appreciate, every one of our readers and colleagues.

We must give kudos to all our fabulous writers, photographers and local race tracks who dedicate time and efforts to submitting weekly to RaceStar. It is because of these fine people that RaceStar has even been possible. Thank YOU!

As always, stay tuned to RaceStar!