Taylor Speedway honours Mini-Sprint Racers with 2025 Calendar

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Taylor Speedway is commemorating the participants in mini-sprints by releasing a limited run of 12-month 2025 calendars featuring the young racers who took part throughout the 2024 season.

According to Clinton Mason, the mini-sprint organizer at the Speedway, the calendars give some of the kids, aged 6 to 13, notoriety they otherwise might be unable to achieve.

He says this is allowing children the opportunity to be in the spotlight.  Although around 12 mini-sprint races are normally run, last season had 32 races.

“Bigger races have sponsors,” said Mason. “The kids do get trophies, but don’t really get sponsors like larger classes.”

“It’s something new we did to give the kids some prizes.”

Mason adds generations of racers who start at the mini-sprint level move up into higher classes of engines, including four-cylinder cars.

Piecing the calendar together was a group effort. Mason asked the racers’ parents to submit photos, and his daughter Oakley helped arrange them.

Priced at $20, proceeds of the initial 100 copies will go toward prize money for the mini-sprint participants this upcoming season, after the Speedway, who provided the funds to produce the calendars is paid back.

“Former mini sprint car drivers, they’ve moved up,” said Mason. “They’re racing big cars now. And not just here but in other areas, like in Rimbey or Edmonton.”

Calendars can be purchased by texting Mason at (250) 264-8735 for more information.

Taylor Speedway’s 2025 schedule, starting in May, will be released soon.

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