Kyle Matthews

Kyle Matthews is a staff writer at Backfire News, covering NASCAR and breaking automotive racing news, with additional reporting on Formula 1, IndyCar, and endurance racing.
Austin Company Advertised ‘A Private Police Escort To And From COTA’ For F1 Weekend — Now APD Says It Didn’t Run Them Cars on track at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, during the 2018 U.S. Grand Prix

Austin Company Advertised ‘A Private Police Escort To And From COTA’ For F1 Weekend — Now APD Says It Didn’t Run Them

Kyle Matthews October 30, 2026 0
Austin police say they did not run the F1 weekend escorts. Texas Transportation Code 546.002 defines a...
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Jenson Button’s 11,321-Mile Mercedes CLK DTM AMG Goes to Auction in Birmingham — Keep It in the UK and the Buyer Owes 10% Duty and 20% VAT mercedes-clk-dtm-amg-front

Jenson Button’s 11,321-Mile Mercedes CLK DTM AMG Goes to Auction in Birmingham — Keep It in the UK and the Buyer Owes 10% Duty and 20% VAT

Kyle Matthews October 29, 2026 0
Iconic Auctioneers will sell Jenson Button’s 2004 Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM AMG at the NEC in Birmingham, England,...
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Jacksonville, N.C., Man Accused of Using a Cloned Key on a $50,000 Charger Scat Pack, Then Fled Into Kinston Woods — Now Held on $75,000 Bond Indigo Blue 2021 Dodge Charger Scat Pack seen from the front right at a car show

Jacksonville, N.C., Man Accused of Using a Cloned Key on a $50,000 Charger Scat Pack, Then Fled Into Kinston Woods — Now Held on $75,000 Bond

Kyle Matthews October 29, 2026 0
Julius Woodfork, 22, of Jacksonville, North Carolina, is accused in court records of stealing a blue 2021...
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Man Pleads Guilty to Aiding the Norfolk Takeover Where a Flamethrower Lit Up Redgate Avenue. He Owes 20 More Hours of Community Service. A race car laying down tire smoke during a burnout

Man Pleads Guilty to Aiding the Norfolk Takeover Where a Flamethrower Lit Up Redgate Avenue. He Owes 20 More Hours of Community Service.

Kyle Matthews October 28, 2026
A man pleaded guilty to aiding the May street takeover on Norfolk's Redgate Avenue, where a flamethrower...
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Grand Jury Won’t Charge Newark Cop Who Shot a Porsche Driver. Whether He Broke the Shooting-at-Cars Rule Is Still Open. a black car parked in a parking lot

Grand Jury Won’t Charge Newark Cop Who Shot a Porsche Driver. Whether He Broke the Shooting-at-Cars Rule Is Still Open.

Kyle Matthews October 28, 2026 0
On August 12, 2024, Newark Police Officer Alexander Ferreira fired two rounds into the driver’s seat of...
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Texas Insurance Broker Gets 160 Months for a Fake Defense Department Loan. Feds Now Hold 17 of His Exotics, Four Lamborghinis Included. A Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4, one of the models named among the 17 vehicles seized from Clayton Iley

Texas Insurance Broker Gets 160 Months for a Fake Defense Department Loan. Feds Now Hold 17 of His Exotics, Four Lamborghinis Included.

Kyle Matthews October 28, 2026
Texas insurance broker Clayton Iley got 160 months for fraud. Seventeen seized exotics, including four Lamborghinis, will...
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MCSO Arrest Log Charges a 24-Year-Old Homestead Man With Felony Fleeing, DUI and a Breath-Test Refusal on U.S. 1 Aerial view of the Overseas Highway (U.S. 1) running through the Florida Keys

MCSO Arrest Log Charges a 24-Year-Old Homestead Man With Felony Fleeing, DUI and a Breath-Test Refusal on U.S. 1

Kyle Matthews October 27, 2026 0
A Monroe County Sheriff's Office arrest log lists five charges, including felony fleeing, for a 24-year-old Homestead...
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Vernon Driver Says His Hemi Challenger Is the Real Problem After a Second B.C. Speeding Impound: It’s ‘Too Fast’ A black Dodge Challenger strapped to a flatbed tow truck on Highway 1 near Golden, B.C.

Vernon Driver Says His Hemi Challenger Is the Real Problem After a Second B.C. Speeding Impound: It’s ‘Too Fast’

Kyle Matthews October 22, 2026 0
A Vernon man told B.C. Highway Patrol his Dodge Challenger was too fast after it was clocked...
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California Seller Asks $35K for a Fiero-Based Ferrari F40 Kit Car, the Same Recipe a Federal Court Shut Down in 1991 Front three-quarter view of a red Ferrari F40 kit car built on a Pontiac Fiero, listed for $35,000 in Chula Vista, California

California Seller Asks $35K for a Fiero-Based Ferrari F40 Kit Car, the Same Recipe a Federal Court Shut Down in 1991

Kyle Matthews October 22, 2026 0
A Chula Vista, California, seller wants $35,000 for a Ferrari F40 kit car built on a Pontiac...
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The General’s Street Fighter II Giveaway Car Is a 1994 Lexus LS400 With 83,797 Miles and a $69,716 Value. Hadouken Street Fighter II bonus-stage 1994 Lexus LS400 replica in a pixelated lavender vinyl wrap

The General’s Street Fighter II Giveaway Car Is a 1994 Lexus LS400 With 83,797 Miles and a $69,716 Value. Hadouken

Kyle Matthews October 22, 2026 0
The General’s Street Fighter II sweepstakes car is a 1994 Lexus LS400 with 83,797 miles, and entries...
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