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By Lonnie Wheatley (Dodge City, KS) -- It’s almost time for “Tuesday Night Thunder” at Red Dirt Raceway! The NOS Energy Drink USAC National Midget series takes to the ¼-mile Red Dirt Raceway near Meeker, OK, for a second consecutive year on Tuesday night, July 9. The mighty Midgets will be joined on the Tuesday night card by the NOW600 Non-Wing Micro Sprints. NASCAR Xfinity series title contender Christopher Bell fought off reigning series champion Logan Seavey to top last year’s edition of...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Sweet Springs, MO) -- A forecast of showers during the morning hours on Friday, followed by more rain in the afternoon and night on Saturday, has forced postponement of this weekend’s John Hinck Championship USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget events at Missouri's Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex. The event has been rescheduled for Sunday night, July 11, and will feature an elevated purse! Sweet Springs will now lead off an action-packed Mid-America Midget Week...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Meeker, OK) -- In the illustrious history of Keith Kunz's tenure as a car owner, no individual has won more USAC National Midget feature events than Christopher Bell. Perhaps it was most fitting that it was Bell who drove Kunz's machine to victory lane for the 100th time with the series at "Tuesday Night Thunder" in USAC 's Red Dirt Raceway debut. PHOTO: Christopher Bell (middle), the winner of "Tuesday Night Thunder" at Red Dirt Raceway, is joined by Keith Kunz...more

Inside Line Promotions – STILLWATER, Okla. (July 9, 2018) – It’s been nearly a month and a half since Zane Hendricks last competed, which is both a blessing and a curse. The break allowed the Tucker-Boat Motorsports team to rebuild following a rough outing throughout Indiana Midget Week in late May and early June. However, it also has kept Hendricks from staying fresh behind the wheel. “The thing that’s been the most challenging part of this year is racing five or six times and then have a...more

By Lonnie Wheatley (Meeker, OK) -- The return of the USAC National Midget series to the Sooner State is just a few short days away. After an absence of 43 years, the USAC Midget ranks take to Meeker, Oklahoma’s Red Dirt Raceway for some “Tuesday Night Thunder” next week on Tuesday, July 10. Non-wing micros will join in on the Tuesday night card that goes green at 7:30 p.m. The first USAC Midget event to take place in the Sooner State since 1975 kicks off a busy week of USAC Midget competition...more

By Lonnie Wheatley (Meeker, OK) -- In a NOS Energy Drink USAC National Midget feature event that offered up more twists and turns than the country highways and byways leading to Red Dirt Raceway, Sutter, California’s Logan Seavey emerged to take “Tuesday Night Thunder” honors atop the ¼-mile red clay oval. With three and four-wide battles the norm throughout the 30-lapper, the reigning series champion railed the topside of the track to take the lead away from Jerry Coons, Jr., on the 24th...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Speedway, IN) -- At the beginning of the previous season, Taylor Reimer’s pinned tweet on Twitter read, “I will win a midget race in 2022.” She lived up to her word during the year, scoring her first career midget victory in May of 2022. Now, in 2023, the Bixby, Okla. native has elevated her goals to reach even greater heights. PHOTO CREDIT: DB3 Images “I’m going to win several this year, not just one,” Reimer adamantly stated. Reimer, who graduated from the...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Fairbury, NE) -- Mid-summer, mid-America. That's the state of mind for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship which takes the show on the road for a succession of racing events through Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma July 17-21. PHOTO CREDIT: Danny Clum photo Officially one-third of the way through the 2020 season, the action picks back up following a near one month layoff since the last round, the Indiana Midget Week finale at Kokomo Speedway, a...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Meeker, OK) -- Tanner Thorson faced a strikingly familiar scenario during Tuesday Night Thunder at Oklahoma's Red Dirt Raceway. On Sunday at Caney Valley Speedway in Kansas, a caution with four laps remaining saw Tyler Courtney positioned directly behind Thorson for a late-race restart. The end result had Courtney sliding past Thorson for the lead and the eventual win, while a disgruntled Thorson fell to a 15th place finish after spinning to a stop as he tried to...more

By Lonnie Wheatley (Meeker, OK) -- It has been more than 40 years since the USAC National Midget series has stirred up the Oklahoma soil. That changes in little more than a month, as the USAC National Midgets take to the ¼-mile Red Dirt Raceway near Meeker, OK, for “Tuesday Night Thunder” on July 10. Non-wing micros will join in on the Tuesday night card that goes green at 7:30 p.m. The first USAC Midget event to take place in the Sooner State since 1975 kicks off a busy week of USAC Midget...more