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By USAC Media (Meeker, OK) -- Saturated grounds, coupled with more early morning precipitation on race day, has forced cancellation of Tuesday Night Thunder featuring the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship on July 11 at Meeker, Oklahoma’s Red Dirt Raceway. Nearly 10 inches of rain has fallen at the track since last Thursday and another 2.5 inches of accumulation overnight has made conditions at the 1/4-mile dirt oval unraceable for this evening. The Red Dirt event was to be the...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Speedway, IN) -- Midsummer brings the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season back to life. Mid-America Midget Week is the stage upon which our midget racing brethren will compete July 11-15 across three states with four events in a span of five nights in Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Starting at the southernmost point of the week is Tuesday Night Thunder on July 11 at Meeker, Oklahoma’s Red Dirt Raceway. Then, we point north up to Beloit,...more

(Jeff Taylor Photo) John Rittenoure - MEEKER, Okla. (June 23, 2023) - Over the last month Rees Moran has been hard to beat. That was clearly evident during Friday’s AmeriFlex Hose & Accessories Sprint Car event at Red Dirt Raceway. Not even a 40-lap feature was too much for the young Oklahoman. Moran won the Mike Peters Freedom 40 Classic leading all but one lap on the way to capturing his second straight and third win of the season. “My crew chief has this thing running on rails,”Moran said...more

(NOW600 at Red Dirt Raceway | June 9, 2023 | Image Credit: Ashley Allinson) Bryan Hulbert – MEEKER, Okla. (June 9, 2023) Round 3 of Sooner 600 Week rolled into Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Okla. on Friday with Baron Silva adding his name to the list of A-Class winners. Jett Nunley continued his dominance of Restricted, and Chris Cochran made his return to Victory Lane with the Dirt2Media National Open Wheel 600 Series presented by Hi-Plains Building Division. Back to the top of the podium for...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Speedway, IN) -- For the larger part of the past decade, Justin Grant has stepped into each and every USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season pondering if this was going to finally be the year he broke through and overcame the hurdle that had separated him from the series driving title. The Ione, Calif. native is now on the other side of that equation. He and TOPP Motorsports enter the year as the combination everybody’s chasing in 2023, jumping into...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 (Speedway, IN) -- Just prior to the kickoff of his sophomore season on the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship trail, Mitchel Moles is taking a weeklong hunting expedition. Throughout the 2023 season, the Raisin City, Calif. native will find himself on the hunt for a championship as he tackles the full series schedule for the first time aboard the Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports No. 19AZ. PHOTO CREDIT: David Nearpass Moles is fresh off a superb Rookie USAC...more

John Rittenoure - TULSA, Okla. (October 12, 2022) - A points champion will be crowned this weekend when the AmeriFlex / OCRS IMCA Sprint Cars visit Red Dirt Raceway for the 7th annual Pat Suchy Classic and Salute to Fairgrounds Speedway. It is the final AmeriFlex / OCRS IMCA race of the season and a three-way race for the title is very in the headlines. Rees Moran took the points lead away from Blake Edwards with his victory last week at Caney Valley Speedway, but is only out front by 12...more

MEEKER, Okla. (Sept. 11, 2022) - Jason Miles mastered the Lucas Oil NOW600 Sooner State Dwarf Car Series on Friday night at Red Dirt Raceway. A field of 17 Dwarf Cars were on hand for the special America Night. The Sooner State Dwarf Cars will return to action on Friday, Sept. 24 at Tulsa Speedway in Tulsa, Oklahoma. RACE RESULTS >> 9/9/2022 at Red Dirt Raceway NOW600 Lucas Oil Sooner State Dwarf Car Series Dwarf Cars | NOW600 Dwarf Cars A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 76-Jason Miles[11]; 2....more

MEEKER, Okla. (Sept. 9, 2022) - Johnny "Hotrod" Kent hustled the United Sprint League field on Friday night at Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Oklahoma. A field of 25 Non-Wing Champ 305 Sprint Cars checked in for competition which included three Dyno Services of Oklahoma heat races, a lone B-Main and the 25-lap Passing Points Podcast A-Main. Drawing the third starting spot of the feature, Grady Mercer led the opening circuit before Kent got around him on lap two and went on to lead the remaining...more