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Photo Credit: Danny the shoe Clum MEEKER, Okla. (April 6, 2019) - McLoud, Oklahoma's Chris Cochran scored the opening NOW600 Tel-Star Technologies Weekly Racing event on Friday night at Meeker, Oklahoma's Red Dirt Raceway. 18 drivers checked in for competition on a beautiful Friday night in central Oklahoma. Cochran started third in the 20-lap feature event on Friday night and worked his way to the front to capture the feature event win. Gunner Bowden finished in second after starting on the...more

By USAC Media (Meeker, OK) -- The USAC Wingless Sprints Oklahoma season gets underway this Friday night, April 5, at Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Oklahoma for the first of three events on the racy quarter-mile dirt oval during 2019. Reigning champion Brett Wilson of Sapulpa, Okla. won the Red Dirt opener en route to the series title a year ago. Oklahoman Danny Smith won twice at Red Dirt while Andrew Deal and Johnny Kent each picked up a victory along the way during the 2018 campaign. PHOTO...more

By John Rittenoure, OCRS PR (Meeker, OK) -- Zach Chappell wanted a win, but veteran Wayne Johnson got the final word in a wild final lap run to the checkered Saturday in the Ameri-Flex / OCRS season opener at Red Dirt Raceway. PHOTO CREDIT: Mike Howard Chappell was leading on the final lap when he spun on the backstretch in lapped traffic. Johnson and Layne Himebaugh drove past and Johnson raced on to his first Drive Shafts, Inc. OCRS A feature victory. Surprisingly, Chappell avoided bringing...more

(Photo by Jessica Edmiston Photography) Inside Line Promotions – DRUMRIGHT, Okla. (March 4, 2019) – Mother Nature is tied for the lead in Lucas Oil National Open Wheel 600 Series presented by Tel-Star Technologies features claimed this season after wiping out last weekend’s doubleheader. The temperature is expected to warm up later this week as the series ventures to Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Okla., for the 2nd annual Spring Nationals on Saturday and Sunday. The three primary divisions –...more

Lonnie Wheatley, FAIRBURY, Neb. (April 1, 2019) – Rapidly evolving into a must-see summer staple for Midget racing, the USAC National Midget series returns to the 1/5-mile Jefferson County Speedway for the Riverside Chevrolet Midwest Midget Championship presented by Westin Packaged Meats and Schmidt’s Sanitation on Friday and Saturday, July 12-13. It will mark the fourth consecutive year of USAC Midget action before a packed house at the Jefferson County Speedway with this year’s events once...more

INDIANAPOLIS – The USAC Wingless Sprints Oklahoma division has announced a 14-race schedule across five different tracks and two states. The second season for the series under the USAC banner begins April 5 in Meeker, Okla., at Red Dirt Raceway, the first of three dates on the quarter-mile during the campaign. Additional stops at Red Dirt will occur on Aug. 24 and Oct. 5. Creek County Speedway is the most prevalent track on the docket, with seven events on April 26, June 6, June 21, July 26...more

(Photo Credit: Mike Howard) MEEKER, Okla. (November 15, 2023) - Entering the 2024 season, the National Open Wheel 600 Series (NOW600), Red Dirt Raceway (Meeker, OK) and I-44 Riverside Speedway (Oklahoma City, OK) have established a set of rules for the ever growing Turf Tire class in the region. The NOW600 Turf Tire class will be apart of weekly racing at Red Dirt Raceway on Friday nights and I-44 Riverside Speedway on Saturday nights in Oklahoma while obtaining NOW600 points between the two...more

(Mike Howard photo) John Rittenoure - MEEKER, Okla. (October 14, 2023) - A season high 46 drivers signed-in for Saturday’s AmeriFlex Hose & Accessories Sprint Car event and Joe Wood, Jr. charged to victory in the 33-lap Pat Suchy Memorial main event. The feature was run 33 laps in honor long time car owner Pat Suchy who put the numbers 33 on his cars. Danny Smith drove off the pole into the early lead but gave way to Wood, Jr on lap 29. Wood started 10th and climbed his way through traffic...more

(Mike Howard photo) John Rittenoure - MEEKER, Okla. (October 7, 2023) - Driving in his first late model event on Friday night, modified racer Tanner Mullens did not expect to visit victory lane and was surprised when he did. Mullens surely was not expect a repeat of Friday night, but it happened as the Kansas competitor raced to his second Complete Well Testing Sooner Late Model Series on Saturday. This time it happened at Red Dirt Raceway. Mullens started outside pole sitter Damian Patocka...more

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