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By USAC Media (indianapolis, IN) -- NOS Energy Drink has partnered with the United States Auto Club to become the title sponsor of the USAC Midget National Championship, beginning with the 2019 racing season. NOS Energy Drink and USAC have agreed multi-year deal that will position the high-performance energy drink as The Official Energy Drink of one of the most highly-competitive and intense racing series in the world with USAC Midget racing. "We are thrilled to welcome the NOS Energy Drink...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Meeker, OK) -- Cast as the pilot of a Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports car for the first time in his USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship career, Ryan Timms performed to perfection. When the time came to roll credits, the Oklahoma City, Okla. native played the starring role during Tuesday Night Thunder at Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Okla. where he celebrated his second career USAC National Midget feature victory. PHOTO CREDIT: Jeff Taylor If...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

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

By Lonnie Wheatley (Meeker, OK) -- Daison Pursley had been painfully close to USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget Series victory lane on several occasions previously, only to see it slip away. The Locust Grove, OK, teen sensed an opportunity at Red Dirt Raceway’s “Tuesday Night Thunder” event that kicked off “Mid-America Midget Week” and made the most of it. PHOTO CREDIT: John Lee of High-Fly'n Photos - http://www.highfly-nphotos.com Sitting third after a caution with ten laps remaining...more

USAC Media (Speedway, IN) -- The USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship will make its annual mid-summer, mid-America swing with four races in a five-night span beginning with a July 17-18 doubleheader at Nebraska's Jefferson County Speedway, for the first time ever on July 19 at Caney Valley Speedway in Kansas, and concluding with Tuesday Night Thunder July 21 at Oklahoma's Red Dirt Raceway. The busy week of midget racing gets underway with a double-dip of USAC NOS Energy Drink...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

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