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(Image Credit: TeeJay Crawford) Bryan Hulbert – SAPULPA, Okla. (April 17, 2018) Taking advantage of an off weekend with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by Sawblade.com, Blake Hahn raced close to home with a pair of top-five finishes in POWRi West Midget and Champ Sprint competition. Taking the Velocita/Parker Lee Project No. 52 to Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Okla. on Friday with the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midgets, Blake picked up the win in his Heat Race to start the...more

The POWRi West series fired back into action at the ¼ mile track of Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, OK for the third round of action in the 2018 season. Red dirt is an understatement for this fun and fast track in the middle of Oklahoma. Hunter Fischer Racing, sponsored by Flying Tee Golf and B&C Custom Woodworks, entered into a field of 24 cars for the night’s competition and started 5th in his heat race. The track already began to slick off for the midgets, firing up after the stock cars and...more

By Lonnie Wheatley (Meeker, OK) -- According to the lap sheets, Ace McCarthy led all 25 laps of Friday night’s Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA feature event atop the ¼-mile Red Dirt Raceway clay oval. However, it wasn’t without a genuine Friday the 13th scare for the Tahlequah, OK, racer in the “Midget Meltdown 2k18” event as he withstood a wicked Blake Hahn slider on the final lap to secure his second career series victory aboard the Two-Eight Drilling...more

DRUMRIGHT, Okla. (April 12, 2018) - The Lucas Oil National Open Wheel 600 Series presented by MyRacePass will once again headline "Oklahoma's Week of Speed" Sooner 600 Week in 2018 featuring four nights of action at four dirt ovals across Oklahoma and Southern Kansas. A trip to the Oklahoma/Kansas border will kick things off on Wednesday, June 20 as Caney Valley Speedway in Caney, Kansas will host the opening leg of Sooner 600 Week. Caney Valley Speedway is a quarter-mile facility and has...more

By Lonnie Wheatley (Tulsa, OK) -- The Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA fires back into action with Friday night’s “Midget Meltdown” event atop Meeker, Oklahoma’s ¼-mile Red Dirt Raceway. Friday’s card will mark the third round of action for the POWRi West Midget League after kicking off the 2018 campaign in tandem with the National series with two nights of competition last month at Oklahoma City’s I-44 Riverside Speedway. Originally set for two nights of...more

By USAC PR (Meeker, OK) --Brett Wilson of Coweta, Okla. captured Friday night's 25-lap USAC Wingless Sprints Oklahoma opener at Red Dirt Raceway. He passed Casey Wills on lap six and led the rest of the way to beat Danny Smith, Johnny Kent, Joe Wood Jr. and Ty Hulsey. Tri-State Claims awarded Wilson an extra $100 for a "clean sweep" while Hardwood Innovations also split $100 in bonus money to three feature competitors. The series continues April 20 at Creek County Speedway in Sapulpa,...more

USAC WINGLESS SPRINTS OKLAHOMA DEBUTS FRIDAY AT RED DIRT Meeker, Oklahoma………The first of five appearances for the USAC Wingless Sprints Oklahoma at Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Okla. serves as the series debut this Friday night, March 30. Dane Fields of Lawton, Okla. won last year’s WSO title and was victorious in two of the three races held at Red Dirt. Additional feature winners last year included series runner-up Mason Smith of Wichita Falls, Texas, Ryan Dean of Choctaw, Okla., Cameron Hagin...more

By John Lemon, OCRS PR (Tulsa, OK) -- This Saturday night at the Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker Oklahoma, the inaugural running of the 'Oklahoma Sprint Cup' featuring the Ameri-Flex / OCRS sprint car series will hit the track to open the 2018 AMERI-FLEX / OCRS sprint car season. Track Promoter Cody Brewer has set a special start time of 4pm for the event. Pure stocks and micro sprints will also see on track action prior to the 30-lap sprint car feature finale to cap off the afternoons racing...more

We want to thank all the drivers, car owners, crew members and fans who came out for the first race of the series at Red Dirt Raceway. We had a total of 29 cars that showed up throughout the weekend, giving us some great action packed racing. Saturday night a total of 27 cars registered made for a B-main, lots of drivers were pushing their cars to the limits to earn passing points so they could make the A-main event. Our transfer spots from the B-main starting from first, Zach Tippett, Todd...more

By NOW600 PR (Meeker, OK) -- For the second time in 2018, the Season Opener for the Lucas Oil National Open Wheel 600 Series presented by MyRacePass has fell to weather. With the winter weather that swept through Oklahoma last week and the rain that has fell today with no time to dry up, officials with the Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Oklahoma are going ahead and cancelling this weekends events early enough to allow teams to make plans accordingly. At this time there is no announcement on a...more