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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

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

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

Meeker, Oklahoma (September 15, 2017)- For the revival of The Sooner Midget Nationals, the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League returned to Oklahoma and made their way to Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Oklahoma for the first and only scheduled midget race at Red Dirt Raceway. The Smith Titanium Heat 1 would be won by the 00 of Grady Chandler from the 6th position. The Saldana Racing Products Heat 2 would be won by the 91T of Tyler Thomas from the 7th position, and the Keizer Wheel Heat 3 would be...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

By Lonnie Wheatley (Meeker, OK) -- Nixa, Missouri’s Wesley Smith put the wraps on a perfect night in Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA competition by winning Friday’s 25-lap “Third Annual Sooner Midget Nationals” feature event atop the ¼-mile Red Dirt Raceway clay oval. After winning his heat race earlier in the evening from fourth aboard the All Metal Recycling/Midwest Sheet Metal No. 44 entry to earn BOSS Performance High Point driver of the night honors,...more