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(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

John Rittenoure - TULSA, Okla. (October 9, 2023) - Only three races remain on the AmeriFlex Hose & Accessories OCRS Sprint Car schedule and the series points lead is on the line when racing resumes on Saturday at Red Dirt Raceway. Danny Wood moved into the points lead after his victory in the AmeriFlex Challenge at Salina Highbanks Speedway on Sept. 30. The victory dropped Johnny Kent into second by a seven point margin. Saturday at Caney Valley Speedway Kent finished the 30-lap main event in...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

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