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2025 ASCS Sooner Region Slate Released

The oldest running regional tour of the American Sprint Car Series, the ASCS Sooner Region, returns in 2025 with a baker’s dozen worth of events throughout Oklahoma and Kansas. Basing events around Creek County Speedway with six nights at the quarter-mile oval, the birthplace of the American Sprint Car Series will open and close the

2025 SCHEDULE: 41-Race ASCS National Tour Features New Stops, Marquee Events

A new era in American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) history begins in 2025 with a 41-race National Tour schedule, highlighted by new tracks and marquee 360 Sprint Car events. The season starts Thursday–Saturday, Jan. 30–Feb. 1, in the Tour debut at Volusia Speedway Park for the opening nights of the

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1 MONTH ALERT: Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar Nationals Returns Bigger Than Ever

The 12 days of Christmas may be over, but 15 days of Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar Nationals are still to come. Attracting hundreds of the best dirt racing drivers in the country, displaying a fair-like atmosphere in the midway and presenting nightly edge-of-your-seat racing, the massive Volusia Speedway Park event

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Six American Sprint Car Series Regional Champions Crowned in 2024

The American Sprint Car Series has long been synonymous with Sprint Car racing at the grassroots level, and that remained evident this season week in and week out at dirt tracks across the nation. More than 80 races were contested in 2024 across seven regional tours under the ASCS banner.

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ASCS Packing Multiple Marquee Events Into 2025 National Tour Season

With 2025 on the horizon, fans can look forward to the biggest season in the three-decade history of the American Sprint Car Series National Tour. More than a half-dozen of the season’s biggest events have been nailed down, allowing fans and teams to make their plans now to attend the

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WHAT TO WATCH FOR: National Tour Wrapping Up 2024 at Tulsa, Creek County

The 2024 American Sprint Car Series National Tour season has taken the best 360 Sprint Car teams in the nation from Louisiana to Montana and everywhere in between, but the 34-race journey comes to an end this weekend in Oklahoma. Action starts Thursday night at Tulsa Speedway with a pair

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Covington’s Final Chance at 2024 National Tour Win Coming at Home

Matt Covington has won at least once per season on the American Sprint Car Series National Tour for the last seven years. And with one weekend remaining this season, that streak might be in jeopardy. The Glenpool, OK driver enters the championship weekend in Oklahoma (Nov. 14-16) with a goose

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Davis Racing for Owners Title, Job in Closing Stretch of 2024

When Hank Davis found himself knocking on the door of his first American Sprint Car Series National Tour victory night after night in July, TwoC Racing crew chief Wayne Johnson made the following prediction: “Keep learning and doing what you’re doing, the wins will start coming. And when they do,

Continued Wet Forecast Cancels The Short Track Nationals

Sadly, Mother Nature has intervened for the second year in a row. With a forecast calling for rain all weekend, the decision has been made to cancel the Short Track Nationals at Texarkana 67 Speedway. “We have spent the last few days watching the weather, losing sleep, doing numbers, and

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POINTS UPDATE: Martin Enters Top Five, Davis Closing In On Top Three

Stay up to date with the chase for the 2024 American Sprint Car Series National Tour championship. LATEST RACES: RPM Speedway (Oct. 25-26) CURRENT POINTS LEADER: Seth Bergman took one large step toward his first National Tour championship in Friday night’s race at RPM Speedway when he won on the

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Hafertepe Jr. Snaps Winless Streak at Home in RPM Finale

The last two months of Sam Hafertepe Jr.’s season on the American Sprint Car Series National Tour have been a series of one headache after another. Crashes. Tire failures. Engine trouble. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong until Saturday night at RPM Speedway, when Hafertepe finally made his

Season Finale Showdown At Red Dirt Raceway Goes To Justin Grant

Describing it as a “slide or die” kind of track, Justin Grant applied that to the limit Saturday night at Red Dirt Raceway as the driver of the NOS Energy No. 4 wheeled to his ninth win of the season with the USAC Amsoil Sprint Car National Champion, and first

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Bergman Ends Two-Month Winless Drought with RPM Victory

With a triple-digit lead atop the American Sprint Car Series National Tour standings, Seth Bergman has admittedly been playing the consistency game in the closing stages of the 2024 season. But there’s no better way to build a points lead than to win, and he did just that on Friday

Lance Moss Tames ASCS Hurricane Area Super Sprints At Deep South Speedway

Collecting the opening night of Halloween Havoc at Alabama’s Deep South Speedway, North Carolina’s Lance Moss tamed the ASCS Hurricane Area Super Sprints for his first career win with the series. Pocketing $2,000 for his efforts, Moss chased Iowa’s Chris Martin through the first three revolutions before taking over on

Matt Westfall Charges To Triumph At Red Dirt Raceway

Bringing the score to 2-0 in the rematch between the USAC Amsoil Sprint Car National Championship at the ASCS Elite Non-Wing Series presented by Abilene Powder Coating in favor of the United States Auto Club, both tours converged on Oklahoma’s Red Dirt Raceway for the first time with Ohio’s Matt

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Austyn Gossel Ending Rookie Season on High Note After Strong Riverside Run

Of the nearly 60 drivers competing to make the 21-car field in the World Short Track Challenge at Riverside International Speedway, several star names found themselves watching from the stands – Seth Bergman, Matt Covington, Terry Gray and more. One name not on that list? Austyn Gossel. “If you were

Early Entry Deadline For Short Track Nationals Is October 25

There is a benefit to entering the 37th annual Short Track Nationals early, and that is about to expire as the early entry deadline is Friday, October 25. Drivers who enter before the Friday deadline will receive a weekend pit pass with their $100 entry fee. After that date, the

Short Track Nationals Entry List Growing With First 26 Received

What started as a 410 Sprint Car event in 1988 is one again in 2024, as entries are starting to make their way in for the 37th annual Short Track Nationals at Texarkana 67 Speedway in Texarkana, Ark. Taking place Nov. 1-2, entries are starting to roll in for the

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Hagar Completes Weekend Sweep of World Short Track Challenge

Some driver-track combinations in Sprint Car racing seem to go together like bread and butter. Donny Schatz at Knoxville. David Gravel at Williams Grove. And of course, Derek Hagar at Riverside International Speedway. The Marion, AR driver took the checkered flag at “The Ditch” for the fourth time in eight

Gass Lands ASCS Elite Outlaw Victory At Rocket Raceway Park

For the second time in 2024, Oklahoma’s Noah Gass was the class of the field with the MYCO Plastics ASCS Elite Outlaw Sprint Series, with his latest triumph coming Saturday night at Rocket Raceway Park in Petty, Texas. Leading start to finish for the $3,000 score, Gass pulled the field

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Hagar Takes Home Friday Prelim at World Short Track Challenge

Few Sprint Car drivers can say they’ve won three Features at the same track in the span of seven days, but Derek Hagar added his name to that short list Friday night at Riverside International Speedway. Last weekend in the Flip Flop 50 for the United Sprint Car Series, he

ASCS Elite Outlaw Flying Into Rocket Raceway Park This Saturday

Lighting the fuse on the season’s only visit to Rocket Raceway Park, the MYCO Plastics ASCS Elite Outlaw Sprints will invade the Petty, TX oval on Saturday, Oct. 19, for the Rocket Launcher 30. The second running of the $3,000-to-win/$300-to-start showdown at the 3/8-mile oval, last year’s inaugural event was