National Speed Sport News

CALHAN, Colo. - Keith Rauch won the curfew-shortened Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Ass'n event at El Paso County Speedway Saturday night.

Julee Jamison led the first seven laps before Rauch made his move, passing Jamison on lap eight. He led the rest of the 20-lap event at the quarter-mile dirt oval.

Kyle Rayburn, Bob Harr, Todd Plemons and Scott Fennell filled the top five.

The finish:
Keith Rauch,read more

Aug. 2
RISING CITY, Neb. - Bryan Clauson drove to his second-straight victory during Speedway Motors Midget Money Week sanctioned by USAC-SMRS, POWRi and the Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Ass'n at Butler County Motorplex Aug. 2.

Despite several caution flags, Clauson was clearly the man to beat. He powered away from the field after every restart, eventually driving the Corey Tucker-owned Spike/Fordread more

BELLEVILLE, Kan. - Brad Sweet scored a dominant victory Friday, winning the 25-lap feature on night one of the Speedway Motors Belleville Midget Nationals at the Belleville High Banks.

The victory completed a clean sweep for the Grass Valley, Calif., driver after he set fast time for the 35-car field and won his heat in Kasey Kahne's No. 49 Mopar-powered Spike.

Sweet jumped into the lead at theread more

BELLEVILLE, Kan. - Bryan Clauson scored his second-straight Belleville Nationals victory, capturing the 33rd annual Speedway Motor Belleville Midget Nationals Saturday night at Belleville High Banks.

Clauson joins Stan Fox (1979-80) and Kasey Kahne (2000-01) as the only drivers to win the prestigious race back to back.

The event got off to a rocky start when Andrew Felker flipped on the opening lap,read more

BELLEVILLE, Kan. - Brad Sweet scored a dominant victory Friday, winning the 25-lap feature on night one of the Speedway Motors Belleville Midget Nationals at the Belleville High Banks.

The victory completed a clean sweep for the Grass Valley, Calif., driver after he set fast time for the 36-car field and won his heat in Kasey Kahne's No. 49 Mopar-powered Spike.

Sweet jumped into the lead at theread more

The Belleville High Banks is renowned as the world's fastest half-mile dirt track.

The nearly circular, ultra-high bank speedway has thrilled fans and competitors alike with the kind of racing that catches your breath and makes you turn to your neighbor and say, "Did you see that?"

What's not as well known is that Belleville has been a thrill-maker for 100 years now, for on July 4, 1910, a Buick, aread more

CALHAN, Colo. - Fourteen-year-old Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Ass'n rookie Cole Wood bagged the first victory of his young career Saturday night at El Paso County Speedway.

Wood started from the pole and led throughout the 25-lap feature, beating Chris Sheil to the finish at the quarter-mile dirt oval. Mike Boesel, Julee Jamison and Tony Rossi completed the top five.

The finish:
Cole Wood, Chrisread more

BELLEVILLE, Kan.
People say racers don't give back, well, they don't know beans."

Don McChesney is speaking from experience, and speaking with passion. McChesney is the president of the High Banks Hall of Fame and the National Midget Auto Racing Museum, and his group has enjoyed a surge of interest recently thanks to the generosity of several people within the sport.

We're in a period of toughread more

FORT MORGAN, Colo. - Chris Sheil survived a battle with Keith Rauch to win Saturday's 25-lap Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Ass'n feature at I-76 Speedway.

Sheil led comfortably until Rauch caught him with 10 laps left, challenging him for the lead on the outside. The final caution flag of the night waved on lap 21, giving Sheil enough open track to pull away from Rauch in the closing laps.

Rauch wasread more

MONTPELIER, Ind. - Jason Goff was the winner of the 20-lap UMRA three-quarter midgets feature Saturday night at the Montpelier Motor Speedway.

Goff made the winning pas on Ron Combs, who was seeking his third-straight victory, during a restart with three laps left.

Terry Goff was second ahead of Combs, Kellen Conover and Michael Koontz.

The finish:
Jason Goff, Terry Goff, Ron Combs, Kellen Conover,read more

NEW CASTLE, Ind. - Terry Goff gave himself a Father's Day present that he will never forget Saturday as he beat his son Jason Goff in dramatic fashion in the 25-lap UMRA TQ Midget feature at the Mount Lawn Speedway.

J. Goff made what appeared to be the winning pass with three laps to go, but T. Goff returned the favor on the final lap to take the win ahead of Jason Goff, Scott Petry, Brandon Grayread more

BARRIE, Ontario - Rob Neely won the Lucas Oil Can-Am Midget Series 25-lap feature Saturday thanks to a last-lap pass of Mack DeMan at Barrie Speedway.

DeMan, who started from the pole and led the first 24 laps, went high in turn three on the last lap, opening the door for Neely to steal the lead at the stripe.

Corey Moesker, Greg Smolders and Daniel Bois completed the top five.

The finish:
Robread more

RUSHVILLE, Ind. - Despite repeated challenges from Oogie Goff, Patrick Wolf was able to hold on for the victory in the United Midget Racing Ass'n three-quarter midget division Saturday at the Rush County Fairgrounds.

Wolf got the jump on the start, but had to hold off a pack of cars that included O. Goff, Jason Goff, Terry Goff and Ron Combs. He held on to score the victory, the fourth of hisread more

ROCHESTER, Wash. - Evan Margeson overcame teammate Mark Atkinson to win Saturday's Washington Midget Racing Ass'n event at South Sound Speedway.

Margeson chased Atkinson throughout the event, finally passing him with two laps left to secure the victory at the three-eighths-mile asphalt oval. Atkinson, Ben Petter, Mitch Hoffses and Snake Livernash filled the top five.

The finish:
Evan Margeson, Markread more

KOKOMO, Ind. - Scott Petry won a thrilling 20-lap feature for the United Midget Racing Ass'n three-quarter midgets Sunday night at Kokomo Speedway.

Petry started on the pole and led all but the fourth lap en route to his fourth series victory and first since 2008. Terry Goff was second, followed by Ron Combs, Brandon Gray and Patrick Wolf.

The finish:
Scott Petry, Terry Goff, Ron Combs, Brandonread more

SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. - Davey Ray came from sixth on the starting grid to win Sunday's Angell Park Speedway Auto Racing Ass'n midget feature.

Daniel Robinson paced the early laps while Ray worked his way through the field. An early caution flag for the stalled machine of Jerry Coons, Jr. gave Ray the opportunity he needed to catch Robinson, whom he overtook on the restart.

Robinson finished second,read more

ST. JOHNS, Pa. - Ian Cumens took top honors in the American Three-Quarter Midget Racing Ass'n opener Sunday afternoon at Sundance Vacations Speedway.

Cumens made his move for the lead on lap 15 when polesitter Matt Janisch bobbled in lapped traffic, allowing Cumens the room he needed to take the lead. Janisch settled for second ahead of Frank Fischer, Tim Behmer and Paul Lotier, Jr.

The finish:
Ianread more

SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. - Eleven cars turned out for the inaugural midget feature sanctioned by the Angell Park Speedway Auto Racing Ass'n Sunday night and Jerry Coons, Jr. came home the winner.

Coons took the lead from Robbie Ray on lap 11 and paced the remainder of the 25-lap event on the historic third-mile oval.

Ray finished second ahead of Kurt Mayhew, B.G. Wood and David Ohldendorf.

The finish:
Jerrread more

BROWNSTOWN, Ind. - Oogie Goff was "the comeback kid" Saturday night at Brownstown Speedway when he won the 20-lap UMRA TQ Midget feature.

It was Goff's first race back since suffering leg injuries in an off-track accident last summer.

He started outside the front row and led throughout en route to his 45th-career UMRA triumph.

Following Goff to the line was his nephew, Jason, who finished second, hisread more

FORT MORGAN, Colo. - Keith Rauch rolled to victory in the season opener for the Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Ass'n Saturday night at I-76 Speedway.

Rauch started in the second row and blew by polesitter C.J. Johnson on the outside on the first lap on the 25-lap feature. Chris Sheil eventually moved to second and took several looks under Rauch, but he could do nothing with him and settled forread more

BURLINGTON, Wash. - The NorthWest Wingless Tour for 360 sprint cars and midgets will visit five different tracks in Oregon and Washington during the 2010 season.

Both classes will open the 2010 season with a visit to Willamette Speedway in Lebanon, Ore., April 30. It will be the first of three dual shows this season at the three-tenths-mile clay oval.

The sprint car and midget classes will shareread more

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Lou Cicconi, Jr., scored his second Gambler's Classic 40-lap TQ Midget victory at Boardwalk Hall Saturday night, joining Joe Payne, Jr., as the only two-time winners of the event.

Named the Gambler's Classic because the drivers can place a bet to collect more money should they win, Cicconi made the house pay out once again, earning an additional $3,000 more than the regularread more

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Ted Christopher, the 2008 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion, won his third indoor TQ Midget feature in more than a year by capturing the 30-lap event Friday night at Boardwalk Hall, the first of two nights of racing in the eighth annual Gambler's Classic.

A year ago, Christopher won both Atlantic City's Gambler's Classic finale and the inaugural event at the Dunkin Donutsread more

TULSA, Okla. - The New Zealand-based Synergy Racing Team went about the Chili Bowl a little differently than its competition.

The two-car team for drivers Michael Pickens and Brad Mosen used a pair of V-8 engines in its midgets. They were the only V-8s in the pits here as the open rules of the Chili Bowl offered a platform for the engines that run regularly in New Zealand to show their stuff.

Showread more

TULSA, Okla. - After years of success driving Andy Bondio's midgets at the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals, Cory Kruseman made a bold move to bring his own team to midget racing's premier event this season.

The move paid huge dividends Friday night at Tulsa Expo Raceway as Kruseman drove the No. 21k he built to victory on the fourth and final preliminary night of action for Saturday's 24th annualread more

TULSA, Okla. - The fastest car doesn't always win the race and that was the case on the third night of the 24th annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals at Tulsa Expo Raceway at the QuikTrip Center.

Darren Hagen, who claimed his first Chili Bowl preliminary feature Thursday night, proved that theory.

Five-time Chili Bowl champion Sammy Swindell put on another dazzling display of speed and skill to winread more

TULSA, Okla. - Sammy Swindell has won the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals a record five times, but his 20-year-old son Kevin has had a lot of bad luck during his career at the prestigious indoor midget car racing event held at Tulsa Expo Raceway at QuikTrip Center.

That may have changed during the second night of the 24th annual edition of the event Jan. 13, as the younger Swindell overcame bad luckread more

TULSA, Okla. - Zach Daum scored an exciting last-lap victory to kick off the 24th annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Midget Nationals at the QuikTrip Center's Tulsa Expo Raceway Jan. 12.

Cale Conley paced the first lap before Daum moved into the lead. New Zealand's Michael Pickens passed four cars in the first five laps to move into second. Daum began lapping the tail of the field on the ninth circuit.read more

LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Robert "Bob" Higman, whose lifelong devotion to midget-car racing was legendary, died here Jan. 13. Born Jan. 29, 1925, he was 84.

Already heavily involved with American Automobile Ass'n midget car events by the early 1950s, Higman's career continued through the entire span of the United States Auto Club, basically from the organization's formation in late 1955 through to theread more

TULSA, Okla. - Fourteen individuals were inducted Friday into the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame during ceremonies held in the Central Park Hall at the Tulsa State Fairgrounds.
The latest inductees bring the total registry of Hall of Fame members to 158.

Two of the four "traditional" inductees and one of the 10 "historical" inductees were in attendance.

Page Jones, son of 1963read more