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Englishman Carr a USAC Midget Rookie of the Year Contender in 2026

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 Monday April 20th...TThree years ago, Brandon Carr moved to the United States. Two years ago, he made his dirt track debut. A little over a year ago, he took his first laps in a midget.


Now, this year, the Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England native is set to take on a full season of USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship racing for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports.

SoCal Lightning Sprints First Wingless Race of 2026 Saturday at Barona

missy benker

 Monday April 20th...The SoCal Lightning Sprint Car Series roars back to its home track, Barona Speedway, this Saturday night, April 25, for the first wingless showdown of the 2026 season. The highly anticipated event marks the first of five wingless races scheduled this year—all set to unfold on San Diego County’s only semi-banked, quarter-mile clay oval.

 

tim lester

Monday April 20th... Mees Promotions has partnered with Cory Texter Promotions to bring an exciting amateur showcase to the Lima Half-Mile on Thursday, June 25, kicking off one of the most historic weekends in American Flat Track racing.

 

Held the day before the legendary Lima Half-Mile Grand National event, this amateur program will give riders a premier opportunity to compete on one of the sport’s most iconic cushion half-mile tracks.

Three Takeaways: Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach

Wickens, Heinrich Impress Beyond the Podium; GTD Points Get Shaken Up

Monday April 20th...Thanks to the efforts of Renger van der Zande, Nick Yelloly and their teammates, the No. 93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb Agajanian well and truly put the Acura in the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. The No. 93 car claimed the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) win, putting smiles on the faces of all the Acura and Honda Racing Corporation folks from nearby Santa Clarita and Torrance. 

Monday April 20th...The stars of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series presented by FloRacing are set to tackle a demanding Mid-Atlantic tripleheader with stops at Georgetown Speedway (DE), BAPS Motor Speedway (PA), and Hagerstown Speedway (MD). With three races in as many nights, spanning from Friday, April 24, through Sunday, April 26, teams will be tested on versatility, endurance, and speed across three distinctly different dirt tracks.

Big O Speedway Welcomes POWRi 410 Outlaw Sprint Debut Doubleheader

Monday April 20th...Everything is bigger in Texas, and the POWRi Honest Abe Roofing 410 Outlaw Sprint League is bringing big horsepower to match as the series storms into Big O Speedway for its debut appearance on April 24–25. A pair of action-packed nights await with $5,000 going to Friday’s winner before Saturday’s $7,000-to-win finale crowns the weekend victor in Ennis.

Tyler Reddick enjoys good fortune at the expense of his car owner

 We’ve all heard the expression, “I’d rather be lucky than good.”

 “Why not both?” Tyler Reddick could have asked on Sunday afternoon. 

Monday April 20th...To be sure, it takes consummate skill and excellent equipment to win five of the first nine races in a NASCAR Cup Series season. After all, no other driver had accomplished that feat since NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt won six of the first nine events in 1987.

A New Home for Drake with RMS for ’26 USAC Midget Season

Dave Olsen

Monday April 20th...Kale Drake has a new address for the 2026 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season.


 

The 20-year-old Collinsville, Oklahoma native will pilot the RMS Racing No. 4 on the full 29-race tour this coming year after competing for the past two-plus seasons with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports

 

 lOCAL TRACK RACING & TESTING PREVIOUS RACING & TESTING

Friday April 17TH THRU Sunday April 19th

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Reddick scraped the outside wall in the closing laps. His fuel system stumbled at a critical moment. He collided with fellow Toyota driver Christopher Bell in overtime. He fell behind defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson on the final restart.

Alex Palou got the break he needed and fast work from his Chip Ganassi Racing pit crew, and then he ran away with a victory Sunday in the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.

 

SUNSHINE’S SUNDAY: Courtney Tops Tri-State Barnburner After Intense Battle with Kofoid

Late contact between the two sends Kofoid around and Courtney to Victory Lane in his home state

Tyler Carr

Another bullring, another banger for the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series.

This time around the scene was Haubstadt, IN’s Tri-State Speedway. Weather pushed the Southern Indiana Showdown to Sunday, April 19, and Mother Nature delivered a prime evening for one of the wildest races of the season.

 

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Ivan Machado Perez continued his fine form by scoring his second win out of three USF Juniors races as the Continental Tire Grand Prix of South Carolina concluded this morning at Carolina Motorsports Park.

 

LEWIS SCORES FIRST USAC SOUTHWEST SPRINT WIN AT CENTRAL AZ

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Saturday April 18th...Ricky Lewis has won his share of USAC races out west in his career. On Saturday night, he added a first to his ever-growing list at Casa Grande’s Central Arizona Raceway.

 NightBuoy, Lacombe, Woods, and Flud Victorious in Mini Sprint Nationals Championship Night

Saturday April 18th...Frank Flud earned the A-Class feature victory, Cash Lacombe claimed Non-Wing honors, Dawson Woods topped Restricted competition, and Bryton Buoy scored the Jr Sprint win to cap Championship Night of the Whelen Engineering Mini Sprint Nationals presented by Start2Finish TV at I-44 Speedway with the POWRi/NOW600 RaceTech Titanium $uper $eries.

Saturday April 18th...The 2026 Super Cup Stock Car Series season kicked off at Shenandoah Speedway with close competition, an assortment of approaches, and multiple drivers setting the early bar toward the upcoming string of spring events and ultimate championship goal.

DANNER SLIDES WAY TO VICTORY IN BRIDGEPORT USAC EAST COAST OPENER

Steve Koletar

Saturday April 18th...Allentown, Pennsylvania’s Briggs Danner rolled into New Jersey’s Bridgeport Motorsports Park with one goal – win.He got it, but not without a full-throttle fight from start to finish.

KTJ GOES WEST, WINS USAC CRA SPRINTS AT CASA GRANDE

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Saturday April 18th...Kevin Thomas Jr. capitalized on Ricky Lewis’ misfortune, then led the remaining 13 laps to capture Saturday night’s Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car main event at Central Arizona Raceway.

Buoy, Lacombe, Woods, and Flud Victorious in Mini Sprint Nationals Championship

Taylor Gray wins eventful NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Kansas
 The early bird got the victory on Saturday night.

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Saturday April 18th...The first of the frontrunners to pit during the final 95-lap green-flag run in the Kansas Lottery 300, Taylor Gray grabbed the lead during the cycle and held off charging Sheldon Creed to score the second NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series victory of his career.

COMPETITION RESULTS FROM 2026 FORMULA DRIFT SUPER DRIFT CHALLENGE DAY 2

Saturday April 18th...The drivers were split between the Formula DRIFT PRO and PROSPEC Championships. While the PRO teams competed on this course last weekend, the PROSPEC drivers don’t compete on the Streets of Long Beach during their season, giving the PRO drivers an advantage 

The Long Beach IMSA GTP Wait Is Over for Acura

Van der Zande’s Street Course Prowess Continues with Yelloly in No. 93 ARX-06

ISaturday April 18th...t was a long time coming, but Acura and Honda Racing Corporation USA (HRC US) claimed their first overall victory on the streets of Long Beach during the modern era of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship – and more importantly, for the first time since Acura became the title sponsor of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach in 2019.

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Saturday April 18th...USF Juniors Presented by Continental Tire made quite an impression on its first-ever visit to South Carolina with Cole Medeiros and Ivan Machado Perez each taking a victory in the first two of three races that will comprise this weekend’s Continental Tire Grand Prix of South Carolina.

 

Vasser Sullivan Lexus Back on Top of GTD in Long Beach Telitz, Pedersen Bring No. 12 Lexus RC F GT3 to Win

Saturday April 18th...At a certain point, the dam was going to break for Vasser Sullivan Racing and its venerable Lexus RC F GT3 in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship after a two-year winless drought. The last place where the team won on an important milestone in its history was a good place to do it.

Acura Breaks Through for Long-Awaited IMSA Long Beach Win

Vasser Sullivan Lexus’ No. 12 RC F GT3 Captures the GTD Flag to End Its Drought

 

Saturday April 18th...Long-awaited win droughts ended under sunny Southern California skies in Saturday’s 100-minute Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, the third round of the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.

Saturday April 18th...FORECASTED THUNDERSTORMS CANCEL HOVIS RUSH LATE MODEL FLYNN'S TIRE/GUNTER'S HONEY TOUR OPENER SATURDAY AT PITTSBURGH
tyler Reddick claims third 2026 pole position in Kansas time trials

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Saturday April 18th...A fourth victory from the pole position would suit Tyler Reddick just fine, after the driver of the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota prevailed in Saturday’s highly competitive qualifying session at Kansas Speedway.

Saturday April 18th...Three down, one to go for Meyer Shank Racing this weekend at Long Beach.

Felix Rosenqvist continued the team’s California dreaming by winning the NTT P1 Award for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach on Saturday with a lap of 1 minute, 7.4635 seconds in the No. 60 SiriusXM/Acura Honda fielded by Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb Agajanian.

A MONEY START: Mat Williamson Opens Title Defense With Albany-Saratoga Victory

It’s the St. Catharines, ON driver’s 39th career Series win, tying Bob McCreadie

 

Joe Grabianowski

Friday April 17th..It didn’t take long for Mat Williamson to show the rest of the field that the road to the Super DIRTcar Series championship still goes through him.

Wickens Returns to IMSA, Ascends to GTD Pole in Long Beach

Post-Qualifying Tech Inspection Moves Canadian to the Front of the Field

Friday April 17th..Robert Wickens will have the best possible vantage point for his return to IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition on Saturday in the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach (4 p.m. ET, NBC).

Friday April 17th...Legends Clash at Ten Tenths Motor Club: Busch Edges Gordon in Thrilling IROC Event at the 2026 Heritage Invitational

Bryton Buoy, Dawson Woods, Jadyn Friesen, and Frank Flud Find Victories in Mini Sprint Nationals Night One

 

 

Friday April 17th..Frank Flud would earn the feature win in A-Class, Jadyn Friesen in Non-Wing, and Dawson Woods in Restricted, while Bryton Buoy was victorious in the Jr. Sprint division at I-44 Speedway with the POWRi/NOW600 RaceTech Titanium $uper $eries on Night One of the Whelen Engineering Mini Sprint Nationals presented by Start2Finish TV.

COMPETITION RESULTS FROM 2026 FORMULA DRIFT SUPER DRIFT CHALLENGE DAY 1

 

Friday April 17th..The drivers were split between the Formula DRIFT PRO and PROSPEC Championships. While the PRO teams competed on this course last weekend, the PROSPEC drivers don’t compete on the Streets of Long Beach during their season, giving the PRO drivers an advantage

 

Acura Attempts an Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Win from Pole 

Yelloly Delivers No. 93 ARX-06 the Top Spot; Wittmann, BMW in Second

Friday April 17th..Ahead of Saturday’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, Acura topped the close competition on display throughout a busy day of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship action.

Power, Andretti Drop Hammer in Opening Long Beach Practice

Friday April 17th..After a blistering lap at Long Beach, it’s safe to say Will Power is starting to find his comfort zone at Andretti Global.

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