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By: Rob Goodman Indiana’s Baddest Bullring returns to action for the first time in 2024 with the running of the Kokomo Grand Prix this Friday & Saturday! The USAC National Midgets & Kokomo Sprint Cars will lift the lid on the 77th season of action at Kokomo with complete shows on both evenings. The Friday night event will be the season opener for the USAC National Midgets. It will also be the first National Midget event at the speedway in almost 2 years. Mother Nature was not very kind to the...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Kokomo, IN) -- It had been a long time coming for Cannon McIntosh. Entering Saturday night’s USAC Indiana Midget Week round at Kokomo Speedway, the Bixby, Oklahoma driver had endured a more than 20 month absence from USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship victory lane, a span of 57 series races without a triumphant celebration. PHOTO CREDIT: Travis Branch But Saturday night all belonged McIntosh as he steered his Dave Mac Dalby Motorsports/Crescent...more

This Friday night, October 14, Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway serves as the backdrop for Friday night’s “Kokomo Klash X” where the 2016 USAC Indiana Midget Championship is on the line in the series finale and eight drivers remain mathematically eligible for the title. However, they will have to contend with series point leader Carson Macedo of California who tops the standings by 23 over the red hot Tanner Thorson out of Nevada who, just last weekend, swept the “Gold Crown Midget Nationals” in...more

A celebration of life for Bryan Clauson will be held Wednesday night, August 24 at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway. The celebration will be held in conjunction with the USAC Sprint Car "Special Event" held at the track the very same night. Admission is free. The stories start at 1pm with hot laps beginning at 6:30pm. After the racing action for the night has concluded, a concert by country music artist Tim Dugger will be held at Kokomo Speedway's turn four pub. If needed, the rain date for Bryan's...more

Brady Bacon – Time to Take a Breath, Midget Week/Eastern Storm Conclude! (Bill W) June 13, 2016 – Seventeen nights of racing in nineteen days for Brady Bacon concluded Sunday with the final USAC National Sprint Car Series “Eastern Storm” event at Susquehanna Speedway near Newberrytown, Pennsylvania. The Broken Arrow, Oklahoma finished fifth at Indiana Midget Week before towing east for an “Eastern Storm” tour that saw him maintain his point advantage with the sprint car series. This weekend,...more

Rico Abreu finished off a stretch of Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports domination Sunday night at Kokomo Speedway, becoming the fifth driver from the team’s stable to win during the five nights of “Indiana Midget Week.” However, a string of consistent finishes by RKR/Dooling Racing pilot Bryan Clauson throughout the week was enough to earn the Noblesville, Indiana driver his third “Indiana Midget Week” title. Coming into the night, Clauson held a 40-point advantage over Spencer Bayston in...more

This weekend’s “Kokomo Grand Prix” for USAC’s National Midget Championship races at the Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway have been cancelled due to inclement weather. There is no re-schedule of this event planned. “We are disappointed that the weather has intervened, producing conditions not conducive for racing for race fans or participants,” said race organizer Reece O’Connor. “We want this event to offer everyone a pleasant atmosphere of fun and these weather forecasts will not permit that.” Kokomo...more

(Photo by Justin Brester) Inside Line Promotions – WATSONVILLE, Calif. (April 4, 2016) – Chase Johnson has an exciting weekend on tap. Johnson is scheduled to make his debut at Kokomo Speedway in Kokomo, Ind., this Friday when he will pilot a midget for Matt Wood Racing during the Kokomo Grand Prix with the USAC National Midget Series. “I think that will be a lot of fun,” he said. “I’ve been to Kokomo to watch two years ago. That place is very neat. You rank that track up there with the great...more

(Photo by A.B.C. Photography) MONROVIA, Ind. – A season full of excellent performances marred by bad luck has continued for Justin Peck. Five top-three starts in the seven races following his September 15 POWRi victory at Spoon River Speedway in Lewistown, Ill., but just one of those seven culminated with a feature finish. Issues with torsion bar stops ended races early on multiple occasions for the Mooresville (Ind.) High School junior, including his bid from the pole position in the “Jason...more