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(Kokomo, IN) -- Shane Clanton captured the $20,000 top prize on the opening night of the XR Super Series Kokomo Dirt Nationals Monday at Kokomo Speedway. Tyler Erb finished second and Jimmy Owens was third. Brandon Sheppard charged from 16th to fourth as Jonathan Davenport rounded out the top-five. Tyler Nicely triumphed in UMP Modifieds. XR SUPER SERIES LATE MODELS FEATURE RESULTS (4) 25 Shane Clanton – Zebulon, GA (3) 1 Tyler Erb – New Waverly, TX (5) 20 Jimmy Owens – Newport, TN (16) B5...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Kokomo, IN) -- USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship racing is headed back to Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway one more time this season on Friday night, September 30. The event that night was originally scheduled to take place at the Terre Haute (Ind.) Action Track, but the event’s promoters have decided that it is in the best interest of racers and fans to move the event to Kokomo Speedway rather than cancel the event. PHOTO CREDIT: Ryan Sellers Photo “We are very...more

By XR Super Series (Kokomo, IN) -- Tim McCreadie drove past Jonathan Davenport with 12 laps to go and went on to earn a $40,000 win at the Kokomo Dirt Nationals on Tuesday night. McCreadie started from the outside of the second row and almost immediately found himself stalking Davenport over the course of the first 40 circuits of the 60-lap XR Super Series main event at Kokomo Speedway. As the two approached traffic just past halfway, McCreadie began closing the gap, putting his Paylor...more

KOKOMO, IN (Monday, September 19th - Tuesday, September 20th) - Photos from Race XR's Kokomo Dirt Nationals at the Kokomo Speedway featuring the XR Super Series and DIRTcar Modifieds! Shane Clanton picked up the Kokomo Dirt Nationals Victory on Monday Night holding off Tyler Erb and Jimmy Owens in a thriller for the $20,000 XR Super Series Victory! Tim McCreadie cashed in and picked up the $40,000 to Win Kokomo Dirt Nationals on Tuesday Night for the XR Super Series! McCreadie would work his...more

By Richie Murray (Kokomo, IN) -- Justin Grant had never experienced a victory quite like he did Saturday night at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway. Just two nights after scoring a 100-lap, long distance USAC Silver Crown race, the Ione, California native reigned triumphant in one of the shortest feature events in the 66-year history of USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship racing. PHOTO CREDIT: David Nearpass photo Under threatening skies that hovered over the top of Kokomo’s quarter-mile dirt...more

KOKOMO, IN – April 30, 2023 – With thunderstorms set to douse the track and facility over the coming days, High Limit Sprint Car Series and Kokomo Speedway officials have agreed to push Tuesday’s originally scheduled date back by one day. The third round of the inaugural High Limit Sprint Car Series campaign – presented by Driven2SaveLives, an organ donation awareness program by the Indiana Donor Network – will now take place on Wednesday, May 3. “We feel like this gives the track and facility...more

By Brandon Paul - By After much anticipation, the High Limit Sprint Car Series has started to release details about the series' inaugural season. On Monday evening, High Limit officials announced the first three events on the 2023 schedule. First up on the schedule will be the season opener on Tuesday, April 11 at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City, KS. The event will pay $50,000 to win and feature many of the biggest names in sprint car racing. From there the series will make its way to 34...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Kokomo, IN) -- Snakebitten is a word that has been used to describe Tyler Courtney’s fortunes at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway throughout the 2020 season. It’s almost hard to imagine that fact for a driver who has become synonymous with victory lane at the track in recent years. Courtney rediscovered the fountain of success once again Saturday night in the Sprint Car Smackdown IX finale at Kokomo, a track in which he had won at six times in his USAC National career...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Kokomo, IN) -- Entering Friday’s second night of Sprint Car Smackdown at Kokomo Speedway, no driver had ever swept victories on both prelim nights of the event. And then came Kyle Cummins, who became the first to accomplish the feat after earlier capturing Thursday’s opener. In fact, dating back to early August, Friday marked the Princeton, Indiana driver’s third consecutive USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car victory, the first to “triple-up” in nearly four years...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Kokomo, IN) -- Without a caution on the aborted initial start of Thursday night's feature at Kokomo Speedway, Kyle Cummins said he felt like he would've had the lead coming out of turn four on that opening lap. That came, albeit while starting sixth on the grid in the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Smackdown IX opener at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway. The Princeton, Ind. native was confident that the symbiosis between his car and his abilities were such to make that a...more