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Mother Nature just has not been a race fan at the tracks that Taylor Ferns has been scheduled to compete at thus far in 2015. Hoping to get a pair of shows in last week in home state of Michigan, Ferns was rained out on two consecutive nights. The first night at Hartford Speedway with the Sprints on Dirt, a heat race was started and then cut short due to rain, with the feature getting rained out, while her second scheduled race with the World of Outlaws at I-96 Speedway was postponed by...more

World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series takes on Kokomo Speedway, the NAPA Auto Parts Outlaw Showdown at I-80 Speedway and the O’Reilly Auto Parts presents the Outlaws at Lakeside Speedway CONCORD, N.C. - June 2, 2015 - The World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series takes on three different race tracks in three different states in the week ahead as last year's events saw three different winners. First up is the high-banked, quarter-mile Kokomo Speedway in Indiana on Wednesday. In a rain postponed event,...more

North Dakota will always be home for Donny Schatz, but Indiana could probably be considered a home away from home for the six-time and defending World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series champion. After all, his Tony Stewart Racing team is based in the Indianapolis suburb of Brownsburg, and Schatz won four out of five races on Hoosier soil last season. One of those victories came at Kokomo Speedway, which marked the first time he had won at the always racy quarter-mile bullring. Schatz will return to...more

(Photo by Seth Lacewell) Inside Line Promotions – ATTICA, Ohio (June 1, 2015) – Jason Sides registered his best World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series finish at Attica Raceway Park since 2011 last Friday. Sides scored a seventh-place result out of the 41 competitors at the Kistler Engines Classic to garner his 17th top 10 of the season. “Overall it was a good night,” he said. “It was really satisfying to get a top 10 there, especially with all of the talented drivers racing.” The night began with...more

Kokomo, Indiana ........After an incident on the final lap of the Kokomo Speedway Sprint Car race that preceded Saturday night's USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget feature, perhaps it was fate that we would see Kevin Thomas, Jr. and Justin Grant meet again in some form or fashion on the second night of the "Kokomo Grand Prix." Justin Grant got the best of Thomas in the sprint tilt, picking up the victory following a last-lap, side-by-side battle that wound up with Thomas on his head before...more

Kokomo, Indiana .........Tyler Courtney's grip of the "Kokomo Grand Prix" seems to be as firm as the grip he currently holds on the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship following Friday night's victory at Kokomo Speedway, his second straight in the "GP" and his third in the first four races on the 2019 series' trail. The Indianapolis, Indiana driver raced to the lead just prior to the halfway point, utilizing the bottom of the racetrack to track down early race leader Kevin...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Kokomo, IN) -- For the past 10 years, the term “Smackdown” served as a noun that was utilized to refer to the annual three-race weekend held in the month of August at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway. On Saturday night, Kyle Cummins fully demonstrated “Smackdown” as a verb, crushing the field in a 40-lap romp that rewarded him with a total prize of $35,000 for a night’s worth of work in winning the Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Smackdown XI main event. PHOTO CREDIT:...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Kokomo, IN) -- The difference was night and day for Kevin Thomas Jr. during Friday’s Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Sprint Car Smackdown night two at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway. In one sense, the Cullman, Ala. racer captured the second round of Smackdown for the second consecutive year – last year’s running being held in the daytime – while this year’s was held under the lights. PHOTO CREDIT: David Nearpass Photo On the other hand, the juxtaposition of KTJ’s...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Kokomo, IN) -- Justin Grant made it copiously clear that we’re in the midst of the JG era at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway. During Thursday night’s Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Cars Sprint Car Smackdown XI opener, the Ione, Calif. native prevailed over a rapidly closing, and 22nd place restarting, Kyle Cummins to win his fifth USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship feature start in his past six starts at Kokomo’s quarter-mile dirt oval. PHOTO CREDIT: Jack Reitz...more

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Kokomo, IN) -- After enduring a vicious flip during the previous night's feature that wiped out their primary ride, C.J. Leary and BGE Dougherty Motorsports turned to a car that had been sitting on jackstands for the past three years and had never seen a racetrack, let alone even touched the ground. With body panels adorned in the look Leary sported during the 2020 season when he drove the family-owned No. 30, the Greenfield, Ind. native and his Altoz – Hornbeck...more