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Oakshade Raceway will kick off the 2020 race season with the annual Bill Reckner Memorial on Saturday, April 25 featuring the annual Bill Reckner Memorial with UMP Sportsman, Hot Rod Welding & Engineering Bombers and Compacts. Gates open at 4pm, hot laps at 6pm and racing will begin at 7pm. Click here for the full…

The 2019 Oakshade Racewat Awards Banquet is Saturday, December 7th at the Fulton County Fairgrounds Jr. Fair Building. Doors open at 5:15pm. Eat at 6pm. Awards to follow. Tickets are $25.00 each and on Sale till November 24th. No tickets sold at the door. For tickets you…

WAUSEON, OH – After last week’s originally scheduled season finale was rained out, Oakshade Raceway decided to extend the racing season one more week by adding an additional night of racing this past Saturday. It was a topless Ryan Missler that prevailed over a large field of late models for his second feature win of the season. Dusty Moore…

WAUSEON, OH – William “Bubba” Cundick topped 46 other Hot Rod Welding & Engineering Bombers to win The Papa Boiler Bomber Spectacular, earning a nice $1,000 payday at Oakshade Raceway on Saturday night. Early in the 25-lap Bomber Spectacular, Craig Dippman pulled out to a big lead. It was the first time Dippman has been in competition this year after…

WAUSEON, OH – Several close track championship point battles weren't decided until their class's final race Saturday night at Oakshade Raceway. One of those was for the UMP Late Models in which Devin Shiels won the Season Championship Night feature and unofficially clinched his third consecutive track championship at the same time. Dusty Moore started from the pole in the 25-lap…

WAUSEON, OH – Spiess Electric sweetened the pot at Oakshade Raceway for Saturday night's Bill Reckner Memorial A Mains with an extra $100 for the winners of the UMP Sportsman and Hot Rod Welding & Engineering Bombers winners and an extra $50 for the Napa of Swanton Compacts winner. Chris Keller stepped into Joe Keebler's ride and won the extra $100…

WAUSEON, OH – The final American Late Model Series (ALMS) event of the year at Oakshade Raceway showcased some spectacular racing, making for one of the most exciting feature events of the entire season which was won by Swanton, Ohio's Dusty Moore. Moore started on the pole for the 30-lap ALMS main event and jumped out to the early lead with…

After getting rained out the week before, Mother Nature provided the perfect racing weather backdrop Saturday night for Wauseon Machine & Manufacturing Night at Oakshade Raceway in which Rusty Schlenk, Jerry Signor and Jeff Foks Jr. all picked up their fourth feature wins of the season. It was Casey Noonan who pulled out to a big lead early in the…

WAUSEON, OH – Sprint car racing returned to Oakshade Raceway for the first time in almost 20 years at Oakshade Racway. Twenty-eight Buckeye Outlaw Sprint Series (BOSS) non-wing sprints were on hand with Troy, Ohio's Dallas Hewitt picking up the Central Collision Night BOSS 25-lap feature win after leading all but one lap. Tyler Gunn shot out to the lead after…

WAUSEON, OH – Two-time defending track champion Devin Shiels led from flag to flag in the UMP Late Model feature Satruday Night at Oakshade Raceway to pick up his second feature win of the season. The win slightly increases his point lead with only five point events remaining this year. The Britton, Michigan, driver started on the outside pole of the…

Rusty Schlenk from McClure, Ohio, started deep in the field for the 30th Annual Barney Oldfield Race at Oakshade Raceway and managed to get by Jeep Van Wormer late in the 40-lap feature for his third Barney Oldfield Race win. This puts Rusty in the elite company of the only other three-time Barney race winners…

Mother Nature did her best to thwart the scheduled racing program at Oakshade Raceway on Saturday night. The forecast high temperature and heat index caused race officials to push the scheduled race time back one hour to 8pm. Then, a storm rolled through with gusty winds and downpours just after hot laps at around 7:30pm. Track crews had a difficult time…