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Oakshade Raceway wrapped up the 2018 race season with a memorable night that even included outhouse racing. It turned out to be a pretty good night for UMP Late Model driver Steve Kester who won an exciting feature race shortly after crashing and rolling over in the outhouse races which his team managed to win. After…

The Bomber class took center stage Saturday night at Oakshade for the $1,000 to win Papa Boiler Hot Rod Welding & Engineering Bomber Spectacular. As the night's main event, the Bomber Spectacular A Main was first to roll out on to the track after intermission. Toledo, Ohio's Rich Riffe started on the outside of the second…

Several championships weren't decided until the final checkered flag of the night in each class on Saturday's Oakshade Raceway's Season Championship Night. The only championship that wasn't close was in the UMP Late Model class that saw Devin Shiels cap off his second consecutive track championship unofficially with a feature win. It only took Devin Shiels…

The UMP Modifieds made their third and final visit of the season to Oakshade Raceway under gloomy skies on Saturday night. The rain held off and Wauseon Ohio's Brad Eitniear drove his way to the feature win. The night started off with the make up Hot Rod Welding & Engineering Bomber B Main that was washed…

The final American Late Model Series (ALMS) event of the season at Oakshade Raceway produced some incredible racing action in which Rusty Schlenk had to overcome adversity to earn the $2,000 pay day. Just making the 30-lap ALMS feature proved to be quite a feat. Ryan Missler and Rusty Schlenk had an epic battle for the…

Another great field of cars filled the pits for Wauseon Machine & Manufacturing Night at Oakshade Raceway on Saturday with Matt Miller earning his first feature win of 2018 at Oakshade. Despite threatening skies and reports of rain all around the area, the racing action rolled on with the first of the Wauseon Machine & Manufacturing…

Thirty-two UMP Late Models filled the pits at Oakshade Raceway for Saturday evening's AmeriGas Night. Rusty Schlenk came out on top and picked up his fourth Oakshade Raceway feature win of the year. At the start of the 25-lap AmeriGas UMP Late Model feature, outside pole-sitter Chris Sands grabbed the lead with last week's feature…

Saturday night was Evergreen FFA/Alumni Night at Oakshade Raceway in which defending Oakshade Raceway UMP Late Model track champion Devin Shiels found his way to victory lane for the first time in 2018. The win increased his lead in a very tight point battle going into the final stretch of races. Shiels, out of Britton, Michigan,…

Saturday night was The Lead Shed night which featured Rusty Schlenk fending off a late race charge from Matt Miller to earn his third UMP Late Model feature win of the year at Oakshade Raceway. Schlenk started on the pole of The Lead Shed UMP Late Model feature and immediately took the lead, but on the…

Zack Dohm definitely made the six-hour trek from Cross Lanes, West Virginia, a worthwhile one, winning a combined $15,000 at Oakshade Raceway over the weekend by sweeping both DIRTcar Summer Nationals events including the $10,000 to win 20th Annual Birthday Race on Saturday night. Last year's Birthday Race winner, Kent Robinson, started on the pole and…

The DIRTcar Summer Nationals rolled into town for the first of two great nights of racing at Oakshade Raceway Friday evening which saw Zack Dohm capture the 40-lap late model feature win and Taylor Cook repeated his performance from one year ago with the modified win. It was Rusty Schlenk and Matt Miller duking it out…

An emotional Dan Wallace captured his first ever UMP Late Model feature win at Oakshade Raceway which highlighted a spectacular night of racing on Saturday. The Vintage American Race Cars (V.A.R.C.) also made an appearance with one of their biggest classic race car counts which necessitated two separate feature events for some fun old-time racing…