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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…

Story by Gerry Keysor Adrian Michigan's Chris Keller showed up to Oakshade Raceway without a single sponsor on the No. 67 Late Model, but that didn't matter, as Keller would beat the field in the 50-lap Hell Tour UMP Late Model Finale, leading wire to wire. No. 2 Nick Hoffman bagged the 25-lap Dirtcar UMP…

Forty-five late models and 39 modifieds packed the pits for night one of the two-night Oakshade Raceway DIRTcar Summer Nationals Finale with Bloomington, Indiana's Kent Robinson besting Jason Feger in the night's main event. Feger started on the pole of the 40-lap feature and led most of the first half of the race. Devin Shiels, Frank Heckenast, Jr. and Rusty Schlenk battled…

Friday, July 12: DIRTcar Summer National Late Models & DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modifieds will be in action. Gates open at 12noon. Hot laps/qualifying at 6pm.  Races start at 8pm. Saturday, July 13: DIRTcar Summer National Late Models Finals, DIRTcar Summit Modifieds & Hot Rod Welding & Engineering Bombers will…

Clarklake, Michigan's Brian Ruhlman became the fifth different UMP Late Model feature winner in as many races this season at Oakshade Raceway on Saturday night after a slight rain delay. A brief downpour just before the start of hot laps put the night's racing program in jeopardy. However, track crews and drivers worked hard to run the track in, to…