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Race fans were treated to exciting racing action on the season opening Saturday night at Oakshade Raceway, highlighted by Matt Miller’s UMP Late Model feature win. Defending UMP Late Model Track Champion Rusty Schlenk took the lead at the start of the 25-lap feature after starting on the pole. As Schlenk began to open an early…

Oakshade Raceway officially kicked off the 2012 racing season with a 200-Lap Enduro race on Sunday afternoon after the Bill Reckner Memorial season opener was cancelled due to inclement weather the night before. Shawn Stamm from Archbold, Ohio marched out to the early lead and maintained the point for most of the first 100…

A 37-car, 250 lap Enduro race capped off the 2011 racing season at Oakshade Raceway on Sunday afternoon with Dan Dippman overcoming set backs to win the $2,000 victory. Rob Liaeff took the lead out of the gate and led the first portion of the race until he got caught up in an accident…

Craig Dippman had to come from deep in the field to claim his second consecutive Bomber Spectacular victory over some very stout competition at Oakshade Raceway on Saturday night. Dan Plath took the initial lead of the Bomber Spectacular feature event after starting on the outside of the front row over Gregg Detray. The…

After rain outs the past couple weeks, Oakshade Raceway was finally host to a full weekend of racing. Three champions were crowned on Butch Hobling Season Championship Night on Saturday and 31 cars took to the track on Sunday afternoon for an exciting 200-Lap Enduro race. On Saturday, Matt Lindsey appeared to have the…

Rusty Schlenk capped off an incredible fourth championship season in the UMP Late Model division at Oakshade Raceway on Saturday night with a his seventh feature win of the year. Schlenk grabbed the lead at the start of the 30-lap Season Championship Late Model feature event and led the entire distance. Brad Eitniear,…

Defending UMP Late Model National Champion Rusty Schlenk notched another feature victory at Oakshade Raceway on Saturday night in an effort to repeat his Oakshade national championship and the Oakshade track championship. Schlenk has all but sewn up the Oakshade Raceway UMP Late Model Track Championship with a commanding lead going into the final…

Rusty Schlenk picked up his fifth Oakshade Raceway UMP Late Model feature win in the first Dual Push Truck Challenge feature event on Saturday night with Josh Scott finally getting his first ever Oakshade Raceway UMP Late Model feature win in the second feature. Schlenk started on the outside of the front row in…

Chris Keller made a clean sweep of the Oakshade Raceway Sportsman Twin 25's on Saturday night with impressive wins in both 25-lap feature events. Last week's Sportsman feature winner, Bruce Stuart, started on the pole and led the first half of the race. An incident that involved Billy Brown and Bob Krumm on the…

A heavy downpour shortly before race time at Oakshade Raceway delayed the start of racing, but it didn't dampen the smiles on at least 46 kids who went home with new wheels (bicycles, tricycles, scooters, etc.) on the “Night of Wheels.” It also made for some extremely fast racing with Rusty Schlenk finding his way…

Shannon Babb, from Moweaqua, Illinois, picked up his sixth consecutive DIRTcar UMP Summer Nationals win in front of a jam-packed crowd at Oakshade Raceway on Saturday night. It was the final event of the series in which Babb was crowned champion in addition to picking up the $10,000 check from Oakshade for winning the 13…