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Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 27, 2011) – The fireworks start early for the Speedway Motors ASCS Midwest Region as the series takes to a pair of Nebraska dirt ovals on Thursday and Friday. The Fourth of July holiday weekend’s racing action gets off to an early start Thursday night at McCool Junction’s Junction Motor Speedway before moving on to Greenwood’s I-80 Speedway on Friday night. Thursday’s McCool tilt offers up a $2,000 winner’s share, with Friday’s action paying $3,000 to win...more

Lonnie Wheatley, McCOOL JUNCTION, Neb. (May 27, 2011) – Danny Lasoski turned the tables on shop-mate and nephew Brian Brown by taking the $3,000 winner’s share in Friday night’s 25-lap Speedway Motors ASCS Midwest main event at Junction Motor Speedway. One night after chasing Brown to the stripe at I-80 Speedway, “The Dude” prevailed this time by snaring his second ASCS Regional feature win of the year aboard the Kistler-powered Creason Pipeline Service/Michael Ross Foundation No. 33...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (May 23, 2011) – The Speedway Motors ASCS Midwest Region gets an early start on the Memorial Day weekend racing festivities with a pair of events in Nebraska this Thursday and Friday. On Thursday, the Speedway Motors ASCS Midwest Region takes to Nebraska Raceway Park’s I-80 Speedway in Greenwood. Then, on Friday night, it’s on to McCool Junction’s Junction Motor Speedway. Thursday’s card offers up a $2,000-to-win first-place purse, while Friday’s tilt at McCool...more

(Bill W) September 21, 2010 – Billy Alley has been in a familiar place the last two weeks…on the podium after a sprint car race. The familiar place has not been that familiar in 2010. The year has seen a myriad of mechanical problems plague the Lincoln, Nebraska driver. He is just happy to be running up front now. A third place at McCool Junction on September 11 was followed by a second place finish last Friday night at Park Jefferson Speedway with the JSTS. Things were going well before...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (September 7, 2010) – A big weekend looms for the American Sprint Car Series Midwest Region with a first-time Missouri venue on Friday night leading into a pair of Nebraska events on Saturday and Sunday. The weekend kicks off with a $1,500 to win event at Warrensburg’s Central Missouri Speedway on Friday night, moves on to McCool Junction’s Junction Motor Speedway for a $3,000 to win tilt on Saturday night and then concludes with Sunday night’s $5,000 to win...more

Lonnie Wheatley, McCOOL JUNCTION, Neb. (July 1, 2010) – Chad Humston kicked off the ASCS Midwest Region’s Fourth of July holiday weekend double header by racing to his first series win of the year in Thursday night’s 25-lap main event at Junction Motor Speedway. Humston assumed the point on a mid-race restart when Jack Dover retired with engine woes and then beat a closing Ryan Roberts to the stripe to secure his fourth career ASCS Midwest win aboard Mark Burch’s Engler Machine & Tool No. 1m...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 28, 2010) – The American Sprint Car Series Midwest Region kicks off the Fourth of July weekend racing festivities with a pair of events in Cornhusker Territory this Thursday and Friday. The Holiday weekend officially gets under way when the ASCS Midwest Regional forces take to Junction Motor Speedway in McCool Junction, NE, on Thursday night, before then moving on to Nebraska Raceway Park’s I-80 Speedway between Lincoln and Omaha on Friday night. This...more

Concord, NC—June 28, 2010— Biggest crowd in track history: The World of Outlaws debuted at Junction Motor Speedway last Friday night to the largest crowd in the history of the state-of-the-art high-banked 3/8-mile located in McCool Junction, Nebraska. The event marked the first 410-winged Sprint Car race at the track since 2006 and just the fifth-ever 410-winged Sprint Car race at the facility. Fans began arriving very early in the afternoon and by race time many were standing alongside the...more

McCool Junction, NE— June 25, 2010—Brooke Tatnell certainly doesn’t have the largest hauler in the pit area or the most parts in his trailer, but what he does have is determination, an unending work ethic and a passion for sprint car racing that is second to none. That all showed on Friday night as he scored his second World of Outlaws win of the season as the series made their debut at Junction Motor Speedway in McCool Junction, Nebraska in front of the largest crowd in track history. Tatnell...more

[b McCool Junction, NE—June 22, 2010—]The World of Outlaws have driven past Junction Motor Speedway quite a few times over the last six years, traveling up and down US 81, but have never made a stop at the high-banked 3/8-mile located in McCool Junction, Nebraska. That will all change this weekend as the series visits the state-of-the-art facility for the first time ever on Friday, June 25 for a full night of racing as a swing through the Midwest continues. Joey Saldana leads the way having...more