The Ohsweken Speedway is a 3/8 mile
dirt track in the village of
Ohsweken,
Ontario
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, Canada. Ohsweken’s weekly Friday night racing program runs from May to September each year, featuring 360 Sprint Cars, Crate Sprint Cars, Thunder Stocks, and Mini Stocks, while the season finishes each year with the annual Canadian Sprint Car Nationals. Ohsweken Speedway also hosts weekly Micro Sprint racing on Thursday nights, and hosted the
World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series
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from 2007 until 2017.
History
In 1994 race car driver Glenn Styres built the 3/8 mile oval Ohsweken Speedway on 80 acres of Styres family-owned land on the
Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Reserve southeast of
Brantford
Brantford (Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River (Ontario), Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by County of Brant, Brant County, but is politically separate with ...
,
Ontario
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. The track has been continuously expanded in each year of its existence.
The track’s seating capacity was increased to over 8,000 in 2008 and a project was conducted to install Musco lighting, illuminating the speedway to allow the World of Outlaws Sprint Car series to run at the facility.
World of Outlaws - Six Nations Showdown
The prestigious
World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series
The World of Outlaws (often abbreviated WoO) is an American motorsports sanctioning body. The body sanctions two major national touring series. It is best known for sanctioning the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series and the World of Outlaws Lat ...
made its first trip to Ohsweken Speedway for the first running of the Six Nations Showdown on July 25, 2007. Jason Sides won the inaugural event. In 2011,
NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart
Anthony Wayne Stewart (born May 20, 1971), nicknamed Smoke, is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver, current NASCAR team co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing, and current co-owner of the Superstar Racing Experience. He is a ...
won his first career World of Outlaws race at Ohsweken and repeated the victory in 2012.
Photo gallery
File:Photo of Ohsweken Speedway Front Straight.jpg, Front straight and grandstands.
File:Steve Kinser and Donny Schatz sprint cars in the Ohsweken Speedway pits.jpg, Steve Kinser and Donny Schatz sprint cars in the pits.
File:Ohsweken Speedway Pits.jpg, The pits.
File:Tony Stewart at Ohsweken Speedway.jpg, Tony Stewart at the Six Nations Showdown World of Outlaws event.
File:Ohsweken Speedway main grandstand from backstraight clay on fence.jpg, View of main grandstand from backstraight through clay on the crash fence.
See also
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Dirt track racing
Dirt track racing is a form of motorsport held on clay or dirt surfaced oval race tracks often used for thoroughbred horse racing. Dirt track racing started in the United States before World War I and became widespread during the 1920s and 1930s ...
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List of dirt track ovals in Canada
Dirt track racing is a type of auto racing performed on oval tracks in Canada. While not as widespread as in the U.S., is still quite popular. Most of the provinces offer several venues for both local racing and special events.
Venues Alberta
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Sprint car racing
Sprint cars are high-powered open-wheel race cars, designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks. Sprint car racing is popular primarily in the United States and Canada, as well as in Australia, New ...
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Short track motor racing
Oval track racing is a form of closed-circuit motorsport that is contested on an oval-shaped race track. An oval track differs from a road course in that the layout resembles an oval with turns in only one direction, and the direction of traffic ...
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Auto racing
Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.
Auto racing has existed since the invention of the automobile. Races of various sorts were organise ...
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Race track
A race track (racetrack, racing track or racing circuit) is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing). A race track also may feature grandstands or concourses. Race tracks are also u ...
References
External links
Ohsweken Speedway Official SiteGoogle Map view of Ohsweken SpeedwayWorld of Outlaws Sprint Car Series Official Site
{{Super DIRTcar Series tracks
Motorsport venues in Ontario
Dirt oval racing venues in Canada
Motorsport in Canada
1996 establishments in Ontario