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Please check back on the website for updates. If you are planning to head to the Speedway, please call the Speedway office at 605 223 9885 for updates. Also, please call Marlin Roseland, at 605 222 0798, or Mike Schmidt, at 605 222 1733.

The schedule changes are as follows:

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Butler Machinery/Eddie's Truck Center Shootout

This Shootout will be a double payout, with $1400.00 to win in the Box Shootout, $1400.00 to win in the No Box Shootout. We will also hold a Trophy Shootout and Junior Dragster Shootout that day.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Budweiser/Coca Cola Points Race #1

This race will kick off our 2008 points series.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Budweiser/Coca Cola Points Race #2&3

We will award double points for the race on Monday. This will get us back on track for our ten race, Budweiser / Coca Cola 2008 Points Series.

Dales A-1/Midwest Construction Super Class Series Race #1

The first of five points races for the 2008 season will be run.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Mayors Challenge Race

We have moved the race to June 8, 2008.

2008 Points Series/Sponsor Appreciation

T-Shirts

Will Arrive Soon!!

Graphic for the 2008 Points Series / Sponsor Appreciation

T-Shirt(Simes Graphic Designs)

Back design for new t-shirts(Simes Graphic Designs)

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The 2008 Points Series/Sponsor Appreciation t-shirt design has been finalized and sent to the printer. Jay Simes, of Simes Graphic Designs, created the design for the shirts. The shirts will be given to all title sponsors in appreciation of their support and dedication to Oahe Speedway in 2008. In addition, all series points racers will receive a shirt as part of their registration in the 2008 Oahe Speedway points series.

Budweiser / Coca Cola

Points Series

Race #1

Sunday, May 11

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

All Oahe Speedway racers are reminded that 2008 Budweiser / Coca Cola Points Series begins on May 11, 2008. Please remember that points are not retroactive. All forms must be received by the speedway no later than Sunday, May 11, to qualify for points on that day. If the sign up form is received after the 11th, points will not awarded until the next race. Racers are allowed to sign up for points at any time during the season, but will not accumulate points until they are registered.

The registration fee for the 2008 Budweiser / Coca Cola Points Series is $25.00.

Benefits Include:

Oahe Speedway competition number
Earn points toward Oahe Speedway 2008 season championship
Earn points toward possible inclusion on the Oahe Speedway Division 5 Summit Racing ET Finals
Use of the Express Tech Lane, after passing the Oahe Speedway Annual Tech Inspection (ATI) for the 2008 season
2008 Oahe Speedway T-Shirt

The Racers Gate, Tower, and Tech Inspectors will have forms on hand. To speed up the process, the form is available online by clicking the link below.

2008 Points Series Form

Join us for

The Fast Track

Thursday Night

Monday May 4, 2008

The second edition of the 2008 Fast Track show, presented by Budweiser, live from the Longbranch, in downtown Pierre, will kick off the weekend's race activities. Join track announcer, Mike Schmidt, and starter, Brad Lawrence, for a free- wheeling discussion of drag racing, Oahe Speedway style. The Longbranch has hosted the show, broadcast live on KCCR 1240 AM, for the past three seasons. The show begins at 6pm, on any Thursday, before a race weekend. The Longbranch offers great drink specials and a full service menu before, during and after the Fast Track. Stop in any time to register for Oahe Speedway tickets, to be given away, during the show.

Oahe Speedway

Racing Resumes May 10 & 11

Monday, May 4, 2008

Following an extra week off, due to forecast weather, Oahe Speedway will resume the 2008 season on May 10 & 11. Butler Machinery will be the title sponsor for the Saturday Shootout races. The Box Shootout winner will receive $700, with the No Box winner picking up the same amount. Trophies will be awarded in the Trophy Shootout as well as in the Junior Dragster Shootout. Butler Machinery returns for a 3rd year as a shootout

weekend sponsor.

The first ever Mayors Challenge will bring together nine area mayors for a friendly competition on the speedway quarter mile. Citizens of the participating towns have been invited to cheer on their mayor.

In addition, the first of five races, in the Dale's A-1/ Midwest Construction

Super Class Series, will be run. This series brings together Super Comp, Super Gas and Super Street class cars in a bracket style race. 2008 marks return of Dale's A-1 Transmission, of Mitchell, as a title sponsor of the second annual Super Class Series. Midwest Construction, Pierre, joins as a cosponsor of this popular series. Defending champion, Cary Shonley, of Mitchell, will contend for the championship again, in 2008.

Sunday will feature the first of ten Budweiser / Coca Cola points series races. All Oahe Speedway classes will begin the summer long contest to determine the champions in Super Pro, Pro ET, Motorcycle/Snowmobile, Sportsman, Street Trophy, High School, and Junior Dragster.

Racers gate opens at 8am on Saturday, with spectator gates open at noon. Qualifying will begin at 1pm and eliminations at 5pm. Sunday action resumes at 9am with qualifying and eliminations at 1pm.

Dale's A-1/Midwest Construction

Super Class Series Begins May 10

Friday, May 2, 2008

The first of five races, in the 2008 Dale's A-1/Midwest Construction Super Class Series, will highlight racing action at Oahe Speedway on Saturday, May 10. The popular series returns to the speedway for a second year. Midwest Construction of Pierre, joins with Dale's A-1 Transmission, of Mitchell, to sponsor the gathering of the best Super Pro, Super Gas and Super Street racers in the upper Midwest. The inaugural outing, last year, brought racers from SD, ND, MN, IA, NB, WY and KS to the "Dam Fast Track". Cary Shonley, Mitchell, took the title last year with consistent finishes. Shonley will return to defend his title.

Gates open at 8am on Saturday, Qualifying will begin at 1pm and eliminations at 5pm.

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Oahe Speedway will Postpone May 3-4 Races

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

In light of the weekend forecasts, Oahe Speedway will postpone this

weekend's racing to the following weekend, May 10 and 11. The National Weather Service is calling for cool temperatures with rain and snow likely Thursday and Friday.

The Mayors Challenge, Dales A-1 Transmission/Midwest Construction Super Series Race #1, and the Butler Machinery Shootout Races, scheduled for Saturday, May 3, will now be moved to Saturday, May 10.

The first race of the 2008 Budweiser/Coca Cola points series will be moved from May 4 to May 11.

Please call the Speedway hotline at 605 223 9885, with any questions. In addition, you may contact us at info@oahespeedway.com, You may also call Marlin Roseland, at 605 222 0798, or Mike Schmidt, at 605 280 0879.

New Photo Gallery added to Website

Thursday, April 24, 2008

A new photo gallery has been added to the Oahe Speedway website.

Just click on Photo Gallery 2008 in the left-hand column to go to the new area. This addition should be more user friendly and easier to navigate.

Please take the time to check it out and send any comments or suggestions to info@oahespeedway.com.

To go to

Photo Gallery 2008

click here

Results Posted for Opening Weekend

Monday, April 21, 2008

Oahe Speedway's 2008 season has officially begun. Test and tune sessions on Saturday allowed the racers to work out the bugs and shake off the cobwebs. Racers from SD, ND , MN , IA, WY and NB, braved the cool, windy conditions to challenge the well prepped track. Sunday proved to be just as breezy, with the running of the first Shootout races of the year.

In the Box Shootout, Curt Humann, of Pierre, defeated 2007 Oahe Speedway Super Pro champ, Curt Hieb of Chamberlain. Humann, with a better reaction time, was able to drive around Hieb for the first win of the season. Jeff Friman, of Pierre, with a top speed of 175.06 mph, and a reaction time of .002, took the number 1 qualifying spot.

No Box Shootout winner, Thad Smith, of Pierre faced Roger Hanson, of Pierre, in the final. Hanson, leaving first on the slower dial in, could not hold off the hard charging Smith for the win. Hanson, in his first outing in Sean Billet's former "All Pucker'd Up" '81 Malibu, qualified fourth, while winner Smith qualified 5th. Randy Hirsch, of Pierre, pulled off a near perfect .001 reaction time to take the number one qualifying spot.

Doug Percy, of Winner, took the first Trophy Shootout of the season. Percy dueled with Alyssa Colson, of Blunt in the final. Colson broke out at the finish line in an attempt to catch Percy. Both Percy and Colson were the first to receive the new trophies to be awarded by the speedway this season. Upon seeing the new trophy design from racetroiphies.com on the speedway website, Percy told his family that he "really wanted to win one." Allen Pope, of Pierre, became the first racer to qualify for the motorraceimages.com Perfect Light award. Pope qualified number one in the class with a perfect .000 reaction time.

The Jr Dragster Shootout saw Carly Ellingson, Rapid City , and James Morris, 2007 Oahe Speedway Jr Dragster class champion, run off in a heads up competition. Both drivers, dialed in at 7.92, broke out at the finish line. Ellingson broke out closer to her dial in to take the win. Ellingson took both the top speed and quickest reaction time in qualifying. The Bars Leaks sponsored driver lead the field with a .009 reaction time and top speed of 83.97 mph in the 1/8th mile competition

In the first Gambler's race of the season, Van Huse, of Onida, beat Mike Moldenhauer, of Jud, ND. Huse, driving his unique Tuttle Mini Dragster, powered by a 2000 Kawasaki motorcycle engine, trailered Moldenhauer's '07 Denali in the final.

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