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While hard at work prepping for an amazing 2022 season, we can't forget to celebrate the awesome summer we had this year! The 2021 season awards banquet will take place on Saturday January 22nd, 2022 at the Best Western near Park City. Here's all the info you need to know!!! Date: Saturday January 22nd, 2022 Place: Best Western Wichita North - 915 East 53rd St N, Wichita, KS 67219 Time: Doors open @ 5pm. Dinner served @ 6:30 (Cash bar also available). Banquet will end no later than...more

Building off of a stellar 2021 campaign, the World of Outlaws Late Models are prepared for a bigger 2022 with bigger purses, bigger races and new surprises along the way. Releasing their schedule earlier this week, 81 Speedway has earned a date on the 2022 calendar welcoming the Most Powerful Late Models on the Planet Saturday October 22nd. The Saturday night stop is race number two of a three race swing through Kansas and Missouri. The series visits Humboldt Speedway on Friday the 21st then...more

CORRECTION: The original release of this article had announced the Saturday April 9th MLRA event as paying $10,000 to win. In the MLRA's full schedule release on November 8th, their schedule indicated a $7,000 winners share. After verification with both 81 Speedway and MLRA officials, $7,000 to win is the correct amount for the Saturday April 9th event. The original article below has been edited to reflect the correct information. While the ink is barely dry on the 2021 race season here at...more

The Summit USMTS National Championship fueled by Casey’s capped a memorable 2021 season with a thriller at the 81 Speedway on Saturday night that saw Jake O’Neil spook the field for his tenth win of the campaign while Dereck Ramirez secured his first USMTS national title. As he has done in several of his victories, O’Neil had to fight his way past the best dirt modified racers on the planet after he found himself starting deep in the main event field from the inside of the seventh row. At the...more

Mission accomplished for Dereck Ramirez and Ramirez Racing. On Saturday night the Oklahoma native officially claimed his first-career Summit United States Modified Touring Series (USMTS) National Championship presented by Casey’s. (Todd Boyd photo) With a sixth-place finish in the tour’s season finale at 81 Speedway Ramirez clinched the title by 42 markers in his S&S Fishing & Rentals No. 4R Koda Services/ Boom-Test Well Service/ Raw Truck Wash/ Hughes Racing Chassis/ Cornett Racing Engine...more

REGISTRATION FEE: $150 REGISTER HERE - https://forms.gle/tRLzfQNfjKYRoJAL9 HOW TO SUBMIT ENTRY FEES - After online registration is submitted, please mail or deliver appropriate entry fee to: 81 Speedway 7700 North Broadway Street Park City, KS 67219 Please make sure to include your name, address, and phone number so we can match your entry fee to your registration information. Make checks and/or money orders payable to: 81 Speedway You can register at the pit window day of the event, but...more

Due to already damp grounds from precipitation earlier in the week, rain currently falling here at the Speedway, as well as more precipitation expected throughout the day today... Officials with 81 Speedway have been forced to cancel tonight's (Saturday, October 2nd) racing program. As this race was already a make up race rescheduled from earlier in the season, and the remainder of the month of October already set in place, tonight's program will not be made up. As such we would like to...more

By URSS PR (Park City, KS) -- Sixteen cars attended Saturday’s event at 81 Speedway in Park City, Kansas with the Drive to Zero POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series Presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing. The night saw Oklahoma-native, Ty Williams, with a dominating performance over the field from the drop of the green to the checkered. Williams also captured the dash win ahead of Kansas’ Jordan Knight, placing them on the front row for the 25-lap feature event. Williams quickly hurried off the...more

By URSS (Park City, KS) -- The Drive to Zero POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series Presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing resumes racing action on Saturday, September 18th. Competitors take to 81 Speedway in Wichita, Kansas to kick-off their year-end string of seven races in four weeks. The feature winner on Saturday will take home a $1,000 pay day. Green flag competition will take place at 7PM. General admission is $12 for adults, children 10 and under free. With the United Rebel Sprint Series...more

by John Rittenoure - PARK CITY, Kans. (September 11, 2021) - It was a night to remember Saturday at 81 Speedway. Most importantly was taking time to remember those that lost their lives 20 years ago on 9-11. It was also a night of racing that many 81 Speedway attendees will remember, especially if you are Terry Easum. Easum picked up his 2nd AmeriFlex / OCRS IMCA Sprint Car career victory on the famed Kansas 3/8’s mile oval located just north of Wichita. Easum bolted into the early lead from...more