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April 21, 2026

Kale Drake to run RMS No. 4 for full 29-race USAC slate

Kale Drake has signed with RMS Racing to drive the team’s No. 4 car for the full 29-race USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship. The 20-year-old from Collinsville, Oklahoma, will relocate to RMS’s Cedar Lake, Indiana, shop to work full time with the team, and his season is scheduled to begin at the Kokomo Grand Prix on April 24-25.

The move marks a personnel shift in the USAC paddock as Drake leaves a high-profile development program to join a new race team. He arrives after more than two seasons with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, carrying 46 USAC National Midget starts and three USAC feature wins over the past two seasons, including victories at Sweet Springs Motorsports Park and Circle City Raceway. Drake won the 2025 USAC Indiana Midget Week title, finished fifth in the 2025 USAC National Midget standings, and won a BC39 preliminary feature at Indianapolis in 2024. He also ran several events for RMS before signing, including a third-place finish at I-44 Speedway in Oklahoma City.

Discussions about the signing began late last year between Drake, RMS crew chief Lacey Doyle and owner Dave Estep. RMS brings 22 USAC National Midget feature wins and marquee victories, including Turkey Night, the BC39 and the Hangtown 100, and the team expects Drake to help extend that success.
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April 21, 2026

Abreu, Sweet Lead 40-Car FS1 Field; Larson Likely Out

Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing is staging the FS1-televised Speedway Motors Spring Jackpot at Eagle Raceway on Tuesday as a national television showcase of Roto-Rooter Midweek Series sprint car action. The Spring Jackpot is the second of six FS1 telecasts and the second of 16 Midweek Series rounds, and it is the first of two High Limit stops at Eagle this season. About 40 cars are entered for the midweek stop, which organizers say will sustain momentum ahead of the $50,000-to-win FK Rod Ends Eagle Nationals, which will return to Eagle Raceway on June 9.

The race carries championship implications: Tanner Thorson, driving the Rod Gross Motorsports No. 88, leads the Midweek Series by 27 points over Aaron Reutzel in the Ridge & Sons Racing No. 87. Pre-race favorites include Rico Abreu of Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing, Giovanni Scelzi of Spire Motorsports, who has finished top 10 in all nine High Limit events and has an 11-race top-10 streak, Brad Sweet of Silva Motorsports and Reutzel. Kerry Madsen, the most recent Midweek Series winner and the defending Eagle Raceway winner, and Tyler Courtney, who won on the recent weekend at Tri-State Speedway, are also in the mix.

High-profile part-time entries expected include Corey Day (Jason Meyers Racing No. 14), Garet Williamson (Fischer Motorsports No. 23), Logan Seavey (CB Industries/Spire No. 87x) and Ryan Timms (Liebig Motorsports No. 10); speculation circulated that Kyle Larson was not expected to race. FloRacing will stream Hot Laps and Qualifying at 5:30 p.m. local (6:30 p.m. ET), and FS1 begins live coverage at 7:00 p.m. local (8:00 p.m. ET) to show Heat Races, a possible C-Main, the Dash, the B-Main and the A-Main. Sye Lynch and Tanner Holmes have each notched their first podiums of the season in recent rounds.
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April 21, 2026

Brandon Carr to run full 2026 USAC season with KKM

Brandon Carr, 18, from Sheffield, England and now based in Mooresville, North Carolina, will run the full 29-event 2026 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports (KKM) and is targeting the Max Papis Innovations Rookie of the Year honor.

Carr moved to the United States three years ago and advanced to USAC competition after a decorated karting career. His karting titles include the Florida Winter Series (2017), the British Kart Championship (2022), Kart Masters (2022) and the Stars Championship (2023).

He made five USAC National Midget feature starts in 2025 and began racing on dirt in late 2024, making his first dirt midget start at Du Quoin in December 2024.

Carr won the POWRi Charlene Meents Memorial at Port City Raceway in Tulsa in October 2025, leading all 30 laps, and captured the inaugural IHRA Pro Late Model at Pulaski County Motorsports Park in March 2026.

Carr says the extra dirt experience has boosted his confidence for a full national campaign, and he credits KKM with accelerating his development.

J. Davidson Scrap Metal, with assistance from fellow Brit Tom Harris, backed Carr and helped secure the full-season ride with KKM.

He will launch his USAC campaign at Kokomo Speedway’s Kokomo Grand Prix on April 24–25, will adapt to the busy national schedule while pursuing rookie honors, and aims to become the first British winner of a USAC National Midget feature since Paul Bates in 1968.
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April 21, 2026

Week 21: Black Bears v Thunderbirds, Bandits v Firewolves

The National Lacrosse League published two official Week 21 items headlined ‘Week 21 | Black Bears vs Thunderbirds’ and ‘Week 21 | Bandits vs Firewolves’.

Each item, as of this review, contains only its headline and no game results, venue, kickoff time, roster information, storyline details, or other body text.

As presented, it is not possible to determine whether either piece is a pregame preview, a live update, or a postgame recap. Both focus on individual matchups rather than broader season coverage.
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April 20, 2026

Nate Thrasher wins Cleveland 250SX after shoulder fix

Nate Thrasher won the 250SX East overall at Round 14 of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross in Cleveland, crediting a recent fix for an offseason shoulder problem with restoring his speed. Riding for Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing, Thrasher said, ‘I have won every year I have raced,’ and added the result should strengthen his position in contract talks; he said he currently has no confirmed ride for 2027.

Thrasher began the season managing the injury with results of 11th, 7th, 10th and 10th, then he led a race in Detroit before crashing in the whoops. He followed that sequence with finishes of fourth, second and first over the next three rounds before adding the Cleveland main-event victory.

The Cleveland win extended his streak of at least one 250SX victory in every season he has raced, including two wins as a 2021 rookie, one of them in Atlanta. Cole Davies finished third in Cleveland but retained the 250SX East championship lead, and the podium manufacturers were Yamaha, Suzuki and Honda.

On the 450SX side, Ken Roczen took the overall win in Cleveland, tightening that title fight, and Hunter Lawrence kept a one-point advantage in the standings.
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April 20, 2026

Tyler Courtney survives restart, beats Axsom at Tri-State

Tyler Courtney, an Indianapolis native, won the World of Outlaws 40-lap feature at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Indiana after late contact with Michael “Buddy” Kofoid that spun Kofoid on the white flag. Courtney survived a green-white-checkered restart and held off Emerson Axsom for the victory. It was Courtney’s sixth World of Outlaws win and his second at Tri-State.

Courtney started fourth and charged to the lead early. Kofoid rallied from as low as 10th and had been seeking a fourth straight victory, and the two drivers traded heavy contact in the closing laps. Under the white flag Kofoid attempted to drag-race under Courtney, made contact and spun, and finished 19th.

Emerson Axsom recorded his first podium of the year in second, Sheldon Haudenschild was third, Brady Bacon fourth and Garet Williamson fifth. In points action Kofoid remained third while series leader David Gravel extended his championship advantage to 80 points.
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April 20, 2026

Kevin Thomas Jr. captures USAC CRA win at Casa Grande

Kevin Thomas Jr. won the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car main at Central Arizona Raceway in Casa Grande, Arizona. He took the lead after Ricky Lewis suffered a flat front tire on lap 17 and paced the final 13 laps of the 30-lap feature to secure the victory. Thomas drove the Petty Performance Racing No. 33p Avanti Windows & Doors Sherman and collected the $5,000 winner’s purse for his second victory of the season.

Ricky Lewis recovered to finish second, and R.J. Johnson, the Friday night winner and the series points leader, finished third. Fast qualifier Cale Coons posted the Woodland Auto Display Fast Time with a lap of 15.264 seconds, won the night’s first heat and placed fourth in the main event. Eddie Tafoya Jr. finished fifth. Charles Davis Jr. won the second heat and Bruce St. James won the third heat.

Joshua Shipley earned the Hard Charger Award after rallying from 15th to 10th and collected $450. Nineteen drivers were listed on the card. The series is scheduled to return Saturday, May 2, at Ventura Raceway with USAC Western States Midgets on the program.
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April 20, 2026

Ricky Lewis wins first USAC Southwest Sprint at Casa Grande

Ricky Lewis won his first career USAC Southwest Sprint Car feature at Central Arizona Raceway in Casa Grande, Arizona. Driving the Bonneau Motorsports No. 78, Lewis started sixth and worked forward, making the decisive pass on longtime leader R.J. Johnson on lap 21 while negotiating lapped traffic. He survived a late restart after a caution for B.J. Hernandez’s spin on lap 22 and closed the door in Turn Three on the final lap to win by about two car lengths.

Dayton Shelton led early from the pole before Johnson took control on lap five and paced most of the event. The finish featured a four-lap dash during which Johnson briefly edged ahead on the final lap before Lewis regained the lead.

Observers called the win a breakout moment for Lewis in the USAC Southwest Sprint ranks. Lewis became the second different driver to take the No. 78 into victory lane at the 3/8-mile dirt oval this year, joining Kevin Thomas Jr., who took the No. 78 into victory lane on March 1.
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April 20, 2026

Tech3 Runs Single Bike at Jerez After Viñales Surgery

Red Bull KTM Tech3 ran a single bike at the Estrella Galicia 0,0 Grand Prix of Spain in Jerez after Maverick Viñales missed the weekend while recovering from corrective shoulder surgery. Team statements said a displaced screw was discovered after the US Grand Prix in Austin and forced Viñales to withdraw for surgery, with some reports describing the screw as displaced from an earlier operation and others linking it to his Sachsenring crash. The team said the No. 12 bike would not be on track and that Viñales was targeting a comeback at the French Grand Prix in Le Mans on May 10, 2025.

Pol Espargaró had been penciled in to replace Viñales but suffered a hand injury in the lead-up to Jerez, leaving Enea Bastianini as Tech3’s sole entry for the weekend. Bastianini arrived at the first European round on the back of a third-place Sprint finish in Austin, and the team said it hoped to build on that momentum.

Tech3 management, including CEO Guenther Steiner, described the one-bike plan as a short-term interim operational adjustment to concentrate resources while managing rider fitness and recovery timelines, and said the twin setbacks forced rapid changes to race operations.
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