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April 23, 2026

Premier Chevy Dealers Clash Starts April 24-25 at Knoxville

Knoxville Raceway will open the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series season with the Premier Chevy Dealers Clash on April 24-25. The two-night Clash is expected to draw a large field and will be the tour’s first visit to Knoxville this season.

Knoxville is scheduled for nine World of Outlaws nights, making it the tour’s most-visited track. The Premier Chevy Dealers Clash consists of at least two legs, with the second leg set for June 12-13. The series will return for the Stars and Stripes Salute on May 23, and Knoxville will host the 65th NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals presented by Casey’s on August 12-15.

Published schedule notes and previews emphasize Knoxville’s central role on the calendar and continued sponsorship and event branding by NOS Energy Drink and Casey’s. Promotional coverage uses local nicknames, “The Sprint Car Capital of the World” and “The Greatest Show on Dirt,” and previews referenced Knoxville regulars and a “High Limit” appearance for the Clash weekend.
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April 22, 2026

Talladega Cancels Alabama Gang 100, Refunds Announced

Officials from the World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision and Talladega Short Track canceled the Alabama Gang 100, scheduled for this weekend at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Alabama. The decision followed consultation with Precision Weather Service and forecasts of widespread thunderstorms and heavy rain Friday night into Saturday. Officials cited safety, logistical concerns and the high cost of travel for teams as reasons for not running the event.

Organizers said participant and crew safety took priority and confirmed the Alabama Gang 100 will not be rescheduled; no alternative dates or contingency plans were provided. Talladega Short Track said it will refund purchased tickets, pit passes and camping spots and provided a phone number and email for fans with questions. The cancellation affects teams, fans and support personnel who had planned to travel.

The World of Outlaws tour will resume at Independence Motor Speedway on Tuesday, April 28, and then move to Mississippi Thunder Speedway for the Dairyland Showdown April 30–May 2.
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April 22, 2026

Reinbold’s Eldora win, Most Improved award set 2026 USAC run

After a breakout 2025 season and winning the USAC National Most Improved Driver award, 22-year-old Hayden Reinbold of Gilbert, Arizona, will contest the full 29-race USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship in 2026. He will drive the Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports No. 19AZ entry and has returned to full-time USAC National Midget competition for 2026. The campaign will open April 24-25 at Kokomo Speedway with the Kokomo Grand Prix.

Reinbold’s 2025 season produced his first USAC National Midget victory in September at Eldora’s 4-Crown Nationals, his 101st national start, where he also recorded his first fast qualifying time. He finished the year 11th in the standings with two top-five and seven top-ten results, and USAC named him the National Most Improved Driver, the first Arizona to earn the honor since Jerry Coons Jr. in 2001.

Reinbold began his USAC National Midget career in 2020 as a 16-year-old at Tulsa’s Port City Raceway. Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports calls the 2026 full-season effort a step up in commitment and ambition, seeking stronger results across the USAC National Midget tour as Reinbold builds on the extra seat time that drove his 2025 improvement.
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April 22, 2026

Ferrari: SF-26 Miami upgrades followed long-planned program

Ferrari downplayed suggestions that F1’s enforced five-week April break prompted an ad hoc or accelerated development push, saying the SF-26 upgrades follow a long-planned, evidence-driven path rather than a reaction to the hiatus. Chassis technical director Loic Serra told Motorsport.com, “development is not happening in one week or one month,” and said “missing a race or two does not alter what teams learn in the factory,” describing the pause as a limited disruption that did not justify radical or experimental changes.

The team said SF-26 development began in early 2025, with more than a year of virtual work followed by on-track testing, and it expects to bring a substantial upgrade package to the Miami Grand Prix on May 3. Ferrari confirmed it trialed items such as the “Macarena” wing and halo-base winglets, and said further development will be limited in the short term, with small incremental parts more likely to appear at races than wholesale package swaps.

The break followed the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix, reports linked the cancellations to conflict in the Middle East and, in one account, the Iran war. Other teams used the downtime to rush aerodynamic and mechanical parts for Miami and to prepare responses to incoming 2026 regulation changes. Serra expressed skepticism that rivals could or would stage rapid, consecutive upgrades for Miami and Montreal, citing the non-linear nature of development and cost constraints, and he questioned the value of bringing parts only to replace them at the next event. Ferrari presented its program as deliberate, factory-led and continuity-driven rather than driven by the brief calendar interruption.
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April 21, 2026

Hy-Vee Perks 40 rescheduled to May 19; April ticket holders

Organizers postponed the original April date and rescheduled the Hy-Vee Perks 40 to May 19 in Jacksonville, Illinois. Tickets purchased for the original April running will be honored at the May 19 event.

The tour is also scheduled to stop at Knoxville Raceway on April 24-25 for the opening leg of the Premier Chevy Dealers Clash. Tickets for that event are available.

To reduce travel disruption among Midwest dirt tracks, the tour will follow a condensed late-May sequence. The World of Outlaws is scheduled at Knoxville Raceway on May 23 and at Huset’s Speedway on May 24 for the Stars and Stripes Salute, with each event paying $20,000 to the winner.
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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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