Ohsweken Speedway
Home of the Northern Sprint Car Nationals and World of Outlaws action.
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Ohsweken Speedway is a 0.375 mile dirt track in the village of Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada. It features weekly Friday night racing from May to September with 360 Sprint Cars, Crate Sprint Cars, Thunder Stocks, and Mini Stocks, and hosts the annual Northern Sprint Car Nationals. The track also holds weekly Micro Sprint racing on Thursday nights and hosted the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series from 2007 until 2017, with the series returning in 2025.
Quick Facts
- Location
- Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada
- Built
- 1994
- Track length
- 0.375 miles (0.604 km)
- Surface
- dirt
- Capacity
- over 8,000 (as of 2008)
- Weekly series
- 360 Sprint Cars
- Crate Sprint Cars
- Thunder Stocks
- Mini Stocks
- Notable event
- World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series (2007–2017, returned 2025)
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Background
Built in 1994 by race car driver Glenn Styres on 80 acres of family-owned land on the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Reserve southeast of Brantford, Ontario, the track has been continuously expanded each year. Seating capacity was increased to over 8,000 in 2008, and Musco lighting was installed to allow the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series to run at the facility.
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Sources
Compiled from Wikipedia and the sources listed below. Text from Wikipedia is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is adapted from it.
- Wikipedia: Ohsweken Speedway (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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