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The Summer of Money is nearing, and Carson Macedo and the Jason Johnson Racing crew are heating up. The No. 41 team didn’t quite perform up to their high standards over the first few months of the season. Sure, they were consistent, but Macedo and company are used to visiting Victory Lane often. Over the last few weeks, they’ve done exactly that.
Sheldon Haudenschild suited up and got behind the wheel with a heavy heart Saturday night. He and his wife Zan sadly lost their beloved dog Pella in the morning after giving her a full and fun life over the years. Haudenschild fought through a flood of emotion to come and do his job with the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series at Plymouth Dirt Track. And he not only showed up; he won one for Pella.
For Raisin City, California’s Mitchel Moles, Red Hill Raceway officially became a home away from home this weekend. After winning Friday night’s feature at the Sumner, Illinois 3/8-mile dirt oval, Moles backed it up on Saturday night to win the inaugural Illinois Sprint Car Championship, co-sanctioned by both the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car Series.
In sickness and in health, Mitchel Moles has had quite the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season thus far in 2026. During Friday night’s Illinois Sprint Car Championship weekend opener at Red Hill Raceway in Sumner, Illinois, Moles set a new career high in USAC National Sprint Car wins for a season with his third triumph of the year after fending off an attack from Jadon Rogers down the stretch to the checkered.
Troy Wagaman Jr. took the win in a wild, nonstop All Stars Circuit of Champions Sprints Lynn Paxton Classic at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night. Wagaman got the lead not once but twice to score the $8,000 victory, his second of the year at the oval.
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