Championship Drive: Wyatt King
The Meridian Speedway schedule is grueling, especially for the Division 1 Pit Stop USA NASCAR Modifieds. Needing eighteen feature races to take full advantage of NASCAR’s national point system, these high-tech machines were pushed to the ragged edge of speed and endurance for well over five hundred main event [...]
Championship Drive: Jesse James Lawson
The Teleperformance Street Stock resurgence was in full force in 2019. Among the new faces in the division was Caldwell, Idaho racer Jesse James Lawson behind the wheel of a flat black Dillon Plumbing, Jump Time Idaho, Pulse Real Estate Group, 4S Concrete, Antlers Boutique Chevrolet Camaro. Adorned with [...]
Color Me Wild! Contest Combats Stay-Home Order Blues
Missing racing? We are too. But thanks to our friends at BLG Blue, you can bring a piece of the Meridian Speedway action to your living room with the Color Me Wild! contest. Download or print your favorite race car from the options below, add the coolest color scheme [...]
Championship Drive: Melissa Weaver
Entering 2019, Melissa Weaver, perennial title contender and most popular driver, was used to running all alone out front. But 2019 saw Weaver contend with her stiffest competition yet in fellow female racer Daytona Wurtz. The Wurtz-Weaver battle began lap one, night one, with Wurtz beating Weaver to the Caleb's [...]
Stay Home Order Cancels Test and Tune Sessions, ATS Inland Season Opener
Pursuant to the State of Idaho’s “Stay Home” order, the Test and Tune sessions scheduled for this and next Saturday, March 28 and April 4, and Thursday nights, April 2 and 9 have been cancelled. The ATS Inland NW Season Opener has also been affected, and we are looking at [...]
Test and Tune Closed to General Public
Following the City of Meridian's 15 day Social Distancing order put in place by Mayor Simison, the annual Test and Tune session scheduled for Saturday, March 28, at Meridian Speedway will be closed to the public. Access to pit road will be available for limited numbers of participants beginning at [...]
Championship Drive: Kyle Tellstrom
Winning back-to-back championships in the NAPA Auto Parts Big 5 Late Model Series is rare. Entering 2019 only 5 men had accomplished this feat in the division’s 51-year history: Bob Mitich, Steve Mason, Jerry Bowers, Willie Ransom, and Sean Miller. All five are enshrined in the Western Idaho Racing [...]
Championship Drive: Bryan Warf
Open-wheel competition at Meridian Speedway was at an all-time high at Meridian Speedway in 2019 as sprintcar prodigies Johnny Giesler and Bryan Warf joined an already intense Pepsi Crate Car field. Giesler’s season got off to an inauspicious start as contact in the year’s first heat race sent the Meridian, [...]
Championship Drive: Kenny Chandler
The classic battle of youth versus experience was on full display in the Project Filter Pro-4s as Kenny Chandler, a forty-year veteran of the division went toe-to-toe with upstart Jordan Harris in his second full Project Filter Pro-4 campaign. Chandler debuted a brand-new Project Filter, Fairly Reliable Bob’s, Les Schwab [...]
Championship Drive: Travis Pavlacky
New school and old school went toe-to-toe in 2019 as Fred Vigil’s front-wheel drive Dodge Neon and Travis Pavlacky’s rear-wheel drive pickup dueled for the Factory Motor Parts Mini Stock championship. Vigil rode a wave of momentum into 2019 after a string of strong finishes to close out the [...]
Championship Drive: AJ Collins
Watching was fun, how could driving not be? This was the thought that propelled Big Daddy’s Barbecue Hornet driver AJ Collins into the driver’s seat of not one, not two, but three different machines during his 2019 championship campaign. Collins kicked off his 2019 campaign at the controls of the [...]
Championship Drive: James Sheets
As he thrashed to prepare his orange and white racecar, James Sheets had no idea what the 2019 season had in store for him. Sure, the Firehouse Pub and Grill Bombers were designed to be built in a day, but Sheets’ number 66 would hit the track untested and [...]
Championship Drive: Bryan Warf
Behind the wheel of a racecar, Meridian, Idaho's Bryan Warf is all but unstoppable. Notching six straight titles in the Mountain Dew Winged Sprint Cars, Meridian Speedway’s fastest class, plus one in the NASCAR Division I Whelen All-American Series Modifieds, Warf proved himself a threat to win every time [...]
Championship Drive: Cody Castricone
After speeding his way to a Junior Stinger championship in 2018, young Cody Castricone entered 2019 looking to do something that only five drivers at the quarter-mile had done before—win a title in one class, then win another championship the following year in a different class. At the controls [...]
Championship Drive: Rusty Houpt
Rusty Houpt was used to going fast even before he strapped into his black number 64 Mulder Engineered Race Engines Junior Late Model. A veteran of throwing Outlaw Karts around The Dirt Track at Meridian Speedway, Houpt relished the chance to follow in his father’s footsteps and climb behind [...]
Championship Drive: Delaney Grace
Sitting in the grandstands at Eve of Destruction 9, a young Delaney Grace made a decision. As sprint cars lapped the quarter-mile she turned to her mom and said, “I want to do that.” And so Grace, with help from her stepdad, Meridian Speedway competitor Danny Martin, climbed into [...]
Championship Drive: Caity Miller
Even before the green flag fell on 2019, Caity Miller had become a force to be reckoned with in the Domino’s Legends ranks. A hard charger in a 1934 Ford Coupe, Boise, Idaho’s Miller made herself, and her number 35, a fixture on the Pepsi-Cola scoreboard throughout the 2018 [...]
Street Stock Triple Highlights Trunk or Treat Saturday
A brisk autumn afternoon greeted over two-thousand lucky kids at Meridian Speedway’s Trunk or Treat Saturday, October 26. When the costumes came off so did the gloves as seven divisions went wheel-to-wheel for the final time in 2019. The Teleperformance Street Stocks ran three 33 lap features to finish [...]
Final Checkers Fall on Trunk or Treat Saturday
Get ready to get spooky with Meridian Speedway Saturday, October 26, as the quarter-mile hosts its annual Trunk or Treat. The Teleperformance Street Stocks, Project Filter Pro-4s, Factory Motor Parts Mini Stocks, High School Tuners, Junior Stingers, Firehouse Pub and Grill Bombers, and Big Daddy’s Barbecue Hornets open their [...]
Full Contact Features Decide Division Champs
Four season champions were crowned Saturday, October 5, as Meridian Speedway played host to the Project Filter Championships. The Intermountain Outlaw Modifieds settled the final season in series history, the Coors Super Stocks, Pepsi Crate Cars, and Domino’s Legends wrapped up local championship drivers, while the Project Filter Pro-4s [...]
