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Thank you for a great 2018 season

Thunderbird Raceway and staff would like to thank all of our fans, drivers, sponsors for a great 2018 season A&A Manufacturing, Arena Pizza, Avengers Automotive, Artistic Exteriors, Bowman Body Shop, Budget Transmission, Busbee Auto Repair, Complete Automotive, Derby Auto, D&R Driveline, Exhaust Special T’s, EC Auto, Eagle Automotive, Felice Performance Engines, Full Moon Dinner & Saloon, Lane Automotive, Allstar Performance, Marks Transmission & Auto, Meekhof Tire of Muskegon, Mr Axle, Mr Quick-Hts Ravenna Rd, National Transmission, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Port [...]

Post Date: December 14, 2018

Thank You

We would like to thank all of our sponsors for the 2018 awards banquet: Dirt XTC, Rosie’s Custom Designs, Vanity Room, Burger King, Oreilly’s Auto Parts, Autozone, House of Hobbies, Metric Motorsports, Arena’s Pizza, Eagle Auto, Bolduc’s Complete Automotive Repair, Muffler Man, Celebration Cinema, Miller’s Oil Change, Lane Automotive, B & K Transmission, Armstongs Bait and Tackle, Pizza Hut, Barrys Flower, Autovalue, Advanced Auto, Dirty Girl, Felice Performance Engines, RET (Racing Engine Technologies), A & A Manufacturing, Sprague’s Auto, and Outlaw Race Engines Thank you [...]

Post Date: November 5, 2018

Thank you for a Great Season

Post Date: September 21, 2018
5Jun-18

Neiser, Carson, Triick and Sternberg Look Strong; DeLonge Steals the Win Late

Rich Neiser rebounded from an admittedly subpar performance in last week’s American Ethanol Late Model Tour event by going perfect on the night, taking home a heat race win and the feature win on the evening. The feature win was seemingly without doubt until Tom Sprague Jr. reeled Neiser in to within three car lengths. A mistake with two laps to go by Sprague sealed the win for Rich Neiser. Tom Sprague Jr. finished second, Steve Fairbanks finished third, [...]

29May-18

May 26th Summary

Warm temperatures and sunny skies finally greeted race fans at Thunderbird Raceway, for a thrice-delayed opening day. A standing room only crowd gathered to watch the American Ethanol Late Model Tour, and four support divisions take to the newly reconfigured ⅓ mile oval. Brandon Thirlby shattered the previous track record in qualifying, lowering the fastest quick time to 12.504 seconds, at an average speed of 95.873 miles per hour. Ryan VanderVeen, Eric Spangler, and Steve Casebolt took home heat race victories. [...]

Results from 5/26/18

Here are the results from May 26th, 2018 Qualifying 1. Brandon Thirlby - 12.504 *NEW TRACK RECORD 2. Dona Marcoullier - 12.760 3. Eric Spangler - 12.813 4. Steve Casebolt - 12.844 5. David Mielke - 12.916 6. Logan Arntz - 12.929 7. Ryan VanderVeen - 12.951 8. Rich Bell - 13.005 9. Nick Kurtz - 13.090 10. Travis Stemler - 13.239 11. Greg Gokey - 13.259 12. Tom Sprague Jr. - 13.361 13. Kory Maurice - 13.376 14. Andy Sprague - 13.439 15. Brad Mann - 13.545 16. Bill Bray - 13.588 17. Shawn Reed - [...]

Post Date: May 28, 2018

Practice is cancelled for 5/2 except for the mini wedge teams

Due to wet conditions at the track, practice for all 6 big car divisions is cancelled. Mini Wedge practice is still on and is from 5pm to 7pm

Post Date: May 2, 2018

Announcing the Summer Thunder Series Presented by A & A Manufacturing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Muskegon, MI – April 30th, 2018 We are pleased to announce something big for our late model drivers! Jim Fairbanks at A & A Manufacturing has come on board to sponsor a mini-series revolving around four independent, special events during the Thunderbird Raceway racing season. The Summer Thunder Series presented by A & A Manufacturing will take place over four race weekends, this Saturday, May 5th, Saturday June 23rd, Saturday September 1st, and concludes on Saturday September 8th [...]

Post Date: April 30, 2018

Subscribe to our Rained Out SMS Service!!

Thunderbird Raceway is now using the Rained Out SMS Service for instant text updates on any possible weather cancellations in the future! Stay up to date by joining our list at the link below. Join Thunderbird Raceway text alerts on RainedOut

Post Date: April 18, 2018

2018 Schedule Release!

Thunderbird is proud to announce and release it’s 2018 schedule, celebrating its 60th anniversary season at the 3/10ths mile dirt track. Opened in 1958 under the Birchwood Speedway name, the track has withstood Father Time, and Mother Nature to put on great racing that packs the house every Saturday night. Kicking off the season, the “Thunderstruck 35”, presented by Allstar Performance paying the winner of the Late Model feature, $2,500 to win, looks to be a big draw to [...]

Post Date: March 24, 2018