This Sunday, June 7, Pepsi presents the first of several “Licensed to Thrill” special events at the Cresco Speedway. Race fans from the town of Cresco simply need to show their driver's license or i.d. card to get FREE admission to the Mighty Howard County Fairgrounds grandstands and enjoy a full night of racing action on the house!

The Cresco Speedway opened the 2009 season Sunday with A&W/Long John Silvers Night featuring the American Racer USRA Weekly Racing Series in action on the lightning-fast 4/10-mile clay oval in Cresco, Iowa.

The Cresco Speedway opened the 2009 season Sunday with A&W/Long John Silvers Night featuring the American Racer USRA Weekly Racing Series in action on the lightning-fast 4/10-mile clay oval in Cresco, Iowa.

Zack VanderBeek scored his first USMTS Casey’s General Stores National Tour win of the season Thursday night at the Cresco Speedway in the first race of the season in the ultra-competitive Yeager Machine Upper Midwest Region.

NASCAR star Ken Schrader will appear at the Cresco Speedway in Cresco, Iowa, on Thursday, May 21, and will be signing autographs for the fans, then strapping into his own high-powered USMTS Modified to take on the best the division has to offer in the 5th Annual Cresco Bowl.

The season opener for Sunday, May 17, a the Cresco Speedway has been canceled. Despite hundreds of hours of work on the track, officials have determined that recent weather conditions have made the track unsafe for drivers due to the turns being very soft and loose.

The season opener for Sunday, May 17, at the Cresco Speedway has been canceled. Despite hundreds of hours of work on the track, officials have determined that recent weather conditions have made the track unsafe for drivers due to the turns being very soft and loose.

The gates swing open this Sunday, May 17, to launch another exciting season of American Racer USRA Weekly Racing Series action at the Cresco Speedway, located on Mighty Howard County Fairgrounds in Cresco, Iowa.

The gates swing open this Sunday, May 17, to launch another exciting season of American Racer USRA Weekly Racing Series action at the Cresco Speedway, located on Mighty Howard County Fairgrounds in Cresco, Iowa.

United States Racing Association officials released a statement today regarding the issue of raised and/or altered frame rails. All chassis that have had the factory frame altered to raise the right front frame rail shall be repaired by May 15, 2009.

Officials from RL Promotions and the Cresco Speedway in Cresco, Iowa, have announced a tentative schedule of events for the 2009 racing season at the Howard County Fairgrounds 4/10-mile high-banked clay oval.

On the heels of wrapping up a thrilling and successful 2008 racing season, officials from the United States Racing Association (USRA) have released rules for four sanctioned divisions, effective January 1, 2009.