Friends, family, fans and fun; those are just a few of the aspects of local racing that continue to make it so popular. But the competition of the sport is always one of the highlights, and those who can best the competition are always rewarded.

For the fourth year in a row, the local dirt-track racing season will wrap up with the Fall Festival at the Mississippi Thunder Speedway.

The USRA Modified racers competed for three nights for $1,000 to win this past weekend at the Mississippi Thunder Speedway. Saturday’s feature was won by Dan Bohr in a dominating performance.

After finishing second to Brandon Davis on Thursday night, Josh Angst battled back on Friday evening and held off Davis to claim the $1,000 paycheck as the USRA Modified feature winner.

Brandon Davis continued his winning ways by taking the USRA Modified feature win by reclaiming the top position he’d given up to Josh Angst Thursday night at the Mississippi Thunder Speedway.

On Friday, Aug. 24, Kelly Shryock arrived at the Mississippi Thunder Speedway not only to race, but also to give the racing world the very first official on-track unveiling of the brand new 2013 Skyrocket Chassis.

On his very first trip to the Mississippi Thunder Speedway this season, Josh Bonnstetter held off a hard-charging Alex Williamson to complete a clean sweep at the track, winning both his heat race and the evenings feature.

The 2012 Mid-Summer Shoot Out at Mississippi Thunder Speedway provided race fans with just about every possible emotion as racers hit the high-speed 1/3-mile dark clay oval for the two-day special event to start off the month of August.

Mississippi Thunder Speedway is preparing to break up the mid-summer doldrums with the two-day Mid-Summer Shoot-Out this Friday and Saturday, Aug. 3-4.

For the fourth time in the four-year existence of Mississippi Thunder Speedway Jack Baehman and his Beahman Law law firm rolled out the red carpet for USRA B-Mod racers with his big-money B-Mod Challenge.

Eric Pember pointed his #89 USRA Modified toward the front of the field, worked his way through the pack and took advantage of a changing racing surface to put on a battle to the finish line that had fans on their feet and cheering.

The 4th Annual Rivercity Rumble provided race fans with some excellent on-track action as over 120 racers battled for their share of nearly $30,000 at the Mississippi Thunder Speedway.