WESTERN MIDGET RACING 2024 SEASON RACES INTO VENTURA RACEWAY THIS SATURDAY
WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA (March 13, 2024) – Western Midget Racing kicks off a busy season full of marquee events and competitive dirt midget racing this Saturday night at Ventura Raceway. The Ventura round fires off a 2024 schedule with 19 races, with the championship journey concluding at Ventura on October 26 as well. All told, WMR’s competitors will battle at seven tracks including their first series appearance at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway in October. Photo by Top Dawg Photos
Ventura Raceway has hosted two dozen Western Midget Racing events since the series inception. VRA Sprint Cars, Senior Sprints, Dwarf Cars, IMCA Sport Compacts, and Ventura Junior Classes will also be competing on Saturday night. General admission is $18 while seniors, military and students are $15. Grandstands open at 3pm with racing at 5:30pm
The sixth season of WMR continues the exciting battles between series stalwarts and new faces from all over the west coast.
The 2023 championship battle was one for the ages with Oakley’s Bryant Bell topping Santa Cruz’ Logan Mitchell by just four-markers after 15 rounds of points-paying racing. Mitchell had his career-best season but lacked a breakthrough victory. Bell returns in the Boscacci Racing No. 09 for sponsor Toyota Walnut Creek. Mitchell will continue his drive for wins and a championship in a new No. 96x Spike for sponsor Larsens Inc.
Kyle Hawse of Las Vegas in the No. 20 Sunland Wood Products Triple-X and Todd Hawse of Moorpark in the No. 18 Hawse Abbey Carpet Triple-X return in 2024. The Hawses have combined for 90 WMR starts over the last three seasons of competition.
Adam Weisberg of Santa Clarita competed in nine rounds last season and will compete in the entire Western Midget Racing schedule this year. Weisberg drives the No. 15 Stealth chassis for One 11 Ink.
The top-five of the 2023 series were Bell, Mitchell, Rookie of the Year Darin Horton of Lindley, New York, Lodi’s Nate “Gator” Wait, and two-time champion Blake Bower of Brentwood.
Surprise, Arizona’s Drake Edwards scored six points paying wins to finish sixth in the championship ahead of Livermore’s Greg Dennett, San Jose’s Anthony Bruno, Kyle Hawse, and Todd Hawse. Adrianna DeMartini of Brentwood, Weisberg, and the ageless veteran driver Marvin Mitchell of Madera, Calif. also ran at least half of the series races in the most competitive season in series history.
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2024 WMR Schedule – Subject to Change
March 16 Ventura Raceway
March 29 Ocean Speedway
March 30 Marysville Raceway
April 20 Bakersfield Speedway
May 4 Ventura Raceway
May 17 Ocean Speedway
May 18 Petaluma Speedway
June 7 Ocean Speedway
June 8 Petaluma Speedway
June 22 Ventura Raceway
July 12 Ocean Speedway Howard Kaeding Classic
July 13 Ocean Speedway Howard Kaeding Classic
July 26 Ocean Speedway
July 27 Antioch Speedway
August 9 Ocean Speedway Johnny Key Classic
August 10 Ocean Speedway Johnny Key Classic
September 21 Bakersfield Speedway
October 25 Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway October Classic
October 26 Ventura Raceway