ESW NEWS & UPDATES
MIDDLETOWN, NY (October 16)……..For the 2024 Eastern States 200, race director Brett Hearn introduced a race procedure format that gave competitors the option of utilizing the 12-minute halfway break in the 200-lap race to refuel, make adjustments, and possibly ...
In 1962, Victory Speedway (as Orange County Fair Speedway was then known) promoter Eno Van Dam announced the track would host an October 100-lap championship race for Modified stock cars. The race, paying the winner $1,000 from a total $4,000 purse, would be open to all drivers and cars that met the track’s rules. The inaugural event drew 90 entries, was won by Frankie Schneider, and deemed so successful that...
All preliminary qualifying race winners in Orange County Fair Speedway’s 64th Annual United Rentals Eastern States Weekend, October 23-26, 2025, will find extra dollars in their prize money thanks to business friends of the speedway and its signature event. In addition, Dana Distributors, of Goshen, New York, will award the halfway leader of the headline Modified Will Cagle Memorial 200 presented by Hauser Bros., Inc., $1,000.
MIDDLETOWN (September 24)……..Orange County Fair Speedway (OCFS) and event promoters are proud to announce the hiring of highly respected track preparation specialist Jamie Friesen to lead surface preparation for the 64th Annual United Rentals Eastern States Weekend and its headline race the Will Cagle 200 presented by Hauser Bros., Inc. Set for Sunday, October 26, 2025, and honoring one of its all-time great drivers, the Eastern States Will Cagle 200 is the oldest
MIDDLETOWN (September 17)……..The 64th Annual Eastern States Will Cagle 200 presented by Hauser Bros., Inc. for dirt track Modifieds is set for Sunday, October 26 at Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown, New York. It is the oldest consecutively-run championship race for Northeastern-type dirt track Modifieds. First run as a 100-lap race in 1962 with legendary driver Frankie Schneider taking home the trophy and $1,000 winner’s share of the then outstanding $4,000 purse. Schneider, a weekly competitor at...