title: Ohsweken Speedway
text: # Ohsweken Speedway
  
  The Ohsweken Speedway is a 3/8 mile dirt track in the village of Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada. Ohsweken’s weekly Friday night racing program runs from May to September each year, featuring 360 Sprint Cars, Crate Sprint Cars, Thunder Stocks, and Mini Stocks, while the season finishes each year with the annual Canadian Sprint Car Nationals. Ohsweken Speedway also hosts weekly Micro Sprint racing on Thursday nights, and hosted the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series from 2007 until 2017.
  
  ## History
  
  In 1994 race car driver Glenn Styres built the 3/8 mile oval Ohsweken Speedway on 80 acres of Styres family-owned land on the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Reserve southeast of Brantford, Ontario. The track has been continuously expanded in each year of its existence.
  
  The track’s seating capacity was increased to over 8,000 in 2008 and a project was conducted to install Musco lighting, illuminating the speedway to allow the World of Outlaws Sprint Car series to run at the facility.
  
  ## World of Outlaws - Six Nations Showdown
  
  The prestigious World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series made its first trip to Ohsweken Speedway for the first running of the Six Nations Showdown on July 25, 2007. Jason Sides won the inaugural event. In 2011, NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart won his first career World of Outlaws race at Ohsweken and repeated the victory in 2012.
  
  | Season | Date | Driver |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2007 | July 25 | Jason Sides |
  | 2008 | July 22 | Rainout |
  | 2009 | July 28 | Jason Meyers |
  | 2009 | July 29 | Jason Sides |
  | 2010 | July 30 | Jason Sides |
  | 2010 | August 1 | Donny Schatz |
  | 2011 | July 27 | Tony Stewart |
  | 2012 | July 31 | Tony Stewart |
  | 2013 | July 30 | Donny Schatz |
  | 2014 | July 29 | Donny Schatz |
  | 2015 | July 28 | Stewart Friesen |
  | 2016 | July 26 | Donny Schatz |
  | 2017 | July 25 | Logan Schuchart |
  
  ## Photo gallery
  
  * Front straight and grandstands.
  * Steve Kinser and Donny Schatz sprint cars in the pits.
  * The pits.
  * Tony Stewart at the Six Nations Showdown World of Outlaws event.
  * View of main grandstand from backstraight through clay on the crash fence.
  