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Salina Memorial and Toy Toss this Saturday at Salina

This Saturday night at the Salina Highbanks Speedway, the track will dedicate the night to all of those who have worked or supported the speedway in some fashion and are no longer with us today. Regardless of what their roles were, the speedway staff is forever grateful that they were a part of the Salina Highbanks fraternity and we wish to show our sincere appreciation by having this night in remembrance. Once again, the NASCAR sanctioned Advance Auto Parts weekly racing series will be your star performers for the event.

Servpro of Mayes & Wagoner Counties B-Mods, Dawson Roofing Super Stocks, AmeriFlex Hose Factory Stocks, S&J Plumbing Pure Stocks, Colvin Aircraft Front Wheel Drive Trophy Cars and the Colvin Aircraft Rear Wheel Drive Trophy Cars will wage battle on the steeped 3/8-mile dirt oval track. In addition, the Edward Jones Investment Toy Toss that was to be held last week until Mother Nature intervened, will be held this Saturday during intermission. Drivers will come to the grandstand side as usual during intermission and they will be tossing toy goodies to the youngsters.

Scribble Notes:

Rain Rain Go Away -
Last weekend was the 14th scheduled race date for 2025. Of those 14 dates, 8 of those have been either cancelled outright or postponed. That is the most amount of cancellation notices over that period of time in the past decade. The next highest amount in the last decade was 7 of 14 in 2020 but that was mainly due to the Covid strain that grappled the nation that year. It wasn't until May 23rd before the track held an event after the country came out of the caves. That issue aside, the next highest number of cancellations in 14 scheduled dates was five and that happened twice (2021 & 20119). 2024 was the best run as 13 of 14 events saw racing action happen.

Glass is always half full -
If there is a plus side to all the rainouts this year, here we are in mid-June and racers don't have as many blown motors or busted up race cars at this point of summer as typically is the case. There are plenty of cars intact to fill those pits to provide a great show for the fans and the drivers need a place to get their adrenaline fix and the Highbanks is just what the doctor ordered.

Post on our Facebook page -
We encourage everyone to take photos of yourself and others having a great time at the races and Post - Post - Post on Facebook and any other social media platform you care to use. The more posts, the merrier! Share with your Facebook friends and show them why they should be at the Highbanks too! If you are reading this on Facebook now, post your zip code area and lets see where everyone is coming from!

I wanna know ......
Steven Rudley asked "Why do the cars go in the opposite direction on the track before the races start?"
Good question Steven. Back in the day (way back), it was thought that if the tires went in another direction before racing, that made for better racing when it came time to race. Not sure that's really an actual fact but many believed that back then. With today's racing tires much more advanced than tires of old, that surely isnt the case today (if it ever was). So why do it? More for tradition really as practically every racetrack years ago followed that method. One other possible reason is if a car had different sponsors on the left side of the car than the right side, that was one way to get those sponsors' names visible to the crowd.

We will be ready for you come Saturday!

Times and Pricing:
Pit gates open: 3pm
Front Gates & Finishline Restaurant open @ 5pm.
Hot laps @ 6:30pm
Invocation & National Anthem @ 6:55pm
Racing Action @ 7pm

Event pricing
General admission tickets: $10
Military veterans and Kids 12 & under: $5
Pit passes: $30 Adults / $20 Children

Track phone: 918.434.7223

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