FREMONT, Ohio — Fremont Speedway will now be the home for the Rick Ferkel Classic, honoring the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame member and one of the original Outlaws. The Rick Ferkel Classic will be held at Fremont Speedway on June 10 as part of the Tezos All Star Circuit of Champions Ohio Sprint Speedweek. Ferkel, 84 years of age, who began his racing career in 1965, is enshrined in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum and the Fremont Speedway Hall of Fame. Fremont Speedway hosting the Rick Ferkel Classic is apropos as The Ohio Traveler scored his first ever sprint car feature win at “The Track That Action Built.”. I knew Fremont Speedway was the logical place to continue the Rick Ferkel Classic.”. Fremont Speedway Committee Chairman Ryan Schiets said the track will be home to the Rick Ferkel Classic for a very long time.

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