Elkins Raceway Heritage

11/16/2025

2025 Elkins Raceway awards and dinner.. thanks to all our friends and family for sticking beside us

11/06/2025

2025 Elkins Raceway Banquet

Join us Saturday November 15 at Beverly fire department for our last banquet honoring our top 10 in each division. Tickets can be ordered by calling Connie at 304/642/8683 or Jeff at 304/704/3789. Trophies will only be made if you are attending the banquet. Last day to order tickets is November 8. We hope to see you all one more time as we celebrate the last year of Elkins Raceway. Final point lists are available on our website at

10/08/2025

2025 Elkins Raceway Banquet

Join us Saturday November 15 at Beverly fire department for our last banquet honoring our top 10 in each division. Tickets can be ordered by calling Connie at 304/642/8683 or Jeff at 304/704/3789. Trophies will only be made if you are attending the banquet. Last day to order tickets is November 8. We hope to see you all one more time as we celebrate the last year of Elkins Raceway. Final point lists are available on our website at

          Cooler Policy: Coolers No Larger Than 14 Inches. Still, No Glass Bottles or containers, Also will now be inspected at the gate. THERE ARE TO BE NO PETS IN THE GRANDSTANDS!! Thank You! All DRIVERS MUST HAVE A RACE RECEIVER AND A TRANSPONDER OR YOU WILL NOT RACE! After 4:00 P.M. Call Th...

09/07/2025

This is one happy bunch

09/04/2025

With the change of ownership at Elkins Raceway, I began to relive my own history at the track. It's hard to believe but I started at the track selling TRI-STATE AUTO RACING NEWS (remember those??), and checkered flags for a dime. I 'graduated' to the concession stand at 12, and started manual scoring at 16....and have been involved in weekly operations ever since...having sold pit passes, done registrations and pill-draws, working the race-ceiver, and listing payouts, among other things on race nights. In addition, I've also spent countless hours during the week at the track doing things like stocking the concessions, cleaning up after the annual spring Leading Creek flooding, etc.among the other numerous chores required to keep the facility ready for race night.
For the most part it has been a most enjoyable experience; meeting drivers & teams, fans, which has created hundreds of friendships that have lasted nearly a half-century of involvement. The last 14 years at the track during the McDougal/Skidmore management were the best in the track's history, with steady car counts and increasing attendance every week.
What's difficult is understanding the implication posted on another thread that the current management didn't care as much as maybe it should have. Yes, there are many things that need done at the track; but please keep in mind that as 'lease tennants', management wasn't able to do as much as what we wanted...but if that 'non-caring' implication was true, the staff wouldn't have spent the last fifty-plus years or so continuing to promote the sport at Elkins Raceway, and keeping the track operational. At least we can rest assured that there ARE people that know, and the entire Skidmore family does appreciate the thousands of fans and teams that supported our efforts for so many race nights throughout the years, and realize that so much was accomplished considering what we had to work with. It's nearly as difficult for us to realize that there won't be at least one member of our family involved with the track's activities for the first time since 1952.
Hopefully the new administration will continue to promote the sport as we have; the new owners have already begun upgrades and alterations to the property. My family and I wish them the best of luck, both here and at WVMS.

09/02/2025

HARDY WINS TOPLESS ;PAUGH WINS #6; DEFIBAUGH WINS again; SMITH WINS 5TH, DOTSON TAKES HOTMODS IN SEASON FINALE FALL FESTIVAL

Elkins Raceway finished up its 73rd anniversary season Saturday, going out with several 'bangs' and another packed general admission area. The racing action combined with the tremendous fireworks display sent fans home in a positive mood in the final event for current management.
With the special-event format in place, the top six starters of each division in each feature all drew for positions, and all features went extra distances for increased payouts.
The Budweiser Late Models ran 'topless' this evening, as has become the norm for the season finale. Kyle Hardy, Wi******er VA, drew the pole position and took full advantage to earn his first-ever Elkins Late Model win. Michael Lake and Kris Southern (from 8th) made Hardy earn the win, finishing 2nd and 3rd ahead of Tim Senic and Shane Hitt. Lake, was fast qualifier; he, Troy Frazier, and Hardy won the heats. For Frazier, it was his first Late Model checkered, after participating in the Pure Stock and Semi-Late/Crate classes. Hardy had a successful weekend; he also won RUSH tour features on Friday at Tri-City Speedway )PA) and Sunday at Tyler County Speedway. Brian Fawley was the lone Late Model entrant who didn't start the 50-lap main.
Garrett Paugh earned his track-leading 6th feature win, taking the 30-lap TKS Contracting/High Point Construction Ultimate Pro Late Model main after a battle with Luke Hyre, who started 5th. Kolbe Kimbrew and Ryan Hare had a race-long battle for 3rd and 4th, finishing in that order, with 10th-starter Greg Hicks founding out the top 5; Kenny Rowback started 18th and finished 9th Hyre led qualifying; Paugh Brent Trimble, and Chandi Currence won the heats for the 18-car field, largest of the season. Early-race favorites Trimble and Greg Carrico dropped out early, with Carrico finishing 16th and Trimble 17th.
The winner of the Jenkins Ford UMP Modified 25-lap feature didn't 'follow the scropt'; Dave Defibaugh drew the #5 starting spot, but managed to get thru some good competition for his 4th A-Main win of the year. Phil Jeffries, Scott Bittinger, Gunner Binns, and Chad Tasker finished 2-5. Gary Dalton was fast timer; Jeffries and Defibaugh won prelims.
Chris Smith put a big 'cap' on a successful season with his 5th win of the summer in the Collins Service Center Street Stocks 20-lap headliner. Kodi McCauley, Barry Fairbanks, Ronnie Tincher, and Rodney Cole finished behind the winner. Fairbanks was fast qualifier; he and Smith won the heats.
The other new feature winner of the season emerged in the 20-lap Blue Ridge Construction EDGE Hot Mod main, as C. J. Dotson outran Buddy Tasker, Kylie Hull, Roger,Hull, and Michale Cromer (from 10th). Dotson timed quickest; Dotson and the Hulls won the heats; for Kylie, it was her first, and the feature finish was her best.
With the finish of the season, Elkins Raceway management wishes to thank every race team, race fan, employee, and sponsor for their contributions toward a very successful 2025 season. Special thanks to Kids Club Sponsors Mountain Valley Bank, Citizens' Bank of WV, Currence Racing, Hitt's Body Shop, and Nelson's Custom Race Shocks.
Information on the speedway banquet will be posted soon

          Cooler Policy: Coolers No Larger Than 14 Inches. Still, No Glass Bottles or containers, Also will now be inspected at the gate. THERE ARE TO BE NO PETS IN THE GRANDSTANDS!! Thank You! Racing Saturday Nights!! All DRIVERS MUST HAVE A RACE RECEIVER AND A TRANSPONDER OR YOU WILL NOT RACE...