Mansfield Motor Speedway will play host to one of the world’s biggest dirt track races next year, when the inaugural Sprint Car World Championship comes to the Mansfield, Ohio dirt track.

The April 27-28, 2018 event will pay $100,000 to the 410 winged sprint car event race winner. The weekend will have preliminary features on Friday, April 27, which will help set the table for Saturday’s event. Also, a non-qualifiers race will be hosted for teams not making the Sprint Car World Championship main event on Saturday, April 28.

“We are excited to take on phase two of Mansfield Motor Speedway’s #BACKTODIRT movement and continue making Mansfield Motor Speedway a ‘Motorsports Destination’ as we have always said was important to us and was the overall goal,” MMS President Cody Sommer said.

Although the championship is eight months away, this weekend’s races (Aug. 11–12) at MMS will have an effect on the Sprint Car World Championships. The top three finishers at this weekend’s Great Lakes Dirt Nationals main event at MMS will be locked into the Sprint Car World Championship next April with provisional starting spots.

This season, Mansfield Motor Speedway has spent a lot of time establishing itself, developing different areas and processes along the way and has shown major improvement every time the gates open. It has seen large crowds, great racing and a diverse group of competitors and fans.

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