Dirt
OSCR
Cancelled
Promoter Tyler Crossnoe
addresses the end of the
Outlaw Street Car Reunion
By Nate Van Wagnen
T
the first time in event history, the marketing sup-
port is lower than ever and forcing our hand as a
promotions company to cancel the event.”
This wild event all began in 2013 with a one-day
race at Memphis International Raceway, billed as
“Outlaws – The Comeback,” in conjunction with a
two-races-in-one weekend promotion with Holly
Springs Motorsports Park, where Crossnoe and
his team had helped with two events in 2012. In
2014, the Outlaw Street Car Reunion had its first
event at Memphis International Raceway.
The 2015 running of the event helped put the
race on the map. An early spring snow flurry
kicked up as Jason Michalak, Kyle Huettel and
Billy Stocklin rolled the Bad9er Racing Corvette
into the right-hand lane at Memphis and went
3.97 seconds, shattering the Radial vs. the World
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record at the time. It was also where Street Out-
laws superstars Justin “Big Chief ” Shearer and
Shawn “Murder Nova” Ellington first made a
pass with the scoreboards on.
OSCR moved to Beech Bend Raceway Park
in 2018. It was a year of growth for the event, as
racer participation was up, and Pro Modified was
added to the mostly small-tire lineup.
Forces started working against Crossnoe and
this race in 2019. An electrifying 3.599-second
pass by Jamie Hancock, which would’ve been
the first 3.50-second pass for a nitrous-assisted
doorslammer, sparked controversy online. Rival
small-tire promoter Donald “Duck” Long made a
series of inflammatory remarks about the legiti-
macy of the pass and others made in competition
at OSCR VI. After the scrutiny and further review
Issue 154
he 2020 small-tire racing sched-
ule is now without one of its marquee
events, the Outlaw Street Car Reunion,
as promoter Tyler Crossnoe announced
on February 18 that dwindling support from
sponsors has led his company, Speed Promo-
tions, LLC., to cancel the 2020 running of the
race. Crossnoe addressed the issue in a post on
the event’s website to explain the reason for the
cancellation with two months left before the race.
“This is going to be one of the hardest pieces of
literature that I’ve ever had to write,” Crossnoe
started. “We are deeply saddened to announce
that the seventh edition of the Outlaw Street Car
Reunion scheduled for April 15-18, 2020 at Beech
Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky,
has been cancelled and will not be contested. For