The Left Turn
By: Ron Burt
The Great Lakes Super Sprints have released their 2026 season schedule. They have 33 confirmed shows from April through Labor Day weekend, with special events sanctioned by GLSS after the Championship weekend. In addition to the standard, $2,500 to win and $400 to start, multiple $5,000 to win shows are being planned.
The 11th season of series begins as it has the past three seasons, with a co-sanctioned event with USCS at I-75 Raceway. The sanctioning bodies will split their formats between the Friday and Saturday shows. This weekend will be a good warm up. The regional schedule starts the following weekend with a return to Indiana’s Montpelier Motor Speedway. The series has been absent from Montpelier since 2018. The Montpelier race on Saturday, April 18th will also be the opening weekend for the GLSS South Division season.
The North Division begins the following weekend with a doubleheader in Michigan at I-96 Speedway Friday, 4/24 and Crystal Motor Speedway Saturday, 4/25. A return to the GLSS South region is Friday, May 1st, to help open the season at Limaland Motorsports Park. An event To Be Announced is anticipated on Saturday, May 2nd.
On Friday, May 8th, GLSS unloads for the first of two visits to West Michigan’s Hartford Speedway. An event originally announced for May 9th at Shadyhill Speedway in Indiana has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 16th, following a $5,000 to win stop at Limaland Motorsports Park on Friday, May 15th as part of the Run for the Rabbit. Opening weeks are just a tease of what’s to come in 2026.
The schedule has been well planned. The drivers and crews will have different car set-ups every race night. Different size tracks, track layouts, and dirt vs clay. Let’s not forget besides the best drivers in the north series competing against the south, the top Canadian drivers are now racing special GLSS events with the increased purse money. The drivers will run on the best tracks in Tri-state in 2026. In Indiana, they will take on the famous Lawrenceburg Speedway, Circle City Raceway, near Indy, Montpelier and Shadyhill. To our north in the Wolverine State, Crystal, Hartford, Butler and Silver Bullet Speedways. In Ohio Limaland Motorsports Park, Waynesfield Raceway Park, the famous Eldora, the newly redone Mansfield Speedway and Millstream in Findlay. They will also race in Canada at Ohsweken and Buxton Speedways.
Over the past several years I’ve developed good friendships with many drivers. You need to be able to race on more than 2 or 3 tracks a year or you get burned out. This schedule will open the play book where everyone, every night, will have to work to get their cars dialed in and adjusted. In 2026 fans should see new drivers in Victory Lane. Until next week, keep your wheels down.
Ron out!
