SAPULPA, Okla. — Everything is on the line in Oklahoma.
The 2026 American Sprint Car Series season will close with two nights at Creek County Speedway for the 11th annual Fuzzy’s Fall Fling on Friday-Saturday, Oct. 16-17.
The weekend’s opener will pay $4,000-to-win, and Saturday’s finale will reward a $10,000 payday and crown a new champion for the ASCS National Tour and ASCS Sooner Region.
Across the two nights, the 360 sprint cars will be joined by Factory Stocks and Dwarf Cars.
The Final Battle
The jury is out on who will be the newest ASCS National Tour champion ahead of the Creek County finale: Sam Hafertepe Jr. or Matt Covington.
The two drivers are separated by 21 points in the standings, with Hafertepe ahead of Covington. On the track, that means as close as a four-position difference and no room for error between the two contenders. Battling toe-to-toe for points and season stats since January, Hafertepe holds more feature wins and podiums while Covington has more top-10 finishes and heat race wins.
When the series visited the quarter-mile for the Don Swope Classic in June, Hafertepe encountered an engine failure while Covington finished in the runner-up position. Hafertepe bounced back at Creek in POWRi 410 competition the following Saturday with a feature win.
Sooner Pride
The Oklahoma natives controlled Saturday in Texas at RPM Speedway, with Blake Hahn scoring his 27th career ASCS National Tour win, and his 15th with the Sooner Region.
Hahn was one of the three Oklahomans to lead the 30-lap contest, with Tulsa’s Sean McClelland leading the first eight laps, then Glenpool’s Covington sat at the helm for 15 circuits before Hahn made the winning pass.
Hahn will lead the charge of home-state defenders into Creek County as the reigning winner in the Don Swope Classic and the last two Fuzzy’s Fall Fling openers. McClelland, a six-time Sonner Region champion, is an 11-time winner at Creek County with ASCS, with his latest triumph coming in 2025.
Top Dog
Bradley Fezard has two nights left in 2026 before he can officially be called an ASCS champion.
Since taking control of the Sooner Region standings at Creek County in June, the Bonnerdale, Ark., driver leads 2024 champ Casey Wills by 74 points and Hayden Mabe by 81 ahead of Fuzzy’s Fall Fling. All three are hunting a first win to close the year.
Fezard won at the track in 2022 with the United Sprint League and finished fifth in the two ASCS features of 2026. Wills and Mabe are each looking for their first win at Creek County.
Pivotal Points
Multiple positions across the top-10 in National Tour points remain unsolidified as “Creekadega” owns the final word through two nights.
Sixth-place Austyn Gossel and seventh-place Cole Schroeder provide the closest battle, with six markers separating the two drivers.
While Gossel is seeking to end with a career-high finish, Schroeder will clinch the year’s Brodix Rookie of the Year to end his first-year racing sprint cars on a national scale.
Eighth-place Brogan Carder is 30 points away from Schroeder as he’ll make a final charge at gaining position at Creek.
While the Sioux Falls, S.D., sophomore ends his year in 360 sprint cars with ASCS, he’ll close 2026 in a World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series debut at The Dirt Track at Charlotte for Dave Smith Motors World of Outlaws World Finals.
