Crandon International Raceway announces first-ever vintage revival & reunion for 2026 Brush Run Speed Festival

Many racetracks around America are home to iconic wins and significant firsts. Crandon International Raceway in Crandon, Wis., not only embodies both of these things, but it's bringing its history full circle this year with the first-ever Vintage Revival & Reunion at the 2026 Brush Run Speed Festival.

Crandon is the spiritual home of short-course off-road racing. This historic raceway’s dirt floor has absorbed more spilled fuel, roasted tire bits, leaked oil, and celebratory beer spray than most venues will ever see. This June, it is honoring that legacy in the most appropriate (and fun) way imaginable: by bringing the machines and people who built the sport back to their ancestral home in the dirt.

2026 Brush Run Speed Festival

The Forest County Potawatomi Brush Run Speed Festival announced this week the inaugural Crandon Vintage Revival & Reunion, a first-of-its-kind celebration of short-course off-road racing heritage set for June 20-21. 

“This is more than an event, it’s a homecoming 57 years in the making,” said off-road historian and Crandon Promoter Marty Fiolka. “Crandon is where short-course off-road racing was born, and the Vintage Revival & Reunion is our way of honoring that legacy while bringing together the machines and people who helped build the sport into what it is today.”

For the first time in the track's history, vintage off-road race cars, buggies, trucks, motorcycles, and ATVs will descend upon the Crandon circuit like a scene from Mad Max. They aren’t likely to maraud for fuel, but instead are coming to run hot exhibition laps. If you were expecting not velvet ropes and trailers, you’d be wrong. These dirty boys are actually running the same track where the sport's history was written. If you have ever wanted to hear what a vintage off-road race truck sounds like at full-tilt, Crandon in June is it.

AMSOIL Championship Off-Road

The Vintage Revival & Reunion is one of a handful of spectacles anchoring the re-imagined 2026 Brush Run Speed Festival. The weekend also features Pro and Sportsman divisions of the AMSOIL Championship Off-Road series, the international debut of the new RallyX Americas series, and the first-ever Thunder Valley UTV Rally. 

Photo courtesy of Champ Off-Road

What makes this extra, extra cool is that the Brush Run Speed Fest is celebrating off-road racing history and still pushing the sport’s future forward all in one dusty weekend. The whole thing concludes with the 33rd annual Forest County Potawatomi Community Cup, the Pro 2 versus Pro 4 showdown that was born and perfected at Crandon.

The showcase itself will span generations of off-road evolution, from early grassroots builds to championship-winning machines. Already confirmed for the event are vehicles like Robby Gordon's famed Ford Class 8 truck and Art Schmitt's Barrien Super Buggy, names and machines that carry serious weight in the history of the sport. 

A Crandon Show and Shine on Saturday, June 20, will open the celebration to vintage street cars, trucks, and motorcycles, too, and fans will have direct access to the drivers, builders, and innovators who shaped the sport in its most formative years.

Owners of eligible vintage off-road race vehicles — any sedan, buggy, truck, motorcycle, or ATV with competition heritage — are encouraged to apply for inclusion in the show and exhibition laps by contacting Fiolka directly at marty@therennsportgroup.com. Tickets, grandstand seats, and Camp Crandon campsites are available now at crandonoffroad.com. However you plan to experience the weekend, we recommend you get there early and hold on tight.