In 2009 the track hosted its first televised event, The "Big Red Book" River Days Rumble, featuring the Lucas Oil Late Model Series.

The race, the thirty-second annual running of the event, paid $50,000 to the winner and was televised on the SPEED Network and sanctioned by the Lucas Oil Late Model Series.

weekend that the thirty-third annual hosting of the event would also take place at the speedway under Lucas Oil series sanction.

In the summer of 1990 Coleman began excavation on the site, when asked about his intentions he replied "My son Tim has a racecar and no place to practice!"

Boone later decided to try to recover some of the money he spent building the track, and installed grandstands and the first season kicked off in late 1990, only two races were held that year.