Racing in Dallas

Oak has been a motor designer for sprint car teams at Tulsa Speedway, and from 1998 until now, he has been a racecar owner of Phil Oakes Performance racing team, or POPS Racing.

Phil Oaks has been on the go in the racing scene since age 15. "I have been racing since 1958, I started first in Drag racing," explains the Arrow, Oklahoma native.

"In 1965 I started running Top Fuel and in the seventy's Funny Cars. In 1978 I was ask to build engines for a World of Outlaws team, and I have been concerned with sprint cars ever since."