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(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) September 14, 2022 – After a week filled with long hours spent putting together the team’s back-up car to close out the 2022 Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association 410 Sprint Car Series campaign, Austin Hartmann and the 87A Hartmann Racing team turned in a solid debut appearance at Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis. during the 22nd Jerry Richert Memorial on Saturday, Sept. 10. One week after a hard accident at The Plymouth Dirt Track in Plymouth, Wis....more

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) September 21, 2022 – Throughout his rookie season on the Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association trail, Austin Hartmann has piled up a number of “firsts” behind the wheel of the 87A Hartmann Racing 410 Winged Sprint Car, and the Scott Semmelmann Memorial Night at Beaver Dam Raceway in Beaver Dam, Wis. marked another of these special accomplishments as the Plymouth, Wis. racer notched his first top-10 IRA A-main finish with a career-best sixth place showing in the...more

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) September 28, 2022 – A five-and-a-half-month journey competing against many of the nation’s top 410 Sprint Car drivers at 13 different tracks in three states came to close for Austin Hartmann and the 87A Hartmann Racing Team with a pair of Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association events at the Dodge County Fairgrounds Speedway in Beaver Dam, Wis. on Friday, Sept. 23 and The Plymouth Dirt Track in Plymouth, Wis. on Saturday, Sept. 24. With 21 IRA Sprint Cars...more

Cory Jorgensen just wrapped up his 39th season behind the wheel of a race car during the 2021 campaign and the Duluth, Minnesota veteran capped off an 18-win season with his second WISSOTA Pure Stock National Championship at season’s end. Jorgensen, who won his first national title in 1999, entered 35 events during the 2021 season and raced to wins in 18 of those events, plus he was able to finish inside the top five in 32 of the 35 races he started, en route to edging 2021 National Champ Chad...more

Second-generation racer Jake Smith from St. Joseph, Minnesota raced to a career-best 21 feature wins during the 2022 season en route to the WISSOTA Midwest Modified National Championship for his efforts. Smith was able to outrun runner-up David Simpson by 75 points in the final national points tally. Jake, who won the 2019 WISSOTA Hornet National title the year after his sister Brittany won the WISSOTA Hornet National Championship in 2018, comes from a family of racers as his dad Bob had a...more

2021 WISSOTA Super Stock Champion Shane Sabraski set out on his 2022 season just like he does every year – race a lot, run well, hopefully win races and let the chips fall as they may as far as points are concerned, but it took about 2 weeks into this past season for Shane to know that he was going to be in the hunt for his second straight WISSOTA Super Stock National Championship after he won features in 8 of his first 10 starts and by the end of the 2022 season, he amassed a staggering 35...more

Aberdeen, South Dakota racer Chad Becker raced to his 3rd WISSOTA Late Model National Championship during the 2022 season after a 14-win season catapulted him to the top of the list and led to the title at season’s end. Chad, who’s nickname is the Hotshoe, proved to be just that as he raced to those 14 victories at five of WISSOTA’s top tracks, including the Brown County Speedway in his hometown of Aberdeen, plus he was able to race to victories at the Casino Speedway in Watertown, SD; at the...more

Starbuck, Minnesota’s Kyle Dykhoff is fresh off capturing the 2022 WISSOTA Street Stock National Championship after completing a dream season, which consisted of 27 victories en route to the national title. Dykhoff, who started racing 13 years ago and spent his first two years in the Pure Stock division before running a Midwest Modified for three years and competing mostly in the Street Stock class for the better part of ten seasons had his best season to date this past year and was fortunate...more

Unlike the 2021 WISSOTA Modified National Championship that came down to the final lap of the final race of the season, this year back-to-back champion Tyler Peterson could breathe a little easier down the stretch run as he held a manageable lead over runner up Shane Sabraski during the final month of the season to solidify his second straight national title. In fact, Peterson, from Hickson, ND ended up with a 59-point margin over Sabraski after winning 13 of his last 17 starts and ending his...more

Dustin Holtquist, who resides in St. Cloud, MN entered his 20th season behind the wheel of a race car during the 2022 season and raced to the WISSOTA Mod4 National Championship for his efforts this season. Dustin’s career started in the Two Man Cruiser class at Fiesta City and Canby back in 2003. After racing them for several years, he bought a Super Stock and ran in that division for a couple years until his daughter was born. After that, he raced a Cruiser for a bit until he and a buddy...more