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Bemidji, Minnesota racer Josh Berg just completed his dream season, racing to 17 victories, capped off by winning his first ever WISSOTA Pure Stock National Championship! 36-year-old Berg, who started racing 12 years ago and has competed in the Pure Stock Class for the last 11 of those seasons after starting his career in a Mini Stock, says ‘I still can’t believe the season I had’ when asked about his national title run. As mentioned, Berg raced to 17 feature wins at 4 different tracks...more

2021 and 2022 WISSOTA Modified National Champion Tyler Peterson made the leap into the WISSOTA Late Model division for the 2023 season and as a rookie, outlived expectations and raced to a 40-win season to capture the Late Model National Championship AND Rookie of the Year honors, en route to his third straight national title across WISSOTA’s top two divisions. Peterson won 20 Late Model features and 20 in the Modified, where he finished a solid 2nd in the final national point tally as...more

Entering the 2023 racing season, no driver had ever won more WISSOTA National Championships than Shane Sabraski, who picked up his 9th national title in 2022, but Sabraski, who is rapidly approaching 1,000 career victories, wanted more. You see, Sabraski has been a multi-division racer for the majority of his career, yet he had never won national titles in multiple divisions in the same season. Until this year! Sabraski has been in contention to win multiple titles in previous years, but was...more

2018 WISSOTA Street Stock National Champion Justin Vogel had some extra drive to try for his second national title during the 2023 season and was able to accomplish his ultimate goal by winning the ’23 championship after a long and hard-fought battle that came down to the final weekend of the season. Vogel’s dear friend Asha Gregory’s battle with cancer unfortunately ended this past spring and after a conversation with her husband Dustin, the decision was made to wrap the car pink and try to...more

Justin Barsness, from Grand Rapids, Minnesota, did something that no other driver has ever done in the history of the WISSOTA Promoter’s Association – he won a National Championship in one division and won the Rookie of the Year in another division in the same season. 17-year-old Barsness, raced in 43 Hornet events, winning 17 times and recording 39 top ten finishes to earn the National Championship in just his fourth season in the division, plus he also ran 29 Pure Stock events, winning a...more

2021 WISSOTA Mod Four Champion Tommy Bawden did it again. After a down-to-the-wire, winner take all final weekend of the season at the MTH Fall Classic, Bawden won the feature to secure his second straight National title in the process. Tommy began his racing career in Go Karts back 16 years ago. After competing in the Karts for 5 years, he moved into the Mod Fours in 2011 and ran in the class until 2014, then raced Midwest Modifieds from 2015 to 2019 before moving back to the Mod Fours in...more

New Richmond, Wisconsin’s Pat Doar had arguably one of his best seasons to date on the Structural Buildings WISSOTA Late Model Challenge Series tour this past season, claiming six series victories and capping it off by claiming his 6th series championship in the process. Doar, who also won series titles in 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2018, entered the 2023 series as the all-time winningest driver in series history with 36 career series triumphs and after winning 6 series events during the...more

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Effective immediately, Rod Lindquist has ended his two-year term as WISSOTA’s Interim Executive Director with the end of the 2023 season. The WISSOTA Promoter’s Association, Inc. just concluded it’s end of year championship awards banquet and annual promoter’s meetings this past weekend and dolled out over $600,000 in cash and awards for the year after wrapping up a banner season for the eight-division sanctioning body, which consists of tracks in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota,...more

WISSOTA Auto Racing has undergone changes to prepare for the 2024 WISSOTA racing season. Last season we recorded a vastly successful Speedway Motors WISSOTA 100 and National Banquet, as well as debuted the AFCO WISSOTA MPH Invitational, a tradition we are excited to grow and continue for years to come. 28 tracks were represented in the deliberations of the 2023 WISSOTA Annual Meeting. One decision made annually by the represented body is voting on the WISSOTA Board Members. There were 3 spots...more