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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

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

Princeton, Minnesota’s Zach Benson capped his first ever 20-win season by being crowned the 2023 WISSOTA Midwest Modified National Champion! 32-year-old Benson, who has competed in the Midwest Modified division for eight seasons, starting in the division in 2016 and competing in the class ever since. Benson’s season included twenty victories at nine different tracks during the 61 events he competed in and included accolades such as winning both nights of the Minnesota Modified Nationals at the...more

16-year-old Kennedy Swan just completed her first season behind the wheel of a WISSOTA Modified and capped off a very successful rookie year by being named the 2023 WISSOTA Modified Rookie of the Year for her efforts. Swan is no stranger to success in race cars, as she is coming off a very successful three-year stint in the WISSOTA Midwest Modified class, where she won 14 features, including the Punky Manor Challenge of Champions and a track title at her home track, the Red Cedar Speedway in...more

Ashton Schwinn, from Little Falls, Minnesota is the 2023 WISSOTA Mod Four Rookie of the Year. Schwinn, 18, entered 53 events split between the Mod Four and Mini Stock classes during the 2023 season and raced to six feature wins, including his first in the Mod Fours during his rookie year, besting all other rookies in the division for the national Rookie of the Year honors. Schwinn’s father Conrad has been a mainstay in the Mod Four and Mini Stock divisions for many years, winning over 50...more

Dominick (Dom) Platow, of Paynesville, Minnesota raced to the 2023 WISSOTA Street Stock Rookie of the Year title at the conclusion of this most recent season. Platow, 30, began his racing career in the Pure Stock division in 2020 and competed in that class for the first three seasons of his young career before moving into the Street Stock division in 2023. His primary tracks that he called ‘home’ weekly were the KRA Speedway in Willmar, MN on Thursday nights, the Fiesta City Speedway in...more

Hibbing, Minnesota’s McKenna Folstad, a true rookie to the racing world, just wrapped up the 2023 WISSOTA Hornet Rookie of the Year Award after a very successful season. McKenna entered several Enduro events in Hibbing and Grand Rapids in past years, but 2023 was her first full season behind the wheel of a Hornet car full time. Folstad, 20, raced to her first ever Hornet feature win in early August at the Grand Rapids Speedway in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. McKenna entered 24 races during 2023,...more

Saginaw, Minnesota’s Austin Blom entered 33 events during the 2023 racing season and emerged as the ’23 WISSOTA Super Stock Rookie of the Year at season’s end. During the 33 events he entered, he raced to 25 top ten and 11 top five finishes for his efforts and earned runner up honors in the final Halvor Lines Speedway Super Stock Track Point Standings as well. Blom, 31, has been around racing since 2007, competing in the Pure Stock division from 2008 through 2011 and then after a three-year...more

Over the years, WISSOTA-area racers and fans have become accustomed to seeing the name Adams at, or near the top of the WISSOTA National Point Standings on many occasions, as Cameron, Wisconsin’s Kevin Adams topped the national championship point standings 5 times during his hall of fame career, and although Kevin is still winning racers, he has scaled back his schedule considerably over the past few seasons to focus on his teenage son Blake’s career. The work has paid off as 14-year-old Blake...more

Thursday, September 14 Thursday was the second night of action during the 37th annual WISSOTA 100 at I-94 Speedway. For the Modifieds, Super Stocks, Mid Mods and Street Stocks, it was qualifying for the outside row (of the three-wide start) for Saturday night’s big features. It was slightly different for the Late Models. Since the Challenge Series was considered to be separate from 100 qualifying, the results from Wednesday were not applicable to the starting order for the finale on Saturday....more