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Wisconsin Dells WI 10/21/20-A New Wave of Exciting young talent will make their presents know in the Falloween 150 as the tide is a changing again on Wisconsin short tracks. Just as the seasons change so do our short track hero's as the names Trickle, Shear, Reffner, Ziegler, Holzhausen, Marzofka were replaced in the late 90's by Bickle, Kenseth, Reiser, Ollerman, Wilberg, Bennett, Wimmer, then again the Y2k movement of Johnson, Majeski, Farrell, Morrissey, Sauter, Fredrickson, Zehr, we now...more

Wisconsin Dells WI 10/24/20-The Dells Raceway Park 6th annual Falloween 150 took place this past Saturday and while temperatures were well below normal driver Ty Majeski was well above the norm and captured his third Falloween 150 presented by Ho-Chunk Gaming of Wisconsin Dells. Skylar Holzhausen of Bangor WI and Dalton Zehr of Menomonee MI would bring the 25 car field to green and it was Zehr who grabbed the top spot early as the field sorted itself out. By lap 20 Zehr continued to lead and...more

Wisconsin Dells WI 10/24/20-Casey Johnson of Edgerton WI over came a 3 point deficit heading into the Falloween 150 to claim his first Alive for 5 Series Championship Presented by Ho-Chunk Gaming of Wisconsin Dells. Johnson finished third in the event and that was enough to secure the championship over Ryan Farrell of Big Bend. Johnson has been on fire since mid-season and has compiled quite a list of accomplishments in 2020 by winning the Wisconsin International Raceway Red, White & Blue...more

Wisconsin Dells WI 11/28/20-The Central Wisconsin Racing Association Super Late Models will return to Dells Raceway Park to being their 54th season of operation with 5 exciting shows planned for the 2021 season at DRP. CWRA will launch its Stars to Legends Tour on Saturday May 29th with the Nabbefeldt 55 Tribute on Memorial Day Weekend. Lyle Nabbefeldt was a stock car legend on the Wisconsin Short Tracks in the late 60's and early 70's until he lost his life in a turn one qualifying wreck on...more

Wisconsin Dells WI 12/1/20-The increasingly popular Outlaw Style Bodied UMA 602 Late Model division continues to grow and so does their schedule in 2021. The 2021 Season for the class will kick off at Dells Raceway Park as a support division of the Alive for 5 Series Super Late Model Icebreaker 100 on Sunday Afternoon April 18th. The division will then travel south the first weekend in May to the Madison International Raceway for the Joe Shear Classic, after that Madison will host the 602 Late...more

Wisconsin Dells WI 12/18/20-The exciting Alive for 5 UMA Super Late Model Series returns to Dells Raceway Park in 2021 with an increased purse and more driver incentives. The increasingly popular 5 race series will now pay $5000 to win each event in the Alive for 5 Championship Chase which will once again have over $100,000 in prize money up for grabs. The new incentive this year for the drivers besides the $5000 top prize is the Winners Circle program. The Winner Circle program will reward...more

WIsc Dells WI 12/30/20-Wisconsin Dells and Labor Day Weekend are a Midwest tradition, that tradition continues for the ARCA Midwest Tour as well in 2021. With the traditional date, Labor Day Weekend Saturday night September 4, the traditional track, Dells Raceway Park, this tradition now has a new name. The first ever Jim Sauter Classic 200 will begin a new tradition at the 1/3 mile paved oval. The Jim Sauter Classic pays tribute to a Midwest short track racing legend and pays $10,000 to...more

Wisconsin Dells WI 3/6/21-Tom Carlson, the 1987 ARTGO Rookie of the Year and two time Oktoberfest winner will make his stock car racing return to Dells Raceway Park in 2021. Carlson will pilot his newly built 602 Late Model for seven shows at DRP, as part of all 5 of the Alive for 5 Series Races along with the O'Reilly Auto Parts Night in July and he will be running on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend when the ARCA Midwest Tour invades DRP for the 1st annual Jim Sauter Classic 200. Please...more

Wisconsin Dells WI 3/23/21-Dells Raceway Park led the way in 2020 in terms of weekly car counts in a recent study of pavement tracks by Short Track Stats released today. DRP averaged 29 Late Models & 27 Super Late Models as well as 23 INEX Legends cars per weekly event last racing season and looking for continued success in 2021. Dells Raceway Park LM - 29.00 Dells Raceway Park SLM - 27.00 LaCrosse Speedway LM - 24.7 Fox River Racing Club SLM - 19.83 Jefferson Speedway LM - 19.3 Slinger Super...more

Wisconsin Dells WI 3/26/21-On the brink of a new racing season Jerry Auby (an old school racer himself) has completed the acquisition of Dells Raceway Park from Wayne Lensing who has owned the facility for the past decade. Dells Raceway Park opened in 1963 as Dells Motor Speedway during a boom in racetrack construction that started in the 1950's and continued into the 70's. Through Dells Motor Speedway's very humble early years, the crowds became larger and eventually an upgrade was in order....more