Jamie Dietzler was always around the race track as a kid as his dad was a racer, but it wasn’t until his mid 30s when he decided to buy...

Steven Olson of West Fargo has been taking pictures for more than a decade at racetracks in the Red River Valley. He takes as many as 400...

Wahpeton, N.D., driver Joel Sirek felt right at home at the high-banked half-mile at Red River Valley Speedway. “I loved running the Big...

Jason Berg of West Fargo took an unusual path to his racing career. After serving as the head flagman at several tracks in the region,...

Dylan Steele liked the feeling of reaching victory lane. The Pure Stock/Bomber driver picked up his first career feature win on Aug. 17,...

Daniel Aberle built a brand new Wissota Street Stock this offseason, and he set his sights high for 2020: a top five finish in Wissota...

Brad Pake’s sprint car racing career lasted about a decade, but he certainly left his competitive mark during that time. The Felton,...

The 2006 season was the most memorable of Dave Rohweder’s racing career. The Wishek, N.D., rancher won the Wissota Street Stock National...

Jeff Hinkemeyer had a season for the ages in 1990 at Viking Speedway in Alexandria, Minn. He won 18 of 20 features and won the Great...

If you’ve followed racing in the Lisbon area over the past four decades or so — there’s a very good chance you know Roger “Pokey” Likes. ...

Steve Thorsen of Fergus Falls was a highly-accomplished snowmobile racer decades ago. Turns out he was pretty dang tough on the dirt race...

If you followed sprint car racing regionally in the early to mid 2000s, chances you saw Loren Langerud running towards the front of the...

For a driver that won more than 140 features, it’s a plaque Kevin Pappenfuss received in 2018 that means the most. That plaque signified...

Leo Burkhardsmier is considered one of the legends in North Dakota dirt-track racing. Not only because he was recognized for his famous...

Greg Pfaff recalls when his father, Bruce, started racing in the early 1980s. “I was a kid then helping out,” Pfaff said. “We used to...

The late 1980s and into the 1990s is what west central Minnesota racing fans could say helped establish Viking Speedway in Alexandria as...

I admit was pretty stunned when I heard the news that long-time Garfield, Minn., modified driver Jason Thoennes was retiring from driving...

There may be no better way to turn around a racing season than getting your first career win. That was the case for Fergus Falls Midwest...

It’s been said that once a person gets hooked on racing — that the desire and love for the sport never goes away, no matter what age...

Tom Lund of Lisbon was looking for an assistant in the flagstand at Sheyenne Speedway in Lisbon for the 2019 season. He didn’t have to...