Scott Oeltjen of Villard already has a track championship in his young racing career, but he is still chasing something he wants even more. “I want a win,” Oeltjen said. “I want to get that monkey off my back. That’s all luck.” Oeltjen has raced in the Wissota Midwest Modifieds since 2020, racing mainly at I-94 EMR Speedway in Fergus Falls and Viking Speedway in Alexandria. He won the 2025 track championship at I-94 last year. The 24-year-old, like many in racing, star

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 Northern Region championship. But what set the stage for that season was racing on the NASCAR Busch Tour in the late 1980s. Racing for Joe and Audrey Salner’s #4F late model team out of St. Cloud, Minn., Hinkemeyer raced on the Busch Tour against top Midwest late model drivers like Gary Webb, Ray Guss Jr., Steve Kosiski and Joe Kosiski in late 1