Night 3 of the Steffes Street Stock Tour was at Viking Speedway on Sunday night. Another good field of 25 street stocks were on hand. Viking had a nice, smooth track all weekend and ran a very efficient show on Sunday. The final checkered flag waved at 8:41 p.m. All in all it was a good weekend at the half-mile and the first three nights have produced solid racing. Once again the street stock main event came down to the wire with some great racing. Once again, things got craz

The 15th annual John Seitz Memorial wrapped up Saturday night at River Cities Speedway, and it was the A.J. Diemel show in what might have been the most convincing victory in the history of the event. It looked like River Cities was going to avoid any weather issues this, but a passing shower came through around 7:45 and led to a short delay. But compared to last year’s wet weather this year was pretty uneventful. The 92-lap, $9,200 to win late model race is the capper to th

With all the rainouts late in the week, I ventured to Casino Speedway in Watertown on Sunday for their regular racing program. Casino is a true bullring — a tight 1/4-mile track with a lot of action. Those type of tracks produce good racing but also some beating and banging in the corners. Watertown is a track where it seems drivers either love it or hate it — some like the tight racing, some don’t. I I thought it was a good show, the racing was pretty good in all classes wit

RaceChaser blog was back at I-94 Sure Step Speedway for Race of Champions Night. A field of 143 cars was on hand on a sunny, humid evening. I knew with that many cars, and a hammer down fast track, and meet the drivers night — that it could be a long evening. And it was, with the final checkered waving at just before 12:30 a.m. It felt like a warmup for the Wissota 100 with cars from four states on hand. Some big guns were in town. It was a lightning-fast track with some char

RaceChaser was back at Viking Speedway in Alexandria for Week 2. The late models were in town for one of their three appearances at the half-mile this year. It was a long night, and at times frustrating as cautions plagued the early parts of the Wissota Midwest Modified feature and almost all of the Wissota Super Stock feature. Not surprising for an early-season show, those types of nights happen as drivers iron out the bugs. Long nights at Viking bring out the dreaded ‘C’ w

RaceChaser has been to three area tracks so far, and will be at two more this week, weather-permitting. I don’t get too excited about crowds or car counts at this point in the season. Farming affects the early part of the racing season, especially with the dry spring we’ve had, and some cars just aren’t ready. Let’s get into June when we are in the swing of things before we jump to any conclusions there. But, I have a few observations on the the first few nights I’ve been to

The John Seitz Memorial Late Model race at River Cities Speedway rarely disappoints. What an incredible finish on Saturday night. In a race that went down to the wire, Aaron Turnbull of Estevan, Saskatchewan held off a furious last challenge from two-time winner A.J. Diemel of Elk Mound, Wis., to repeat as champion in the late models. Turnbull is the third two-time champion of the event, joining Diemel and Brad Seng of Grand Forks. It was by no means an easy win for the Canad

The second part of the Father’s Day blog, featuring several drivers talking about the influence of their dads: Ryan Satter (#67 Wissota Street Stock and Limited Late Model, Dent, Minn.) “My dad raced in the 80s and early 90s around the area, he quit the spring of 1994 and I was born the fall of 1994. I never got to watch my dad race but I grew up watching film of him in Wee Town, Glyndon, and Fargo and flip through all the old photo albums he has. I was obsessed with racing s