The field storms out of turn four at River Cities. Speedway Shots photo. This Thursday night, September the 10th, the 23rd season of NLRA action comes to a close with the tenth running of the 'Prelude to the Johnny.' The event kicks off the three-day, fourteenth annual John Seitz Memorial, which honors our three-time series champion, the late great John Seitz. Thursday's race serves as the series opportunity to crown its' series champion at their home track, the high-banked, quarter-mile River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, racing at the speedway for the 45th time overall in series history.
0 Comments
Ryan Corbett (C4) and Dustin Strand (71) in battle earlier this season. Corbett won last week at Greenbush, and Strand heads into the week as the point leader. Speedway Shots photo. This Saturday night, August the 22nd, the series will make it's first and only visit of the 2020 campaign to the Jamestown Speedway in Jamestown, ND. This event is scheduled to be the 25th visit to the quarter-mile on the Stutzman County Fairgrounds.
Dustin Strand (71) and Brody Troftgruben (14) battle at River Cities earlier this season. The pair have won two of the last three series races. Strand is the series point leader, while Troftgruben is currently second. Speedway Shots photo. This Saturday night, August 15th, the series will try, for the third time this season, to race at the Greenbush Race Park in Greenbush, MN. This will be the 31st event at the high-banked Roseau County oval that measures in at just over a quarter-mile.
Father and Son duo, Blake and Steve Anderson battle door-to-door at Devils Lake on June 27th. Speedway Shots photo. The series wraps up a three race swing this Saturday night, August 1st, at the Devils Lake Speedway near Crary, ND. This will be the 26th series event at the one-third mile oval, which opened 20 years ago.
Tonight, July 24th, Mike Balcaen enters the River Cities Speedway Hall of Fame. Balcaen's career started in 1984, and since then he has amassed over 50 championships, and over 225 feature victories. It will be a bittersweet night for those of us in attendance as Mike still won't be able to be with us.
Congrats, Mike! From all of us, your NLRA family! (Photos by Palmer Berger, Julie Grassel, Chad Spieker, Mike Spieker, and Steven Young.) The field left the inside row open last week at Devils Lake for our Canadians, who are unable to race with us. Speedway Shots photo. This Saturday night, July the 4th, the series will celebrate Independence Day at the Greenbush Race Park in Greenbush, MN. This will be the 31st event at the high-banked Roseau County oval that measures in at just over a quarter-mile. This is scheduled to be the first time in series history that the series will hold a race on the 4th of July holiday.
Mike Balcaen (10) and Shane Edginton (4) battle door-to-door at the Golden Hammer Classic last year. Mike Spieker photo. Before we start with the preview of our season opener this weekend, we hope you all have been well the past few months, and as all of us try to return to normal, our series will take the track on Saturday without seven of our own. As the Canadian border remains closed to non-essential travel, seven of our members will not be able to be with us, and as we are not just a series, but a family, this will weigh on us this weekend.
So, to Shane, Mike, Jesse, Ryan, Bill, Dave and Matt, your families and crews, fellow Canadian drivers that may have also made the trip, and to our Canadian fans... we miss you, and hope for a re-opening, sooner rather than later, to complete our season with you.
Aaron Turnbull and Shane Edginton battle for the lead at the John Seitz Memorial. Mike Spieker photo.
It was another exciting John Seitz Memorial at the River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, with Jake Redetzke winning the 'Prelude to the Johnny' on Thursday night, while Brad Seng captured his fourth NLRA championship, and the pole for the 92-lap finale on Saturday night by winning Friday's 'Go Hard Or Go Home' Pole Dash. But is was Estevan, Saskatchewan's Aaron Turnbull that came away as the weekend's big winner, by scoring his first John Seitz Memorial victory. Brad Seng (12S), Dustin Strand (71), and Shane Edginton (4), battle for the lead at River Cities last Friday night. The trio will head into Thursday night separated by 66 points. Mike Spieker photo. This Thursday night, September the 5th, the 22nd season of NLRA action comes to a close with the ninth running of the 'Prelude to the Johnny,' kicking off the three-day, thirteenth annual John Seitz Memorial, which honors our three-time series champion, the late great John Seitz, whom we lost in 2007. Thursday's race allows the Grand Forks based series to crown its' series champion on home turf, the high-banked, quarter-mile River Cities Speedway.
Jeff Wildung (Saturday; left) and Don Shaw (Sunday; right) in victory lane at the Viking Speedway last weekend. Collin Nelson photos. Jeff Wildung, driver of the No. 50 Veit Companies MB Custom, and Don Shaw, driver of the No. 42S Shaw Trucking Rocket XR1, split the Traditional Labor Day Dobule at the Viking Speedway in Alexandria, MN. Wildung lead all twenty laps to score his fourteenth NLRA win, and twelfth at Viking. Shaw's win is his eleventh NLRA series win, and the sixth year in a row that his has one at least one of the two features contested at Viking on Labor Day weekend.
|
SUBSCRIBE TO
|