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Johnson Racing looking good so far in
2011!
The 73 team is now
well into the 2011 season and has seen a lot
of success so far. The team has collected 6
feature wins to date including a DART
Challenge Series win in Dickinson, North
Dakota in June and a recent NLRA series win
in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada! Some
plans for this fall include a stop in Grand
Forks, ND for the 5th annual John Seitz
Memorial which pays $9,200 to the winner,
Along with a trip to Huron, SD for the
WISSOTA 100. The team will also be in
Alexandria, MN to defend their home turf in
October for the Fall Classic. See you at
the tracks!!
Looking Forward to 2011!
The 2011 racing season is
just around the corner and the 73 team is busy
doing final preparations in anticipation of the
upcoming summer. Plans for 2011 include a
potential entire NLRA schedule, and several DART
Challenge Series shows. The teams first show
will be at their home track in Alexandria, MN
for the 1st Annual Central MN Icebreaker! The
double header weekend will include 2 complete
late model shows, each paying $2,000-to-win!
From their they plan on running many local
weekend shows over the next few weeks before the
"busy season" starts. The first DART Series
show will be held in Huron, SD at Dakota State
Fair Speedway on June 4th, where the team will
compete for $5,000-to-win. The following
weekend will take the team north for a 3 night
swing through North Dakota with the DART
Challenge Series. 3 nights in a row,
$3,000-to-win each night! The next couple of
months will be busy for the team as they tour
with the NLRA and Dart series, including a
9-straight-run with the Northern Late Model
Racing Association throughout North Dakota and
Saskatchewan! September invitational's will
include the John Seitz Memorial, the WISSOTA
100, and the Viking Fall Classic. The team will
also compete at many local regular shows
throughout the summer at Viking Speedway
and I-94 Speedway. See you at the tracks!!!
73 team closes out a successful 2010,
Prepping for 2011
The Johnson racing team is busy preparing for the
upcoming 2011 racing season. Last summer we saw the
team switch to Bob Pierce Race Cars and have
immediate success. After a close runner-up finish
at the Viking Speedway "Fall Classic in the Spring",
the team went on to record 8 WISSOTA feature wins at
4 different tracks, a 3rd in Minnesota State Late
Model points, and a 5th in WISSOTA National points.
The team plans on much of the same for 2011. They
will continue to pilot their Bob Pierce Race Cars at
several WISSOTA tracks. Specials will include but
not be limited to the "Central Minnesota Ice
Breaker" on April 14th-16th, the Huron, South Dakota
"Challenge Cup" on June 4th, the "John Seitz
Memorial" in Grand Forks, ND, and several NLRA
shows. Open motor racing plans are undecided at the
time.
Johnson Racing would also like to welcome a few new
sponsors to the team! They include DS Powersports,
Channel Seeds and Lakes Area Tree Moving. We look
forward to a successful 2011 with our new partners.
See you at the track!!
Johnson Racing off to a successful start for 2010!
After just a few short weeks of racing
so far in the
upper midwest, Johnson Racing has seen early success
at the start of 2010. After a strong 2nd place finish in
the "Viking Fall Classic (in the spring)", they have
recorded 3 wins at Viking Speedway, along with winning the
openers at Fiesta City Speedway in Montevideo, MN and
Red River Valley Speedway in Fargo, ND. The team
hopes to continue their successful and consistent season
throughout the summer. Some of the big shows they will be
attending include the
Cedar Lake Masters Summer Nationals double header,
the World of Outlaw shows in Spring Valley, MN, Grand Forks,
ND, and Huron, SD, the
Cedar Lake USA
Nationals, and the John Seitz Memorial. Look for
updates this weekend on the teams
Facebook
and Twitter
pages as they travel to the famed Cedar Lake Speedway in New
Richmond, WI for the Summer Nationals double header paying
$5,000 and $10,000 to win!
Johnson Racing Gearing Up for 2010 Season!!
Johnson Racing has recently teamed up with Bob
Pierce Race Cars out of Oakwood, Illinois and are looking forward to
hitting the track this spring with the new equipment! The team
plans on hitting many open shows again in 2010, along with several
WISSOTA appearances at both special events and weekly shows. In
2009, the team saw their first attempts at open motor competition,
competing in many series including the World of Outlaws, the World
Dirt Racing League, UMP, and the USA Nationals at Cedar Lake
Speedway. The team is looking to advance by making more open motor
shows in 2010 and setting some higher goals for themselves. Some
Lucas Oil series races have been added to the schedule, along with
some trips to Iowa's famous Farley and West Liberty Speedways. They
also look to compete in a few UMP Summer Nationals races, and are
hoping to possibly add a couple of "crown jewel" appearances this
summer. Check the "schedule" page for up-to-date 2010 plans and
stop by often as the schedule will be changing!!
Johnson Racing Closes Out 2009
Season
Johnson Racing closed out their 2009
season this past week by traveling to Huron, South Dakota for the annual WISSOTA 100.
After a 5th place performance in the heat
race, they discovered terminal engine issues, and were forced to
forfeit the remainder of the event.
The 2009 season saw 7 WISSOTA feature wins for the 73
team. They recorded
wins at Viking Speedway, Fiesta City Speedway, Madison Speedway,
and I-94 Speedway.
The team finished 8th in the WISSOTA national points,
2nd in the Minnesota State points, and 3rd in the
WISSOTA Central Region points.
In 2009 we saw the team?�s first attempts at open motor
competition. They
qualified for 4 out of 6 World of Outlaw Late Model features,
including the ?�Illini 100??in Farmer City, Illinois, and the ?�Gopher 50??in Spring Valley, Minnesota.
The team also made features at
Kentucky Lake?�s
March Madness in
Calvert City,
Kentucky, and the Cedar Lake
Speedway?�s WDRL Masters.
Look for the team to make an appearance at the
Performance Racing Industry Trade Show in
Orlando,
Florida in December, and at the 3rd
Annual WISSOTA Expo in
St. Cloud,
Minnesota.
Next year?�s plans for the 73 crew include local WISSOTA
shows, several World of Outlaw appearances, WDRL shows, the USA
Nationals, possibly several NCRA shows, along with some Lucas
Oil events.
Johnson
Racing would like to thank all of their sponsors, fans, and crew
members for all the dedication and support throughout the
successful 2009 racing season.
Look for a tentative 2010 schedule to be posted in the
next couple of months!
WISSOTA Champ taking the next big
step
Prepared by Todd Turner Dirt on Dirt
The gulf between upper-Midwest WISSOTA
Late Model racing and national touring Late Model racing has
been a wide one, but it's been a fruitful pipeline that has
included Hall of Famer Rick Aukland of Fargo, N.D., Jimmy Mars
of Menomonie, Wis., Brady Smith of Solon Springs, Wis., and,
most recently, Terry Casey of New London, Wis.
Zach Johnson of Kensington, Minn., the 2007-08 WISSOTA weekly
points champion, hopes to be the next to make the move in 2009.
Johnson, a 23-race winner last season, has added an
open-competition engine to his No. 73 and has already made
progress with a feature start at Kentucky Lake Motor Speedway's
March Madness and his first career World of Outlaws Late Model
Series start April 4 at Farmer City Raceway's Illini 100.
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