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One new feature winner and three duplicate main winners highlighted the Wilmot Raceway traditional Car Load & Fireworks Independence Day Holiday Spectacular Night on Saturday, July 1. Genoa City's Nick Simons scored his first 20-lap Modified feature win of the season. N. Simons overtook early race leader Joel Seegert of Sheboygan nine laps from the finish in the non-stop main. N. Simons was able to work some lapped traffic and pulled away to the win. Genoa City's Mike Simons, Nick's younger...more

"My team has never given up on me," said Macedo, who became a back to back winner at Wilmot. "I am really grateful to be standing up here in victory lane." Donny Schatz of Fargo, ND took the initial lead in front of the 24-car field, but it was short lived as the red flag flew on the initial green flag lap when Hunter Schuerenberg of Sikeston, MO flipped in turn two. Schatz took the lead on the restart until Macedo shot in front with 25 laps to go. Local favorite Bill Balog of Hartford, WI,...more

A pair of 2023 first time winners this season at Wilmot Raceway along with two third time winners highlighted a wild Family Night Saturday, July 15. Kansasville's Ryan Marshall became the fourth different 20-lap CK Contractors/AutoMeter Powered by Gandrud Performance Parts feature winner going wire to wire to take his first Wilmot main win this season. A caution with nine laps remaining followed by another with four laps to go kept Marshall under pressure from Oconomowoc's Ryan Zielski. The...more

Brenham Crouch of Lubbock, Texas made his first Bumper to Bumper Interstates Racing Association Outlaw Winged feature win memorable by capturing the 25-lap IRA Founder's Night presented by Body Craft of Antioch, IL feature Saturday, July 29 at Wilmot Raceway. "I heard a lot about this race and the prestige of winning here at Wilmot," said the 17-year-old of his first ever IRA feature win coming at the original home track of the IRA. "My team and our sponsors have been very supportive and it...more

The Kansasville Comet, Ryan Marshall, scored his second 20-lap CK Contractors/AutoMeter Wisconsin Wingless Sprints Powered By Gandrud Performance Products Feature victory of the season at Wilmot Raceway highlighting Family Night on Saturday, August 5. Marshall took the lead from first year driver Tyler Kuxhouse of Antioch, IL with three laps to go following a restart with the only caution of the feature with five laps remaining. Kuxhouse finished a career best second after leading the first...more

Hartford’s Bill Balog put the bookend on his second regular season Wilmot Raceway 410 Championship by scoring a thrilling victory in the Roger Iles Tribute for the Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association(IRA) 30-lap feature at the Kenosha County Fair on Saturday, August 19, 2023. Balog’s last Wilmot title came in 2020. Balog, known as the North Pole Nightmare as he is originally from Anchorage, AK, took the lead on a slide move to overtake Joel Myers Jr. of Santa Rosa, CA. on a restart...more

Opening night of the Kenosha County Fair at Wilmot Raceway in Wilmot, Wis. produced two new 2023 feature winners, a pair of trifecta 2023 winners, and several fires as part of the hot racing action. Brian Kristan of Zion, IL scored his first feature win since 2018 by taking top honors in the 20-lap DWells Automotive 604 Crate Powered Winged Sprints in their first ever event held at Wilmot. Kristan took the lead from early pacesetter Ellie Hensley of Trevor on lap 8. Hensley took the initial...more

Two first time Wilmot Raceway feature winners and a four-time victor in 2023 highlighted the Open Wheel Special Saturday, August 26. Ben Schmidt of Howards Grove snapped a winless drought at Wilmot which saw him finish second seven times combined while competing in both 410 and 360 winged sprint cars. Schmidt took over the lead from Matt Vandervere of Zion, IL with 10 laps to go in the 25-lap Midwest Sprint Association(MSA) 360-Winged Sprint Car main event. A pair of red flags slowed the...more

The 2023 Wilmot Raceway season is winding down with two nights remaining including the crowning of five champions for the year. Championship Night Saturday, September 9 is next up for the 3/8-mile clay oval on the Kenosha County Fairgrounds. CK Contractors/AutoMeter Powered By Gandrud Performance Parts Wisconsin Wingless Sprints, Pfeiffer Trailer Sales IRA Lightning Sprints, Modifieds and Street Stocks have their final Wilmot point nights that evening. A drivers autograph session is slated...more

Wilmot Raceway crowned a five-time Street Stock Champion in Rob Maule of Hebron, IL. Four-time Pfeiffer Trailer Sales IRA Lightning Sprints Champion is Mark Heinert of Waukesha The 2022 IRA Wingless Series Champion and 2021 Wilmot and IRA Rookie of the Year Clayton Rossmann of Wadsworth, IL, 2021 Wilmot Rookie of the Year at age 15, took his first CK Contractors/AutoMeter Powered By Gandrud Performance Parts Wisconsin Wingless Sprints Championship at Wisconsin's home for sprint car...more