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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

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

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

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 officials have made changes in the event time schedule for the Saturday, September 16 Fall Spectacular. Due to possible rain moving into the area in the evening, the grqndstands will open at 3:30 p.m. with on track activity getting underway at 3:45 p.m. and racing slated to start at 5:00 p.m. Pit gates will open at 12:30 p.m. with drivers meeting at 3:30 p.m. Grandstand admission for everyone ages 12 and over is $20.00, with ages 11 and under admitted to the grandstand free. Pit...more

With lightning in the air and rain not far off, the 2023 Wilmot Raceway season came to a close with the Fall Spectacular on Saturday, September 16. Wilmot completed its entire season schedule without losing a single night to weather. The Bandit 4-Cylinder Stock Cars concluded the point championships for Wilmot classes to highlight the program. Ryan Johnson of Salem, an automotive technician completing his fifth season of racing, captured his second title as he showed up for the National...more

The traditional green flag on the southeastern Wisconsin motorsports season is coming back to the town where it was born. The "Let's Go Racing Motorsports Show" presented by Babicz Auto Racing Services(BARS) will be held on Saturday, April 20 at the Waukegan Harbor Marina on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Waukegan, IL. The official joint announcement came from Mike Babicz of BARS and Robert Allan Kutzler of Waukegan Port District on a rainy Tuesday, September 19. The two used to work together...more

Four Wilmot Raceway track champions were crowned for the track's 74th season on the D.Wells Automotive of Gurnee, IL/Antioch NAPA Auto Parts Championship Night Saturday, September 14, 2024 with fours being wild. Union Grove's Joel Crowbridge captured his first ever Wilmot crown by 6 points with a fifth place finish in the 20-lap IMCA Modified feature. Eagle's Steve Mueller captured a class leading fourth 20-lap feature win of the season by 0.040 seconds catching Iron Ridge's Dan Jung as the...more