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A hot summer's night began with a victory lane wedding at Wilmot Raceway. Rhonda Bell and Tommy "Mr. Excitement" Sexton of Twin Lakes in a pre-race afternoon event. Sexton has won several championships in various classes at Wilmot. Bell is a member of the Kenosha County Fair Board. Family reunions combined with three firsts for the season plus a duplicate winner highlighting the hotly contested on track features. Parker Jones of Mt. Pleasant shot out front from his second row starting spot,...more

Kenosha's Blake Kreuser put an exclamation point on the 2024 Wilmot Raceway Unified Street Stock Championship season by winning the 20-lap feature securing his first ever title. "It's been a long time coming," said Kreuser, joined by family, sponsors and crew in victory lane after his third feature win of the season, coincidentally coming from seventh starting spot to win on September 7. "We're worked hard and really wanted it. It's such a relief to finally win it, and to do it winning the...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

The final night of the Inaugural Fall Classic for Wilmot Raceway had a little bit of everything as the facility on the Kenosha County Fairgrounds wrapped up its 74th season on Saturday, September 21. Blake Nimee of Yorkville, IL earned his first ever 410 Winged Outlaw Sprint Car Championship by capping the Wilmot series off with a victory in the 25-lap feature which was completed in a light shower. "This is very special," said Nimee, noting he had been racing sprint cars for about 16 years,...more

One of the most festive weekends on the IRA schedule is this weekend, Saturday August 20th and Sunday August 21st. Saturday is the annual Kenosha County Fair races at Wilmot Raceway featuring the 36 lap, $3600 to win Roger Iles Tribute for the Bumper To Bumper IRA Outlaw Sprint Series. The Wilmot Fair date also includes the largest event of the year for the AutoMeter/Brewington Electric Wisconsin wingLESS Sprints with the Bill Grogan Memorial, plus IRA Lightning Sprints too. Then Sunday it's...more

anian-14.680; 3. Jon Stanbrough, 21x, Roberts/Tate-14.797; 4. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-14.832; 5. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-14.902; 6. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-14.991; 7. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.037; 8. Dave Darland, 11, Walker-15.065; 9. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-15.115; 10. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-15.187; 11. Shane Cottle, 7, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-15.196; 12. Chris Gurley, 12, Team Automotive-15.219; 13. Darren Hagen, 69, Dynamics-15.250; 14. Jerry Coons, Jr., 71P, Phillips-15.412;...more

Jon Stanbrough of Danville, Ind. leads the AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car series to a pair of Wisconsin appearances this weekend. Stanbrough leads defending series champion Levi Jones by just 10 points entering Saturday’s race at Wilmot Raceway and Sunday night’s race at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie. It’s been 17 years since Jack Hewitt won USAC’s last Sprint race at Wilmot, while J.J. Yeley won USAC’s last Sprint race at Angell Park in 2002. Damion Gardner, Hunter Schuerenberg and...more

Jon Stanbrough will lead the AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car series to June 23 and 24 Wisconsin races at Wilmot and Sun Prairie after emerging from the recent Eastern Storm swing with a 10-point lead over defending series champ Levi Jones. Bryan Clauson of Noblesville, Ind. parlayed back-to-back victories in the two Eastern Storm openers into the Eastern Storm title, beating Jones by 28 points after the four events. Clauson opener the swing Tuesday with a 40-lap win at Grandview Speedway in...more

The AutoMeter / Brewington Electric Wisconsin wingLESS Sprint Series has a pair of races this weekend, July 30-31. Saturday has the largest member supported car count per event series running at their home track, Wilmot Raceway. Their sister series, the IRA Lightning Sprints, plus Modifieds and Bandits share the card. Then on Sunday the tour takes the short drive to the historic Angell Park Speedway where they’ll join the Badger Midgets and Legends. Two big races, weather looks great! Hall of...more

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media Wilmot, Wisconsin (June 24, 2023)………The word “slump” hasn’t been used in a sentence to describe Brady Bacon’s performance very often throughout his illustrious USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship career. Perhaps ever. But that’s just what transpired for the Broken Arrow, Okla. native during the recent Eastern Storm series where the four-time USAC National Sprint Car titlist strung together three consecutive finishes outside the top-13. As soon as the...more