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Due to temperatures predicted for tomorrow, we have adjusted our schedule: Pits open at 1 Grandstands 4 pm. Drivers meeting at 4:15 Engine heat at 4:45 Hotlaps/qualifying 5:00pm Opening ceremonies 5:45 Racing at 6pm.

11-75 Sports Bar Complex IRA Lightning Sprints Mark Heinert, Waukesha, WI #55 Racing since 1998. 5x Wilmot Raceway Lightning Sprint Champion 2015, 2017, 2018, 2023, 2024 – 2x IRA Champion 2023, 2024 3x Badger Kart Club Champion 5 Starts, 1 Feature win, 2-2nds, 1-3rd, 1-10th(DNF), 4 Top 5s and 4 Top 10s. 2 Heat wins. Wife – Michelle; Daughters-Mikayla & Makenzie Crew Chief – Kris Hoegsted, Dad-Ed Heinert. Supporters – Discovery Designs Refrigeration, VMETALS, Sunshine Cleaning, Ferrito &...more

Wilmot Raceway's 75th Anniversary Season will have a special highlight on Founder's Night scheduled for Memorial Day weekend Saturday, May 24 with the Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association(IRA) at its original home. The winner of the first feature ever held in 1973 at the track's current location, Jim "King of the Cushion" Moulis of Fox Lake, IL, will have his familiar Fox Lake Harbor #30, on hand and plans to make a few laps. "The engine will be in it and it's all ready to go," said...more

Thanks to our good friends at A-Main Apparel and Diecast the 5th Annual Wisconsin Sprint Car Championships have had a total of $6275 added to the purses between the 3 IRA divisions. The Bumper to Bumper IRA outlaw Sprints have had $100 a lap, lap leader money added plus an extra $100 added to positions 1-3, 5,10, and money added to positions 12-24th to make the feature $3100 to win and $450 to start plus lap money, meaning the feature winner could potentially leave the Plymouth Dirt Track...more

After racing at Wilmot Raceway Saturday night, 30 Wisconsin wingLESS sprints and 15 IRA Lightning Sprints tracked north to 141 Speedway to join the Bumper to Bumper IRA Outlaw Sprints for a Labor Day Sunday show. Mike Neau set quick time with the lightning sprints while Tim Cox was quick time with the wingLESS series. Mark Heinert and Max Brannam won the pair of lightning sprint heats. Ryan Zielski, Nathan Crane and defending series champion Ryan Marshall were victorious in the wingLESS heats....more

Two first-time champions, one repeater, a four-time titlist and a three-time titlist all were crowned 2022 Wilmot Raceway Season Champions on Championship Night Saturday, September 3. Pleasant Prairie's Mike Neau made it four out of five feature wins at Wilmot by taking the victory in the 25-lap Pfeiffer Trailer Sales IRA Lightning Sprints feature to solidify his first ever track championship. Neau took the lead from Oak Creek's Mark Heinert with 11 laps to go slicing through traffic at the...more

Jordan Goldesberry of Springfield, IL scored a late race victory in the 36-lap Annual Roger Iles Tribute presented by Carriage Auto Body of Waukegan, IL Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association (IRA) Winged 410 Outlaw Sprints feature highlighting the Saturday, August 20 Kenosha County Fair program. Goldesberry's third Wilmot victory of his career came as he overtook race leader Jake Blackhurst of Hanna City, IL on a restart following a caution with six laps to go. Beaver Dam's Scott...more

As has become an annual tradition, the Bumper to Bumper IRA 410 winged sprint cars will end their season with the Wisconsin Sprint Car Championships presented by A Main Apparel at thePlymouth Dirt Track. In an effort to help our teams end the year on a high note, the IRA is looking to add $3,000 to the purse through lap sponsorship money. Each of the 30 laps of the A main will be available to sponsor for $100, going directly to the driver who leads that lap during the feature. If you are...more

Coming off of a great weekend away from home where Jake Blackhurst took the final checkered flag of the weekend out dueling the Northern Outlaw Sprint Association (NOSA). This weekends events showed the incredible work of what Steve Sinclair has done for sprint car racing. Building up a series where most races are in Southeastern Wisconsin yet the top 3 in points are from Central Illinois traveling between 11 and 13 hours to get to River Cities Speedway just 50 miles south of the Canadian...more

For the fourth time in eight tries this 2022 season, Mother Nature was the only winner at Wilmot Raceway on Saturday, June 25. Morning rains saturated the facility and combined with additional rain along with potential storms forecasted throughout the remainder of the day, Raceway officials cancelled the highly anticipated return of the USAC Amsoil National Sprint Car Series for the first time at Wisconsin's original home of sprint car racing in 10 years. The next events coming up for the...more