By American Speed Association PR
DAYTONA BEACH, FL (Friday, November 6, 2009) - Four American Speed Associations Member Tracks will be honoring their 2009 champions this weekend. Congratulations to the champions at Wilmot Raceway, Dells Raceway Park, Illiana Motor Speedway, and Meridian Speedway.

WILMOT RACEWAY - will host their post season party on Friday, November 6th at the McHenry (IL) VFW Post #4600. ASA Division Champions; Todd Daun - 410 Sprint, Scott Kuxhouse - Modified, Tom Brown - 1200 Mini Sprint, Andy Gross - Street Stock, and Ryan Andrews - Fearless 4 will be honored. Wilmot Raceway (formerly known as Wilmot Speedway) located on the Kenosha (WI) County Fairgrounds completed its first year of operation under the promotion of the Kenosha County Fair. The Wilmot Raceway is a third-mile clay oval located just north of the WI/IL border between Milwaukee and Chicago, www.wilmotraceway.com

ASALMS PR – November 4, 2009
Champions and royalty go together, at least they do at the last event of the season for the ASA Late Model Series Teams. On Saturday, November 7th at Memphis Motor Sports Park we will put on a Finale Spectacular with the top short track drivers in the country. This will be a historic event being held in Memphis, the last race ever to be put on at Memphis Motorsports before it closes its doors for good. Gates will open at 10am, racing starts at 12pm, autograph session at 1pm and at 2:30pm the O’Reilly’s Auto Parts ‘King’s Ransom 300’ Presented by Suncoast Plastering.

Steve Carlson from Sparta, Wisconsin will do all he can to hold on to the title he earned last season as ‘2008 King of Short Track’. This Midwest legend is just one of the many talented teams going for the title of king. The O’Reilly’s Auto Parts ‘King’s Ransom 300’ Presented by Suncoast Plastering will have Champions door to door in one of the most highlighted events of the season.

TALLADEGA, ALA. -- Jamie McMurray added his name to the victory list Sunday in a surprising finish to a typical race at Talladega Superspeedway.

McMurray, odd-man out in Jack Roush's compliance move to fielding a maximum of four teams in 2010, crept home the winner in a green-white-checker finish that only made it three-quarters-of-a-lap before a wild crash brought out a caution flag making McMurray the winner.

NASCAR rules allow only one attempt at a green-white-checkered finish and McMurray was in the right position at the right time.

Kasey Kahne was second, followed by Joey Logano, Greg Biffle, and Jeff Burton.

Probably the story of the day was sixth-place finisher and still leader in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Jimmie Johnson.

Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus decided to spend a majority of the race running at half throttle or so in the back of the pack to hopefully stay out of harm's way and protect a lead in the standings that could eventually make Johnson NASCAR's first driver to win four championships in a row.

ASAMT ImagesASA Midwest Tour PR
BURLINGTON, WI (Monday, November 2, 2009) - Last week the American Speed Assocation Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment along with ASAMT Touring Star Kyle Calmes and his Thrive to Drive Motorsports team spent the day with college students from Skills USA and the Wisconsin Marketing & Managment Association at the Hotel Sierra in Green Bay, WI. The purpose was to meet with the students and give them the opportunity to get up close with an ASAMT super late model and talk about marketing in motorsports.

Steve Einhaus, ASAMT Vice-president joined Kyle Calmes, Hank Calmes and Brian Sollars of Thrive to Drive Motorsports met with members of Skills USA which gave them the opportunity to get up close with an ASAMT super late model stock car.

Nuttleman Tops 30th Season With Wisconsin State Championship

By Paul Schaefer, NASCAR
A Wisconsin dairy, crop and livestock farmer stands tall as one of the all-time greatest drivers in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series.

Kevin Nuttleman, 48, of Bangor, Wis., capped his 30th year of racing by winning the Wisconsin NASCAR state championship in 2009. He’s been racing at LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway for two decades. He’s amassed an enviable record that includes 10 NASCAR track championships, and under different series formats, a NASCAR regional championship, divisional championship and a state championship. He placed 23rd in the 2009 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national top 500 ranking.

Nuttleman drives for a three-car NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Late Model team owned by Tim Jacobs’ DMT Motorsports. Teammates included 2007 series national champion Steve Carlson, 52, of West Salem, Wis., and 2009 NASCAR Drive for Diversity member Emily Sue Steck, 22, of Holmen, Wisc. Steck led the team with three Late Model feature wins. Nuttleman and Carlson each won twice.

FORT ATKINSON, Wis. (October 30, 2009) – Although there will be no stock cars cruising around the historical four-mile venue this fall, the Mid-American Stock Car Series will still be present in the annual American Cancer Society Run/Walk at Road America. MASCS co-owner Julie Strasburg and several other Mid-American members plan to participate in the event this Saturday, October 31 beginning at noon.

LAS VEGAS – As the Countdown to 1, NHRA’s championship playoffs, comes to the season’s penultimate race in Las Vegas, each professional category in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series features its own dramatic storyline.

In Top Fuel, every championship contender is gunning to remove a category dominator from the throne he has held for the past five seasons.
In Funny Car, a female driver is trying to make history and become the first of her gender to win a world championship crown in the wildly unpredictable category which her father has dominated for most of two decades. In order to do it, she’ll need to stop five other men who are also in contention, including one multi-time champ, her former driving instructor, a teammate, last season’s series runner-up, and a driver who’s finished second in the championship standings three times.

By John Wells
Greetings MIS Fans...here is the latest from Madison International Speedway.

By Jordan Kuehne
LOVES PARK, Ill. (Sunday, October 25th, 2009) -- Scott Dixon should race more often, as the father of three regulars at the Rockford Speedway outlasted a massive field of 130 cars to collect the final event of the year at the historic facility, the Goblin 250 enduro. Dixon hadn't raced in six years before entering the event, seeking permission from his wife to get back on the track and in his return, the Wisconsin driver made it seem like he had never taken time off. Dixon assumed control with 25 laps remaining, passing Corey Marshall for the top spot, and held Marshall off for the victory. Carolyn Johnson won the Fair Demo Derbies while Greg Elser and Rick Dobbles also collected feature wins.

By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
MARTINSVILLE, Va.—Denny Hamlin may have won the Virginia campaign with a victory Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, but Jimmie Johnson moved ever closer to a record fourth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship with a runner-up finish at the .526-mile short track.