Excited race fans and drivers are headed to Fergus Falls this week for the Speedway Motors Wissota 100 at the I-94 emr Speedway.
Throughout the week, spectators will see many tight point battles for the national points championship in classes that include super stocks, late models, street stock, mod fours, modifieds, and Midwest modifieds.
The racing starts tonight and run through Saturday night.
Wissota Auto Racing Executive Director Rod Lindquist, said tonight’s excitement is the season ending championship for the Late Model Challenge series. “Our grand finale of the Wissota Challenge Series which we started on May 19th at I-94. It’s the late models, the big boys that tour. We had 21 races this summer all over the tristate area, and the last race of the Season, race number 21 is on Wednesday night of the 100. We will crown the champion of the Challenge Series which is a $10,000 prize .And then addition to that, the winner of that race it’s $2,500 because this is the 25th anniversary of the Challenge Series.”
Thursday night the area favorites the Johnny Holm Band will playing after the races.
As for how far some of teams travel Lindquist said, “the WISSOTA footprint covers out into Idaho. It covers in Canada, Minnesota, North, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, so we cover that big of a footprint. This is the Super Bowl; this is the big deal at the end of the year.”
Grandstand Gates open to the public at 3, with the National Anthem and green flag at 5. Tickets are available at the gate.
KJ Country 965 will once again provide live broadcast coverage of the event and is also available on the Fergus Now App and at kjcountry965.com.