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PC- Finishline PETERSEN MEDIA: With more weather hammering the Midwest, Paul Nienhiser again found himself frantically changing plans all weekend long before finally finding sun in Wilmot, WI as battled with the IRA and came home with a fourth place finish. “We changed plans a few times before settling in on Wilmot Raceway, and I’m glad we did because we got to work on some stuff that we had been struggling with, and it worked out for us,” Nienhiser said. With a couple of starts at the track...more

Jeremy Schultz out dueled Bill Balog for the victory on night number three of IRA competition. The A main got off to an exciting start with Jeremy Schultz taking the early lead over Ben Schmidt. Schmidt chased the Bob Hood 10w piloted by Schultz. As the feature continued Indiana’s Brandon Wimmer moved his 7TW car past Schmidt and into second place and tried his hand at reeling in Schultz. Behind Wimmer, Bill Balog worked past Schmidt and into third. Schultz reached the tail of the field and...more

Inside Line Promotions – AVON, Ind. (May 2, 2019) – An astounding 30 races are set to be covered under the Speed Shift TV VIP subscription during the month of May. Winged sprint cars, midgets, non-wing sprint cars, micro sprints, stock cars and many other types of race cars will be showcased throughout the month. The VIP subscription is only $40 per month and encompasses nearly all live broadcasts as well as all On-Demand content. The action begins this Friday at Marshalltown Speedway in...more

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) July 6, 2022 – Nearly two weeks after competing in their first-career NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series A-main event at Beaver Dam Raceway in Beaver Dam, Wis, Austin Hartmann and the 87A Hartmann Racing team added another “first” by participating in their first Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association 410 Sprint Car Series main event with a 410 motor under the hood at the Plymouth Dirt Track at the Sheboygan County Fairgrounds in Plymouth, Wis.,...more

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) July 5, 2023 – Austin Hartmann and the 87A Hartmann Racing celebrated the Independence Day weekend with another smooth and steady effort to notch their eighth top-15 A-main showing of the 2023 campaign in the Scott Semmelmann Memorial Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association 410 Sprint Car Series event at The Plymouth Dirt Track in Plymouth, Wis. on Saturday, July 1. With 28 IRA 410 Sprint Cars on hand, Hartmann turned in the 14th fastest qualifying time with a...more

CROUCH CAPTURES FIRST IRA FEATURE WIN By: Gracie Cleveland Photo credits to Emily Schwanke 38 drivers from 9 different states checked in at Wilmot Raceway for The 10th Annual IRA Founders Night this past Saturday. Tim Estenson and Scotty Thiel would make up the front row of the 25 lap 24 car feature. When the green flag dropped Thiel took the early lead from Estenson coming out of turn 2. Going for the lead, Balog approaches turn 4 from the cushion, to then throw a slider at Estenson creating...more

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) July 26, 2023 – After rain washed out the scheduled Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association 410 Sprint Car Series at Outagamie Speedway in Seymour, Wis. on Friday, July 21, Austin Hartmann and the 87A Hartmann Racing team made a late decision to head east for a weekly 410 Sprint Car event Butler Motor Speedway in Quincy, Mich. on Saturday, July 22, which paid off with an impressive top-10 A-main result for the Plymouth, Wis.-based team. In his first career...more

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) July 19, 2023 – In their 16th year of competition, Travis Arenz and the members of the Travis Arenz Motorsports team experienced something new, as they embarked on the first multi-state tripleheader racing weekend road trip of their rookie season with the Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association 410 Sprint Car Series Thursday, July 13 at I-94 emr Speedway in Fergus Falls, Minn. and Friday, July 14 and Saturday, July 15 at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks,...more

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) July 12, 2023 – In his final scheduled 2023 appearance with the NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Series, Austin Hartmann guided his 87A Hartmann Racing 410 Sprint Car to his third A-main start of the season with “The Greatest Show on Dirt” in the Badger 40/Larry Hillerud Memorial at Wilmot Raceway in Wilmot, Wis. on Saturday, July 8. With 32 410 Sprint Cars signed in for the night, Hartmann opened the program by ripping off the 18th fastest qualifying lap with a time...more

(PEDAL DOWN PROMOTIONS) August 2, 2023 – One week after turning in one of their most complete efforts of the 2023 season in weekly 410 Sprint Car action at Butler Motor Speedway in Quincy, Mich., Austin Hartmann and the 87A Hartmann Racing team showcased plenty of speed, which did not translate to the results column, during a Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association doubleheader weekend featuring the third annual Road America Challenge at The Plymouth Dirt Track in Plymouth, Wis. on...more