Kevin Adams Wins WISSOTA 100 Race

Rice Lake WI, September 15 – Kevin Adams was among the feature winners at the WISSOTA 100 auto race which concluded last Saturday night at the Dakota State Fair Speedway in Huron South Dakota. The WISSOTA 100 is the largest race on the WISSOTA Promoters Association calendar and this year, three hundred and twenty racers from seven states and Canada converged at the South Dakota State Fairgrounds in Huron for the four day spectacular which crowns champions in six divisions.
In front of a standing room only crowd of over 8,000 race fans, Adams led all the way and bested a field of fifty four racers to win the Modified feature race. Kevin led all thirty five laps of the main event and had to hold off a serious challenge from Tyler McDonald from Huron to take the win. Adams earned $6,000 for his feature win.

In preliminary racing action earlier in the week, Adams also finished second in a qualifying feature race and second in the Race of Champions event on Friday night.
For Adams, it marked his eighth overall WISSOTA championship win having previously won the Modified honors on three straight occasions along with two wins in the Super Stocks and two Street Stock titles earlier in his racing career. The eight WISSOTA 100 wins is also a record for the organization.
Other racers who run weekly at the Rice Lake Speedway also had good success in Huron. Shane Halopka, who was the point champion at the Rice Lake Speedway in 2014, won the Midwest Modified title at the 100 and earned $3,000 for his efforts. The Greenwood Wisconsin native led all twenty five laps of the Midwest Modified main event after starting on the pole by virtue of winning a qualifying feature race on Wednesday night and he beat Ryan Mikkelson from Jamestown North Dakota and Travis Saurer from Elizabeth Minnesota for the win as he bested a huge field of eighty nine entrants.
Willie Johnsen Jr from Superior, the Rice Lake 2014 point champion in the Super Stocks made his first ever visit to the 100 a memorable one when he won a qualifying feature race and finished third in the Super Stock main event behind Tim Johnson of Brainerd Minnesota and Matthew Dibb from Cambridge Minnesota. Tim Johnson was the driver that won over $12,000 at Rice Lake this summer driving his Street Stock in the Little Dream race. Willie earned $2,000 for his efforts.
Other Rice Lake Speedway drivers who participated at the 100 were Street Stock drivers Jimmy Randall who finished fifth, Cody Kummer who finished seven and Ron Hanestad who came home sixteenth.
In the Super Stocks, current national point leader Curt Myers finished twenty seventh with Sarona’s Shane Kisling one position behind him. While Myers didn’t have as much success on the track as he might have hoped, he didn’t return to Cameron empty handed.
The WISSOTA 100 each year has a blind drawing for the top thirty in national points in attendance for all divisions to reward them for traveling out to South Dakota. Myers’ name was the one drawn out of the hat as the winner and he won $10,000 in gold coins which he generously shared with the young man who drew his name.
Bruce’s Matt Leer was also in the Modified feature and finished nineteenth after an encounter with Huron’s infamous outside wall. The father and son team of Scott Heikkinen and Patrick Heikkinen who live on Minnesota’s Iron Range but regularly compete at Rice Lake were also in South Dakota. Patrick finished twenty first in the Super Stock feature after being involved in an accident while Scott just missed making the final cut in the Modifieds.
The WISSOTA 100 will return to the Dakota State Fair Speedway in Huron again next year as the crown jewel in the dirt track racing calendar in this area.

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