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1/15/08: Over the past weekend, we took our annual road trip to Sioux Falls for the swap meet. Jake, Shane and myself then continued on to Missouri to pick up our engines at John Singer's in Tipton. On the way home we swung through Knoxville, IA and had a beer at the famous Dingus Lounge across from the race track. We had a nice trip the weather was good and the roads were fine.

We are currently waiting for our new JEI chassis to be completed. When we get it we will start to assemble it then. Should be here first part of February. We plan to put the 410 in the new JEI for the big races and the 360 in the Eagle chassis for the regular shows.

Jake and I hanging out with the legendary John Singer. It's always a lot of fun.

In Sioux Falls the famous Speedway Motors 4X was on display. Driven by Doug Wolfgang and build by John Singer. (1979)

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6/17/08:

Received our new t-shirts and hoodies last Friday. Check out the store page to see the new design. Race called off over the weekend in Minot. They have rescheduled the race for this Sunday, 22nd. We won't be traveling out of state this weekend as we race in Minot on Sunday. We will more than likely be going to Grand Forks on Friday, 20th, getting ready for the World of Outlaws there on the 27th and in Fargo on the 28th.

6/23/08:

We had an average weekend, as far as finishes go. The car still isn't quite right. We have a few other things to try to try and generate some more traction, so we can get it to go forward better. Looking forward to racing with the outlaws this weekend, we can learn a lot from those guys in a short time. If you are at the races come and visit us in the pits after the races. Have a great weekend.

7/6/08:

Had another average weekend, it wasn't bad, but we were looking to do better. The chassis just isn't going forward like it should when the track dries out. We are going to put the '07 Eagle car together and try and pick up some top 3 finishes.

8/3/08:

Changing motors this week and getting ready for the trip to Knoxville to qualify on Thursday night. We got the biggest and busiest week of the year coming up, with 5 nights of racing in 7 days. The Eagle car feels much better, just haven't been able to put it in a position to win in a main event as of yet.

9/4/08:

The weekend started out on a sour note. We got taken out by a car in the heat race on Friday in Grand Forks. Saturday was a scramble to get everything back together and check to make sure everything was straight. We were leading the feature on Saturday when our right front hub let go. We only had 1.5 laps left of the race. Sunday we won our heat race and also won the feature. It was a sweet victory for us after how the weekend started. We got our 1st feature win of the 2008 Season!

9/22/08:

Just one more weekend left before we call it a year for 2008. We finally cracked the top 3 in Grand Forks, last Saturday. We've changed our strategy and set-up for there the last 2 weeks and it paid off. We'll try and change a couple more things and get the car just a little bit better for the season finale and hopefully we can finish up front again.

10/20/08:

Our last scheduled race on September 26th in Grand Forks was canceled due to rain. That is were our season ended. We had a real fun year racing a 410 car. Next year we plan to try and race in Knoxville even more than the 5 nights we did this year. The Nationals are an event that we don't want to miss in the future. We wish we would have had the opportunity to race the Nationals before this year. That week we raced 7 nights in 10 days in 3 states was the most fun so far in our career. Our win total for '08 wasn't as high as '07. We raced more races in '08 further from home, but we figured that going into the season. We knew that the wins would be harder to come by. It's all part of the learning curve. We plan on getting a new Eagle frame for next year, we might compete in some 360 races in addition to the 410 schedule.

We would like to thank everybody that made this year possible, from our sponsors, to our crew, the fans and everyone behind the scenes.

THANK YOU! We couldn't do it without you! Have a great fall season.

2008: In victory lane with Jason Meyers and Kevin Hanson. We were the Gerdau Ameristeel World of Outlaws Northern Tour regional high point driver. We raced at all 4 shows in the state, made 3 A-Mains, with the best A-finish being 13th in which we also picked up the WoO hard charger award.

Pictures: Courtesy of Betty Nordstrom

2008 Motor Magic Feature Winner

5/14/09:

After a long winter and wet spring it looks like we might be able to race this coming Sunday. They have canceled 4 weeks in a row at the River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, due to bad weather. The car is finished and we are ready to race. We are starting the year in the eagle chassis that we finished up last year with. We are still working on our schedule and we should have it up in the next few days. See you at the races.

8/23/09:

Over this past weekend we raced our 5th World of Outlaw race in North Dakota for 2009. This year we were awarded the runner-up position in the Gerdau Ameristeel World of Outlaws Northern Tour for the regional drivers. Just a few races left for the 2009 season.

8/11/09:

As you can tell from our Quick Results, we haven't raced much this year. Had a lot of cool weather and rain outs.

We changed engines last week and were ready to race in Grand Forks and Jamestown and they both got rained out. We are now ready for Knoxville and Husets.

Picture: Courtesy of Lindsay Lawson

Winter 2010:

We would like to thank our sponsors, Bray's, Gerdeau, Big Game Cattle, and R & R Racing for all their help and our crew of Jake, Jason, Shane, Ron, Rick, Wayne and Ryan for taking time off to go racing and giving us a hand.

We are already looking forward to getting the 2011 season underway and racing a full season with 410 power. Our 2nd 410 engine is currently getting rebuilt and we are doing some updates to improve our race program. After getting nearly 30 inches of snow in December, winter can't end soon enough!!! Hope to see you at a dirt track soon.

*May 1, 2011

As you can see we haven't raced yet...it has been so wet.

We have been busy getting the car together and are hoping to start racing on May 6th in Grand Forks. Hopefully the weather will hold out.

*June 1st

After only racing the first two nights of the season we found that we had a motor problem while inspecting our oil filter during an oil change. Turns out a rear main bearing was starting to go south. needless to say we will have an unscheduled break in our season until we get an engine done since our spare that we sent down in the fall is STILL in the process of also being redone. Hope to be racing ASAP!