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

Breaking News
The MIS Banquet will be January 23, 2010 at The Heights in Verona, Wisconsin. Please check our website or future E-News editions for more details.
If you have any questions during the off season please contact Dave Grueneberg at 608.513.2278.

Fall Classic Falls to the Elements

For the fans, the race teams, and MIS management it certainly wasn't the way anyone wanted to see the 2009 racing season end at Madison International Speedway. But after nearly a month without any significant rain, Mother Nature decided to return to southern Wisconsin this week and force the cancellation of the third annual Fall Classic.

The precipitation began on Tuesday when the speedway received over three inches of rain. "We have places at the track where it doesn't seem to dry very quickly," said MIS General Manager Dave Grueneberg. "I had the pump out again in turn three taking care of the ponding on the low side of the track, but the outer pits were a problem." An on-going issue in turn one once again created a challenge for Grueneberg. "Water gets under the track when it has rained hard. It seeps up through the track and makes racing conditions dangerous."

By John Wells

It's time for the third annual MIS Fall Classic this Friday and Saturday at Madison International Speedway.

Seven Divisions on Track for Friday Night

The pit gates will open at Noon on Friday with practice starting at 2:00 PM. We will be rotating divisions all afternoon long before starting qualifying at 5:00 PM.

Late Models, Area Sportsman, Hobby / Pure Stocks, Bandits, Legends, International Four Cylinders, and Short Trackers will all be in action. We are going to try to group divisions together in the pits if possible. I would recommend arriving early since the pits will be crowded.

Qualifying and qualifying races will take on a new look in 2009. All cars will compete in a dash or qualifying race this year.

In all divisions except the Late Models the fastest eight cars will compete in an eight lap "Dash" with the finishing positions used for determining the starting lineup in the feature.

Odd and even qualifiers will be held for the remaining cars with their finishing positions also playing an important part in determining the feature lineup.

By John Wells
Here is the latest from Madison International Speedway where we are very excited about the upcoming MIS Fall Classic.

By: Kevin Ramsell
DAYTONA BEACH, FL (Thursday, September 10, 2009) – Jeremy Miller will have to wait and see what happens. The Rockton, IL driver secured the 2009 Madison (WI) International Speedway track championship last Friday night with a feature win and a fifth place finish in their double feature events and is back on top of the Joe Gibbs Driven Racing Oil American Speed Association Member Track National Championship.

Miller and Madison International Speedway have done their part to be in this position. Miller did his part by winning the track championship, a requirement in order to be in the running for the National Championship. MIS completed their task of submitting the 14 events needed to give Miller an accurate point average. (A reminder to the tracks, the formula needs to have 14 events in order to give a driver an accurate average for the National Championship.)

Miller now has an average of 4.2166 and now has to wait and see if that average will hold for him to win the ASA Member Track National Championship along with a tryout with Joe Gibbs Racing.

By John Wells
Here is the latest from Madison International Speedway.

By John Wells
Oregon, WI (Friday, September 4, 2009)- Jeremy Miller finished the year in style by winning one of the Twin 30s for the Rockweiler Insulation Late Models enroute to his 2009 track championship at Madison International Speedway. For the second year in a row, Chester Ace (Roto Rooter Bandits) and Max McNamara (Pellitteri Waste Systems Legends) took home titles.

Miller won the first late model feature while Ryan Goldade picked up the second event. McNamara made it a clean sweep by winning the rescheduled points event and the non-points race while Jody Schmidt took home the checkered flag in the Roto Rooter Bandits feature and 2009 track champion Jay Kalbus won in the Brown Heating and Air Conditioning Area Sportsman non-points race.

Miller and Goldade Share Feature Wins

Jeremy Miller wanted to make sure there was no doubt going into the second feature as to who was going to win the 2009 track championship. He made that very clear after taking home the win in the first 30 lap feature for the Rockweiler Insulation Late Models.

2003 NASCAR Champion and 1994 MIS Champion wins both features while Ross Kenseth finishes second and sixth to finish second overall.

By: Kevin Ramsell
OREGON, WI (Sunday, August 30, 2009) - Many have wondered when it would take place and it finally did today as Matt Kenseth raced in the same event as his 16-year-old son Ross for the first time ever in a late model feature event at Madison International Speedway, an ASA Member Track, in Oregon, WI. The fans in attendance got to see what they hoped to see, both of them racing for a win.

That happened in the first of two 50-lap feature event where father and son competed with the weekly MIS Rockweiler Insulation Late Models. Ross would start on the outside of the front row with Matt starting seventh.

Ross would get the lead over polesitter Zach Riddle at the start of the feature event while Matt would work his way up to fifth by lap three. Ross would pull away to a ten-car length lead over Riddle until lap 16 when Matt would get by Riddle for the second spot and begin to chase down Ross.

Dopug Hornickel Photo - fastlapphoto.netOREGON, Wis. (August 30, 2009) – History repeats itself. Example: Jeremy Spoonmore’s Sunday afternoon conquest of the “Split 50” at Madison International Speedway. In 2007 Mid-American Stock Car Series action, Spoonmore finished second to Bill Prietzel on the half-mile of Wisconsin International Raceway, only to follow that with a win in the next event at MIS. After finishing second to Prietzel three weeks ago on the half-mile at Hawkeye Downs Speedway, Spoonmore again reigned supreme at “Wisconsin’s fastest half-mile.”

Spoonmore held off a hard-charging MASCS debutant, Adam Degenhardt, to collect the win in the first 25-lap segment. In the second segment, Spoonmore, who started tenth after an inversion of the finishing order from the first 25, made a late move vaulting into second place behind Kyle Shear to secure the overall win. The win was Spoonmore’s first of the season and his third top-five in three starts.

Wilberg, Goldade, Pruitt, Ambrose, Stark, Wood, and Schmidt Win Features

Oregon, WI (Friday, August 28, 2009)- Despite a nearly two hour rain delay, two divisions were able to crown champions tonight as part of Werner Electrict Night at Madison International Speedway. In the end Jay Kalbus would defend his crown in the Brown Heating and Air Conditioning Area Sportsman while Todd Ambrose and Brad Luck would team up to win the title in the Weaver Auto Parts Hobby Stocks. The final points night for the Roto Rooter Bandits and the Pellitteri Waste Systems Legends will be Friday, September 4th since they were unable to complete their features on the quarter-mile “Ring of Fire.”