I hope everyone is making it through the hot weather ok and had a great Father's day. It has been another WI spring, we skipped it and went to right to summer. 

Trevor had another great race at Slinger, and Travis surprised me for fathers day by racing Ratajczyk racing's Super Late model at Slinger. Chris decided to have Travis run the Super Late, and they really had it dialed in for the race setup. The car didn't qualify very good, so Travis ended up starting 13th in the feature. He didn't waste anytime, he was passing cars and moving to the front. With about 15 laps to go, he was working on the 5th place car when he felt something wrong.

Luckily he felt something, and started backing off a little. The right front tire went down, and he was coming down the backstretch heading for the wall right where we were standing. He somehow managed to the save the car and miss the wall. My old ticker was banging for awhile after that one. I think he would have been a top three car.

Trevor did it again, he continued his streak, and got another fast time! Trevor had to start the Fast Dash in the rear again, but did a great job and moved up to 2nd for the finish again. He keeps amazing us how he can get to 2nd in a 6 lap race.

Trevor had to start 9th with the big invert once again. I think some of the drivers have figured out that if you qualify slower, you get to start in the front for the race with big inverts. It would be great  to see them start the cars straight up where they qualified once in awhile. It would definitely take care of that problem. Trevor did a great job moving through the pack and was passing for fourth. He got the front of his car inside of him, and he chopped down on Trevor. Luckily Trevor was able to hold it, and made it through.

Trevor was up to third, with 15 to go. Trevor tried passing outside, but the car in front of him would just run him up the track. I was impressed with Trevor, he showed a lot of patience as the car in front of him was blocking and mirror driving him for the second week in a row. Trevor just played follow the leader for the remainder of the race and brought home another top three finish.

It was a great father's day, we had a lot of fun with both of the boy's doing good, and bringing the cars home in one piece. This week it will be the Keith's Marina Firecracker 85 lap race. Travis will be running Chris Ratajczyk's Super Late Model once again, and Trevor will running in the Late Model class. There will be Fireworks, hopefully we will see you there!

Have a great weekend!

Mike

It was another great week for Trevor and the crew at Slinger on Sunday. Trevor kept his streak going with getting another fast time. It was a pretty tiring weekend for the boy's, crew, and me the old guy. We left West Bend Saturday morning at 2:30 am and took a new driver down to Indianapolis for the ASA race. Brett did a great job, and we had a pretty good car that was good in the later laps. We had some motor problems around lap 140 and it shut down, but it was nice to bring the car home without a scratch for a change. 

We drove all night and got back to WI around 6:00 am to race Slinger. Trevor's car was real good in practice, Travis made a little change to it, and it really came alive for Qualifying and the fast dash. Trevor started in the back of the fast dash, and did some of the best driving I have seen him do. He moved all the way up to second and just missed winning the 5 lap race by a couple of feet. That was an exciting one to watch.

Trevor had to start in the back of the invert because he won last week. He started 9th and passed a few cars. He made it up to 5th, but the car just wouldn't work on the outside. He tried a few times to pass the 4th place car, but he wouldn't give him any room. But you can't complain about another top 5 finish, which has moved him up to second in the Championship points.

Trevor had a pretty busy Sunday, he was also asked to be a judge for the Miss Slinger Pageant. I think he may have enjoyed that job LOL. The announcer asked Trevor why he thought he was picked to be a Judge? Trevor kidding ling replied the he thought they wanted to get some young blood in the judging. I think Trevor now has a new nickname from the announcer: "Young Blood". ; ) Trevor was also selected as the Old Wisconsin Hot Dog of the week. I think he gets a T-shirt, a hot dog, and gets to race the wiener mobile - Just kidding on the wiener mobile.

This week Trevor will be racing at Slinger for the PMF Landscape Supply 60 and Scouts get in free. PMF has been one of our biggest sponsors over the years, make sure you get all your landscaping supplies from Paul. Hopefully we'll see more of you there this Sunday.

Have a great weekend, and Happy Father's Day to all of you Fathers out there!

Mike

Slinger Super Speedway

World’s Fastest ¼ Mile Asphalt Oval

Contact:  Todd Thelen

Phone: 262-370-0440

Fax: 262-567-2837

Email:  slingerspeedway1@aol.com 

www.slingersuperspeedway.com
 

PMF Landscape Supply Scout Night

Scouts get in Free
 

(Slinger, WI) Sunday Night June 21^st is PMF Landscape Supply of West Bend Scout Night.  All Scouts in Uniform will be admitted Free!  A 60 Lap Super Late Model Feature will headline the racing card.  Super Late Models will be joined by: Late Models, Midwest Sportsman, Thunderstock, Slinger Bee’s Figure 8’s, Modified, Westbury Bank Speedway Guest Cars and one on one spectator races.  Qualifying starts at 4:45 with racing at 6:30 pm.

PMF Landscape Supply provides landscaping products such as quality screened and blended topsoil, mulch, decorative stone and much more. PMF has served homeowners and landscape contractors in and around Southeastern Wisconsin for over 24 years since 1985. Call PMF Landscape Supply to keep your landscape beautiful year round.  Bring your truck or trailer or have us deliver it for you.

PMF Landscape Supply will not be undersold! PMF will meet or beat any advertised price in the West Bend area!  Stop in and see Paul just south of the Paradise round about on Hwy G in West Bend or Check out PMF at www.pmflandscape.com  

There are select advertising and sponsorship opportunities as well as company and group outings available for the 2009 season. For more information, contact the speedway’s PR and Marketing at: 262-370-0440, slingerspeedway1@aol.com, or visit our web site at: www.slingersuperspeedway.com 

I hope everyone enjoyed their Memorial day weekend. Trevor had a great race at Slinger on Sunday. He qualified 5th and won the Fast Dash! It was his first dash win of the year. Trevor started the feature in the 2nd row outside.

He lost a few positions, but kept after it through out the race. There was a wreck right in front of him, I thought his night was over. He managed to slow it down enough and he just touched one of the cars. He was able to continue, and managed to get a fourth place finish in the feature. The good run pushed him up to 4th in points on the season.

Travis and Trevor will be racing against each other at Slinger this Sunday for the first round of the Pepsi challenge. Pepsi is also one of our sponsor's and hopefully the boy's will have a good race. It should be interesting.

Trevor will also have his car at our sponsor, PMF landscape tomorrow (Saturday) from 8:00 until 3:30 for an open house. You can check out their web site at pmflandscape.com The local radio station will also be doing a remote, with lot's of other things going on.

Hopefully we'll see you there, it was great to see so many of you at Slinger last week!

Have a great weekend,

Mike

I hope everyone is enjoying the great summer weather. It's been a hectic week, sorry for getting the update out so late.

Trevor got his first fast time at Slinger on Sunday! It was quite an accomplishment for him, after having app eight 2nd in times. He started 5th in the fast dash, and took it pretty easy and finished 4th. With the invert, he started the race in 7th. The car was terrible loose, and we weren't sure what happened with it? He fell all the way to the back on the outside, and was trying to get around a car that was driving in the middle of the track. He got his nose inside of him in the corner, and the guy tried to close the door. He spun out and for some reason they gave Trevor the black flag?

 He tried to get back on the track but the cars were too spread out and there wasn't an opening. Oh well, hopefully things will go better this week on Sunday night at Slinger. Racing starts at 6:30.

 Matt our ASA driver had a great car this weekend at Milwaukee and moved from 10th to 5th in the first half of the race. After the break he didn't see a car pull next to him, and they hit each other. The crew got the car back together but it wasn't as good as it was in the first half with the damage. The good news is he managed to get his first top ten. Matt will be racing this Sunday in the ASA North race at Grundy County Speedway in Morris IL.

 Have a great Holiday weekend, and hopefully we will see you at the races.

Mike

I hope all of the Mom's out there had a great Mother's day. It was a pretty easy weekend for the boy's as Trevor was the only one that had a race. It sure was an eventful one. It was one of the closest qualifying groupings that I have ever seen. Trevor qualified 4th and was only four hundredth's of a second from fast time. Amazing.

 Trevor made the fast dash, and took a third place. Trevor had a pretty tough night in the race. The car started off pretty bad and he fell back some spots. The car came in after a few laps, and he started making his way back up to the front. He was working on moving up into second place. He tried taking it on the outside, and he had a half car length on the inside driver. Slinger is a tough track on the outside, and he was out there a little too long. The car got really loose off the corner as the tires got greasier a couple of times and he banged doors with inside car. He had to back off and lost some positions.

 There was a wreck right in front of him, and he managed to stop just in time. The car that was stopped in front of him, evidently didn't know Trevor was behind him, and backed over the hood of Trevor's car. He pretty much took the front end of Trevor's car off, and put a hole in his tire. Just for good measure he did a burn out on Trevor's hood as he was driving away. He never knew Trevor was there the whole time, Yikes. Luckily the race was called with a few laps to go, and Trevor managed to get another top 5 with a 4th place finish.

 This will be a pretty busy weekend for the team. Our ASA driver Matt Byrne will be practicing at the Milwaukee Mile on Saturday, and racing there on Sunday with qualifying @1:00. Trevor will be racing at Slinger once again this Sunday for the Bob Fish - Alan Kulwicki Memorial race. It will be the first night race of the season, with qualifying at 4:45 and racing @ 6:30. 

 Have a great weekend, and we hope to see you at the races!

Mike   

Slinger Speedway Mothers Day Special

Flowers for Mom – 2pm Start Time   

(Slinger, WI)  This Sunday afternoon May 10^th is the Slinger Speedway Mothers Day Special headlined with a 60 lap Super Late Model Feature. Super Late Models will be joined by: Late Models, Midwest Sportsman, Modified, Thunderstock, Slinger Bee’s, Westbury Bank Speedway Guest Cars, and Figure 8’s Qualifying starts at Noon with racing at 2:00 pm.

The first 500 Moms will receive FREE Carnations compliments of Sonya’s Rose in Jackson. www.sonyasrosecreativeflorals.com.  All kids that enter the kids club will have a chance to ride around the track during intermission in a two seat go kart.

Don't forget you can save a buck purchasing advance tickets at Pioneer Plaza just off Hwy 41 in Richfield or B&S Liquor on Hwy 60 in Hartford.

There are select advertising and sponsorship opportunities as well as company and group outings available for the 2009 season. For more information, contact the speedway’s PR and Marketing at: 262-370-0440, slingerspeedway1@aol.com, or visit our web site at: www.slingersuperspeedway.com. 

It was a busy and good weekend for the boy's, without rain! Trevor had his opener at Slinger with practice on Saturday and racing on Sunday. He had an excellent day of practice and was one of the fastest cars there. On Sunday we put the race tires on, and for some reason the car got really tight for qualifying? He managed to tie for 5th in qualifying, but the other driver went out first, so he got the pole for the dash and the race.

Trevor started 6th in the feature, the car inside of him had his throttle stick going into the first turn. It was a mess with him taking Trevor and two other cars into the wall. I thought Trevor was done, but he went back out and started the race from the back. He hung in there and managed to fight his way back to a fifth place finish. It was a great race to watch as he moved through the field, and he might have been able to get back to third if the race wasn't cut short by 10 laps?

Travis finally got his first race in for the Big 8 series. He was third fastest in practice out of the over 50 cars in his class. The car was great, but bottomed out in qualifying and he just made the cut by qualifying 14th for the feature. He said he had a great car and was moving up, but his right rear tire got cut. He hung in there and still managed to finish the race in 10th with only 14 pounds of air in the tire.  

Our ASA driver Matt Byrne had a great practice and qualifying run. He was running all the way up to the top five and said he felt something go wrong with the car and brought it in with ten laps to go. Better things are coming for Matt, and we enjoy his great attitude.

This weekend Trevor will be racing at Slinger for the Mothers day special. Mom's get a free carnation from Sonya's Rose in Jackson WI. I have used Sonya's on more than one occasion, it really helps out in those times when we need to show Mom how much we appreciate everything she does for us ; ).  

We will also be going down to Oglesby IL on Saturday for out team Mgr and cook's benefit. Janet is one of the most loving, caring, and inspirational person to all of us and the ASA teams. Hopefully she will be able to raise some funds to help pay for her medical bills. If there is anything you can do or donate to help her out, please let me know or reply to the information I have pasted below.

Thanks again to everyone, and have a great week!

Mike

Janet's web site link: http://janetbillingsbenefit.com

I hope everyone is well. Hopefully we will get some good weather this weekend and get some racing in. It will be a super busy weekend for the boy's and the crew. We were in Toledo last weekend with a driver we were testing, and it was beautiful weather over there.

Trevor is very excited to get the season started at Slinger and his run for the Championship. There will be a practice on Saturday from 12 - 4:00. Everyone is welcome to come and watch Saturday in the stands at no charge. On Sunday time trials will be at 12:00, with racing at 2:00. http://www.slingersuperspeedway.com

Travis and the crew will be heading down to Shereville, IL at Illiana speedway on Saturday, with our test driver Matt Byrne for the ASA North race. Racing and qualifying will begin at 5:45. 

 They will be hitting the road once again Saturday night, making a car change in the trailer,  and sleeping on the way to Travis's Big 8 series race on Sunday in Madison, WI. Hopefully he won't get rained out again, the weather is looking good. http://www.big8series.com   http://www.madisoninternationalspeedway.com

 Hopefully we will some of you at one of the races this weekend, it will definitely be a busy one for the boy's.

Have a great weekend,

Mike

Just a quick note that Travis' rain canceled race last Sunday, will be run this Sunday at Rockford Speedway. Racing starts at 1:00. Here is the link to Rockford's web site: http://rockfordspeedway.com/

Hope to see you there!

4/14/09
I hope everyone had a great Easter, it looks like we will finally be seeing some nice spring weather coming. Travis and Trevor have been working hard to get the cars ready for the upcoming season. They have also been busy with the T-shirt and graphic business, don't forget to place your orders to help support the boy's racing.

Travis will be starting off the season this coming Sunday at Rockford Speedway in Loves Park IL. Qualifying is at 11:15 and racing starts @ 1:00. He will be driving the #21 Chris Ratajczyk Late model for the Big 8 series opener. This is one of the Midwest's most popular series with 50-60 cars entering the race. I have posted a link below to the track's web site. Hopefully we will be able to put out an update soon, regarding Travis's other racing plans for the year. 

Click here: Rockford Speedway

Trevor's first race will be at Slinger Speedway on Sunday afternoon May 3rd, gates open at noon, and racing starts @ 2:00. Trevor is very excited to get the season started and make a run for the Championship at Slinger after winning the Rookie of the Year last year. We are still working hard to find some more sponsorship to do some more racing, but it's been a very tough year. Please let me know if you would have any contacts or friends that might be interested in taking a look at their proposals, We Need Your Help!

Thanks again for everyone helping the boy's out once again, and we'll let you know how the first race goes,

Mike

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I have pasted a link & story from my cousin Brian Dassow. His daughter Hailee, has the opportunity of a lifetime at her young age.

I have also pasted a reminder about Janet our team manager's benefit on May 9th. She is one of the nicest and most caring people you will ever meet. One of her wishes was to go skydiving, which she did last week and had one of the greatest experiences she has ever had. It has been an uphill struggle for her, and any help would be greatly appreciated! 

There are not many opportunities of a lifetime, but my daughter Hailee
has been given one of those this year.  Through a selection process that
included nomination and interviewing, she is a member of a small group
chosen to be a student ambassadors from Wisconsin.
This group of 20 students will travel to England and France in July for
2 weeks.  The People to People program has an outstanding reputation
dating back to when President Dwight Eisenhower started the organization
in 1956.

Hailee has started a number of different fund raisers to assist with the
cost of her trip, but we have created her own website for others to
donate directly to her trip.  I encourage all of you to visit the site
and learn a little more about Hailee and the opportunity that she has.
Click on the link below.

http://www.supporthailee.com/

You can read more about the People to People program through her site or
directly with the following link:

http://www.peopletopeople.com/Pages/default.aspx

The importance of this trip to a very energetic young girl reaches far
beyond her current experiences and is a stepping stone to her future success.
   Please donate directly on the website to help make this trip a
reality.  Hailee will be making entries in her blog as the weeks go by,
so visit the site later to see her progress.

Thank you for all your support.
--
Brian Dassow

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Janet's Benefit, May 9th

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12/22/08
I hope everyone is all set for Christmas and the Holiday season. This winter has already been one for the books. They said tonight on the news that it is the second snowiest December on record. It's been unreal, with sub zero temperatures and 30-40 mph winds. Welcome to Wisconsin.

The boy's have been keeping busy getting the cars ready for next year. Travis is currently working three job's, including the race shop, by my shop and working on snowmobiles. Trevor is playing basketball on the JV team at the high school. He's having an excellent year, and is scoring more than he ever did.

 The boy's can't wait for it to warm up and get back to the tracks. It might be awhile the way this winter is going ; ). Trevor will be having his banquet in a couple of weeks. He can't wait to receive his Rookie Of The Year award. ASA changed their date for the banquet from last year, and now Travis's banquet is on the same date as Trevor's. We'll have to split up and make the most of it.

 We wanted to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday's. Thanks again for all of your help, we couldn't do it without your help!

 Mike