3/8/2025
Rice Lake Speedway
Late Models Pay Six Visits to Rice Lake Speedway in 2025
Late Models Pay Six Visits to Rice Lake Speedway in 2025
By Ed Reichert
Rice Lake WI – After a successful 2024 racing season at the Rice Lake Speedway, the number of Late Model visits to the track in 2025 has been increased to a half dozen. Both USRA and WISSOTA Late Models will take to the speedway during the coming racing season with the best drivers that race in both divisions expected to be on hand.
The USRA Late Models were made a part of the first annual Dairyland Dash held over the Labor Day weekend in 2024 and after providing solid numbers of drivers and some exciting racing that produced the first ever Late Model feature win for Kody Koski, the number of 2025 visits to the track has been increased.
USRA has lost a couple of their regular racing venues due to track closures and other circumstances and the Rice Lake Speedway has stepped in to held full the void. The USRA Late Models will race at the track five times in 2025, highlighted by their second straight appearance during the Dairyland Dash when they will run full programs on both August 30th and 31st. They will also be a part of regular Saturday night racing at the track on three occasions, with those dates being May 3rd, June 28th and July 26th with all these dates selected so as not to conflict with any other shows scheduled for the class.
The promoters of the Rice Lake Speedway are actively working with sponsors with the hopes of setting up a point fund for the USRA drivers for those five events with possible announcements in that regard forthcoming.
Fans of WISSOTA Late Models should not feel slighted either as the Structural Buildings WISSOTA Challenge Series will return to the speedway in 2025 with the date for their program set for Saturday night, August 9th. Coming off a great 2024 season for the Structural Buildings Series, increased purses and larger point funds for 2025 should make the series very attractive to drivers and a big field of drivers is expected to be on hand for the Rice Lake show, coming one night after they race on Friday night at the Red Cedar Speedway in Menomonie.
Rice Lake Speedway LLC owners Kolby and Dean Kiehl along with Dick Kalow continue to make plans for the upcoming season. A home for the Rice Lake Speedway Hall of Fame and Museum on the grounds of the track now appears certain and other exciting improvements and upgrades continue to be in the planning stages. Look for more announcements in the coming weeks.
The annual car show at Rice Lake's Cedar Mall continues to draw interest from drivers looking to put their racing equipment on display for their fans and sponsorspp and a wide variety of racing machines are expected to fill the halls of the mall. This event takes place on March 20-23.
The first on track activity for the speedway is scheduled for Wednesday night April 16th with a practice session open to drivers in all classes of race cars and the seventy third consecutive season of racing at the longest running dirt track in northern Wisconsin begins on Saturday night, April 19th.
Follow the speedway website at www.ricelakespeedway.net and the track face book page for the latest information as it breaks.
Article Credit: Ed Reichert