8/19/2025
Rice Lake Speedway
Rice Lake Speedway Rained Out Again; Championships Next
Rice Lake WI, Aug. 16 – A deluge of rain starting Saturday morning flooded out the Rice Lake Speedway on Saturday with water halfway up the turns on the race track and the infield completely flooded. The races obviously had to be cancelled, ending the regular season on a wet note. The rain out was the sixth of the season in what has been a weather plagued racing season at the speedway.
Next up on the speedway schedule is Season Championship night, scheduled for this coming Saturday night, August 23rd. All five classes that regularly race at the speedway will be in action on Saturday. The format for the Championship night will see all drivers draw a number for their heat races, just like normal, but those drivers that make the redraw from their heats will be lined straight up by points earned during the 2025 racing season with the other heat race finishers lined up directly behind them. Season Champions will be the feature winners in all five classes.
The 2025 Hall of Fame induction ceremony, scheduled for this Saturday, will also be held next Saturday. Set to be inducted into the Rice Lake Speedway Hall of Fame at Darwin Brown, Dave Havel, Rick Kurshinsky and the late Brent Laursen.
With the final points race rained out, the 2025 speedway point standings have been finalized. Winning point titles for 2025 are Rob Grabon from Cameron in the Pure Stocks, Danny Richards from Mondovi in the Street Stocks, Blake Adams from Cameron who won both the Midwest Modified and Modified titles and Leslie Leu from Medford in the Super Stocks.
Grabon, who finished sixteen points ahead of last year's titleist Bob Wahlstrom, won his first ever point title at the track.
Richards, who beat his son Cole by twenty four points, won his third straight point title at the track with two of the last three years finding Cole finishing second in points behind Danny, including this year.
Leu won his first ever Super Stock title at Rice Lake, edging out Alex Myers by fifteen points. Leu has been close in previous years but this year marked his first ever title.
It was a spectacular year for Adams. He became only the second driver in track history to win both the Midwest Modified and Modified point titles the same year with his father Kevin pulling off the same feat back in 2019. Blake is also the only rookie driver ever to win the Modified point title at the speedway and as best as can be determined, the only rookie driver in speedway history to win a point title in his first year.
The second annual Dairyland Dash will be held at the speedway on Saturday, August 30th and Sunday, August 31st. Five WISSOTA classes will be in action including the Pure Stocks, Street Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, Super Stocks and Modifieds. The USRA Late Models will also be racing that weekend with all six classes running full racing programs on both Saturday and Sunday.
Race fans and teams should be watching the speedway website and face book page in the coming days for series of announcements about this event including the start times, payoff, sponsor announcements and special bonus contingincies and other awards that will be offered for that weekend.
Race time this coming Saturday for the Season Championships is 6 pm.
Article Credit: Ed Reichert