By Jordan Kuehne
PLOVER, WIS. (Friday, July 24, 2009) – Ryan Carlson made his way to the front early and managed to hold off the two-time defending champion Jeremy Miller to top a 26 car field and claim the BRP Big 8 Series presented by Gandrud Chevrolet “Jingle Bells 58” tonight at Golden Sands Speedway. Carlson maneuvered his way from the third row into first in just 20 laps, taking the lead away from Brian Bach and never looking back as he held on for the win.

As the skies darkened above, two-time defending series champion Jeremy Miller jumped out to the early lead in the BRP Big 8 Series presented by Gandrud Chevrolet “Jingle Bells 58”. Brian Bach slid his way past Steve Dobbratz for second as Scott Broughton jumped up to third.

Seven laps in, Broughton began peeking on the inside of Bach for second as Miller built up a comfortable margin on the field. Miller lost his lead on lap 13 as a caution bunched the field back up due to an unassisted spin by Davey Pennel in turn two.

Plover, Wis. (May 22, 2009) – When the front row rolled trackside for the start of the Mid-American Stock Car Series’ Central Wisconsin 40 at Golden Sands Speedway, an instant favorite was identified. No one knew, however, that favorite would be starting on the inside of the front row, not the outside. Paul Neisius wrestled the lead away from former GSS super stock champion Brian Back on lap one, broke away from the field and led every lap of a green to checkered event en route to his first ever MASCS victory.

Neisius, a Midwest Super Truck veteran, and his cousin Justin decided this past winter it was best to hit the road and do some traveling with their Mid-American racers. The decision has ultimately led Paul to the first checkered flag of Mid-American’s 17th season.

“We’ve raced Mid-American before and it was a lot of fun,” said the Hastings, MN resident in victory lane. “When we decided to do some traveling this seemed like the right way to do it.”

Golden Sands Speedway has added some new events to our 2009 season schedule.

In May we will be featuring an Air-Bag Demonstration and a Motorcycle Wheelie Contest. Also along with the Mid-American Touring Series on May 22nd, we will have Armed Forces Night, in which all Military personnel showing their Military ID will receive one $5 grandstand admissions.

The Wisconsin Challenge Series Memorial 100 will race on Memorial Day, May 25th, featuring Wisconsin Sport Trucks, Vintage Cars, Cruisers, and our very first Figure 8 Race. May 29th will be Chicken Night! Drivers will be paired up with fans for a driver/fan egg toss contest, specials on chicken sandwiches, and many prizes.

October 18, 2008 – Golden Sands Speedway hosted its annual Driver’s Banquet at the Ridges Golf Course. Seven divisions where present to receive the trophies and awards. Plus the Wisconsin Challenge Series top contenders.

We would like to thank all our major sponsors that made the 2008 season possible. Baer’s Beverage Budweiser, Kwik Trip Stores, The Store Impact Rewards, Checkers Drive-Thru, & Hoosier Tires.

Announcements were made as to the next seasons starting date being May 1, 2009. Golden Sands is also putting in a figure 8 track in the infield for the 2009 season.

The Super Late Model division had some great racing throughout the year. #71 Mark Eswein took the 2008 Season Championship. This makes Mark a seven time champion at Golden Sands Speedway. #2 Jordan Thiel was the 2008 Rookie of the year. Best Looking Car went out to #5 Rene Scheinoha.

The Super Stock division had #71 Greg Back as it’s season champion,. #25 Michael Gwidt was the Rookie of the Year. #87 Colin Reffner was awarded the Best Looking Car.

The Pure Stocks division had #18 Ryan Mork for the season champion. Best Looking car went to #20 Richard Dunn.

Golden Sands is pleased to release its tentative 2009 racing season schedule.

The schedule has come together nicely with a mix of special events which include two Wisconsin challenge Series Races, a Mid-American Race, and a Big 8 Series event.

Also included in our 2009 season will be a host of exciting entertaining events such as the Air-Bag demonstration, Motorcycle wheelie Contest, Motorcycle Trial Riders, Go-Till-It-Blows Contest, and the Battle of the Sexes, plus much more. We will also have special prizes and promotions throughout the entire race season. As soon as all the new promotions are defined we will post them on the schedule and in our coming events section.

Golden Sands Speedway is now listed on Facebook! If you would like to join us, please put in your friend request and we will list you right away.

A new addition to the racing facility will be the dirt figure 8’s. That’s right, we have looked through the archives and old pictures from the 1980’s and re-made the original dirt figure 8 in the infield of the track. We will post rules for the Figure 8 division with in the next couple of weeks.