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Flagman in Training How did you get into racing? When I was about 2½ years old, my mom and dad took me to the track. We stayed for the whole night. When we were ready to leave the pits, I started kicking and screaming because I didn’t want to
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Describe the division, please. Never thought I would get the chance to really be competitive in this class, but the rules as they are make it easy for a variety of chassis and engine combinations to be competitive. The whole idea is to make it affordable and enjoyable. As the
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Slinger Speedway Video Guy Co-Host of The Drivers Meeting Radio Show Producer/Co-Host of Let’s Talk NASCAR Radio Show Race Fan Extraordinaire How did you get into racing? My dad is a big race fan and he and my grandpa took me to the USAC stock car
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8-time Slinger Speedway Sportsman Champion 2007 Inductee - Southeastern WI Short Track Hall of Fame Slinger Speedway Wall of Fame - Class of 2015 How did you get into racing? Oh boy. Well my buddy talked me into it - that’s how it happened. He had a friend with a car
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Who holds what role on the team? John Heinan - Safety Director/Incident Command; Shelley Greenwald - Assistant Safety Director/Paramedic; Dan Yenor - Firefighter; Colin O’Donoghue - Firefighter; Robby Heinan - Firefighter, Scot Laabs - Firefighter If someone is interested in joining and/or subbing for the Slinger Speedway Safety Team, who should they
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Driver of Various Numbered Cars in Various Divisions Racing Photographer Collector (and Seller) of Racecar Pictures How did you get into racing? (Laughs) My dad took me to the ¼ mile at State Fair Park when I was two years old. My mom said I was never the same after that.
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With Special Guest Appearances by his wife, Gwen 2016 Inductee - Slinger Wall of Fame 2009 Inductee - Southeastern WI Short Track Hall of Fame How did you get into racing? At my dad’s salvage yard. Racers that were older than me came there for parts, and got me involved. Why
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Leader of the “Kannenberg Connection” 1981 & 1987 Figure 8 Champion 1985 Slinger Stinger Champion How did you get into racing? Well, that was quite a few years back...Dad and a friend made a puddle jumper (some people call them jitneys - made out of Model A or Model T
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How did you get into racing? My dad, who worked at Allis Chalmers ran the Milwaukee Mile for the promoter from ‘29 until….whenever. I’d go with him; the first picture I ever had published, in the Milwaukee Sentinel, was taken at The Mile in ‘51. I was 15
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How did you get into racing? I went to the races as a little kid and LOVED watching the Mods. I told myself I was going to grow up and drive a mod, just like Mouse [Miles Melius]. In ‘83 or ‘84 I started in the Mods at Wilmot and
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Driver of the Kearns Motor Car Company #97 Late Model Slinger Super Speedway 2019 Late Model Champion How did you get into racing? I started racing at age ten in go-karts. My dad raced Late Models when I was a kid, and won the 2006 Late Model championship; he
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2012 Inductee - Southeastern WI Short Track Hall of Fame Driver, Car Builder, Car Owner How did you get into racing? Through my brother [Bill], he started helping Miles Melius in ‘58. I started driving in ‘63. I was building cars - Greg Krueger drove for me. He had the primary car;