Gravity Park USA

06/07/2026

Friday 6/5/26 Recap

Story and feature winner pictures from last night. Thanks as always!

Mavrick Ruh edges Jake Richards for Grand Nationals feature win at Gravity Park

CHILTON, Wis. (June 5) – The year’s first appearance of the Dirt Devil Grand National Series brought out some of the best feature racing of the season at Gravity Park Speedway, starring Mavrick Ruh and Jake Richards.

Ruh beat out Richards and just beat out the rain to win the Grand Nationals feature Friday night at the 1/3-mile clay oval. Rubicon’s Marcus Hoeppner (Stock Cars) and Mark Hoeppner (Midwest LS Late Models) and Jacob Rens of Brandon (Sport Mods) also added feature wins before heavy rains wiped out the final three features of the night in the A-Mods, Street Stocks and Sport 4’s classes, with the A-Mods feature getting in just one lap before the rains came.

Both feature winners already this season at Gravity Park, Ruh and Richards put on a show over the final 10 laps of their 20-lap feature event. With Ruh running the outside and Richards hugging the inside of the track, the two ran side-by-side for almost the entirety of the second half of the race, as well as with several quick lead changes over that stretch.

Ruh started on the outside of the front row and jumped out to the lead on the first lap, and the Elkhart Lake native built up a solid margin before a pair of caution flags for spins in the back of the field.

While Ruh held the lead, Richards was slicing through the field from his ninth starting spot. He was fifth on a lap 6 restart and two laps later was lurking behind a side-by-side battle for second between Jeff Muehlbauer of Elkhart Lake and Plymouth’s Derek Kaat when Muehlbauer slipped high in turn four, allowing Richards to drive between the two cars, getting by Muehlbauer immediately and then inside Kaat for second on lap 9.

Richards then looked inside of Ruh on lap 10, and the two were even at the start-finish line at the end of lap 11. Ruh held a slim lead in the side-by-side joust until Richards got a strong bite on the inside off of turn four and led lap 16.

Ruh came right back, though, leading laps 17 and 18, and then got a big run on the backstretch on lap 19 to get in the clear. Richards made one more charge on the final lap coming to the checkers, but Ruh held on to win by little more than half a car length for his second feature win this season.

Kaat finished third with Brad Weiss of Cascade fourth and Chilton’s Marshall Plate fifth. The race was the first of six races over three different tracks this season for the Dirt Devil Grand National Series, but Ruh is not eligible for the series points, which gave the top finishing position for the series purposes to Richards with Kaat second.

Plate, Muehlbauer and Nate Ruh of Chilton all won heat races. The first heat included an incident when the car of Jack Wiroll of Sheboygan caught the outside wall, going up on two wheels before coming back down, only to go straight head on into the turn one tires in front of the outside wall. Wiroll was injured but his night was over.

Rens made his first appearance at Gravity Park this year pay off with the win in the 20-lap Sport Mods main.

Rens took the lead from Sheboygan’s Brian Konitzer on lap 9, staying low out of the fourth turn as Konitzer drifted high. Rens cleared Konitzer two laps later and then pulled away on two late restarts for his first career feature win in the class at the track.

Eric Craine of Allenton came in second after also making his first showing at the track this year. Tom Schneider of Chilton was third with Konitzer fourth and Brad Buckman of Kiel fifth. Schneider and Travis Schmidt of Cascade both won heat races, and Schmidt had moved from a seventh starting spot to third in the feature before contact with Konitzer while racing for second ended his race.

Marcus Hoeppner won his second Stock Cars division feature of the season at Gravity Park, leading all 20 laps of the feature from the pole.

Hoeppner held the front while Matthew Rechek of Beaver Dam and Montello’s Tyler Schrimpf raced for second over the final 10 laps, swapping positions back and forth several times before Rechek cleared Schrimpf on lap 12. Rechek held on for second with Schrimpf third, three-time feature winner Brad Lubach of Kiel fourth and Mike Klenz of West Bend fifth. Lubach and Tim Mueller of Chilton were heat winners.

Mark Hoeppner won the Midwest LS Late Models feature, besting Renee Hoeppner of Rubicon. Mark Hoeppner also won the class’s heat race.

Joe Huenefeld of Freeport, Ill., won the A-Mods heat race, while Slinger’s Roman Blank and Phillip Wuesthoff of Beaver Dam both won Street Stock heat races. Clint Hattermann of Bear Creek edged Chilton’s James Reese to win the Sport 4’s 4-cylinders heat, a race that on lap 2 saw the car of Robbie Holst of Beaver Dam roll three times at the end of the frontstretch after contact with another car. Holst was uninjured.

Gravity Park is off for racing next Friday, with racing returning Friday, June 19 with another full schedule including the second appearance this season by the Midwest Legends Dirt Series. Grand Nationals, A-Mods, Sport Mods, Midwest LS Late Models, Stock Cars, Street Stocks and Sport 4’s also will be on hand. Spectator gates open at 5 p.m. and racing starts at 7 p.m.

FULL RACE RESULTS at https://www.myracepass.com/events/639426/races

06/07/2026

6/5/26

Good morning everyone! 🏁📸

Here are the photos from last night’s races! Thank you all for another great night at the track. Photos are now uploaded and ready to purchase.

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06/06/2026

Just a reminder!!

06/05/2026

We received some rain overnight, which was a plus because we definitely need it.

Sounds like the sun will be coming out and we should be good to go.

Green flag will drop tonight at 7 PM.

Just a reminder if you don’t see any updates on our page the show is going on.

Please check the page before messaging us.

06/04/2026

See you tomorrow 🏁

Let’s take a moment to thank all of our sponsors:

* A & A Equipment Repair, LLC
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06/04/2026

"FRIDAY NIGHT KICKS OFF TO THE 2026 SERIES"
$600 to win 🥇
& thanks to Mr Springborn… $100 to essentially the biggest downfall of the night (you must finish to get the $) Thank you, Troy.
Green Flag drops at 7 Gravity Park USA
Looking forward to seeing you there

06/01/2026

Test and tune
Wednesday, June 3rd
Also, just a reminder we have races this Friday, June 5 but then we will be off June 12.
So no races for June 12th

05/31/2026

05/31/2026

Good morning everyone! 🏁📸

Here are the photos from last night’s races! Thank you all for another great night at the track. Photos are now uploaded and ready to purchase.

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🚫 Please do not crop, screenshot, or use watermarked photos without purchasing them first. Supporting me helps me continue spending long nights at the track capturing memories for all of you each week, and it truly means more than you know.

And this photo right here may just look like “another race picture” to some people… but to me it shows something bigger. A dad standing there watching his son win a heat race, just after winning his own heat race himself. Moments like that are what make this sport so special. ❤️🏁

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05/31/2026

Friday, May 29th Recap

Cain wins in dirt debut, takes Midwest Legends feature at Gravity Park

CHILTON, Wis. (May 29) – Already an accomplished racer on asphalt at a young age, Lincoln Cain proved quickly at Gravity Park Speedway that he has the hang of racing on dirt, too.

Cain won the feature in his first night racing on dirt, taking the 20-lap Midwest Legends Dirt Series main event Friday night at Gravity Park. The Slinger native headlined a list of eight feature winners in all for the night that also included the speedway’s first three-time feature winner this season in Brad Lubach of Kiel (Stock Cars), repeat winners Jake Richards of Neshkoro (Grand Nationals), Slinger’s Roman Blank (Street Stock), Mark Hoeppner of Rubicon (Midwest LS Late Models) and James Reese of Chilton (Sport 4’s), as well as Chilton’s Tony Gates (Sport Mods) and Steve Mueller of Eagle (A Modifieds).

Cain is the defending Legends champion on asphalt at Slinger Speedway, won the championship at Jefferson Speedway in 2024, and was last year’s Midwest Legends Asphalt Series champion. The 17-year old Slinger High School junior started third in a big field of 24 Legends cars and got to the front early, driving to the outside of polesitter Lilly Fassbender of Burnett on lap 3. Cain led at the line to complete the lap, cleared Fassbender on the next lap and would lead the rest of the way, including through three restarts late in the race.

Cain began hitting lapped traffic by lap 11 and slowly built an eight-car length lead over Fassbender, Keith Moline of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Hayden Schmuhl of Beaver Dam, who moved up from starting ninth and battled Fassbender and Moline for second for the better part of 10 laps. Fassbender held the inside with Schmuhl right behind and Moline to his outside, and it stayed that way until Moline slipped up high on lap 14, allowing Schmuhl to move into third.

Schmuhl then took a look inside of Fassbender on laps 15 and 16, and contact between the two resulted in Fassbender spinning in turn three on lap 16, erasing Cain’s lead and sending Fassbender to the back of the field. Cain then held off Schmuhl, Moline and Dallas Ross of Sussex over three late restarts, with Schmuhl finishing second and Ross third.

Moline came in fourth with Austin Winkel of Sheboygan Falls hustling from a 17th starting spot to finish fifth. Eric Blumer of Sun Prairie made the biggest move in the feature, racing his way in through the B Feature and going from 23rd to finish eighth.

B Feature winner Ryan Mech finished 10th in the A feature after starting 20th. Heat winners were Ross, Moline, Adam Zellmer of Horicon and Mackenzie Maule of Hebron, Ill., who picked up her first career Legends heat win, and the top five in each heat transferred to the feature. A total of 33 Legends cars were on hand for the popular traveling series, which will make five more appearances at Gravity Park throughout the season.

Lubach became the first driver to win three features at Gravity Park this season with a hard-earned victory in the Stock Cars class.

Lubach started on the pole in the feature and quickly darted to the lead, and from there stuck to a low line in the corners that became the preferred spot for many on a night where dry conditions resulted in a slick track. Marcus Hoeppner of Rubicon moved up to second by lap 8 using a high line, though, and he slowly reeled in Lubach and got alongside him by lap 16.

Hoeppner even led at the line on lap 17, but lapped traffic in the caution-free race came into play and Hoeppner had to drop back behind Lubach as both navigated lapped cars. Hoeppner was unable to make a final run again and Lubach won by two car lengths. Tim Mueller of Chilton finished third with Jeff Nowak of Wausau fourth and Beaver Dam’s Matthew Rechek fifth.

Richards won his second straight Grand Nationals feature at Gravity Park, going from fourth to first in just two laps to take the lead. Richards got inside polesitter Jeff Muehlbauer of Elkhart Lake on lap 1 and completed the pass with a slide out of turn four coming to the line on lap 2. Richards would then slowly sail away from the rest in a race that went caution free.

Muehlbauer finished second with Nate Ruh of Chilton third. Marshall Plate of Chilton held off Waupun’s Collin Peterson for fourth over the final 13 laps, with Peterson working on Plate the whole time but then spinning in turns three and four on the last lap in a final attempt to get inside Plate. Peterson would recover but heat winner Dave Holm of Quinney would get across the finish line just before him to take fifth.

Gates was another of the few to make the high side work on the evening and won his second feature of the season in the Sport Mods.

Gates started on the pole but Tom Schneider of Chilton took the lead from the outside of the front row and appeared stout in the early going, leading the first seven laps including fending off a challenge from last week’s feature winner Travis Schmidt of Cascade after a lap 6 restart. Gates took a look on the outside of Schneider on lap 8, though, getting a big run off the fourth turn down the frontstretch, and he took the lead on lap 9 and never gave it back.

Schmidt also got by Schneider on lap 13 after the two spent four laps racing side-by-side, but Gates held off Schmidt through two restarts in the final laps. Schneider finished third while Justin Green of Sheboygan Falls made an impressive run through the field from the 11th and final starting spot to finish fourth, with Brian Konitzer of Sheboygan fifth.

Mueller became the fourth different feature winner in five weeks in the A Mods, making good use of his pole starting position by leading all 20 laps to best a group of 14 cars, the largest field of cars in the class so far this season.

Mueller was able to get away from hot competition for position throughout the field, including on a lap 12 restart after the race’s sole caution after Noah Schepp of Beaver Dam slid into the turn two wall. Joel Seegert Sr. of Sheboygan moved up from a sixth starting spot to finish second, with Joel Crowbridge of Union Grove third, Joel Seegert Jr. of Sheboygan fourth and Kiel’s Eric Scribner fifth. The father and son team of Seegerts also won both heat races, including Seegert Jr. winning the second heat for his first heat win in an A Mod.

Mark Hoeppner won his second straight Midwest LS Late Models feature after a battle with Andy Gross of Hartford. Hoeppner led all 20 laps but was hounded much of the way by Gross, who was a car length or two back most of the race and then drew alongside Hoeppner on the white flag lap. Gross and Hoeppner also made contact on the final lap going into turn three, with both washing up the track, but Hoeppner held on to win by half a car length.

Blank backed up his first Street Stocks feature win at Gravity Park last week, quickly making his way to the front from the third starting position. Blank drove inside polesitter Chuck Gilbertson of Manitowoc and outside polesitter Andy Gross coming out of turn four on the opening lap, and then took the lead from Gross on the second lap. Blank led the rest of the way, pulling fellow two-time feature winner Phillip Wuesthoff of Beaver Dam for the final 16 laps. Wuesthoff attempted to make up ground on the high line over the final eight laps, but lapped traffic in the caution-free race slowed his progress and he wound up second with Dan Gracyalny of Greenville third, Mark Hoeppner fourth and Gross fifth.

Reese cruised to his second straight win in the Sport 4’s 4-cylinder class, leading every lap of the 20-lap feature and completing a sweep of the night that also included a heat win. Reese took the lead in the feature from polesitter Cody McLain of Beaver Dam coming to the line to complete the first lap and slowly drove away from the field, finishing a straightaway ahead of runner-up Chase Ertel of Plymouth. Robbie Holst of Beaver Dam held off McLain for third after the two dueled for the final 15 laps, with Madelynn Hietpas of Little Chute right behind both in fifth.

Racing is back at Gravity Park again next week with another full schedule including Grand Nationals, A-Mods, Sport Mods, Midwest LS Late Models, Stock Cars, Street Stocks and Sport 4’s. Spectator gates open at 5 p.m. and racing starts at 7 p.m.

FULL RACE RESULTS available at https://www.myracepass.com/events/621450/races