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BURLINGTON, WI (Monday, November 2, 2009) - Last week the American Speed Assocation Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment along with ASAMT Touring Star Kyle Calmes and his Thrive to Drive Motorsports team spent the day with college students from Skills USA and the Wisconsin Marketing & Managment Association at the Hotel Sierra in Green Bay, WI. The purpose was to meet with the students and give them the opportunity to get up close with an ASAMT super late model and talk about marketing in motorsports.

Steve Einhaus, ASAMT Vice-president joined Kyle Calmes, Hank Calmes and Brian Sollars of Thrive to Drive Motorsports met with members of Skills USA which gave them the opportunity to get up close with an ASAMT super late model stock car.

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By: Kevin Ramsell
BURLINGTON, WI (Friday, October 23, 2009) – Tim Olson and Steve Einhaus, owners of the American Speed Association Midwest Tour Super Late Model Series has announced the formation of the new American Speed Association Midwest Sportsman Tour. The first touring division for the popular Area Sportsman division styles of cars that race weekly at your favorite local track.

By: Kevin Ramsell
BURLINGTON, WI (Monday, October 19, 2009) – Steve Carlson will admit that going into the 2009 racing season, one thing not on his agenda was to capture the American Speed Association Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment’s Championship. But the racing veteran from West Salem, WI won his tenth touring championship in his career, first with ASA, at the track that is only six blocks from home.

“It’s cool, real cool,” Carlson said after his second place run at the Oktoberfest 100 season finale event where he sewed up the championship as he battled Travis Sauter for the win with ten laps to go and almost saw his championship hopes go away when the two touched. “About ten laps to go, I didn’t think I was going to win it because I was pointing at the sky and I figured I was going to crash down and there would be nothing left. But, it was still there but there had to be something bent because the car didn’t quite corner that good after that.”

Sauter Family talks about Oktoberfest and etching their name onto the trophy.

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By: Kevin Ramsell
WEST SALEM, WI (Sunday, October 11, 2009) - Travis Sauter finally did something that his grandfather, father, and uncle hoped to do, that is win the Oktoberfest championship. He accomplished that goal today as he won the American Speed Association Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment’s Oktoberfest 100 at La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway in West Salem, WI.

He holds off a late challenge from Steve Carlson for the win. Carlson’s second place finish secures the 2009 ASAMT Championship.

“Oh its unbelievable, I wanted it so bad. I wanted this race more than any other race, its unbelievable,” an excited Sauter said in victory lane. Sauter took the lead from his father Tim on lap 30 and held off a late challenge from Carlson.

By: Kevin Ramsell
BURLINGTON, WI (Monday, October 05, 2009) – Fresh off his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win over a week ago at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Johnny Sauter is hoping to keep his winning streak alive as he will be competing at the 40th Annual Oktoberfest Race Weekend that starts this Thursday at the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway in West Salem, WI.

Sauter will be competing in the American Speed Association Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment’s 100-lap event and is also planning on competing in the Dick Trickle “99” on Friday night.

“I’m really pumped up about it,” Sauter said as he was taking a break from a test session in Sandusky, OH. “No member of the Sauter family has ever won at Oktoberfest and I think its time to change that. I would like to be that one to get that first win.”

By: Kevin Ramsell
BURLINGTON, WI (Friday, October 02, 2009) – He remembers watching him as a child and always looked up to him as a great short track racer. At the 40th Annual Oktoberfest Race Weekend, Dan Fredrickson hopes to join an exclusive club who has won the Midwest popular race event three times in a row, a club that currently has one member, the late Joe Shear.

Fredrickson will be competing in the American Speed Association Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment event on Sunday, October 11, the final day of the four-day race weekend. “I have always looked up to Joe and thought he was an awesome short track racer when I watched him as a kid,” the 2007 & 2008 Oktoberfest Race Weekend Champion recently said. “To be in a class of people like him would be awesome. Even the two in a row class is not a bad class to be in, but if I can be in a class with Joe by myself that would be pretty awesome.”

Carlson and Wimmer close in on Haseleu for the Championship

By: Kevin Ramsell
ELKO, MN (Saturday, September 26, 2009) - It was a night of great racing and many story lines at Elko Speedway. Dan Fredrickson finally returns to victory lane in the American Speed Association Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment, Steve Holzhausen wins the Race for the Gold Championship and there will be a battle for the championship at the season finale.

Dan Fredrickson started on the outside of the front row for the 125-lap main event and he quickly got the lead over current ASAMT point leader Nathan Haseleu, who started on the pole.

Haseleu, who had a top-ten in every event so far this season, would see his streak end on lap 37. As he was battling with Chris Wimmer and Jason Schneider for second place coming down the frontstretch, Haseleu had something happen in his transmission causing him to spin going into turn one. The point leader’s night ended as it went off on the hook and he would finish 26th.

By: Kevin Ramsell
It’s been a while since Steve Holzhausen raced at Elko Speedway in Elko, MN. In fact, its been over 20 years according to the veteran driver from Bangor, WI who hopes that his return will be a golden one.

“I believe so, I haven’t gone back to look and see exactly when it was but its got to be somewhere around there,” Holzhausen said when asked if his last visit to the 0.375-mile facility was in 1985 but a Google search shows that his last visit may have been on July 3, 1989, when he won the sixth Annual Minnesota State Championship ARTGO event holding off Mark Lamoreaux, Jim Weber, Dick Trickle and Joe Shear for the win.

Holzhausen’s return will come this Saturday night, September 26, when he competes in the American Speed Association Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment’s Race for the Gold - Gold Race. The third event in the summer long three-race series where he is the current points leader after a pair of runner-up finishes at Dells Raceway Park. On Saturday, May 30 he finished second to Steve Carlson in the Bronze Race and then finished behind Frank Kreyer in the Silver Race on July 18th.

By: Kevin Ramsell
BURLINGTON, WI (Wednesday, July 22, 2009) – Last Saturday at Dells Raceway Park, an ASA Member Track, a familiar face return to the pits of an American Speed Association sanctioned event. Veteran crew chief Howie Lettow has come on board to help Lane Automotive Rookie of the Year contender Blake Brown in the American Speed Association Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment.

Lettow is happy to be a part of the ASAMT, “It should be a good time, this is a very competitive series,” Lettow commented. “You got a lot of veterans along with some good young up and comers, so it’s a pretty tough series. If you can run well here, you can run well anywhere.”