Rain wipes out second racing program of season at Casino Speedway
Area stock car drivers recorded feature wins at Aberdeen and Huron and two Minnesota racetracks over the weekend.
WATERTOWN — The second stock car racing progam of the season was wiped out by rain on Sunday, May 17, 2026, at Casino Speedway. The 11th Casino Speedway Memorial is scheduled for Sunday, May 24 and will feature all six regular classes of cars: late models, Gen X late models, modifieds, Midwest modifieds, street stocks and hornets. Racing is scheduled to open at 5 p.
m. Below are highlights from other weekend racing events throughout northeastern South Dakota and west central Minnesota (for complete results from all area races, visit myracepass. com ).
SEASON PREVIEW: 2026 stock car racing season opened last week at some area tracks Brown County Speedway ABERDEEN — The third weekly program of the 2026 season at Brown County Speedway was h3eld on Friday, May 15. Super stock driver Trevor Nelson of Warner won his third-straight feature of the season. Aberdeen drivers Chad Becker (late model) and Mike Stearns (modifieds) and Huron's Nick Perry (Midwest modifieds) each won their second features.
Broc Stout of Winner (street stocks) and Ryan Erdahl of Jamestown, ND (legends) also added feature victories. Area drivers who won heat races included Becker and Stearns, late models; Eric Cease of Bath, Taylor Schmidt of Aberdeen and Lorin Johnson of Miller, Midwest modifieds; and Stearns and Garrett Gross of Aberdeen, modifieds. The field included 80 cars: 19 Midwest modifieds, 18 street stocks, 12 super stocks, 12 late models, 11 modifieds and eight legends.