Jamestown drivers post strong finishes at Speedway Kids Race Night

Jamestown drivers won three feature races and crowded the front of several others at Jamestown Speedway on June 13, turning Kids Race Night and the Mary Vetter Challenge into a strong local showing at the Stutsman County Fairgrounds. Jaren Wibstad, Aubrie Edinger and John Corell all took wins, while other Jamestown names kept showing up throughout the results card.

The program was billed as the second night of the 4th Annual Mary Vetter Hobby Stock/Bomber Challenge Series and was sponsored by KSJB and Mix 93.3 FM. The night also carried the Kids Night theme with a pre-race meet-and-greet and goodies for children, part of the same family-centered atmosphere that has helped make the event a recurring June stop. Jamestown Speedway describes itself as a 1/4-mile, high-banked clay oval and says it races Saturday nights from May through August before closing the season with the Stock Car Stampede in September.

In Bombers/Hobby Stocks, Brody Michaelsohn of Wishek won the feature, but Jamestown was right on the pace behind him. Joe Jacobson finished second, Travis Edinger fourth and Brent Wilkinson sixth, with Nickolas Hurley 13th, Janessa Kapp 20th and Joseph Pernsteiner 22nd. That kind of depth put several local cars near the front of the field even when the win went elsewhere.

Jamestown also controlled the Gerdau Recycling WISSOTA Midwest Mods feature, where Jaren Wibstad took the checkered flag. Arin Beyer followed in second, Jarod Klein was third, Aaron Michel fourth and Jason Grimes fifth, while Jaden Christ finished eighth, Kyle Anderson 15th, Phil Christlieb 16th, Maddox Klassen 17th and Erik Busche 19th. The Junior Slingshots class stayed local too, with Aubrie Edinger winning and Collin Veil taking third behind Theodore Zillmer of Cleveland.

The rest of the feature races kept the Jamestown names near the top of the scoreboard. In WISSOTA Street Stock, Harwood’s Cole Greseth won, but Dustin Erickson of Jamestown was third, Christopher Ritter sixth and Tony Smith ninth. In the Shocker Hitch IMCA Modifieds, John Corell of Jamestown won, Jacoby Traut was second and Scott Gartner fourth, with Travis Traut sixth, Andrew Kapp seventh and Zack Nord eighth. The Mary Vetter Challenge, created by the Vetter family to honor Mary Vetter after her death in 2022, now has three dates on the 2026 schedule, with another run set for June 20 alongside the INEX Legends Tour and Kids Night.