Thank you Northland Tour Race Team

The Northland Tour Series racing season has come to a close; the prizes, trophies, plaques and jacket have been awarded. In recap, this year the Northland Tour, I.K.F. Region 3 had 946 entries over the summer. Eight tracks provided some of the best racing surfaces and greatest facilities in the Midwest. Runestone GoKart, Cottonwood Speedway Atwater Karting Speedway and UPS University Plains Speedway were the dirt series tracks. 61 Kartway, Coulee Go-Kart Raceway and Jamaica Raceway provide the pavement series great racing surfaces. The season concluded with the Pavement Grand Nationals at Jamaica Raceway.  The track promoters/owners and staff should be very proud of their facilities and, on behalf to the whole series, I’d like to thank them for their efforts.

The series for could not happen without the support of all to the 2009 sponsors for the Northland Tour. King Solutions, Briggs & Stratton, Firestone, ARC - Avenger Racing Chassis, Koopman Racing, Waller Racing, Uncle Frank's, Hawk Performance Specialties, Oval Kart Parts, Snake Bite Cuts, PBR, Hole-Shot Racing Clutches, Goodson, Thor Oil, Subway of Chippewa Falls, Susa Racing Engines, DRE Racing Engines, Hoosier Racing Tires, Huse Racing Engines and Xtreme Cuts, EZ Fabricating,  The Toy Factory, Fast Factory, Maxxis, Digatron and Data Assist sponsored the 2009 season. I would ask each race team to support these sponsors by buying the products and services of each sponsor. My hat is off to this group of speedway karting supporters.
Next, I would like to thank the greatest group of sportsmen and competitors in the upper Midwest! These race teams and drivers came to the track prepared to put on a great show - week after week. There were a lot of different feature winners over the summer and I watched each driver and race team improved throughout the season. Never once in either series did anyone misbehave, throw things on the track in anger, push or shove a fellow competitor or crew member, no squad cars were called to the track -  just good clean competitive speedway racing – a credit to our series!

I’d like to congratulate each of the Northland Tour Series and IKF Region 3 Champions! The point races were very close this year. Great driving and preparation of the karts by the crew chiefs and pit crews paid off. All of the race teams stepped up to the challenge and improved their performance in 2009.

The Northland Tour would not happen without the help of the following people, Mark Alton and Joe Susa doing tech; Kattie Bear-Pfaffendorf, Sue Minnehan, Betty Norgaard doing sign-in and scoring; Doug Norgaard, Ron Hanson, Tony Crawford on the track. I would also like to thank Bill Hilger, President of IKF, for helping to find sponsors this season.

It was my pleasure to be part of the series – Thanks!