1/3/2025
WISSOTA
3rd Annual MPH Invitational Hosted at Granite City Motor Park
WISSOTA’s newest post season special event, the MPH Invitational has seen a venue change for the upcoming 2025 season and will be hosted at the Granite City Motor Park just outside of St. Cloud, Minnesota in Sauk Rapids.
The event will also see a slight date shift with practice being held on Friday, September 5th and racing action scheduled for Saturday, September 6th with a Sunday, September 7th raindate.
Previous Champions of the MPH include Dustin Holtquist and Tommy Pogones (Mod Fours), Brent Mindock and Dustin Puffe (Pure Stocks) and Jenna Hagemann twice (Hornets).
The event once again will be for WISSOTA-sanctioned Mod Fours, Pure Stocks and Hornets and will take place of the three divisions’ attendance at the annual Speedway Motors WISSOTA 100.
Just like the previous two years, the Mod Fours will time trial to start the night and all three classes will use passing points to determine the feature lineups.
Each winner will be crowned as the MPH Invitational Champion and will also have their car on display on championship Saturday night of the WISSOTA 100, on September 13th at the I-94 emr Speedway in Fergus Falls, MN.
Granite City Motor Park owner James Trantina said ‘we are excited for the opportunity to hold a premier event with WISSOTA. It will be a great weekend and a lot of fun for our fans, racers and sponsors. We feel it will allow the families to be able to attend and support their favorite divers now that it’s located in Central Minnesota and that will really help the atmosphere of this event and bring the feel it should have. Kwik Trip has already signed on to help with fuel cards for all racers that attend the event. The further away the racers come from, the move in the fuel card is! We will have a free steak dinner for all racers Friday night after practice, free breakfast for racers and crew Saturday and additional fun things to do that weekend to keep everyone entertained and a fun weekend. These racers deserve to have a weekend and event devoted to them as it’s their biggest race of the year and we along with WISSOTA will make sure it happens. We look forward to seeing all the racers and fans attending the MPH Invitational in 2025!’
WISSOTA would like to thank the Bemidji Speedway for being the host of the MPH the previous two seasons and we look forward to working with the staff at Granite City for the 2025 event.
Times, payouts, entry information and other details will be released in the months to come.
For more information, log on to www.WISSOTA.org.
Submitted By: Nikki Cook