Track Packers Podcast

Jessup and Mason are here to recap some of the first full weekend of racing in the Upper Midwest! Some great storylines to talk about!

Race season should kick off this week for a lot of folks! We're excited to get the season going!

The pre-season continues with car shows and showing off our stuff before it all gets dirty!

Activities are starting to ramp up in anticipation of the 2025 season!

Some pre-race #carnage took place but nice to talk about a couple of the last schedule releases as we get ready for the season!(Feel free to skip ahead to 17:00 if you want to miss all the pre-race banter and carnage)Thoughts and prayers out to the folks we've lost in the racing community over the last couple of months including Garrett Feldhake, Devon Gonas, and Richie Mann.

The weather is improving and a few more schedules have been released to lay out the 2025 season!

Our first show of 2025 as we start to anticipate the race season coming up in a few months! Going over some schedules, a little winter racing, and our usual shenanigans!

Our last show of 2024! Talking some fun and standout moments from the racing season as we look ahead to 2025!

A good amount of 2025 schedules have been released and we start breaking down the upcoming year as it looks to be a big one!

A little check-in on what's keeping us all busy and reminiscing on some of the favorite moments of 2024!

The last outdoor race in North Dakota is in the books as we wind down the season in the Upper Midwest!

Full cast for this episode! (or parts of it) We're coming off a fun Stampede weekend where there was plenty to discuss and dissect!

Riley Rae Pelkey has arrived to join the 100's of Track Packers around the world and we recap the WISSOTA 100 in Fergus Falls!

So...we're still in a holding pattern for Baby Pelkey's arrival but the racing moves on through invitational season!

There's chaos and stuff happening all around our lives but we did manage to get some racing in over Labor Day Weekend as we continue to await the newest Track Packer!

A common theme from the weekend was a lot of the lady drivers having some good success! We touch on several and get ready for invitational season with some improved internet!

We recorded a little later than normal in the evening and it apparently made for some more sarcasm throughout the show...so enjoy our weekend recap amongst our shenanigans! Lots of memorial races taking place!

Coming off a very fun weekend with a lot of great racing, August is in full swing with invitational season right on the horizon!

We took a week off amongst a HOT and HUMID couple of weeks, so let's get all caught back up as we embark on the August swing of the season!

A frustrating weekend for some....for others it was a glorious weekend! What shenanigans do we have in store for a HOT weekend coming up?

Finally all back together....somewhat after a busy week on the Dakota Classic Modified Tour! That transitioned into a normal, busy weekend on the local tracks!

An update on this last weekend and how the Dakota Classic Modified Tour is looking heading into championship night!

A little bit different of a format for the episode this week as we start to gear up for the Dakota Classic Modified Tour!

Only one person got to see some racing LIVE and in-person...and we tried stalling for Jon to join us...

A theme for the year seems to be Mother Nature impending doom on racetracks throughout the summer but at least she gaves us a busy weekend to recap for mid-June!

Mid-week racing has us all jumbled up for this episode and we have another week of racing for 5 potential race nights once again! Enjoy the chaos!

What happens on a week where Mason is the one with the least amount of track time? Find out as we finally have A LOT of racing to talk about!

Normally Memorial Day weekend is one of the busiest for racing during the summer. Mother Nature abbreviated a lot of that action but the places that did have racing, there was a LOT going on!

Week 3 for the Track Packers was sort of sparse thanks to Mother Nature but we got enough racing in to carry us into a big racing weekend!

Second full weekend of racing in the Upper Midwest is complete and we took in a lot of racing action with some good car counts and lots of fans packing the track!

We finally got some racing going for 2024! All four of us got to experience the dirt flying for the first time, even if it wasn't ideal conditions!

Same story, different week. Will we see racing this upcoming weekend?

It seems that Mother Nature provides great weather during the work week but not so much when we want to have fun at the dirt track! Will we be able to talk some racing in the next week?

We got our test and tune session in! Now we just need somewhere to race! The countdown to the race season continues with some takeaways from a busy practice day in Mandan, and we check out some cool paint schemes once again!

We are (fingers crossed) just about a week away from our race season kicking off! We highlight some of our favorite paint schemes released as the first race approaches!

We discuss the latest schedule updates, get to know Scotty Gartner, and look forward to the start of the racing season in just about one month!

Lot of racing in Florida both watched in person and on TV and recap a bunch of it plus highlight some of the racing coming up in our local region!

The Track Packers return for another season discussing some of the winter racing and schedule releases that have already been announced in 2024!

In our final episode of 2023, we take a look back at some of the fun moments of the year and highlight some standout drivers!

This week we highlight the top drivers from the area on a state and national level, and tackle a TOUGH set of classes for our top 10 power rankings!

Took a few week off with all sorts of busyness and we're catching up on all the shenanigans from the last few weeks!

Tackling a few more classes in ND for our 2023 Power Rankings with some NASCAR shenanigans sprinkled in!

One last race took place over the weekend and we start to recap the 2023 season with some Power Rankings for classes across the state of North Dakota!

The final race of the 2023 season in North Dakota got completed and we recap and start to reflect on the end of a busy year in this week's episode!

A lot of cars showed up for the abbreviated Oktoberfest which had a lot of action! We recap it all and preview the 52nd Annual Jamestown Stock Car Stampede!

Mother Nature gave us a little break before the last few big events of 2023!

Lots of great things to take away from this year's running of the WISSOTA 100! A lot of great racing and great improvements made!

Another round of invitiationals have leadup to the WISSOTA 100 taking place and we recap it all plus highlight some of the racers down at the IMCA Supernationals!

Labor Day Weekend is in the books with a lot of great racing! Enjoy our fun episode with a bit of sarcasm mixed in throughout the show!

We're gearing up for invitational and special season! Enjoy the ride as we are all together in one location for this week's podcast!

The Track Packers recap the last couple of weekends of racing and preview some of the remaining weekly racing shows before we get into the year-end and invitiational season!