Track Packers Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mason Aaron's Racing Videos
This is a new show that will be appearing during the 2022 racing season with the help of dirt racing fanatics Becca, Jon, Jessup, and Mason from North Dakota as they discuss dirt track racing in the upper midwest!
Down to the last few races for 2025 with an important weekend for some of our locals in the INEX Legends!
Even with Mother Nature creating issues, we got the 54th Jamestown Stock Car Stampede in the books!
Continuing to send thoughts and prayers out to Laine Schwehr on a full recovery after this past weekend. #56Strong
Another week, another big event! We recap the WISSOTA 100 and preview the Jamestown Stock Car Stampede!
Coming off the Seitz Memorial and Supernationals, the big races just keep on coming! We preview the WISSOTA 100 taking place this week!
In the midst of an already busy special week, we look back at Labor Day Weekend and look ahead to the big races coming up this weekend while Supernationals is taking place!
A full weekend full of memorial races, high heel races, and a lot of clean and green action!
A LOT of cars took to the track at a couple of events this past week! Even with Mother Nature throwing curveballs!
We're back after a week off to recap some big doubleheaders and all the racing that brought us from July now into August!
We were wingin' it this week...in more ways than one! Quite a bit of racing to cover on a busy July weekend!
We're coming off a busy week on the Dakota Classic Modified tour along with a rare FULL weekend of racing in the Upper Midwest!
While the Pelkeys are off on the Dakota Classic Modified Tour, Jon and Mason recap the other races they attended over the 4th of July, plus take a look a national points in the WISSOTA ranks!
We're chasing storms and racing this week! Mother Nature is really interrupting the racing season as we hit July!
Well it's a one-sided Track Packer Report this week as Mother Nature created chaos across the region...thoughts and prayers out to all those affected and recovering from the recent storms!
North Dakota was the main area that was spared from Mother Nature's wrath this past weekend...hopefully all the surrounding areas can get some racing in soon!
We had to dodge some weather at points throughout the weekend but plenty of #TrackPacking to talk about!
On the brink of a hectic week of racing, especially in North Dakota, we embark on a busy June with some good racing to recap!
Little late in the week...but we got Memorial Day weekend in the rearview mirror with a ton of racing to cover and lots more to come!
Well....not much racing happened this last weekend...hopefully this Memorial Day weekend will make up for that!
An even warmer week greeted us this past week and we got to quite a few races throughout the weekend as we hit the halfway point of May!
An oddly warm week greeted us to kick off May for dirt track racing with a lot of action along the way!
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!
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!
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!
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!
The Track Packers take advantage of a bit of a lull in the racing action by highlighting the point standings for every track in the state of North Dakota!
We take a week off and.....lots happened or didn't happen. Find out what's been going on lately in the dirt racing world and the Track Packers on a fun and crazy episode!
As we continue to navigate the summer, racing is going strong with several races taking place during the work week, and we recap a bunch of racing specificially "Hell Week" of the Street Stock Tour!
We're recovering from a busy week following the Dakota Classic Modified Tour and highlight the other tours taking place around the region! July is still in full swing!
We are in the midst of the 34th Annual Dakota Classic Modified Tour and all of us have been busy following it! We give a mid-week update on the tour and talk about some of the cool things from the tour so far!
It's also our 50th episode! Thank you SO MUCH for all the support!
The long holiday weekend has come and gone with plenty of racing, and we make our final preview and predictions for the upcoming 34th Annual Dakota Classic Modified Tour!
Mother Nature almost had a complete sweep of the weekend but we had fun covering the racing that took place on the weekend leading up into the 4th of July holiday!
While Mother Nature wreaked havoc for some, we put on the miles in this week's episode highlighting the Moonshine Mod Tour races and other races around the region!
We make some predictions and highlight some drivers to watch for the Wissota Auto Racing National points in each division!
Mid-summer is upon us with the first wave of big races, previewing more of the tours and races coming up and some faces we'll see in our neck of the woods!
The Track Packers recap for the first set of special races in the Upper Midwest and preview some more BIG upcoming races!
Memorial Day weekend has come and gone with up to five nights of racing that one could attend. We break down the action we saw and highlights some cool and fun aspects of the early 2023 race season!
The Track Packers discuss the first full weekend's worth of racing in the upper Midwest and preview a very, very busy Memorial Day Weekend!
Mother Nature almost got the clean sweep this weekend, but we broke down the few races in the region that took place, take a couple trips down memory lane and give a live update on races that were taking place while recording the show!
The Track Packers break down opening weekend from North Dakota and beyond for 2023! Excited that the race season has finally started!
The month of May is here, the weather is improving, and we finally are ready to get racing going in 2023 for our region! The Track Packers breakdown the upcoming weekend of racing, and what the biggest headlines are heading into the season!
Racing is still in a holding pattern in the Upper Midwest so the Track Packers scheme up some more cars up and preview some of the improvements at the local tracks and new cars heading into the 2023 season!
The Track Packers continue to wait out the late winter and talk about the importance of pre-season activities such as car shows and test n' tunes. We also put our designs to the test and share what we like to see in paint schemes on racecars!
Well since we seem to have more time on our hands this spring, we have a fun discussion on what might the perfect race night be on a typical race weekend! Plus WISSOTA has come out with some big changes to their pinnacle race, and we talk about some of our favorite schemes that have recently been released!
Big THANK YOU to our presenting sponsor Hitch Harness for jumping on-board with us for the 2023 season! Head over to www.HitchHarness.com to check out their products!
While winter tries to hang around as long as it can in the upper Midwest, the Track Packers discuss some special events coming up in 2023, some cool paint schemes, and what we are keeping our eyes on heading into the season!
While the weather is really hindering our anticipation for dirt track racing, we reminisce over some of our favorite racing videos games growing up and talk about some of the rumors we have heard for the regional drivers heading into the 2023 season!
The Track Packers reminisce over their recent trip to Florida and discuss the pros and cons of being at the track vs. watching from home!
Thank you to Hitch Harness for their sponsorship this season!
Link for Leighton Strong T-Shirts:
https://outlawgraphix.printavo.com/merch/leightonstrong?fbclid=IwAR0jc0M4iLNiaKHDng-IUqH4hwGvnsYuP6qW1QiZAFEMXIgVcTz_whb7FoE
Our regional drivers continue to have success in the winter months and with NASCAR starting back up for 2023, we discuss some innovative ways to try and get new fans to the track while maintaining traditions.
The Track Packers discuss some of the wrecks from the early races in 2023 that remind us of how we need to be prepared for these tough situations in our sport.
The Track Packers return for Season 2 and we kick things off with some resolutions and discuss some winter racing for several of our regional drivers!
The Track Packers talk about some of their wish list items racing-wise heading into next year and beyond, plus touch on some of the racing going on during the late fall/early winter!
The Track Packers reminisce about the 2022 season and give out awards in various categories!
The Track Packers discuss the happenings of this weekend both regionally and on a national level as the racing is wrapping up around the region.
The Track Packers were all on hand for the final race in North Dakota for the 2022 season. We discuss that and also start brainstorming ideas for 2023!
The Track Packers recap the 51st Annual Jamestown Stock Car Stampede and preview Oktoberfest as the season winds down!
The Track Packers discuss the WISSOTA 100 and preview the 51st Annual Jamestown Stock Car Stampede!
The Track Packers discuss some HUGE events from the past weekend including Supernationals & the Seitz Memorial, plus preview the WISSOTA 100 and discuss our thoughts on longer races!
The Track Packers discuss a very full weekend of racing that included the first set of Specials & Invitationals across the region, and preview some of the events coming up!
The Track Packers recap several of the championship battles in the state, preview a few more, and highlight the INEX Legends in the state of North Dakota before embarking on special and invitational season!
The Track Packers set up the stage for some of the tracks that are wrapping up season points this weekend with a lot of tight battles all over the state of North Dakota!
The Track Packers discuss some of the tight points battles taking place on a local and regional level in the Upper Midwest as the intensity is ramping up for the close of the regular season for 2022!
The Track Packers talk about how track points should be coming into focus and what we can do to get people to the tracks in August!
Some big races took place this past week! The Track Packers recap the big races and also discuss if some events should rotate locations or not!
The Track Packers were spread out this last weekend and are gearing up for some big races in North Dakota and Wisconsin!
The Track Packers recap the Dakota Classic Modified Tour and talk about the busyness of July and if we could all use a break!
The Track Packers give a mid-week update from the Dakota Classic Modified & Stock Car Tour and touch on some other touring events from a big weekend in this shorter episode!
The Track Packers reflect on the life and racing career of Modified standout Casey Arneson who passed away this last weekend and recap the 4th of July weekend before a big weekend of racing hits the Upper Midwest!
The Track Packerd discuss the racing action during a prototypical Midwest summer weather weekend and preview the Dakota Classic Modified and Stock Car Tour!
The Track Packers discuss some hot button topics going on over this summer of racing and preview some of the series and events coming up in this third full week of June!
The Track Packers discuss a full weekend worth of racing with some big events and also a discussion on weekday racing!
The Track Packers discuss some of the bigger events in ND/MN, thoughts on the treatment of support classes at bigger events, and more!
After weather finally gave us a full weekend of racing, The Track Packers discuss some of the happenings and shenanigans that we encountered during the Memorial Day weekend!
With weather finally giving us a good weekend outlook, the Track Packers set the stage for one of the biggest racing weekends of the year and touch on some of the racing that has taken place so far in 2022!
The Track Packers discuss the fallout and potential impact of an even later start to dirt track racing in the upper Midwest!
The Track Packers discuss the racing adventures in the Upper Midwest from the first full-ish weekend of racing!
The Track Packers discuss some of the drivers to watch in the upper Midwest as we begin the 2022 racing season!
The Track Packers discuss the role media plays in racing and why it's a great way for people to get more involved in the sport!
The Track Packers discuss the layout of National Points in the IMCA, INEX, and WISSOTA sanctions and how it affects local racing in the upper Midwest.
With National Sprint Car day this past weekend, the Track Packers focus on Sprint Car racing in the upper Midwest and the importance it has on dirt track racing as a whole!
The Track Packers Podcast πis back to kick-off Season 1! Today we do a deep book review on likely the most famous book of dirt track racing: "If I Ran the Race Track" by Everyone on the Internet. Thanks for joining in on the fun! π
Welcome to the Track Packers Podcast! This is the "Hot Laps" episode in which you will get to know the four hosts, and set the stage for the dirt racing season!