Name: Eugene Gregorich

Nickname: The Professor

Age: 49

Division: IMCA Stockcar

Car Number: 8G

1. Who was your favorite driver growing up?
Dale Earnhardt

2. Most memorable moment in racing?
Winning a double feature. Won the main in my Mod and then drove my brother John’s Stockcar. I was spun by Rod Snellenberger mid way through the race, I did a 360 spin and kept going and passed Rod and Tim McCormick to win feature win.

3. What’s your favorite food?
Turkey and Gravy

4. What do you drive for a street vehicle?
Pontiac Sunfire, that I think is a Corvette Z06

5. What or who got you into racing?
My brother John wanted to go racing, so we both teamed up and built cars

6. How many years have you been racing?
21

7. Most forgettable moment in racing?
Painting my modified pink…it only lasted for one night

8. Who is your biggest rival/competition?
Todd Dart

9. What’s your favorite movie?
Die Hard

10. If you weren’t racing, what hobby would you have?
Fishing

11. What was your first car number?
4

12. Where was your first race at?
Luxemburg Speedway

13. What is your favorite music group or band?
Fergie

14. First memory in racing?
Having the water pump break right off the engine of my enduro car

15. How did you pick your current number?
When I was #3 my daughter came out in the garage and asked if I was going to be #4 next year cause she was going to be 4 years old. So every year I change my car number to match her age.

16. What is your favorite race track?
ThunderHill Raceway

17. What divisions have you raced in?
Mod, Stockcar, Sport Mod, Street Stock, Asphalt Modified and Super Late Model

18. What type of driver are you?
Patient

19. What type of track do you prefer?
Wide 1/3 mile and dry slick

20. Why do you race?
The competition, to be able to build something that’s faster than the next guy. And the accomplishment of knowing I built it myself. Plus it gets me out of the house.

Nickname:

Age: 18

Division: IMCA Hobby Stock

Car Number: 44

1. Who was your favorite driver growing up?
My dad, N.E.W. Super Stock driver Dennis Weidner

2. Most memorable moment in racing?
Becoming the 2008 IMCA Hobby Stock Rookie of The Year

3. What’s your favorite food?
Ice Cream

4. What do you drive for a street vehicle?
1992 Chevy S10 and 1978 Chevy ½ ton

5. What or who got you into racing?
My dad, working on all of his racecars, he promised me if I kept helping him he would get me a car.

6. How many years have you been racing?
2009 is my 3rd year

7. Most forgettable moment in racing?
Totaling my dads Street Stock

8. Who is your biggest rival/competition?
Anyone on the track

9. What’s your favorite movie?
Smokey and The Bandit

10. If you weren’t racing, what hobby would you have?
I really have no idea

11. What was your first car number?
44

12. Where was your first race at?
ThunderHill Raceway

13. What is your favorite music group or band?
George Strait

14. First memory in racing?
Powder Puff race in 2005

15. How did you pick your current number?
Same as my dads

16. What is your favorite race track?
ThunderHill Raceway

17. What divisions have you raced in?
Bomber and IMCA Hobby Stock

18. What type of driver are you?
Patient

19. What type of track do you prefer?
Smooth and tacky

20. Why do you race?
To spend time with my family and to have fun

Name: Dennis Weidner

Age: 44

Division: NEW Super Stock

Car Number: 44

1. Who was your favorite driver growing up?
Jerry Wagner

2. Most memorable moment in racing?
My first career feature win in 2008

3. What’s your favorite food?
Ice Cream

4. What do you drive for a street vehicle?
92’ Chevy 1500

5. What or who got you into racing?
Enduros & My father

6. How many years have you been racing?
12 years

7. Most forgettable moment in racing?
When my daughter totaled my street stock!

8. Who is your biggest rival/competition?
Jeremy “Weeds” Wiitala

9. What’s your favorite movie?
Smokey & The Bandit

10. If you weren’t racing, what hobby would you have?
Ride my Harley

11. What was your first car number?
44

12. Where was your first race at?
ThunderHill Raceway

13. What is your favorite music group or band?
Alabama

14. First memory in racing?
Third night in the Bomber Class, made the feature through the consi with a 40 car field

15. How did you pick your current number?
The car came with it and was Jerry Wagner’s number-one of my favorites

16. What is your favorite race track?
ThunderHill Raceway

17. What divisions have you raced in?
Bomber & NEW Super Stock

18. What type of driver are you?
Clean and Patient

19. What type of track do you prefer?
Dry Slick

20. Why do you race?
Family Fun- 3 generations of racing working together on our cars

Name: Jarred VanLaanen
Age: 24
Division: IMCA HOBBY STOCK
Hometown: GREEN BAY
Car Number: 31

Who was your favorite driver growing up?
TERRY BALDRY

Most memorable moment in racing?
MY FIRST CARREER FEATURE WIN AT THUNDERHILL AND THEN CHILTON 2007

What’s your favorite food?
CHEESEBURGER WITH CHEESE CURDS

What do you drive for a street vehicle?
2000 Chevy Silverado 2500 AND 1997 PONTIAC GRAND AM

What or who got you into racing?
FRED AND DAN DAVISTER

How many years have you been racing?
6 IN HOBBYS AND 2 IN STREET STOCK AND SPORT TRUCK

Most forgettable moment in racing?
NOT LISTENING TO THE “FAST” GUYS WHEN I STARTED

Who is your biggest rival/competition?
TOM BRUMLIC, CHAD KAMINSKI, MARCUS MOEDE

What’s your favorite movie?
DAYS OF THUNDER AND TALLADEGA NIGHTS

If you weren’t racing, what hobby would you have?
FISHING

What was your first car number?
31

Where was your first race at?
LUXEMBURG SPEEDWAY

What is your favorite music group or band?
ALABAMA

First memory in racing?
THINKING THESE GUYS ARE CRAZY WHEN DAN DAVISTER LET ME RACE HIS SPORT TRUCK

How did you pick your current number?
IT WAS MY DAD AND HIS BUDDY’S FIRST NUMBER ON A LATE MODEL THAT THEY OWNED AT WIR WHICH GARY RAEBORN DROVE

What is your favorite race track?
CHILTON AND SEYMOUR

What divisions have you raced in?
STREET STOCK, SPORT TRUCK, AND IMCA HOBBY

What type of driver are you?
CONSISTENT

What type of track do you prefer?
DRY SLICK PUT IT IN THE DRIVER’S HANDS

Why do you race?
IT’S IN MY BLOOD AND I GREW UP WATCHING MY DAD WORK ON A FEW SUPER LATES WITH HIS BUDDY

Name: Casey Groessl

Nickname: Vin Griesel, Hollywood

Age: 22

Division: IMCA Stockcar

Hometown: Algoma

Car Number: 20

1. Who was your favorite driver growing up?
Buck Schmelzer

2. Most memorable moment in racing?
My first ever night of racing, rolling over on the backstretch and destroying the car.

3. What’s your favorite food?
Orange Chicken

4. What do you drive for a street vehicle?
2005 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD

5. What or who got you into racing?
Watching my Uncle Buck growing up and The Bouche Family

6. How many years have you been racing?
6 years, but it seems a lot longer!

7. Most forgettable moment in racing?
2007 breaking 5 transmissions! We later found out it wasn’t the transmissions that were bad, but the gears that were bad causing a bad vibration breaking the transmission cases.

8. Who is your biggest rival/competition?
Dave Bouche

9. What’s your favorite movie?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1&3

10. If you weren’t racing, what hobby would you have?
A lot more Hunting and Fishing.

11. What was your first car number?
20

12. Where was your first race at?
ThunderHill Raceway

13. What is your favorite music group or band?
Chasin Mason

14. First memory in racing?
(see question 2)

15. How did you pick your current number?
I wore #20 since 5th grade basketball & Tyler Vanlanen also wore #20 he was a guy that I looked up to when I was young.

16. What is your favorite race track?
Seymour Super Speedway

17. What divisions have you raced in?
IMCA Hobby Stocks & IMCA Stockcar

18. What type of driver are you?
Mostly Angry

19. What type of track do you prefer?
Right before it goes dry, where there’s just a little bit of tack left

20. Why do you race?
Cause I’m not very smart, for all the money we stick into the cars. But it keeps me out of trouble. I tried to quit once and but I just came back. And it keeps me very busy.

Who was your favorite driver growing up?
Aaron the Hammer Thornton

Most memorable moment in racing?
The night I passed my back-up car for the feature lead in 2007. Right after I passed it, my buddy rolled it over.

What’s your favorite food?
Pizza

What do you drive for a street vehicle?
Chevy Silverado

What or who got you into racing?
Aaron Thornton

How many years have you been racing?
4

Most forgettable moment in racing?
When I ran out of gas on last lap championship night last year. It cost me a spot in final points

Who is your biggest rival/competition?
Who ever is in front of me

What’s your favorite movie?
Dumb and Dumber

If you weren’t racing, what hobby would you have?
Restoring a hot rod

What was your first car number?
24

Where was your first race at?
Thunderhill Raceway

What is your favorite music group or band?
Nickelback

First memory in racing?
When the hatch on my ford probe came up during a heat that I was leading.. I won it

How did you pick your current number?
It’s the number of my favorite football player Emmitt Smith

What is your favorite race track?
tie… thunderhill/chilton

What divisions have you raced in?
just “feisty 4′s”

What type of driver are you?
I like to make a quick move at the start and then get patient

What type of track do you prefer?
Any!

Why do you race?
I’m very competitive and I love winning

Name: David Bouche

Nickname:

Age: 37

Division: IMCA Stockcar

Car Number: 21

1. Who was your favorite driver growing up?
John Gregorich

2. Most memorable moment in racing?
Winning 2 track titles in 1995 in the Street Stocks

3. What’s your favorite food?
Pizza

4. What do you drive for a street vehicle?
1994 GMC Truck

5. What or who got you into racing?
Gregorich boys gave me a Street Stock

6. How many years have you been racing?
19

7. Most forgettable moment in racing?
LOTS!!!

8. Who is your biggest rival/competition?
“Chargin” Charlie Kroll

9. What’s your favorite movie?
American Graffiti

10. If you weren’t racing, what hobby would you have?
Riding my Harley

11. What was your first car number?
52 opposite number of my Uncle Tony Bouche

12. Where was your first race at?
Luxemburg Speedway

13. What is your favorite music group or band?
Queen

14. First memory in racing?
1981 time trials “sucked”

15. How did you pick your current number?
Brad Anderegg was 21 when he was in the Street Stock Division.

16. What is your favorite race track?
ThunderHill Raceway

17. What divisions have you raced in?
Bomber, Street Stock, IMCA Stockcar, IMCA Mod

18. What type of driver are you?
Out to have fun

19. What type of track do you prefer?
Dry or Sloppy

20. Why do you race?
After 19 years of racing a lot of people are like family, and the new friends I make from year to year, is the reason I race.

Name: Marcus Moede

Age: 28

Division: IMCA Hobby Stock

Hometown: Luxemburg

Car Number: 9

Who was your favorite driver growing up?

Charlie Kroll

Most memorable moment in racing?

Winning the last chance race and making the show at the 2007 IMCA Supernationals.

What’s your favorite food?

Pizza

What do you drive for a street vehicle?

2001 FordF250 and a 1996 Grand Am

What or who got you into racing?

Me and my brother Derek started racing the same time

How many years have you been racing?

7 years

Most forgettable moment in racing?

Leading Luxemburg feature hoping to get my 1st feature win and my ball joint broke without hitting anything.

Who is your biggest rival/competition?

Used to be Dave DeGrave.

What’s your favorite movie?

Days of Thunder

If you weren’t racing, what hobby would you have?

what else is there?

What was your first car number?

9

Where was your first race at?

Thunderhill Raceway

What is your favorite music group or band?

anything country.

First memory in racing?

taking my brother Derek out in the bomber division.

How did you pick your current number?

I wanted #8 but Derek had it so i picked 9

What is your favorite race track?

Luxemburg Speedway

What divisions have you raced in?

IMCA Hobby Stock, IMCA stock car

What type of driver are you?

Aggressive

What type of track do you prefer?

Dry Slick because it brings out the driver and not the horsepower.

Why do you race?

Because its in my blood.

Name: Adam Pallex

Age: 23

Division: IMCA Hobby Stock

Hometown: Algoma

Car Number: 23

Who was your favorite driver growing up?
Tony Bouche

Most memorable moment in racing?
The first time fans came up to me and asked for my autograph.

What’s your favorite food?
Noodles and tomato juice mixed with ring bologna

What do you drive for a street vehicle?
1999 Chevy 2500 Pickup truck

What or who got you into racing?
Tony Bouche-and the trailer race of destruction

How many years have you been racing?
This is my first year racing.

Most forgettable moment in racing?
Foot falling of my gas pedal my first night racing.

Who is your biggest rival/competition?
Anyone in front of me.

What’s your favorite movie?
Hell Ride

If you weren’t racing, what hobby would you have?
Riding my motorcycle!

What was your first car number?
23

Where was your first race at?
Luxemburg Speedway

What is your favorite music group or band?
Dwight Yoakum

First memory in racing?
Smashing through a boat during the trailer race of destruction

How did you pick your current number?
It’s the same as my Golden Birthday and I wanted a number between Tony and Dave Bouche.

What is your favorite race track?
Madden Raceway

What divisions have you raced in?
IMCA Hobby Stock

What type of driver are you?
Aggressive

What type of track do you prefer?
Slick

Why do you race?
Because when I’m old, wrinkled and grey I can say I did it.

Name: Dave DeGrave

Nickname: “The Hammer”

Age: 25

Division: IMCA Stock Car

Car Number: 40d

Website: degraveracing.com

Who was your favorite driver growing up?
Freddie “Andretti” Davister

Most Memorable moment in racing?
Winning 4 Features in a row at Luxemburg and winning the 2008 Luxemburg Track Championship, which was my goal since I started racing.

What’s your favorite food?
Lasagna

What do you drive for a street vehicle?
Which one? I mostly drive my Cavalier Z-24 or my 85′ Grand Prix.

What or who got you into racing?
A combination of my brother’s friends Jeremy Jacobs and Shawn Kilgore and helping out Marcus and Derek Moede.

How many years have you been racing?
6, with this being my rookie season in the stock cars

Most forgettable moment in racing?
Hitting the wall head on opening night of the 2008 Badger State Showdown

Who is your biggest rival/competition?
Right now it would be Ben Kroll. But me and Eddie “The Eagle” had many run ins in the hobby stock.

What is your favorite movie?
Tommy Boy

If you weren’t racing, what hobby would you have?
I would finish restoring my old muscle cars and burn rubber on Sundays!

What was your first car number?
#40

Where was your first race at?
Thunderhill Raceway in 2004

What is your favorite music group or band?
Metallica

First memory in racing?
My 1st feature win at Luxemburg

How did you pick your current number?
Well, I always wanted to be number 4 because it is my favorite number and I’m a die hard Brett Favre fan, but it was already taken so I put a 0 after it.

What is your favorite race track?
Luxemburg Speedway and Marshalltown, IA

What divisions have you raced in?
IMCA Hobby Stock, IMCA Sport Mod, IMCA Stock Car

What type of driver are you?
I’m very aggressive and race hard from the drop of the green flag to the checker.

What type of track do you prefer?
Tacky and smooth

Why do you race?
It feeds the competitive fire that I have and it’s a complete adrenaline rush!