Kelsi Pederson's Switch to a Late Model Brings the Family Together

Kelsi Pederson's switch to a late model brings the family together

GRAND FORKS — Joey Pederson has been racing late models at River Cities Speedway for 35 years. This summer is going to be different than the others. His two children, Tucker and Kelsi, will be racing against him in the late model division for the first time. Tucker switched from a street stock to a late model last summer. Kelsi is moving from a lightning sprint to a late model this season. "I just felt like I was up for a challenge, learning som…

Go West, Young Woman

DALLAS (April 16, 2025) – McKenna Haase has always blazed her own trail en route to becoming a professional sprint car racer. But after more than a decade of traversing a dirt-covered career path, the 28-year-old has decided to pave that path with asphalt. Haase is making a career change from 900-horsepower sprint cars to pavement-pounding late model stock cars. It is a vastly different discipline in a vastly different environment, and Haase is …