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Berlin Raceway

Berlin Raceway & Entertainment Complex

0.4375 mi · 7/16 mile
Length
Asphalt
Surface
13° / 9°
Banking turns / str
Est. 1950
Opened
Supermodified Heritage

ISMA Supermodifieds at Berlin Raceway

Great Lakes Classic (two-night July weekend)

First Event
1999-06-19
Winner: Russ Wood
Defining Streak
Chris Perley 5 consecutive wins 2002-2009
Recent Winners
  • Mike McVetta 2024 2025
  • Kyle Edwards 2024 Friday
  • Otto Sitterly 2023
Open-Wheel Heritage

Every open-wheel series to run here

USSA Kenyon Midget Series
2022-present
Returns midgets to Berlin after 60+ year absence
500 Sprint Car Tour
2020s
non-winged sprint car pavement
Must See Racing
2011-2024
Track record: 12.513s Brian Gerster 2018
winged sprint car pavement
USAC Silver Crown
Tanner Swanson (2010)
Only Silver Crown visit, brother Kody 2nd
USAC Midgets
1956-early 1960s
Winners: George Amick 1956, Parnelli Jones
History

The story of the track

  1. 1966Track paved (asphalt)
  2. 1973Covered grandstands destroyed by fire
  3. 1990Track repaved
  4. 2012Track temporarily covered in clay for dirt events
  5. ARCA/MARC first raced at Berlin in 1958; two races in 1958-1959; intermittent through 1973; returned 1986; consistent 1999-present with gaps
  6. Won 2021 Advance Auto Parts Track Challenge $50,000 award

    Beat Hudson Speedway (NH) and Alaska Raceway Park

  7. TraditionOttawa County Sheriff's Department patrolled track grounds on horseback to maintain order

    Early operation period (mid-twentieth century)

  8. TraditionRace winners picked up the checkered flag from the flagman and made a slow victory lap holding it

    Early operation period

Ownership

Who has run Berlin Raceway

Mysliwiec family
1950–2001
West Michigan Whitecaps
2001–2008
Michael Blackmer
2008–2011
DBD Ventures / Don & Minnie DeWitt
2011–present
Records

Track records

chuck-barnes-jr
2004-06-20
16.306s
troy-underwood
AVSS · 2004-09-11
12.947s
121.789 mph
Recognition

Promoter honors

MSPA Promoter of the Year
2023
Jeff Streigle
MSPA Promoter of the Year
2022
Jeff Streigle
MSPA Promoter of the Year
2005
How we know this · Trackside Topics

Every fact on this page is drawn from Stroom's trust-scored knowledge graph and traced to its source — primarily Trackside Topics, Wikipedia ARCA races at Berlin. Spot something off? Corrections are public and tracked.