By Jim Moc
Rockford, IL- (Spl.) - Rockford Speedway has set Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 25, 26 and 27, as the dates for the 33rd Annual Winston National Short Track Championships.

The feature event for the traditional post-season stock car 'happening" will be the NASCAR RE-MAX Challenge Series 300 on Sunday the 27th.

All of Rockford's NASCAR Winston Racing Series divisions will take part in the "one great racing weekend" along with many other classes yet to be announced.

September 3, 1998; Rockford, IL - The 300-lap RE/MAX Challenge Series race, the main event of the 33rd Annual Winston National Short Track Championships at Rockford Speedway, has been named the "Mobil Speedpass 300"

Agreement was reached Monday, August 31st, between Rockford Speedway, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Kelley Williamson Mobil on Kelly-Williamson's sponsorship of the September 27th race, the feature race of the annual three-day (Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 25, 26, 27) post-season stock car racing special.

Special; Rockford, IL - WREX-TV 13 will present the Winston "No Bull" Night of Thrills at Rockford Speedway on Saturday Night, September 19th.

The champions of the NASCAR Roadrunner, Winged Women-On-Wheels, Jammin' Slammer divisions and the Roadrunner Challenge Series will be determined in their final points races of the 1998 season.

Special; Rockford, IL - It's fall and time for the 'grandfather" of all post-season stock car racing specials, the 33rd Anniversary Winston National Short Track Championships at Rockford Speedway.

The NASCAR RE/MAX Challenge Series "stars and cars", Mid-American Stock Cars, NASCAR Winston Racing Series late-models, American Race Trucks and seven other divisions of cars will provide the racing action, Thursday through Sunday, September 24th - 27th.

Special; Rockford, IL - Rockford Speedway will host the National Championships for the Miniature Motorsports Racing Association Cars and the Short Track Championships for the INEX Legend Cars on Saturday and Sunday, October 3rd and 4th.

They will both be part of the 2nd Annual Little Car Nationals. But they won't be alone. Also on the two-day racing schedule are the Formula Indy Racing Association, Dwarf Cars, 440 Modifieds, Junior Motorsports, Allison Legacy Series cars, Rascal Outlaws and Baby Grand Stock Cars.

By Jim Moc
April 26, 1998; Rockford, IL -Bobby Wilberg won the NASCAR Winston Racing Series 40-lap main event for NASCAR Late-model stock cars at Rockford Speedway on Saturday night. It was the first feature win of the season for the Ordfordville, WI driver who is the division's 1997 season champion.

"We plan on being here a lot more", said Wilberg after taking the lead on the 14th lap and taking the checkered a third of a lap ahead of runner-up Steve Rubeck of Monroe Center. Wilberg also scored his first heat win of the season earlier in the program.