Don Brady, Sr Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2018 There are very few families that have had a lasting impact on dirt track racing more than the Brady family. Don Brady, Sr was a 3-year-old boy that had the opportunity to spend time with his dad, Lawrence, in the race shop. Even though Don's mother, Dorothy, wasn't a fan of racing, Lawrence started the Brady family legacy in a Model A Roadster in the late 1940's while living in Wessington Springs, SD. The Brady's then moved to Buffalo Trading Post, SD, from there to Hartford, SD and eventually settling in Sioux Falls, SD. After graduating from Sioux Falls Washington High School in 1963, Don began his own racing career. The second-generation driver first took the wheel in 1964 with a car built by his dad and Gene Burscheid at Madison, SD. "I thought I was going pretty good there for a while," Brady said. "But after three laps and everyone was passing me, I knew I had some work to do." By the end of that first season, Brady had become a driver that was passing cars and not being passed. Don used the experience of the 1964 season to improve for the 1965 season, and the 20-year-old Brady showed he was the man to beat. Brady piloted their family owned and built Hudson to the 1965 B-Late Model Championship at Huset's Speedway. Don got married in 1969 and he and Michele lived across the street from Ed Stutzman (Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2005). Don and Ed became good friends and Ed wanted to race. After Stutzman bought a 1962 , they proceeded to put in a good set of roll bars. When they rolled into Huset’s Speedway, track promoter Fred Buckmiller (Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 1998) gave the car a good look over. Buckmiller asked who installed the roll cage and Stutzman replied, “Brady did!” Buckmiller responded by saying, “If Brady did it, it’s going to be safe.” From the beginning of Don’s career, with the help of his dad, Glen Kenyon, Jim Sweeney and Pat Campbell, Brady continued to be a tough competitor every time the team took to the track. Whether the brand of car was a Plymouth, Dodge or Chevrolet and the class was a Stock Car, Late Model or Modified, Don would accumulate 13 Late Model feature wins and 3 B-Late Model wins at Huset's Speedway, a Late Model feature win at Brookings and a Sportsman Feature win at the Hartford Half-mile. Don retired briefly as a driver in 1978 and sold their #61 Plymouth Barracuda. Shortly thereafter, Don’s oldest son Scott talked him into buying the car back, which they did in 1980. After Don and Scott worked to put it all together to go racing, success was immediate. Don’s first race in the car that year was a victorious one, but the sport of racing can be very humbling. Following that early season win, the power plant would disintegrate four weeks later, and fellow competitors would stop by the pit after the races offering parts of his race car back after they found them in their own car, or the track, everywhere. That night would be the end of Don’s racing career for good. The racing foundation that Don, along with his father, has built is truly amazing. The Brady family is now in its fourth generation of racing. Following Lawrence and Don were sons Scott and Don, Jr and grandson Nick. "As long as there are Brady's and race cars, you'll probably find a Brady racing somewhere," Brady explains. "It's in their blood." Don is very proud of the Brady name and the family was known for good, safe cars. The success of the Brady Racing Family is proof of that.

Jerry Cunningham Huset's Speedway Class of 2018

Living in Sioux Falls, SD, Jerry Cunningham was surrounded by race cars and race teams, growing up in Norton Acres. As a young boy, Jerry would experience his first dirt track race at Soo Speedway, and the 5-year-old race fan was hooked.

Jerry's brother, Tony, worked on a race team with driver Bob Jensen. Jensen was in need to a shop to work on the car and that's when the entire Cunningham family got involved. After taking over the operation in 1965, the team chose Larry Plucker to drive their modified, and the Cunningham family would continue to build their own cars until retiring from car ownership in 1970. Even though Cunningham Racing team had ceased operation, Jerry was still a hearty fan, attending races at Huset's Speedway and other tracks from 1971 until 1974. That's when Jerry's role in the sport would drastically change. Huset's Speedway track promoter Fred Buckmiller (Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 1998) hired the 23-year-old Cunningham to take tickets at the track. Jerry would keep that job at the track until 1978, when he was promoted to an official, responsible for signing in drivers at the back gate and taking his perch in the scoring booth as an Official Scorer. Cunningham remembers his extensive training for such an important position. "They sat me down, dropped a notebook and a pen on the table and said, 'Ok Jerry, you're an Official Scorer. Score the races!'", Cunningham chuckled. "That was my extensive training." His first Official Scorer's job was with two Huset's Speedway Hall of Famers, Elmer Steifel (Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2004) and Denny Oviatt (Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2006), and paid him an amazing salary of $10 per night! A career was born.

Cunningham would go on to be one of the top and most respected dirt track officials in the upper-Midwest, scoring races at Huset's Speedway and the Sioux Empire Fair in Sioux Falls, along with tracks in Madison, Hartford and Huron, SD, Rock Rapids, Spencer and Oskaloosa IA, Jackson and Owatonna, MN and more. Jerry was also an official for youth go-kart racing in Brookings and Renner, SD and Pipestone, MN, among other tracks. He is most proud of the relationships he has built over his career, witnessing greatness from adult drivers and the future of the sport in go-karts and to have worked with three Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame announcers, Dave Dedrick (Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2003), Tom Savage (Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2008) and Denny Oviatt (Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2006).

Cunningham retired from the official scorer's role in 2004 but is still active as a photographer and is has been a member of the Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Committee, first as an adviser and as a voting member since 2016. Guy Forbrook Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2018

Written by Bob Jones with permission for use granted by Bob Baker and the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame

Guy Forbrook was born on August 20, 1962, into a racing family. His father Dick was a very successful driver whose own career was finishing just as Guy was coming of age. Guy wheeled a Sprint Car to over a dozen victories in 1984-85 at various tracks including Jackson, Minnesota, Rock Rapids, Iowa, Fairmont, Minnesota, and even five in a row at Huset's Speedway in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Guy was quickly making a name for himself in the racing community. A passenger car accident would forever change the path Guy would take in racing. The accident caused a significant spinal cord injury and led to life in a wheelchair. Following the accident, Forbrook stayed away from racing for over a year when Ron Kohls "dragged him out of the house" and convinced Guy to come to a Sprint Car race. Kohls and Forbrook would soon put together their own team and the Forbrook 5 was born.

Danny Lasoski is quick to point out that Guy's injury didn't slow him down. "Honestly, I don't even look at Guy as being disabled at all, and I mean that with all due respect. That guy can do anything he wants to. He's so hard-headed that he doesn't allow the wheelchair to get in the way of working on these cars, getting up and down the road, or anything else he does. And nobody works harder than Guy. If he wants to do something, he just figures out how to make it happen," said Lasoski.

The 1988 season was the start of a long and successful career as a mechanic, crew chief and car owner. Jerry Richert, Jr. began the season with three victories before took over driving duties, forming a partnership that would forever change the landscape of in the Midwest. Lasoski and Forbrook won an astonishing 54 races in just their first two years together, including track championships at both Knoxville and Huset's, and had victories against the and All Star Circuit of Champions.

"When I look back at the years with Danny, the more we raced the better we got. Danny is such a finesse driver that he can win anywhere, anytime. I believe he is one of the top-five ever to drive these cars - he's that good. We had a strong team with good equipment, but we won all those races because of his ability. And we survived those early years because he took care of our stuff and didn't crash. As much as we raced, if he tore up a bunch of stuff we never could have made it," said Forbrook.

In 1991, there was the first split of the Lasoski/Forbrook combination when Guy hired Jac Haudenschild to pilot the now famous Forbrook 5. Haudenschild went on to win 14 times on the way to Forbrook's third track championship. The 1992-93 seasons saw Lasoski back behind the wheel for another two dominating years. The duo combined for 47 more victories, two Knoxville Raceway track championships, a third Huset's Speedway track championship and wins across the country from California to Ohio.

Despite all their success, the two split again in 1994. Terry McCarl piloted the Forbrook 5 to ¬five wins before Johnny Herrera took over in 1995. Herrera and Forbrook won 25 features on the way to Guy's sixth Knoxville title. Lasoski was once again back in 1996 for another 21 feature wins on their way to Forbrook's seventh Knoxville track championship. "Guy and I, we are like brothers. Problem is, we fight like brothers, too. We are at our best when we're together, but we can both be too stubborn for our own good," said Lasoski.

Jac Haudenschild and the World of Outlaws came calling in 1997 in Jack Elden's famous Pennzoil 22. "Racing with Haud was always a lot of fun. You always knew he was going to give you 150% every night. He was always upbeat and had such a good attitude, win or lose. I remember the thing he'd always say when the car wasn't very good, he'd smile and say 'Maybe I just wasn't driving it hard enough,'" Forbrook laughed. "And then we'd move on to the next race. You know, that always made things a little better. Because we both knew the car wasn't good but he'd take the heat."

Forbrook and Haudenschild won six times together before Guy joined forces with in July of 1998, following Scott Gerkin's departure as crew chief. "Racing with Steve was probably the easiest job I ever had. They had such a strong team and with Steve driving the way he does, it was a lot of fun. Heck, I could've put the right rear on the left side and Steve would still run in the top-three. He was so good that it was pretty hard to screw that up," Forbrook said. Kinser visited victory lane eight times with Forbrook through the end of the '98 season on their way to the World of Outlaws championship.

The next year found Guy back at Knoxville with McCarl again in the cockpit. They found more success than their previous attempt, scoring 12 victories on their way to Forbrook's eighth Knoxville Raceway track title and his fourth at Huset's Speedway.

Guy teamed up with Jimmy Vassar in 2000 to take on the World of Outlaws with Greg Hodnett behind the wheel of the number V12. Hodnett won twice before an injury sidelined him in April, with Tyler Walker taking over the driving duties to finish the year.

In 2001, Jeff Shepard drove the Forbrook 5 to five World of Outlaws victories before Haudenschild took over in 2002 for three more WoO wins. Following a couple lean years, drove the Forbrook 5 in 2005- 06 for eight victories together, including three WoO wins at Eldora. "Sammy was the smartest guy I raced with when it came to the cars. Everything was very technical with Sammy and he understood how everything worked: the cars, motors, shocks, fuel systems... everything. It was nice to bounce ideas off Sammy because he could speak the language. And nobody was more driven to succeed. And the bigger and faster the track was, that's where Sammy shined," he said.

In 2008, Lasoski was back and the duo won five more times on their way to Forbrook's ninth Knoxville Raceway championship.

Dennis Roth hired Guy in 2009 with Tim Kaeding piloting the Roth Motorsports 83. They won nine races together. The next five seasons would find Forbrook working with Erin Crocker, JD Johnson, Mark Dobmeier and Craig Dollansky with some success, but nothing like he was used to.

Both he and Lasoski had experienced some down years leading up to 2015, but their careers were jump started when they once again joined forces. This time it was with owner Tod Quiring. "I always knew that if the right deal came along, we could win a bunch of races again. Tod gave us a chance and that's exactly what we did," he said. They won 13 races on their way to the inaugural National Sprint League championship and Forbrook's 10th Knoxville track championship.

The 2016 season was much of the same as he and Lasoski won their second NSL championship and his 11th Knoxville Raceway track title, pushing Lasoski and Forbrook's career victory totals to an astonishing 149 victories together. "When I look back, I can't help but think of the people who made it happen: Ron Kohls, Al Cole, Dan Haaland, and Larson Farms. The long-term partnerships like Jackpot Junction, who supported us from 1991-2006 and Earl Gaerte, who built all my motors from 1988-2008. There were just so many great people behind it all. The most fun I ever had racing were those early years with Ron, Al, Dennis Werner, Melvin Patterson, Dean Brown, Banzai (Dean Bruns), Dave Kinnaird, Jeff Severson ... man, those were the good times. The more we raced, the better we got and we raced a lot. We started a new team and in ¬five years’ time, had won around 120 races. That's not too bad," he smiled.

Guy Forbrook has put together a very impressive career over the past 30 years. He is best known for his success at Knoxville, including 87 victories and 11 track championships but a quick browse through his career stats ¬finds over 270 feature wins at 63 different race tracks, with drivers such as Steve Kinser, Sammy Swindell, Danny Lasoski, Jac Haudenschild, Terry McCarl, Tim Kaeding, Jeff Shepard... a virtual who's who in racing. An amazing career for an amazing driver, mechanic and car owner.

Terry Reilly Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2018

In order to have a successful racing career, you must be part of a good team. Terry Reilly got his start on a "Good" team as a 10 year old boy in Watertown, SD. Street stock driver Todd Good gave Terry his first taste of dirt track racing, working on the car during the week and joining him in the pits on race night at Casino Speedway in Watertown. In those days, the track did not let anyone under the age of 14 into the pits, but Reilly was able to manage his way in. The irony of that combination is Todd Good is now the Owner and Promoter at Casino Speedway in Watertown where Reilly got his start.

Reilly was the crew for Good for seven years and had the opportunity to be with the car nearly all the time. Good did not have a race shop, so he worked on the car and stored it in the Reilly family garage. Finally, after spending so many years as a crew member, it was time for Reilly to begin his racing career.

As a junior at Watertown High School, Terry built his first race car in the school's Industrial Arts class. He used a 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle because it had a factory 4 speed transmission. By the end of the school year, it was time to hit the dirt track, but Terry had to make a decision. He qualified for the State High School Track and Field meet in the long jump, but Terry skipped the bus ride to Sioux Falls so he could race. Needless to say, his coach did not find any humor in that decision.

His first race at Casino Speedway was in the street stock division and it was not quite what Reilly had in mind. Some of his friends congratulated him for resizing the track from a quarter mile to a half mile because he was all over the track. Even though that first outing was rough, he kept at it and continued to improve in his two year stint in the Street Stocks, eventually picking up three feature wins at Watertown, SD and one at Aberdeen, SD. This was Terry's version of post high school education as he chose to go racing and sisters Gina and Tammy went to college.

Beginning in 1987, Terry was hired by Late Model driver Lyle Gehrke delivering Agriculture Chemicals by day and trying his hand at 4 Wheeler racing. Working for a man who was a racer himself, Reilly had the opportunity to balance his work schedule and race schedule together to accomplish both and Reilly raced quads in 1987 and 1988.

In 1989, Reilly decided to come back to circle track racing, this time in a Modified. He would race the family car for one season until Jim Haney of Watertown (Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2011) came calling. For the next two seasons, Reilly would team up with Haney and drive his car with Haney's engines and his parent's truck and trailer. Their first season together in 1990 would be Reilly's first track championship, taking honors in the Modified class at Casino Speedway in Watertown, SD, with their second season together, Reilly garnered top honors in the Modified class at Hartford, SD. During the three years he drove a Modified, Reilly picked up seven wins at Watertown, SD, six feature wins at Hartford, SD and a feature win at Aberdeen, SD.

Reilly's racing career came to a crossroads following the 1991 season. Watertown business man Donnie LaQua offered an open check book for Reilly to put a Modified team together and at the same time, Jim Haney told Reilly that he wanted to get into Sprint Car racing. "If you don't want to drive my Sprint Car, I'll find someone else to," Haney said. After careful consideration, Reilly decided to stay with Haney and give Sprint Cars a whirl.

1992 was Reilly's first in a Sprint Car and the car itself had a rich history. It was a 1986 Osborne car that was owned by Doug Howells and driven by Doug Wolfgang (Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2008). Reilly was a natural in a Sprint Car in his first season. He capped off the season that year with a win on Cheater's Day at the Sioux Empire Fair Grounds, which was the final 360 Sprint Car race held at the track and next to last race ever, as the 410 sprints followed the 360s and it was the end of an era at the Fairgrounds. The Haney/Reilly combination would stay together until July of 1995, when a local Watertown businessman offered Terry his first opportunity with a 410 sprint car with all new equipment. Although it was difficult to leave the Haney team, it was a chance to advance his racing career.

Following a rain out at Knoxville that season, Reilly, along with Crew Chief Lannie Nichols decided to give Huset's Speedway a try and the opening night raised a lot of eyebrows. In the 410 sprint car feature event, Reilly led most of the race until a late race pass by Chad Mellenberndt stole the win from Terry, but second place would be a good way to begin his 410 sprint career. Incidentally, the driver that finished third that night, was . Later that season, Reilly won a heat race at the 1995 , beating such legends as Steve Kinser and in the process. Following such a successful start to his 410 racing, Reilly received votes for the National 410 Sprint Car Rookie of the Year award.

1996 would be the year that Reilly would pick up his first 410 win at Huset's Speedway, passing Todd Wessells and Randy Nygaard following a rain delay. This successful team would stay together until the 1999 season, when Reilly and Nichols would rejoin Jim Haney driving a Wolfweld chassis. The season would be a championship season for the Reilly team, as they would conquer the IMCA Jackpot Junction Sprint Car title. 1999 would also be the season that handed Reilly's most violent crash of his career.

As he was about to pass another car in turn one, he and another car made contact, sending Reilly into a series of flips, breaking ribs and losing sight in 1 eye. The car was destroyed and the frame was bent, but that didn't slow down this team. Barely able to move following that Saturday night crash in Arlington, MN, the team went back to Watertown to start repairing the car for a show Tuesday night in Lincoln, NE. Reilly was still in such pain he couldn't ride in a passenger vehicle, so the team borrowed a friend's motor home so he could lay flat for the trip. After stopping in Sioux Falls to get some adjustments on the frame from Doug Wolfgang, they made the trip to the Nebraska State Fairgrounds Speedway and the original plan was for Reilly to make a few laps to keep his points lead in the series. As the team helped him slide into the car, Reilly didn't seem to think it felt too bad, so he proceeded to race that night. All he did that night is finish second to Don Droud, Jr.

One of Reilly's fondest memories is also at Arlington Raceway. During a weekly show for the IMCA sprint cars, it was a $300 to win show and a $300 Hard Charger bonus for each event. He was scheduled to start on the pole, but asked track officials to place him in the last position for the feature and be scored as such. Race officials agreed to the request, the green flag flew and Reilly went to work. He charged through the field, finishing second that night to Curt Lund. The next week, fellow drivers heard about the Reilly request. Lund and Kent Winters also requested the rear starting spot and the three drivers had to draw for that spot. Reilly won the draw and received the last starting spot. The green flag flew again and again, Reilly went on his quest. Not only did he pick up the Hard Charger award that night, he also won the race!

Reilly considered retirement in 2003, but decided to continue racing as Reilly joined forces with Tom Wilson and ran WISSOTA sprint cars in Watertown and Madison, MN and drove for his sister and brother in law Gina and Lannie Nichols, with a car powered by Dana Beaver's engines during the 2004 and 2005 seasons. He hung up the helmet for good following a two-day show on Labor Day weekend at Huset's Speedway.

During his sprint car career, Reilly amassed 12 - 360 sprint wins, 6 - 410 sprint wins, including a NCRA 410 race at Huset's Speedway, 11 Jackpot Junction Casino Sprint Tour wins including the 1999 championship, 4 - 360 sprint wins at Hartford, SD, 1 - 360 win at Watertown, SD, Rock Rapids, IA, Madison, SD, Cheater's Day at Sioux Empire Fairgrounds in Sioux Falls, SD, and the Boone Nationals Sprint Car Championship in 2000 and 2004.

Reilly still stays involved with racing, occasionally racing in a Midwest Modified and helps his nephew Michael Nichols and his brother in law Les Schoon with their race teams. He lives with his wife Amy and family in Watertown, SD and owns Reilly Repair in Watertown. Ivan Tokle Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame Class of 2018 Ivan Tokle’s racing career began in 1952 at the “Okoboji Speed Bowl” in Milford, IA in a car built by Arlo Lenz of Milford, IA and would later venture to the newly built Jackson Speedway in Minnesota and Soo Speedway in Sioux Falls, SD. Ivan’s second car was built with the help of his brother, Lloyd, and it would be a busy weekend of racing that kept the team hopping. Thursday nights would see them race in Milford, IA, Jackson on Sunday afternoon and if there were not problems with the car, they would tow to Soo Speedway, then later Huset’s Speedway on Sunday nights. One instance, it wasn’t the problem with the race car they had to worry about, it was the tow rig. The team had to drive home from Soo Speedway in the rain with a small sheet of plywood covering the driver side of Ivan’s tow car because a loose tire from one of the race cars had bounced into the pits and hit the windshield. Ivan career spanned a dozen years, running his 1940 Willy’s with a Kaiser 6- cylinder power plant, then later, sported a Plymouth beginning in 1964. He also had numerous car owners and builders along the way, such as Arlo Lenz, who was the first owner Ivan drove for in 1952-1954, Ivan and his brother Lloyd built and drove their own car from 1955-1957, Dale Taylor of Milford, IA in 1958-1962, Lloyd “Bunny” Houseman of Estherville, IA in 1963-1965, Gene Egge at Huset’s in 1966 for just 2 shows in a 1966. In those 12 years, Tokle amassed four feature wins at Huset’s Speedway and one at Soo Speedway. Tokle was just as successful at other tracks around the area, securing the season championship at Algona, IA in 1962. Tokle's final race occurred on July 17th, 1966, where he received severe injuries in a racing accident at Fairmont Raceway. He passed away the next morning at the age of 43.