Trokan Cup 500 - Mini Milwaukee Mile - Greendale, WI

September 4, 2025

Round 1 of 17

Hayek Is Back!

Matt Hayek put on a dominant performance: fastest qualifier, most heat laps took his #15 FAST II: The Castaways Honda-Daboiler to the win, dueling with seven-time champion Mike Lack right down to the checkers to take the win, signaling he's back to form after a 2-year win drought. Mike Lack once again runs strong but falls just short of the win. John Wiedemann, despite a late crash, held tight to the final podium spot. Spehert continues his solid oval streak, while Margetta impresses with his climb up the order.

On the flip side, Pete Dorn and  Steve Rist were sidelined by crashes, and Bill Black’s go-or-go-home bid ended unexpectedly in the qualifiers.

Trokan Cup 500 Fast Facts

Race date: Thursday, Sep 4

Track: Mini Milwaukee Mile, 1 mile bull-ring oval in Greendale, WI

Race distance: 500 laps

IndySlotCar Website: indyslotcar.com

2024 race winner:  Joe Heitz (No. 30 White Russian Racing Honda-Daboiler)

2024 Firestone P1 Award winner:  John Wiedemann (No. 11 FAST Honda-Daboiler) 5.578 seconds

Single lap record: Ev Kamikawa, 1.102 seconds, 2006

Four-lap qualifying record: Mike Lack, 5.070 seconds, 2019

Race record: Dan Margetta, 12 minutes 39 seconds, 2020

YouTube Broadcast: IndySlotCar Channel

At-track schedule (All Times Local/Central Time):

6:00 – Gates open

6:30 – Driver introductions

7:00 – Drivers’ meeting

7:05 – IndySlotCar Series Practice

7:30 – Qualifying for the Firestone P1 Award (single car, four lap total time qualifying)

8:00 – Heat races

8:45 – Trokan Cup 500 (500 laps)

IndySlotCar Series Notes:

• The curtain rises on the 33rd IndySlotCar Series season once again at what has been the traditional opener for most of the last 20 seasons, the Mini Milwaukee Mile, Joe Heitz is the defending race winner, and Dan Margetta and Ev Kamikawa have the most wins, at four, at the HO-scale version of the local icon.

• John Wiedemann will attempt to win his third straight, fourth overall, Husarsbilt Cup championship. He joins such luminaries of the series as Larry Rotter and Jim Kaehny with three titles.

• Speaking of JW, it is still not clear what the team situation for the defending champion is, no announcement has been made public about where last year’s #11 pilot or what the line-up for the former FAST team, now split in two will be. Could this be the first time in their IndySlotCar Series careers that Wiedemann and Mike Lack are not teammates? It could be a seismic change.

• STATS WATCH: Mike Lack sits atop the all-time wins list with 56, Ev Kamikawa added five to his tally, sitting second with 52, Dan Margetta with 49. Lack matches the wins total with 56 pole positions, Margetta second with 51 and Phil Cianciola still holds third with 48, 22 years after retirement. Margetta and Kamikawa hold the top two spots in every other statistical category, followed by Mike Lack is third in Heat Wins and Finals, Mike Kristof in Starts and DNFs and John Wiedemann in Laps turned.

MINI-MILWAUKEE MILE HISTORY (30 events, 1996 - Present):

Date Race Winner Event Name Location

1/4/1996 Arnie Lueders Firestone 400 Milwaukee Mile offices

9/26/1996 Chad Sorce Ford 500 Cudahy

10/6/1997 John Baas Ford 500 (2 races in the Milwaukee Mile offices

1/8/1998 Ev Kamikawa Firestone 400      97-98 season) Milwaukee Mile offices

9/17/1998 John Baas Ford 500 Milwaukee Mile offices

10/7/1999 Ev Kamikawa Aero Race Wheels 500 Greendale – T. Spehert

9/21/2000 Phil Cianciola Aero Race Wheels 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/20/2001 Dan Margetta Aero Race Wheels 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/19/2002 Jim Iverson Chancery Restaurants 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/18/2003 Mike Kristof Krispy Kreme 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

10/21/2004 Phil Cianciola Milwaukee Mile presents the Mini Mile 500  Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/8/2005 John Shea Milwaukee Mile 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/7/2006 John Shea Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/7/2007 Chris Spehert Trokan Cup 500 presented by the Milwaukee Mile  Greendale – T. Spehert 10/2/2008* Mark Walczak Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/10/2009* Ev Kamikawa Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/23/2010* Ev Kamikawa Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/8/2011* Mark Walczak Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/6/2012* Mike Fitzlaff Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/5/2013       Mike Lack Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/3/2015 Dan Margetta Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/8/2016 Dan Margetta Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

8/31/2017 Mike Lack Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/6/2018 Tom Spehert Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/12/2019 Matt Hayek Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – T. Spehert 

9/10/2020 Dan Margetta Trokan Cup 500 Wauwatosa

9/9/2021 Chris Spehert Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – C. Spehert 

9/8/2022 Bill Black Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – C. Spehert

9/7/2023 Matt Hayek Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – C. Spehert

9/26/2024 Joe Heitz Trokan Cup 500 Greendale – C. Spehert

*- From 2008-2012 the Mini Mile was renamed RJ Foyt’s All American Raceway 

Most Wins – Ev Kamikawa, Dan Margetta-4; Matt Hayek, Chris Spehert, Mike Lack, Mark Walczak, John Shea, Phil Cianciola, John Baas-2

Previous TROKAN CUP WINNERS:

Date Race Winner Event Name Track

9/8/1997 Dave Austin Trokan Cup presented by Harley Davidson The Shrine Track

9/3/1998 Dan Margetta Trokan Cup presented by Harley Davidson The Shrine Track

9/9/1999 Dan Margetta Trokan Cup Shrine Desert Road Course

9/7/2000 Phil Cianciola Trokan Cup Shrine Desert Road Course

9/6/2001 Dan Margetta Trokan Cup presented by Harley Davidson Shrine Desert Road Course

9/5/2002 Jim Kaehny Trokan Cup Shrine Desert Road Course

9/4/2003 Larry Rotter Trokan Cup Shrine Desert Road Course