SLINGER – Carson Brown introduced himself to Wisconsin racing fans in 2025 when the precocious teen beat some of the state’s top super late model racers at Madison International Speedway.
A year later, Brown is 3 for 4 on the season in the ASA STARS National Tour with his latest win coming June 21 against the toughest competitor Slinger Speedway has seen in years.
And Brown won’t even turn 18 for another three weeks.
“We broke a rear end here [in 2025] and won at Madison, so this time we’ve won here at Slinger, so now we just have to go back to Madison and do the same thing we did last year,” Brown said after holding off Ty Majeski to win the Badger 325, the first half of the series’ Wisconsin swing.
“I feel like these northern tracks are really fun. I feel like as a driver, I’ve gotten better at them, and, yeah, hopefully we’re just getting started.”
Brown, from New London, North Carolina, led the final 114 laps around the high-banked quarter-mile as the final stage ran caution-free.
For nearly 40 of those, he had Majeski behind him looking for a way around.
Majeski, the 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion who lives in Neenah, has four Slinger Nationals titles and won the ASA Midwest Tour opener at Slinger in April. He started on the pole but fell back midrace and was as deep as seventh early in the final stage. When Majeski broke through a logjam with 80 laps to go, he closed quickly on Brown and second-place Stephen Nasse.
“By the time I got to third, I was almost four seconds back,” Majeski said. “Made up the ground, just obviously had to burn it up to get there.
“So I just kind of ran out of steam there once I got to them, and I was able to get past Stephen and get to [Brown]. Just not quite good enough to pass him the right way. I would have really, really had to move him, and I didn’t want to win it that way.”
Majeski finished .424 seconds behind, with Nasse third, Derek Kraus fourth and Kyle Steckly fifth.
“I was just running for my life, to be honest,” Brown said. “We saved a little bit, got a few lapped cars in between us there in that last stint and it felt like we were really good.
“That 91 car woke up and it was coming fast. The second I heard he was coming, I was like, I just have to go.”
The Wisconsin swing concludes June 23 with the Capital 200 at the half-mile Madison International Speedway.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: North Carolina teen Carson Brown wins Slinger Speedway ASA STARS race
Reporting by Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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