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I started racing at 5 years old. I wanted to become a racer because my older brother Mason raced slingshot when he was my age. My dad Michael Trautschold and my best friend Matt Sheppard race Northeast Dirt Modifieds. I can't wait to race those when I'm bigger. At 5 years old I had 4 feature wins in a Microd including a championship. At 6 years old I had a total of 8 feature wins in a Microd. I won my very first slingshot race at 7 years old at Hamlin Speedway. In 2024, I won two track championships before my 9th birthday.
Name: Preston Trautschold
Birthday: October 21, 2015
Hair Color: Strawberry Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Age: 9 years old
Height & Weight: Still growing ( 4 ft 6 in)
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Characters: King Kong/Godzilla and Sonic/Knuckles
Favorite Food: Pizza and Strawberries
To Be Determined....
I want to be a famous racecar driver. I want to stand in front of a crowd and have so many fans!
We have slingshot t-shirts and hoodies, two track champion merch, hats, beanies, shock covers, some PTR logo decals as well as slingshot decals.. We also have some left over microd t-shirts.
Driver:
Preston Trautschold
Crew:
My Dad: Michael Trautschold
My Brother: Mason Trautschold
My Mom: Brittany Mootz
Hamlin Speedway &
Utica-Rome Speedway
Races - 45
Heat Wins - 14
Feature Wins - 14
Top 5s - 38
Top 10s - 43
Track Champion @ Hamlin
Track Champion @ Utica-Rome
World Championship Weekend - Went from 65th to finish 13th in points
Rookie Year
Hamlin Speedway &
Utica-Rome Speedway
Races - 30
Heat Wins - 3
Feature Wins - 1
Top 5s - 15
Top 10s - 27
3rd in points at Hamlin
7th in points at Utica-Rome
3rd in points in the Junior Slingshot Rising Star Series
World Championship Weekend - Earned the Elite 11 in points
Microd @ Tri-County Microd Club
7 Events
7 Heat Wins
6 Elimination Heat Wins (1 - Second)
4 Feature Wins
4 Triple Crowns
2 Second Places
1 Fourth Place
Slingshot @ Accord Speedway, Glen Ridge and Hamlin Speedway
11 Events
Heat Wins - 1
Top 5s - 4
Top 10s - 6
8th in points at Accord
Tri-County Microd Club
6 Events
5 Heat Wins
5 Elimination Heat Wins
4 Feature Wins (Including the Championship)
3 Triple Crowns
2 Second Places
6 Top 5's
2 Track Championships 2024
86 Events
15 Feature Wins
18 Heat Wins
57 Top 5's
76 Top 10's
1 Championship (2021)
13 Events
4 Feature Wins
23 Heat Wins
7 Triple Crowns
13 Top 5's
Friday, April 18th
Friday, May 2nd
Friday, May 9th
Friday, May 23rd
Friday, June 20th
Tuesday, July 15th
Friday, July 25th
Friday, August 8th
Tuesday, August 12th
Friday, August 22nd
Saturday, April 26th
Saturday, May 3rd
Saturday, May 10th
Saturday, May 17th
Saturday, May 24h
Saturday, May 31st
Saturday, June 7th
Saturday, June 14th
Saturday, June 21st
Saturday, July 5th
Saturday, July 12th
Saturday, July 19th
Saturday, July 26th
Saturday, August 2nd
Saturday, August 9th
Saturday, August 16th
Saturday, August 30th
Saturday, September 6th
Saturday, September 13th
Saturday, September 20th
Saturday, September 27th
Sunday, May 4th
Sunday, May 11th
Sunday, May 18th
Sunday, May 25th
Sunday, June 1st
Sunday, June 8th
Sunday, June 15th
Sunday, June 22nd
Sunday, June 29th
Sunday, July 6th
Sunday, July 13th
Sunday, July 20th
Sunday, July 27th
Sunday, August 3rd
Sunday, August 10th
Sunday, August 17th
Sunday, August 24th
Sunday, August 31st
Sunday, September 7th
Sunday, September 14th
Sunday, July 13th - Spirit Auto Center
Monday, July 14th - Airport Speedway
Tuesday, July 15th - Greenwood Valley
Wednesday, July 16th - Action Track
Thursday, July 17th - Linda's Speedway
Friday, July 18th - McGrew Bid Motoplex
Saturday, July 19th - Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway
On 7/15/23 I won my first ever slingshot feature at Hamlin Speedway at 7 years old!!
I had an amazing opportunity presented to me by Mike Dicely @ Hyper Racing to wheel a Junior Sprint car this year at the Tulsa Shootout located in Tulsa Oklahoma. The first racing of the 2025 year in a car I've never raced. I really enjoyed racing the Junior Sprint and can't wait for next year. It was a great experience, and I could not be more proud or happy of how far I was able to make it. There was 110 Junior Sprint cars registered. After day #1 they only kept the top 60 which I was well in, so I was able to move forward. My heat race I started 3rd and went right to 2nd briefly pressuring the leader but then maintained a 2nd place run for almost the whole heat race. Being this was my first time ever racing this type of car I was learning the lines to run and i missed my line allowing the 3rd place car to get under me so needless to say I finished 3rd. I again was able to advance to the next day which was qualifiers. My qualifier I started 8th and drove up to 4th gaining enough passing points to advance to the B-Main the following day. The B-Main was our last chance to make the Tulsa Shootout. I started 4th and they were only taking two. We took the start and I immediately went to 2nd and was gaining on the leader. After a pretty decent size wreck and a caution there was a caution and the leader and the 3rd place car who race Junior Sprints took a restart that I knew nothing about and unfortunately it was good enough to put me back to 3rd and I did not make the A-Main. One spot out of one of the biggest races of the year and in a car, I had never raced before was a little upsetting, but I was happy to make it as far as I did and thankful for the opportunity that was presented to me. I will be back in the Junior Sprint car for 7 days straight of racing for PA Speedweek in July. Stay tuned for those updates!
Thank you for stopping by!
I raced this division at 5 years old. I test drove one of the club members' kids' cars half way through the season and immediately decided I wanted to race there. We stopped on the way home to look at a car for sale, said we'd be in touch. We made it a couple miles down the road and we called to make arrangements to buy it and have it delivered to the track the very next weekend! My first real race night I won the first heat, the elimination heat, led the whole feature and coming out of turn 4 when the flagger started to wave the checkered flag, I let off the gas and finished 2nd. For the rest of the 2021 year, I had 5 heat wins, 5 elimination heat wins, 4 feature wins including the championship, 3 triple crowns, 2 second place finishes. We started the following season of 2022 there and only raced half the season ending up with 7 heat wins, 6 elimination heat wins, 4 feature wins, 4 triple crowns and 2 second place finishes. Then we sold the car, bought a slingshot and finished the rest of the season figuring the new division out.
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