Huset's Hall of Fame

02/18/2026

Huset’s Speedway Hall of Fame announces new leadership

BRANDON, S.D. - The Huset’s Speedway Hall of Fame is announcing a new leadership team.

Board Chair Rod Pattison has stepped aside from his current role, but will remain on as a voting member of the Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame board voted to promote longtime voting member Todd Egge as its new president. The new board was formed at the committee’s monthly meeting on Monday, Feb. 9.

The new Board consists of:
President - Todd Egge
Vice President – Butch Yesda
Secretary – Jerry Cunningham
Treasurer – Virgil Stensland

Other voting members on the board include Pattison, Terry Kjergaard, Bill Mellenberndt and Don Jones, an original member of the board.

The Hall of Fame was formed in 1998 when longtime racing historian Tom Savage (later inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008) formed of the board that included himself, Jones (Class of 2010), Jay Egge (2001), and Harold Petree (1999).

The Hall of Fame has held induction ceremonies every year since, which now includes 136 members.

A recent professional promotion forced Pattison to move from Sioux Falls to Mitchell. Pattison is also the play-by-play announcer for all Dakota Wesleyan University sporting events.

He assumed the role of Board Chair for the Hall of Fame in the mid-2000s and has served as its leader for the last two decades.

“It’s been very humbling. I’ve had the pleasure of inducting my heroes,” said Pattison, who grew up attending the races each Sunday as a child. “These people I’ve inducted over the years were larger than life.”

For Egge, his father, Jay, was an original board member. He said as the new President, he’d like to lead the Hall of Fame and help it grow the same way Huset’s has grown as a race track. Huset’s is widely regarded as one of the top dirt tracks in the country. Egge said ultimately, they will continue their quest of getting a Hall of Fame building built near the speedway.

“We want to align our visions with the growth of Huset’s Speedway and the changes in the immediate area,” he said. “When the time comes, our vision is to have a Hall of Fame museum for all of the inductees to be celebrated.”

12/17/2025

Hello fans, welcome to another edition of "Rodney's Ramblings." This is the editorial formally known as "Hot Laps with Hot Rod" but because of Lennie Nickels program ;-) "Hot Lappin' with Lanman", we changed the title.

In todays prose, we change things up a bit from comedy and entertainment, to a sad story of a Hall of Fame racer and his beautiful wife that passed away of a broken heart.

Jim Lindberg started his racing career in 1970 and had tremendous success at Huset's Speedway and other tracks across the upper Midwest. So much so that he was inducted into the Huset's Speedway Hall of Fame in 2021. At the time, Jim was battling health issues and his family escorted him to the inductee social and open house that summer day at the track. Not knowing Jim very well, it seemed to me that Jim was enjoying the attention from his family and fans. This event was held in the turn 4 suites on the third floor overlooking the track. Jim watched all the actiion in the infield and on the track and I could tell he had fond memories when he piloted his #19 to start his career, then the #97 before finally securing the familiar #7, which has been a Lindberg racing tradition for many years. Even when Jesse Lindberg raced for Barry Banks and the Black Bear Racing team, the number on the car was #43 and when you add the 4 and 3 together, you get 7. Coincidence?

Once the heat races were complete on Hall of Fame night of 2021, all the inductees and their families made their way to the walkway by the catch fence to be honored with a reading of their biography, the presentation of their plaque and a chance to say a few words to the fans. Jim had battled all day and into the evening to make it to the induction, but he just couldn't. His family knew he had to get home for rest and comfort. I will never forget the look on JIm's face before he left. Again, not knowing Jim very well, the disappointment on his face will stick with me forever. I literally cried when his family was taking him home. I could just feel his happiness to be inducted and his sadness that he just couldn't make it to the finish line of the evening.

February 6th, 2022, Jim made it to the finish line of life and God presented him the winner's trophy in heaven's Winner's Circle. The racing family lost a hot shoe from days gone by, but the person that took it extremely hard was his wife Juve. Not only did I get to meet Juve during the induction event, she was also a customer of mine at an automobile repair shop in Sioux Falls. We all grieve when we lose a loved one, but Juve took it especially hard and again, not knowing Jim or Juve very well, it was a pain that never subsided. When I learned of Juve Lindberg's passing, I was deeply saddened. If it's possible to pass away from a broken heart, this would be undeniable proof.

Here are the arrangements for Juve...

https://www.skrochfc.com/obituary/juve-lindberg

To the Lindberg family, the racing family mourns with you. God bless.

Rod

Juve Ann Lindberg, 68, of Renner, SD, passed away at her home surrounded by her family on Friday, December 12, 2025. Funeral services will be held at 1030 AM on Friday, December 19, 2025 at Flandreau United Methodist Church. The family will be present for visitation from 500 PM to

12/17/2025

It is with pure sadness that the wife of Hall of Fame inductee Jim Lindberg’s wife Juve Lindberg has recently passed away. On behalf of the Husets Hall of Fame committee and everyone in the racing family, our thoughts, prayers and condolences go out to the Lindberg family. Here are the arrangements…

https://www.skrochfc.com/obituary/juve-lindberg?fbclid=IwRlRTSAOvBcFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe10Lf5q87FOWiLU97HuLaa_uZ_N7nYrnQO6SJj7N777qm2ETAg_NSEPEVSac_aem_P_Nt4jjPWjDO_ew2lvHRuA

Juve Ann Lindberg, 68, of Renner, SD, passed away at her home surrounded by her family on Friday, December 12, 2025. Funeral services will be held at 1030 AM on Friday, December 19, 2025 at Flandreau United Methodist Church. The family will be present for visitation from 500 PM to

08/25/2025

In case you missed the 2025 Huset’s Hall of Fame ceremony, here you go. Enjoy!!!

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08/19/2025

When cars take to the storied Huset's Speedway on Labor Day weekend, memories of days gone by will race through your head.

In conjunction with the Folkens Brothers Bull Haulers Brawl on Labor Day weekend, fans will enjoy "A Race For The Ages".

Thanks to the efforts of Huset's Hall of Fame committee member Todd Egge from Jay Egge Automatic Service, two of the biggest legends in the history of Huset's will take to the track TOGETHER.

Hall of Famers Bill Mellenberndt and Howard Baartman both 83 years young, will strap in and make laps on the high banks on Friday night, August 29th. More details will follow as we get closer to raceday.

The Bullhauler's Brawl, presented by Folkens Brothers Trucking preceeds the L.G. Everest Huset's Shootout with the NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Cars. For more information on the weekend's events, see husetsspeedway.com

A Race For The Ages, Bill Mellenberndt and Howard Baartman, Friday night, August 29th at Huset's Speedway.