Carson Brown holds off charging Ty Majeski to win ASA STARS Tour Badger 325 at Slinger Speedway

Carson Brown is still just 17 years old, but a driver doesn’t need to be around long to figure out that when Ty Majeski’s on your tail, it’s time to go, especially at Slinger Speedway.

Brown heard footsteps Sunday night and had enough in reserve to outrun them to win the Badger State 325 for his third victory in four races this season on the ASA STARS National Tour.

“I was just running for my life, to be honest,” Brown said after the grueling race on the high-banked Wisconsin quarter-mile. “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.”

Brown, from New London, North Carolina, led the final 114 laps as the final stage ran caution-free.

For nearly 40 of those, he had Majeski’s neon No. 91 in his mirror. The 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion is a Wisconsin native who has won the track’s prestigious Slinger Nationals four times and won the ASA Midwest Tour opener at Slinger in April.

Majeski started on the pole but fell back mid-race after a restart on a track that might not have been fully clean. He dropped as deep as seventh early in the final stage but picked his way forward and then broke through a logjam with 80 laps to go. From there Majeski 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, but 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 the 81. 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.

Majeski did manage to dip his nose inside Brown’s car as the laps wound down. The two have raced around each other enough that Majeski knew he was in for a challenge.

“Their stuff’s on kill right now,” Majeski said of Brown and the Anthony Campi Racing team. “They’ve got the new P1 cars and they’ve been dominating everywhere. They were solid tonight. I felt like they were certainly beatable if the race played out a little bit different.

“If we’re gonna beat them anywhere, it’d be at a place like this, and we didn’t tonight.”

Brown introduced himself to Wisconsin fans a year ago when he won at Madison International Speedway. That’s where this year’s ASA STARS Wisconsin swing ends Tuesday, completing the first half of the season.

“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.

“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.”

The early part of the ASA STARS season certainly suggests Brown and his team have.

“I feel like we’ve had a really good year, very consistent year,” Brown said. “We just need to keep the pace up and keep the mechanical failures low, which I think we’ve done a really good job of.”