01 · Championship record
Series Championships
- 1987 WISSOTA Late Model Champion
Upper Midwest Driver Archive
Rick Popovich
Duluth, MN
Historical driver profile combining museum-recorded race results, feature wins, championships, photographs and verified broader-career accomplishments.
1974First Recorded Feature Race
197922 Feature Wins — Career High
1981Superior Speedway Champion
1979Superior Speedway Champion
1979Proctor Speedway Champion
81Recorded Feature Wins
187Recorded Results
152Recorded Top-3 Finishes
4Track Championships
1Series Championships
1974–1989Recorded Career
Career snapshot
Racing Lifetime Totals
Key museum-recorded and verified career indicators.
6Tracks Won At
5Classes Won In
Late ModelTop Winning Class
Superior SpeedwayTop Winning TrackSilver 1000 - Late Model DivisionTop Winning Series
Aug 9, 1989Last Feature Win
Documented career history
Career Accomplishments
Verified broader-career milestones alongside the museum's original event records.
Museum series championships and verified broader-career records are merged and deduplicated here. Museum-recorded race results remain in their original event records.
Latest archive activity
View complete results →Recent Feature Results
Aug 25, 1989Superior SpeedwayA-modifiedP3Aug 20, 1989Proctor SpeedwayA-modifiedP2Aug 9, 1989Superior SpeedwayA-modifiedP1Aug 6, 1989Proctor SpeedwayA-modifiedP2Aug 4, 1989Superior SpeedwayA-modifiedP3Jul 28, 1989Superior SpeedwayA-modifiedP2Jul 21, 1989Superior SpeedwayA-modifiedP4Jul 9, 1989Proctor SpeedwayA-modifiedP3Jul 7, 1989Superior SpeedwayA-modifiedP4Jul 2, 1989Proctor SpeedwayA-modifiedP3
Feature Wins by Track
01Superior Speedway3202Proctor Speedway2303ABC Raceway1704Hibbing Raceway605Rice Lake Speedway206Riverview Raceway1Feature Wins by Class
01Late Model50
02Super Stock21
03Street Stock6
04A-modified3
05Hobby Stock1
Season-by-season record
Results by Year
198913 Results3 Wins11 Top 3s
198723 Results18 Wins22 Top 3s
198615 Results7 Wins12 Top 3s
198322 Results11 Wins18 Top 3s
198219 Results10 Wins14 Top 3s
198117 Results4 Wins15 Top 3s
19806 Results0 Wins4 Top 3s
197938 Results22 Wins34 Top 3s
197815 Results1 Wins7 Top 3s
19779 Results0 Wins5 Top 3s
19759 Results5 Wins9 Top 3s
19741 Results0 Wins1 Top 3s
Championship history
Track Championships
Museum photo collection
Photo Archive
20 additional images connected to this driver
1982 • Superior SpeedwayTroy Powers
1983Troy Powers
1983Troy Powers
1987 • Steele County FairgroundsRobert Whalen
Year Unknown • Yellow River SpeedwayKurt Luoma
Year Unknown • Abc RacewayUnknown Photographer
Year Unknown • Superior SpeedwayUnknown Photographer
Year UnknownBill Warrick
Year UnknownBill Warrick Ii
Year UnknownKurt Gaber
Year UnknownUnknown Photographer
Year Unknown40 Badger Mousehaussen Post
Year UnknownUnknown Photographer
Year UnknownUnknown Photographer
Year UnknownUnknown Photographer
Year Unknown • Mall ShowSuperior Speedway Old Skool Post
Year UnknownRyan Aho Post
Year UnknownRyan Aho Post
Year Unknown • Superior SpeedwayTroy Powers
Year UnknownUnknown Photographer
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