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NORWAY -- If burning tires and bumping stock cars is your idea of a great holiday weekend, then no doubt you probably were at the Norway Speedway Sunday night for the Labor Day 125 during the Dickinson County Fair.

Previously the race was just 100 laps, but organizers decided to add an additional 25 to this year's event for the fans.  The grandstands were full as the American Speed Association Midwest tour made its fourth stop at the one-third mile oval track for the race.

Three-time defending champ, Jamie Iverson, started in sixth postion before the driver of the #97 car took the lead with forty-one laps to go.  And when the checkered flag fluttered on lap 125, Iverson had won his fourth Labor Day race in a row and seventh in his career.

He says on this track, there is definitely a home track advantage.  "This is like my home track," said the Escanaba native.  "It's where I started racing.  It's always good to come back where all my family and friends can come out to the track and watch us race."