Driver Profile

B Squared Motorsports is the combined efforts of driver Bill Balog and Ryan Buesser to form a team to compete at the highest level of winged sprint car racing. In 2015, Hans Lein joined the duo to further expand the capabilities of the #17b racing program.

Bill Balog “The North Pole Nightmare”, hailing from North Pole, Alaska, and B Squared Motorsports have dominated the 410 Bumper to Bumper IRA sprint car series with 10 championships (2008-2014, 2016-2017, 19-20) since being named rookie of the year in 2005. Balog is a 140-time IRA main event winner, which is the most all-time. In comparison, Joe Roe is second on the all-time list with 61. In 2016, Bill bested the World of Outlaws and scored his first series victory at the Jim “JB” Boyd Memorial presented by Karavan Trailers at Beaver Dam Raceway.

A two-time winner with “America’s Series” in 2021, the “North Pole Nightmare” Bill Balog and B Squared Motorsports concluded with a fifth-place finish in the All Star driver standings. Balog, earned All Star triumphs in back-to-back fashion during action at Plymouth Dirt Track and Angell Park Speedway. Balog accumulated three more feature wins with the "All Star Circuit of Champions" over the course of 2022 and 2023 including wins at Plymouth Dirt Track, Spoon River Speedway and Red Hill Raceway in IL.

In 2024, the team stepped up to compete full time with the World of Outlaws Sprint car Series, taking on an 86 race schedule coast to coast with "The Greatest Show on Dirt".