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Rabas Takes Feature Win At 141
August 23, 2003
Dennis Rabas of Maribel took his second feature win of the year Saturday night
at 141 Speedway. Rabas led from lap one and never looked back. Point leader
Joe Kerkhoff of DePere gave chase but didn't have enough laps to catch Rabas.
Ben Kroll of Green Bay did manage to catch Kerkhoff on the last lap for second
with Gregg Haase and Greg Herrmann getting third and fourth.
Kerkhoff did maintain lead in the season points by finishing ahead of Haase.
Currently they are separated by only six points.
The Mini stock feature had an ominous start as not even one lap was completed
before the engine let go on the car of Allen Dillon. This caused a long delay
as a large oil slick needed to be removed from turns 3 and 4.
Dave Gauger, Jr. of Manitowoc led the opening laps with Mike "Ozzy"
Oswald right behind in second until lap seven when Buster Knapp spun his ride
in turn one bringing out yet another caution.
On the restart Gauger continued to lead but Jay Sand was closing quickly and
threatened to take over first. This battle continued until a spin on lap
seventeen, again by Knapp which brought out another yellow flag and tightened
up the field. On this restart, Gauger again was the leader and held on for one
more lap when Paul Ray of Mishicot found an opening down low in turn two and
took the lead.
Ray would survive another caution on lap twenty and go on to take the win; his
second of the year. Oswald took second with Mark Christiansen, Gauger and Tom
Melichar rounding out the top five.
The Super Stock feature was lead flag to flag by Billy "The Kid"
Gast of Hilbert who took his second feature win.
Two yellow flags punctuated the race. One was for a spin on lap eight by
Nathan Werner in turn one that the entire field drove around and the race was
quickly restarted. The other occurred when Kevin Charles lost the handle on
his car and collided with Todd Hacker in turn two. Denny Crass of Maribel was
behind that pair and tried to avoid the incident only to collide with the tire
wall at the top of turn two.
When the green flag came back out, Gast continued to lead and held off a late
charge by Jeese Gracyalny who took second just ahead Josh Sand, Crystal Koenig
and Jimbo Schleis.
The Hobby Stocks went “green to checkered” on this night with Jason
Schnieder and Mat Crass going side by side for the first ten laps. At that
point Crass pulled to a five-car length lead that he would never surrender.
Greg Thompson drove from the middle of the field to a second place finish with
Schnieder, Brian Stanelle and Andy Cassavant completing the top five.
The Wisconsin Sport Trucks were the guest class of the evening and ran a
twenty lap feature event in which Scott Bushman started second but finished
first. Dan Hansen got second in a photo finish with Scott Baker and Jason
VanHandel third and fourth.
Next week 141 Speedway hosts the Yellow Book Mid-American series points race
with a fifty-lap feature closing out the Saturday night show. Drivers from
four states will travel to Francis Creek to take a shot at the local Mid-Am
specialists. Time trails are at 5:30 with racing at 7pm.
Then on Sunday, The Tisler Salvage Compact Car Enduro Series continues with a
three-hundred lap event and a giant fireworks display. Racing starts at seven
each night. For more information go to their website at www.141Speedway.com.
Mini Stock
Fast Time Tom Melichar 13.801
Heat 1: 1 #83 Kim Ducat 2 #008 Ken (Buster) Knapp 3 #17 Sean Farrell 4 #21
Chris Nies 5 #86 Kevin Peroutka 6 #9 Mike Lyons 7 #29 Chris Wellner 8 #44
Jason Mertes 9 #6 Josh Lammers
Heat 2: 1 #13 Jason Novak 2 #5 Dave Senkbeil 3 #24 Dave Gauger, Jr. 4 #40 John
Senkbeil 5 #56 Jason Sand 6 #01 Paul Ray 7 #18 Christopher Yerges
Heat 3: 1 #38 Mike Oswald 2 #72 Troy Selner 3 #62 Tom Melichar 4 #00 Mark
Christensen 5 #8 Jason Riha 6 #4 Allen Dillon 7 #32 Mat Van Elzen
Semi-Feature: 1 #17 Sean Farrell 2 #21 Chris Nies 3 #86 Kevin Peroutka 4 #008
Ken (Buster) Knapp 5 #29 Chris Wellner 6 #83 Kim Ducat 7 #44 Jason Mertes 8 #9
Mike Lyons 9 #6 Josh Lammers
Feature: 1 #01 Paul Ray 2 #38 Mike Oswald 3 #00 Mark Christensen 4 #24 Dave
Gauger, Jr. 5 #62 Tom Melichar 6 #32 Mat Van Elzen 7 #13 Jason Novak 8 #8
Jason Riha 9 #21 Corey Dallmann 10 #86 Kevin Peroutka 11 #56 Jason Sand 12 #5
Dave Senkbeil 13 #17 Fred Dorn III 14 #18 Christopher Yerges 15 #40 John
Senkbeil 16 #72 Troy Selner 17 #008 Ken (Buster) Knapp 18 #4 Allen
Dillon
Super Stock
Fast Time Andy Casavant 12.819
Heat 1: 1 #76 Jason Manecki 2 #2 Derek Rosek 3 #69 Robert Rayburn 4 #13 coley
klockzien
Heat 2: 1 #5W Andy Waack 2 #123 Jason Henrickson 3 #4 Jimbo Schleis 4 #50
Nathan Wegner 5 #65 Josh Sand 6 #JO Denny Crass 7 #74w Jimmy Wilson
Heat 3: 1 #8 Bill Gast 2 #25 Andy Casavant 3 #49 Jessie Gracyalny 4 #10
Crystal Koenig 5 #17 Todd Hacker 6 #44 Greg Marks 7 #31 Kevin Charles
Semi-Feature: 1 #65T Jeff Treml 2 #2 Derek Rosek 3 #76 Jason Manecki 4 #69
Robert Rayburn
Feature: 1 #8 Bill Gast 2 #49 Jessie Gracyalny 3 #65 Josh Sand 4 #10 Crystal
Koenig 5 #4 Jimbo Schleis 6 #25 Andy Casavant 7 #123 Jason Henrickson 8 #50
Nathan Wegner 9 #5W Andy Waack 10 #65T Jeff Treml 11 #17 Todd Hacker 12 #74w
Jimmy Wilson 13 #44 Greg Marks 14 #31 Kevin Charles 15 #2 Derek Rosek 16 #JO
Denny Crass
Mid American
Fast Time Greg Herrmann 12.48
Heat 1: 1 #7 Dennis Rabas 2 #B7 Gregg Haese 3 #3 Travis Groelle 4 #50 Gary
Tisler
Heat 2: 1 #65 Joe Kerkhoff 2 #42 Ben Kroll 3 #79 Greg Herrmann 4 #8 Monte
Strouf
Feature: 1 #7 Dennis Rabas 2 #42 Ben Kroll 3 #65 Joe Kerkhoff 4 #B7 Gregg
Haese 5 #79 Greg Herrmann 6 #3 Travis Groelle 7 #8 Monte Strouf 8 #50 Gary
Tisler
Hobby Stock
Heat 1: 1 #JO Mat Crass 2 #26 Jo Mueller 3 #32 Don Wood 4 #0 David Verhagen 5
#30 David Wood 6 #50 Travis Kronfrost
Heat 2: 1 #00m Jerry Brice 2 #31 Greg Thompson 3 #99 Matt Reinke 4 #33 Kyle
Bauknecht 5 #35 Brian Rathe 6 #27 Travis Rodewald
Heat 3: 1 #5SC Jason Schneider 2 #001 Brian Stanelle 4 #4 Kyle Kudick 5 #38A
Carl Engeldiner 6 #119 Eric Jandrin 18 #18 Andy Casavant
Heat 4: 1 #7 Jason Rabas 2 #024 Kari Kostichka 3 #54 James Dunham 4 #15
Michael Robinson 5 #42 Peter Kumbalek 6 #81 Joe Behnke
Feature: 1 #JO Mat Crass 2 #31 Greg Thompson 3 #5sc Jason Schneider 4 #32 Don
Wood 5 #18 Andy Casavant 6 #7 Jason Rabas 7 #26 Jo Mueller 8 #99 Matt Reinke 9
#00m Jerry Brice 10 #42 Peter Kumbalek 11 #024 Kari Kostichka 12 #15 Michael
Robinson 13 #35 Brian Rathe 14 #0 David Verhagen 15 #33 Kyle Bauknecht 16 #30
David Wood 17 #001 Brian Stanelle 18 #50 Travis Kronfrost 19 #4 Kyle Kudick 20
#54 James Dunham
Sport Truck
Heat 1: 1 #25 Scott Bushman 2 #99 Jason VanHandel 3 #1 Jerry Quella 4 #97
Tyler Lind 5 #35 Andy Wilquet 6 #32 Nate Ortlibe 7 #44 jeff looker 8 #26 Peter
Zarnoth 9 #71 bob deltour
Heat 2: 1 #2 Dan Hansen 2 #27 Scott Baker 3 #18 Brandon Kucksdorf 4 #23 Randy
Yaeger 5 #3 Jim Kraft 6 #10 chris loewenhagen 7 #70 ted ulmen 8 #82 Dustin
Jaloszynski 9 #8 Tim Yaeger
Feature: 1 #25 Scott Bushman 2 #2 Dan Hansen 3 #27 Scott Baker 4 #99 Jason
VanHandel 5 #97 Tyler Lind 6 #18 Brandon Kucksdorf 7 #23 Randy Yaeger 8 #1
Jerry Quella 9 #32 Nate Ortlibe 10 #35 Andy Wilquet 11 #3 Jim Kraft 12 #10
chris loewenhagen 13 #8 Tim Yaeger 14 #71 bob deltour 15 #82 Dustin
Jaloszynski 16 #70 ted ulmen 17 #44 jeff looker 18 #26 Peter Zarnoth
Sport 4s
Feature: 1 #1 Jeff Meulemans 2 #29 Todd Welsing 3 #99x Jason VanHandel 4 #111
Scott Baker 5 #52 Mike Dolphin 6 #56 Jesse Sheffer 7 #30 Richard Carter 8 #17g
Dave Gauger 9 #10 Derek Schmitt 10 #00 Calen Graf 11 #258 Jesse Behnke 12 #99
Todd Hebel 13 #40 shelby melichar 15 #90 Bruce Sand 16 #259 Ryan Brandes 17
#77 lana rabas 18 #169 Arno Gajewske 19 #142 matt behnke 20 #104 Matt
Vetting
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