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Rookie Damrow Gets Feature Win In 141 Opener
141 Speedway kicked off its racing season Saturday night with a five division
show filled with thrills, spills, and a chill in the air.
There were a lot of major changes in the off-season at the track but the two
which had the greatest impact of the night were rule changes.
Specifically, changing the “move over” or lapped car rule from the top
line of the track to the bottom and a new restart procedure where all of the
cars involved in the race would get to pre-select their lane before the green
flag reappeared.
Most drivers polled favored the new “pick a lane” restart while the consensus
on the new “move over” rule was quite the opposite. Both of these changes
had a major effect on results.
In the Mid-American division, Todd Mott and rookie Kevin Damrow led the field
to the green flag swapping the lead three times in the first three laps.
Damrow pulled out to a car-length lead on lap four leaving Mott to battle with
Brett Piontek for second.
By lap fifteen the top two remained the same but Daryl Gerke, Andy Cassavant
and Jeff Tisler had moved up to make it a five car battle for the lead.
Gerke ran the outside and moved up to second but couldn't pull off the pass on
the leader.
At the end of the thirty five lap event it was Damrow taking the win in his
first ever race at 141 with Piontek a close second. Gerke would finish third
just ahead of Cassavant and Mott.
The Super Stocks lived up to their "slam bang" reputation with a
three car collision on the first lap with Tim Conard colliding with Jason
Hendrickson and putting Jason Kostichka into the wall shearing off his rear
wheel. On the restart, Jimbo Schlies grabbed the lead and battled with half of
the field at one time or another during the twenty five lap event but hung on
to take the win.
The biggest challenge came from Nathan Wagner who ran side by side with
Schleis for six laps and even took the lead for two of those. But Schleis was
persistent and drove around Nathan for the win. Don Wood got around
Wagner for second with Crystal Koenig and Travis Rodewald rounding out the top
five.
Travis Rodewald had been having a strong run throughout the race but was sent
to the rear of the field when, while the cars were aligning for a restart
after a caution flag, Rodewald chose one lane but after passing the orange
cone that marks the commitment point, he changed lanes again in violation of
the rules.
The Mini Stock feature was punctuated with caution flags for debris on lap
twelve and for a crash on lap eighteen involving John Senkbeil and Kevin
Peroutka who collected the car of Kurt Naidl in the aftermath.
During most of the race leader Allen Dillon had his mirror full of mat Van
Elzen who dogged his from the drop of the green. Van Elzen took over the lead
for two laps but Dillon re-took the top spot late in the event. Meantime, Rick
Lyons, driving the only Ford Pinto in the field waited for a door to open and
found it on lap twenty one using the outside lane to drive around Dillon to
get the feature win. Jason Novak and Dave Gauger , Jr. were third and fourth
respectively. Van Elzen was the victim of a late race three wide situation and
fell back to fifth place.
In the Hobby Stock Division it seems the more things change the more they stay
the same as two-time defending track champ Jason Rabas came from a middle of
the pack starting spot to take the lead in just seven laps and ran away with
the victory. Rabas also made it a clean sweep by winning his heat race earlier
in the evening. Maxwell Schultz, who started on the pole and led the initial
laps would come home second ahead of Matt Reinke, rookie Kraig Koehler and
Pete Kumbalek.
Although he finished in the top five, 2004 rookie of the year Jesse Behnke was
disqualified for a late race rough driving incident and was dropped to last
place.
In the Sport 4 division, Mike “Fatbottom” Dolphin went “wire to wire”
leading every lap and getting the win in the twenty-five lap feature
event. Mike Blashka used some strong moves in heavy traffic to move up
to a strong second with Dave Gauger, Sr. close behind in third.
141 Speedway will now be closed for most of the month of May to complete
repairs and improvements to the building and grounds. The regular weekly shows
will resume Saturday May 28th. Time trials at 5:30pm with racing at 7pm sharp.
The next day at 7pm, 141 will stage the next Tisler Salvage Compact Car Enduro
race. It will be a three hundred lap affair finishing under the light.
For more information, go to their website at www.141Speedway.com.
Or call 920-863-3377 during regular business hours.
Mini Stock
Fast Time Troy Selner 13.387
Heat 1: 1) #7 Jason Willadsen 2) #2 Rick Kretschmann 3) #52 Rick
VanDerVaard
Heat 2: 1) #60 Mark Truckey 2) #9 Rick Lyons 3) #1 Todd Hebel
4) #5 Dave Senkbeil 5) #24 David Gauger, Jr 6) #97 Kurt Naidl
7) #3 Jake Vosters
Heat 3: 1) #29T Erik Turner 2) #40 John Senkbeil 3) #4 Allen
Dillon 4) #13 Jason Novak 5) #18 Mat Van Elzen 6) #86 Kevin
Peroutka 7) #72 Troy Selner
Feature: 1) #9 Rick Lyons 2) #4 Allen Dillon 3) #13 Jason
Novak 4) #24 David Gauger, Jr 5) #18 Mat Van Elzen 6) #29T
Erik Turner 7) #72 Troy Selner 8) #3 Jake Vosters 9) #2 Rick
Kretschmann 10) #8 Kevin Wellner 11) #1 Todd Hebel 12) #40
John Senkbeil 13) #97 Kurt Naidl 14) #5 Dave Senkbeil 15)
#86 Kevin Peroutka 16) #52 Rick VanDerVaard 17) #60 Mark Truckey
18) #7 Jason Willadsen
Super Stock
Fast Time Josh Sand 12.766
Heat 1: 1) #29 Todd Welsing 2) #53 Nick Glaser 3) #001 Brian
Stanelle 4) #32X Mike Meyerhofer, Jr 5) #22R Randy Nething
6) #22 Dave Stoffer 7) #57V Jamie Van Hout
Heat 2: 1) #65T Jeff Treml 2) #123 Jason Henricksan 3) #27 Travis
Rodewald 4) #50 Nathan Wegner 5) #31X Kevin Charles 6) #26
Jo Mueller 7) #23 Greg Anderson
Heat 3: 1) #4 Jimbo Schleis 2) #31 Greg Thompson 3) #65 Josh
Sand 4) #57 Tim Conard 5) #10 Crystal Koenig 6) #32 Don
Wood 7) #24 Jason Kostichka
Semi-Feature: 1) #001 Brian Stanelle 2) #22R Randy Nething
3) #32X Mike Meyerhofer, Jr 4) #53 Nick Glaser 5) #22 Dave Stoffer
6) #57V Jamie Van Hout 7) #29 Todd Welsing
Feature: 1) #4 Jimbo Schleis 2) #32 Don Wood 3) #50 Nathan
Wegner 4) #10 Crystal Koenig 5) #27 Travis Rodewald 6) #23
Greg Anderson 7) #65T Jeff Treml 8) #31X Kevin Charles 9)
#123 Jason Henricksan 10) #31 Greg Thompson 11) #22R Randy Nething
12) #26 Jo Mueller 13) #65 Josh Sand 14) #57 Tim Conard 15)
#24 Jason Kostichka
Mid American
Fast Time Daryl Gerke 12.356
Heat 1: 1) #12 Kevin Damrow 2) #38 Mike Oswald 3) #3 Travis
Groelle 4) #31 Jeff Tisler 5) #50 Gary Tisler 6) #84 Brett
Piontek
Heat 2: 1) #72 Jesse Fuller 2) #64 Daryl Gerke 3) #62 Todd
Mott 4) #B7 Andy Casavant 5) #0 David Verhagen 6) #8 Monte
Strouf
Feature: 1) #12 Kevin Damrow 2) #84 Brett Piontek 3) #64
Daryl Gerke 4) #B7 Andy Casavant 5) #62 Todd Mott 6) #31 Jeff
Tisler 7) #72 Jesse Fuller 8) #3 Travis Groelle 9) #50 Gary
Tisler 10) #0 David Verhagen 11) #38 Mike Oswald
Hobby Stock
Heat 1: 1) #29 Kraig Koehler 2) #81 Jesse Behnke 3) #25 Adam
Pontzloff 4) #34 Maxwell Schultz 5) #15 Michael Robinson
Heat 2: 1) #7 Jason Rabas 2) #42 Peter Kumbalek 3) #99 Matt Reinke
4) #33 Tyler Bauknecht 5) #38 Eugene Phillips
Feature: 1) #7 Jason Rabas 2) #34 Maxwell Schultz 3) #99
Matt Reinke 4) #29 Kraig Koehler 5) #42 Peter Kumbalek 6)
#25 Adam Pontzloff 7) #33 Tyler Bauknecht 8) #38 Eugene
Phillips 9) #15 Michael Robinson
Sport 4s
Feature: 1) #41 Mike Dolphin 2) #634 Mike Blashka 3) #28
Dave Gauger Sr. 4) #17 Ryan Brandes 5) #90 Bruce Sand 6) #74
Hank Horn, Jr 7) #10 Terry Koenig 8) #57 Gary Novitski, Jr
9) #29K Aaron Gretz 10) #88 TERRY KUST 11) #17B Greg Banker
12) #199 Bill Delfosse 13) #69 Hank Horn 14) #49 Aaron
Dalton 15) #55 Kendra Cretton 16) #56 Jesse Sheffer 17) #9
Mark Rose 18) #00 Calen Graf 19) #62 Shelby Melichar 20)
#28C Chet Neumann 21) #33 Rick Lorrigan
Point Standings
Super Stock
Pos Points Car # Driver
1 117 4 Jimbo Schleis
2 110 32 Don Wood
3 98 50 Nathan Wegner
4 96 27 Travis Rodewald
5 92 10 Crystal Koenig
6 89 65T Jeff Treml
7 86 31X Kevin Charles
8 86 31 Greg Thompson
9 86 65 Josh Sand
10 81 123 Jason Henricksan
11 77 26 Jo Mueller
12 76 23 Greg Anderson
13 64 57 Tim Conard
14 64 22R Randy Nething
15 62 29 Todd Welsing
16 61 53 Nick Glaser
17 56 32X Mike Meyerhofer, Jr
18 53 24 Jason Kostichka
19 49 22 Dave Stoffer
20 47 57V Jamie Van Hout
21 10 001 Brian Stanelle
Mid American
Pos Points Car # Driver
1 121 12 Kevin Damrow
2 120 64 Daryl Gerke
3 108 84 Brett Piontek
4 104 B7 Andy Casavant
5 99 31 Jeff Tisler
6 91 62 Todd Mott
7 89 72 Jesse Fuller
8 87 3 Travis Groelle
9 75 38 Mike Oswald
10 73 0 David Verhagen
11 70 50 Gary Tisler
12 12 8 Monte Strouf
Hobby Stock
Pos Points Car # Driver
1 117 7 Jason Rabas
2 100 34 Maxwell Schultz
3 99 29 Kraig Koehler
4 97 99 Matt Reinke
5 91 42 Peter Kumbalek
6 85 25 Adam Pontzloff
7 79 33 Tyler Bauknecht
8 73 38 Jacob & Eugene Phillips
9 70 15 Michael Robinson
10 13 81 Jesse & Jason Behnke
Mini Stock
Pos Points Car # Driver
1 113 9 Rick Lyons
2 109 13 Jason Novak
3 103 4 Allen Dillon
4 103 24 David Gauger, Jr
5 98 29T Erik Turner
6 93 72 Troy Selner
7 83 1 Todd Hebel
8 82 18 Yerges/Van Elzen
9 81 40 John Senkbeil
10 79 2 Rick Kretschmann
11 72 3 Jake & Justin Vosters
12 70 60 Mark Truckey
13 66 97 Kurt Naidl
14 65 7 Jason Willadsen
15 63 8 Wellner/Wetenkamp
16 61 5 Dave Senkbeil
17 60 52 Rick VanDerVaard
18 57 86 Kevin Peroutka
19 01 Paul Ray
Sport 4s
Pos Points Car # Driver
1 40 41 Mike Dolphin
2 39 634 Mike Blashka
3 38 28 Dave Gauger Sr.
4 37 17 Ryan Brandes
5 36 90 Bruce Sand
6 35 74 Hank Horn, Jr
7 34 10 Terry Koenig
8 33 57 Gary Novitski, Jr
9 32 29K Aaron Gretz
10 31 88 Murray/Kust
11 30 17B Greg Banker
12 29 199 Bill Delfosse
13 28 69 Hank Horn
14 27 49 Aaron Dalton
15 26 55 Kendra Cretton
16 25 56 Jesse Sheffer
17 24 9 Mark Rose
18 23 00 Cody & Calen Graf
19 22 62 Shelby Melichar
20 21 28C Chet Neumann
21 8 Brad LeClair
22 0 33 Rick Lorrigan
23 16 Ben Daoust
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