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Brockhouse Takes Big Pay Day At I-94 Raceway
By Dean Reller
(SAUK CENTRE, MN) August 2nd--Tim Brockhouse had a thousand reasons to be
happy after his dominant win in the Restorations By Wayne, Great North Legends
Feature at the I-94 Raceway in Sauk Centre. Kim Kraus led the 22 Legends cars
to the start of the $1,000 to win, 30 lap race. Third starting Brockhouse
blasted by to take the lead on the opening lap, as the top several cars stayed
tightly bunched together. Dirk Henry brought out the only caution of the race
with his spin in turn two. On the restart, Rob Thurston pulled up on
Brockhouse’s bumper as he sought a way around. Brockhouse maintained his
composure and led the rest of the way to take the win. Thurston took second,
with Jon Lewerer and Jay Rickert right behind him. The race featured the
largest payout ever the for the Great North Legends.
Todd Hansen added his name to the winners list this season as he won his first
race of the year in the Bernick’s Pepsi ASA Late Model Feature. Bob White
took his ride to the front in the early stages of the race, as Stacy Rossell
stepped up to challenge. The pair raced side-by-side for many laps, swapping
the lead numerous times, before Rossell took the spot for good. The race
upfront allowed Bryan Roach to stay within striking distance and on lap 13, he
took the lead. Rossell stayed close and as the duo entered turn one, they made
contact, bringing out the yellow flag. When the field was reset, Hansen now
occupied the lead with Trent Snyder and Gary Mueller in a hot battle just
behind. Snyder and Mueller got crossed up on the front stretch, collecting Tim
Olson as well in the fracas. When the green waved for the final time,
Hansen’s new challenger was Rich Snyder. Snyder stayed close and closed the
gap to less than a car’s length when the checkered flag waved as Hansen took
the win.
Jon Lewerer has shown a lot of life the last few weeks and Lewerer continued
his series of strong runs as he won the Modified Feature. Outside polesitter
Oren Hoeper got things rolling as he darted into the lead. Lewerer quickly
moved to second and on lap two, he became the new race leader. Hoeper mounted
a challenge and four laps later, he was back in front. Lewerer returned the
favor on the next lap as he retook the top spot. Jerry Voigt brought out the
only caution of the race, when his engine let loose near the midpoint of the
race. After a quick cleanup, John Notch now ran in second. Lewerer used the
final laps to pad his lead, as he rolled on to the
win.
Gordy Mason’s hard work and persistence finally were rewarded as he won for
the first time in the Bernick’s Pepsi Super Stock Feature. Pat Maloney
showed the way on the opening lap as he took off with the lead. Mason moved by
on lap two, before Maloney looped his car in turn two, to bring out the only
yellow of the race. Mason took the restart and pulled out to a slight
advantage over Jim Larkin, who was racing hard with Pat Henry for second.
Henry took the spot and zeroed in on Mason. Mason’s lead shrunk as Henry and
Molly Rhoads closed in on the final few laps. Henry looked to make a pass, but
didn’t have enough to get by as Mason crossed the line first to take the
win.
Jerry Messer took advantage of late race incident and that helped to propel
him to the win in the Thunder Car Feature. Messer grabbed the lead from the
start as he and Shawn Robinson ran next to each other. Daryl Harth’s broken
right front, caused him to stop on the track to bring out the first caution of
the race. Messer soon had company upfront as Pat Amelung, Ace Valencour and
Dirk Henry ran three-wide in their march toward the front. Henry suffered flat
and dropped from the race, while Amelung and Valencour took the top two spots.
With two laps left, Valencour took the lead. The front runners stayed
side-by-side just as the white waved and as they entered turn two, they made
contact. This brought out a yellow and set up a sprint to the finish. Messer
now found himself back in the lead and that’s where he stayed, the rest of
the way to pick up the win.
Sam Hanson has been making the occasional trip from Fergus Falls to race this
season and so far has had some not so great finishes. That got turned around
in a hurry as Hanson took the win in the UCAR feature. Tony Hallerman showed
off his stuff as he took the lead right away. Sixth starting Hanson ran down
Hallerman and then took the lead. Ben Mayers bounced his car off the wall to
bring out a late caution. On the restart, Andy Heying got past Hallerman, but
Hanson remained untouchable as he completed the distance to take home the win.
Chris Farnum has shown in recent weeks that he is the driver to beat as he
recorded yet another win in the TQ Stock Car Feature. Steve Strandland got the
jump on the field as he took his ride the lead on the opening lap. Farnum
quickly made his move, as he took the lead on lap two. Once in front, Farnum
ran his own race as he set the pace. Leroy Nelson had a lock on second as
Darin Nelson and Strandland fought for third. Back out front, Farnum motored
on to take the win, followed by Leroy Nelson, Strandland and Darin Nelson.
I-94 Raceway Results August 2, 2003
ASA Late Models
First Heat
1.) Bob White (Spring Lake Park) 2.) Trent Snyder (Ironton) 3.) Stacy Rossell
(Atwater) 4.) Jeff Lofquist (Fergus Falls) 5.) Sam Gottwald (Willmar) 6.) Nick
Binsfeld (St. Cloud)-DNF 7.) Scott Bender (Aberdeen, SD)-DNF
Second Heat
1.) Bryan Roach (Becker) 2.) Tim Olson (Hamel) 3.) Blake Bjorklund (Isanti)
4.) Gary Mueller (Chisago) 5.) Rob Thurston (Olivia) 6.) Todd Hansen
(Minneapolis) 7.) Rich Snyder (Alexandria)
Fast Qualifiers
1.) Rich Snyder (17.30 sec.) 2.) Todd Hansen (17.30 sec.) 3.) Gary Mueller
(17.44 sec.) 4.) Rob Thurston (17.44 sec.) 5.) Blake Bjorklund (17.49 sec.)
6.) Bryan Roach (17.51 sec.)
Feature
1.) Todd Hansen 2.) Rich Snyder 3.) Bryan Roach 4.) Stacy Rossell 5.) Blake
Bjorklund 6.) Bob White 7.) Jeff Lofquist 8.) Scott Bender 9.) Tim Olson 10.)
Trent Snyder-DNF 11.) Sam Gottwald-DNF 12.) Rob Thurston-DNF 13.) Nick
Binsfeld-DNF 14.) Gary Mueller-DQ
Modifieds
First Heat
1.) Jerry Voigt (Cold Spring) 2.) John Notch (St. Cloud) 3.) Jon Lewerer (Coon
Rapids) 4.) Matt Anderson (Atwater) 5.) Dave Schafer (Glenwood) 6.) Terry
Merten (Sauk Centre) 7.) Jon Olson (Hamel)
Second Heat
1.) Jeff Rohner (Willmar) 2.) Brady Barker (Grove City) 3.) Oren Hoeper
(Dalton) 4.) John Gottwald (Paynesville) 5.) Dave Ostendorf (St. Cloud) 6.)
Pat Hornick (Sauk Centre) 7.) Ace Valencour (Sauk Centre) 8.) Nick Olson
(Burnsville)
Feature
1.) Jon Lewerer 2.) John Notch 3.) Oren Hoeper 4.) Jeff Rohner 5.) Matt
Anderson 6.) Dave Ostendorf 7.) Terry Merten 8.) Dave Schafer 9.) Pat Hornick
10.) Jon Olson 11.) Nick Olson 12.) Ace Valencour-DNF 13.) Brady Barker-DNF
14.) John Gottwald-DNF 15.) Jerry Voigt-DNF
Super Stocks
Heat
1.) Molly Rhoads (Hastings) 2.) Pat Henry (Sauk Centre) 3.) Jim Larkin (Monticello)
4.) DJ Dondelinger (Brainerd) 5.) Gordy Mason (Excelsior) 6.) Todd Rizer
(Garrison) 7.) Pat Maloney (Alexandria) 8.) Tim Sweet (Brainerd) 9.) Ritch
Johnson (Monticello) 10.) Joe Caudill (Fridley) 11.) Pat Rothfork
(Melrose)
Feature
1.) Gordy Mason 2.) Pat Henry 3.) Molly Rhoads 4.) Jim Larkin 5.) Todd Rizer
6.) DJ Dondelinger 7.) Joe Caudill 8.) Ritch Johnson 9.) Tim Sweet 10.) Pat
Maloney 11.) Pat Rothfork
Great North Legends
First Heat
1.) Pete Kvein (Bismarck, ND) 2.) Dirk Henry (Sauk Centre) 3.) Nick Velardi (Northfield)
4.) Rollie Davidson (Burnsville) 5.) Bruce Allen (Chanhassen) 6.) Gary Oie
(St. Paul) 7.) Zac Davids (Apple Valley) 8.) Dave Ewert (Fergus Falls)
Second Heat
1.) Lew Lunsman (Centuria, WI) 2.) Stan Davis (Maple Grove) 3.) Bryan Cataldi
(Minneapolis) 4.) Ed Velardi (Northfield) 5.) Rick Dubay (Coon Rapids) 6.) Kim
Kraus (Prior Lake) 7.) Clint VanHeel (Eden Prairie)
Third Heat
1.) Tim Brockhouse (Prior Lake) 2.) Cory Lease (Pierz) 3.) Todd Tracy (Belle
Plaine) 4.) Jay Rickert (Brownton) 5.) Rob Thurston (Olivia) 6.) Andy Hansen
(Ramsey) 7.) Jon Lewerer (Coon Rapids)
Fast Qualifiers
1.) Jay Rickert (18.74 sec.) 2.) Rob Thurston (18.85 sec.) 3.) Todd Tracy
(18.86 sec.) 4.) Jon Lewerer (18.90 sec.) 5.) Cory Lease (18.98 sec.) 6.) Andy
Hansen (19.03 sec.)
Feature
1.) Tim Brockhouse 2.) Rob Thurston 3.) Jon Lewerer 4.) Jay Rickert 5.) Cory
Lease 6.) Todd Tracy 7.) Andy Hansen 8.) Kim Kraus 9.) Bryan Cataldi 10.)
Clint VanHeel 11.) Stan Davis 12.) Lew Lunsman 13.) Rick Dubay 14.) Nick
Velardi 15.) Bruce Allen 16.) Ed Velardi 17.) Dirk Henry 18.) Rollie Davidson
19.) Gary Oie 20.) Zac Davids 21.) Dave Ewert 22.) Pete Kvein-DNF
Thunder Cars
First Heat
1.) Pat Amelung (St. Joseph) 2.) Dirk Henry (Sauk Centre) 3.) Shawn Robinson
4.) Daryl Harth (Glenwood) 5.) Jonathan Olmscheid (Elrosa) 6.) Pat Rothfork
(Melrose) 7.) Doug Olmscheid (Elrosa)
Second Heat
1.) Ace Valencour (Sauk Centre) 2.) Jerry Messer (Sauk Centre) 3.) Matt Miller
(Glenwood) 4.) Smoke Jackson (Rice) 5.) Tim Wojtowicz (Minneapolis) 6.) Lance
Steuve (Greenwald)
Feature
1.) Jerry Messer 2.) Shawn Robinson 3.) Smoke Jackson 4.) Matt Miller 5.)
Lance Steuve 6.) Jonathan Olmscheid 7.) Ace Valencour 8.) Tim Wojtowicz 9.)
Doug Olmscheid 10.) Pat Rothfork 11.) Dirk Henry-DNF 12.) Bob Allen (St.
Cloud)-DNF 13.) Pat Amelung-DQ
UCARs
First Heat
1.) Jim Dreger (Long Prairie) 2.) Billy Weyer (Sartell) 3.) Marc Rosenow (Grey
Eagle) 4.) Dan Bolstad (Fergus Falls) 5.) Kris Wensmann (Elmdale) 6.) Craig
Maack (Pelican Rapids)
Second Heat
1.) Andy Heying (St. Cloud) 2.) Joe Karl (Osakis) 3.) Sam Hanson (Fergus
Falls) 4.) Tim Ainali 5.) Tony Hallerman (Sauk Centre) 6.) Ben Mayers (Sauk
Centre) 7.) Kevin Messer (Sauk Centre)
Feature
1.) Sam Hanson 2.) Andy Heying 3.) Tony Hallerman 4.) Tim Ainali 5.) Dan
Bolstad 6.) Joe Karl 7.) Billy Weyer 8.) Marc Rosenow 9.) Jim Dreger 10.)
Kevin Messer 11.) Kris Wensmann 12.) Ben Mayers-DNF 13.) Craig Maack-DNF
TQ Stock Cars
Heat
1.) Darin Nelson (Isanti) 2.) Al Jacobsen (Coon Rapids) 3.) Leroy Nelson (Isanti)
4.) Chris Farnum (Isanti) 5.) Steve Strandland (Martin Lake) 6.) Josh Farnum
(St. Francis) 7.) Mike Farnum (Isanti) 8.) Jim Beck Jr. (Elk River) 9.) Nathan
Johanneck (Hutchinson)
Feature
1.) Chris Farnum 2.) Leroy Nelson 3.) Steve Strandland 4.) Darin Nelson 5.) Al
Jacobsen 6.) Nathan Johanneck 7.) Mike Farnum 8.) Jim Beck Jr. 9.) Josh
Farnum-DNF
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