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Spacek Boys, First-Timers Star At ABC
by Nick Gima
Ashland, WI, June 25 -- Brothers Jeff and Randy Spacek each earned feature
wins Saturday night, while two other drivers collected their first-ever
feature wins at the ABC Raceway during a five-division race program of 108
cars presented by the area¹s NAPA Auto Parts stores.
Older brother Jeff chased polesitter Paul Niznik for much of the first half of
the fast-paced modified feature before slipping by for the lead on lap 8. Dean
Yrjanainen followed Spacek¹s lead and closely chased him into lapped traffic,
but he got caught up behind a slower car and lost valuable ground. From there
Spacek cruised around the high line of the track to his first feature win of
the year here and 37th of his career. Yrjanainen¹s second-place run moved him
to the top of the points chart, as previous leader Bill Byholm dropped out
with mechanical issues and finished 16th. Al Uotinen followed the leaders at a
distance in third, Luke Schilling finished a strong fourth and Niznik held off
Jerry Hartman for fifth.
Younger brother Randy Spacek pulled off his second late-race pass for the
super stock feature win in as many weeks. Spacek, who started ninth, swapped
the runner-up spot with Greg Kuklenski and Todd Bonney several times behind
race-long leader Wayne Stricker, until he finally secured the position in the
final third of the race. Spacek then closed on Stricker but was unable to move
by until, just like last week, a caution came out as the white flag was about
to wave, for Scott Lawrence¹s overheated motor. Just after taking the green
again, contact caused Stricker to bobble just enough to allow Spacek an
opening, and once in front he ran away for his second win of the season and
27th of his career while strengthening his points lead. Bonney also took
advantage of Stricker¹s heartbreak to secure second, while Kuklenski and
Canadian Rick Simpson followed Stricker to complete the top five.
The street stock feature started off with a four-wide move that resulted in
Cory Casari leading after one lap, and Casari held off Steve Anderson through
a couple more restarts until Anderson made a move for the lead, and Casari
pressed too much to withstand the challenge and spun in front of the remaining
field. From there newcomer Jared Loos, in his first-ever appearance here and
fresh off a feature win the night before in Unity, worked the low side to pass
Anderson and survive two more caution slowdowns to pull away to a three
car-length win over Anderson. Trevor Wilson was in the mix for the lead until
late and took third, and points leader Larry Haderly worked hard to get by
streeter rookie Dan Kingsley for fourth.
The other first-time winner was Kevin Eder, who pulled away from rookie Marty
Passuello early and walked away with his first-ever pure stock feature win.
Another rookie, Chad Carlson, held on as long as he could before dropping back
to fourth behind heavy-hitters Kevin Truchon and Al Rapp, who crossed under
the checkers a distant second and third, respectively. Passuello came home a
solid fifth. Rapp assumed the points lead with his run, as previous leader Jim
Eliason struggled in mid-pack traffic and ended up tenth.
Dale Coddington appeared in victory lane for the first time this year after a
hard-fought battle for the win with Pat Cook in the six-cylinder feature.
Coddington threatened several times to take the lead from Cook, only to have
the passes negated by yellow flags, until he finally secured the lead on lap 7
of 15 with an outside pass. Once in front Coddington pulled away for his
second career win here, while Steve Stuart overtook Cook late in the run for
second. Chris Lustig ran third for most of the go before settling for fourth,
and Steve Tesch, who threatened for a top-three finish with some strong
outside moves, fell back to fifth in the final laps. Points leader Greg Jaeger
took sixth.
Racing resumes on Saturday for Kids¹ Meet the Drivers Night presented by
Little Caesar¹s Pizza, with special exhibition races by the Minnesota-based
Northern Vintage Race Car Club. ³Racenight Live² will air from 5-6 pm
Saturday on WJJH, 96.7 & 102.3 FM, with raceday news and weather updates.
The ABC Raceway is located three miles south of Ashland on Highway 13, then
one mile west on Butterworth Road. For more information, visit the track
website at www.abcraceway.com
or call (715) 682-4990 for raceday information.
Results
WISSOTA Modifieds
Heat 1: Jeff Spacek, Phillips; Al Uotinen, Superior; Scott Hudack, Ashland.
Heat 2: Kevin Monteith, Thunder Bay, Ont.; Jerry Hartman, Marenisco, MI; Bill
Byholm, Glidden.
Feature: Spacek; Dean Yrjanainen, Lake Nebagamon; Uotinen; Luke Schilling,
Granton; Paul Niznik, Medford; Hartman; Ross Lightner, Washburn; Hudack; Robby
Bunkelman, Abbotsford; Steve Kieber, Ironwood, MI.
WISSOTA Super Stocks
Heat 1: Al Uotinen, Superior; Rick Rivord, Superior; Chuck Metzger, Hayward.
Heat 2: Rick Simpson, Thunder Bay, Ont.; Ken Truscott, Greenland, MI; Greg
Kuklenski, Ironwood, MI.
Heat 3: Randy Spacek, Phillips; Charlie Anderson, Ironwood, MI; Mike Duhr,
Hazelhurst.
Feature: Spacek; Todd Bonney, Bayfield; Wayne Stricker, Highbridge; Kuklenski;
Simpson; Rivord; Uotinen; Truscott; Duhr; Doug Woodhull, Jr., Solon Springs.
WISSOTA Street Stocks
Heat 1: Steve Anderson, Ironwood, MI; Cory Casari, Hurley; Bill Muhlig,
Ironwood, MI.
Heat 2: Trevor Wilson, Superior; Jared Loos, Loyal; Dan Kingsley, Duluth, MN.
Heat 3: Tim Baum, Superior; Larry Haderly, Marengo; Kirk Bogdonovic, Phillips.
Feature: Loos; Anderson; Wilson; Haderly; Kingsley; Rob Weber, Bayfield;
Bogdonovic; Casari; Duane Dunbar, Marenisco, MI; Kory Jolliff, Mass City, MI.
Six-Cylinders
Heat 1: Pat Cook, Washburn; Ken Tyykila, Iron River; Chuck Hawkinson, Mellen.
Heat 2: Don Weber, Bayfield; Steve Tesch, Prentice; Scott Ovaska, Marengo.
Heat 3: Greg Jaeger, Mellen; Steve Walston, Marengo; Dale Coddington, Hayward.
Feature: Coddington; Steve Stuart, Ashland; Cook; Chris Lustig, Ashland; Tesch;
Jaeger; Walston; Hawkinson; Weber; Brent Brevak, Ashland.
Pure Stocks
Heat 1: Jim Eliason, Ashland; Ricky Davis, Bruno, MN; Glenn Dammer, Duluth,
MN.
Heat 2: Al Rapp, Duluth, MN; Kevin Truchon, Ashland; Kevin Eder, Ashland.
Heat 3: Bruce Kalmon, Ashland; Chad Carlson, Superior; Marty Passuello,
Ironwood, MI.
Feature: Eder; Truchon; Rapp; Carlson; Passuello; Dammer; Davis; Tom
Morinville, Duluth, MN; Don Bush, Washburn; Eliason.
Points as of June 25
WISSOTA Modifieds
1 84 - Dean Yrjanainen
157
2 22 - Jeff Spacek
155
3 98 - Al Uotinen
153
4 21 - Jerry
Hartman 147
5 00 - Scott Hudack
147
6 4 - Bill Byholm
147
7 37jr - Ross Lightner
131
8 76 - Steve Kieber
111
9 64h - Kelly Checkalski
111
10 777 - Mike Sauvola
108
11 316 - Dan Sellung
105
12 P1 - Rick Przybylski
92
13 32 - Darrell
Carlson 85
14 44 - Darrell
Nelson 54
15 43 - Luke
Schilling 50
16 22 - Don Copp
49
17 42 - Paul Niznik
48
18 3d - Kevin Monteith
45
19 75L - Clint
Larson 44
20 00 - Robby Bunkelman
43
21 40 - Jad
Carlson 40
22 95x - Kent
Baxter 39
23 10 - John Frydrich
38
24 22B - Mark
Baxter 37
25 11 - Jody Bellefeuille
37
26 35 - David
Baxter 34
WISSOTA Super Stocks
1 22 - Randy Spacek
216
2 22t - Ken Truscott
201
3 51 - Shawn
McFadden 188
4 77 - Scott
Lawrence 187
5 50 - Charlie
Anderson 184
6 12s - Wayne Stricker
181
7 8m - Mike Duhr
180
8 95 - Rick Rivord
172
9 80 - Greg Kuklenski
171
10 66 - Todd Bonney
170
11 33 - Don Koivisto
152
12 47 - Al Uotinen
142
13 55 - Ron Hmielewski
129
14 02 - Rob
Erickson 127
15 81 - Doug Woodhull,
Jr. 115
16 4x - Dave
Elliott 109
17 9s - Ron Malecki
106
18 7 - Bryan Lund
101
19 68x- Chuck
Schmidt 97
20 70k - Rick
Simpson 94
21 90 - Destin Lorimor
82
22 24 - Chuck
Metzger 69
23 10m - Gordy
Maki 59
24 2x - Randy Silverness,
Jr. 52
25 1L - Donnie Lofdahl
48
26 23 - Kyle Peterlin
46
27 5x - Joe Oliver
44
28 29 - Dave Flynn
37
29 54 - Dan Yrjanson
36
30 23e - Terry Kroening
36
31 43 - Adam Long
35
32 3 - Jake Hiatt
34
33 29 - Joe Olson
32
34 13 - Scott
Weber 26
35 10m - Chris
Martens 15
WISSOTA Street Stocks
1 3x - Larry Haderly
164
2 90 - Steve
Anderson 151
3 7 - Tim Baum 150
4 1 - Cory Casari
142
5 05r - Rob Weber
138
6 1m - Bill Muhlig
124
7 04 - Clay Passuello
122
8 56w - Joe Wolfe
122
9 26 - Jordan Kurtti
117
10 1x - Justin
Paulsen 113
11 5r - Randy Vezina
106
12 87 - Trevor
Wilson 96
13 5p - Pete Paulus
94
14 5 - Roger
Walker 94
15 68 - Dan
Kingsley 93
16 21 - Brian Fulda
76
17 55 - John Fetzer
76
18 44 - Jared Loos
56
19 7m - Kirk Bogdonovic
48
20 11 - Duane
Dunbar 44
21 2 - Kory Jolliff
41
22 7m - Richard
Morrison 41
23 14 - Tim Carbon
35
24 76 - John Kallas
35
25 16 - Chris Schloer
19
26 23 - Joe Pajtash
15
Six-Cylinders
1 66 - Greg Jaeger
213
2 73 - Dale Coddington
209
3 4x - Steve
Stuart 206
4 22h - Chuck Hawkinson
200
5 5w - Steve Walston
197
6 18 - Steve Tesch
189
7 32 - Pat Cook
188
8 11 - Chris Lustig
179
9 72 - Scott Ovaska
175
10 5-1 - Ken Tyykila
174
11 24 - Andy Grymala
165
12 70 - Mike Zasadni
149
13 51jr - Shawn McFadden,
Jr. 147
14 21 - Nick Oreskovich
147
15 30 - Mike McKay
142
16 88 - Warren Beede
133
17 4 - Don Weber
128
18 81 - Adam Traaholt
119
19 77 - Brian Nevala
118
20 31 - Brent Brevak
114
21 57 - Brandle Pupp
112
22 13 - Dan Mihalek
106
23 36 - Adam Jack
103
24 33 - Ken Tody,
Jr. 77
25 26 - Tim Beeksma
74
26 15x - Shane Roy
57
27 8 - Ron Swanson
41
28 51 - Shawn
McFadden 33
29 43 - Jim
Anderson 19
30 01 - Derek
McKay 15
Pure Stocks
1 33r - Al Rapp
210
2 20 - Jim Eliason
205
3 24k - Kevin Truchon
204
4 34 - Bruce Kalmon
196
5 26 - Tom Morinville
191
6 22 - Kevin Eder
190
7 21 - Chad
Carlson 176
8 79 - Ricky Davis
176
9 85 - Marty Passuello
174
10 35 - Don Bush
173
11 00 - Rob Ganson
157
12 23b - Bridgett Pagels
151
13 9 - Brett Rondeau
149
14 106 - John Taitt
147
15 25 - Jim Laessig
137
16 45 - Bill Rose/Steve
Stuart 137
17 17d - Nathan
Dees 127
18 30 - Dustin
Novak 124
19 23 - Scott Niemi
112
20 44h - Michael Huff/John Kallas
112
21 1 - Cory Casari
56
22 38d - Glenn Dammer
49
23 7 - Steve Kresal
37
24 00 - Shane Klergard
30
ABC 6/25
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