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Jim Gullikson and Mark Teske Top WISSOTA Mains at CLS!!
by Bob Peine and Roby Helm
June 20, 2003
New Richmond, WI.-It was a perfect night for racing on Friday, and a lot of
great racing was seen in all three classes. On hand were WISSOTA Street
Stocks, WISSOTA Late Models, and the Xtreme Dirt Car Series Late Models.
A number of WISSOTA Late Models competed in Xtreme competition also.
After six qualifying heat races for the WISSOTA Late Models, ten heat races
were ran for the Xtreme Late Models. A handful of WISSOTA drivers raced
their way in to the Masters feature for Saturday night, including Pat Doar who
held off Scott Bloomquist and Jimmy Mars to pick up an impressive heat race
win. Doar was competing in a WISSOTA legal car, which made this even
more impressive. Justin Fegers, Lance Matthees, and Jeff Wildung also
earned starting positions in the Masters through their heat races.
The first feature event of the evening was the WISSOTA Street Stock main
event. This would turn out to be one of the best races of the night,
with the Gullikson brothers putting on a great show. Chris Gullikson
took the early lead followed by Chris Peterson and Dan Gullikson. Jim
Gullikson went to the high side to challenge brother Dan for third, while Dan
battled with
Peterson for second. Jim Gullikson made the top work and got by both Dan
Gullikson and Peterson to take over second. Dan Gullikson continued to race
for third with Peterson, while Jim Gullikson started to pressure Chris
Gullikson for the lead. Dan Gullikson secured third and then challenged
Jim Gullikson for second. Jim Gullikson picked up the pace trying to
hold off brother Dan, and passed Chris Gullikson for the lead in the
process. Ron Hanestad had caught the Gulliksons and looked like he could
be a factor in deciding the outcome of the race. But on lap 13, Hanestad
brought out the caution when he lost a wheel in turn four, while running
fourth. On the restart, it was Jim Gullikson leading Chris and Dan
Gullikson, Peterson, and David Engstrand rounding out the top five. Dan
Gullikson continued to pressure Chris Gullikson for second, and as the laps
counted down, it turned in to a three-car dogfight for the lead. At
times, the three brothers were three wide for the lead, putting on what would
probably have to be the best Street Stock race of the year at CLS. At
the stripe, it was Jim Gullikson picking up his second feature win of the year
at Cedar Lake Speedway, followed by Dan and Chris Gullikson, Chris Peterson,
and David Engstrand rounding out the top five.
The WISSOTA Late Model feature was up next, and it would be Troy Kuyoth and
Eric Pember sharing row one. This also would turn out to be a race that
would keep the fans on their feet throughout the entire race. Pember
took the early lead, followed by Kuyoth and Mark Teske. Teske took over
second on lap three, and Pat Doar moved up to third. The first caution
came on lap four when Steve Isenberg spun in turn two. On the restart,
it was Pember, Teske, Kuyoth, Keith Foss, and Pat Doar, who was pushed back to
fifth due to the caution coming out. Doar immediately re-passed a couple
cars to move to
back to third when racing resumed. Kuyoth took over second, and looked very
strong. Rick Egersdorf was on the move and up to sixth. Doar and
Foss battled for fourth, while Teske started to pressure Pember for first. On
lap 13, Teske took the lead for the first time. The caution waved again,
this time for Mitch Johnson and Brady Smith. Johnson made contact with
the
frontstretch wall, and Smith suffered heavy damage off of turn two when Lance
Matthees and Tony Bahr both ran in to him, having nowhere to go, as he sat
sideways on the speedway. All cars involved would be out of action for
the night. On the restart, it was Teske, Pember, Foss, Kuyoth, and Doar
making up the top five. Pember took over the lead again on lap 16, while
Egersdorf and Doar swapped the fifth spot back and forth. During the
second half of the 30 lap feature, Pember and Teske would be side by side most
of the time, while directly behind them, Foss and Kuyoth raced side by side
for third. Doar followed closely behind them, looking for a way
through. Mark Teske would end up hanging on to pick up his first Late
Model win at Cedar Lake Speedway, followed by Pember, Kuyoth, Foss, and Doar.
Wissota Results
WISSOTA Late Models
Feature: Mark Teske, Eric Pember, Troy Kuyoth, Keith Foss, Pat Doar, Rick
Egersdorf, Steve Laursen, Mike Goodremote, John Kaanta, Ashley Anderson
Heat 1: Kuyoth, Duane Mahder, Tony Bahr, Terry Anvelink, Dave Cain
Heat 2: Pember, Kaanta, Mitch Johnson, Mark Chamernick, Bob Timm
Heat 3: Doar, Steve Isenberg, Trent Follmer, Chuckie DeSmith, Brad Waits
Heat 4: Teske, Egersdorf, Anderson, Nick Anvelink, Chad Cummings
Heat 5: Tom Nesbitt, Goodremote, Brady Smith, Jeff Wildung, John Henkemeyer
Heat 6: Foss, Steve Laursen, Lance Matthees, Pete Parker, Mike Hesselink
B-Feature 1: Wildung, DeSmith, Joel Cryderman, Cain, Terry Anvelink
B-Feature 2: Parker, Timm, Cummings, Jon Kurshinsky, Chamernick
WISSOTA Street Stocks
Feature: Jim Gullikson, Dan Gullikson, Chris Gullikson, Chris Peterson,
David Engstrand, Pete Paulus, Jim Switzer
Heat 1: Peterson, Dan Gullikson, Jim Gullikson, Ron Hanestad
Heat 2: Chris Gullikson, Switzer, Paulus, Raska
Two former Xtreme DirtCar Series champions used two different routes on Friday
night to earn front row starting spots for the 5th Annual Masters 100 at Cedar
Lake Speedway on Saturday night. The 1997 XDCS Champion Billy Moyer of
Batesville, AR, and defending and two-time champion Rick Eckert of York, PA
start on the front row. Moyer drew the pole position for the ninth of
ten eight-lap heat races, and drove his J&J Steel Mastersbilt/Dickens
Monte Carlo to victory. The win gave Moyer the
outside front row starting spot for the 12-lap Heat Race Winner's Dash. Moyer
then won the dash to earn the pole position for the 40-lap first of three
segments for the XDCS All-Star race.
Eckert had a little longer row to hoe to get to his front row starting spot.
Eckert drew the highest number in the hat, which put him on the tail of the
six-car eight-lap tenth heat. With some spectacular moves, Eckert raced
his way to the front and won the tenth heat in the Raye Vest/Petroff Towing
Rocket/Cornett Taurus to earn the pole for the Heat Winner's Dash. The
defending Masters champion finished second to Moyer to claim the outside front
row starting spot. The top two finishers in the ten heat races automatically
transferred to the Masters main event. The heat race winners lined up inverted
in a 12-lap
dash to determine the top ten starting positions, and the second place
finishers in the ten heats lined up in a 12-lap dash to determine starting
positions 11 through 20.
There were no time trials, and the 64 drivers drew for their starting
positions in the heat races. The first heat started seven cars, and
Donnie Moran of Dresden, OH and Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, IA started sixth
and seventh respectively. When the checkered flag fell after eight laps, Moran
drove his QPI Tools Dirt Ripper Mastersbilt/Malcuit Monte Carlo to victory
with Birkhofer second in the Seubert Calf Ranches Mastersbilt/Pro Power Monte
Carlo. Local favorite Pat Doar of New Richmond, WI started on the pole
and went wire-to-wire to win the second heat in the Tri-Star Engine Supply
Mastersbilt/Tri-Star Grand Prix. Four-time series champion, current XDCS point
leader, and former Masters Champion Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, TN
finished second in the Miller Brothers Coal Warrior/Custom Taurus.
The 1999 series champion Dale McDowell of Rossville, GA drove the Larry Shaw
Race Cars/J&J Steel Rocket By Shaw/Kuntz Taurus to victory in the third
heat, with Ace Ihm of Hazel Green, WI finishing second in the Fishbowl Bar
Rocket/Custom Grand Prix. John Anderson of Omaha, NE started on the pole
in the Tender Heart Treasures GRT/Hatfield Grand Prix to win the fourth heat.
Another driver coming from the tail of a heat to transfer to the Masters was
Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, IL, who finished second in the First City
Mortgage Rayburn/Hedrick Monte Carlo.
Former Masters champion Wendell Wallace of Batesville, AR won the fifth heat
in the J&J Steel GRT/Craft Taurus, with second going to the 1996 series
champion Freddy Smith of Knoxville, TN in the White Oaks Motorsports Warrior/Gaerte
Intrepid. Steve Francis of Ashland, KY started fourth and won the sixth
heat in the Valvoline/Mopar Parts Rocket/Stanton Intrepid, with lance Mathees
of Winona, MN finishing second in the Lou Fegers Racing Equipment Fegers/Custom
Monte Carlo.
Shannon Babb of Decatur, IL got a gift on the last lap of the seventh heat
race, when race leader Steve Shaver of Parkersburg, WV cut down a tire under
his Bill Bland Towing Rocket/Malcuit Monte Carlo on the last lap of the race.
Babb took the win in the Car City Company Rayburn/Dickens Monte Carlo,
followed by Kerry Hansen of Spencer, WI in the Seubert Calf Ranches Rocket/Pro
Power Grand Prix.
Justin Fegers of Mound, MN came from the tail of the eighth heat to take the
win driving the Seubert Calf Ranches Mastersbilt/Pro Power Monte Carlo. Darren
Miller of Chadwick, IL finished second in the Seubert Calf Ranches
Mastersbilt/Pro Power Taurus. Finishing behind Moyer in the ninth heat
was Jeff Smith of Dallas, NC in the Die Cast Digest Magazine/Starrette
Trucking GRT/Gaerte Monte Carlo. Jeff Wildung of Nassau, MN in the Veit Corn
Power Auto Rocket/Sturd Grand Prix finished second to Eckert in the tenth
heat.
Finishing behind Moyer and Eckert in the Heat Race Winner's Dash to claim the
third through tenth Masters starting spots respectively were Wallace, Babb,
McDowell, Francis, Fegers, Moran, Doar, and Anderson. Bloomquist bolted
from the ninth starting spot to win the heat races Second-Place Dash to earn
the 11th Masters starting spot. Finishing behind Bloomquist to earn the 12th
through 20th Masters starting spots respectively were Jeff Smith, Erb, Darren
Miller, Birkhofer, Wildung, Freddy Smith, Hansen, Ihm, and Mathees.
OFFICIAL PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR THE MASTERS AT CEDAR LAKE SPEEDWAY ON
6/20/03:
HEAT RACES (8 Lap - Top 2 Finishers Transfer To The Masters):
1ST HEAT:
1. 99 Donnie Moran, Dresden, OH, QPI Tools Dirt Ripper Mastersbilt/Malcuit
Monte Carlo
2. 15b Brian Birkhofer, Muscatine, IA, Seubert Calf Ranches Mastersbilt/Pro
Power Monte Carlo
3. 9i Steve Isenberg, Marshfield, WI, Don Nikota Construction Mastersbilt/Pro
Power Grand Prix
4. 15k John Krushinsky, Eau Claire, WI, Menards Mastersbilt/Bader Grand Prix
5. 2c Dave Cain, Cocoran, MN, Bobby and Steve's Auto World Mastersbilt/Weisman
Monte Carlo
6. 1n Tom Nesbitt, Thunder Bay, ON CAN, Adams Automotive GRT/Adams Monte Carlo
7. 10p Pete Parker, Kaukauna, WI, Potowatomi Bingo Fegers/Godwin Grand Prix
2ND HEAT:
1. 11 Pat Doar, New Richmond, WI, Tri-Star Engine Supply Mastersbilt/Tri-Star
Grand Prix
2. 0 Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, TN, Miller Brothers Coal Warrior/Custom
Taurus
3. 28 Jimmy Mars, Elk Mound, WI, Heeg Well Drilling Mastersbilt/Pro Power
Monte Carlo
4. 1 Earl Pearson Jr., Jacksonville, FL, Lucas Oil/Dunn-Benson Ford Rocket/Eatmon
Taurus
5. 80x Mark Hesslor, Menomonee, WI, White City Glass Swartz/Wegner Grand Prix
6. 2n Mike Nutzman, New Richmond, WI, ABC Seamless Siding Warrior/Kelley Monte
Carlo
7. 31T Trent Follmer, Elk River, MN, American Classic Const. Mastersbilt/Weisman
M.C. (DNS)
3RD HEAT:
1. 17m Dale McDowell, Rossville, GA, Larry Shaw/J&J Steel Rocket By Shaw/Kuntz
Taurus
2. 11i Ace Ihm, Hazel Green, WI, Fishbowl Bar Rocket/Custom Grand Prix
3. 32 Bob Pierce, Oakwood, IL, Petersen Aluminum/Murphy Trucking Pierce/Pro
Power M.C.
4. 27 Jerry Redetzke, Eau Claire, WI, Champ Pans Mastersbilt/Wegner Grand Prix
5. 02 Brent Laursen, Osceola, WI, Scott Construction Rayburn/Pro Power Monte
Carlo
6. 19 Steve Laursen, Cumberland, WI, Nevada Bob's Gold Stores Cobra/Line Grand
Prix
7. 3 Barry Underdahl, Cannon Falls, MN, SDS Services Homemade/B&B Monte
Carlo
4TH HEAT:
1. 1k John Anderson, Omaha, NE, Tender Heart Treasures GRT/Hatfield Grand Prix
2. 28 Dennis Erb Jr., Carpentersville, IL, First City Mortgage Rayburn/Hedrick
Monte Carlo
3. s9 Dan Schlieper, Pewaukee, WI, Miller Brothers Coal Warrior/Pro Power
Monte Carlo
4. 00j Mitch Johnson, Hickson, ND, Northwest Auto Body Mastersbilt/Pro Power
Grand Prix
5. 7 Matt Miller (R), Waterville, OH, McCullough Motorsports Rocket/Russell
Baker Grand Prix
6. 7x Chad Cummings, Menomonee, WI, Amoco Mastersbilt/Home Run Monte Carlo
7. 51 Joel Cryderman, Thunder Bay, ON, Christy's Auto Wrecking Rocket/Wagman
G.P. (DNS)
5TH HEAT:
1. 88 Wendell Wallace, Batesville, AR, J&J Steel GRT/Craft Taurus
2. 00 Freddy Smith, Knoxville, TN, White Oaks Motorsports Warrior/Gaerte
Intrepid
3. 81 Ashley Anderson, Eau Claire, WI, Racers Racing Supplies Rocket/MAS Grand
Prix
4. 99j Johnny Johnson, West Burlington, IA, J&J Steel Rocket/Cornett Monte
Carlo
5. 18h Mike Hesselink, Deer Park, WI, Foot and Ankle Clinics Warrior/Dakota
Monte Carlo
6. 8 Brent Larson, Lake Elmo, MN, Wilson Fuels Mastersbilt/Power Plus Monte
Carlo
6TH HEAT:
1. m15 Steve Francis, Ashland, KY, Valvoline/Mopar Parts Rocket/Stanton
Intrepid
2. 71 Lance Mathees, Winona, MN, Lou Fegers Racing Equipment Fegers/Custom
Monte Carlo
3. 85 John Kaanta, Elk Mound, WI, LPI Lift Systems Mastersbilt/Wessman Monte
Carlo
4. 95 Keith Foss, Winona, MN, Kuhm Trucking Larry Shaw/Lawson Grand Prix
5. 00k Randy Korte, Highland, IL, Mid Continental Fuels Rocket/Race Tech Grand
Prix
7TH HEAT:
1. 18 Shannon Babb, Decatur, IL, Car City Company Rayburn/Dickens Monte Carlo
2. 25 Kerry Hansen, Spencer, WI, Seubert Calf Ranches Rocket/Pro Power Grand
Prix
3. QQ Tony Bahr, Eau Claire, WI, Amsoil Mastersbilt/Pro Power Grand Prix
4. 2 Brady Smith, Solon Springs, WI, Bud Light Mastersbilt/Pro Power Grand
Prix
5. 5 Jay Johnson, West Burlington, IA, Ideal Ready Mix Mastersbilt/Clements
Grand Prix
6. 0s Steve Shaver, Parkersburg, WV, Bill Bland Motorsports Rocket/Malcuit
Monte Carlo
8TH HEAT:
1. F15 Justin Fegers, Mound, MN, Seubert Calf Ranches Mastersbilt/Pro Power
Monte Carlo
2. 32d Darren Miller, Chadwick, IL, Seubert Calf Ranches Mastersbilt/Pro Power
Taurus
3. 17e Rick Egersdorf, St. Paul, MN, Geller Automotive Mastersbilt/Tesar Monte
Carlo
4. 71t Todd Gehl, Solon Springs, WI, Powers & Associates Mastersbilt/Weisman
Grand Prix
5. 42 Terry Casey, New London, WI, Chela Motors Rayburn/AEM Grand Prix (DNS)
6. 61 Jeff Keeney, River Falls, WI, Auto Physics Rayburn/Keeney Monte Carlo (DNS)
9TH HEAT:
1. 21 Billy Moyer, Batesville, AR, J&J Steel Mastersbilt/Dickens Monte
Carlo
2. 70 Jeff Smith, Dallas, NC, Die Cast Digest Magazine GRT/Gaerte Monte Carlo
3. 80 Troy Kuyoth (R), Stratford, WI, Seubert Calf Ranches Rocket/Pro Power
Grand Prix
4. 90x Eric Pember, Pittsville, WI, Pro Craft Racing Engines Mastersbilt/Pro
Craft Grand Prix
5. 9 Tom Naeyaert, Shawano, WI, Menomonee Casino GRT/AEB Monte Carlo
6. 15n Nick Anvelink, Bonduel, WI, Seubert Calf Ranches Rocket/AEB Grand Prix
JE PISTONS 10TH HEAT:
1. 24 Rick Eckert, York, PA, Raye Vest/Petroff Towing Rocket/Cornett Taurus
2. 50 Jeff Wildung, Nassau, MN, Veit Corn Pro Auto Rocket/Sturd Grand Prix
3. 53 Ray Cook, Brasstown, NC, Youngblood Concrete Mastersbilt/Cornett Taurus
4. 12 Rick Aukland, Zanesville, OH, Ostrom Painting and Sandblasting Rocket/Malcuit
Intrepid
5. 55 Duane Mahder, Eau Claire, WI, Caribbean Tan Rocket/Power Line Grand Prix
6. 84 Jon Chrest, Plymouth, MN, Westside Equipment Mastersbilt/Tesar Monte
Carlo
7. 24b Brad Wells, Zumbrota, MN, Bud Light Mastersbilt/Homemade Monte Carlo
HEAT WINNER'S 12-LAP DASH: 1. Moyer; 2. Eckert; 3. Wallace; 4. Babb; 5.
McDowell; 6. Francis; 7. Fegers; 8. Moran; 9. Doar; 10. J. Anderson.
HEAT RUNNER-UP'S 12-LAP DASH: 1. Bloomquist; 2. J. Smith; 3. Erb; 4. D.
Miller; 5. Birkhofer; 6. Wildung; 7. F. Smith; 8. Hansen; 9. Ihm; 10. Mathees.
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