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Great Racing and High-Flying Highlight Kids Night at Cedar Lake
New Richmond, WI - June 3rd, 2006 - As the unofficial start to summer kicked
off last weekend, summer felt officially underway this weekend as temperatures
reached nearly 90 degrees Saturday afternoon. With great weather
traditionally comes great crowds, and that was the case Saturday night at CLS
as a large crowd filed in for the first of three kids night at the
racetrack. Free admission, ice cream and toys for the kids were just the
beginning of the fun this evening. In addition to the great action on
the racetrack, Stuntman Clay “The Wildman” Gallagher climbed into a truck
and accelerated off a ramp to jump over three parked cars. The crowd
loved it as Clay landed on all four wheels despite not having a landing ramp
to come down on. Much to the crowds delight, “The Wildman” told the
audience he would be coming back next week (June 10th) to do the jump again…
this time over five cars!
The first feature to roll out onto the speedway was the DTRA Midwest Modifieds.
Lonnie Louschke and Bryan Siercks redrew the front row to lead us to the
green. Dan Wheeler was quick to jump into the lead from the second row
with Louschke following him closely. Alan Bohman kept a close eye on the
leaders from the third spot until a lap 11 caution. On the restart
Bohman was able to get by Louschke for second, however they were not able to
complete a lap after the pass and Louschke was able to return to second on the
lap 13 restart. With a green, white, checkered restart, Wheeler jumped
out again to the lead with Louschke following closely. Louschke mounted
a challenge in turn two for the lead on the final lap, but Wheeler was just
too strong and pulled away to take the checkers.
DTRA Sunoco Super Stocks were the next feature to wheel out of the pit area
for their feature. Justin Dodge and Tim Borgeson redrew the front row
with the hard charging Larry Boumeester right behind in third. Borgeson
jumped out to a quick lead with Dodge and Boumeester in tow. The first
caution flew on lap two for a Mike Weber spin. Action resumed with
Borgeson soon feeling heat from Boumeester. The pair went door-to-door
for six or seven laps before Boumeester completed the low pass at the halfway
mark on lap 10. Behind them it was Jim Martinson and Dodge battling for
the third spot with Chris Gorka holding down the fifth spot. With
Boumeester sailing off into the night it was Martinson and Borgeson left
battling for the spoils. After Martinson won that battle and securing
the second spot it was Gorka who made a run at Borgeson for the final podium
finish. In the end it was Borgeson claiming third with Boumeester taking
the victory ahead of Martinson. Martinson was later disqualified for not
scaling after the race.
DTRA Amsoil Modifieds were up next with Joey Jensen and Shaun Kelley up front
to start. Jensen took the low line around to stake claim to the lead
with Jason Miller falling in behind. A caution flew early for a spin
down the backstretch. On the restart Jensen held strong on the point
with Miller chasing hard and Kelley trying hard to hold off Scott
Splittstoesser and Dave Cain for third. At the halfway mark it was still
all Jensen up front and Miller in check, but the action was for third as Cain
and Kelley were trading the position over a series of laps all the while
slicing through lapped traffic. On lap 16 it was Miller ducking under
Jensen for the lead coming down the front stretch. But back came Jensen
on the backstretch with a great move coming out of turn two to retake the
lead. A caution flew with two laps to go as fifth place runner Dave Lear
had a breakdown in turn three. That set up a two lap dash for the cash
with Jensen leading Miller and Kelley to the green. It was Cain diving
low and holding the bottom groove solid to secure the victory over Miller and
Cain.
The big show, The DTRA Impact Printing Super Late models stormed onto the
speedway next with Joel Cryderman and Joey Jensen handling the front
row. It was Cryderman who lead the first lap, but a short lived lead it
was as Brent Larson absolutely stormed by on the bottom to take the
lead. To make matters more interesting, Pat Doar came from the fourth
starting spot to battle with Larson and Cryderman for the lead. The
battle was halted with a Rick Egersdorf breakdown in turn two on lap
six. On the restart it was Larson putting a little distance between
himself and the hungry pack of Doar, Cryderman and now red-hot Terry Casey in
fourth. As the field hit the midway point, it was still Larson but Doar
had closed the gap to a car length and was beginning to look for an
opening. Behind Doar, Casey put a slide job on Cryderman to take
third. With the leaders now working lapped traffic, Doar and Casey were
able to pull right up on Larson and battle for the lead. At the
two-to-go sticks it was still Larson but only by a car length over Doar and
Casey. Despite the constant pressure all race long, it was Brent
Larson’s night as he held off the wily veterans to take the feature
victory. Congrats to Brent and his team!
The final event of the night was the DTRA Street stocks with Melvin Raska and
Keith Tourville out front. Tourville stuck to the high side and powered
out front ahead of Jeff Heintz and Chris Gullixson. Mark Froehlich and
Mike Kalkbrenner were battling hard for the fourth spot when the caution flew
for a breakdown. Tourville held on the lead through several restarts but
soon found himself in a three wide battle for the lead with three to go and
Jason Vandekamp and Mark Froehlich took their shots at the leader. On
the last lap Vandekamp dove low in turn one and slide across the speedway and
into Tourville bringing both machines into the turn two concrete bringing out
the caution. Tourville was given his sport back as the field faced a
green-white-checkered dash. Side by side Tourville and Froehlich went
under the white flag and they stayed that way all the way to the checkers with
Tourville edging out the victory. A great conclusion to a great night of
racing!
Check out the website www.cedarlakespeedway.com
for track information, upcoming events, news, results and to purchase tickets
to the big events. Keep in mind The 8th Annual Masters 100 is quickly
approaching, less than two weeks away on June 15th-17th. Also four-time
NASCAR Nextel Cup Champion Jeff Gordon will be appearing at CLS in less than a
month, Wednesday night June 28th. We look forward to seeing you in the
grandstand for the next race at the legendary Cedar Lake Speedway.
Results:
DTRA Street Stocks
Heat 1 winner: 111 Keith Tourville
Heat 2 winner: 00 Scott Herrick
Feature: Keith Tourville, Mark Froehlich, Rod Drewe, Jeff Heintz, Mike
Kalkbrenner, Scott Herrick, Shawn Kammerud, Chris Gullixson, Scott
Splittstoesser, and Ryan Kostreba.
DTRA Midwest Mods
Heat 1 winner: 78 Bryan Siercks
Heat 2 winner: 22 Alan Bohman
Heat 3 winner: 25 Jim Schweitzer
Heat 4 winner: R1 Dan Wheeler
Feature: Dan Wheeler, Lonnie Louschke, Alan Bohman, Justin Schill, Shawn
Phillips, Bryan Siercks, Doug Frederick, Dane Durbin, Greg Chelsey, and Jason
Gross.
DTRA Super Stocks
Heat 1 winner: 17 Mike Loomis
Heat 2 winner: 22JB JB Storts
Heat 3 winner: 4 Larry Boumeester
Feature: Larry Boumeester, Tim Borgeson, Chris Gorka, Dan Carlson, Rich
Bishop, Greg Nippoldt, Justin Dodge, Dale Gangl, Charlie Weber, and Mike
Loomis.
DTRA Modifieds
Heat 1 winner: 91 Craig Thatcher
Heat 2 winner: 12M Jason Miller
Heat 3 winner: 97 Ron Schreiner
Feature: Joey Jensen, Jason Miller, Dave Cain, Craig Thatcher, Shaun
Kelley, Ron Schreiner, Scott Splittstoesser, Jake Hartung, Brent Larson, and
Jason Gross.
DTRA Super Late Models
Heat 1 winner: 19 Steve Laursen
Heat 2 winner: 417L Rick Egersdorf
Heat 3 winner: B1 Brent Larson
Feature: Brent Larson, Pat Doar, Terry Casey, Joel Cryderman, Steve
Laursen, Joey Jensen, Mike Nutzmann, Eric Breeschoten, Ron Schreiner,
and Jon Chrest.
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