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Nelson Continues Dominance Of Wissota Street Stock Division
By Bill Nelson
May 5, 2007 - Spring Valley Mn - High winds, cool temps and rain in the
surrounding counties did not deter a field of 101 cars from entering the pit
area of Deer Creek Speedway on this early May day. With winds blowing
directly into the grandstands the fans were reminded that we are at a dirt
track on a Saturday night in Minnesota as they got a little dusty and a little
grit in their teeth. The track crew did a great job with a little
touchup work at intermission they graded the cushion off the top and laid a
little more moisture to the surface providing some great action in the feature
events.
The WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds were the first feature event of the evening on
Carlsen Construction night at the speedway. Bob Bunne and Andrew Wiste
ran side by side for second as Dustin Nelson took the early lead in the
eighteen lap affair. With two completed Wiste moved past Nelson to take
the lead. A caution flew on lap three with an eight car pileup coming
out of corner two as Wiste slid up the track and corrected his car only to
come back down into Nelson causing a bunch up behind him ending the night for
a few strong runners early. On the restart Josh Angst got loose in three
and four causing a few others to spin bringing out yet another caution and
removing a few others from the event. Nelson led on the restart while
Chris Adams moved into second, with twelve to go Adams took control of
the point leaving Nelson and Bunne to battle for second. Bunne moved to
the top of the speedway to get around Nelson for second, Nelson then had
rookie Brandon Davis all over his bumper on the way to the finish. Adams
won by three-quarters of a straight with Bunne and Nelson rounding out the top
three.
Scot Nelson is all you have to say when it comes to the WISSOTA Street Stocks
this year at Deer Creek. After winning his earlier heat Nelson had to
start in the eighth position with the point inversion. Joe Sattre and
Bobby Kilby started the field from the front row with Kilby bolting into the
early lead. Nelson quickly worked into fourth after splitting two cars
on the backstretch in a daring early race move. Sixteen to go and Nelson
worked up high on Sattre ran the lower groove around the speedway in third
after Ryan Goergen had moved under him on the lap previous to take over
second. Kilby was pulling away from the field steadily until a caution
flew with thirteen to go. On the first restart Kilby brought them in
nice and slow but a spin in one negated the restart. On the second
restart Ernie Kramer brought out the caution as his right rear wheel decided
it wanted to try and take out the snap-on tools infield sign. On the
third try Tony Zvorak lost a left rear wheel that bounced around the track as
the wheels were falling off the feature event. Finally Kilby was able to
get his restart to work as he quickly pulled out front with Nelson working
into second. Goergen was still sitting in third with Steve Eischens
quietly working into fourth and putting pressure on him. Seven to go and
Kilby and Nelson were side by side up front. Nelson took control of the
race on the next lap while Goergen and Eischens continued their battle behind
him. At the line it was Nelson with this third clean sweep in as many
races, Kilby second and Eischens rouning out the top three.
Chris Quast led the first half of lap one of the US Army WISSOTA Super Stock
feature event until Ed Sanders dove under him in turn three to take over the
lead. Chris Groth moved into third with Chris Klinger and Ryan Siegle
locked into a battle for fourth. Quast got crossed up on lap two
allowing Siegle and Groth to get by. Dustin Nelson moved to the bottom
of the track on the next lap and quickly moved into the second spot after
starting tenth. On the next lap Nelson moved under Sanders for the lead
with Siegle, Groth and Quast racing for third. Siegle took over the
third spot and just before a caution flew moved under Sanders for
second. On the restart with eleven to go Gorth and Jason Gabrielson
split Sanders as they raced side by side for third now. Ross Dixon and
Cole Queensland had a good battle going for fifth. Groth gained control
of the second spot after working to the outside of Siegle, with Gabrielson now
in fourth. At the line it was Nelson all alone out front followed by
Groth and Siegle.
The Valley Featherlite WISSOTA Late Models pulled onto the track for their
feature race next. Joe Ludemann was unable to complete the start of the
feature as his front end collapsed coming to the green causing a complete
restart. Neil Eckhart used his front row starting spot to get into the
early lead by inches at the line over Matt Madsen. Behind them Lance
Matthees, Paul Novotny and Nick Herrick were racing three wide for
third. Three laps completed and Herrick moved past Madsen for second,
Matthees into third as Keith Foss and Madsen ran side by side for
fourth. Foss was using the extreme bottom of the track while everyone
else was up high about five feet from the outside wall. With fifteen to
go the race up front got exciting as Herrick was working lower than Eckhart
and Foss was digging on the low side of them. With thirteen to go they
exited four three wide as they raced to the line and all the way through two
in formation. Foss came out with the lead leaving Eckhart and Herrick to
settle second. With nine to go Eckhart still sat in third by now Herrick
was having to deal with Matthees again. Matthees took the spot and
started to work on Eckhart as Foss was slowly pulling away from the
field. Six to go and Matthees and Eckhart were side by side at the line,
Eckhart had the groove working for him and held onto second and Herrick again
moved lower on the track and then moved past Matthees for third. At the
checkers it was Foss with his second win in a row, Eckhart in his best finish
in his rookie season and Herrick in third.
Tommy Myer bolted to the lead in the EZ Fabricating USRA Modifieds with Bob
Timm and Tyler Rubin racing for second with the rest of the field going two
and thee wide through the corners early on. Twenty three to go and
Timm took over second with Jeff Scluetter getting past Rubin for third.
Rubin now had his hands full with Mike Sorensen while Schluetter tried to
pressure Timm. Twenty to go and the battle for fourth was now three wide
and Rubin, Sorensen and Kelly Shryock exited turn four. Another great
battle was ensuing behind them with Jacob Dahle, Steve Wetzstein, Corey Dripps,
Jason Cummins and Jay Ihrke all in a tight pack swapping spots and racing two
and three wide. With seventeen to go the race up front was getting
exciting. Timm worked low on Myer in three and four and pulled alongside
of him. As they raced down the front straight Myer moved lower to block
Timm who then went to the high side entering one. Myer had Timm by about
three-quarters of a car when he moved higher on the backstretch pinching Timm
into the wall. Myer got the worse end of the racing incident as his car
slammed the wall in the backstretch and slid up the wall ending his
night. On the restart Shryock now in third started working Timm for the
lead with Sorensen behind them. Shryock took the lead with twelve to go
and slowly pulled out front. Dripps worked into the top five while Rubin
and Wetzstein continued their race long battle for sixth. Shryock came
home with the win with Timm and Sorensen rounding out the top three.
USRA Modifieds
Feature - Kelly Shryock, Bob Timm, Mike Sorensen, Jeff Schluetter, Corey
Dripps, Tyler Rubin, Steve Wetzstein, Jay Ihrke, Jason Cummins, Brian Shaw,
Doug Hillson, Jacob Dahle, Terry Timmerman, Ben Rippentrop, Tom Paulson, Bob
Fisher, Matt Aarsvold, Joe Wernecke, Tommy Myer, Greg Jensen, Todd Scharkey,
Ryan York
Heat 1 – York, Rubin, Schluetter, Myer, Wernecke, Paulson, Fisher, Shaw
Heat 2 – Scharkey, Shyrock, Dahle, Dripps, Ihrke, Jensen, Rippentrop
Heat 3 – Sorensen, Timm, Cummins, Wetzstein, Hillson, Aarsvold, Timmerman
WISSOTA Late Models
Feature - Keith Foss, Neil Eckhart, Nick Herrick, Lance Matthees, Kerry
Hanson, Jay Ihrke, Brad Waits, Matt Madsen, Marshall Fegers, Nick Kramer,
Barry Underdahl, Ben Mattick, Steve Yaggy, Doug Herrick, Darwyn Karau, Paul
Novotny, Dennis Hillson,
Tony Bloom, Lucas Peterson, Joe Ludemann, Nate Wasmund
Heat 1 – Ihrke, N. Herrick, Matthees, Yaggy, Waits, D. Herrick, Wasmund
Heat 2 – Novotny, Foss, Eckhart, Bloom, Ludemann, Karau, Peterson
Heat 3 – Hanson, Mattick, Madsen, Kramer, Hillson, Fegers, Underdahl
WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds
Feature - Chris Adams, Bob Bunne, Dustin Nelson, Brandon Davis, Jimmie Arnold,
Jeff Brauer, Ron Houdek, Kenny Wytaske, Bobby Swanson, Greg Pfeifer Jr., Jerry
Young, Bryce Stuckman, Craig Bentzin, Steve Quinnell, Mike Sample, Albert
Wytaske, Andrew Wiste, Josh Angst, Jim Stuckman, Kyle Jumbeck, Bryan
Hernandez, Adam Stowell, Mike Paulson, Joel Alberts
“B” Feature - K Wytaske, A Wytaske, Pfeifer, B. Struckman, Johnny Magnum,
Troy Barth, Rick Toutges, JR Jones, Ben Behne, Pete Bushman
Heat 1 – Bunne, Stowall, Adams, Hernandez, Sample, Barth, B. Struckman,
Behne
Heat 2 – Houdek, Swanson, Paulson, Young, Alberts, K Wytaaske, Toutges,
Magnum
Heat 3 – Nelson, Davis, Jumbeck, Arnold, Brauer, Pfeifer JR., Bushman
Heat 4 – Angst, Wiste, Bentzin, Quinnell, J. Struckamn, A Wytaske, Jones
WISSOTA Street Stocks
Feature - Scot Nelson, Bobby Kilby, Steve Eischens, Ryan Goergen, Chuck
Nerland, Tony Horsman, Fred Prudoehl, Derek Borchardt, Kevin Hager, Dan
Holland, Joe Sattre, Anthony Zvorak, Ernie Kramer, Scott Olson, Wade Johnson
Heat 1 – Nelson, Kilby, Prudoehl, Borchardt, Eischens, Kramer, Holland,
Olson
Heat 2 – Horsman, Sattre, Nerland, Goergen, Zvorak, Hager, Johnson
WISSOTA Super Stocks
Feature - Dustin Nelson, Chris Groth, Ryan Siegle, Jason Gabrielson, Ross
Dixon, Cole Queensland, Wyatt Wold Jr., Dave Solum, Josh Bartel, Ed Sanders,
Chris Quast, Kevin Hager, Chris Klinger
Heat 1 – Dixon, Quast, Gabrielson, Queensland, Solum, Bartel, Wolfe
Heat 2 – Siegle, Sanders, Klinger, Groth, Nelson, Hager
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