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Schneider Dodges Competition For Elko Win
By Jim Burns
Elko, MN
May 24, 2003--New Market's "Racin Jason" Schneider made a strong early charge to
overtake Lakeville's Darrin Giles, then rode the power of his COUNTRY JOE HOMES
DODGE Intrepid to victory in the 3M/U.S. ARMY 40 Saturday May 24th at Elko
Speedway. In other NASCAR DODGE Weekly Series action, Lakeville's Jake Ryan
topped the MILLER LITE Sportsman main, with Oakdale's Jeff Choban earning his
second win of the season in the COCA-COLA Thunder Cars, defending divisional
champion Scott King of Lakeville topped the EXHAUST PROS OF NORTHFIELD Street
Stocks and Northfield's Mike Tuma was the 3M/US ARMY OF ONE in the
Legends.
In the BUDWEISER Late Models, Elko's Scott Marschall paced the
opening trio of laps before Darrin Giles (who was returning from an early
afternoon practice crash) and Jason Schneider worked the outside groove
beginning Marschall's slide out of the top ten. Only eight laps in to the 40 lap
main, Schneider proved his mount would run equally fast on the inside lane as he
overtook Giles for the lead. Once in front, Schneider was able to pull away from
the field for a dominant 8 car length victory, with Farmington's Adam Royle,
Lakeville's Brian Johnson, New Germany's Jacob Goede and Webster's Steve Schulz
rounding out the top five.
In the MILLER LITE Sportsman, for the third
straight week the Eilen and Sons/Twin City Featherlite Ultimate Challenge was
accepted as New Prague's Mike Skaja wanted to see how stout his TONY'S
APPLIANCE/KAUFMAN ROOFING Chevy was in pursuit of the bonus. Skaja as it turned
out wouldn't get the opportunity to cash in as Lakeville's Jake Ryan tracked
down Hastings' Mike Felixberger for the lead on the 20th circuit, pulling away
to the victory. Skaja did however have an impressive run coming from 16th only
to be edged by Hampton's Jonathon Eilen in the battle for third with Savage's
Doug Brown rounding out the top five.
In the COCA-COLA Thunder Cars,
Faribault's Matt Carlander took the lead of the 25 lapper only six laps in and
looked to be on his way to a dominant win. Two late race cautions would be his
undoing as Oakdale's Jeff Choban took advantage of the double file restarts and
some awesome "CANTERBURY PARK horsepower" to notch his second feature win of the
season topping the 3M/US ARMY 25, withLakeville's Conrad Jorgenson and Kevin
Lutz slipping by Carlander for second and third on the final charge, with Mark
Storlie rounding out the top five.
In the EXHAUST PROS OF NORTHFIELD
Street Stocks, defending divisional champion Scott King of Lakeville worked his
way from a 10th place starting position into the lead with only six laps to go
in the 20 lap affair. King's work wasn't finished as a 19th lap caution flew for
debris bunching up the 30 car field for a wild restart. King was able to hold
on to the lead, outdistancing Rosemount's Dan Johnson, Webster's Clint Grandal
Jr., Oakdale's Dan Meszaros and Prior Lake's Kerry Estes for the
win.
Topping off the 3M/US ARMY festivities were the Legends and with
three and four wide racing going on throughout the 20 lapper, it was a
handicapper's nightmare! In the end, Northfield's Mike Tuma drove his G & T
Trucking/Jerry's Yamaha/Countyline Aggregate mount to the win, with Dave Keays,
Lance Groth, Greg Gress and Kim Kraus rounding out the top five.
The
NASCAR DODGE Weekly Series continues at Elko Speedway on Saturday May 31st as
PAPA MURPHY'S TAKE AND BAKE PIZZA presents HOT TAMALES KIDS NIGHT, with all kids
12 and under admitted FREE. For ticket information, directions or other
questions, contact the Elko Speedway Racing Office at (952) 461-7223 or visit www.goelkospeedway.com.
RESULTS FROM
THE NASCAR DODGE Weekly Series at Elko Speedway Saturday May 24,
2003
NASCAR Late Models
Qualifying (1-3)
1. Steve Murgic
Rosemount (14.158 seconds) 2. Adam Royle Farmington 3. Jason Schneider New
Market
BUDWEISER DASH
1. Brian Johnson Lakeville 2. Jacob Goede New
Germany 3. Steve Murgic Rosemount
Heat 1 (1-3) 1. Jeff Martin Webster 2.
Darrin Giles Lakeville 3. Steve Anderson Lakeville
Heat 2 (1-3) 1. Scott
Marschall Elko 2. Dean Cornelius Bloomington 3. Rick Burns
Veseli
Feature (1-10) 1. Jason Schneider 2. Adam Royle 3. Brian Johnson 4.
Jacob Goede 5. Steve Schultz 6. Steve Murgic 7. Dean Cornelius 8. Danny
Fredrickson 9. Darren Giles 10. Jeff Martin (11-20) 11. Jamie Farrell 12. Rick
Burns 13. Steve Anderson 14. Scott Marschall 15. Chris Hawkey 16. Gordy Swanson
17. Dick Partington 18 Matt Kern 19. Darren Wolke 20. James Edwards Jr. (21-23)
21. Jeff Partington 22. Mike Tuma 23. Jimmy Robertson
MILLER LITE
SPORTSMAN
Qualifying (1-3)
1. Mike Skaja New Prague (14.608) 2. Jake
Ryan Lakeville 3. Paul Neisius Hastings
MILLER LITE DASH (1-3) 1. Paul
Neisius 2. Jake Ryan 3. Mike Felixberger Hastings
Heat 1 (1-3) 1. Duane
Halvorson Rosemount 2. Randy Nesheim Savage 3. Doug Brown Savage
Heat 2
(1-3) 1. Jonathon Eilen Hampton 2. Bob Barfknecht Rosemount 3. Andrew
Ruthenbeck Virginia
Feature (1-10) 1. Jake Ryan 2. Mike Felixberger 3.
Jonathon Eilen 4. Mike Skaja 5. Doug Brown 6. Paul Neisius 7. Lynn Peterson 8.
Matt Marschall 9. Randy Nesheim 10. Bob Barfknecht (11-16) 11. Andrew Ruthenbeck
12. Terry Moore 13. Mel Shappert 14. Amy Woodwoard 15. Duane Halvorson 16. Dean
Leffler
COCA-COLA Thunder Cars
Heat 1 (1-3) 1. Kevin Lutz
Lakeville 2. Dave Sellner Jr. Lakeville 3. Conrad Jorgenson Lakeville
Heat 2
(1-3) 1. Ted Reuvers Dundas 2. Jerry Thomsen Cottage Grove 3. Mark Storlie
Lakeville
Heat 3 (1-3) 1. Matt Carlander Faribault 2. Jeff Choban Oakdale
3. Dave Franek Montgomery
Feature (1-10) 1. Jeff Choban 2. Conrad Jorgenson
3. Kevin Lutz 4. Matt Carlander 5. Mark Storlie 6. Kris Morelan 7. Dave Sellner
Jr. 8.Kevin Turek 9.Jimmy Weeks 10. Ted Reuvers (11-20) 11. Jimmy Welton 12.
Dave Franek 13. Jerry Thomsen 14. Ray Sandgren 15. Troy Maas 16. Roger Meyer 17.
Jack Maas 18. Cindy Carlson 19. Brent Kane 20 Dan Weber
EXHAUST PROS OF
NORTHFIELD Street Stocks
Heat 1 (1-3) 1. Dustin Mann Welch 2. Brock
Weber Apple Valley 3. Clint Grandal Jr. Webster
Heat 2 (1-3) 1. Dan Meszaros
Oakdale 2. Kevin Duffy Eagan 3. Matt Edwards Lakeville
Heat 3 (1-3) 1. Tom
Nordwall Faribault 2. Scott King Lakeville 3. Kevin Priebe New Prague
Heat 4
(1-3) 1. Joe Fierst Faribault 2. Dan Johnson Rosemount 3. Mike Meszaros
Rosemount
Last Chance (1-3) 1. Tim Hollen Richfield 2. Jeff Cook Eagan 3. Tom
Nordwall Lakeville
Feature (1-10) 1. Scott King 2. Dan Johnson 3. Clint
Grandal Jr. 4. Dan Meszaros 5. Kerry Estes 6. Dustin Mann 7. Mike Meszaros 8.
Joe Fierst 9. Brock Weber 10. Bud Kane (11-20) 11. Dusty Parrott 12. Timm
Moravec 13. Kevin Duffy 14. Tim Hollen 15. Wayne Roehl 16. Corey Butler Jr. 17.
Robert Clingingsmith 18. Kevin Novotny 19. Chase Weber 20. Jason Novak (21-30)
21. James Rhoades 22. Bob Stewart 23. Kevin Priebe 24. Tom Nordwall 25. Dennis
Warnke 26. Josh Emerson 27. Terry Nordwall 28. Jared Olson 29. Matt Edwards 30.
Jeff Cook
LEGENDS
Heat 1Tim Brockhouse Prior Lake
Heat 2 Mike
Tuma Northfield
Feature 1. Mike Tuma Northfield 2. Dave Keays Menominee, WI
3. Lance Groth Bloomington
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