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Murgic Magic Returns To Elko Speedway
(Elko, MN) Veteran driver Steve Murgic showed some of the “old
magic” at Elko Speedway Saturday night, reaching deep into his bag of tricks
to capture the win in the Budweiser Super Late Model 40. Murgic held off
a determined Brian Johnson in posting the victory. Mike Skaja picked up
the win in the Elko Sportsmen 30 with Mark Storlie victorious in the Coca-Cola
Thunder Car 25, Scott King winning the ACDelco Thunder Car 20 and Dan McInnis
picking off the Legend Car win.
Murgic's magic returned in a race that saw four cautions but the veteran
showed he was up for the task on each restart lining up side-by-side with
Brian Johnson. A lap 27 caution retired the then third and fourth place
running cars of Joey Miller and Jake Ryan after the two tangled coming out of
turn two. Points leader John Lemke moved to the third spot and dogged
both Murgic and Johnson the final 13 circuits. Murgic edged Johnson at
the line with Lemke, Donny Reuvers and Jacob Goede in tow.
It took 18 laps for Skaja to wrestle the lead away from Paul Neisius but Skaja
showed strength in pulling away for the Elko Sportsmen win. Neisius held
on for second in front of Doug Brown, Jeff Choban and Lynn Peterson.
A last lap final turn caution set up the win for Storlie in the Coca-Cola
Thunder car feature. It appeared that Conrad Jorgenson had the win
wrapped up but the caution set up a green-white-checkered dash. Storlie
was able to edge out Jorgenson at the line with Kevin Lutz finishing third
followed by Matt Carlander and Adam Wolfe.
A post race disqualification brought Scott King into the winners circle in the
ACDelco Power Stocks feature. Dustin Mann claimed the runner-up spot
followed by Dustin Tuma, Jeff Cook and Cliff Adee.
McInnis proved to be the class of the field for the Legend Cars in motoring
into victory lane. McInnis was able to best Nate Wratz, Robby Carter,
Tracy Olene and Kim Kraus in picking up the win.
The Labor Day Weekend Racing Extravaganza continues Sunday at Elko
Speedway. The third and final round of the ACDelco Super Summer Series
headlines Sunday’s racing. There are twin-40’s scheduled along with
50 lap features for both the Mid-American Stock Car Series and the
Mid-American Truck Series. All of that action will follow ASA qualifying
beginning at 4pm. The weekend culminates with the running of the ASA
Jani-King Minnesota 300 presented by Polaris Industries set to roll off at 2pm
on Labor Day.
For tickets and information, fans can call the speedway at 952-461-RACE (7223)
or 800-479-3630.
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