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Roe Lands Lancaster Labor-Day Event
Lancaster, WI (Sept 4, 2004): With 36 sprinters in the pit area at the Grant
County Speedway, Labor Day weekend was going to be a labor of love for teams
to try and find their way to victory lane. Scott Neitzel set the tone for the
night by establishing the mark to beat early in time trials with a tour of the
3/8 oval in 13.872 seconds.
The extremely competitive heats were won by Brook Tatnell, Travis Whitney,
Dave Uttech and Scott Biertzer. The Twin B-Mains were split by Jason Johnson
and Scott Young.
By feature time, the track surface had widened out enough to allow three and
four wide racing and drivers were using anything they could find to gain an
advantage on whomever was in front of them.
Joe Roe jumped off to an early advantage over Jason Solwold and Travis Whitney
with Roe and Solwold battling for the lead for the entire 30 lap race with Roe
committed to the bottom and Solwold using a combination of high in turns one
and two and low on three and four. Whitney would fade later having suffered
damage to his front suspension. Many times, Solwold would pull even with Roe
only to watch Roe out-power him down the stretch.
Behind these two, Steve Meyer and Brook Tatnell were also on the move. Meyer,
who was seemingly on a mission to recover from his heat race misgivings was on
a tear during the early part of the race, had moved by Tatnell and up to third
by the halfway point when the caution flag flew for the second time for John
Haeni who had slid into the 1st turn wall making slight contact but able to
return to competition.
Tatnell would get by Meyer on the restart but was not able to get by Solwold.
Meanwhile, Bill Warren was staging a rally of his own, moving through traffic
to finish 6th from his 17th starting spot. Roe would hold Solwold off for a
green, white checker finish with Tatnell in tow at the finish.
OFFICIAL RESULTS:
TW Metals/All American Caps & Accessories Time Trials: Scott Neitzel
(R&H Enterprises #2W) WELD Racing Heat: Brook Tatnell (Wirtgen #5)
MPD Race Products Heat: Travis Whitney (Whitney Racing #9)
Lane Automotive Heat: Dave Uttech (Firehouse Performance #68)
VMAC Racing Heat: Scott Biertzer (WG Stohwig Tool & Die #4B)
Behling Race Products B-Mains: Jason Johnson (Johnson Bros Racing #44) –
Scott Young (BRAL Restoration #22)
United Trailers/J&L Oil A-Main (30 laps): Joe Roe (FATTFRO Motorsports/Roe
Automotive #61), Jason Solwold, Brook Tatnell, Mike Kertscher, Steve Meyer,
Billy Warren, Scott Neitzel, John Sernett, Travis Whitney, Kurt Davis, Brian
Kristan, Calvin Landis, Jeff Mitrisin, Scott Biertzer, Dave Enders, Ty Bartz,
Dave Enders, Dave Uttech, Ricky Logan, Matt Wasmund, Jason Johnson, Scott
Young DMI Hard Charger: Billy Warren (Bob Warren Automotive #95 / +11)
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