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Freimund, Jensen, Merry, Janssen And Petska Final Winners As LGR Says Goodbye
By Dale R. Erdmann
Lake Geneva, WI. October 28th. It wasn’t easy, but the Lake Geneva Raceway
officially closed for the 2006 season. Not for the winter, not for a break,
but forever. This was the last public race program, something everyone in
attendance wished it would never have come, but it did. Since June of 1966
weekly racing was provided to many race fans each year, until tonight. The
longest reining Promoter Kevin Dawson was on hand and thanked everyone for
coming and thank you for the support they gave them, for the past 23 years.
The winners of the first “run what ya brung” night, in five years was a
great success. There were super stocks, dirt modifieds, super late models mini
modifieds and even East Wisconsin sprint cars. The A class feature winner was
Wayne Freimund of Elkhorn in a super late model. The B class winner was Jason
Jansen of Kenosha, a dirt modified driver, claiming his first career feature.
Wadsworth, Illinois’s Vincent Merry, a sport truck driver, with a multi
championship record here, won the C class feature winner. The vintage race
cars were here too, with Burlington’s John Janssen the winner in the close
contest and Nick Petska of Spring Grove winning the mini modified feature. The
ever popular trailer race went to Kenosha’s B.G. Wood a veteran dirt driver.
The A class feature started off with some three deep excitement as Joe
DeCubellis, Bobby Parker and Larry Surleta battling for the lead. After Parker
settled into the lead, as Dan Church took over on lap four. Then on lap six
Don Collins gained the top spot, with Wayne Freimund and Landry Potter biting
at the bit for a top spot. Collins and Freimund raced side by side for two
laps before the lead changed. The race wasn’t over as Potter slipped into
second and from time to time came along side the new leader. By lap thirteen
Ken Johnson joined the frey in front, as things got very close, when a Yellow
Book USA caution period came on the white flag lap, as Johnson had problems.
The green, white, checkered finish was what race fans will remember, as
Freimund pulled off his first win of the final season and can now say he won
the final feature at LGR. A famous name here, Potter claimed second.
Landry’s Father Claude was a top modified driver here, when the track opened
in 1966. Dan Church was third, Larry Epright was fourth, with Billy Hafemann
in an Eastern Wisconsin modified fifth and Larry Surleta completed the top
six, at the end of thirty laps.
The B class feature was another great race, as Dave Edwards fresh from his run
at Rockford grabbed the lead for three laps. Tom Jastrab forged his way in
front on lap four with Seth Lootens, John Maki Jr. and Sonny Schoffen were now
all over the leader. Maki was the fastest car in the group moving up to second
within four laps. Vanghn Lesko was at the wrong place at the right time, as
Dave Edwards had his radiator let loose, bringing out the caution for the
first time. Maki was the leader just before the slow down and when the green
it was all Maki, but then Schoffen pulled off a slick move to take over that
top spot. It looked like Schoffen would take the win, but with three laps to
go, the right top ball joint broke and that stopped his quest for the win.
Jason Jensen who learned the paved type of racing quickly was now the leader.
That’s the way it finished, as the first time looked like a pro in his win.
Seth Lootens was second, with Tom Jastrab was third. Larry Epright driving
double duty was fourth, with Tom Roney next and rookie Ryan Gutnecht sixth, in
another thirty lap event.
The C class feature was a Vincent Merry and Roger Schultz show. Merry took the
lead on lap two of the 20 lap event. Schultz the Rockford champion moved into
second on lap six and chased Merry the winner all the way to the checkered,
but fell short for second. Tom Homan was third, with Dale Gustum the 2005
sport truck champion here was fourth. Fifth place went to #11 the black car,
Tim Jendrjcki was sixth and famous columnist Charlie Spry was seventh.
The vintage cars feature was a thriller as John Janssen had more of a battle
with lapped cars, but won the race just a few inches ahead of fast timer John
Vassh who was second. Smokey Yunick was third, with Randy Vassh fourth, Vinnie
Meegher fifth and Molly Meegher sixth, in a good close race.
It was a Nick Petska feature all the way in the mini modified feature. Second
place was Jerry Giulliano the quick qualifier and a unknown driver was third.
The next official event will be the annual, but final awards banquet on
Saturday night Feb.3rd. 2007.The event will be at Rumpoles banquet Halls in
Twin Lakes.
An unofficial night of fun will be New Years eve at Low Places. Details will
be forth coming. There could be an unofficial race that night.
SUMMARY OF EVENTS OCTOBER 28TH. 2006
LAKE GENEVA RACEWAY
A CLASS
MAIN EVENT 1) Wayne Freimund,Elkhorn 2)Landry Potter,Genoa City 3)Dan
Church,Mukwonago 4)Larry Epright,East Troy 5)Billy Hafemann,Waldo 6)Larry
Surleta,Round Lake,Ill. 7)Joe DeCubellis,Burlington 8)Ken Johnson,Park
Ridge,Ill. 9)Don Collins,Trevor 10)Bobby “the Colonel”Park,South Milwaukee
11)Butch Hafemann,Campbellsport 12)Kris Hansen,Manitowoc
Heat 1. 1)Dan Church 2)Billy Hafemann 3)Larry Surleta 4)Joe DeCubellis 5) #71
6)Butch Hafemann
Heat 2. 1)Ken Johnson 2)Wayne Freimund 3)Don Collins 4)Larry Epright
5)Kris Hansen 6)Landry Potter
Times 1) Wayne Freimund 2) Ken Johnson 3) Landry Potter 4) Don Collins 5)
Larry Epright 6) Kris Hansen 7) Billy Hafemann 8) Butch Hafemann 9) Dan Church
10) Larry Surleta 11) Joe DeCubellis 12) #71
B CLASS
MAIN EVENT 1)Jason Jensen,Kenosha 2)Seth Lootens,Pleasant Prairie 3)Tom
Jastrab,Genoa City 4)Larry Epright,East Troy 5)Tom Roney,Ridgefield,Ill 6)Ryan
Guntnecht,Oak Creek 7)Dave Paskiewitz,Franklin 8)Sam Redman,Crystal Lake,Ill
9)Gary Fostru,Kenosha 10)Vanghn Lesko,Twin Lakes 11)John Maki Jr. Antioch,Ill
12)Chris Sackman,Union Grove 13)Bill Serviss,Posen,Ill 14)Jeff Schultz, Lake
Geneva 15)Dave Edwards,Salem 16)Eric Schoffen,Crystal Lake,Ill 17)Jim
Oxtoby,Pell Lake 18)Bill Johnson,Antioch,Ill 19)Sonny Schoffen,Crystal
Lake,Ill 20) Steve Hertz,Ingleside,Ill 21)Ken Eisbrenner,Racine 22)Anthony
Vito,Crystal Lake,Ill
Heat 1. 1)Chris Sackman 2)Vanghn Lesko 3)Gary Forstru 4)Eric Schoffen 5)#26
6)Frank Slaberak,Harvey,Ill
Heat 2. 1)Cody Potter, Genoa City 2)Bill Serviss 3)Dave Edwards 4)Jeff Schultz
5)Ryan Gutnecht 6)Tom Jastrab 7)Seth Lootens 8)Jim Oxtoby 9)Anthony Vito
Heat 3) 1)Sonny Schoffen 2)Jason Jensen 3)John Maki Jr. 4)Dave Paskiewitz
5)Tom Roney 6)Sam Redman 7)Ken Eisbrenner 8)Bill Johnson
Times 1)Sonny Schoffen 2)Tom Roney 3)John Maki Jr. 4)Ken Eisbrenner 5)Sam
Redman 6)Dave Paskiewitz 7)Jason Jensen 8)Tyler Peterson,Lake Geneva 9)Bill
Serviss 10)Seth Lootens 11)Tom Jastrab 12)Cody Potter 13)Jeff Schultz
14)Anthony Vito 15)Dave Edwards 16)Larry Epright 17)Chris Scakman 18)Vaughn
Lesko 19)Frank Slabenak 20)Randy Schneider 21)Gary Fostru 22)Eric Schoffen
23)Steve Hertz 24)Dustin Holland 25)Bill Johnson 26)Dave Krewal 27)Jim Oxtoby
28)Ryan Gutnecht NT
C CLASS
MAIN EVENT 1)Vincent Merry,Wadsworth,Ill 2)Roger Schultz,Machesney Park,Ill.
3)Tom Homan,Antioch,Ill 4)Dale Gustum,Pell Lake 5)#11 black 6)Tim Jendrycki,
Woodstock,Ill 7)Charlie Spry 8)Kevin Matthiesen 9)Jeff Myers,Elgin,Ill 10)#77
yellow 11)Aaron Stolp,West Allis 12)Mike Lampeb,Powers Lake 13)Steve
Doherty,Rockford,Ill
Heat 1. 1)Steve Doherty 2) #77 yellow 3)Aaron Stolp 4)Kevin Matthiesen 5) #18
6)Jeff Myers 7)Mike Lampeb
Heat 2. 1)Tom Homan 2)Dale Gustum 3)Vincent Merry 4)Roger Schultz 5)Tim
Jendrycki 6)#11 black 7)Kyle Walters
Times 1) Roger Schultz 2)Vincent Merry 3)Tom Homan 4)Dale Gustum 5)Kyle
Walters 6)Tim Jendrycki 7) #11 black 8)#77 yellow 9)Aaron Stolp 10)Charlie
Spry 11)Jeff Myers 12)Mike Lampeb 13) Steve Doherty 14)Kevin Matthiesen
VINTAGE CARS
MAIN EVENT 1)John Janssen, Burlington 2)John Vassh,Caledonia 3)Smokey Yunick,
Racine 4)Randy Vassh,Caledonia 5)Vinnie Meegher,Racine 6)Molly Meegher, Racine
7)Juan Huerta,Caledonia
Heat 1. 1)John Janssen 2)John Vassh 3)Smokey Yunick 4)Vinnie Meegher 5)Molly
Meegher 6)Juan Huerta 7)Randy Vassh
Times 1)John Vassh 2)Smokey Yunick 3)Randy Vassh 4)Vinnie Meegher 5)Juan
Huerta 6)Molly Meegher 7) John Janssen NT
MINI MODIFIEDS
MAIN EVENT 1) Nick Petska,Spring Grove,Ill 2)Jerry Giulliano,Schaumburg,Ill 3)
#97
Heat 1. 1)Jerry Giulliano 2)Nick Petska 3)#97
Times 1)Jerry Giulliano 2)Nick Petska 3)#97
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