MSA Takes on Monster Hall Raceway
Midwest Sprintcar Association
June 20, 2004
By George Baumann

Unity, WI - If Lloyd Dykstra has a favorite track it must be Monster Hall Raceway. The Waupun driver won his second career MSA A-main, and like the first it came on the high-banked third mile track.

Dykstra's flawless run began from the fifth starting spot and nearly ended on the first lap. His car and that of Tim Haddy made contact coming off turn four sending Haddy's car to the pits for the night, but Dykstra was able to continue.

Johnny Fahl paced the race early and appeared to be very fast from his pole position start. The yellow wave waved on lap 7 when Jerry Ski and Scott Sippel tangled between turns one and two with David O'Neal spinning to avoid them.

The race then stayed green throughout, and Fahl held the lead until lap ten when Dykstra passed him off turn four using the track's high groove.  Once in front, Dykstra stayed there and held off several later challenges from Fahl.

Meanwhile back in the pack, MSA defending champion Doug Schenck went to work from his tenth starting position. Despite dropping back a position early, Schenck made a charge and caught Fahl by lap 19. While they waged an exciting dual for second, Dykstra pulled ahead to a four or five car-length lead and cruised to victory lane.

Other drivers with strong runs were Chris Wiser who finished nine positions ahead of his last place starting spot. Jeff Becker and Lance Fassbender each moved ahead eight spots. K.J. Skelton, 19-year old rookie Ribbie Pribnow, and Chad Tessman each finished seven positions better than their starting spots.

In heat race action, Skelton won his 51st career MSA race in the first heat with Al Schlafer coming in second. The second heat was won by Fahl who passed Keith Olejnik on the last lap spoiling a solid run by Olejnik.

The third heat race went to Danny Schlafer who lead the distance ahead of Jerry Ski and Schenck.

In qualifying Schenck was quick with a lap of 14.019.

It was the seventh appearance by MSA at MHR and Dykstra is now the only driver with two A-main wins at the facility.

A-Main: 1) Lloyd Dykstra, 2) Johnny Fahl, 3) Doug Schenck, 4) Bill Taylor, 5) Lance Fassbender, 6) Mark Wernes Jr., 7) Joe Wipperfurth, 8) K.J. Skelton, 9) Danny Schlafer, 10) Al Schlafer, 11) Jeff Becker, 12) Jerry Ski, 13) Etchie Biertzer, 14) Robbie Pribnow, 15) Chris Wiser, 16) Chad Tessman. 17) David O'Neal, 18) Scott Sippel, 19) Shane Wenninger, 20) Scott Conger,
21) Scott Kuxhouse, 22) Keith Olejnik, 23) Alex Crimmings 24) Tim Haddy.

HRP Racing Products First Heat: 1) K.J. Skelton, 2) Al Schlafer, 3) Tim Haddy, 4) Scott Sippel, 5) Lance Fassbender, 6) Alex Crimmings, 7) Jeff Becker, 8) Chris Wiser DNS.

JB Enterprise Racing Products Second Heat: 1) Johnny Fahl, 2) Keith Olejnik, 3) Mark Wernes Jr,. 4) Scott Conger, 5) Joe Wipperfurth, 6) David O'Neal, 7) Shane Wenninger, 8) Scott Kuxhouse.

MPD Racing Products Third Heat: 1) Danny Schlafer, 2) Jerry Ski, 3) Doug Schenck, 4) Bill Taylor, 5) Lloyd Dykstra, 6) Etchie Biertzer, 7) Robbie Pribnow, 8) Chad Tessman.

Wisconsin PC Qualifying: 1) Doug Schenck 14.019 2) Joe Wipperfurth, 14.046, 3) Scott Sippel 14.370, 4) Robbie Pribnow 14.405, 5) Scott Conger 14.613, 6) Lance Fassbender 14.752, 7) Lloyd Dykstra 14.786, 8) Mark Wernes Jr. 14.833, 9) Tim Haddy 14.947, 10) Johnny Fahl 15.169, 11) Jeff Becker 15.231, 12) Jerry Ski 15.236, 13) Scott Kuxhouse 15.259, 14) Bill Taylor 15.315, 15) Al Schlafer 15.321, 16) Danny Schlafer 15.452, 17) Keith Olejnik 15.601, 18) K.J. Skelton 15.698, 19) Etchie Biertzer 15.709, 20) David O'Neal 15.770, 21) Alex Crimmings 15.807, 22) Chad Tessman 15.921, 23) Shane Wenninger 16.061, 24) Chris Wiser 16.473.