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Danny Schlafer Secures Wilmot Feature
Saturday, August 24th, 2004 - by Jay Ohman
Wilmot, WI - On a an extremely fast and tacky Wilmot Speedway, Danny Schlafer
catapulted to the win in convincing fashion to notch his third Feature win of
the season. The win helped Schlafer narrow his second place rank in the
points chase on leader Doug Schenck.
The Feature opened up with a first lap melee on the front stretch as second
row starting Dean Erfurth lost control of his car doing a wheelie out of turn
four collecting Scott Kuxhouse and sending Kuxhouse for a hard flip into the
wall, Kuxhouse was not injured. Joe Wipperfurth, Rob Pribnow and Alex
Crimmings suffered race ending damage trying to avoid the incident as a tangle
of five cars came to a stop against the infield wall.
The full restart saw Schlafer coming from the second row go three wide into
turn three launching past front row starters Scott Conger and Chris
Wiser. Attempting to keep pace with Schlafer, fourth running David
O'Neal punctured his right front tire on the rear bumper of Conger but was
able to stay in the race on the three remaining wheels.
With the race shortened to 10 laps due to time constraints, the action was
fast and exciting as many cars were lifting the front wheels out of the
corners. Schlafer opened up an untouchable lead while Scott Semmelmann, Al
Schlafer and Doug Schenck hastened forward through the field, Tim Haddy was
quickly making up ground after having to restart at the rear.
Danny Schlafer went on to win with a straightaway lead, Wiser and Conger
posted their best ever MSA finishes following in second and third
respectively. David O'Neal was able to nurse his car to a fourth place
finish barely edging out the last lap charge of Semmelmann.
Mark Wernes Jr. held on to sixth place, and Al Schlafer earned KSE Hard
Charger honors advancing nine positions to finish seventh. Doug Schenck
advanced to finish eighth and John Fahl followed in ninth. Tim Haddy had
an impressive run from the rear to round out the top ten.
In the Triton Trailers/Racing Optics B-Main, Al Schlafer was able to hold off
the hard charge of Crimmings for the win. Also tranfering to the feature
were Shane Wenninger, Chad Tessman, Bill Taylor, Mike Henkel and Keith Fellner.
The Hepfner Race Products first heat was green to checker Schenck with O'Neal
giving chase. The second heat sponsored by JB Enterprises had Rookie
Pribnow notching his second heat win of the year with Danny Schlafer finishing
second. In the MPD Racing Products third heat Conger snatched the
checker from Wernes with a photo finish in an exciting last lap charge.
Next week, the MSA returns to Wilmot Speedway on Saturday July 31st and then
on Sunday August 1st the MSA will appear at Angell Park Speedway in Sun
Prairie. For all of the latest standings, results, pictures and more, visit
the MSA website at www.msasprints.com.
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Midwest Sprintcar Association - Results for Jul 24, 2004
Feature -- 1. Danny Schlafer, Sussex, WI; 2.
Chris Wiser, Neosho, WI; 3.
Scott Conger, Eagle, WI; 4. David O'Neal, Milwaukee, WI; 5. Scott Semmelmann,
Brookfield, WI; 6. Mark Wernes Jr., West Allis, WI; 7. Al Schlafer, Sussex,
WI;
8. Doug Schenck, Madison, WI; 9. John Fahl, Brown Deer, WI; 10. Tim Haddy,
Lomira, WI; 11. Lance Fassbender, Horicon, WI; 12. Dan Duffield, McHenry, IL;
13. Bill Taylor, Cascade, WI; 14. Chad Tessman, Jefferson, WI; 15. Michael
Henkel, Plymouth, WI; 16. Keith Fellner, Sturtevant, WI; 17. Shane Wenninger,
Kewaskum, WI; 18. Alex Crimmings, Mayville, WI; 19. Joe Wipperfurth, Sun
Prarie,
WI; 20. Rob Pribnow, Lomira, WI; 21. Scott Kuxhouse, Antioch, IL; 22. Dean
Erfurth, Oregon, WI.
B-Main Feature -- 1. Al Schlafer; 2. Crimmings;
3. Wenninger; 4. Chad
Tessman; 5. Taylor; 6. Henkel; 7. Fellner; 8. Joe Pantely, Beaver Dam, WI; 9.
Karl Dietzel, Cedarburg, WI; 10. Craig Hemmen, New Berlin, WI; 11. Ryan
Tessman,
Watertown, WI; DNS Jim Lukey.
Heat Race -- First: 1. Schenck; 2.
O'Neal; 3. Erfurth; 4. Wipperfurth; 5.
Fahl; 6. Al Schlafer; 7. Pantely; 8. Fellner; 9. Lukey. Second: 1.
Pribnow; 2.
Danny Schlafer; 3. Fassbender; 4. Wiser; 5. Semmelmann; 6. Henkel; 7. Ryan
Tessman; 8. Dietzel; 9. Crimmings. Third: 1. Conger; 2. Wernes; 3. Haddy;
4.
Duffield; 5. Kuxhouse; 6. Wenninger; 7. Chad Tessman; 8. Hemmen; 9. Taylor.
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Midwest Sprintcar Association
Standings as of Jul 24, 2004
1. Doug Schenck
890
2. Danny Schlafer
849
3. Lance Fassbender
787
4. Tim Haddy
778
5. Al Schlafer
750
6. David
O'Neal
741
7. Scott
Conger
739
8. Rob Pribnow
644
9. Mark Wernes
Jr.
631
10. Bill
Taylor
620
11. Joe Wipperfurth
613
12. John Fahl
577
13. Chris
Wiser
559
14. Shane Wenninger
552
15. K. J. Skelton
540
16. Chad Tessman
536
17. Keith Olejnik
482
18. Alex Crimmings
430
19. Scott Semmelmann
407
20. Jeff
Becker
396
21. Scott Kuxhouse
362
22. Craig Hemmen
332
23. Karl Dietzel
315
24. Michael Henkel
300
25. Etchie Biertzer
290
26. Joe Pantely
285
27. Scott Sippel
277
28. Dan Duffield
251
29. Dean Erfurth
234
30. Jerry
Ski
225
31. Rob
Heywood
208
32. Keith Fellner
201
33. Lloyd
Dykstra
198
34. T.J. Luedke
173
35. Mike Kertscher
166
36. Troy Wondra
158
37. Ryan Tessman
134
38. Joe
Roe
94
39. Chad Deselle
90
40. Michael Emme
78
41. John Sauermilch
Jr.
53
42. Jim Lukey
12
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