Schepp Powers To Street Stock Showdown Win At Speedzone
The Powercom Speedzone 
August 6, 2004

The Great Lakes Maintenance Association presented the Street Stock Showdown at the Zone in a special Friday night program at the Powercom Speedzone in Oshkosh. In addition to the American Auto Sales Stocks, the Gibbsville Cheese INEX Legends and the Corporate Impressions/Signmakers Dirt Devils divisions were also in action. 

Cory Friday of Berlin jumped into the lead from the pole at the start of the  American Auto Sales Stocks 30-lap A-Main event. Nate Schepp of Beaver Dam, who started alongside Friday, moved to the top groove and immediately challenged Friday for the top spot. By the end of lap two Schepp was in command of the lead. The first caution of the event came out for a spin by Rick Long of Neenah in turn four as the field worked the third lap. Schepp and Friday battled it out on the restart with Schepp once again taking command. Schepp began to pull away, but the caution came back out on lap nine when Tim Fletcher of Burnett dumped fluid onto the track in turn one.  Schepp had a good restart and began to pull away from the rest of the field. While Schepp began to build a substantial lead, racing back in the pack was furious. The battle for third was intense between Ken Feavel of Oshkosh, Gary Neau of Omro, Jerry Winkler of Oshkosh, Dave Averkamp of Oshkosh and Jerry Kope of Oshkosh. In the meantime, Trevor Schmidt of Hartford, Tim Reichenberger of Oshkosh and F.W. Formiller of Oshkosh were fighting their way up from the back and moved into the top ten.  The final caution of the event came out on lap twenty-three for Mark Schultz of Van Dyne in turn four. The caution wiped out the big lead held by Schepp as the field bunched up for the restart. Dave Averkamp was now in second. On the restart Schepp led the field down into turn one and Averkamp immediately put the pressure on Schepp. Averkamp worked the low groove while Schepp remained up on top. The two battled it out the rest of the way with Averkamp making one last try out of turn four, but Schepp was up to the challenge and powered his way across the line in first. Jerry Kope followed Schepp and Averkamp to the checkered flag to claim the third position. Cory Friday finished a strong run with a fourth place finish. Trevor Schmidt, who had started seventeenth, drove to fifth. Ken Feavel ran in the thick of the battle near the front and finished in sixth. Tim Reichenberger moved up from the sixth row to finish in seventh. F.W. Formiller also moved up from the seventh row to finish in eighth. Dannon Tessmer of Allenton started the event in row ten and worked his way up to take ninth. Dan Troyan of Menomonee Falls was tenth.

Eric Barth of Sauk City was victorious for the third time in four appearances for the Gibbsville Cheese INEX Legends when he drove to the win in the 20-lap A-Main. Darwin Banes of Beaver Dam ran well finishing in second after leading the first eleven laps. Joel Wyttenbach of Sauk City came across the line in third. George Giesen followed in fourth. Adam Reed of Slinger moved up through the pack to take fifth.

Jasper Drengler of Shawano captured his fifth win of the season when he drove to victory in the 20-lap Corporate Impressions/Signmakers Dirt Devils A-Main. Kip Klawitter of Berlin ran well to finish in second. J.R. Gutman of Waupun charged from the fifth row to finish in third. Early race leader Mike Mueller of Waupun drove to fourth. Matthew DeWilde of Neenah had his best race of the season finishing in fifth. 

In preliminary action, Trevor Schmidt drove to the win in the stocks B-Main. David Madell Jr. of Poy Sippi was victorious in the stocks C-Main. Stocks heat race wins were recorded by Jerry Kope, Cory Friday, Jeff Janke of Greenville and Mark Schultz. Legend heat race wins went to Eric Barth and Warren Ropp of Kalona, IA.  Mike Mueller and Jasper Drengler won the dirt devil heats.


Great Lakes Maintenance Association Street Stock Showdown – American Auto Sales Stocks
A-Main (1-10) -  Nate Schepp, Dave Averkamp, Jerry Kope, Cory Friday, Trevor Schmidt, Ken Feavel, Tim Reichenberger, F.W. Formiller, Dannon Tessmer, Dan Troyan (11-20) -  Shawn Haydon, Jason Kienast, Rich Garb, Jerry Winkler, Mark Schultz, Harley Simon, Rick Long, Gary Neau, Jeff Janke, Phil Hiles (21-22) – Tim Fletcher, J.J. Wieckowski

B-Main – Trevor Schmidt

C-Main – David Madell Jr.

Heat 1 – Jerry Kope, Heat 2 – Cory Friday, Heat 3 – Jeff Janke, Heat 4 – Mark Schultz


Gibbsville Cheese INEX Legends
A-Main (1-10) – Eric Barth, Darwin Banes, Joel Wyttenbach, George Giesen, Adam Reed, Greg Hartlaub, Phil Van Tatenhove, Joe Johnson, Tom Henricks, Mark McCallum

Heat 1 – Eric Barth, Heat 2 – Warren Ropp


Corporate Impressions/Signmakers Dirt Devils
A-Main (1-10) – Jasper Drengler, Kip Klawitter, J.R. Gutman, Mike Mueller, Matthew DeWilde, Nick Rennhack, Patrick Klawitter, Mike Klawitter, Bob Fahser, Dustin Schwandt

Heat 1 – Mike Mueller, Heat 2 – Jasper Drengler