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Plymouth Dirt Track Wraps Up 2006
by Staci Abrahamson
(Plymouth) The 2006 racing season at Plymouth Dirt Track concluded this
Saturday night at the Sheboygan County Fairgrounds.
Plymouth Dirt Track crowned four divisions’ champions; Dave Enders of
Kiel won the Sprint division title. Dan Sorce of Franklin topped the points
for the Late Models. Brain Genske of Cleveland walked away with the
championship in the Grand Nationals. While Jay Riemer of Sheboygan Falls
grabbed the Outlaw Compacts champion title.
Grand National division was first up to complete their heats, B-mains, and a
twenty-five lap A-main feature. Points Leader Genske clinched the 2006 Grand
National title by merely starting a heat race.
In the first heat race for the Grand Nationals, Luke Scholten of Oostburg
picked up the win over Loren Lubach of Sheboygan. Brain Kaat of Plymouth
outran Brad Lubach (Elkhart Lake) to the line in the second heat race. Mark
Scholten of Waldo grabbed the checkers from Tim Thompson (Campbellsport). In
the fourth and final heat, Brad Mueller (Random Lake) beat Brad Dahmer for the
win.
In B-main action, Doug Teunissen of Sheboygan Falls led the way for the
transfers in to the A-main. Bob Cullen of Chilton, Scott Sohrweide of Chilton,
and Tony Miller of Random Lake also transferred by finishing in the top four.
Brad Lubach beat Random Lake’s Jeremy Sauter and Brad Mueller in the A-main
feature. Chad Rathke (Random Lake) was fourth and Brad Dahmer was fifth.
For the season points standings, Brain Genske was first, Brad Mueller was
second, Jeremy Sauter was third, Chad Rathke was fourth, and Brad Lubach was
fifth.
Sprint cars were up after the Grand Nationals. Earl Possi of Escanaba,
MI won the first heat race over Rob Pribnow of Mayville. Kurt Davis of
Milwaukee beat Tony Wondra (Campbellsport) in the second heat. In the third
heat, Brain Kristan of Beach Park, IL beat Troy Wondra (Lomira), and in
the fourth and final heat for the Sprint cars, Al Schlafer (Sussex) beat Barry
Maas (Waldo) to the checkers.
Lance Fassbender (Burnett) picked up the first of three transfer spots into
the Sprint’s A-main by winning the first of two B-mains. Ken Jay Fiedler
(Sheboygan Falls) was second, and T.J. Luedke (Plymouth) was third,
transferring into the A-main.
In the second B-main, Josh Walter of Plymouth won over Tim Haddy of Lomira.
Brain Portschy of Oostburg was third. All three picking up transfer spots into
the A-main feature.
In the A-main, fans saw Tim Haddy take a hard roll on the front stretch,
landing on his side. Another Sprint car ran right into his top wing. Luckily,
Haddy was able to walk away from the wreck. After the clean up from the wreck,
Kurt Davis went on to win the feature. Dave Enders was second, Rob Pribnow was
third, Brian Kristan was fourth, and Michael Emme of Manitowoc was fifth.
The final points standings for the sprint cars have Dave Enders as the 2006
champion, with Danny Schlafer (Sussex) second, Lance Fassbender third, Ken Jay
Fiedler fourth, and Kurt Davis fifth.
Late Models were after the Sprints. In the first of three heat races, Al
Atkinson of Milwaukee muscled his way to the win over Todd Jensema of
Sheboygan Falls. Turk Letiza of Milwaukee found himself in victory lane
after the end of the second heat race over Dan Sorce. Bret Sievert of
Mukwanago beat Jim Letizia of Milwaukee in the final heat.
Scott Sohrweide (Chilton) picked up the win, and a transfer spot into the
A-main, in the B-main for the Late Models. Mark Zimmerman (Kohler), Melissa
Singer (Waldo), and T.J. Dolhun (West Allis) transferred in along with
Sohrweide.
Jim Schmidt of Cleveland ran a great race in the A-main in the division and
has the win to prove it. Turk Letizia chased him to the line and
finished second, with Todd Jensema third, Charlie Schmidt (Oostburg) fourth,
and Tim Carmen (Sheboygan Falls) fifth.
Dan Sorce topped the season’s point standings by thirteen points over Turk
Letizia. Tim Carmen was third, with Todd Jensema fourth and Russ Scheffler
fifth.
Outlaw Compacts had three heat races, Scott Long (Waldo) came out victorious
in the first heat race over Josh Moen (Plymouth). In the second heat, Elijah
Riess took a wild ride, rolling four times in turn four on the second lap of
the second heat. He was ok. Curt Teunissen of Hingham went on to win
over Jay Riemer. Corey Peters rolled his car in turn two in the third and
final heat race, he also was ok. Jeremy Miller of Sheboygan Falls won the race
of Jason Juech of West Bend.
Curt Teunissen would go onto win the A-main feature for the Outlaw Compacts
over Jay Riemer, Jason Juech, Chad Riederer, and Chad Ninmer.
Jay Riemer won the Championship in the Outlaw Compacts for the 2006 season,
with Travis Moehring (Sheboygan) second, Scott Long (Waldo) third, Steven
Weber (Plymouth) fourth, and Kurt Jakubowski (Sheboygan Falls) fifth.
Plymouth Dirt Track also featured the top eight Sprint cars (in the points
standings) with a bracketed shoot out for a prize of $1,000 going to the
winner. Dave Enders and Michael Emme were the first two cars to compete
in the two lap shoot out, with Emme taking the flag and advancing to the next
round. Ken Jay Feidler beat Kurt Davis in the two lap show down. T.J. Luedke
beat Danny Schlafer in the third match up, and Lance Fassbender beat Rob
Pribnow in the fourth shoot out.
Emme and Fiedler were matched up for the next bracket, and it was Emme coming
out victorious. Emme advanced to the five lap final. In the match of T.J.
Luedke against Lance Fassbender, Luedke used the bottom groove to beat
Fassbender to advance for to compete for the cash against Emme.
In the five lap all-out-dash-for-the-cash, Michael Emme went straight to the
lead and never really looked back. He would win the race and the $1,000 purse.
It was a great season at Plymouth Dirt Track this year. Thanks to the
competitors, the volunteers, the track officials, and especially the
fans.
Grand Nationals
A-Main
1. #37 Brad Lubach
2. #29s Jeremy Sauter
3. #5 Brad Mueller
4. #9r Chad Rathke
5. #45 Brad Dahmer
6. #67 Scott Houpt
7. #87 Brian Genske
8. #41s Scott Sohrweide
9. #48 Doug Teunissen
10. #69 Tim Thompson
11. #15 Brian Kaat
12. #8 Bob Cullen
13. #61c Loren Lubach
14. #55m Tony Miller
15. 0 Mark Scholten
16. #21x Terry McCoy
17. #47 Paul Perronne
18. #35 Ben Schmidt
19. #10 Ryan Kessler
20. #80 Luke Scholten
Sprints
A-Main
1. #6k Kurt Davis
2. #51e Dave Enders
3. #20h Robbie Pribnow
4. #5 Brian Kristan
5. #99e Michael Emme
6. #22m Adam Miller
7. #99t Terry Marten
8. #26 Al Schlafer
9. #7 Lance Fassbender
10. #55p Brian Portschy
11. #95 Ken Jay Fiedler
12. #21t T.J. Luedke
13. #22 Mark Wernes Jr.
14. #25 Danny Schlafer
15. #39p Earl Possi
16. #73z Ozzie Wesener
17. #53 Shane Wenninger
18. #31s Josh Walter
19. #32w Troy Wondra
20. #3x Scott Semmelmann
21. #97w Tony Wondra
22. #21h Tim Haddy
Late Models
A-Main
1. #79 Jim Schmidt
2. #D1 Turk Letizia
3. #89 Todd Jensema
4. #22 Charlie Schmidt
5. #85c Tim Carman
6. #29 Al Atkinson
7. #21d T.J. Dolhun
8. #8r Bill Rezutek
9. #D7 Jim Letizia
10. #14 Will Sorce
11. #5s Bret Sievert
12. #83 Frank Geiger
13. #21k John Scharenbroch
14. #52 Mark Zimmermann
15. #55 Melissa Singer
16. #77 Ray Reiss
17. #18 Nate Winkel
18. #71 Henry Dickmann
19. #41 Scott Sohrweide
20. #29z Nathan Disney
Outlaw Compacts
A-Main
1. #40 Curt Teunissen
2. #31 Jay Riemer
3. #42 Jason Juech
4. #2 Chad Riederer
5. #87 Chad Ninmer
6. #3 Jeremy Miller
7. $35 Kurt Jakubowski
8. #66 Travis Moehring
9. #71 Tammy Dickmann-Flunker
10. #01 James Machtle
11. #29s Angie Dutton
12. #31t Josh Torrisch
13. #7 Tim Simon
14. #64 Michael Zitzer
15. #34 Steven Weber
16. #55s Samantha Portschy
17. #32 Scott Long
18. #20 Josh Moen
19. #99 Travis Cevaal
Final points standings are posted on the Web site, www.plymouthdtr.com
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