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Rains Put Damper On Championship Point Night At The Hill
Saturday, August 28, 2004
By Dan Lewis
(Thunderhill Raceway - Sturgeon Bay, WI) Persistent showers put an end
to the points race Saturday night at Thunderhill Raceway, Sturgeon Bay,
Wisconsin. Thunderhill Raceway drivers and fans alike had their spirits
dampened Saturday night. With most drivers wanting to “prove their
worth” on the track that night, the races were finally called about a
half-hour before the 6pm race
start. The points season was over for now and the track champions were
not able to get to reap their rewards on Championship Night sponsored by
Sportsman Trophy and Engraving in front of their loyal fans. Track
Champions for 2004 will be honored during pre-race ceremonies next week in
front of the race fans. An awards banquet is in the plans to honor the
2004 drivers as well.
Race fans and drivers alike are invited to return next week for a fun and
exciting Street Stock Slam to cap off the year. Street Stocks will be
the headliner, running for $600 first place money along with bonus money of
$20 per lap in the 30-lap feature event. Regular rules apply next week
with no claims. Budweiser IMCA Modified, T Simon Jewelers IMCA Stock
Car, May’s Sports Center IMCA Hobby Stock, AmericInn Street Stock divisions
along with the Sport-4 class will all compete in this post-season special on
Saturday night, September 4th, with competition getting underway at 6
p.m. Pits open at 3:30 pm., grandstands open at 4:30 p.m.
Thunderhill Raceway is located at John Miles Park, the site of the Door County
Fairgrounds, just off Highways 42/57, and west on County Trunk T.
For more information call 920-743-7052 or 920-746-0387, the track phone
number. The track’s website is www.racethunderhill.com.
2004 RECAP
In the Budweiser IMCA Modifieds division, the ultimate title goes to first
time track champion Algoma’s Jeremy Jacobs. Jacobs ran an exceptional
season, competing in 15 point events. Jacobs will go down in the record
books with two feature wins among his seven top-three feature finishes,
sharing the feature wins with seven other drivers. Jacobs’ two feature
wins were against some tough competition from second year driver Benji
LaCrosse, Luxemburg, Mike Cole, Baileys Harbor and Sean Jerovetz of Suamico.
Runnerup in the points chase in the mods went to Sean Jerovetz. Although
not collecting a single feature win for 2004, Jerovetz’s consistent high
finishes kept him in the points for much of the year. Jerovetz had four
top-three’s in 2004, and completed the year with an average finish of eighth
place. Early season points leader Benji LaCrosse will finish third in
points. Of all the drivers that raced in the mod division, sophomore
driver Benji LaCrosse celebrated the most wins...four feature wins among his
eight top-three feature finishes.
Green Bay’s Jared Siefert finished the season in fourth place after a
late-season surge in points. Luxemburg’s Jay Matthias graced the
feature race winner’s circle twice in 2004. Other feature race winners
included Green Bay drivers Randie Back and Dean Maurer, Algoma’s Todd Dart
and James Tebon along with Frog Station’s Dan Ratajczak. In his rookie
season, Tebon finished ninth in points with one feature win on the final
points night just one week ago.
The T Simon Jewelers IMCA Stock Cars crowned a repeat track champion with
Craig Paque of Algoma. Paque earned the track titles in 2001 and 2002,
with Kewaunee’s Shawn Kilgore interrupting his string in 2003. During
the 2004 campaign, Paque took home only one feature win out of his four
top-three finishes, closing out the year by only six points to rookie driver
Troy Muench of Green Bay. Muench was a tough competitor in 2004 after
taking the Street Stock Championship in 2003. Muench celebrated two
feature wins among his six top-three’s. Algoma’s Dave Bouche will
finish third in points with one feature win. Bouche also finished second
and third in two other features.
Fourth place went to Sturgeon Bay’s Bernie Reinhardt, who concluded his year
without a feature win, but was able to stay in the hunt with a heat win and a
second place finish in a feature event. Jeff “Pepe” Vlies, Brussels,
grabbed fifth place honors with a feature win among his four top-three
finishes. Other feature winners included Shawn Kilgore, Casco’s Matt
Junio, Charlie Kroll of Luxemburg, Corey Haen of Sturgeon Bay and
Pulaski’s Rod Snellenberger, taking a non-points fair night event win.
In only their second year at Thunderhill Raceway, the May’s Sports Center
IMCA Hobby Stocks will have a new points champion for 2004. Ed Anschutz,
Algoma, had an spectacular amount of ten top-three finishes for the year with
only 14 nights of features. Two of those were feature wins.
Anschutz won the points race by 18 points over challenger Keith Kickbusch of
Kewaunee. In his first full year at the “Hill”, Kickbusch accounted
for two feature wins among his six top-three’s. Casco’s Marcus Moede
finished third in the division with one feature win.
Fourth place went to Algoma’s Evan Madden. In 2004, Madden chalked up
no feature wins, but was able to muster four top-three’s along with two heat
wins. Denmark’s Tom Brumlic took home five feature wins this season,
and was only one of two drivers to win a feature race during each month of
races at the “Hill.” Other feature winners of the season include
Zion, Illinois’ Tony Schlei,
Sturgeon Bay’s Brandon Peterson and last year’s champion Joe Hegnet.
The AmericInn Street Stock Championship went to Maplewood’s Aaron
Thornton. Thornton, a former Bomber class champion in 1996, won a
division-high six features midseason along with six heat race wins on his way
to a one-point decision over Green Bay’s Jeremy Wiitala. Wiitala
completed each Saturday night event even after suffered a broken ankle late in
the year. He earned three feature wins among his nine top-three feature
finishes. Third place went to
Forestville’s Von Eytcheson. Eytcheson had one feature win among his
five top-three’s and had to earn his way into the feature events twice
through semi-feature wins.
Scott Reinhardt finished the year in fourth place. This Sturgeon Bay
driver had three heat wins but no feature victories. Fifth place went to
first-year driver Kevin Damrow of Manitowoc. This top finishing rookie
earned three top-three finishes and one heat win. Other feature winners
included Brian Ambrosius of Pulaski, Scott Iverson of Sturgeon Bay and first
year driver Todd Polster of Baileys Harbor. Polster accumulated three
feature wins in his first season of racing.
In the Sport 4 Championship, Milwaukee’s Ken Malcore had to come from behind
at the beginning of the season and catch early points leader James
VanDenBogart of Green Bay. Malcore took home seven features this year
and repeated his 2003 track championship season. Malcore accomplished 12
top-three feature finishes out of 14 feature events. First year
driver James VanDenBogart finished second with one feature win among his three
top-three’s. The only other
driver to win a Sport 4 feature was third place Chad Williams of
Brussels. Williams won six features spanning all four months of weekly
competition.
Sturgeon Bay’s Jon Beilfuss Jr. had a great first year with a fourth place
finish in Sport 4 points along with fifth place Charlie Gross of
Gleason. Thunderhill Raceway is located at John Miles Park, the site of
the Door County Fairgrounds, just off Highways 42/57, and west on County Trunk
T. For more information call 920-743-7052 or 920-746-0387, the
track phone number. The track’s website is www.racethunderhill.com.
2004 THUNDERHILL RACEWAY FINAL POINTS - August 28, 2004
Budweiser
IMCA MODIFIEDS Point
Rank/Car#/Name Total
1 90 Jeremy Jacobs 521
2 37 Sean Jerovetz 502
3 54 Benji LaCrosse 478
4 66 Jared Siefert 469
5 8m Jay Matthias 450
6 18 Randy LeMieux Jr. 447
7 3d Todd Dart 433
8 19 George Henkel 425
9 21 James Tebon - R 417
10 73 Dan Ratajczak 417
11 2 Darrell Massart 409
12 10 Chris Derenne 394
13 76 Kevin Sternard 389
14 22c Mike Cole 386
15 3L Billy LeMieux 358
16 4T Tim VanDeHei - R 332
17 43 Tony Herbst 323
18 8J Rick Johnson 306
19 98 Scott Derenne 306
20 22L Doug Maurer 291
21 OOL Rick LeMieux 236
22 O7 Scott Boyea 200
23 38 Randie Back 197
24 13 Jeff Dubois 185
25 65 Dean Maurer 150
26 34 Jerry Wenzel 143
27 32 Lucas Engels 123
28 36d Brian Dancz 111
29 84 Dave Zeitler 106
30 OOrm R.M. VanPay 102
31 11 Mark Berglund 99
32 36 Clyde Skenadore 72
33 23 Brian Baenen 56
34 7 Rob Waechter 45
35 34 Chad Wilcox 41
36 75 Eric Scribner 30
37 67 Mathew McDermid 29
38 79 David Charles 29
39 1m Julie McDermid 28
40 8d Brian Drexler 27
41 77 Mike Wedelstadt 25
42 9 Buck Schmelzer 16
43 99 Eric VanIten 16
44 11f Dave Fischer 13
45 67 Ronnie Plog Jr. 13
46 11 Eugene Gregorich 11
47 82 Don Padgett 11
T Simon Jewelers
IMCA STOCK CARS Point
Rank/Car#/Name Total
1 2p Craig Paque 512
2 52 Troy Muench - R 506
3 21 Dave Bouche 493
4 11 Bernie Reinhardt 486
5 17 Jeff Vlies 479
6 10J Matt Junio 477
7 90 Shawn Kilgore 476
8 8 Charlie Kroll 437
9 54 B.J. Soquet 428
10 76 Mike Wietor 411
11 29 Corey Haen 394
12 73 Don Aregoni 365
13 77 Chris Hendricks 363
14 18L Ryan LeMieux - R 342
15 97 Jamie Suchocki 320
16 4T Shawn Havel - R 315
17 10K Tracy Koontz 313
18 12 Larry Ingebretsen 312
19 25 Tony Bouche 295
20 20R Gary Reinhardt 264
21 6 Rick Mahlberg 264
22 O5 Dave Davister 260
23 15g Kraig Gretz - R 258
24 7d Mark Derenne 213
25 71 Mark Reinhard - R 114
26 34 Brett Wenzel 104
27 44 Pat Davister 82
28 19 Dave Hoerning 69
29 2T Travis VanStraten 68
30 53 Travis Annoye 63
31 73J Don Aregoni Jr. 61
32 55 Shawn Wagner 54
33 10s Rod Snellenberger 34
34 99 Jeremy Christians 33
35 53 Craig Barrett 32
36 50 Kyle Frederick 31
37 36 Larry Karcz 28
38 67 Jon T. Wolf 27
39 53 Brandon Mindak 25
40 41 Troy DeGrave 24
41 5f Mike Franzke 21
42 17 Brian Ankerson 15
May’s Sports Center
IMCA HOBBYSTOCKS Point
Rank/Car#/Name Total
1 71 Ed Anschutz 542
2 47 Keith Kickbusch - R 524
3 9 Marcus Moede 519
4 2 Evan Madden 505
5 40 Tom Brumlic - R 497
6 55 Wayne Moore 486
7 40d Dave DeGrave - R 447
8 10 Brandon Peterson 441
9 49 Roger LaViolette - R 432
10 6 Dave Lane 380
11 56 Jeff Lautenbach 373
12 12 Carl Laughlin 354
13 53 Dwayne Mertens 343
14 18 Davin Malvitz - R 321
15 5 Joe Hegnet 315
16 88 Dave Serrahn - R 270
17 8 Derek Moede 263
18 15 Maynard Hegnet - R 263
19 75 Tony Schlei 221
20 13 Keith Peterson 196
21 20 Casey Groessl 165
22 1 Kevin Luedtke 106
23 O4 Mark Mincheski 95
24 31 Jarred VanLaanen 69
25 5 Kevin Laughlin 62
26 4 Mike Mueller 32
27 11 Travis DuChateau 24
AmericInn STREET STOCKS Point
Rank/Car#/Name Total
1 95 Aaron Thornton 546
2 51 Jeremy Wiitala 545
3 11v Von Eytcheson 521
4 11r Scott Reinhardt 496
5 12 Kevin Damrow - R 476
6 21 Mike King Jr. - R
464
7 73 James Anderson 452
8 3p Todd Polster - R 451
9 25 Mike Pierrard - R
447
10 76 John Sternard - R 427
11 90b Faron Beilke 423
12 44 Dennis Weidner 417
13 29 Scott Iverson 414
14 50 James Iverson 413
15 23 Todd Wagner 382
16 27 Darren Otto 363
17 64 Don Polcen 314
18 75 Thom Terrien 287
19 15 Brian Ambrosius - R 250
20 8 Tim Lautenbach - R 157
21 3b Mark Brickner 145
22 17s Harley Simon 119
23 99 Kevin Jandrin 103
24 14 Jamie Berg - R 86
25 5 Joe Hegnet 82
26 38 Andrew Schnable 82
27 65 Bill Kelsey 80
28 98 Dave Baenen 79
29 34 Tom Daubner 68
30 24 Jerry Denil 57
31 13 Keith Peterson 53
32 34 Jeremy Schultz 52
33 13 Jordan Whipple 50
34 4 Mike Robenhorst 39
35 33 Rick Sternard 34
36 52v Shawn VanOoyen 33
37 2w Jerry Winkler 32
38 66 James Brunette 32
39 79 Joe Johnson 26
40 79 Aaron Melchert 25
41 50 Steve Grenier 24
42 86 Paul White 24
43 95s Jim Solem 22
44 20 Shawn Mraz 22
45 84 Gregg Siebold 22
46 90f Fred Davister 21
47 20 Charlie Kroll 19
48 8 Dean Bader 11
49 19 Chris Konitzer 11
SPORT 4s
Point
Rank/Car#/Name Total
1 2 Ken Malcore 538
2 29J James VanDenBogart - R 527
3 32 Chad Williams 518
4 72 Jon Beilfuss Jr. - R 496
5 9 Charlie Gross - R 446
6 18j Tim Jorgenson - R 353
7 O1B Butch Beyers - R 319
8 8 Gene Sternard -
R 274
9 6 Ryan Johnson 168
10 11 Adam Rex 167
11 115 D.J. Jorgenson - R 141
12 1 Don Mahlberg - R 105
13 55 Matt Beyers - R 97
14 10 Tom Zastrow 72
15 6 Dave Schlise 70
16 8 Tyler Smith 70
17 16d Ben Daoust 38
18 10 Mike Hanson 37
19 15 Todd Smith 37
20 27k Dale Kroll 35
21 O1 Jasper Drengler 35
22 17 Greg Banker 35
23 415 Steve Schaumberg 35
24 28 Jason Soucek 34
25 11 Ed Howard 33
26 15 Bob Skippon 32
27 10 Alex Stauber 30
28 10 Les Lemmens 30
29 8m Brett Meyer 29
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