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Diemel Dominates WISSOTA Late Model Feature At Shawano Speedway
By: Bert Lehman
Shawano, WI (May 6, 2006) - Nice weather finally greeted the Shawano Speedway
Saturday night. A.J. Diemel won his first feature of the year in the WISSOTA
Late Model division, with Troy Springborn winning his second Limited Late
Model feature. Jerry Muenster won a crazy ending to the IMCA Modified feature,
while Greg Gretz won the IMCA Stock Car feature, and Tracy Wassenberg won the
IMCA Sport Mod feature.
The WISSOTA Late Model feature got off to a rough start, with two cautions
during the first two laps. When the race was restarted on lap three, Jeff
Curtin jumped out to the lead over A.J. Diemel, Gordie Seegert, Mark Mitchell
and Tim Buhler. Diemel and Seegert worked their way by Curtin on the next lap,
while Troy Springborn joined the top five before another caution came out with
five laps in the book. Diemel maintained his lead on the restart, with Buhler,
Seegert, Springborn and Curtin following.
With the passing of each lap, Diemel began to pull away from the rest of the
field. This left Buhler, Seegert and Springborn to race in a pack for the
second spot, while Mitchell rejoined the top five. With half the race in the
books, Springborn moved into the second spot, with Seegert right on his rear
bumper. As Diemel controlled the rest of the race, Seegert put heavy pressure
on Springborn over the final four laps, and made it worthwhile on the last
lap, grabbing the second spot from Springborn. But it was all Diemel, as he
cruised to the victory over Seegert, Springborn, Buhler and Mitchell.
Russ Reinhold grabbed the early lead over Kyle Meyers, Jerry Muenster, Tom
Schaal and Jeremy Hodkiewicz in the IMCA Modified feature. Reinhold held the
lead for the first two laps, before Jeremie Hedrick moved to the top spot on a
restart on lap three. Hedrick began pulling away from the field, while
Muenster moved to second, leaving Reinhold and Schaal in a battle for third.
As the race approached its midway point, Eric Scribner was slicing his way
through traffic, moving all the way up to third.
Scribner made his way by Muenster for second with five laps remaining and set
his sights on Hedrick. Scribner gained on Hedrick with each remaining lap, and
was right on his bumper as the white flag waved. Hedrick was up the challenge,
beating Scribner to the line. After the race was over, Hedrick was docked two
positions for jumping an earlier restart, giving the win to Scribner. But
Scribner was then disqualified for grinding on his tires. This gave the
official win to Muenster, with Hedrick, Lance Arneson, Brandon Czarapata and
Craig Bartz rounding out the top five.
After a first lap restart, Greg Gretz took the early lead over Darren Otto,
Kyle Frederick, Rod Snellenberger and Larry Karcz in the IMCA Stock Car
feature. Otto fell to fourth on the next lap, with Snellenberger moving up to
second. Snellenberger maintained pace with Gretz over the next several laps,
while Karcz, Frederick and Jason Czarapata battled for position.
With five laps remaining, Karz made contact with Snellenberger in turn three,
causing Snellenberger to spin. Karcz was put to the back, while Snellenberger
got his spot back. Snellenberger tried several times over the final laps to
take the lead, but it was Gretz taking the win over Snellenberger, Frederick,
Brian Bruechert and Czarapata.
Rocky Miller led the first nine laps of the Limited Late Model division before
Troy Springborn and Jeff Curtin caught him. Springborn had started the race in
17th place and Curtin had started in 15th place. A caution came out right
after Springborn had taken the lead. Curtin drove into corner run hard on the
restart in an attempt to take the lead. Springborn held off that challenge,
leaving Curtin Mike Kunschke, Jeff Wickersheim and Bob Schmidt following.
That’s the way it ended, with Springborn winning his second feature of the
year.
In the IMCA Sport Mod feature, Mike Czarapata took the quick lead over Brad
Bricko, Tracy Wassenberg, Jamie Diestler and Shawn Wagner. Wassenberg moved to
second on the next lap, before two cautions slowed the action. Czarapata kept
the lead on the restart, but Wassenberg began pressuring for the lead with six
laps remaining. Wassenberg eventually took over the top spot and never looked
back, winning his first feature of the year. He was followed by Czarapata,
Wagner, Chad Nelson and Charles Grall.
Racing action will continue at the Shawano Speedway next Saturday. Racing
actions starts at 6:00 p.m. For more information about the Shawano Speedway,
visit www.shawanospeedway.net.
RACING SUMMARY
WISSOTA LATE MODEL FEATURE: 1)A.J. Diemel, 2)Gordie Seegert, 3)Troy
Springborn, 4)Tim Buhler, 5)Mark Mitchell, 6)Ron Berna, 7)Chris Ortel, 8)Nick
Anvelink, 9)M.J. McBride, 10)Jeff Curtin. FIRST HEAT: 1)Springborn, 2)Terry
Anvelink, 3)Ortel. SECOND HEAT: 1)Diemel, 2)Buhler, 3)Doug Blashe. THIRD HEAT:
1)Berna, 2)Seegert, 3)McBride.
IMCA MODIFIED FEATURE: 1)Jerry Muenster, 2)Jeremie Hedrick, 3)Lance
Arneson, 4)Brandon Czarapata, 5)Craig Bartz, 6)Tom Schaal, 7)Dave Diemel,
8)Scott Mullen, 9)Travis Spaulding, 10)Jeremy Hodkiewicz. FIRST CONSI: 1)Scott
Williams, 2)Jerry Wilinski. SECOND CONSI: 1)Russ Huxford, 2)Mike Bailey. THIRD
CONSI: 1)John Berna, 2)Jarrod Anvelink. FIRST HEAT: 1)Hedrick, 2)Hodkiewicz,
3)Czarapata. SECOND HEAT: 1)Bartz, 2)Schaal, 3)Kyle Meyers. THIRD HEAT:
1)Spaulding, 2)Eric Scribner, 3)Diemel. FOURTH HEAT: 1)Russ Reinhold, 2)Jerry
Muenster, 3)Arneson.
IMCA STOCK CAR FEATURE: 1)Greg Gretz, 2)Rod Snellenberger, 3)Kyle
Frederick, 4)Brian Bruechert, 5)Jason Czarapata, 6)Kevin Lamberies, 7)Darren
Otto, 8)Asa Doxtator, 9)Mike Asenbrenner, 10)Kurt Olson. FIRST HEAT:
1)Bruechert, 2)Lamberies, 3)Frederick. SECOND HEAT: 1)Larry Karcz, 2)Gene
Johnson, 3)Otto. THIRD HEAT: 1)Snellenberger, 2)Gretz, 3)Olson.
LIMITED LATE MODEL FEATURE: 1)Troy Springborn, 2)Jeff Curtin, 3)Mike
Kunschke, 4)Jeff Wickersheim, 5)Bob Schmidt, 6)Gary Janke, 7)Rocky Miller,
8)Aaron Wickersheim, 9)Chad Hohn, 10)A.J. Miller. FIRST HEAT: 1)J. Wickersheim,
2)R. Miller, 3)Bennett. SECOND HEAT: 1)Kunschke, 2)Joey Braatz,
3)Curtin.
IMCA SPORT MOD FEATURE: 1)Tracy Wassenberg, 2)Mike Czarapata, 3)Shawn
Wagner, 4)Chad Nelson, 5)Charles Grall, 6)Tom Schmidt, 7)Joe Reuter, 8)Jamie
Diesler, 9)Greg Magsom, 10)Robert Besaw. FIRST HEAT: 1)Czarapata,
2)Wassenberg, 3)Magsom. SECOND HEAT: 1)Diesler, 2)Nelson, 3)Schmidt.
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