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Hedrick Wins Second Straight Modified Feature At Shawano
By: Bert Lehman
Shawano, WI (June 10, 2006) - Racing continued at Shawano Speedway Saturday
night, with veteran Pete Parker winning the WISSOTA Late Model feature.
Jeremie Hedrick won his second straight IMCA Modified feature, while Jason
Czarapata won the IMCA Stock Car feature. The Fastrak Crate Late Model feature
went to Jeff Curtin, and the IMCA Sport Mod feature went to Brad Bricko.
Using his pole position starting spot, Pete Parker jumped out to the early
lead over Jesse Peebles, Cody Grosskreutz, Ryan Huettl and Greg Stelse. Huettl
grabbed the third spot on the next lap, with Troy Springborn joining the top
five. Over the next several laps, Parker began to build himself a nice lead,
with Springborn moving up to third by the time half the race was in the
books.
Just past the halfway point, Springborn began to fade, Grosskreutz moved up to
third and Rod Snellenberger moved up to fourth. With the laps winding down,
Snellenberger grabbed the third spot from Grosskreutz, with Gordie Seegert
moving to the fifth spot. With three laps remaining, Snellenberger made
contact with Peebles in turn two. Peebles spun out, and Snellenberger broke
some front-end suspension items on his car, ending his night. Peebles got his
spot back on the restart. Parker continued to lead on the restart, and went on
to the victory. He was followed by Grosskreutz, Seegert, Nick Anvelink and Tom
Naeyaert.
In the IMCA Modified feature, Mike Wedelstadt took the lead at the drop of the
green flag over Jamie Schmidt, Jeremy Hodkiewicz, Paul Thorpe and Eddie
Muenster. A caution on lap three slowed the action. On the restart, Wedelstadt
continued to lead, with Hodkiewicz second, Muenster third, Dave Diemel fourth
and Thorpe fifth. Jeremie Hedrick joined the top five on the next lap, and
started his advance toward the front when another caution slowed the action.
Wedelstadt continued to lead on the restart, with Hedrick moving to second,
and Muenster, Hodkiewicz and Diemel following. Hedrick got a run on Wedelstadt
on the next lap, but Wedelstadt tried to take Hedrick’s line away, only to
drift up the track, allowing Hedrick to take the lead. Once in the lead,
Hedrick never looked back, as he took the win. In post-race inspection, it was
discovered that Wedelstadt had illegal spindles on his car, disqualifying
himself from the race. This gave second place to Muenster, with Hodkiewicz,
Diemel and Brandon Czarapata rounding out the top five.
Scott Stewart led the first two laps of the IMCA Stock Car feature, before
giving up the lead to Greg Gretz. Stewart settled into second place, with B.J.
Giese, Junior Karcz and Mike Ashenbrenner following. Giese eventually worked
his way up to the second spot, while Brian Bruechert joined the top five, when
the only caution of the race came out on lap seven.
Gretz continued to lead on the restart, with Bruechert moving up to third, and
Giese, Jason Czarapata and Darren Otto following. With five laps to go,
Czarapata grabbed the second spot and set his sights on Gretz, leaving Giese,
Bruechert and Rod Snellenberger to fight for third. Czarapata pulled up to
Gretz’s rear bumper with two laps to go, and he pulled alongside him with
one lap remaining. The two drivers raced side-by-side for almost the entire
lap. At the line, it was Czarapata winning by inches over Gretz. Giese,
Bruechert and Snellenberger rounded out the top five. After the race was over,
Bruechert had his engine claimed by Jeff Brehmer. Bruechert chose to do an
engine swap with Brehmer.
The first four laps of the Fastrack Crate Late Model feature was led by Matt
Rindt, with Bob Schmidt, Troy Springborn, Joel Bennett and Chad Hohn
following. Springborn moved into second place on the fourth lap, and then
grabbed the lead on the next lap. Once in the lead, Springborn began to pull
away from the field, while Jeff Curtin was making his way through the top
five. A caution with five laps remaining took away Springborn’s big lead,
bunching up the field.
On the restart, Springborn continued to lead, with Curtin moving to second,
while Rindt, Mike Kunschke and Jeff Wickersheim rounded out the top five.
Curtin moved to the inside of Springborn on the next lap to take the lead. The
two battled side-by-side with the laps coming to an end when a caution came
out after the white flag had waved. It was ruled Curtin had led the last
completed lap, so the win went to Curtin, with Springborn, Kunschke, Rindt and
Wickersheim following.
Mike Czarapata led the first lap of the IMCA Sport Mod feature before Brad
Bricko grabbed the top spot. Czarapata continued to drop positions over the
next several laps, leaving Shawn Wagner, Craig Hoffman and Tracy Wassenberg to
chase the leader. Wassenberg began making his way through the top five, and
grabbed the second spot with three laps remaining. There was no catching
Bricko, as he won his second straight feature, with Wassenberg, Wagner,
Hoffman and Jason Jach rounding out the top five.
Racing action will continue at Shawano Speedway next Saturday. Racing actions
starts at 6:00 p.m. For more information about Shawano Speedway, visit www.shawanospeedway.net.
RACING SUMMARY
WISSOTA LATE MODEL FEATURE: 1)Pete Parker, 2)Cody Grosskreutz, 3)Gordie
Seegert, 4)Nick Anvelink, 5)Tom Naeyaert, 6)Ron Berna, 7)Ryan Huettl, 8)Jesse
Peebles, 9)Mark Mitchell, 10)Justin Ritchie.
FIRST HEAT: 1)Grosskreutz, 2)Berna, 3)Ritchie.
SECOND HEAT: 1)Terry Anvelink, 2)Parker, 3)Troy Springborn.
THIRD HEAT: 1)Doug Blashe, 2)Greg Stelse, 3)Peebles.
IMCA MODIFIED FEATURE: 1)Jeremie Hedrick, 2)Eddie Muenster, 3)Jeremy
Hodkiewicz, 4)Dave Diemel, 5)Brandon Czarapata, 6)Eric Scribner, 7)Paul
Thorpe, 8)Lance Arneson, 9)Jerry Muenster, 10)Jarrod Anvelink.
FIRST CONSI: 1)Czarapata, 2)Jerry Wilinski.
SECOND CONSI: 1)J. Muenster, 2)Craig Bartz.
FIRST HEAT: 1)Hedrick, 2)Jamie Schmidt, 3)E. Muenster.
SECOND HEAT: 1)Hodkiewicz, 2)John Berna, 3)Diemel.
THIRD HEAT: 1)Scribner, 2)Thorpe, 3)Tom Schaal.
FOURTH HEAT: 1)Mike Wedelstadt, 2)Jeremy Hanson, 3)Brad Rohloff.
IMCA STOCK CAR FEATURE: 1)Jason Czarapata, 2)Greg Gretz, 3)B.J. Giese, 4)Brian
Bruechert, 5)Rod Snellenberger, 6)Darren Otto, 7)Kevin Lamberies, 8)Dan
Michonski, 9)Scott Stewart, 10)Shawn Frederick.
FIRST CONSI: 1)Jeff Brehmer, 2)Leslie Slater.
SECOND CONSI: 1)Dave Zegers, 2)Kurt Olson.
FIRST HEAT: 1)Stewart, 2)Giese, 3)Frederick.
SECOND HEAT: 1)Lamberies, 2)Gretz, 3)Snellenberger.
THIRD HEAT: 1)Czarapata, 2)Junior Karcz, 3)Bruechert.
LIMITED LATE MODEL FEATURE: 1)Jeff Curtin, 2)Troy Springborn, 3)Mike Kunschke,
4)Matt Rindt, 5)Jeff Wickersheim, 6)Joel Bennett, 7)Rocky Miller, 8)A.J.
Miller, 9)Aaron Wickersheim, 10)Joey Braatz.
FIRST HEAT: 1)Rindt, 2)Bob Schmidt, 3)A. Miller.
SECOND HEAT: 1)Springborn, 2)A. Wickersheim, 3)Kunschke.
IMCA SPORT MOD FEATURE: 1)Brad Bricko, 2)Tracy Wassenberg, 3)Shawn Wagner,
4)Craig Hoffman, 5)Jason Jach, 6)Mike Czarapata, 7)Aaron Holiday, 8)Jamie
Diesler, 9)Joe Van Ooyen, 10)Charles Grall.
FIRST HEAT: 1)Wagner, 2)Jach, 3)Czarapata.
SECOND HEAT: 1)Hoffman, 2)Wassenberg, 3)Bricko.
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