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Anvelink Wins With Late Race Pass At Shawano Speedway
By: Bert Lehman
Shawano, WI (July 29, 2006) - Nick Anvelink used a late race pass to claim his
third WISSOTA Late Model feature at Shawano Speedway. Brad Rohloff won his
first IMCA Modified feature of the year, while Chas Van Ooyen won his first
IMCA Stock Car feature at the Speedway. Justin Hirt won the Fastrak Crate Late
Model feature, while Bob Besaw won his third IMCA Sport Mod feature.
Troy Springborn jumped out to the quick lead over Justin Ritchie, Doug Blashe,
Nick Anvelink and Chris Ortel in the WISSOTA Late Model feature. Pete Parker
joined the top five on the next lap. Springborn continued to lead over the
next several laps, but Ritchie began gaining on the leader, and pulled up to
Springborn’s rear bumper when the only caution of the race came out on lap
seven.
Springborn continued to lead on the restart, with Anvelink moving to second,
Ritchie dropping to third, Terry Anvelink moving up to fourth and Parker
remaining in fifth. That’s the way it stayed for several laps, as A.J.
Diemel was making his way to the top five. Diemel joined the top five with
five laps remaining. A couple laps later, Nick Anvelink worked his way by
Springborn to grab the lead. Anvelink led the rest of the way, winning his
third feature of the year. He was followed by Springborn, Ritchie, Terry
Anvelink and Diemel.
In the IMCA Modified feature, Paul Parker grabbed the early lead over Brad
Rohloff, Dave Werbelow, Dave Diemel and Jerry Wilinski. Wilinski moved to
fourth on the second lap, and then to third one lap later, as Mike Wedelstadt
also joined the top five. Rohloff began gaining on Parker, and the two raced
side-by-side for a couple of laps before Rohloff took control of the top spot
halfway through the race. Wedelstadt and Jeremie Hedrick also got by Parker at
this time. The only caution of the race came out with six laps remaining.
Rohloff maintained his lead on the restart, but was receiving pressure from
Wedelstadt, with Hedrick not far behind. Using the high groove, Hedrick moved
into second with three laps remaining. With two laps remaining, Hedrick ducked
underneath Rohloff in corners three and four, grabbed the lead, but drifted
high, allowing Rohloff to reclaim the lead. On the last lap, Hedrick tried the
same move in three and four, but this time drove his car in a little too hard,
and spun out. Rohloff went on to the victory. He was followed by Wedelstadt,
Parker, Wilinski and Eric Scribner.
Dave Zegers jumped out to the early lead over Mike Asenbrener, Chas Van Ooyen,
Kevin Lamberies and Jason Czarapata in the IMCA Stock Car feature. Van Ooyen
grabbed the second spot on the next lap, and set his sights on Zegers. Van
Ooyen moved into the lead on lap five, as Lamberies also got by Zegers to
claim the second spot. Zegers continued to fade over the next several laps,
allowing Czarapata and Greg Gretz to move up.
Once in the lead, Van Ooyen pulled out to a slight lead while Lamberies and
Czarapata battled for the next several laps, racing side-by-side, and swapping
the position a couple teams before Czarapata took control of second. With a
couple laps remaining, Czarapata began running down Van Ooyen, but when the
checkered flags waved, it was Van Ooyen taking the win, his first at the
Speedway. He was followed by Czarapata, Lamberies, Gretz and Asenbrener.
Lamberies won the earlier Australian Pursuit race.
In the Fastrak Late Model feature, Justin Hirt used his front row starting
spot to jump out to the early lead over Joel Bennett, Chad Hohn and Rocky
Miller. Troy Springborn quickly made his way through traffic to join the top
five on the third lap. Hirt had already pulled out to a decent lead when a
couple of cautions slowed the race on laps four and six.
Hirt continued to lead on the restarts, with Bennett and Springborn racing
side-by-side, and Bob Schmidt and Jeff Curtin joining the top five. With Hirt
in control, Springborn finally wrestled the second spot from Bennett with six
laps remaining. A caution came out with three laps remaining. During the
caution, Springborn retired from the race with motor problems, as did Curtin,
whose car was leaking oil. Hirt would not be challenged and won his first
feature at the Speedway. He was followed by Schmidt, Bennett, Aaron
Wickersheim and Miller.
Greg Magsam grabbed the early lead in the IMCA Sport Mod feature, over Bob
Besaw, Craig Hoffman, Brad Bricco and Mike Czarapata. Besaw took the lead on
the second lap, only to have Hoffman grab the top spot one lap later. Besaw
reclaimed the lead the next lap, and held it for one more lap before Hoffman
once again grabbed the top spot. Besaw battled back, once again taking the
lead with four laps remaining. Hoffman tried to take the lead on the last lap,
and made contact with Besaw, but both kept going. It was Besaw taking the win,
with Hoffman, Czarapata, Shawn Wagner and Bricco following.
Racing action continues Saturday night, with the action getting underway at 6
p.m. For more information about Shawano Speedway, visit www.shawanospeedway.net.
RACING SUMMARY
WISSOTA LATE MODEL FEATURE: 1)Nick Anvelink, 2)Troy Springborn, 3)Justin
Ritchie, 4)Terry Anvelink, 5)A.J. Diemel, 6)Pete Parker, 7)Tim Buhler, 8)Tom
Naeyaert, 9)Ron Berna, 10)Luke Roffers, 11)Chris Ortel, 12)Todd Flannery,
13)Mark Mitchell, 14)M.J. McBride, 15)Mike Stangl, 16)Ryan Huettl, 17)Cody
Grosskruetz, 18)Jeff Curtin, 19)Robbie Maas, 20)Craig Bartz, 21)Rod
Snellenberger, 22)Jesse Peebles, 23)Doug Blashe, 24)Mike Hintz.
FIRST HEAT: 1)Springborn, 2)Blashe, 3)Ortel, 4)Stangl, 5)Naeyaert, 6)Huettl,
7)Maas, 8)Hintz, 9)Mitchell.
SECOND HEAT: 1)N. Anvelink, 2)Buhler, , 3)Ritchie, 4)Flannery, 5)Grosskruetz,
6)Bartz, 7)Peebles, 8)Snellenberger.
THIRD HEAT: 1)Parker, 2)T. Anvelink, 3)Diemel, 4)McBride, 5)Berna, 6)Roffers,
7)Curtin, 8)Bobby Bennett.
IMCA MODIFIED FEATURE: 1)Brad Rohloff, 2)Mike Wedelstadt, 3)Paul Parker,
4)Jerry Wilinski, 5)Eric Scribner, 6)Dave Diemel, 7)Jamie Schmidt, 8)Jerry
Muenster, 9)Joe Haferkorn, 10)Paul Thorpe, 11)Russ Huxford, 12)Jeremy
Hodkiewicz, 13)Ed Stohula, 14)John Berna, 15)John Peters, 16)Jim Hanson,
17)Jeremie Hedrick, 18)Craig Bartz, 19)David Werbelow, 20)Kevin Ferfecki,
21)Travis Spaulding, 22)Ron Besaw.
FIRST CONSI: 1)Scribner, 2)Besaw.
SECOND CONSI: 1)Huxford, 2)Stohula.
FIRST HEAT: 1)Schmidt, 2)Parker, 3)Bartz, 4)Hanson. 5)Clint Schuelke,
6)Scribner, 7)Besaw, 8)Hodkiewicz.
SECOND HEAT: 1)Wedelstadt, 2)Diemel, 3)Ferfecki, 4)Thorpe, 5)Huxford,
6)Stohula, 7)Michelle Ploeckelman, 8)Berna.
THIRD HEAT: 1)Werbelow, 2)Spaulding, 3)Wilinski, 4)Peters, 5)Rob Ploeckelman,
6)Lawrence Mendryck, 7)Mike Knapp, 8)Bernie Miller.
FOURTH HEAT: 1)Hedrick, 2)Muenster, 3)Rohloff, 4)Haferkorn, 5)Lance Arneson,
6)Jeremy Hanson, 7)Shawn Frelich.
IMCA STOCK CAR FEATURE: 1)Chas Van Ooyen, 2)Jason Czarapata, 3)Kevin
Lamberies, 4)Greg Gretz, 5)Mike Asenbrener, 6)Rod Snellenberger, 7)Dan
Michonski, 8)Brian Bruechert, 9)Junior Karcz, 10)Kyle Frederick, 11)Dave
Zegers, 12)Nate Michonski, 13)Jeff Brehmer, 14)Greg Gutt, 15)Leslie Slater,
16)Shawn Van Ooyen, 17)B.J. Giese, 18)Mike Brehmer 19)Brian Techmier, 20)Kurt
Olson.
FIRST CONSI: 1)Snellenberger, 2)N. Michonski.
FIRST HEAT: 1)Olson, 2)Zegers, 3)Frederick, 4)Gutt, 5)D. Michonski, 6)Darren
Otto, 7)N. Michonski, 8)Bob Schampers, 9)Snellenberger.
SECOND HEAT: 1)Giese, 2)Lamberies, 3)Asenbrener, 4)Czarapata, 5)Gretz, 6)M.
Brehmer, 7)Leslie Slater, 8)S. Van Ooyen.
THIRD HEAT: 1)Bruechert, 2)Karcz, 3)J. Brehmer, 4)C. Van Ooyen, 5)Techmier,
6)Gary Kasperek, 7)Brandon Czarapata, 8)Brian Ambrosious.
LIMITED LATE MODEL FEATURE: 1)Justin Hirt, 2)Bob Schmidt, 3)Joel
Bennett, 4)Aaron Wickersheim, 5)Rocky Miller, 6)Mike Kunschke, 7)A.J. Miller,
8)Mike Mitchell, 9)Chad Hohn, 10)Tim Long, 11)Jeff Curtin, 12)Troy Springborn,
13)Jeff Wickersheim, 14)Jeff Deutscher, 15)Joey Braatz, 16)Malcom Spiegel,
17)Gary Janke.
FIRST HEAT: 1)Hirt, 2)Mitchell, 3)Deutscher, 4)Long, 5)R. Miller, 6)Hohn,
7)Bennett, 8)Spiegel.
SECOND HEAT: 1)J. Wickersheim, 2)Schmidt, 3)Curtin, 4)Kunschke, 5)Springborn,
6)Braatz, 7)Janke, 8)A. Wickershiem, 9)A.J Diemel.
IMCA SPORT MOD FEATURE: 1)Bob Besaw, 2)Craig Hoffman, 3)Mike Czarapata,
4)Shawn Wagner, 5)Brad Bricco, 6)Tracy Wassenberg, 7)Greg Magsam, 8)Jamie
Diestler, 9)Aaron Holiday, 10)Lacy Yarie, 11)Tom Schmidt, 12)Joe Van Ooyen,
13)Chuck Grall.
FIRST HEAT: 1)Diestler, 2)Bricco, 3)Van Ooyen, 4)Lacy Yarie, 5)Schmidt,
6)Grall.
SECOND HEAT: 1)Hoffman, 2)Wassenberger, 3)Magsam, 4)Czarapata, 5)Besaw,
6)Holiday.
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