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Springborn Returns To Victory Lane At Shawano Speedway
By: Bert Lehman
Shawano, WI (August 12, 2006) - Troy Springborn found his way back to victory
lane at Shawano Speedway, winning his first WISSOTA Late Model feature of the
year. Mike Wedelstadt won his second IMCA Modified feature, while Jeff Brehmer
won his first ever IMCA Stock Car feature. Justin Hirt made it three feature
wins in a row in the Fastrak Late Model division. Marcus Yaire won his first
IMCA Sport Mod feature.
Jeff Curtin jumped out to the quick lead over Gordie Seegert, Doug Blashe, M.J.
McBride and Nick Anvelink in the WISSOTA Late Model feature. Anvelink and Troy
Springborn joined the top five on the next lap. Springborn kept his charge
toward the front, getting by Anvelink, Blashe and Seegert over the next three
laps. Springborn didn’t stay in second for long, as he grabbed the lead from
Curtin on lap six.
Once in the lead, Springborn began to pull away from the field. Anvelink moved
into third place just before half the race was in the books, and set his
sights on the second place car of Curtin. Also at this time, Terry Anvelink
joined the top five. With a big lead, Springborn had to start working his way
through traffic with eight laps remaining. Curtin and Nick Anvelink began a
side-by-side battle, with Anvelink eventually taking the position. But it was
all Springborn, as he took home the victory. He was followed by Nick Anvelink,
Curtin, Terry Anvelink and Blashe.
In the IMCA Modified feature, Jamie Schmidt grabbed the early lead over Dave
Diemel, Bill Lemmens, Ron Besaw and Tom Schaal. Mike Wedelstadt joined the top
five on the next lap, and was followed by Jeremie Hedrick one lap later. By
the end of the fourth lap, Wedelstadt was in second, with Hedrick and Eric
Scribner trying to follow him to the front. Wedelstadt grabbed the top spot a
couple laps later.
With Wedelstadt in the lead, Hedrick moved to second at the halfway point,
while Scribner raced in fourth behind Schmidt. A caution with four laps
remaining bunched up the field. Wedelstadt continued to lead on the restart,
with Hedrick, Benji LaCrosse Scribner and Schmidt following. LaCrosse brushed
the wall slightly with a couple laps remaining, dropping him a couple
positions. Nobody had an answer for Wedelstadt, as he took the win with
Hedrick, Scribner, Jerry Muenster and LaCrosse following.
The IMCA Stock Car feature got off to a rough start, but once started, Kurt
Olson jumped out to the early lead over Jeff Brehmer, Jason Czarapata, Chas
Van Ooyen and Dan Michonski. Brehmer took the lead on lap four, with Czarapata
following him into second. Brehmer continued to lead halfway through the race,
but was receiving heavy pressure from Czarapata and Greg Gretz.
With the laps starting to wind down, Brehmer, Czarapata and Gretz raced as a
pack. Brehmer and Czarapata raced side-by-side for several laps, with
Czarapata leading two of those laps. Brehmer battled back, and reclaimed the
lead. Gretz moved into second with a couple laps remaining, and gave Brehmer a
tap, but Brehmer maintained the lead, and went on to win his first feature. He
was followed by Czarapata, Gretz, Michonski and Brian Bruechert.
In the Fastrak Late Model feature, Justin Hirt used his front row starting
spot to take the lead over Joel Bennett, Matt Rindt, Jeff Wickersheim and A.J.
Miller. Hirt began to pull away, when a caution on lap four came out. Hirt
continued to lead on the restart, and immediately began to pull away again, as
Jeff Curtin and Troy Springborn were working through traffic. Curtin moved
into second on lap six, with Springborn moving to third on lap eight.
A couple of cautions slowed the race with three laps remaining. On the
restart, Springborn tried to get around Hirt on the high side, but Hirt was up
to the challenge. In the process, Curtin got by Springborn for the second
spot. That’s the way it ended, with Hirt taking the win over Curtin,
Springborn, Mike Kunschke and Gary Janke.
Marcus Yaire grabbed the lead from Tom Schmidt on the second lap in the IMCA
Sport Mod feature. Once in the lead, Yaire pulled out to a slight lead,
leaving Craig Hoffman, Mike Czarapata, Brian Besaw and Schmidt to chase after
him. Tracy Wassenberg joined the top five on lap four and moved into third
place on the sixth lap. There was no denying Yaire, as he won his first
feature at the Speedway. He was followed by Hoffman, Wassenberg, Besaw and
Shawn Wagner.
For more information about Shawano Speedway, visit www.shawanospeedway.net.
RACING SUMMARY
WISSOTA LATE MODEL
FEATURE: 1)Troy Springborn, 2)Nick Anvelink, 3)Jeff Curtin, 4)Terry Anvelink,
5)Doug Blashe, 6)Gordie Seegert, 7)Ron Berna, 8)Justin Ritchie, 9)M.J.
McBride, 10)Mark Mitchell, 11)Tim Buhler, 12)Tom Naeyaert, 13)Chris Ortel,
14)Greg Stelse, 15)Ryan Huettl, 16)Rod Snellenberger, 17)Cody Grosskruetz,
18)Todd Flannery, 19)Greg Haney, 20)Robbie Maas, 21)Mike Stangl, 22)Jesse
Peebles, 23)M.J. Hintz, 24)Craig Bartz. FIRST HEAT: 1)T. Anvelink, 2)N.
Anvelink, 3)Berna, 4)Bartz, 5)Mitchell, 6)Snellenberger, 7)Grosskruetz,
8)Ortel, 9)Maas. SECOND HEAT: 1)Springborn, 2)McBride, 3)Seegert, 4)Buhler,
5)Hintz, 6)Stelse, 7)Stangl, 8)Peebles. THIRD HEAT: 1)Naeyaert, 2)Blashe,
3)Curtin, 4)Ritchie, 5)Huettl, 6)Flannery, 7)Haney, 8)Bobby Bennett.
IMCA MODIFIED
FEATURE: 1)Mike Wedelstadt, 2)Jeremie Hedrick, 3)Eric Scribner, 4)Jerry
Muenster, 5)Benji LaCrosse, 6)Jamie Schmidt, 7)Dave Diemel, 8)Tom Schaal,
9)Brad Rohloff, 10)Jared Seifert, 11)Jerry Wilinski, 12)John Berna, 13)Jeremy
Hodkiewicz, 14)Chris Derenne, 15)Jim Hanson, 16)Bill Lemmens, 17)Ron Besaw,
18)Travis Spaulding, 19)Craig Bartz, 20)Paul Thorpe. FIRST CONSI: 1)Spaulding,
2)Hodkiewicz. SECOND CONSI: 1)Berna, 2)Derenne. FIRST HEAT: 1)LaCrosse,
2)Thorpe, 3)J. Seifert, 4)Hanson, 5)Hodkiewicz, 6)Spaulding, 7)Bill Martin,
8)Mike Bailey, 9)Russ Huxford, 10)Matt McDermid. SECOND HEAT: 1)Schmidt,
2)Wedelstadt, 3)Deimel, 4)Bartz, 5)Ed Stohula, 6)John Peters, 7)M.J. Hintz,
8)Mike Bailey Jr., 9)Kyle Meyers. THIRD HEAT: 1)Hedrick, 2)Schaal, 3)Rohloff,
4)Wilinski, 5)Lance Arneson, 6)Rob Ploecklmann, 7)Mike Knapp, 8)Clint Schuelke,
9)Jeremy Hanson. FOURTH HEAT: 1)Besaw, 2)Scribner, 3)Lemmens, 4)Muenster,
5)Berna, 6)Art Seifert, 7)Derenne, 8)Dave Werbelow, 9)Shawn Frelich
IMCA STOCK CAR
FEATURE: 1)Jeff Brehmer, 2)Jason Czarapata, 3)Greg Gretz, 4)Dan Michonski,
5)Brian Bruechert, 6)Kevin Lamberies, 7)Matt Junio, 8)Brandon Czarapata, 9)Rod
Snellenberger, 10)Junior Karcz, 11)Chas Van Ooyen, 12)B.J. Giese, 13)Darren
Otto, 14)Kurt Olson, 15)Nate Michonski, 16)Travis Van Straten, 17)Mike Brehmer,
18)Brian Techmier, 19)Steve Kastning, 20)Kyle Frederick. FIRST CONSI: 1)Van
Straten, 2)N. Michonski. SECOND CONSI: 1)Bruechert, 2)Frederick. FIRST HEAT:
1)D. Michonski, 2)Giese, 3)Techmier, 4)Gretz, 5)Jacob Silon, 6)Brian
Ambrosious, 7)Dustin Loberger, 8)Tony Schlei. SECOND HEAT: 1)Karcz, 2)Otto,
3)Junio, 4)M. Brehmer, 5)Frederick, 6)Dave Zegers, 7)Landon Birr, 8)Larry
Buckwheat. THIRD HEAT: 1)J. Brehmer, 2)J. Czarapata, 3)Olson, 4)Lamberies,
5)Van Straten, 6)N. Michonski, 7)Derrick Bruechert, 8)Bob Schampers. FOURTH
HEAT: 1)Kastning, 2)B. Czarapata, 3)Van Ooyen, 4)Snellenberger, 5)Jon Wolf,
6)Derrick Moede, 7)B. Bruechert, 8)Shawn Van Ooyen.
FASTRAK LATE MODEL
FEATURE: 1)Justin Hirt, 2)Jeff Curtin, 3)Troy Springborn, 4)Mike Kunschke,
5)Gary Janke, 6)Joel Bennett, 7)A.J. Miller, 8)Matt Rindt, 9)Joey Braatz,
10)Aaron Wickersheim, 11)Chad Hohn, 12)Jeff Wickersheim, 13)Bob Schmidt,
14)Tim Long, 15)Malcom Spiegel. FIRST HEAT: 1)Hirt, 2)Rindt, 3)Hohn, 4)J.
Wickersheim, 5)Spiegel, 6)Long, 7)Bennett. SECOND HEAT: 1)Springborn,
2)Kunschke, 3)Curtin, 4)Janke, 5)Braatz, 6)A. Wickersheim, 7)Schmidt,
8)Miller.
IMCA SPORT MOD
FEATURE: 1)Marcus Yaire, 2)Craig Hoffman, 3)Tracy Wassenberg, 4)Brian Besaw,
5)Shawn Wagner, 6)Brad Bricco, 7)Mike Czarapata, 8)Chad Nelson, 9)Tom Schmidt,
10)Greg Magsam, 11)Aaron Holiday, 12)Chuck Grall, 13)Joe Van Ooyen, 14)Brian
Raddant. FIRST HEAT: 1)Yaire, 2)Bricco, 3)Wassenberg, 4)Schmidt, 5)Van Ooyen,
6)Raddant, 7)Wagner. SECOND HEAT: 1)Besaw, 2)Czarapata, 3)Nelson, 4)Hoffman,
5)Magsam, 6)Grall, 7)Holiday.
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