Meyer The New King Of WI Sprint Car Racing
Local Promotion's Wilmot Speedway
By Bill Mews

(Wilmot, WI, June 19, 2004) Steve Meyer will wear the crown as the King of WI Sprint Car Racing for the next year after holding off Kurt Winker and Kurt Davis Saturday night at the Wilmot Speedway in the Wayne Daun Memorial event.  Meyer held down the top spot from the drop of the green until lap 20, when both Davis and Winker managed to get by.  With the best seat in the house, Meyer watched Davis and Winker battle for the lead as they caught up to lapped traffic.  When the leaders touched going into turn three, Meyer was able to take advantage of the miscue by dropping to the bottom and getting past both.  A caution with four laps remaining gave him a clean track and he was able to hold off Winker and Davis for the win.  The win was his first in two years.
 
In the Sportsman headliner, second year driver, 18-year old Tommy Moore showed the veterans the quick way around the speedway.  Moore briefly gave up the lead to Dave Gorny around the midpoint of the race but used a bump and run technique to move Gorny out of the way and never looked back.  The win was the Hales Corner's Speedway's 2003 Rookie of the Year's first feature win.  Moore also picked up a heat race victory over Gorny earlier in the evening.
 
Mike Conn became the first two-time feature winner at Wilmot in 2004 after outlasting the rest of the field in the IMCA Modified feature.  After several attempts to get the even started, Conn was able to jump to the lead from his outside, front row starting position.  He was never seriously challenged but had to hang on as his car was beginning to overheat with about three laps remaining.
 
On Friday, June 25, the AMA Motorcycles and Quads will visit the speedway and the regular Saturday night divisions will return on June 26 with the addition of the Mini-Sprints.
 
Results:
IRA Sprints Heat race winners - Scott Neitzel, Meyer, Donny Goeden, Fred Ebler
IRA B-Main - Travis Whitney
IRA Wayne Daun Memorial A-Main - Meyer, Winker, Davis, Joe Roe, Scott Uttech, Jim Melis, Neitzel, Whitney, John Haeni, Goeden
 
Sportsman Heat race winners - Moore, Don Sorce Jr.
Sportsman A-Main - Moore, Gorny, Pat Heaney, Sorce, John Poehler, Bob Parker, Jeff Graf, Ross Stalter, Gary Foster, Dan Sowieja
 
IMCA Modified Heat race winners - Conn, Jeff Bodendorfer Jr., Tom Brown
IMCA Modified B-Main - James Morrison, Lee Tibbetts, David Grenlund, Ben Godlewski
IMCA Modified A-Main - Conn, Dave Holden, Bodendorfer, Mike Bodendorfer, Scott Shultis, Nick Simons, Mike Sullivan, Larry Surletta, Ty Webster, Godlewski