BRADY SMITH SNARES LATE MODEL WIN
Madsen Now Five For Six
In Street Stocks
By Jerry O'Brien
 Brady
Smith of Solon Springs, WI outlasted a charging Rick Hanestad to
nail down the victory in the 25 lap WISSOTA Late Model feature.
Starting in the second row, Smith took advantage of pole sitter
Andrew McKay's mistake on the first lap. When McKay spun in front of
the field in turn one, Smith inherited the pole position when the
inside line moved up one position. The caution flag was not finished
waving as the usually steady Late Models had difficulty in
completing the first circuit. After an incident involving Kelly
Estey and Roger Paolo in one, the restart saw Smith get a good jump
on front row mate Steve Laursen. Laursen jumped the cushion in turn
one, hit the wall and ground to a halt with several others caught up
in the incident including the hapless Mckay and Jeff Provinzino.
Provinzino and Laursen were done for the event. At the green flag
Smith and Bill Byholm who had benefitted from Laursen's misfortune,
led the remaining cars into turn one with Smith gaining the lead.
Jeff Broking got a great run off the second turn to battle Byholm
for the second spot with Darrell Nelson and Tom Nesbitt trailing.
Smith was riding the rim up near the wall and pulling away from the
pack but the fastest car on the track belonged to Rick Hanestad who
was on the move from the fourth row picking them off one by one.
Smith soon encountered lapped traffic enabling Hanestad to make up a
lot of ground. Smith continued in the high groove while Hanestad
found the low side to his liking and was able to pull alongside
Smith. On the final circuit Smith pulled ahead of Hanestad on the
back stretch and dived to the inside stealing his line for the win.
Moving forward from the sixth row was Trent Follmer who finished
third ahead of Nelson and Nesbitt.
Darrell Nelson won his third straight WISSOTA Modified feature
outdistancing Kelly Estey in what has become a classic duel between
the two veterans. Dean Yrjanainen led early from the outside of the
front row in the 20 lap event that was slowed by a number of caution
flags. It took a couple of tries to get rolling as two quick caution
flags slowed the action. Each time Yrjanainen was able to maintain
the lead but Nelson was on the move from the second row and managed
to complete the pass after trying to steal the lead on the restarts.
Jodi Olson, Darrell Carlson, Estey and Al Uotinen were all in
contention for the entire distance. Nelson took the win after a
final yellow flag, with Estey, Olson, Uotinen and Yrjanainen in the
top five.
Defending WISSOTA Super Stock track champion Dale Gangl gained
some ground on current point leader Ryan Aho as he held him off to
the checkered flag for the win in the 20 lap feature. John Hunker
led from the front row in the early going but eighth starting Gangl
worked his way forward into the lead despite a late race caution
flag that set up a three lap scramble to
the checkered flag. Aho and Hunker finished second and third while
seventh starting Ryan Rivord finished fourth and tenth
starting Kyle Peterlin rounded out the top five.
Butch Madsen has only raced at the speedway six
times this season but Friday night took home his fifth feature win
to lead all divisions. Madsen's draw/redraw luck was phenomenal as
he drew the pole for his heat which he won, then redrew the pole for
the feature taking the lead at the initial green and went on to take
the win surviving challenges throughout by Ryan Viltz and Riley
Matthews. Matthews got by Viltz, the other heat winner, in the late
going to finish second. Viltz hung on to third while Scott Herrick
and defending track champion Keith Tourville rounded out the top
five.
 The
WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds were on hand for their second visit of the
season with Mark Anderson of Atkin, MN sweeping the heat and
feature. The 12 lap main event proved to be a most difficult one as
two red flags flew for rollovers. The first was right off the bat
when the two front row starters Brad Anderson and Kelly Checkalski
got together in the first turn with both spinning. Ken Thompson
following behind got squeezed into the wall and rolled over without
physical injury. Both Thompson and Anderson were out of the event.
Greg Chesley led early but Mark Anderson grabbed the point followed
by Chesley, Checkalski Deven Van House and Mike Kalkbrenner. Shawn
Van Guilder spun to the top of turn one and Chesley slid into him
and turned over. Chesley was uninjured but done for the evening.
Anderson went on to the victory over Van House, Checkalski,
Kalkbrenner and Brock McCarthy, the only cars running at the
checkered flag.
Results
WISSOTA Late Model (22 cars)
Heat 1: Andrew McKay, Steve laursen, Tom Nesbitt, Bill Byholm, Joel
Cryderman, Tyler Keyser, Kelly Estey DNF: Nick Nelson
Heat 2: Jeff Broking, Steve Roseen, Brady Smith, Pat Doar, Jeff
Provinzino, Darin Meierotto, Bob Broking
Heat 3: Dow Shaw, Darrell Nelson, Trent Follmer, Rick Hanestad, Todd
Gehl, Tim McMann, Roger Paolo
Feature: Smith, Hanestad, Follmer, D Nelson, Nesbitt, Byholm,
Meierotto, Doar, Keyser, Roseen, Cryderman, Shaw, Gehl, McMann,
Paolo DNF: J Broking, Estey, B Broking, Provinzino, N Nelson, McKay,
Laursen
WISSOTA Modified (17 cars)
Heat 1: Bill Byholm, Scott Hudack, Cory Jorgenson, Dean Yrjanainen,
Dennis Checkalski, Don Copp, Jayme Lautigar, Jody Bellefeuille DNF
Dann Olson
Heat 2: Jodi Olson, Darrell Carlson, Darrell Nelson, Al
Uotinen, Kelly Estey, Clint Larson, John Baltich DNF Jeff Pohjonen
Feature: Nelson, Estey, Olson, Uotinen, Yrjanainen, Carlson,
Jorgenson, Checkalski, Byholm, Larson, Hudack, Lautigar, D Olson,
Bellefeuille, Baltich DNF Copp, Disqualified Pohjonen.
WISSOTA Super Stock (31)
Heat 1: Joe Oliver, Ryan Aho, Mike Bellefeuille, Rick Rivord, Destin
Lorimor, Adam Long, Brian Youderin, DNS Tom Treviranus
Heat 2: Ryan Aho, Rick Simpson, Shawn McFadden, Paul Berg, Jean
Fortin Disqualified: Jeff Lindsey DNF: RoB Malecki, Rob Cooper
Heat 3: John Copp, Dale Gangl, Steve Hucovski, Randy Silverness,
Bruce Tourville, Donnie Lofdahl, Keith Kern DNF: Dave Flynn
Heat 4: John Hunker, Jim Campbell, Kyle Peterlin, Scott Lawrence, Al
Uotinen, Doug Woodhull DNF: Gordy Maki
B Feature: Lofdahl, kern, Lindsey, Long, Woodhull, Malecki, Maki,
Cooper, Youderin DNS: Flynn, Treviranus
Feature: Gangl, Aho, Hunker, Ryan Rivord, Peterlin, Rick Rivord,
Bellefeuille, Simpson, Copp, Silverness, Uotinen, Hucovski, Kern,
Campbell, Lofdahl, Lindsey, Berg, Long, Lorimor, Tourville, Fortin
DNF: McFadden, Lawrence, Oliver
WISSOTA Street Stock
Heat 1: Butch Madsen, Riley Matthews, Drew Saur, Marshall Andrews,
Keith Tourville, Jon Zastrow, Randy Vezina DNF: Jamie Olson
Heat 2: Ryan Viltz, Mike Kalkbrenner, Scott Herrick, Shane
Kisling, Tim Baum, Lou Andrews, Tom O'Brien DNF: Trevor Wilson
Feature: Madsen, matthews, Viltz, Heerrick, Tourville, Kisling,
Zastrow, M Andrews, Baum, Vezina, O'Brien, Sauer, Olson DNF: L
Andrews, Kalkbrenner, Wilson
WISSOTA Midwest Modified
Heat 1: Mark Anderson, Kelly Checkalski, Greg Chesley, Kevin Van
House, Brad Anderson, Ken Thompson, Brock McCarthy DNF: Shawn Van
Gilder DNS: Mike Kalkbrenner
Feature: M Anderson, Van House, Checkalski, Kalkbrenner, McCarthy
DNF: Cjesley, Van Gilder, Thompson, B Anderson.
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