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Over 80
cars showed up on a beautiful night for racing Friday night
at the Superior Speedway on a night sponsored by Whelen
Engineering.
The Late
Model feature looked like Pat Doar was going to run away
with things and led from the 1st lap but on the
final lap of the 22 lap race Doar lost his drive shaft on
the back stretch giving Rick Hanestad from Boyceville his
first ever feature win at the Superior Speedway.
Joel Cryderman from Thunder Bay took 2nd
followed by Harry Hanson, Brent Larson and Todd Gehl.
In the heat races Travis Budisalovich from Cottage
Grove won his first heat race of the year and so did
Cryderman in the other heat race. Don
Copp who finished in 6th extended his consecutive
feature laps to 326.
The
Modified feature went to Pat Doar from New Richmond.
But the show was put on by Jason Miller from Oceola
who was put to the back of the pack after spinning out
between turns 3 and 4 on the lap one.
Miller worked his way through the whole pack and finished in
2nd and would have challenged Doar for the lead
if the race would have lasted a couple more laps.
Also, a great run for Jody Bellefeuille from Duluth
who finished 3rd and was edged for that position
by Miller at the finish line. Al Uotinen
from Superior finished in 4th followed by Bill
Byholm. On the night Greg Chesley from
Duluth, who is in his first full year of racing Modifieds,
extended his consecutive feature laps completed to 120.
Doar did complete the sweep as he won his heat race
earlier in the night. The other feature
was won by Bellefeuille.
Dave Flynn
of Superior jumped out to a big lead on the first lap of the
Super Stock feature race and looked like he was going to
cruise to his 3rd feature win of the season but
Steve Rivord spun out on lap 5 and brought Flynn back to the
rest of the drivers and they took advantage with Mike
Bellefeuille from Duluth finally getting the lead on lap 10
and he held off the rest of the pack to win the 18 lap race.
Keith Kern was coming on strong and looked to
challenge for the lead but hit the wall coming out of turn 4
on the final lap and didn’t complete the race.
Bellefeuille said in victory lane after the race,
“There are a great bunch of racers in this class and makes
for great competition every night.” Scott
Lawrence of Superior won the first heat race of the night
and Flynn won the other. Lawrence also
extended his consecutive laps completed in feature races to
220 and Jim Campbell from Two Harbors extended his streak to
150 laps.
The Midwest
Modifieds started the night with some great heat races.
In the first heat it was Jeremy Houle, the current
points leader, who had to hold off Taylor Leuthner from
Foxboro to win the first heat. The 2nd
heat had Scott Herrick picking up from where he left off the
week before when he won his first feature in a Midwest
Modified as he won the race followed by Jeff Pohjonen and
Dan Russell. And heat race number three
was won by Randy Silverness Jr. from Superior after a number
of re-starts and a roll over by Jesse Ogston.
Willie Thompson from Eveleth made his first
appearance of the season and finished 2nd after
being put to the back of the pack on the first lap for
jumping the start. In the feature it was
Leuthner who jumped out the early lead but it was Houle who
got passed him on turns 3 and 4 on the 6th lap of
the race. Houle who won the opening night feature has
finished in the top 5 in 5 out of the last 6 races he has
raced in Superior. Skeeter Estey who
started in the fifth row moved his way all the way up to 2nd
he was followed by Deven VanHouse from Silver Bay, who also
started on the 5th row. Herrick finished 4th
followed by Cody Wolkowski from Thunder Bay.
Silverness extended his completed laps completed in a
feature to 205, Herrick is also at 205 with Lance Solem
extending his streak to 200 laps.
The Pure
Stock feature race was undecided until the very end with a
number of cars in the chase and it was finally won by Tom
Cornelison Jr. from Holyoke who won by just inches over Dan
Larsen from Hermantown. Cornelison took
the lead on lap 6 after a restart that was caused by a
rollover by Ashley Smith. Smith had to
scramble to get her car put back together after an accident
the week before. With 3 laps to go Larsen
took the lead and looked like he was going to cruise to
another feature win but it was Cornelison that edged him at
the finish line to complete the sweep as he won his heat
race earlier in the night. Cornelison who
bought the car from Chad Carlson was racing in the Pure
Stock division for only the 2nd week in 2009.
Richard Dezlak Jr. finised in third followed by Pat
Van Ert and Matt Hammitt. In the other
twp heat races the winners were Paul Gucinski from Britt and
Larsen. VanErt extended his consecutive
laps completed in feature races to 202, Austin Bloom to 140,
Larsen to 118 and Dezlak to 106.
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Late Model Winner
Rick Hannestad
Midwest Modified Winner
Jeremy Houle
Super Stock Winner
Mike Bellefeuille
Modified Winner
Pat Doar
Pure Stock Winner
Tommy Cornelison Jr
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