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Greg Parent
NEW RICHMOND, Wisc. (July 12) - After several recent special events, it was back to a regular night of racing for the five weekly NASCAR divisions at the Cedar Lake Speedway on July 12. Extremely windy conditions presented an extra challenge for the track crew tonight, as 114 cars signed into the pits to do battle on the high-banked 3/8 mile dirt oval. Brent Larson in the late model division and Dave Cain in the modified class swept to victories while Greg Nippoldt returned to victory lane after a several year absence in the super stock division. A caution plagued midwest modified feature saw Dan Wheeler make a late race pass of Shawn Phillips for the win. Shawn Kammerud recorded his third win of the season in the street stock class.
The final feature race of the evening would find 23 NASCAR late models battling for 30 racing laps. Brent Larson drew the pole position, so his fellow competitors knew they had their work cut-out if they were going to defeat him. Larson raced ahead of Toby Patchen for the lead. Rick Egersdorf got by Patchen for second just before the first caution flew for a four car incident in turn 2 that put Mike Bear and Brent Laursen out of the race after just two laps. It was back to green flag racing with Rick Hanestad on the move forward from his 7th starting spot. Hanestad got by Patchen for third on lap 4. On lap 11, Patchen pulled off the track while running in fourth. Hanestad closed the gap and was soon battling Egersdorf for second. The pair had a good battle for a few laps before Hanestad got by on lap 17. The leaders were working lapped traffic and Hanestad quickly closed in on Larson. With 19 laps in, Jeff Keeney slapped the turn three wall and the right front tire grabbed the wall and literally pulled his car up and over the wall and into the grassy area before the catch fence. Keeney's car sustained frame damage and was done for the night. Larson continued to lead Hanestad when the race returned to green, but debris in turn 3 brought out the final caution 21 laps into the race. The debris was the nosepiece off of Ashley Anderson's car. Anderson had started 17th and was battling for fourth with Kelly Anderson when contact caused the nosepiece to fly off his car. Anderson would eventually drop out of the race with handling problems. The final nine laps ran green with Hanestad challenging Larson for the lead, pulling along side a couple of times. Larson was able to keep Hanestad behind him, as he recorded his fourth win of the season in his quest to contend for the NASCAR state and regional point titles. Rounding out the top five behind Hanestad was Egersdorf, Mike Nutzmann and Kelly Anderson. Completing the top ten were Chuckie DeSmith, Mike Hesselink, Jeff Patchen, Doug Herrick and Jim Carlson.
The race program for next Saturday night will feature all five NASCAR divisions again but with a couple of changes to the original schedule. The only division that will be running Double Features will be the NASCAR late models. The modifieds, super stocks, midwest mods and street stocks will run a regular race program consisting of heats and features. Racing action is slated to get underway at 6:30 PM at Wisconsin's only NASCAR sanctioned dirt track.
Race Results:
NASCAR Impact Printing Late Models- 23 Cars
Heat 1- Rick Hanestad, Doug Herrick, Mike Nutzmann, Rick Egersdorf, Jeff Patchen, Tony Gates, Brent Mueller, Roger Herrick
Heat 2- Jim Carlson, Chuckie DeSmith, Toby Patchen, Mike Raboin, Jake Hiatt, Ashley Anderson, Brent Laursen, Paul Hipsag
Heat 3- Brent Larson, Jeff Keeney, Mike Hesselink, Kelly Anderson, Bryan Wennen, Randy Gullixson, Mike Bear
A Main- Larson, Hanestad, Egersdorf, Nutzmann, K Anderson, DeSmith, Hesselink, Patchen, D Herrick, Carlson, Wennen, Gates, Mueller, A Anderson, Keeney, R Herrick, Raboin, Patchen, Hiatt, Laursen, Bear, Gullixson, Hipsag
NASCAR Amsoil Modifieds- 31 Cars
Heat 1- Joey Jensen, Scott Duvall, Terry Hanson, Jason Schill, Don Brightbill, Dave Lear, Mike Kelley, Lonnie Louschke, Scott Pomeroy, Mike Mueller, Brandon Lampert
Heat 2- Dave Cain, Jason Miller, Kevin Viebrock, Craig Brightbill, Scott Splittstoesser, Mark Hanson, Jay Richardson, Bill Stettner, Dano Ostrander, Jake Jay
Heat 3- Shaun Kelley, Jeremy Gross, Andy Miskowic, Jason Gross, Tim VanMeter, Dave Siercks, Keith Lepinski, Mark Froehlich, Jay Poidinger, Dana Lerum
B Main- Richardson, Kelley, Froehlich, Ostrander, Mueller, Pomeroy, Louschke, Stettner, Lepinski, Lampert, Jay, Poidinger, Lerum
A Main- Cain, Jensen, Schill, Duvall, Viebrock, Hanson, M Hanson, Splitstoesser, Gross, Richardson, Froehlich, Lear, Ostrander, Miskowic, Kelley, Siercks, Pomeroy, Mueller, VanMeter, D Brightbill, S Kelley, C Brightbill, Ja Gross
NASCAR Sunoco Super Stocks- 20 Cars
Heat 1- Mike Weber, Mike Loomis, Larry Boumeester, Justin Dodge, Lyle Archambeau, Jeff Pellersells, Justin Stahl, Steve Thomas, Kevin Ayotte, Dan Preston
Heat 2- Tim Borgeson, Rich Bishop, Dan Carlson, Ryan Wiome, Greg Nippoldt, Jim Gullikson, Brian Lick, Tom Gebauer, Brandon Jensen, Dale Gangl
A Main- Nippoldt, Bishop, Borgeson, Loomis, Weber, Carlson, Gullikson, Thomas, Jensen, Wiome, Gangl, Boumeester, Pellersells, Ayotte, Gebauer, Stahl, Lick, Preston, Archambeau
NASCAR 3M Midwest Modifieds- 27 Cars
Heat 1- Paul Fontecchio, Mark Trog, Jason Vandekamp, Josh Bazey, John Harer, Mike Kyllonen, Kyla Matuska, Dane Durbin, Justin Oestreich
Heat 2- Shawn Phillips, Clark Perry, Dan Wheeler, Rob Caho Jr, Todd Steffen, John Clark, Jake Miller, Toby Meyer, Mike Gibson
Heat 3- Bryan Siercks, Bob Smith, Sam Nelson, Jeremy Houle, Patrick McCarthy, Clint Larson, Kyle Steffen, AJ Roschen, Jared Gorka
A Main- Wheeler, Phillips, Perry, Siercks, Smith, Houle, Bazey, Caho Jr, Gorka, Steffen, Gibson, Miller, Trog, Meyer, Vandekamp, Matuska, Larson, McCarthy, Roschen, Kyllonen, Oestreich, Fontecchio, Steffen, Nelson, Harer
NASCAR Dodge Street Stocks- 14 Cars
Heat 1- Chanda Fjorden-Nord, Jared Gross, Shawn Kammerud, Derek Borchardt, Scott Splittstoesser, Ed Puariea, Kim Korstad
Heat 2- Devin Neske, Mike Raboin, Jeff Heintz, Andy Miskowic, James Becker, David Swearingen, Adam Soltis
A Main- Kammerud, Gross, Heintz, Neske, Fjorden-Nord, Raboin, Becker, Splittstoesser, Swearingen, Puariea, Soltis, Miskowic, Korstad
Cedar Lake Speedway Point Standings
as of 7-13-08
NASCAR Impact Printing Late Models
B1 Brent Larson 454
17 Rick Egersdorf 400
81 Ashley Anderson 368
71H Rick Hanestad 350
8 Kelly Anderson 334
2 Mike Nutzmann 266
05 Chuckie DeSmith 260
18 Mike Hesselink 252
25 Toby Patchen 224
66 Eric Breeschoten 214
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