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NELSON CONTINUES DOMINANCE OF WISSOTA STREET STOCK DIVISION
By Bill Nelson
May 5, 2007
Spring Valley Mn
High winds, cool temps and rain in the surrounding counties did not deter a field of 101 cars from entering the pit area of Deer Creek Speedway on this early May day. With winds blowing directly into the grandstands the fans were reminded that we are at a dirt track on a Saturday night in Minnesota as they got a little dusty and a little grit in their teeth. The track crew did a great job with a little touchup work at intermission they graded the cushion off the top and laid a little more moisture to the surface providing some great action in the feature events.
The WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds were the first feature event of the evening on Carlsen Construction night at the speedway. Bob Bunne and Andrew Wiste ran side by side for second as Dustin Nelson took the early lead in the eighteen lap affair. With two completed Wiste moved past Nelson to take the lead. A caution flew on lap three with an eight car pileup coming out of corner two as Wiste slid up the track and corrected his car only to come back down into Nelson causing a bunch up behind him ending the night for a few strong runners early. On the restart Josh Angst got loose in three and four causing a few others to spin bringing out yet another caution and removing a few others from the event. Nelson led on the restart while Chris Adams moved into second, with twelve to go Adams took control of the point leaving Nelson and Bunne to battle for second. Bunne moved to the top of the speedway to get around Nelson for second, Nelson then had rookie Brandon Davis all over his bumper on the way to the finish. Adams won by three-quarters of a straight with Bunne and Nelson rounding out the top three.
Scot Nelson is all you have to say when it comes to the WISSOTA Street Stocks this year at Deer Creek. After winning his earlier heat Nelson had to start in the eighth position with the point inversion. Joe Sattre and Bobby Kilby started the field from the front row with Kilby bolting into the early lead. Nelson quickly worked into fourth after splitting two cars on the backstretch in a daring early race move. Sixteen to go and Nelson worked up high on Sattre ran the lower groove around the speedway in third after Ryan Goergen had moved under him on the lap previous to take over second. Kilby was pulling away from the field steadily until a caution flew with thirteen to go. On the first restart Kilby brought them in nice and slow but a spin in one negated the restart. On the second restart Ernie Kramer brought out the caution as his right rear wheel decided it wanted to try and take out the snap-on tools infield sign. On the third try Tony Zvorak lost a left rear wheel that bounced around the track as the wheels were falling off the feature event. Finally Kilby was able to get his restart to work as he quickly pulled out front with Nelson working into second. Goergen was still sitting in third with Steve Eischens quietly working into fourth and putting pressure on him. Seven to go and Kilby and Nelson were side by side up front. Nelson took control of the race on the next lap while Goergen and Eischens continued their battle behind him. At the line it was Nelson with this third clean sweep in as many races, Kilby second and Eischens rouning out the top three.
Chris Quast led the first half of lap one of the US Army WISSOTA Super Stock feature event until Ed Sanders dove under him in turn three to take over the lead. Chris Groth moved into third with Chris Klinger and Ryan Siegle locked into a battle for fourth. Quast got crossed up on lap two allowing Siegle and Groth to get by. Dustin Nelson moved to the bottom of the track on the next lap and quickly moved into the second spot after starting tenth. On the next lap Nelson moved under Sanders for the lead with Siegle, Groth and Quast racing for third. Siegle took over the third spot and just before a caution flew moved under Sanders for second. On the restart with eleven to go Gorth and Jason Gabrielson split Sanders as they raced side by side for third now. Ross Dixon and Cole Queensland had a good battle going for fifth. Groth gained control of the second spot after working to the outside of Siegle, with Gabrielson now in fourth. At the line it was Nelson all alone out front followed by Groth and Siegle.
The Valley Featherlite WISSOTA Late Models pulled onto the track for their feature race next. Joe Ludemann was unable to complete the start of the feature as his front end collapsed coming to the green causing a complete restart. Neil Eckhart used his front row starting spot to get into the early lead by inches at the line over Matt Madsen. Behind them Lance Matthees, Paul Novotny and Nick Herrick were racing three wide for third. Three laps completed and Herrick moved past Madsen for second, Matthees into third as Keith Foss and Madsen ran side by side for fourth. Foss was using the extreme bottom of the track while everyone else was up high about five feet from the outside wall. With fifteen to go the race up front got exciting as Herrick was working lower than Eckhart and Foss was digging on the low side of them. With thirteen to go they exited four three wide as they raced to the line and all the way through two in formation. Foss came out with the lead leaving Eckhart and Herrick to settle second. With nine to go Eckhart still sat in third by now Herrick was having to deal with Matthees again. Matthees took the spot and started to work on Eckhart as Foss was slowly pulling away from the field. Six to go and Matthees and Eckhart were side by side at the line, Eckhart had the groove working for him and held onto second and Herrick again moved lower on the track and then moved past Matthees for third. At the checkers it was Foss with his second win in a row, Eckhart in his best finish in his rookie season and Herrick in third.
Tommy Myer bolted to the lead in the EZ Fabricating USRA Modifieds with Bob Timm and Tyler Rubin racing for second with the rest of the field going two and thee wide through the corners early on. Twenty three to go and Timm took over second with Jeff Scluetter getting past Rubin for third. Rubin now had his hands full with Mike Sorensen while Schluetter tried to pressure Timm. Twenty to go and the battle for fourth was now three wide and Rubin, Sorensen and Kelly Shryock exited turn four. Another great battle was ensuing behind them with Jacob Dahle, Steve Wetzstein, Corey Dripps, Jason Cummins and Jay Ihrke all in a tight pack swapping spots and racing two and three wide. With seventeen to go the race up front was getting exciting. Timm worked low on Myer in three and four and pulled alongside of him. As they raced down the front straight Myer moved lower to block Timm who then went to the high side entering one. Myer had Timm by about three-quarters of a car when he moved higher on the backstretch pinching Timm into the wall. Myer got the worse end of the racing incident as his car slammed the wall in the backstretch and slid up the wall ending his night. On the restart Shryock now in third started working Timm for the lead with Sorensen behind them. Shryock took the lead with twelve to go and slowly pulled out front. Dripps worked into the top five while Rubin and Wetzstein continued their race long battle for sixth. Shryock came home with the win with Timm and Sorensen rounding out the top three.
USRA Modifieds
Feature - Kelly Shryock, Bob Timm, Mike Sorensen, Jeff Schluetter, Corey Dripps, Tyler Rubin, Steve Wetzstein, Jay Ihrke, Jason Cummins, Brian Shaw, Doug Hillson, Jacob Dahle, Terry Timmerman, Ben Rippentrop, Tom Paulson, Bob Fisher, Matt Aarsvold, Joe Wernecke, Tommy Myer, Greg Jensen, Todd Scharkey, Ryan York
Heat 1 – York, Rubin, Schluetter, Myer, Wernecke, Paulson, Fisher, Shaw
Heat 2 – Scharkey, Shyrock, Dahle, Dripps, Ihrke, Jensen, Rippentrop
Heat 3 – Sorensen, Timm, Cummins, Wetzstein, Hillson, Aarsvold, Timmerman
WISSOTA Late Models
Feature - Keith Foss, Neil Eckhart, Nick Herrick, Lance Matthees, Kerry Hanson, Jay Ihrke, Brad Waits, Matt Madsen, Marshall Fegers, Nick Kramer, Barry Underdahl, Ben Mattick, Steve Yaggy, Doug Herrick, Darwyn Karau, Paul Novotny, Dennis Hillson,
Tony Bloom, Lucas Peterson, Joe Ludemann, Nate Wasmund
Heat 1 – Ihrke, N. Herrick, Matthees, Yaggy, Waits, D. Herrick, Wasmund
Heat 2 – Novotny, Foss, Eckhart, Bloom, Ludemann, Karau, Peterson
Heat 3 – Hanson, Mattick, Madsen, Kramer, Hillson, Fegers, Underdahl
WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds
Feature - Chris Adams, Bob Bunne, Dustin Nelson, Brandon Davis, Jimmie Arnold, Jeff Brauer, Ron Houdek, Kenny Wytaske, Bobby Swanson, Greg Pfeifer Jr., Jerry Young, Bryce Stuckman, Craig Bentzin, Steve Quinnell, Mike Sample, Albert Wytaske, Andrew Wiste, Josh Angst, Jim Stuckman, Kyle Jumbeck, Bryan Hernandez, Adam Stowell, Mike Paulson, Joel Alberts
“B” Feature - K Wytaske, A Wytaske, Pfeifer, B. Struckman, Johnny Magnum, Troy Barth, Rick Toutges, JR Jones, Ben Behne, Pete Bushman
Heat 1 – Bunne, Stowall, Adams, Hernandez, Sample, Barth, B. Struckman, Behne
Heat 2 – Houdek, Swanson, Paulson, Young, Alberts, K Wytaaske, Toutges, Magnum
Heat 3 – Nelson, Davis, Jumbeck, Arnold, Brauer, Pfeifer JR., Bushman
Heat 4 – Angst, Wiste, Bentzin, Quinnell, J. Struckamn, A Wytaske, Jones
WISSOTA Street Stocks
Feature - Scot Nelson, Bobby Kilby, Steve Eischens, Ryan Goergen, Chuck Nerland, Tony Horsman, Fred Prudoehl, Derek Borchardt, Kevin Hager, Dan Holland, Joe Sattre, Anthony Zvorak, Ernie Kramer, Scott Olson, Wade Johnson
Heat 1 – Nelson, Kilby, Prudoehl, Borchardt, Eischens, Kramer, Holland, Olson
Heat 2 – Horsman, Sattre, Nerland, Goergen, Zvorak, Hager, Johnson
WISSOTA Super Stocks
Feature - Dustin Nelson, Chris Groth, Ryan Siegle, Jason Gabrielson, Ross Dixon, Cole Queensland, Wyatt Wold Jr., Dave Solum, Josh Bartel, Ed Sanders, Chris Quast, Kevin Hager, Chris Klinger
Heat 1 – Dixon, Quast, Gabrielson, Queensland, Solum, Bartel, Wolfe
Heat 2 – Siegle, Sanders, Klinger, Groth, Nelson, Hager
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