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Friday, May 16^th 2014, Manitowoc WI. – Honoring America’s veterans this Memorial Day Weekend for their service and sacrifice, four more winners took home trophies sponsored by RPM Speed & Custom. The ride-a-long 2 seat sprintcar made its debut with Joel Jens behind the wheel, and TA Motorsports Jonathon Rothmund in hot seat.

 

GRAND NATIONALS

The Grand National Feature event rolled to Green with 98 Kevin Naidl (Cato) and 12d Chris Gilson (Elkhart Lake) out front, with Naidl grabbing the lead and 74 Chad Ninmer (Cleveland) rolling into second. Red lights turned on quickly on Lap 2, as 8 Glenn Blanke (Sheboygan Falls) violently rolled his machine coming out of Turn 4 into the frontstretch, with fire briefly flaring in the engine compartment. Emergency vehicles were quickly on the scene, putting the fire out and assisting the driver, who was shaken, but unhurt. After a short clean up, Naidl led Ninmer, 37 Ryan Minster (Sheboygan), Gilson, and 73s Shawn Schmitt (Manitowoc) back to action. Getting a great restart on the inside, 7 Brian Gilles (Plymouth) picked up 3 positions on the next lap, challenging Minster for 2^nd. Schmitt, 8j Matt Jackson (Sheboygan) and 8x Brad Juckem (Chilton) swapped positions for 5 several times until Schmidt slipped, allowing last weeks feature winner 42 Nick Strobbe (Milwaukee) into the fray. At halfway, Naidl was still out front, with Minster, Gilles, Ninmer, and Jackson in the top 5 with Strobbe and Schmidt challenging. On Lap 16, Gilson, 66 Travis Moehring (Sheboygan) and 81n Zach Axlen (Sheboygan) were involved in a viscious wreck on the backstretch with Gilson incurring the bulk of the damage to both his car and the guardrail, resulting in a lengthy red flag period. While repairs were made to make the track safe for competition, the time limit expired and the race was deemed official with Naidl taking the victory, Minster, Gilles, Jackson, Strobbe, Juckem, Ninmer, Schmitt, 7s Tim Simon (Fon du Lac) and 93s Daniel Schumacher (Milwaukee) filling out the top 10. Strobbe and Minster tied for Hard Charger picking up 6 spots each.

Heat 1 – (1)Strobbe, (2)Schmidt, (3)Minster, (4)Axlen,(5)Gilson, (6)Juckem, (7)Simon

Heat 2 – (1)Gilles, (2)Jackson, (3)Blanke, (4)Ninmer, (5)Naidl, (6)Schumacher, (7)Moehring

Feature – (1)Naidl, (2)Minster, (3)Gilles, (4)Jackson, (5)Strobbe, (6)Juckem, (7)Ninmer, (8)Schmitt, (9)Simon, (10)Schumacher, (11)Axlen, (12)Moehring, (13)Gilson, (14)Blanke

BAILEGH INDUSTRIAL LATE MODELS

The Baileigh Late Models were next on the grid, 98 Tom Naeyaert (Shawano) and 32 Jim Juneau (Brookfield) led the field to a false start, and on the second attempt the race stayed green with Naeyaert holding the top spot while 8 Bob Cullen (Chilton) slid into second. Two drivers made quick moves jumping into the fray with the leaders early, 74m Mitch McGrath (Waukesha) and 15s Rick Scheffler (Waukesha) challenged hard. Five laps in it was Cullen on point, followed by Naeyaert, Rick Scheffler, McGrath, and 74 Russ Scheffler (Waukesha) in fifth, with the 7b of Tim Buhler (Glenbuelah) pushing Scheffler hard. Lap 11 brought lapped traffic into play and another change as the 97 Justin Schmidt (Cleveland) rocketed around the 15s and 7b into the top 5. The field continued to spread out with battles all over the track at the midway mark, with lapped cars once again among the leaders and Naeyaert back out front and Cullen pushing him hard. For the second week in a row the Baileigh Feature event went green to checkered, with Naeyaert taking the top spot on the podium this week. McGrath finally was able to pass Cullen for second with 2 to go, followed by Russ Scheffler and Justin Schmidt rounding out the top 5. McGrath was the Hard Charger passing 6 cars to take the runner up spot.

Heat 1 – (1)Buhler, (2)Van Iten, (3)McGrath, (4)Dolhoun Sr., (5)Jensema, (6)Peterson, (7)Enoch, (8)Cochart

Heat 2 – (1),Russ Scheffler (2)Rick Scheffler, (3)Letizia, (4)Jim Schmidt,(5)Thomas, (6)Paul Parker, (7)Swedberg

Heat 3 – (1)Justin Schmidt, (2)Naeyaert, (3)Cullen,(4)Juneau,0(5)Michaels, (6)Haugstad, (7)Stroika

Feature – (1)Naeyaert, (2)McGrath, (3)Cullen (4)Ru. Scheffler, (5)Jus. Schmidt, (6)Rick Scheffler, (7)Buhler, (8)Jim Schmidt, (9)Eric Van Iten (Green Bay), (10)Todd Jensema (Sheboygan Falls), (11)Dave Thomas (Milwaukee), (12)James Letizia (Milwaukee), (13)Nick Cochart (Casco), (14)Ted Dolhoun Sr. (Franklin), (15)Jim Juneau (Brookfield), (16)Tony Peterson (Big Bend), (17)Eric Michaels (Cleveland), (18)Jason Enoch (Colgate), (19)Scott Haugstad (Plymouth), (20)Paul Parker (Kaukauna), (21)Ron Stroika (Mukwonago), (22)Brett Swedberg (Shawano)

DEFAUT AUTO SPORTMODS

The Defaut Auto Sportmods rolled out of Turn 4 to the green with 34 Cody Eickberg (Plymouth) and 53 Gary Glander (Sheboygan Falls) leading the way, and 2jr Wyatt Block (Tigerton) forcing his way around Glander after a lap. Block Cruised around Eickberg for the lead on Lap 3, while 53b Brian Reif (Mishicot) and 63b Jesse Brey (Two Rivers) moved in to battle Eickberg. The 22b Brandon Berth (Cascade) was steadily moving forward from his last row starting position, and at the midway point was duking it out with 55p Michael Plate (Valders) for 6^th, while Block, Eickberg, Reif, Brey and 17b Ben VanWyk (Waldo) made up the top 5. At 5 laps to go, Reif got the best of Eickberg and went about chasing down Block, while Berth passed VanWyk into the top 5. Yellow flew at Lap 17 as the 20 Cody Schroeder (Manitowoc) got tied up with one of the corner markers and limped to pits. Block led the field back to action and held off Reif for the win, with Eickberg, Brey, and Berth rounding out the top 5. Berth captured Hard Charger honors getting around 6 cars.

Heat 1 – (1)Brey, (2)Schroeder, (3)Block, (4)Glander, (5)Otte, (6)Berth

Heat 2 – (1)Van Wyk, (2)Reif, (3)Plate, (4)Eickberg, (5)Ruh, (6)Kretschmann

Feature – (1)Block, (2)Reif, (3)Eickberg, (4)Brey, (5)Berth, (6)VanWyk, (7)Plate, (8)Glander, (9)Bradley Ruh (Elkhart Lake), (10)Rick Otte (Cedar Grove), (11)Schroeder, (12)Rick Kretschmann (Sheboygan Falls)

PROFESSIONAL PLATING INC. 360 SPRINTCARS

The PPI 360s were pushed out by their service vehicles for the final event of the evening. Once all were pushed off and formed up the 6k Kurt Davis (West Allis) and 25 Danny Schlafer (Sussex) led the winged warriors down to the green flag. Schlafers bright red ride grabbed the lead and 99 Kyle Marten (Sheboygan Falls) got around Davis for 2^nd. A lap later 15m Justin Miller (Plymouth) and 39s Randy Sippel (Elkhart Lake) were pressuring Davis. On Lap 7 Davis encountered a corner marker bring out the yellow and retiring his ride for the night. Schlafer led the group back to green with Marten, Sippel, Miller, 26 Al Schlafer (Sussex) and the rest of the field in tow. Sippel rolled in to challenge Marten, while 4 Paul Pokorski (West Bend) moved on Al Schlafer and Miller. At the halfway mark, it was still Danny Schlafer out front, with Marten, Sippel, Al Schlafer and Pokorski beginning to work lapped traffic as 7y Mitchell Yurmanovich (Cascade) went a lap down. The field began to spread out at this point, with lead lap cars intermingled with the lapped cars and several positional battles going on. As the checkers waved over Danny Schlafer giving him his first win of the year, Marten, Sippel, Al Schlafer, and Pokorski followed him through. Hard Charger honors went to Pokorski picking up 4 positions.

Heat 1 – (1)Conger, (2)Al Schlafer, (3)Krebsbach, (4)Danny Schlafer, (5)Walter, (6)Miller, (7)Yurmanovich, (8)Wondra

Heat 2 – (1)Davis, (2)Marten, (3)Sippel, (4)Pokorski, (5)Haddy, (6)Clayton, (7)Seidler, (8)VanWyk

Feature – (1)Danny Schlafer, (2)Marten, (3)Sippel, (4)Al Schlafer, (5)Pokorski, (6)Miller, (7)12w Josh Walter (Sheboygan Falls), (8)21h Tim Haddy (Waupan), (9)24 Scott Conger (Eagle), (10)Matt VanWyk (Waldo), (11)Yurmanovich, (12)2c Chris Clayton (Waldo), (13)Davis, (14)Seidler, (15) 11w Tony Wondra (Campbellsport), (16)08 John Krebsbach (Cascade)

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