Big Bike Giveaway, Spotlight on Sixes, AmsOil Qualifiers at ABC Saturday

Ashland, WI — This summer has been a special one so far at the ABC Raceway, but Saturday night’s offering might just be tough to top.
Lake Shore Cafe of Ashland will present a full five-division race program that will include the annual Six-Cylinder “Summer Sizzler,” the qualifying races for the AmsOil Race of Champions, and an unprecedented drawing for 50 bicycles to be given away to young fans.
“The bike giveaway is just one of the many promotions we came up with to celebrate our 50th anniversary season,” explained Raceway spokesman Eric Erickson, referring to the founding of the Ashland-Bayfield County Racing Association, which operates the three-eighths-mile stock car racing oval south of Ashland.
There will be separate drawings for bikes for younger and older kids, who will be able to register once they get to the track.

“Almost every race track around holds bike giveaways for the kids at some time during their race season,” Erickson stated, “but its usually four or five or maybe a dozen at the most. Fifty is a big number by comparison.”
Another big number is $650 – that’s the size of the winner’s check to be presented at the conclusion of the eighth annual “Summer Sizzler” on Saturday night. The special event for the Six-Cylinder class is the first on the schedule for each of the ABC Raceway’s five regular weekly divisions to be run over the next seven Saturdays.
Making the event even more special is a generous $250 donation to the winner’s share from the family of the late Rich Morrison, the 1996 ABC Six-Cylinder champion.
Tyler Hudack of Ashland – who leads the division in points and has won three of the four Six-Cylinder features this season, including the last two – is the defending champion of the event. He is also the only active driver in the division to have won the “Sizzler.”
Last, but certainly not least, is the significance that winning one of the three WISSOTA division features will bring on Saturday. Winners of the Modified, Super Stock and Midwest Modified features will earn the right to qualify for a starting position in the AmsOil Race of Champions, a prestigious invitation-only event held as part of the WISSOTA 100 weekend in Huron, SD, in mid-September.
No driver has won an RoC qualifier twice in the three years that the event has been run here; last year’s event was cancelled by wet weather, so the points champions of the track’s three WISSOTA divisions were awarded the invitations.
Last Saturday night’s show ran off in rapid fashion, with 80 cars completing a 15-race program in just a shade over two hours. Like Hudack, Steve Stuart of Ashland also won back-to-back features as he put away the “big Mod” field. And Mike Truscott of Chippewa Falls continued his domination of the Mid-Mods with his third feature win over the first four weeks of the season at ABC.
Mason’s Nick Oreskovich scored his first win of the year by running away with the Super Stock main event, and 2007 Pure Stock champion Glenn Dammer of Duluth, MN, grabbed his first feature checkered flag in Ashland in that class since his title-winning season.
On Saturday night the grandstand and pit gates will open at 5 pm, with hot laps starting at 6:15 and the first race taking to the track at around 7 pm. Adult admission tickets (ages 13 & older) are $10, and fans ages 12 and under are welcome in for free when accompanied by a paying adult.
“Race Night” will provide up-to-date track news and weather information live from the track on WBSZ, 93.3 FM, and online at www.wbszfm.com, from 4:30-6 pm on Saturday. The ABC Raceway is located 3-1/2 miles south of Ashland on State Highway 13 and one mile west on Butterworth Road. For raceday information call (715) 682-4990, or log on to the track’s website, www.abcraceway.com.

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