Kids Invited to Race Bikes on ABC’s Red Clay this Saturday

Ashland, WI — Last Saturday night fifty lucky young race fans won nice, shiny new bicycles at the ABC Raceway.
This Saturday night is their chance to get them a little dirty.
The popular annual Kids’ Bike Races, presented by Chicago Iron & Supply of Ashland, will be part of this weekend’s program at the venerable stock car racing track just south of Ashland.
“It’s a chance for the kids to get out and race their bikes on the same track that their heroes race their cars on,” said Raceway president Kurt Beeksma recently. “We’ve been holding this event for many years, a lot of kids come out, and it’s always fun.

“Some of our current stock car racers have competed in our bike races in years past. Who knows? We might just see one of our stars of tomorrow out here on a bike on Saturday night.”
The competitors will be separated into several age groups to make things fair, with special prizes for all participants. The bike races will be held during intermission of the overall program.
For the “big kids” and their race cars, last weekend’s program marked the halfway point of the 2014 campaign. That usually means that both the weather and the on-track action will start to heat up.
Neil Adamzak of Ashland dusted off his Six-Cylinder for the first time all season and edged Tiffany Hudack by mere feet to win his second career “Summer Sizzler” special for that division. The race was the first of the special events scheduled for each of the Raceway’s weekly divisions.
Adamzak was not the only first-time winner on the season, however, as Superior’s Scott Lawrence finally scored his first WISSOTA Super Stock checkered flag of ‘14 on Saturday. The ten-time defending track champion seemed to have rid his racer of its early-season gremlins and ran away to the win in familiar Lawrence fashion.
The other three feature winners – Ashland’s Steve Stuart, Mike Truscott of Chippewa Falls, and Duluth, MN’s Glenn Dammer – put up repeat performances. Stuart walked off with his third straight WISSOTA Modified win and broke his single-lap time record in the process, while solidifying his hold at the top of that division’s points standings.
Truscott’s performance in the WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature resulted in his track-best fourth win of the season, despite getting caught up in two early-race accidents. Truscott is enjoying a dream season, as he has chalked up 15 total wins in a little over two-dozen starts in 2014 as of press time – good enough for second place in WISSOTA’s national points for that class.
Dammer has made the best of his three appearances on the track at which he won his first career points title, back in 2007. He has run three of the five shows held at ABC so far and has a third-place effort and now back-to-back wins over the past two weekends, and he has quickly climbed into the top ten in the Pure Stock standings.
With their wins Saturday, Stuart, Lawrence and Truscott punched earned invitations to qualify for a starting spot in the prestigious invitation-only AmsOil Race of Champions, to be held during the WISSOTA 100 weekend in Huron, SD, in mid-September.
Saturday night’s program gets started with hot laps at 6:15 pm, and the first green flag of the night will drop at around 7. The grandstand and pit gates will open at 5 pm. Adult admission tickets (ages 13 & older) are just $10, while 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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