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Shawano,WI,8/2/14—On the tenth annual Bud Lynn Memorial Night, third generation racer Brock Saunders won his first ever IMCA Sport Mod feature. Travis VanStraten stayed hot winning his sixth feature of the year and second straight. Marcus Yarie won his third feature of the season. Tim Rothe and Grant Kastning each won their second features of the season.
Tim Rothe led the duration of the Late Model feature holding off the likes of Troy Springborn, Tom Naeyaert, and Kurt Moeller for his second feature win of the season. The race went green to checkered.

Tony Wedelstadt took off from his pole position to grab the lead at the start of the IMCA Modified feature. Wedelstadt quickly began to receive pressure from Jerry Muenster and Cody Hudson for the lead. Eight place starting Marcus Yarie reached the top four by lap four. A caution on lap six bunched the field up. On the restart Wedelstadt continued to lead with Hudson in second and Yarie moving up to third. On lap ten Yarie overtook Wedelstadt to grab the lead. Yarie would lead the rest of the race to secure his third feature win of the season and extend his point lead. Wedelstadt held of Jared Siefert to finish in the second position. Cody Hudson took fourth.
The IMCA Stock Car feature saw Vern Stedjee jump into the lead on the opening lap. Stedjee held the top spot until tenth place starting JJ Heinz took the lead on lap three. On lap eight with Heinz still leading, Travis VanStraten raced past Mike Schmidt into second. VanStraten quickly began to reel in Heinz, and was able to gain the upper hand on Heinz to take the lead on lap twelve. VanStraten held off Heinz to win his sixth feature of the year and extend his point lead over third place finisher Mike Schmidt.
Brock Saunders led all but one lap of the IMCA Sport Mod feature, but it would not be easy. Saunders went three wide with Don Woller and Jason Jach to grab the lead on lap one. Saunders received early pressure from Jach and then Tracy Wassenberg moved to second on lap five. By the midpoint of the race Saunders had built a nice lead, but it was wiped away after a lap eleven caution. On lap twelve Jach actually grabbed the lead from Saunders, but Saunders took it back on the next lap. A lap thirteen pileup involving Clint Forstner, Tracy Wassenberg, Bernie Miller, Brandon Nygaard, Tyler Thiex, Jake Solin, Weston Frenche, Lucas Lamberies. and Don Woller brought out a red flag and bunched the field together again. On the restart Saunders began to receive pressure from Jordan Bart. Another caution after lap eighteen created a two lap shootout for the finish. Saunders rode the high line to his first career victory, holding off Jordan Bartz and Jason
Jach for the win.
In Mighty Four action Grant Kastning led every lap for his second win of the season. Scott Blanke took second followed by Jeff behm.
The four cylinder spectator eliminator race saw Brian Welch win. Duell Pecha finished second and survived a nasty rollover. Scott Williams beat Jordan Lessor in the V8 spectator eliminator finale.
Next Saturday night will be Autism Awareness night sponsored by Cody Hudson. There will also be a free corn roast under the grandstand after the nights races along with live music. More information is available online at www.shawanospeedway.net.

Race Summary:
Late Model Feature: 1)Tim Rothe, 2)Troy Springborn, 3)Tom Naeyaert, 4)Kurt Moeller, 5)Ron Berna, 6)Aaron Holiday, 7)Derek Jahnke, 8)Cody Welch, 9)Adam Jahnke, 10)Steve Petri.
Heat 1: 1)Rothe, 2)Berna, 3)Naeyaert.

IMCA Modified Feature: 1)Marcus Yarie, 2)Tony Wedelstadt, 3)Jared Siefert, 4)Cody Hudson, 5)Jerry Wilinski, 6)Matt Oreskovich, 7)Eddie Muenster, 8)Lance Arneson, 9)Troy Jerovetz, 10)Jerry Muenster.
Heat 1: 1)Yarie, 2)Oreskovich, 3)Wedelstadt.
Heat 2: 1)Hudson, 2)Wilinski, 3)Jason Bahrs.
Heat 3: 1)Tom Schaal, 2)Eddie Muenster, 3)Mike Fillion.

IMCA Stock Car Feature: 1)Travis VanStraten, 2)JJ Heinz, 3)Mike Schmidt, 4)Shawn Wagner, 5)Kyle Frederick, 6)Trent Nolan, 7)Gary Kasperek, 8)Joe Schwister, 9)Vern Stedjee, 10)Tom Riehl.
Heat 1: 1)Heinz, 2)Schmidt, 3)Wagner.
Heat 2: 1)VanStraten, 2)Nolan, 3)Stedjee.

IMCA Sport Mod Feature: 1)Brock Saunders, 2)Jordan Bartz, 3)Jason Jach, 4)Clint Forstner, 5)Lucas Lamberies, 6)Jarred VanLaanen, 7)Derek Schnetzer, 8)Karah Peterson, 9)Tyler Thiex, 10)Kelsey Hayes.
Heat 1: 1)Joey Taycher, 2)Forstner, 3)Bartz.
Heat 2: 1)Saunders, 2)Don Woller, 3)Tracy Wassenberg.

Mighty Four Feature: 1)Grant Kastning, 2)Scott Blanke, 3)Jeff Behm, 4)Dalton Nelson, 5)Matt DeWilde, 6)Matt Hattermann, 7)Hollie Welch, 8)Brian Seger, 9)Josh Slewinski, 10)Chris Hidde.
Heat 1: 1)Kastning, 2)Blanke, 3)Hattermann.
Heat 2: 1)Hidde, 2)Slewinski, 3)Brad Wedde.

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