Hughes win’s Redneck Game Races
After 40 years of racing on the one-third mile Tri-Oval at Eagle River Speedway, street-legal cars and trucks took to the clay track in side by side racing. It was Redneck Games, Part 1 this past Friday Night. After going through a field of 12, Jeremy Hughes took the championship.
2 cars raced side by side, with the winner advancing. In the end Hughes and his Mitsubishi automobile will enter the record books as the first Redneck Game champion.
“We had an exciting turnout for the Redneck games. Fans and those that took the challenge to race on the same track that special built race cars race on,” commented Eagle River Speedway Promoter, Kevin Dawson.
Track officials were surprised to see how fast those that raced in the Redneck Games were going on the clay surface.
The defending champion for the last 3 years in the WISSOTA Midwest Modified Class, Jesse Aho of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula held off fellow U-P driver, Duane Dunbar, to win the feature. Dunbar took the Heat earlier in the night.
Unlike in the WISSOTA Midwest Modified Feature, it was not the defending Class Champion, also from the Upper Peninsula that would go on to win the WISSOTA Street Stock Feature. That being Jordan Kurtti of Bruce Crossing, Michigan. The Pure Stock Feature would be won by the Tomahawk racer that has quickly become the driver to beat. That is Tomahawk’s Nate Langberg. Kurtti took a second with Eagle River’s “Flying’ Ryan Valeria getting a third.
The most exciting race of the night took place in the highly competitive Pure Stock Class. That is the class that has been dominated by Tomahawk’s CJ Hedges Jr., for the past two years. Hedges has started out this year with back to back wins. It was Friday Night that the fans saw the return of Eagle River’s Denny Lacrosse. Hedges had Lacrosse on his bumper for most of the Pure Stock Feature. In the end, Hedges held on for the win.
Just like in the Pure Stock Feature, it was a defending champion from last year that was beat in the Micro Sprint 600 Feature. The Honda-powered Sprinter driven by Rhinelander Jered Cech, 2014 Class Champion, was beat by Denver Larson Larson is from Shiocton and drives a Suzuki powered Sprinter at speeds of over 90 MPH on the challenging Tri-Oval of Eagle River Speedway.
Two new drivers from the Fox Valley found the challenging Tri-Oval to their liking in the Junior Sprint Class. Oconomowoc’s Ryan Kuehn edged Dousman’s Jack Vanderboom in the Junior Sprint Feature.
Racing returns to the legendary Tri-Oval at Eagle River Speedway this coming Friday Night.
WISSOTA Midwest Modified Feature:
1) Jesse Aho, Toivola, MI
2) Duane Dunbar, Marenisco, MI
3) Tadd Schoonover, Eagle River, WI
4) John Kallas, Hurley, WI
5) Bob Kleinschmidt, Arbor Vitae, WI
WISSOTA Midwest Modified Heat:
1) Dunbar
2) Schoonover
3) Kallas
4) Kleinschmidt
WISSOTA Street Stock Feature:
1) Nate Langberg, Tomahawk
2) Jordan Kurtti, Bruce Crossing, MI
3) Ryan Valeria, Eagle River
4) Ron Vandussan, Eagle River
5) Jay Wilberding, Rhinelander
6) Derek Eberl, Tomahawk
7) Ryan Glembin, Eagle River
WISSOTA Street Stock Heat:
1) Glembin
2) Kurtti
3) Valeria
4) Langberg
5) Britt Broman, Eagle River
6) Vandussan
7) Eberl
8) Wilberding
Eagle River Speedway Pure Stock Feature:
1) CJ Hedges, Jr., Tomahawk
2) Dennis LaCrosse, Eagle River
3) Don Scharf Eagle River
4) Louis Malluegge, Merrill
5) Isabelle Valeria Eagle River
6) Randy Connors, Hayward
7) Gunner Orcutt, Tomahawk
8) Ron Drake, Eagle River
9) Justin Dean, Tomahawk
Pure Stock Heat Race:
1) Hedges, Jr.
2) LaCrosse
3) Drake
4) Malluegge
5) Connor
6) Scharf
7) Valeria
8) Orcutt
9) Dean
Micro Sprint 600 Feature:
1) Denver Larson, Shiocton
2) Jered Cech, Rhinelander
3) Matt Peterson, Escanaba, MI
4) Jake Schilleman, Rhinelander
5) Ty Springer, Eagle River
6) Dylan Larson, Shiocton
7) Scott Richter, Escanaba, MI
Micro Sprint 600 Heat
1) Denver Larson
2) Cech
3) Peterson
4) Schilleman
5) Dylan Larson
6) Springer
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