Lonnie Leu Memorial
Brad Erickson
Eagle Valley Speedway, August 14, 2020; The Eagle Valley Speedway presented the 19th annual Lonnie Leu Memorial brought to you by Krug’s Towing and Lisa Leu. Winners on the evening included Jake Hartung, Nick Oreskovich, Derek Haas, Danny Richards, Mike Schneider, and Derek Krumrie.
The WISSOTA Modifieds saw the heats topped by Zack Drews and Mike Knopps and the feature results were possibly dictated by a pair of yellow flags. One of which flew on the opening lap and a second which flew as the leaders were taking the white flag. On the opening lap, Sam Fankhauser, Dave Cain, and Michael Truscott were involved in an incident in turn two. The pole sitter, Cain was restarted on the pole, Truscott was towed from the speedway with left front suspension damage, and Fankhauser was relegated to the rear of the field in 14th position.
Back under green, Cain moved out into the lead, but third starting Mike Knopps eventually ran him down. Cain was not able to maintain his usual stout performance as Knopps worked him over in an attempt to move to the front. On several occasions, he appeared to be very near overtaking the point, but Cain who struggled everywhere else on the raceway, was consistently able to get a strong run off of turn four. Meanwhile, sixth starting Steve Hallquist was tracking the two down in his Lethal Chassis racecar.
Behind the front three cars, the fastest cars on the raceway at the moment were Jake Hartung and Mike Anderson as they drove their SSR racecars from the fifth row and were closing rapidly on the leaders. At the white flag, it was still Cain in the lead but a caution flag for a spinning car slowed the pace. On the restart, the complexion of the race changed immediately. The challenging Knopps spun in turn four and his night ended. The restart saw Cain at the point, Hallquist in second on the inside, and Hartung in third on the outside of row two.
In the green, white, checkered restart Hartung was able to move to the outside of the leader. On the final lap, he moved to the front driving off of turn two and drove to the victory in the first night out this season with a brand-new car. Cain was able to hold off a charging Anderson who had passed Hallquist for third. Sam Fankhauser completed his comeback from the first lap foul to round out the top five in his SSR racecar.
Perhaps the weather cancellation at Gondick Law Speedway in Superior, Wisconsin, brought Nick Oreskovich and Willie Johnsen Jr to the Eagle Valley Speedway on this evening. The two were rewarded by both winning their WISSOTA Super Stock heats.
At feature time, it was Oreskovich on the pole and he led every lap of the finale. He initially drove out to a half of a straightway lead and maintained it through lap seventeen. As he was carefully working lapped traffic, Tommy Richards smelled blood and rapidly closed the gap in the final three circuits and actually got his nose under the leader coming to the checkered flag. He was forced to settle for second though at the line. Curt Myers, Jesse Redetzke, and Bart Steffen rounded out the top five.
The WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds ran three heats with Jake Sai, Jay Richardson, and Shadow Kitchner each taking the checkered flag. The front row of the feature pitted Derrek Hass against last week’s winner, Richardson. Richardson chased in an attempt to grab his second win in two tries, but Haas was too tough. Haas raced his way, cover to cover, to victory lane. Shane Halopka drove to a solid third place finish as Dylan Goettl and Kitchner rounded out the top five.
Parker Anderson and Danny Richards won the WISSOTA Street Stock heats and Richards followed it up with a victory from the pole in the feature. It was Soltis with the lead early on a solid start, but Richards methodically ran him down and moved out front. Soltis ran a strong second over sixth starting Andrew Hanson, who finished third. Tavis Loew finished in fourth as Cole Richards drove home in fifth.
Mike Schneider swept the night in the WISSOTA Pure Stocks as he spent the evening running unchallenged for both wins. Fourth starting Ryan Olson did close on him in the feature but was not able to mount a solid challenge for the win on his way to second. James Rahn drove home in third as Travis Hazelton recovered from an early flat tire to finish fourth over Karl Knopps in fifth.
It was Jason Junker in the EVS Hornet heat and after an opening lap caution for a Randy Weiderholt crash in the feature, Derek Krumrie took over the evening and drove to yet another win in the valley. Chad Halterman finished runner up as Junker was third over Joslin Carothers and Craig Oas, who rounded out the top five.
The Eagle Valley Speedway returns on Friday, August 21, 2020, for the Credit King night with all six regular classes with the EVS Hornets, WISSOTA Pure Stock, WISSOTA Street Stock, WISSOTA Midwest Mods, WISSOTA Super Stock, and WISSOTA Modifieds.
WISSOTA Modified Feature (20 Laps): 1. 05-Jake Hartung[9]; 2. 2C-Dave Cain[1]; 3. 57-Mike Anderson[10]; 4. 27H-Steve Hallquist[6]; 5. 11-Sam Fankhauser[4]; 6. 8S-Tony Schill[5]; 7. 13-Nick Koehler[13]; 8. 42-Paul Niznik[8]; 9. R2-Jason Richardson[15]; 10. 1L-Donnie Lofdahl[14]; 11. 38-Zach Gibson[12]; 12. (DNF) 93-Mike Knopps[3]; 13. (DNF) 0-Zack Drews[2]; 14. (DNF) 04JR-Adam Ayotte[11]; 15. (DNF) 22T-Michael Truscott[7]; 16. (DNS) 8-Dakota Smith
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 0-Zack Drews[2]; 2. 11-Sam Fankhauser[1]; 3. 27H-Steve Hallquist[4]; 4. 42-Paul Niznik[3]; 5. 05-Jake Hartung[5]; 6. 04JR-Adam Ayotte[8]; 7. 13-Nick Koehler[7]; 8. R2-Jason Richardson[6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 93-Mike Knopps[2]; 2. 22T-Michael Truscott[8]; 3. 2C-Dave Cain[3]; 4. 8S-Tony Schill[4]; 5. 57-Mike Anderson[5]; 6. 38-Zach Gibson[6]; 7. 1L-Donnie Lofdahl[1]; 8. (DNS) 8-Dakota Smith
WISSOTA Super Stock Feature (20 Laps): 1. 21F-Nick Oreskovich[1]; 2. 7R-Tommy Richards[4]; 3. 1M-Curt Myers[8]; 4. 207-Jesse Redetzke[6]; 5. 2-Bart Steffen[2]; 6. 22T-Terran Spacek[3]; 7. 1E-Eric Olson[9]; 8. 76-Doug Koski[11]; 9. F27-Tony Falkner[15]; 10. XJR-Austin Workman[5]; 11. 25-Chad Johnson[13]; 12. 14L-Dylan Leu[10]; 13. (DNF) 14X-Leslie Leu[12]; 14. (DNF) 3-Thomas Karaba[14]; 15. (DNF) 18-Willie Johnsen Jr[7]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 21F-Nick Oreskovich[5]; 2. 1M-Curt Myers[8]; 3. 207-Jesse Redetzke[2]; 4. 7R-Tommy Richards[6]; 5. 1E-Eric Olson[4]; 6. 76-Doug Koski[7]; 7. 25-Chad Johnson[3]; 8. F27-Tony Falkner[1]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 18-Willie Johnsen Jr[1]; 2. 22T-Terran Spacek[7]; 3. XJR-Austin Workman[4]; 4. 2-Bart Steffen[5]; 5. 14L-Dylan Leu[6]; 6. 14X-Leslie Leu[2]; 7. 3-Thomas Karaba[3]
WISSOTA Midwest Modified Feature (20 Laps): 1. 80-Derek Haas[1]; 2. R1-Jay Richardson[2]; 3. 3JR-Shane Halopka[7]; 4. 24-Dylan Goettl[3]; 5. 68-Shadow Kitchner[9]; 6. 20-Austin Ellis[10]; 7. 119-Mike Widmann[4]; 8. 6S-Steve Haas[6]; 9. 29-Chad Selk[13]; 10. 04N-Nick Ayotte[11]; 11. 34JR-Dan Larson Jr[8]; 12. 1-Jake Stai[5]; 13. 18S-Kennedy Swan[15]; 14. 31-Jason Vokovan[14]; 15. 24P-Lou Puzio[17]; 16. (DNF) JLO-Jason Olson[16]; 17. (DNF) 8-Bryan Pretzman[12]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 1-Jake Stai[1]; 2. 34JR-Dan Larson Jr[4]; 3. 24-Dylan Goettl[3]; 4. 20-Austin Ellis[5]; 5. 29-Chad Selk[6]; 6. JLO-Jason Olson[2]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. R1-Jay Richardson[3]; 2. 80-Derek Haas[2]; 3. 3JR-Shane Halopka[6]; 4. 04N-Nick Ayotte[1]; 5. 31-Jason Vokovan[4]; 6. 24P-Lou Puzio[5]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 68-Shadow Kitchner[2]; 2. 119-Mike Widmann[1]; 3. 6S-Steve Haas[3]; 4. 8-Bryan Pretzman[4]; 5. 18S-Kennedy Swan[5]
WISSOTA Street Stock Feature (15 Laps): 1. 3R-Danny Richards[1]; 2. 9-Adam Soltis[2]; 3. 20-Andrew Hanson[6]; 4. 40-Travis Loew[3]; 5. 1R-Cole Richards[4]; 6. 27P-Parker Anderson[7]; 7. 12-Cody Kummer[13]; 8. 26T-Sam Fankhauser[8]; 9. 3J-Jared Linder[14]; 10. 2D-Dalton Hazelton[9]; 11. 7-Caiden Engel[11]; 12. 45-CJ Wagner[5]; 13. 54-Scott Davis[12]; 14. (DNF) T20-Michael Tuma[10]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 27P-Parker Anderson[3]; 2. 40-Travis Loew[5]; 3. 9-Adam Soltis[4]; 4. 26T-Sam Fankhauser[1]; 5. 2D-Dalton Hazelton[7]; 6. 7-Caiden Engel[2]; 7. 12-Cody Kummer[6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 3R-Danny Richards[2]; 2. 20-Andrew Hanson[4]; 3. 1R-Cole Richards[7]; 4. 45-CJ Wagner[1]; 5. T20-Michael Tuma[3]; 6. 54-Scott Davis[6]; 7. (DNF) 3J-Jared Linder[5]
WISSOTA Pure Stock Feature (12 Laps): 1. 7-Mike Schnider[2]; 2. 1-Ryan Olson[4]; 3. 23R-James Rahn[5]; 4. 31-Travis Hazelton[9]; 5. 92-Karles Knopps[8]; 6. 101-Michael Grover[6]; 7. 2-Nate Szymoniak[1]; 8. 5R-George Richards[3]; 9. 2B-Nicholas Hazelton[7]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7-Mike Schnider[3]; 2. 1-Ryan Olson[4]; 3. 23R-James Rahn[9]; 4. 5R-George Richards[7]; 5. 2-Nate Szymoniak[2]; 6. 101-Michael Grover[1]; 7. 2B-Nicholas Hazelton[5]; 8. 92-Karles Knopps[8]; 9. (DNF) 31-Travis Hazelton[6]
EVS Hornet Feature (12 Laps): 1. 33-Derek Krumrie[4]; 2. X7-Chad Halterman[1]; 3. 36-Jason Junker[5]; 4. 4-Joslin Carothers[3]; 5. 82-Craig Oas[7]; 6. (DNF) 221-Danny Halterman[2]; 7. (DNF) 7W-Randy Wiederholt[6]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 36-Jason Junker[2]; 2. 33-Derek Krumrie[5]; 3. 4-Joslin Carothers[3]; 4. 221-Danny Halterman[6]; 5. X7-Chad Halterman[7]; 6. 7W-Randy Wiederholt[4]; 7. 82-Craig Oas[1]
