Werner Eclectic Supply sponsored the Werner Electric UP 50, Friday night at the Norway Speedway. The main event was cut 3 laps short of the finish due to a City of Norway Power Failure. Mike Reichenberger was the leader at the time, when it was determined well beyond a two hour wait past the 11th hour to call it a night.
Pepsi Cola of Iron Mountain Michigan presented the week 9 action at ASA Member track Norway Speedway Friday night, were Troy Nelson won his second consecutive Pepsi Late Model A feature. Bill Delfosse survived a Super Stock demolition to win his second Auto Value Bumper to Bumper super Stock A feature. Jim Stanchina drove off with the DQ-Dog Four cylinder A feature, and Jim Stachowicz won his 5th Slammer feature.
Jay Baumler and Scott Stanchina led the Pepsi Late Model A feature to the green flag. Jay Baumler quickly made his way by taking the lead. Ryan Hood moved by Stanchina to take the second position, but Jay Baumler had checked out from the field. Baumler looked to be on his way to an easy victory until a late caution let the field catch up to him. Last weeks feature winner Troy Nelson moved to the outside on the restart. When the race restarted with 15 laps to go, Nelson fired by on the outside of Baumler taking the lead on lap 21 and never looked back. 1. #19 Troy Nelson 2. #76 Jay Baumler 3. #1 Mike Reichenberger 4. Craig Schei 5. #14 Dick Coleman
The Mid-American Stock Car Series highlighted the week 7 action at the the ASA sanctioned Norway Speedway in front of a packed house, as Lyle Novak of Wausau WI captured the “EH” Main event for the Midam series, while Dalton Zehr held off Troy Nelson to win the Pepsi Late Model A - and Mark Jenshak won his first Auto Value Bumper to Bumper Super Stock Feature.
Humid temperatures, threatening sky’s a little color lightning and two divisions of competitors could not stop the Stanchina’s on Friday Night as Scott Stanchina ran away with the Pepsi Late Model A feature for his second win of the season. And Cousin Mike Stanchina persevered through numerous restarts to win his first Auto Value Bumper to Bumper Super Stock A feature.
Dillon Kralovetz won fast time in the Pepsi Late Model division for the second consecutive week with a time of 14.951 seconds, an average just over 80mph, and Ron Jenshak reclaimed his perch winning Auto Value Bumper to Bumper Super Stock fast time for the 5th time in 6 weeks, with a time of 16.310. Cody Skog clocked in at 18.8 seconds to win DQ-Dog Qualifying.
Troy Nelson took the lead from Jay Baumler with two laps remaining to win the Pepsi Late Model fast dash, while Mark Jenshak held off Mark Bubloni to win the Super Stock dash.
Pepsi Late Model heat winners were Putch Bently, Gene Coleman, and Matt Frazer, while Wes Thompson and Bill Delfosse claimed the Auto Value Bumper to Bumper Super Stock heat races.
Sick Air Highlighted the night at ASA Sanctioned Norway Speedway, but it was Craig Schei in the Pepsi Late Model Division, and Marcus Bubloni in the Auto Value Super Stock division driving away from the competition to claim their main events. Gerald Dugree jr, and Jim Stachowicz also won the A mains in the DQ-dog division and slammer division.
Dillon Kralovets claimed top honors in qualifying for the Pepsi Late Models with a time of 14.884 an average of 80.643 mph, and for the first time of the year somebody besides Ron Jenshak was top qualifier in the Auto Value Super Stock division, as Bill Delfosse timed in the fastest with a time of 16.537 an average time of 72 mph.
Dalton Zehr held off Mike Reichenberger to win the Pepsi Late Model fast dash, while Jason Blohm got his first win of the year holding off Bill Delfosse to win the Auto Value Bumper to Bumper Super stock dash. Jonathan Pepin held of four cylinder rookie Joey Knutson to win the DQ-Dog dash.
Marne, MI—Over 5,000 fans were on hand to witness a thrilling night at Berlin Raceway. Kelsey Steele scored her second win of the season in the Young Guns division and Scott Thomas got his first win of the season in the Coors Light Late Models; winning the CRA Super Series Rowdy Busch 125 was Brian Campbell.
The Young Guns took the track first; #32 Gabe Ensing was slotted to start on the pole position, but his wreck in the heat race took him out of contention. #16 Kelsey Steele moved up to take his space next to #19 Dalton Haney. From the drop of the green flag, Steele took off with the lead and by halfway, had put almost four seconds between herself and Haney. Haney had his hands full with #6 Brandon Hermiller who took second place from him on lap 11. Hermiller began to catch Steele, but he ran out of time. Steele got her second win of the season after leading all of the laps and finishing behind her was Hermiller, Haney, #18 Mitch Meppelink, #101 Lauren Bush and Ensing.
The ARCA RE/MAX Series is open for business at Michigan Int'l Speedway. On track to make its 28th appearance at the renowned two-mile oval since debuting here in 1980, the tech line is open, and cars are coming through. At present, 36 ARCA RE/MAX Series machines are in the garage in preparation for Friday's Racing for Wildlife 200, live on SPEED at 5:00 PM. Two hours of practice (10-noon) Thursday followed by Menards Pole Qualifying presented by Ansell at 3:00 PM will set the stage for raceday. All on-track activities will be broadcast live in streaming audio at ARCAracing.com via the ARCA Racing Network.
Busch and Benson Take on CRA Super Series Stars
CRA PR Series Report
The Rowdy Busch 125 Presented By Auto Body Xperts CARSTAR at Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan is the next CRA Super Series event on the 2009 schedule on Wednesday, June 10th featuring NASCAR star Kyle Busch. The event will be a CRA Super Series non-points 125 lap special event that will pay $4000 to win and $500 to start.
“We look forward to having CRA with this event,” remarked Michael Blackmer, the Promoter of Berlin Raceway. “The CRA events at Berlin in the past have been great races. The Rowdy Busch 125 will be another great show with NASCAR star Kyle Busch competing against some of the best CRA drivers and the great group of local talent that always comes out to compete in these types of events!”
Rain, chilling temperatures, 100 laps, droves of lap cars, could not keep Ross Kenseth from claiming the 2009 Drive Line 100. 40 competitors attempted to qualify for the 20 positions in the pay per lap event, where each competitor would receive $7.50 per lap completed, plus be paid $25 for every position gained at the end of the race, plus an additional $20 per lap led, and a $100 bonus for leading laps 1, 10, 20, 30 and so on.
On Saturday Mike Gardner sped to fast time 14.555 an average speed of 82.468 mph. The rains came shortly after LM qualifying completed Saturday, after a short wait, it was decided the Drive Line 100 would take place on Sunday afternoon. Shortly after 1pm the Late Model dash took the green flag with Dalton Zehr doing his best to rub Jaime Iverson away, but it was Jamie Iverson who beat Zehr to the line by .002 of a second to claim the trophy dash!
WHAT
• Following an event on Memorial Day at Canandaigua Speedway in New York to wrap up the first East Coast swing of the season, the World of Outlaws head back to the Midwest this coming weekend for events at Attica Raceway Park in Ohio on Friday, May 29 and I-96 Speedway in Michigan on Saturday, May 30. Donny Schatz, the three-time and defending World of Outlaws champion and current series point leader, was victorious at Attica last season, while 20-time series title winner Steve Kinser, who is currently second in the standings, was the winner at I-96 Speedway. Kinser is the only driver that has won more multiple feature events with the series at both tracks.
WHEN
• On Friday, May 29 at Attica Raceway Park, the pit gates will open at 3:30 p.m. Eastern, with the grandstand gates opening at 4:30 p.m. Eastern with racing set for 7:45 p.m. Eastern.
• On Saturday, May 30 at I-96 Speedway, the pit gates will open at 2 p.m. Eastern, with the grandstand gates opening at 4 p.m. Eastern with hot laps set for 6 p.m. Eastern.
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