by Kari Shear-Carlson
The American Speed Association® Midwest Tour honored three division Champions and Rookies of the Year, along with several special awards recipients this past Saturday night, February 4th at Ho Chunk Resort in Baraboo, WI. Two hundred sixty guests were in attendance to take part in the celebration.
by Ben Kruchten
North Central Speedway has 21 race events on the schedule for 2012 and will feature a new event over Memorial Day Weekend, the return of the AMA Outlaw Stars Race and the 11th Annual Mighty Ax Nationals, but first the season starts off with several practice sessions before opener on April 28.
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The final night of action as night number three kicked off with 45 cars qualifying. Group one went to last night’s feature winner, Dennis “Rambo” Franklin as he qualified with a 15.708. Group two went to Chase Edge with a time of 16.110. Group three, Chris Cantrell qualified with 15.948 and Group four went to Steve Cooke on the last lap with a 16.116.
Next up was the World Street Stock heat races. 24 were cars on hand to win the $3,000 for the 50 Lap A-Main Feature Event. Top six were locked in by virtue of points accumulated over the past two nights. Ritchie “The Rocketman” Stephens edged out Tim Gay by just three points to earn the number one postion. Tim Powers, Eric Moon, Buck Woodhouse and Donnie Reed rounded out the top six. Two heat races were run to finish the line-up for the A-Main. Jeff Rodgers and Kevin Durden were your heat race winners.
Next up were the final heat races to earn their spot into the 50 Lap A-Main $3,000 to win. Top four from each heat race advance. Dennis “Rambo” Franklin won heat race number one and earned himself the pole position. Heat race number two went to Doug Watson and earned him a spot beside Franklin on the front row. Austin Hubbard and Steve Cooke won the two remaining heat races.
The top six in points had their hot lap session and pulled to the front stretch and pulled pastries to see where they started for the A-Main. Tim Gay pulled the number one position with Buck Woodhouse pulling number two. Donnie Reed and Tim Powers made up row number two and Eric Moon and Ritchie Stephens made up row number three.
Next were two B-Mains and the top three advanced to the 50 Lap A-Main. Doug Horton, Dave Schmauss and Shan Smith were your top three. In B-Main number two, Jack Nosbisch, Jr was your winner. Provisionals went to Shannon Lee and David Earl Gentry and picking up track provisional went to Travis Varnadore.
by Joe Verdegan
(Francis Creek, WI) February 4 – More than 300 drivers, crew members, race fans and track officials converged at Fox Hills Resort in Mishicot Saturday as the 2011 track champions from 141 Speedway were crowned, in the track’s second season as a high-banked, third-mile clay oval.
Sobieski’s Sean Jerovetz won his first career track title in the modified division. Jerovetz beat Green Bay veteran Eddie Muenster by 7 points to secure the crown.
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Night number two of the 36th Annual Winternationals kicked off with qualifying for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Models with 50 cars on hand. Fast Time went to David Earl Gentry from Murfreesboro, TN with a time of 15.627 from Group one. Group two went to Pierce McCarter with a 16.258. Group three went to Shane Hitt with a 15.881 and Group 4 went to Steve Cooke with a 16.035.
Next up was three heat races for the 2nd Annual World Street Stocks as 23 cars set to qualify. Heat Race number one was Tim Powers, Ritchie Stephens, Tim Gay, Del Powell and Donnie Reed. Heat Race number two went to Brian Morgan, Justan Rodgers, Terry Jones, Thomas Burnside and John Kinsey. Heat Race number three’s top five were Jeff Rodgers, Calvin Cook, Eric Moon, Kevin Durden, Brian Hansford.
Heat race action was next up for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model series with the top four from each heat race qualifying to the A-Main. The first heat race went to David Earl Gentry earning him the pole for the 40 Lap A-Main Event. Heat race number two went to Shane Hitt earning the outside front row starting spot. Doug Horton, Jack Nosbisch, Jr., Chris Cantrell, William Thomas were your top five.
The first of two 15 lap B-Mains were next with William Thomas picking up the win and for the second night in a row, Shannon Lee picked up a provisional. B-Main number 2 went to Doug Watson and picking up provisional were Mark Tice and Kyle Mussleman.
by Lucas Dirt Late Model Media PR
Officials of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series are excited to announce the 36th Annual DART Winternationals being held Feb 12-18th at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, FL will pay out over $200,000 in purse monies alone for the week. This year’s events at the famed “Clay by the Bay” will start on Sunday night Feb 12th with an open practice session for racers to shake down their cars in preparation for the week-long events.
For the 7th straight year DART Machinery will return as the title sponsor of the 36th Annual DART Winternationals. DART Machinery's Technology Center in Troy, MI now houses the company's administrative offices, the R&D headquarters, and inspection, machining and warehouse operations. A separate production facility in nearby Melvindale, MI houses the thundering CNC machining centers that produces heads and blocks from raw castings. Twenty five years ago, it all began with a desk, a telephone and a dream. Today DART is the acknowledged leader in aftermarket components for racing engines. For more information on DART you can visit their website at www.dartheads.com.
The 36th Annual DART Winternationals officially gets started on Monday Feb 13th with a complete show starting at 6:00PM EST each night with drivers competing for $5,000 to win on both Monday and Tuesday nights. Then on Wednesday and Thursday nights events drivers will compete for $7,000 to win each of those two nights with the final two nights Friday and Saturday nights events paying $10,000 to win respectively. The final two night’s events on Friday and Saturday will be the first points paying events of the 2012 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series. Each night’s events will include Hot laps, RedBuck Cigars Time Trials, Heat Races, B-Mains, PRC Strawberry Dash, presented by DirtonDirt.com and the A-Main feature event each night.
