Points standings at Chateau sees jockeying

By Herald staff (Contact) | Austin Daily Herald

Published Saturday, August 9, 2008

AUSTIN — It was night 12 of racing action Friday night at Chateau Raceway in Lansing, as a nice field of cars put on some exciting AMSOIL Dirt Track Racing Series Action.

Every feature on the night had action from front to back with plenty of two and three wide action and every feature had a battle for the lead right up to the end with none of the winners able to run away and leave the field behind.

The WISSOTA Street Stock feature had the top two drivers bumper to bumper to the finish.

Photo by Eric Johnson

Tom Paulson leads heat one of the USRA Modifieds into turn one during racing Friday night at Chateau Speedway.

Dave Stevens of Albert Lea and Dan Holland of Brownsdale, battled for first and second with Holland eventually overtaking Stevens on a restart and hanging on for the wind.

Eventually A.J. Zvorak of Blooming Prairie worked his way up to third and made it a three way battle for the win.

With his third place finish Zvorak was able to take over the points lead over Goergen by one point with just two nights of point racing left before track champions are decided.

Another tight points battle that is going to go down to the wire is in the Pure Stock class where Brandon Skalicky of Claremont and Tyler Peterson of Hollandale came in to the night tied for the top spot.

In the feature however things were ugly early for Skalicky. He was involved in two seperate incidents that sent him to the pits twice, though he was able to return.

Peterson meanwhile had made a big move on the initial start and had jumped to the front only to get passed by Billy Steinberg of Kasson on lap two. Skalicky came back up through the field all the way back up fourth. Peterson held on for second behind Steinberg and just ahead of Ross Spitzer of Dodge Center.

The WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature event saw a driver lead from flag to flag for the win but it was anything but an easy drive.

A.J. Wiste of Adams lined up outside front row for the feature and led the twenty-one car field the whole way for his first feature win at Lansing.

He held off Albert and Kenny Wytaske of Lansing who finished second and third respectively.

In the WISSOTA Super Stock class. Cole Queensland of Grand Meadow took his track leading seventh feature win of the season. Cole started in the back and slowly worked his way toward the front. Josh Bartel of Kasson took the early lead before giving it up to Jeff Brauer of Rochester. Brauer stretched out a pretty good lead as the race ran caution free. Queensland slowly cut into his lead and the two ran side by side for a lap about mid-race before Cole took over the lead and held off Brauer for the win.

In the USRA Modified main Mike Sorensen of Rochester jumped out of row two on the drop of the green and pulled to the inside of front row starters Greg Jensen of Albert Lea and Todd Scharkey of Kasson and would go on for his second feature win of the season.

The three wide race sorted out down the back straightaway with Mike taking the early lead. Behind him drivers were swapping spots lap after lap with Scharkey coming to second than falling back to fourth, only to race back up to second again. Brad Baken of Garner Iowa would bounce back and forth in the top five as well as others.

Scharkey and Bakken would finish one-two behind Sorenson by races end.

The Hornet classes saw a pair of drivers bring out the brooms and complete sweeps with wins in both there heats and features. In the Junior Division Garrit Wytaske of Lansing took both the heat and feature win, holding off Michael Wytaske and Matt Brooks of Lansing.

In the Senior Division Gary Stahl of Kasson held off Mike Blowers of Waseca for his fifth feature win of the season.

Racing action continues next Friday night with the “Box Car” Races for the kids. Kids are encouraged to take a box and design it to look like a stock car. Take the top and bottom out of the box and put some straps on so it can hang over the shoulders and than get ready to race next Friday night during the nights racing program.

Racing action is scheduled to hit the track next Friday night at 7:30 with another night of exciting racing action.