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Topic: Good NOSA race last night at Viking Speedway
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September 06, 2009 at
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22 NOSA sprint cars took to Viking Speedway Saturday night on a very dry track. Dust flew on the very first lap of the evening when the Midwest Mods began their three heat races. Two street stock heats, three super stock heats, and three modified heats followed. By the time the sprint cars took the track for their heat races, the cushion had already been pushed up over the berm of the track making it basically unusable. Heats were won by Curt Lund, Wade Nygaard, and 18 year old Cam Schafer of Glenwood. Heat times were slow as the sprinters hugged the bottom of the track. The sprint cars were turning laps in the 18.6 second range. The mods were turning laps in the 21.2 second range, the supers in 22.0 range, the midwest mods in the 23.0 second range, and the street stocks in the 23.6 second range. After the heats, the track crew ripped the whole track up and rewatered it. It looked a little racier for the midwest mod feature, but by the time the sprints took to the track again, the track was pretty much glazed over. This time, however, the track was a little racier and there was a fair amount of passing. Wade Nygaard led the first 16 laps, but was trapped behind a lapped car when Lou Kennedy Jr. blasted past him on the back stretch of lap 17. Kennedy had started 8th. Nygaard then hit one of the big tractor tires on the inside of turn one of the very next lap, bringing out the yellow. Nygaard changed the left rear tire and restarted at the back of the cars on the lead lap which was 17th place. Kennedy hung on for the lead and the win followed by Lee Grosz, Brad Barickman, Thomas Kennedy, and Kyle Fedyk. Nygaard came back to finish 10th. Thomas Kennedy, Lou's son, moved up four spots in the final six laps moving from 8th to 4th. All 22 cars finished the race, there was only one caution, that coming when Nygaard hit the infield tractor tire. The race ended at 10:16 PM. The results below are unofficial, they are taken from how I saw them cross the line. 1. Lou Kennedy (started 8th) 2. Lee Grosz (started 4th) 3. Brad Barickman (7th) 4. Thomas Kennedy (10th) 5. Kyle Fedyk (6th) 6. John Sernett (5th) 7. Chris Shirek (9th) 8. Casey Mack (11th) 9. Bob Martin (16th) 10. Wade Nygaard (1st) 11. Curt Lund (2nd) 12. Nick Shirek (15th) 13. Cam Schafer (3rd) 14. Brian Fuchs (13th) 15. Jordan Graham (18th) 16. Kevin Ingle (21st) 17. Kohlan Fedyk (14th) 18. Brendan Wilde - one lap down (12th) 19. Chris Burke - one lap down (19th) 20. Dave Glennon - one lap down (22nd) 21. Austin Pierce - two laps down (17th) 22. Ryan Flaten - two laps down (20th) Three comments: First, despite the track, NOSA put on a really good show. I mean, how often are you going to see 22 410 sprint cars competing within two hours of the Twin Cities? . There are three shows at Cedar Lake, two at Elko, and two at Deer Creek throughout the season. Alex has three dates with NOSA this summer including the finale tonight (Sunday). I would recommend you go out and take the NOSA group in if you don't have anything going on tonight. The trip took me 95 minutes from my home in the NW suburbs Secondly, who is Cam Schafer? Where did this guy come from. Until last night, The 18 year old driver from Glenwood did a nice job winning his heat on a track that was difficult to pass on. He struggled more in the feature when the track was a little racier, but even still, he did well enough to get noticed. I take in a lot of sprint car races and last night was the first time I had ever seen or even heard of him. Third, and this I complain about often, but why is it that track promoters feel they need to feed us five classes of cars in one night. I think Kopellah tries to run six or seven classes a night, Viking runs five per night. The four fendered classes run last night are too similar and run lap times within two seconds of each other. It is a lot of the same thing over and over. I wish that tracks would stick to three divisions a night. The large number of classes really took a toll on the track last night. But, I don't want to sour the post. I still enjoyed the night, the sprint cars were fun to watch.
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September 06, 2009 at
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pretty much ALL tracks are in the "too many classes" mode........ they make an easy buck by selling tons of $25 pit passes to classes running for $200 to win, it's much easier than actually "PROMOTING" and filling the grandstands.
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September 06, 2009 at
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I had not heard of Cam Schafer until last night too. I looked him up on speednetdirect.com, and he had an A-Mod last year, and has been running USAC Sprints in Indiana the last 2 summers. He also races a legend car. He also has a website (http://camschafer.com)
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September 07, 2009 at
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I had no idea that the NOSA sprints ran in Alexandria 3x a year. I catch them in Grand Forks Friday nights. Alexandria is only 100 miles from where I live. I will have to catch their schedule next year. They race thru Oct 10th, wow, normally some cold cold nights by then.
Adding $6 trillion of debt in his 1st term and now if
elected again he wouldn't have to worry about an
electorate in 2016 so the sky is the limit.And his EPA
would continue to put the screws to oil drilling and
mining for coal.Can you say bankruptcy.
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