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7/1/07

Cedar Lake Speedway

New Richmond, WI

WoO

29 cars

Justin Henderson (3^rd car out to time) set quick time over the field with a lap of 11.482 seconds on the banked 3/8 mile oval. Chad Hillier (2^nd car out) was second quick, followed by Joey Saldana (17^th), Terry McCarl (6^th), Daryn Pittman (8^th), Steve Kinser (20^th), Jason Meyers (19^th), Zach Chappell (1^st), Dion Hindi (7^th) and Jason Sides (5^th).

Heat one (started): 1. Jac Haudenschild 35 (8) 2. Meyers 14 (2) 3. Sides 7s (1) 4. McCarl 24 (3) 5. Henderson D1 (4) 6. Tony Bruce Jr. 18T (7) / 7. Brooke Tatnell 2 (7) 8. Jason Martin 36 (10) 9. Craig Dollansky 7 (9) 10. Jerry Richert Jr. 63 (6)

Sides led early before a lap three spin by Dollansky. The restart saw Sides leading Meyers, McCarl, Henderson, and a surging Haudenschild. "The Wild Child" quickly went to work on the high side disposing of Henderson, McCarl and Meyers before he shot around Sides in turn two on the ninth of ten laps. Meyers shot around Sides in three and four on the final go-around to grab second and a transfer to the dash, while Bruce grabbed the final transfer from Tatnell late as well. Dollansky struggled and would need a motor change before the B.

Heat two (started): 1. Kerry Madsen 11H (1) 2. Pittman 21 (3) 3. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (6) 4. Chad Kemenah 3x (5) 5. Jeremy Campbell 10c (8) 6. Jason Solwold R19 (7) / 7. Chappell 8K (2) 8. Davey Heskin 56 (10) 9. Billy Balog 17 (9) 10. Hillier 5c (4)

The initial start was called back when officials determined a Madsen jump. He was sent to the second row, but made quick work of Pittman to take the lead immediately. He would keep the point the rest of the way. Hafertepe also moved by Pittman early. Pittman would retake the spot with two to go. Solwold grabbed the final transfer from Chappell at the halfway mark. Second quick timer Hillier faded and suffered a flat right rear on the last lap. Three clear grooves provided great heat racing.

Heat three (started): 1. Paul McMahan 20 (1) 2. Kinser 11 (3) 3. Danny Lasoski 83 (5) 4. Donny Schatz 15 (7) 5. Saldana 9 (4) 6. Tim Shaffer 6 (6) / 7. Hindi 11D (2) 8. Randy Hannagan 1x (8) 9. Brian Carlson 18 (9)

McMahan led flag to flag. Fierce racing action saw Hannagan move into sixth before spinning on lap nine. That was a break for Shaffer who grabbed the last transfer narrowly holding off Hindi. Lasoski nearly caught Kinser for second. Saldana blew smoke the last three laps, but held on.

Dash (started): 1. Madsen (1) 2. Henderson (7) 3. Saldana (8) 4. McMahan (2) 5. Meyers (4) 6. Sides (10) 7. Kinser (5) 8. McCarl (9) 9. Haudenschild (3) 10. Pittman (6)

Madsen led the duration of the eventful 8 lapper. Chargers early were Henderson and McCarl. When Haudenschild got sideways while running fourth, it impeded McCarl, Meyers, Sides and Kinser behind him, dropping most back a spot or three.

B main (started): 1. Hannagan (5) 2. Dollansky (6) 3. Tatnell (3) 4. Balog (7) 5. Martin (9) 6. Hindi (2) / 7. Carlson (8) 8. Heskin (10) 9. Richert (4) 10. Hillier (1) DNS – Chappell

Hillier took the early lead in the 10 lapper. Dollansky quickly moved into the top three, while Balog slid into a transfer spot using the low side of a quickly drying track. On lap seven, Hillier struck the turn two infield tires and turned over. He tried to continue, but had little success. Dollansky assumed the lead ahead of Hannagan, Tatnell, Balog, Hindi and Martin. Hannagan was able to take the lead after a nice duel and won the battle of two third row starters.

A main (started): 1. McMahan (4) 2. Meyers (5) 3. Henderson (2) 4. Saldana (3) 5. Madsen (1) 6. McCarl (8) 7. Kinser (7) 8. Haudenschild (9) 9. Pittman (10) 10. Sides (6) 11. Tatnell (11) 12. Lasoski (13) 13. Schatz (18) 14. Kemenah (12) 15. Bruce (16) 16. Hafertepe (14) 17. Solwold (17) 18. Shaffer (15) 19. Dollansky (21) 20. Hannagan (20) 21. Martin (23) 22. Hillier (25, pr.) 23. Campbell (19) 24. Hindi (24) 25. Balog (22)

After the track was reworked from top to bottom, Henderson shot out to a nice lead at the start of the 30 lapper. The speeds were fast, and though three grooves existed, there was little movement forward in the non-stop event. McMahan used the low side to track down Henderson by lap 20, and Meyers did the same on the last lap to grab second. McCarl was gaining on Madsen and a top five, but needed another lap to grab the spot. Schatz was the hard-charger, though he only moved forward five spots.

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after looking at the A Main I think that the fans should get a healthy portion of their money back. Where was all the passing? One would think with 3 raceable grooves there would be some. But then again....maybe it was great....I wouldn;t know......I'm stuck in the rain forest of Oklahoma.

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It's called wings. Take them off and there would have been a lot more passing.

There was passing, you should have seen Jac Haudenschild come from last to 1st in his heat race !! He was moving!! With hardly any rain in the area the past week or two the track was extremly dry and it turned into a dust bowl, the worst I've ever been too. But the racing was good!!

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I'm not a fan of non-wing sprints. Just too slow & boring for me. The WOO drivers would run circles around USAC drivers!!!!

There were no back markers in these three wide shots, all racing was for position. I had a lot of fun this weekend and everyone I talked to was happy with the racing.

Visit my photo gallery for a ton of photos from the weekend.

Stan Meissner

It gets old.

If they had three groves,why rework the track?????

It seems that the WOO have not had alot of support from the local drivers on this upper midwest tour the last week or so. Maybe it's the high fuel costs or them not wanting to take a chance on damaging their equipment, it just seems that this year the locals have not been to the ASCS shows in the upper midwest either.

Speed isn't racing. Passing is racing. Unfortunatly, the best track for a winged race is a dry one rapidly changing track.

I went to Bloomington a few weeks ago and the track was pretty damn heavy on a 95 degree day/evening. The nonwinged cars put on one hell of a show there.

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I like um both Stan...just had to see what kind of a rise I could get. lol

Have a safe and happy 4th.

When Cedar Lake takes on rubber it locks down on the bottom. I go there for weekly shows as well as the big Late Model specials so I'm very familiar with the "personality" of that track. When Cedar takes on rubber it develops multi grooves for a while which makes for good racing but too much rubber and it goes from three wide to huggy pole. They didn't want that to happen during the Feature so that's why they groomed the track. Hot, dry, low humidity, this is the exact kind of weather that tends to lock the track down. I'm sure it would have happened. The Feature provided good racing, lightning fast, plenty of side-by-side but in retrospect it might have been better to work it before the Mod Feature. Let the Mods pack it in then go out there and put 20 laps of racing on it. Instead they opted to work the track after the Mod Feature but I'm not going to second guess them.

We haven't been getting any rain for the past few weeks so track prep has been a challenge up here. Working the track prior to the Features has been very successful for the Late Models and Modifieds at their weekly shows. I strolled up from the camp grounds to get my wrist band at noon and talked to a friend who does the track prep for quite a while Sunday. That was the plan all along to give the fans a good track for the Feature. There were three grooves and a few guys tried squeezing four out of it during the Mod Feature. Generally speaking they made what would have been the best decision under normal circumstances but these WoO Sprints are a different animal.

Maybe it could have been a little better if the track had a few more laps but the Feature went green to checker with no yellows or reds. A quite a few of the Late Model fans up here were impressed by that. That's the big gripe up here that Sprints always drag the show out because of the flips and spins. The track record is around 10:75 seconds so they had to be probably running around 11:5's because of the traffic. I didn't check the time but at that pace the Feature took about 6 minutes from the time Jeff dropped the green until he waved the checkers. They were two and sometimes three wide during the Feature, we just didn't see any charges through the field but it was still an entertaining race.

Stan Meissner

The WoO has 26 cars following the tour. That's a full field already. We only have a few 410's in the vicinity of Cedar Lake. Travis raced with the IRA two nights in a row so they decided to skip Cedar Lake. Jerry Richert Jr., Billy Balog and one of the Heskins in the red 56 were the only local cars. Heskin for all intents and purposes is a Knoxville car even though they're from Minnesota. They never have raced locally very often. There were a few others that could have came out and raced but judging by the limited success of the cars I mentioned it's not worth it. GF and Fargo have a few more cars that run with NOSA and we don't have a weekly 410 track down here. Knoxville, the closest weekly 410 show is 300 miles from CLS and Grand Forks is about the same distance.

I don't blame the Knoxville or NOSA cars for not coming to CLS when the WoO already has a full field. Our local 410's are capable of doing well at local and regional shows but they're not very competitive with the WoO. With the exception of Knoxville, California and Pennsylvania or the area where the All Stars run I don't see very many teams risking their equipment to try and sneak into an Outlaw A Main.

The Outlaws this year kind of resemble Nascar in that respect. They pull into town with enough cars to put on a show and don't have to depend on local support.

Stan Meissner

Looks like you succeeded getting them riled up Donn. Me and Steiny (Sprntr) were doing the railbird thing, sitting on the wall by the pit exit and Steiny made the same observation about the airfoils. He likes non-wing Sprints, Midgets and Silver Crown but it's a long drive for us Minnesotans to follow that type of racing. I like both and it would be nice if they'd have some non-wing around here but that's probably not going to happen.

Stan Meissner