Proctor Speedway

By Jerry O'Brien
8-23-09
Proctor, MN

Kevin Carlson has four WISSOTA Late Model feature wins this season but was looking to get

one at the Proctor Speedway Sunday night. Starting on the outside of the front row Carlson got

the hole shot on pole sitter Dave Esse but the caution flag for Cory Jorgenson's trip to the infield

sent the field into realignment. This time Esse was ready and grabbed the lead but only a lap was

completed when George Ledin slid off turn one backwards.

The third time was the charm but not

for either of the two as Jeff Provinzino took over the point followed by Harry Hanson, Tim

McMann, Todd Gehl and then Carlson. Hanson moved to the outside groove after Provinzino but

the caution flag again appeared when Carlson faded back and pulled into the infield near turn

one. The restart was on lap seven but didn't last long as Kyle Peterlin was forced off turn three.

Restarting with 17 laps to go, Provinzino continued to lead Hanson and Gehl. At the half way

point Provinzino led Hanson, Gehl, Peterlin and Darrell Nelson in the top five. On the move

from his 13th starting spot was Steve Laursen who ran sixth as Provinzino was cruising at this

point. Hanson began to cut into Provinzino's lead and closed to his back bumper. He then got a

great run to the inside down the back stretch, found grip on the bottom and slid by Provinzino to

take over the top spot. Nelson, Gehl and Peterlin finished in the top five.

Joey Jensen led the WISSOTA Modified feature early but the racers had trouble stringing

together consecutive laps as two restarts in the early going kept the pack together. When the

event finally got going Jensen found Darrell Nelson and Kelly Estey on his tail. Nelson

challenged Jensen for several laps and had the lead by a bumper. Jeff Broking encountered

trouble when the #5 faltered in the second turn, Estey appeared to have to check up and Jody

Bellefeuille, Jeff Hart and Andy Miskowic were caught up with Miskowic's car partially on

Bellefeuille's car. When racing resumed Nelson took the lead from Jensen with a door flapping

Ryan Aho third. Hart, who had restarted the race, went off the top of turns three and four and

stalled bringing out the caution flag again. The half way point was reached a couple of laps after

the restart with nelson leading Aho, Nick Lavato who was having a very strong race, Jad Carlson

and Greg Chesley in the top five. Nelson went on to win his fifth feature of the season over Aho,

Carlson, Chesley and Lavato.

E. J. Hietala popped out to an early lead from the outside of the front row in the WISSOTA

Midwest Modified 20 lap feature over Loren Inman and Dan Kingsley. Al McDougall and Deven

Van House ran in the top five while the top three in points Jimmy Latvala, Skeeter Estey and

Steve Stuart ran together. Stuart spun but kept going losing a lot of track position in the process.

Despite another spin and keep going by Kingsley, the half way mark was quickly reached with

Hietala leading Inman, Van House, Estey and Latvala in the top five. The first caution flag

appeared at this point when Stuart's car went up in smoke. Green Hietala maintained the lead as

Inman tried to keep Van House behind him but fell off the pace back to seventh or eighth. Heitala

went on to win his first feature of the season as Estey got by Van House on the white flag lap for

second. Rounding out the top five were Adam Archer in fourth. Archer had started dead last in

the 20 car field and Latvala in fifth.

Nick Oreskovich from Mason, WI, dubbed "The Flyin' Farmer" was looking for his second

WISSOTA Super Stock feature win of the weekend and grabbed the lead from the outside of the

front row with Donnie Lofdahl, Jeff Ruzich and Scott Lawrence and Jay Kintner in close

formation. The caution flag flew a few laps into the 20 scheduled for debris on the track. It was a

mob scene going into turn three on the restart and Lofdahl was forced off the track, through the

ditch and into the guardrail heavily damaging the car. Ruzich was sent to the rear for the incident.

Oreskovich continued to lead after the cleanup and restart with Lawrence, Jeff Tardyand Kevin

Eder (from 12th) in close attendance. Oreskovich went on to make it two wins in the weekend

over Lawrence, Tardy, Eder and Louis Meglen in the top five.

The Pure Stock 15 lap feature saw veteran Jon McKinnon jump out to the lead at the outset

over Jeff Engelmeier, Pete Ciurleo and Rick Cornelison. Al Rapp started dead last after trouble

in his heat and was a man on a mission. A tangle off turn four brought out the caution flag and

diabled several cars including the borrowed ride of Austin Blom who sat fifth in seasons points.

Three of the top five in points were sidelined in this crash with three laps in. By the half way

point Rapp was contending for the lead as McKinnon held on to the point. Rapp and McKinnon

raced side by side for several laps before Rapp slipped past to take the win. McKinnon, Dan

Larsen, Josh Loucks and Engelmeier rounded out the top five.

Results Proctor Speedway 8-23-09

WISSOTA Late Model (17 cars)

Heat 1: Kevin Carlson, Darrell Nelson, Harry Hanson, John Kaanta, Aaron Lillo, Don Copp,

Steve Laursen, Cory Jorgenson, Paul Parker

Heat 2: Jeff Provinzino, Dave Esse, Tim McMann, Todd Gehl, Kyle Peterlin, George Ledin,

Travis Budiaslovich, Terry Lillo

Feature: Hanson, Provinxino, Nelson, Gehl, Peterlin, Laursen, Kaanta, Copp, McMann, Parker,

Esse, A. Lillo, T. Lillo, Budisalovich, Jorgenson, Ledin, Carlson

WISSOTA Modified ( 14 cars)

Heat 1: Nick Lavato, Darrell Nelson, Jeff Broking, Greg Chesley, Jeff Lien, Joey Ogston, Paul

Schultz, Jody Bellefeuille

Heat 2: Ryan Aho, Jeff Hart, Joey Jensen, Kelly Estey, Duane Dale, Andy Miskowic, Jad Carlson

Feature: Nelson, Aho, Carlson, Chesley, Lavato, Bellefeuille, Lien, Schultz, Dale, Jensen, Estey,

Ogston, Miskowic, Hart, Broking

WISSOTA Midwest Modified (28 cars)

Heat 1: Jimmy Latvala, Loren Inman, E. J. Hietala, Shane Roy, Tony Ciurleo, Tridel Champlin,

Dan Doran, Bruce Johnson, Dan Sellung, Adam Archer

Heat 2: Steve Stuart, Deven VanHouse, Al McDougall, Tommy Turcotte, Andrew Inman, Terry

Inman, Joel Olejnicak, Lance Solem, Willy Thompson

Heat 3: Skeeter Estey, Scott Herrick, Dan Doran, Jesse Ogston, Brad Anderson, Glen Dammer,

Tom Mackey, Bill Brouse, Travis Swanson

B Feature: Dammer, Champlin, Mackey, Archer, Thompson, T. Inman, Swanson, Doran,

Olejnicak, Sellung, Johnson, Solem

Feature: Hietala, Estey, Van House, Archer, Latvala, A. Inman, Ogston, L. Inman, McDougall,

Herrick, Kingsley, Champlin, Turcotte, Roy, Ciurleo, Mackey, Thompson, Anderson, Stuart,

Dammer

WISSOTA Super Stock (20 cars)

Heat 1: Jeff Ruzich, Scott Lawrence, Mike Bellefeuille, Nick Oreskovich, Scott Sertich, Jay

Kuras, Tom Treviranus, Reed Scott, Zach Wohlers, Paul Orloski

Heat 2: Jeff Tardy, Jay Kintner, Jeremy Fink, Donnie Lofdahl, Louis Meglen, Andy Grymala,

Kevin Eder, Scott Heikkinen, Ronnie Malecki, Pat Heikkinen

Feature: Oreskovich, Lawrence, Tardy, Eder, Meglen, Fink, Kuras, Bellefeuille, Scott, Wohlers,

Grymala, S. Heikkinen, Treviranus, Malecki, P. Heikkinen, Sertich, Orloski, Lofdahl, Ruzich,

Kintner

Pure Stock (17 cars)

Heat 1: Richard Dzelak, Josh Loucks, Austin Blom, Rick Cornelison, Scott Larsen, Rita

Anderson, Mark Korte, Al Rapp

Heat 2: Pete Ciurleo, Jon McKinnon, Jeff Engelmeier, Dan Larsen, Matt Deragon, Jordan

Grimm, Matt Hammitt, Kyle Inman

Feature: Rapp, McKinnon, D. Larsen, Loucks, Engelmeier, C. Lonetto, Korte, S. Larsen,

Deragon, Grimm, Hammitt, Inman, Anderson, Cornelison, Ciurleo, Dzelak, Blom