Proctor Speedway

By Jerry O'Brien
8-30-09 Proctor, MN

Track champions for the 2009 season were named Sunday night at the Proctor Speedway. Of

the five divisions only one was decided at the final race of the season. Defending Pure Stock

champion Josh Loucks led Al Rapp by just nine points going into the final night's action. A poor

performance ion his heat race, a fifth place finish, w race which Rapp won halved Loucks' point

lead. A third place finish by Rapp to Loucks' tenth place erased the lead and gave Rapp the track

title. No second place runner in the four WISSOTA sanctioned divisions could muster enough

points to wrest the title away from the leaders going into the final event. Harry Hanson was

named the 2009 WISSOTA Late Model track champion as was Jeff Tardy in the WISSOTA

Super Stock division. For the first time a father and son team won track titles in the same season

as Kelly Estey won the WISSOTA Modified track title and his son Skeeter Estey won the

WISSOTA Midwest Modified title.

The feature for the Midwest Modified division was the first up and Glen Dammer had the

pole position and jumped off into the lead at the green flag. Though he could not catch Skeeter

Estey for the division title, Steve Stuart continued to be a man on a mission trying to close the

gap. Earlier in the evening Stuart had started eighth in his heat and a lap and a quarter in was

leading. Several caution flags prevented the field from spreading out and kept Stuart in the hunt.

Dammer, in perhaps his best run of the season, kept the lead over Deven Van House, Stuart,

Andrew Inman and Dan Kingsley. Stuart stole the lead from Dammer and led a lap but the

caution appeared when Van House and Inman clashed and spun off turn one leaving Inman's car

over on it's side. Both drivers were OK ans Dtuart retained the lead. The final caution appeared

when the door skin came loose from the Estey car with four laps to go. Stuart had little trouble

winning his second feature of the season over Dammer, Estey, and Dan Russell and Jimmy

Latvala.

Scott Lawrence rarely races at the Proctor Speedway anymore but when he does he seems to

remember when he was winning championships there. Lawrence started in the fifth row and

quickly moved forward as Jay Kuras sneaked by Dan Gullikson for the lead at the initial green

flag. Lawrence was quickly up to run third ahead of Nick Oreskovich. The caution flag appeared

when the 1L of Donnie Lofdahl suffered front suspension damage and was taken off on the hook.

With 13 laps to go Lawrence battled with Kuras for the lead as Gullickson looked for an opening.

Again the caution flag kept it close as Pat Heikkinen's car stalled just off turn two. The restart

was a no go as Oreskovich got into Gullikson and shed both front fenders and the nose piece

bringing out a debris caution. The next try at a restart saw Kuras sail off turn one and the next

attempt at a green flag start saw John Massingill and Gullikson tangle on the back stretch as

Gullickson's car seemed to be an accident magnet. When a start was finally possible Lawrence

drove away to a huge lead and recorded his second feature win of the season. Jay Kintner,

Gukkikson, Scott Heikkinen and Zach Wohlers rounded out the top five. Jeff Tardy stayed out of

trouble, finished seventh and took home to Hibbing, MN the track Super Stock championship.

Kevin Carlson has had a banner season in the #79 Late Model winning his first four career

features after several years of trying. He was trying for win number five and his first ever at the

Proctor Speedway. Carlson got the jump from the outside of the front row and opened up a lead.

Pole sitter George Ledin began to chase him down along with Tim McMann, Todd Gehl, Don

Copp and Cory Jorgenson. Gehl worked his way to second but the caution flag flew when John

Massingill flew off turn one. With 13 laps remaining at the green flag Carlson led Ledin,

McMann, Gehl and Copp until Massingill took his second trip off the track in the same place

with nine laps remaining. At the green Carlson had lots of company as Ledin tried to take the

lead and got into the side of Carlson who suffered damage and retired form competition.

McMann then took over the lead but lost it to Gehl who went on to take his second win of the

season. Harry Hanson also dropped out of competition but had already taken the Late Model

track championship.

In the WISSOTA Modified feature it was all Jayme Lautigar as he jumped to the lead from

the outside of the front row and led every lap for his first feature win of the season. Duane Dale

quickly moved into the runner up spot where he finished ahead of Kelly Estey, Jad Carlson and

Ryan Aho in the top five. Lautigar dominated the flag to flag event which featured little passing.

Estey's third place finish cemented his claim on the 2009 track Modified championship.

Results Proctor Speedway 8-30-09 Proctor, MN

WISSOTA Late Model (17 cars)

Heat 1: Jeff Provinzino, George Ledin, Harry Hanson, Don Copp, Cory Jorgenson, Jeff

Massingill, Darell Nelson, Mike Rich, Dave Esse

Heat 2: Jeff Hinkemeyer, Todd Gehl, Tim McMann, Kevin Carlson, Aaron Lillo, Kyle Peterlin,

Brian Taylor, John Massingill

Feature: 20 Laps Gehl, McMann, Jorgenson, Provinzino, Copp, Ledin, Peterlin, Nelson, A. Lillo,

Jeff Massingill, Taylor, Carlson, Rich, Hanson, John Massingill, Hinkemeyer, Ese

WISSOTA Modified (19 cars)

Heat 1: Kelly Estey, Greg Chesley, Jad Carlson, Greg Ferris, Kelly Checkalski, Nick Lavato,

Cory Sersha, John Sertich, Jeff Broking, Travis Zollar

Heat 2: Jayme Lautigar, Jeff Lien, Duane Dale, Ryan Aho, Steve Roseen, Jody Bellefeuille,

Darrell Nelson, Wayne Stricker, Bob Broking

Feature: (15 laps) Lautigar, Dale, Estey, Carlson, Aho, Chesley, Ferris, Lien, Checkalski, Sersha,

Bellefeuille, Sertich, Lavato, Stricker, Roseen, Nelson, Jeff Broking, Bob Broking, Travis Zollar

WISSOTA Super Stock (25 cars)

Heat 1: Scott Lawrence, Dan Gullikson, Jeff Tardy, Jeremy Fink, Louis Meglen, Tom

Treviranus, Dave Reynolds, Ronnie Malecki, Todd Carlson

Heat 2: Nick Oreskovich, Jay Kuras, Zach Wohlers, John Massingill, Trevor Arens, Donnie

Lofdahl, Mark Roine, Rick Niemi, Jeff Provinzino

Heat 3: Jay Kintner, Mike Bellefeuille, Scott Heikkinen, Kevin Eder, Kevin Burdick, Scott

Sertich, Paul Orloski, Pat Heikkinen, Willie Johnson

B Feature: Lofdahl, Orloski, Carlson, P. Heikkinen, Roine, Treviranus, Sertich, Malecki, Niemi,

Reynolds, Provinzino, Johnson

Feature (15 laps) Lawrence, Kintner, Gullikson, S. Heikkinen, Wohlers, Bellefeuille, Tardy,

Oreskovich, Eder, Fink, Orloski, Meglen, Carlson, Arens, Roine, Kuras, Massingill, Burdick, P.

Heikkinen, Lofdahl

WISSOTA Midwest Modified (29 cars)

Heat 1: Skeeter Estey, Rick Przybylski, Deven Van House, Dan Kingsley, Lance Solem, Dan

Sellung, Joe Olson, Joel Olejnicak, Brad Anderson, Al McDougall

Heat 2: Adam Archer, Dan Russell, Andrew Inman, Cody Carlson, Tony Ciurleo, Dan Doran,

Tom MAckey, Steve Krumrei, Doug Woodhull, Bruce Johnson

Heat 3: Steve Stuart, Glen Dammer, Jimmy Latvala, Jesse Ogston, Scott Herrick, Tommy

Turcotte, Bill Brouse, E. J. Hietala, Shane Roy

B Feature: Sellung, Olson, Mackey, Turcotte, Hietala, Doran, Krumrei, Olejnicak, Brouse,

Anderson, Woodhull, Roy, McDougall, Johnson

Feature (15 laps) Stuart, Dammer, Estey, Latvala, Russell, Ogston, Herrick, Van House, Hietala,

Ciurleo, Mackey, Carlson, Kingsley, Solem, Inman, Sellung, Turcotte, Archer, Przybylski, Olson

Pure Stock (24 cars)

Heat 1: Jon McKinnon, Rob Christman, Scott Larsen, Emily Noilse, Keith Koski, Kyle Inman,

Jim Cooper, Richard Dzelak, Andy Udeen

Heat 2: Dan Larsen, Austin Blom, Pete ciurleo, Matt Hammitt, Mark Korte, Brad Arnes, Ashley

Smith, Rick Cornelison

Heat 3: Al Rapp, Jeff Christman, Jeff Engelmeier, Jordan Grimm, Josh Loucks, Corey Lonetto,

Rita Anderson, Matt Deragon

B Feature: Dzelak, Deragon, C. Lonetto, Arnes, Inman, Smith, Cornelison, Udeen, Anderson,

Cooper

Feature: McKinnon, J. Christman, Rapp, Engelmeier, D. Larsen, R. Christman, Dzelak, Grimm,

S. Larsen, Loucks, Ciurleo, Hammitt, C. Lonetto, Korte, Deragon, Noise, Inman, Arnes, Blom,

Koski.