Proctor Speedway

By Jerry O'Brien

5-16-10

Proctor, MN

Ricky Weiss took advantage of some contact between he and early leader

Jeff Provinzino to take the win in the 25 lap WISSOTA AMSOIL Dirt Track Series opening night Late Model action at the Proctor Speedway.

Weiss started the event on the outside of row one but it was Provinzino who jumped to the point and opened up a eight car length lead on Aaron Lillo, Kyle

Peterlin and Weiss with Darrell Nelson in fifth. Provinzino was racing off into the sunset dominating the field but Weiss flexed his muscles and set off

to track down the leader. By the mid point Weiss had pulled to within a couple of car lengths of Provinzino and soon caught him. Muscling past

Provinzino apparently damaged the #28 and he dropped way off the pace. By the time Provinzino got back up to speed it was too late and he ended up

finishing sixth. Darrell Nelson battled his way up to third but was unable to mount a charge on Peterlin who finished second. Harry Hanson and Kevin

Carlson finished in the top five.

Pileup during Modified feature race.  Photo courtesy of Ken Johnson

It appeared that Jody Bellefeuille had the WISSOTA Modified feature well in hand as he dominated the early going staving off challenges from

Jayme Lautigar, Darrell Nelson, Kelly Estey and Greg Chesley, challenges that came in multiple waves. Several caution periods slowed the action but

Bellefeuille flexed his muscles each time and staved off the advances. A red flag situation occurred when close racing brought a massive pileup on the

front stretch that eliminated six cars from competition. Involved in the scary wreck were John Reini, Travis Zollar, Ryan Aho, Mark Blood, Ken Hron and

Paul Schultz. A fourth restart after the red flag condition saw Bellefeuille still strong on the restart but this time his luck ran out as the #11 shucked the

drive shaft on the back stretch ending Bellefeuille's great run. With five laps remaining and the original 21 car field reduced to ten, it was Darrell Nelson

who took the point and held off Estey and Lautigar for the win. Chesley and 16th starting Jeff Wood rounded out the top five.

Darrell Nelson(44) and Jayme Lautigar(54L) side bay side down the front stretch in Modified Feature Race.
Photo Courtesy of Ken Johnson

The 20 lap WISSOTA Super Stock event featured a mad scramble at the initial green flag that saw a momentary four wide situation in turn two on lap

two. Jeff Tardy took the lead from the pole but it was third starting Nick Oreskovich who showed some strength as he pulled off the pass on the

always tough Tardy for the lead. Jay Kuras ran third ahead of Donnie Lofdahl while Jeremy Fink battled with Jay Kintner for fifth. The field became strung

out single file around the track and the half way point was quickly reached. A caution flag near the mid point charged to Pat Heikkinen closed up the pack

with 11 laps remaining. Oreskovich got a great restart and Kuras got by Tardy but to no avail as the caution flag flew once again for a wreck ion turn

one that was charged to Lofdahl. At the restart Oreskovich maintained the lead while Mike Bellefeuille was on the move toward the front from the tenth

starting spot getting up to fourth as the laps ran out. Oreskovich held off Tardy for the win followed by Jay Kintner, Bellefeuille and Zach Wohlers in

the top five.

Nick Oreskovich does a reverse victory lap after winning the Super Stock Feature.
Photo courtesy of Ken Johnson

Pole sitter Skeeter Estey shot into the lead at the green in the WISSOTA Midwest Modified 20 lap feature over Tom Mackey, Don Smith, Justin Jones

and Jeff Marshall in the early top five. The first of four caution flags was charged to E. J. Hietala involving Ricky Davis and Jake Gondik. Hietala

would rebound to finish sixth. Estey led Smith, Jones and Marshall ahead of a charging Lance Solem. In between two more caution flags Marshall

charged to the lead and continued his battle with Jones for the lead. Marshall won the event for his first win at the Proctor Speedway. In victory lane he

said that his first appearance at the speedway was probably 1969. It was Marshall's second win in as many days. Jones, Johnny Broking Smith and

Solem rounded out the top five.

Superior's Chad Carlson is on a very early season roll ah he has taken the #21 "Grocery Getter" chevy station wagon to back to back sweeps in two

days this past weekend. Carlson leaped, if a station wagon cam be said to leap, out to the lead in the 15 lap Pure Stock feature. Richard Dzelak, pole

sitter Matt Hammitt, Carlson's brother Tim and defending track champion Al Rapp were at the head of the field all trying to run down Chad Carlson. Only

one caution flag slowed the action as Hammitt spun and was eliminated from competition. Chad Carlson held off all comers to complete his second

sweep of the weekend over Dzelak, Rapp, Tim Carlson and 2008 track champion Josh Loucks in the top five.

Results Proctor Speedway Opening Night 5-16-10

WISSOTA Late Models (12 cars)

Heat 1: Aaron Lillo, Jeff Provinzino, Kevin Carlson, Harry Hanson, Tim

McMann, Cory Jorgenson

Heat 2: Don Copp, Ricky Weiss, Darrell Nelson, Kyle Peterlin, Scott Meeds,

Joey Ogston

Feature (25 Laps) Weiss, Peterlin, Nelson, Hanson, Carlson, Provinzino,

Lillo, McMann, Meeds, Ogston, Copp, Jorgenson

WISSOTA Modified (21 Cars)

Heat 1: Justin Jones, Greg Chesley, Ryan Aho, Jayme Lautigar, Pul Schultz,

Nick Lavato, Ken Hron, Mark Blood, Jad Carlson, Duane Dale, Bob Broking

Heat 2: Darrell nelson, Jeff Hart, Kelly Estey, Jody Bellefeuille, Travis

Zollar, John Reini, Steve Stuart, Jeff Wood, Jeff Brokinf

Feature (20 Laps) Nelson, Estey, Lautigar, Chesley, Wood, Hart, Jeff

Broking, Bob Broking, Dale, Jones, Stuart, Bellefeuille, Aho, Blood, Reini,

Hron, Schultz, Zollar, Lavato, Heikkinen, J Carlson

WISSOTA Super Stock (14 cars)

Heat 1: Nick Oreskovich, Tom Treviranus, Jay kintner, Kevin Eder, Zach

Wohlers, Todd Carlson, Pat Heikkinen

Heat 2: Donnie Lofdahl, Jeff Tardy, Jeremy Fink, Jay Kuras, Mike

Bellefeuille, Steve VanHouse, Justin Iverson

Feature (20 Laps) Oreskovich, Tardy, Jay Kintner, Bellefeuille, Wohlers,

Fink, Eder, Treviranus, Carlson, Lofdahl, VanHouse, Iverson, Heikkinen,

Kuras.

WISSOTA Midwest Modified (20 Cars)

Heat 1: Justin Jones, Deven VanHouse, Tom Mackey, Lance Solem, Johnny

Broking, Dan Toran, Adam Archer, Glen Dammer, Ross Siiter, Andrew

Inman

Heat 2: Jeff Marshall, Skeeter Estey, Don Smith, Dan Kingsley, Jimmy

Latvala, Ricky Davis, E. J. Hietala, Jake Gondik, Neil Balduc, Tommy

Turcotte

Feature (20 Laps) Marshall, Jones, J. Broking, Smith, Solem, Hietala,

Kingsley, Estey, Turcotte, VanHouse, Mackey, Balduc, Archer, Davis,

Dammer, Inman, Latvala, Gondik, Siiter, Doran

Proctor Pure Stock (27 Cars)

Heat 1: Richard Dzelak, Josh Loucks, Jordan Grimm, Mark Korte, Dan

Larsen, Austin Blom, Jeff Engelmeier, Rita Anderson, Doug Willis

Heat 2: Tim Carlson, Al Rapp, Corey Lonetto, Jeffery Broking, Craig Horak,

Keith Koski, Andy Udeen, Dale Suomala, D. J. Keeler

Heat 3: Chad Carlson, Matt Hammitt, Pete Ciurleo, Jon McKinnon, Jim

Cooper, Scott Larsen, Dale Reynold, Ed Dammer, Matt Deragon

B Feature: Blom, Udeen, Engelmeir, Deragon, S. Larsen, Koski, Reynolds

Suomala, Dammer, Anderson, Willis, Keeler

Feature: C. Carlson; Dzelak, Rapp, T. Carlson, Loucks, Korte, D. Larsen,

Lonetto, Grimm, Blom, Deragon, S. Larsen, Engelmeier, Udeen, Horak,

Ciurleo, Cooper, McKinnon, Jeffery Broking, Hammitt.

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