Excellent race, fireworks for stock car event here Friday July 6, 2009 In the world of automobile racing, it doesn’t get much better than it was Friday, July 3 in Antigo.
A great crowd, excellent car count and a tremendous fireworks show ushered the July Fourth celebrations in Wisconsin’s northwoods.
Gordie Seegert Jr. won the sizzling late model feature race followed by Terry Anvelink and A.J. Diemel.
The crowd was large and very fast for the IMCA modified class with Julie Wedelstadt of neighboring Oconto Falls taking the feature race.
Antigo’s Charlie Wild wasn’t far behind grabbing the feature’s second spot and David Diemel capped the event with third place.
Another Antigo pilot, J.P. Remington, returned to the winning post in the truck class taking the feature but not without a challenge from Forest Crandall of Birnwmwood, who finished second and Casey Cox, Mattoon, in third.
Rod Snellenberger was first in the IMCA stocker division feature followed across the line by another popular driver on the local track, Larry Karcz Jr., both of the men coming here from Pulaski. Mark Schuenemann drove down from Boulder Junction to take the third spot in the feature.
In the popular sports modified class, Tim Jorgenson was the feature winner followed by Clintonville’s Matt Oreskovich and Jake Solin, the successful racer from White Lake.
In the Wissota stocker class two of the guys who usually are at the top of the feature list, were there again this week. Gary Kasperek was first coming north from Tigerton and Gene Shawano Jr., driving south from Argonne, was second. Chris Votis was third.
It was simply a great night for racing and the track was in speedy shape and the holiday weekend crowd was in the need for speed.
In the heat races, the first three in each event are listed:
Trucks one
Daniel Schmidt
Forrest Crandall
Sean Thayer
Trucks two
J.P. Remington
Casey Cox
Tiffany Volkmann
IMCA mod consy
Scott Williams
Pat Zdroik
Bernie Miller
IMCA mod one
Eric Scribner
Mike Wedelstadt
Paul Thorpe
IMCA mod two
Tom Schaal
Jerry Muenster
Michael Bailey
IMCA mod three
Julie Wedelstadt
Danny Deau
Jesse Peebbles
IMCA mod four
David Diemel
Charlie Wild
Lance Arneson
IMCA stockers one
Chas VanOoyen Jr.
Ron Otto
Larry Karcz Jr.
IMCA stocker two
Scott VanProoyen
Mark Stankowski
Rod Snellenberger
Sports mods one
Jake Solin
Matt Oreskovich
Mark Rose
Sports mods two
Tim Jorgenson
Chad Jaje
Keith Raab
Late model one
A.J. Diemel
Nick Anvelink
Paul Parker
Late model two
Terry Anvelink
Gordie Seegert Jr.
Doug Blashe
The fun, speed and excitement get started Friday at 6:45 p.m. at the fairgrounds track.
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