Bowers remains perfect in Pepsi Triple 60
Series!
By Jim Remsik Jr.
July 13, 2001; Columbus, WI. - Greg Bowers of Waterloo drove his
Lumina to victory for the round two of the Pepsi Triple 60's Series. Bowers remains
perfect in the series this year after his victory in round one.
As always the series events bring out some great action in the
Late Models unfortunately a few cars were eliminated in a lap two tangle that would retire
three cars. As they completed lap one and the field raced back into turn one Mark Miller
of Arena was clipped sending him spinning up the track. Miller would collect the car of
Jason Erickson and both made hard contact with the outside retaining wall.
The incident also collected Jeff Falbe of Beaver Dam and Will Godding
of Cross Plains, Godding would return to the race after a trip to the pit area. On the
restart Bowers would be challenged on the outside by Dean Schultz of Juneau, but on lap
thirteen Schultz fell off the pace with apparent mechanical troubles.
Bowers would begin to mount a sizeable lead which he would hold until
lap fifty-eight when Al Weishoff of Columbus spun in turn four. On the green, white
checker finish Bowers would come across first, followed by Gerry Junget of Rio, Russ
Goodwin of Beloit, Mike Langsdorf of Doylestown, and Randy Breunig of Columbus.
Ed Jackson of Madison posted his first Street Stock feature victory of the year. Jackson
grabbed the lead at the start and wouldn't let go, leading the twenty-five lap caution
free event from green to checker. The fight for the second position was a close one with
the runner-up position going to Ron Coppernoll of Madison followed by Scott
"Chico" Riedner of Waunakee. The battle lasted the final five laps of the event
and was door to door to the line where Coppernoll edged out Riedner. The official top five
were Jackson, Ron Coppernoll, Scott Reidner, Bobby Stough Jr. of Waunakee, and Ron
Schmitt.
Jerry Chapman of Juneau was the first to the checkers in the Hobby Stock main event. The
official win however would go to Eric Severson of Rio due to the post race actions of
Chapman. On lap one of the event the front row of Gilbert Valdez of Havana and Lincoln
Keeser of Milton made contact in turns three and four and took each other out of
contention and handing the lead over to Chapman. Lapped traffic would find the leaders on
lap ten, dodging high and low Chapman made his way through with Severson right behind and
John Remsik of Madison trailing in third.
Chapman would maintain his lead, going into turn three of the last
lap he would be boxed in by the lapped traffic of Valdez and James Schmidt of Jefferson.
As they crossed the line it was Chapman, Severson, Remsik, John Hibner of Pardeeville and
Justin Schulz of Columbus. After the checkers Chapman pushed Valdez through the turn one
and two corners and into the outside wall.
Bruce Havel of Deerfield picked up victory number five of the season in the eight lap wild
and crazy back-up race. As the green flag fell Matt Wachuta of Brooklyn grabbed the early
lead. Steve Oetzel of Marshall grabbed the second position followed by Jim Remsik of
Deforest. A rare caution fell on lap four as Tim Nonn of Madison spun and stalled in turns
four and three. The leader Wachuta was unable to avoid the car and made contact cutting a
tire. Shortly after Wayne Hook of Oregon couldn't slow down his vehicle in time and
slammed into Nonn.
After the cars were cleared it was back to back-up racing action. On
the restart Mark Remsik of Madison dove by his brother Jim Remsik on the inside. Bruce
Havel began working on the leader Steve Oetzel. On lap seven contact was made between
Havel and Oetzel and Havel took the lead. As they took the checkered flag it was Havel,
Oetzel, Mark Remsik, Dave Moore of McFarland, Jim Remsik and George Wachuta of Brooklyn.
Late model heat race victories went to Duane Deppe, Scott Patrick of Dousman, Randy
Bruenig and Al Weishoff, both of Columbus. In Street Stock action Dan Schmidt of Watertown
and Scott Riedner of Waunakee registered heat race wins. Jim Hibner of Pardevillle, Dennis
Gaserude of Arena and Ernie Witte of Johnson Creek were victorious in Hobby Stock heat
race action.
Fast qualifying times were recorded by Butch Mierendorf of Waterloo in the Late Model
division, Scott Riedner in the Street Stocks and Justin Schultz of Columbus in the Hobby
Stock division.
Coming up: Auto Armor Night - A complete racing program plus Junior Motorsports, Trailer
Races and Fun Book give away.
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