Massart Masters Door County Mod
Action, Kilgore Claims Stock Car Win! July 27, 2002; Sturgeon Bay, WI. - Nice weather and Saturdays have gone together for the last few weeks, and another quick paced program was delivered at the Door County Speedway.
Shannon Guelette grabbed the lead in the Street Stock main followed by Eddie Anschutz, Von Eytcheson, Tom Frea, James Tebon and Kevin Jandrin. Point leader, Kevin Sternard made his way into the top 5 on lap 5. Anschutz drifted wide out of turn four on lap 6 allowing both Jandrin and Sternard a slot to slip by. Guelette continued to set the pace until a couple cautions on lap 8 bunched the field. Sternard took over the runner up spot after the restart and worked to the inside out of turn four on lap 12 to take the lead. Sternard took off and drove away with his second feature win of the season. Troy Muench took second with three laps to go and chased Sternard to the line. Jandrin took third followed by defending champ, Gregg Siebold, Guelette and David Baenen. Rick Johnson led the opening lap of the modified main, before a mix up at the front on lap 2, almost took out several cars, but everyone straightened out and the race continued, with Darrell Massart coming out in the top spot. Massart checked out and opened a sizable lead until a caution on lap 7 slowed the race. Randy LeMieux was running in second, but dropped out of the race just before the restart, putting George Henkel into the runner up spot, followed by point leader, Jared Siefert, Art Siefert, Jay Matthias and Jeremy Jacobs. Massart was able to open a lead again, while the race for second heated up. Siefert worked on Henkel until finally getting by on lap 12. Siefert set out after the leader and over the final 5 laps, pressured for the top spot. Siefert was strong out of turn 2, but Massart controlled the rest of the way to hold the lead. Siefert tried a last lap slingshot move on the final lap, but slipped in turn three to the infield, just enough to allow Massart o claim his second feature of the season. Henkel and Randie Back were also able to sneak by Siefert in the turn to take second and third. Siefert came in fourth with Dad, Art Siefert fifth and Dan Ratajczak taking sixth. Wally Lhost took control of the Stock Car main with a tight battle for second between Don Aregoni, Tony Bouche, Mike Wietor, Tracy Koontz and Dave Bouche. Aregoni and Koontz got together in turn four to bring out the caution for the first time on lap 7. Lhost continued to set the pace on the restart, with Dave Bouche taking over the runner up spot. Shawn Kilgore, Larry Karcz, Jr and Kerry Douglas all moved into the top five. Kilgore moved into the second spot, using the outside line on lap 13 and the final caution appeared one lap later, bunching the field for a final 6 lap dash. Lhost led for one more lap before Kilgore took the outside line again to take over the top spot on lap 15. Lhost stayed in second as the pack stayed together to the finish. Kilgore collected his second feature win of the year with Bouche taking the runner up spot on the final lap from Lhost, who finished third. defending champ, Craig Paque came through to take the fourth place on the final lap. Karcz and Douglas rounded out the top six places. Robert Patza led the first 3 laps before a flat tire caused a three wide trip through turn three and four on lap 4. Patza slowed with the flat and Wayne Moore took the inside line and Scott Reinhardt went outside for the double pass with Moore coming across as the leader. Reinhardt continued to run on the outside and was challenging for the lead when the caution appeared on lap 7. Both Reinhardt and Moore overheated during the caution and were out of the race, which turned the lead over to Greg Aregoni for the restart. Joe Hegnet was running in second with John Knudson in third and Mike Frea in fourth. Aregoni held the lead despite heavy pressure from Hegnet, and Knudson. On the final lap, Hegnet was able to pass for the lead entering turn one. Aregoni reclaimed the lead in turn two, at the same time Hegnet had a right front tire go flat. Aregoni drove to his first ever Door County feature win with Knudson just getting by Hegnet at the line for second. Hegnet took third followed by Frea, Marvin Deny and Corey Haen. SUMMARY IMCA MODIFIED IMCA STOCK CAR STREET STOCK BOMBER |
