May 28, 2000; Marshfield, WI: -  It turned out to be a beautiful Sunday Night at the races sponsored by Sternweis & Sons Concrete, WOFM & WIZD. Point leader Jeff Weinfurter of Wisconsin Rapids won the CARQUEST Super Late Model dash event to hold onto his nine point lead. Merle Weinfurter of Wisconsin Rapids had a three-peat in the CARQUEST Super Stock division by winning the dash, heat & feature. Cale Laessig of Marshfield set the fast time in that division. Randy Bargender of Marshfield held onto the point led by finishing first in his heat race in the 1-Man Cruiser division.

Though not a regular competitor this season Mark Eswein (#71) has proven to be tough to beat whenever he appears on Marshfield's half-mile paved oval.  Eswein a couple week ago scored a big win in the MARS touring series race, has the field covered this evening.

Pete Kempf led the first lap of the CARQUEST Super Late Model feature. He quickly lost it to Mark Mackesy. Judd Brandl was in a close third and moved into second on lap six, and Mark Eswein overtook Kempf for third. The first caution came out on lap ten for Mike Brahmstedt, driving the borrowed car of Tim Jackson, when he spun in turn four. The race re-started, and Eswein stole the lead from Mackesy. With Eswein now in the lead, Mackesy fell into second and Brandl continued to race third. Jeff Weinfurter moved up from his seventh place start into fourth, and that’s how they finished.

Merle Weinfurter (#24) a former champion in the Super Stock division at Marshfield found victory lane three times this evening.  Winning the dash, his heat and the feature event.

Matt Raykowski led the first seven laps of the CARQUEST Super Stock feature. Lap eight the new leader was Wes Coon, and lap nine Merle Weinfurter grabbed second. A spin on lap ten between Raykowski, Johnny Bell and Scott Hamel. Weinfurter led the re-start, Coon second and Cale Laessig moved up to third. Laessig grabbed second from Coon on lap 12 and began to challenge Weinfurter for the lead. Laessig ran out of laps though and Weinfurter won, Laessig second, Coon third, Allan Sankey fourth and Johnny Bell fifth.

In the left photo, Ric Anderson (#12) made his first visit to victory lane following a 1-man Cruiser feature race this season.  In the right photo, Dave Glodowski and Dan Glodowski (#00) won the 2-Man Cruiser event to take their turn in the spotlight.

In the 1-Man Cruiser feature, Darrell Paschel grabbed the early lead for the first five laps, until Ric Anderson got it. Paschel was then passed for second on lap seven by Don Tieman Jr. Mark Virnig moved up into third, pushing Paschel back another spot to fourth. Last week’s winner Randy Bargender who started 14th moved up into fifth. Anderson won, Tieman second, Virnig third, Paschel fourth and Bargender fifth.

In the spirit of giving...a NASCAR raffle was held Sunday, May 28th to raise money for the World War II Memorial to be built in Washington D.C.  Eighty-seven prizes of hats, t-shirt & pictures that were donated by some great NASCAR drivers were raffled off for the memorial donation.   Jennifer Martin & Jessica Oestreich (grandaughter of the promotor) raised $430.00 for the World War II Memorial

Dave Glodowski and Dan Glodowski won the 2-Man Cruiser event. The team of Jason Blenker and John Kampert Sr. took second but were disqualified due to a rule infraction. Ben Miller and Ryan Warner then took second and Christopher Blenker and Peter Blenker third.

Story and results by Woody Eckes

Steve Kasten was the bravest of the brave winning the Motorcycle feature.

Seventeen two wheeled daredevils put on a spark throwing wheel-smoking show tonight. Shawano’s Lee Johnson won the first heat and Wausau’s Steve Kasten the second heat race to set up a showdown for the main event. With eleven 250 & 500 riders on the front row and 6 600 riders on the back row the 10 lap feature was run flat out start to finish, no cautions or accidents, just good close racing.

Merrill’s Brad Rotheau grabbed the lead on his 250 for the first four laps, as the 600 riders charged through the pack. Johnson led Kasten for those early laps only to have Kasten blast his SK Service 600 Yamaha past on the outside of turn 3 as they encountered slower traffic. From then on Kasten controlled the show, with Johnson trailing but never close enough to try passing. Young Rotheau held on for third over another newcomer Eric Mischler of Beaver Dam. Local riders Cliff Eckes of Marshfield finished 6th, Scott Winkler of Granton 8th and Woody Eckes of Spencer came in 10th. The next cycle race date on July 8th promises to be even a better show with even more riders showing up to compete on this super fast and safe ½ mile blacktop track.

Motorcycles:
Freature: RESULTS: 1. STEVE KASTEN 2. LEE JOHNSON 3. BRAD ROTHEAU 4. ERIC MISCHLER 5.T.J. ZEIDLER 6.CLIFF ECKES JR. 7. DAN MISCHLER 8. SCOTT WINKLER 9.SHANNON REIMER 10.WOODY ECKES 11.CHAD MILLER 12. RON BEAN 13. BRAD SEAVERS 14.CRAIG VERVOOT 15.JAMIE SEAVERS 16.SHAUN ZWETZ 17,JAKE WYMA

The winner of the first Wal-Mart bicycle giveaway was Nicole Aschenbrenner of Marshfield. Next week another Wal-Mart bicycle will be given away. Next week Superior Services Say No to Drugs Night & WAXX 104.5 will sponsor the event. The Legends will also be back along with a Titanic Slid & Rock ‘N Roll to Go party and dancing 10:30 PM - 1:00 AM. Gates open at 5 p.m., Qualifying at 6 p.m., Racing 7:30.

Summary:

CARQUEST Super Late Models:
Freature: Mark Eswein; 2.) Mark Mackesy; 3.) Judd Brandl; 4.) Jeff Weinfurter; 5.) Dean Lapointe; 6.) Pete Kempf; 7.) Todd Hughes; 8.) Mike Brahmstedt; 9.) Rick Grunden
Heat 1: 1.) Kempf, 2.) Grunden; 3.) Tim Jackson
Heat 2: 1.) Mackesy; 2.) Eswein; 3.) Weinfurter.
Dash: 1.) Weinfurter; 2.) Lapointe; 3.) Eswein
Fast Qualifier: 1.) Mark Eswein, 18.012 Seconds; 2.) Jeff Weinfurter, 18.158 Seconds; 3.) Judd Brandl, 18.185 Seconds

CARQUEST Super Stocks:
Freature:1.) Merle Weinfurter; 2.) Cale Laessig; 3.) Wes Coon; 4.) Allan Sankey; 5.) Johnny Bell; 6.) Brian Stroik; 7.) Scott Hamel; 8.) Larry Schultz
Heat 1: 1.) Stroik; 2.) Schultz; 3.) Eddie Lapointe
Heat 2: 1.) Weinfurter; 2.) Bell; 3.) Laessig
Dash: 1.) Weinfurter; 2.) Bell; 3.) Sankey
Fast Qualifier: 1.) Cale Laessig, 20.423 Seconds; 2.) Johnny Bell, 20461 Seconds; 3.) Scott Hamel, 20.695 Seconds

1-Man Cruisers:
Freature:1.) Ric Anderson; 2.) Donald Tieman Jr.; 3.) Mark Virnig; 4.) Darrell Paschel; 5.) Randy Bargender; 6.) Robert Detwiler; 7.) Lester Kuehn; 8.) Greg Horn
Heat 1: 1.) Virnig; 2.) Paschel; 3.) Eric Hookstadt
Heat 2: 1.) R. Bargander, 2.) Detwiler; 3.) Duwayne Davis
Fast Qualifier: #11 Duwayne Davis, Marshfield, 24.002 Seconds

CARQUEST 2-Man Cruisers:
Freature:1.) D. Glodowski & D. Glodowski, 2.) Miller & Warner, 3.) C. Blenker & P. Blenker, 4.) Brage & Nigh, 5.) Kay & Steczynski, 6.) Mertens & N. Briski