August 25, 2001; Marshfield, WI: - Once again Mother Nature almost cancelled the show, but we held out and got the entire show in for Mid-State Truck Service night. Topping the Super Late Model division, over 22 cars, Mark Eswein set fast time and won the feature. Dean LaPointe won the dash event, Ken Reiser, Chris Weinkauf and Gary Back each won their heat events. Quick timer in the CWSSA Super Stocks was Merle Weinfurter, Cale Laessig winning the dash, Chad Simone and Duwayne Davis their heats, and Tim Hintz the feature. Rob Detwiler, best in qualifying of the 1-Man Cruisers, Darrell Paschel and Don Tieman heat winners, and Tieman also won the feature.
The first two laps of the Super Late Model feature were led by Rick Grunden. Chris Weinkauf then took off with the lead, and looked as though he would begin to stretch it out. Jason Weinkauf had other plans as he chased down Chris Weinkauf and stole the lead on lap ten. Meanwhile, Gary Back held third, Jay VanDerGeest fourth and Dean LaPointe fifth. Jason Weinkauf continued to lead, but by lap 13, quick timer Mark Eswein had already worked his way up to fifth. Lap 14, Jeff Weinfurter edged ahead of Eswein for fifth, but Eswein quickly took it back. A couple of laps later, Eswein moved up to fourth. Eswein wasn't the only one on the move, Back passed Chris Weinkauf for second on laps 21, and then tried to get the lead from Jason Weinkauf, with no avail. Eswein got by Back on lap 25 and then took the lead for the last five laps from Jason Weinkauf for the win. Eswein took home another $1,000 to win feature, Back finished second, also receiving some of the extra money sponsored by Mid-State Truck Service. Jason Weinkauf third, Chris Weinkauf fourth and LaPointe fifth. Josh Oleson led the first two laps of the CWSSA Super Stock feature. A damaging incident on the backstretch, ended the night for both Matt Raykowski and Cale Laessig's cars. When the race resumed, Tim Hintz took the lead on the outside from Oleson. Hintz continued to hold the lead in the outside groove, the most race. He was however challenged by Merle Weinfurter and Andy Simonis on the inside, neither were able to permanently take away Hintz's lead. Hintz won, Simonis second, Weinfurter third, Larry Schultz fourth and Allan Sankey fifth. Marshfield's Cliff Eckes Jr. clawed his way to the top of the victory podium in the cycle races tonight, but not before taking a tumble in the heat race, getting back up and finishing third in the restarted race. Rapid's Pat Bean led the heat race from start to checkered flag, and overtook fast starting Woody Eckes of Spencer in the main event right away in turn two. But Cliff Eckes stalked him for seven laps before passing Bean going down the backstretch. He put four or five bike lengths between himself and Bean, but the gap narrowed in the last three laps, but Bean could not find that little extra to put himself out front and Cliff Eckes came away the winner on his Ted Strebe/ Cliff's Cycle Service YZ426 Yamaha. Hatley's Steve Kasten and Beaver Dam's Eric Mischler pushed their 600s into third and fourth from the back row. Results: 1.Cliff Eckes Jr. 2.Pat Bean 3.Eric Mischler 4. Steve Kasten 5.Woody Eckes 6.Lee Johnson 7.Ron Bean 8.Brad Seavers 9.Shawn Purkis 10.Jim Czechy The 14-lap 1-Man Cruiser feature saw three lead changes in the first five laps. Darrell Paschel led first, then Matt Nelles, and lastly Don Tieman Jr. Tieman took off with the lead, but Fran Esser was close behind. Esser challenged Tieman right up to the end, but Tieman beat him by half a carlength. Tieman won, Esser second, Rob Detwiler third, Nelles fourth and Paschel fifth. The winners of the 2-Man Cruiser race were Jeff Gotter and Larry Scholl. Second Bob Payne and Steve Bores, and Dewey Meyer and Rick Mason Sr third. The winner of the Wal-Mart bicycle was Melanie Hendrickson from Pittsville. Next Saturday is CARQUEST and Coca-Cola Season Championship Night. Trophies to the feature winner of each division. Grandstand gates open at 5 p.m., qualifying at 6 p.m. and racing starts at 7:30. Divisions racing are Super Late Models, CWSSA Super Stocks, Legends, 1-Man Cruisers and 2-Man Cruisers. |
