Kallas made certain that his next winless streak would be a lot shorter by notching his second win of the season at Riverside on Tuesday night.

For the second straight week, the best race of the night was the Fire-Up Fireworks WISSOTA Street Stock feature. Chippewa Falls’ Micheal Truscott, who entered the night fifth in WISSOTA National Street Stock Points took the early lead from the pole while Kallas made short work of Ron Van Dusen and moved to second.

Those two broke away as the rest of the field had trouble passing Van Dusen, which lead to the first caution of the race on lap seven. Jordan Kurtti got into the back of the Van Dusen car, causing a spin.

When the race restarted, Ken Valeria and Fritz Scharf joined the battle for the lead. Those two stayed in the fray for a few laps, but then lost the handle on their cars a little and drifted back.

That left Truscott and Kallas at the front to settle things amongst themselves. Several times Kallas peeked to the inside on the lead machine to no avail. Then with five laps to go, Truscott washed up the racetrack a little in turn four. That was enough for Kallas to slip by, take the lead and eventually the win.

Kallas’ win coupled with a fourth place feature finish for Scharf put Kallas atop of the Street Stock points at Riverside for the first time this season. He sits two points ahead of Scharf.

Some familiar names came out of the woodwork in the Miller Lite WISSOTA Midwest Mods on Tuesday. 2006 track champion Bob Richardson returned as did multiple-time feature winner Jason Zdroik to add flavor and cars to the class.

But the night was Mickey Nosser’s. The long-time Mod racer from Phillips made up for a lack-luster 2007 debut at Riverside with his first feature win of the season.

Nosser lead from flag-to-flag, but received plenty of pressure early from Keith Troutman. The first 13 laps clicked by caution free, but that changed when Bruce Belland’s car went up in smoke and flames.

Belland had carburetor problems all night long and had a tell tale puff of smoke before slowing and stopping in turn four. A brief fire broke out in the engine compartment, but it was extinguished quickly and Belland got out unscathed.

On the restart, Nosser pulled away as Rob Rodziczak and Chad Boettcher moved up to second and third. That is the way things stayed until the final corner of the race when Boettcher tried to pass Rodziczak, slipped and surrendered third place to Richardson.

John Johnson, Jr. had the pole for the Pure Stock feature and shaped the complexion of the race when his right rear tire went flat on the opening lap. Cars had to scurry to get around the slow car, spreading out the field.

As things settled down, Dicky Carlson took the lead and went on the a flag-to-flag victory. He received pressure from Pure Stock rookie Michael Diak for much of the race. Diak fell about a car-length and half short, but had far and away his best finish in the class to date, taking the runner-up spot.

Eric Scharf had his toughest competition of the season in the Family Fours on Tuesday. Track Owner, and Erik’s Grandfather, Don Scharf allowed the more powerful 16-valve four cylinder cars to run with the class again and Baraga, Michigan’s Jeff Klopstein applied the pressure.

Scharf’s lead wavered from one to three car lengths throughout the feature and on the final lap, Klopstein made his best charge, pulling to the back bumper of the leader. His efforts fell short and Scharf picked up his third win of the season.

While Bob Richardson was racing in the WISSOTA Midwest Mods in a car owned by Kevin Maulson, he also brought his WISSOTA Late Model to the track to show off. Richardson, who is currently 30^th in the nation, was clicking off laps in the low 16-second range just after intermission.

That gave fans a taste of what will be coming next Tuesday as FASTRAK Late Models visit Riverside Raceway for the first time this season. The FASTRAK’s are similar to the WISSOTA Late Models, but are limited to a crate engine.

Racing next week is sponsored by Eagle River Inn and Super 8 Motel. Hot Laps are at 7:30, with racing at 8:00 PM.

RESULTS: Riverside Raceway – Tuesday, June 19, 2006

Miller Lite WISSOTS Midwest Mods

Heat 1: 1^st 28T-Keith Troutman; 2^nd 23M-Bob Richardson; 3^rd 8-Chad Boettcher; 4^th 14-Troy Smart; 5^th 22B-Bruce Belland

Heat 2: 1^st 15-Rob Robziczak; 2^nd 1J-Jason Zdroik; 3^rd 34-Mickey Nosser; 4^th 7M-Jeff McDonald; 5^th 0-Kyle Johnson

Feature: 1^st 34-Nosser; 2^nd 15-Rodziczak; 3^rd 23M-Richardson; 4^th 8-Boettcher; 5^th 0-K.Johnson; 6^th 7M-McDonald; 7^th 14-Smart; 8^th 28T-Troutman; 9^th 22B-Belland; 10^th 1J-Zdroik

Fire-Up Fireworks WISSOTA Street Stocks

Heat: 1^st 1-Fritz Scharf; 2^nd 99-John Kallas; 3^rd 22-Michael Truscott; 4^th 8-Ron Van Dusen; 5^th 2-Ken Valeria; 6^th 26-Jordan Kurtti

Feature: 1^st 99-Kallas; 2^nd 22-Truscott; 3^rd 2-Valeria; 4^th 1-F.Scharf; 5^th 26-Kurtti; 6^th 8-Van Dusen; 7^th 3-Mike Vogt

Pure Stocks

Heat 1: 1^st 19C-Dicky Carlson; 2^nd 2T-Todd Brass; 3^rd 01Z-C.J. Hedges, Jr.; 4^th 22C-Michael Diak; 5^th 8-Chad Rosinski

Heat 2: 1^st 50-Steve Locy; 2^nd 20-Scott Schwinn; 3^rd 22-Charlie Jackson; 4^th 11-John Johnson, Jr.

Feature: 1^st 19C-Carlson; 2^nd 22C-Diak; 3^rd 2T-Brass; 4^th 20-Schwinn; 5^th 22-Jackson; 6^th 50-Locy; 7^th 8-Rosinski; 8^th 11-Johnson, Jr.

Family Fours

Heat: 1^st 21-Jeff Klopstein ($); 2^nd 44-Eric Scharf; 3^rd 31-Richard Barlowski; 4^th 2-Mike Kirkham; 5^th 18-Bobby Sheldon ($)

Feature: 1^st 44-E.Scharf; 2^nd 21-Klopstein ($); 3^rd 18-Sheldon ($); 4^th 31-R.Barlowski

($) – Denotes 16-valve car (receives no points)