Stebbeds Steals Mod Win at TNT By Jeremy Mayo

August 9, 2008; Three Lakes, WI -  One week after four great finishes at TNT Speedway, the WISSOTA Midwest Mods and the TNT Stingers provided a couple more nailbiters on Yellow Book night at the track.

Terry Stebbeds of Clearwater Lake wrestled back the lead in the final corner to take the WISSOTA Amsoil Dirt Track Series, Midwest Modified division win. Jason Isaacson from Merrill held off two late charges from point leader Bill Martin to capture his seventh Stinger feature.

Boulder Junction’s Mark Schuenemann earned his second win of the season in the WISSOTA Street Stocks and Crandon’s Lee Bradley took his first Bomber feature of the season.

Mod point leader Bruce Belland was Stebbeds main challenger. Belland took the lead on lap 17, but surprisingly could not close the deal. The handle went away on his car in the final lap.

In turn two, Belland pushed up the track, but Stebbeds could not take advantage. Then in turn four, Belland suddenly lost control, spun to the inside and handed the win to Stebbeds.

Will Roffers finished fourth in the feature and remained 17 points behind Belland with two nights remaining.

Isaacson maybe a long shot to win the Stinger Championship, but he has now tied Jordan Kurtti for the most feature wins at TNT this season. Win number seven came with a serious challenge from Martin.

Isaacson took the lead under caution on lap 10 when Nick Visser retired with engine problems.

Martin reeled Isaacson in on the restart and pulled to the inside with two laps to go, but his challenge was negated when a caution in the back of the pack set up a green-white-checkered finish.

Martin challenged one more time, going to the inside through turns three and four on the final lap, but his bid fell a half-length short. While Isaacson notched win number seven, he only shaved one point off of Martin’s lead, which now sits at 36 points.

WISSOTA Street Stock Point leader Jordan Kurtti did not race in Three Lakes on Saturday night, opting the race a special elsewhere. That gave Rhinelander’s Dave Williams a mathematical chance to tie Kurtti for the point lead.

Williams needed to pull off a clean sweep to do it. Those thoughts went by the boards with a third place finish in his heat.

The feature belonged to Schuenemann, who passed Kevin Maulson, Jr. for the lead on lap 11. Maulson’s chances for a win officially went away four laps later when he spun out of second place. Williams placed fifth in the feature and trimmed Kurtti’s lead to seven.

Lee Bradley won a caution-free TNT Bomber feature, leading every lap along the way. John Johnson finished third in the feature, expanding his lead in the Bomber points to seven over Todd Brass.

Racing resumes next Saturday night at TNT, will Miller Beer of the Northwoods sponsoring the racing. Hot Laps begin at 7:00 PM, with racing at 7:45.


RESULTS: TNT Speedway – Saturday, August 9, 2008



WISSOTA Midwest Mods

Heat 1: 1st 52-Terry Stebbeds; 2nd 15S-Cody Schmidt; 3rd 101-Leif Gunderson; 4th 22-Charlie Jackson; 5th 14-Troy Smart

Heat 2: 1st 13R-Will Roffers; 2nd 7M-Jeff McDonald; 3rd 22B-Bruce Belland; 4th 25-Jesse Aho; 5th 65-Larry Gasperini

Feature: 1st 52-Stebbeds; 2nd 22B-Belland; 3rd 15S-Schmidt; 4th 13R-Roffers; 5th 25-Aho; 6th 22-Jackson; 7th 101-Gunderson; 8th 65-Gasperini; 9th 7M-McDonald; 10th 14-Smart



WISSOTA Street Stocks

Heat 1: 1st 21-Jeff Klopstein; 2nd A8-Bill Froehlich; 3rd 17-Dave Williams; 4th 8X-Ron Van Dusen; 5th 3-Jake Mullins

Heat 2: 1st 23M-Kevin Maulson, Jr.; 2nd 96-Mark Schuenemann; 3rd 5-Roger Walker; 4th 8; 5th 11-John Johnson, Jr.

Feature: 1st 96-Schuenemann; 2nd A8-Froehlich; 3rd 8-Brown; 4th 8X-Van Dusen; 5th 17-Williams; 6th 23M-Maulson, Jr.; 7th 3-Mullins; 8th 11-Johnson, Jr.; 9th 21-Klopstein; 10th 5-Walker


TNT Bombers

Heat 1: 1st 11-John Johnson; 2nd 2T-Todd Brass; 3rd 21-Denny Tushoski; 4th 28-Lee Bradley

Heat 2: 1st 001- Jake Ison; 2nd 61-Jim Melton; 3rd 88-Michael Votis; 4th 4-Jesse Votis

Feature: 1st 28-Bradley; 2nd 001-Ison; 3rd 11-Johnson; 4th 21-Tushoski; 5th 2T-Brass; 6th 61-Melton; 7th 88-M. Votis; 8th 4-J. Votis



TNT Stingers

Heat 1: 1st 18-Bobby Sheldon; 2nd 30V-Nick Visser; 3rd 88-Will Lundberg; 4th 13B-Richard Barlowski; 5th 2-Brandon Ross; 6th 75-Cory Dickman; 7th 74-Rory Radtke

Heat 2: 1st 27-Bill Martin; 2nd 87-Jason Isaacson; 3rd 44-Fred Feger; 4th 13T-Joe LaFreniere; 5th 58-Jason Gaylord; 6th 13-John Barlowski; 7th 97-Leo Nippa

Feature: 1st 87-Isaacson; 2nd 27-Martin; 3rd 18-Sheldon; 4th 44-Feger; 5th 88-Lundberg; 6th 2-Ross; 7th 58-Gaylord; 8th 13-J. Barlowski; 9th 74-Radtke; 10th 97-Nippa; 11th 13T-LaFreniere; 12th 30V-Visser; 13th 13B-R. Barlowski; 14th 75-Dickman