August 9, 2003; Tomahawk, WI. -  Welcome back, John Paszek. Normally a weekly regular at Pepsi Raceway Park, it
had been a few weeks since Paszek had showed up to race at Tomahawk. It must've been a good break, though, because on this night Paszek took the lead from polesitter Larry Olson on the second lap of the Late Model feature and held off Lyle Nowak at the end to pick up his third feature win of the year at PRP.

Paszek struggled with the car some in time trials, but rebounded nicely during racing action to win the heat as well as the feature. In the feature, he was hounded by Olson early and Justin Woller and Nowak late, but kept his cool for the win.

Woller battled outside of Paszek for much of the second half of the race, even leading laps 16 and 17. He was coming on the outside again on lap 27 when Bo Bennish spun in turn four, bringing out the yellow. Rocky Carlson was unable to get stopped in time and made hard contact with Bennish, heavily damaging the front ends of both cars.

On the restart, Woller's race would end when he spun into the sand in turn two. Restarting again, Nowak made several attempts outside Paszek, but was unable to make it stick well enough and finished half a car length behind Paszek.

There aren't many superlatives left to describe Tim Nawrocki's performance at the track this year, so complete has his domination been. Nawrocki won his eighth straight Bomber feature at PRP, coming from the back once again and disposing of the field quickly for the win.

It took the 2T car nine laps to go from his eleventh starting position to first. Nawrocki moved through the field quickly, and powered outside of Bill Eckert on a lap 9 restart to take the lead. He cruised from there with only C.J. Hedges able to stay even close, and by the end of the race he had caught the pack of cars running third through ninth.

Bill Powers made up positions almost as quickly in winning an abbreviated Street Bandits feature. Powers started tenth in the 12-car field, but worked outside Stacy Lipke on lap 7 to take the lead. The race was  scheduled for 15 laps but was ended on account of time with 10 laps complete after the race's fourth caution. In the Pro-Bandit class, Lance Dehnel pushed his way to another feature win. Dehnel was running second when he spun leader Jason Isaacson on the backstretch on lap 7 of the 20-lap feature event. There was no caution as Isaacson got his car restarted, and Dehnel would go on to hold off Bob Schult over the final five laps.

Kyle Kluetz swept the action in the Mini Cup class. Kluetz set a track record for the class in time trials and also won the heat and feature races in convincing fashion.

Next week will bring another full racing program. Time trials start at 5:30 p.m., with racing at 7.

Results

Late Models
Fast Time: Lyle Nowak, Wausau
Dash: Nick Larson, Tomahawk; Allen Brunker, Tripoli; Bo Bennish, Gleason.
Heat: John Paszek, Rib Falls; Bennish; Larson.
Feature: Paszek; Nowak; Brunker; Larson; Bennish.

Bombers
Fast Time: Tim Nawrocki, Wausau,
Dash: Nawrocki; Dustin Ochodnicky, Ogema; Will Garske, Tomahawk.
First Heat: Bill Eckert, Medford; Al Giese, Tomahawk; Matt Peter, Manitowish Waters.
Second Heat: C.J. Hedges, Jr., Tomahawk; Scott Welch, Tomahawk; Nawrocki.
Feature: Nawrocki; Hedges; Mark Schoone, Gleason; Ochodnicky; Garske.

Pro-Bandits
Fast Time: Bob Schult, Merrill.
Dash: Jason Isaacson, Merrill; Dehnel; Schult.
Heat: Schult; Isaacson; Dehnel.
Feature: Dehnel; Schult; Paszek; Bill Martin, Eagle River; Amanda Schara, Hamburg.

Street Bandits
Fast Time: Matt Breck, Gleason.
First Heat: Giese; Stacy Lipke, Merrill; Jeff Swope, Irma.
Second Heat: Dan Bohman, Irma; Matt Troutman, Tomahawk; Bill Powers, Merrill.
Feature: Powers; Keith Troutman, Tomahawk; Elliott Marquardt, Merrill; Lipke; Giese.

Mini Cups
Fast Time: Kyle Kluetz, Rothschild.
Heat: Kluetz; Trevor Raskie, Phillips; Nick Krueger, Tripoli.
Feature: Kluetz; Raskie; Krueger; Randy Braun, Baraboo; Jake Jump, Wisconsin Dells.