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NASCAR veteran Schrader competes at RPM Speedway
By Mike Hughes

HAYS, KS (August 5)–NASCAR veteran Ken Schrader invaded RPM Speedway in Hays, KS, Wednesday evening, August 5, to compete in the IMCA Modified division.  A full moon made for some wild racing action in the A and B-features in all four divisions.

Chris Vogan took the lead at the drop of the green in the IMCA Modified A-feature, trailed by Salina’s Corey Lagroon and Mike Petersilie.  The caution flag waved several times on lap 2, with one multi-car incident taking out Schrader for the remainder of the night.  Then on lap 9, Lagroon got under Vogan in turn 2 and drove off for his first win of the season at RPM Speedway.  Vogan finished second, followed by Ronnie Hill, Jerry Phillips and Mike Petersilie.  Heat race winners were Jason Schoenberger, Vogan, Tim Leiker, and Lagroon, while ‘The Minneapolis Missle’ Dave Hardesty took top honors in the B-feature.

Dustin McClurg took advantage of his pole position starting spot to jump to the lead in the 20-lap IMCA Stock Car A-main.  But on lap 8, ‘The Terminator’ Travis Sherfick of Wakeeney made the winning move, getting past McClurg and driving off for his 3^rd win this season at the 3/8-mile oval.  Second heat race winner Dustin Daniels closed in late on the leader but settled for the runner-up spot, followed by Pat Bedore, Casey Werkmeister and Terry Cunningham.  B-feature winner Cory Struckhoff was sixth.  Kyle Werkmeister and Casey Werkmeister also won heat races.

It took several tries to get the IMCA Hobby Stock feature underway, but when it did, Tony Slothower took command.  That command was short-lived however as Marquette’s B.J. Dauer took over the top spot and drove on for his 7^th win at Hays this year.  G.W. Fuller, Slothower, Mathew Crowell and Josh Latka rounded out the top five.  Fuller, Latka and Crowell were victorious in their heat races.

The IMCA Northern Sport Mod feature also saw its share of cautions, enough so that track officials cut the race from the scheduled 15 laps to 12.  Brian Conness led the first half of the race with Tyler Frye right behind.  Then on lap 7, Frye made his move under Conness in turn 2 to take the lead.  After the final caution on lap 11, officials decided on a green-white-checkered finish.  Heat two winner Frye was able to pull away from Conness for his second win this year at RPM Speedway.  Shawn Meeks finished third, trailed by Troy Attwood and Fred Traskowsky.  Josh Rice won the other heat race.           

The evening’s race sponsor was S & W Supply/Federated Auto Parts.

Racing action returns to RPM Speedway on Friday, August 21.  It will be the annual Big Brothers/Big Sisters night.  On the card will be the IMCA-sanctioned Modifieds, Stock Cars, Hobby Stocks and Sport Compacts.  Race time is 7:30 p.m.

RESULTS

IMCA Hobby Stocks

Heat 1: 1. G.W. Fuller, 2. Luke Pfannenstiel, 3. Kent Tammen, 4. Jake Hedlund.

Heat 2: 1. Josh Latka, 2. Casey Gilmore, 3. Dalton Dolan, 4. Mike Lehman.

Heat 3: 1. Mathew Crowell, 2. Tony Slothower, 3. B.J. Dauer, 4. Mark Normandin.

Feature: 1. Dauer, 2. Fuller, 3. Slothower, 4. Crowell, 5. Latka, 6. Luke Pfannenstiel, 7. Gilmore, 8. Jerry Hudson, 9. Normandin, 10. Roger Garrison, 11. Jeremy Sigler, 12. Joel Younger, 13. Hedlund, 14. Dolan, 15. Lehman, 16. Cody Pancake, 17. Tammen, 18. Cody Williams (DNF), 19. Kurtis Pihl (DNF), 20. Daniel Irwin (DNF), 21. Mike Traskowsky (DNF), 22. Leon Pfannenstiel (DNF), 23. Al Emmons (DNF).

IMCA Stock Cars

Heat 1: 1. Kyle Werkmeister, 2. Trevor Wadel, 3. C.J. Pfannenstiel, 4. Josh Crombie.

Heat 2: 1. Dustin Daniels, 2. Travis Sherfick, 3. Pat Bedore, 4. Dustin McClurg.

Heat 3: 1. Casey Werkmeister, 2. Terry Cunningham, 3. Jason Davis, 4. Marty Barth.

B-Feature (top 4 advance): 1. Cory Struckhoff, 2. Bob Rutherford, 3. Cole Wilson, 4. Adam Balthazor, 5. Trevor Thornton, 6. Todd Lutters, 7. Jay Schmidt, 8. Dusty Witthuhn, 9. Kyle Tammen, 10. Keith Riley, 11. Travis Hahn (DNS).

A-Feature: 1. Sherfick, 2. Daniels, 3. Bedore, 4. C. Werkmeister, 5. Cunningham, 6. Struckhoff, 7. McClurg, 8. Crombie, 9. Barth, 10. Davis, 11. Brandon Clough, 12. Wilson, 13. Pfannenstiel, 14. Balthazor, 15. T. Wadel, 16. Mike Wadel, 17. Rutherford, 18. Thornton, 19. K. Werkmeister (DNF), 20. Arnold Williams (DNF).

IMCA Modifieds

Heat 1: 1. Jason Schoenberger, 2. Marty Clark, 3. Mike Petersilie, 4. Tyler Hahn.

Heat 2: 1. Chris Vogan, 2. Jerry Phillips, 3. Ronnie Hill, 4. Rodger Peck.

Heat 3: 1. Tim Leiker, 2. Scott Drake, 3. Jerry Teel, 4. Barry Maupin.

Heat 4: 1. Corey Lagroon, 2. Dylan Sherfick, 3. John Fose, 4. Ken Schrader.

B-Feature (top 4 transfer): 1. Dave Hardesty, 2. Brent Fielder, 3. Brian Calhoon, 4. Jeff Welsh, 5. Kyle Rohleder, 6. Jim Bell, 7. Robby Haines, 8. Kyle Clough, 9. Clinton Hockersmith, 10. Todd Schwarz, 11. Aaron Hupfer, 12. Shannon Maughlin (DNF), 13. Shaylon Holloway (DNF), 14. Chadd Brown (DNF), 15. Jesse Richter (DNF), 16. Dan Geist (DNF), 17. Nolan Remus (DNF), 18. Warren Huffman (DNF).

A-Feature: 1. Lagroon, 2. Vogan, 3. Hill, 4. Phillips, 5. Petersilie, 6. Teel, 7. Drake, 8. Sherfick, 9. Hardesty, 10. Schoenberger, 11. Peck, 12. Fose, 13. Calhoon, 14. Clark, 15. Fielder, 16. Welsh, 17. Hahn, 18. Leiker, 19. Maupin, 20. Schrader (DNF).

IMCA Northern Sport Mods

Heat 1: 1. Josh Rice, 2. Jeremy Blackwill, 3. Troy Attwood, 4. Fred Traskowsky.

Heat 2: 1. Tyler Frye, 2. Brian Conness, 3. Jay Couse, 4. Brian Williams.

Feature: 1. Frye, 2. Conness, 3. Shawn Meeks, 4. Attwood, 5. Traskowsky, 6. Blackwill, 7. Troy Robinson, 8. Williams, 9. Jay Couse, 10. Joe Couse, 11. John Lashell, 12. Tanner Portenier (DNF), 13. Rice (DNF), 14. Tyler Watts (DNF), 15. Andrew Enfield (DNF), 16. Derrick Pfannenstiel (DNF).