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Winters Continues IRA Cedar Lake Masters Domination Friday
Night
Justin Zoch (June 19) - Last year, Scott Winters swept the Friday and
Saturday night doubleheader during the IRA portion of the Masters Weekend at
Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wisconsin, and he kept his streak going
again in 2009 with a wire-to-wire victory over a 32-car field on Friday
night.
Winters started outside polesitter Bill Wirth on the front row and shot
into the lead after a red flag was displayed for Steve Meyer’s flip in turn
two. Winters seized the top line and set the cruise as he worked his way
through lapped traffic through the race’s middle stages. Meanwhile, Wirth
had his hands full of Mike Reinke and Scott Neitzel as they used the high
line to catch Wirth and the low groove to pass him.
Winters maintained the lead throughout but things got interesting for the
second-generation driver when the caution flew on lap 22. Winters withstood
the charge from Reinke and Neitzel and earned the victory. Reinke’s second
place finish was his fourth consecutive in IRA competition while Neitzel
settled for third at the finish. Wirth capped the best night of his career
with a fourth place ahead of current iRA point leader Bill Balog. Jake
Peters was sixth followed by 20th-starting John Sernett, 19th-starting Scott
Biertzer, Travis Whitney and Donny Goeden.
Earlier, Jake Peters outdueled Davey Heskin to win the Behling Racing
Products B-main in an event that saw a quartet of red flags for separate
incidents that claimed Cainen Reinan, Ryan Irwin, Dave Uttech and Jerry
Richert Jr.
In heat race action, Neitzel beat Scott Winters in heat race number one
while Haeni held off a hard charging Bill Balog in the second heat. As the
third heat was headed trackside, a brief rain shower held up action for
nearly 20 minutes before Andy Hunt returned to the track to win heat race
number three. In the fourth heat, Rookie of the Year contender Nick Alden
won his first career Sprint Car race with a wire-to-wire win over fellow
front row starter Donny Goeden.
Peters, driving the Dewall Racing 16, started the night by shredding a
tire during his first attempt to take time during Osborne and Sons Trucking
Qualifications but returned to take one lap at the end of qualifying and set
quick time with a lap of 11. 372 over the 32-car field.
Osborne and Sons Trucking Qualifications
1) Jake Peters (16) 11.372
2) Bill Balog (17) 11.455
3) Travis Whitney (9) 11.461
4) Davey Heskin (56) 11.480
5) Scott Biertzer (4B) 11.517
6) Mike Reinke (02) 11.564
7) Dave Uttech (68) 11.640
8) Jerry Richert Jr. (63) 11.655
9) Scott Nietzel (2W) 11.657
10) John Haeni (21J) 11. 663
11. John Sernett (91) 11.685
12. Steve Meyer (85M) 11.718
13. Scott Winters (23W) 11.735
14. Bill Wirth (53W) 11. 760
15. Scott Uttech (3K) 11.763
16. Phillip Mock (1M) 11. 799
17. Billy Warren (95) 11.823
18. Ryan Irwin (49) 11.833
19. Andy Hunt (9A) 11.870
20. Donny Goeden (11) 11.887
21. Brad Barickman (34) 11.890
22. Ty Bartz (46) 11.895
23. Joe Symoens (96) 11.895
24. Nick Alden (8A) 11.902
25. Leigh Thomas (29) 11.932
26. Todd Daun (36) 11.950
27. Robbie Pribnow (20R) 11.964
28. Cainen Reinan (00) 12.375
29. Russel Borland (23) 12.500
30. Adam Miller (24M) 12.502
31. Scott Lenz (99s) 12.598
32. Matt Vandervere (10V) NT
Lane Automotive Heat 1
1) Neitzel, 2) Winters, 3) Warren, 4) Barickman / 5) Peters, 6) Biertzer, 7)
Borland, 8) Thomas
VMAC Racing Heat 2
1) Haeni, 2) Balog, 3) Reinke, 4) Wirth, / 5) Irwin, 6) Daun, 7) Miller, 8)
Bartz (DNF)
Wesmar Racing Engines Heat 3
1) Hunt, 2) Symoens, 3) S. Uttech, 4) Whitney, / 5) Sernett, 6) Pribnow, 7)
D. Uttech, 8) Lenz
Diversified Machine Inc. Heat 4
1) Alden, 2) Goeden, 3) Meyer, 4) Mock, / 5) Heskin, 6) Richert Jr., 7)
Reinan, DNS: Vandervere
Behling Racing Products B-Main
1) Peters, 2) Heskin, 3) Beirtzer, 4) Sernett, 5) Daun, 6) Pribnow, / 7)
Miller, 8) Borland, 9) Thomas, 10) Richert Jr. (DNF), 11) D. Uttech (DNF),
12) Irwin (DNF), 13) Reinan (DNF), 14) Lenz (DNF), DNS: Bartz, Vandervere
Masters Weekend 25-Lap Friday Night A-main
1) Winters, 2) Reinke, 3) Neitzel, 4) Wirth, 5) Balog, 6) Peters, 7) Sernett,
8)Biertzer, 9) Whitney, 10) Goeden, 11) Warren, 12) Symoens, 13) Alden, 14)
Pribnow, 15) Mock, 16) S. Uttech, 17) Hunt, 18) Haeni, (DNF) 19) Daun (DNF),
20) Brad Barickman (DNF), 21) Meyer (DNF), 22) Heskin (DNF)
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