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HEJNA TAKES DOWN
USMTS CASEY’S GENERAL STORES NATIONAL TOUR VICTORY AT UPPER IOWA SPEEDWAY
DECORAH, Iowa (June 20)
– Al Hejna racked up his fourth USMTS Casey’s General Stores National Tour
victory of the season Saturday night with a victory in the “Donnybrook in
Decorah” at the Upper Iowa Speedway.
The 46-year-old from Clear
Lake, Iowa, reeled in polesitter Zack VanderBeek on lap 26 before surviving
a green-white checkered finish after a caution flag with two laps to go to
claim the $2,000 top prize.
Jon Tesch emerged as the
runner-up after a spirited battle with VanderBeek and Ryan Dolan during the
final two circuits around the 1/4-mile semi-banked clay oval.
Darrin Walch rounded out the
top-5 finishers, with sixth going to Corey Dripps, seventh to Kelly Shryock
in a brand new car, Ron Konkel in eighth, Dan Bohr in ninth and Jeff
Schluetter completing the top-10.
The PBM Performance Products
Hard Charger Award went to Konkel, who started 16th and finished 8th.
His second-place finish,
coupled with Steve Wetzstein's failure to finish Saturday's Sunoco "A" Main,
propelled Tesch into the points lead in the Yeager Machine Upper Midwest
Region. Tesch leads Wetzstein by 27 markers (629 to 602), and now leads the
rankings in three of the four regions for the USMTS Casey’s General Stores
National Tour.
VanderBeek is third in the
Yeager Machine Upper Midwest Region with 586 points, followed by Shryock
(573), Hejna (555), defending region and USMTS National Champion Tim
Donlinger (502), Bohr (502), Ryan Gustin (493), Dereck Ramirez (489) and
Dripps (465).
COMING EVENTS ...
The USMTS Casey’s General
Stores National Tour invades the Nobles County Speedway in Worthington,
Minn., on Sunday for the 3rd Annual Slumberland Shootout.
Pit gates open at 3:00,
grandstands open at 4:30, hot laps are scheduled for 5:30 and the first heat
race takes to the track at 6:00.
Also on the racing card will
be USRA Stock Cars, USRA B-Mods and USRA Hobby Stocks racing for track and
national points in the American Racer USRA Weekly Racing Series, plus,
Sportsmans.
Race fans can pick up $2-off
coupons for Sunday's event at both Casey's General Stores locations in
Worthington. Check out
www.caseys.com
for more information or to find the location nearest you.
The Nobles County Speedway is
a 1/4-mile semi-banked clay oval located off of I-90 at Exit 43, then 0.4
mile south on SR 59, then 0.4 mile west on Oxford St., then 0.2 mile north
on McMullan (Pioneer Village). For more information, call the track hotline
at (507) 360-3825 or check out
www.noblescountyspeedway.net
online.
Sunday's event will be the
second of seven straight $2,000-to-win race nights in eight days:
Sat Jun 20 … Upper Iowa
Speedway, Decorah, IA (Yeager Machine Upper Midwest Region)
Sun Jun 21 … Nobles County Speedway, Worthington, MN (Great Plains Region)
Mon Jun 22 … Iowa State Fair Speedway, Des Moines, IA (Central States
Region)
Tue Jun 23 … Mineral City Speedway, Fort Dodge, IA (Central States Region)
Wed Jun 24 … I-35 Speedway, Mason City, IA (Yeager Machine Upper Midwest
Region)
Fri Jun 26 … LA Raceway, La Monte, MO (Bear Tire Mo-Kan Region)
Sat Jun 27 … Lucas Oil Speedway, Wheatland, MO (Bear Tire Mo-Kan Region)
Sunday's event at the Nobles
County Speedway will wrap up the Great Plains Region battle for the 2009
season while the Lucas Oil Speedway show shall serve as the venue for
crowning the Bear Tire Mo-Kan Region champion.
After that, the engines will
remain silent until Thursday, July 23, when the second half of the season
explodes with a stop at the fast Fayette County Speedway in West Union,
Iowa, prior to traveling to the Elko Speedway in Elko, Minn., for the
inaugural Dirt Nationals on Friday and Saturday, July 24-25, at the historic
asphalt speedplant temporarily covered with dirt.
To learn more about the United
States Modified Touring Series, call the headquarters at (515) 832-7944 or
visit
www.usmts.com
online for the latest news and information from the USMTS.
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OFFICIAL RESULTS
USMTS Casey’s General Stores
National Tour (Yeager Machine Upper Midwest Region)
Inaugural “Donnybrook in Decorah”
Upper Iowa
Speedway, Decorah, Iowa
Saturday, June 20,
2009
Showing finishing
position, car number, driver, hometown and starting position in parentheses.
The top 12 drivers in passing points accumulated in the heat races are
locked into the Sunoco “A” Main, with the top 8 re-drawing for starting
positions 1-8.
ISKY RACING CAMS HEAT
RACE #1 (8 laps):
1. 14 - Jon Tesch -- Watertown, SD (3)
2. 7 - Ryan Dolan -- Lisbon, IA (1)
3. 31 - Corey Dripps -- Waterloo, IA (7)
4. 3 - Kelly Shryock -- Fertile, IA (8)
5. 19r - Ryan Gustin -- Marshalltown, IA (5)
6. 35 - Jeff Schluetter -- New Hampton, IA (2)
7. 72 - Doug Hillson -- Blooming Prairie, MN (4)
8. 49x - Jay Poidinger -- Somerset, WI (6)
NEW VISION GRAPHICS
HEAT RACE #2 (8 laps):
1. 3d - Tim Donlinger -- Rochester, MN (6)
2. 5w - Darrin Walch -- Postville, IA (2)
3. 33z - Zack VanderBeek -- New Sharon, IA (7)
4. 74 - Mark Noble -- Blooming Prairie, MN (1)
5. 4 - Ben Mattick -- Hayfield, MN (4)
6. 61 - Noah Coppess -- Stanwood, IA (3)
7. 35k - Ron Konkel -- Caledonia, MN (5) DNF
BRODIX HEAT RACE #3 (8
laps):
1. 7 - Al Hejna -- Clear Lake, IA (6)
2. 90 - Steve Wetzstein -- West Concord, MN (1)
3. 66 - Dan Bohr -- Decorah, IA (4)
4. 42 - Tom Paulson -- Kasson, MN (7)
5. 24 - Garry Oskerson -- Fairmont, MN (3)
6. 3a - Jason Schueller -- Dubuque, IA (5) DNF
7. 21 - Layne Meyer -- West Union, IA (2) DNF
REAL RACING WHEELS “B”
MAIN #1 (12 laps, 10 advance):
1. 19r - Ryan Gustin -- Marshalltown, IA (1)
2. 4 - Ben Mattick -- Hayfield, MN (2)
3. 3a - Jason Schueller -- Dubuque, IA (6)
4. 35k - Ron Konkel -- Caledonia, MN (8)
5. 35 - Jeff Schluetter -- New Hampton, IA (4)
6. 72 - Doug Hillson -- Blooming Prairie, MN (7)
7. 61 - Noah Coppess -- Stanwood, IA (5)
8. 24 - Garry Oskerson -- Fairmont, MN (3)
9. 49x - Jay Poidinger -- Somerset, WI (10)
10. 21 - Layne Meyer -- West Union, IA (9) DNS
SUNOCO “A” MAIN (40
laps):
1. 7 - Al Hejna -- Clear Lake, IA (6)
2. 14 - Jon Tesch -- Watertown, SD (5)
3. 33z - Zack VanderBeek -- New Sharon, IA (1)
4. 7 - Ryan Dolan -- Lisbon, IA (3)
5. 5w - Darrin Walch -- Postville, IA (4)
6. 31 - Corey Dripps -- Waterloo, IA (8)
7. 3 - Kelly Shryock -- Fertile, IA (9)
8. 35k - Ron Konkel -- Caledonia, MN (16)
9. 66 - Dan Bohr -- Decorah, IA (10)
10. 35 - Jeff Schluetter -- New Hampton, IA (17)
11. 3a - Jason Schueller -- Dubuque, IA (15)
12. 61 - Noah Coppess -- Stanwood, IA (19)
13. 49x - Jay Poidinger -- Somerset, WI (21)
14. 72 - Doug Hillson -- Blooming Prairie, MN (18)
15. 42 - Tom Paulson -- Kasson, MN (11)
16. 19r - Ryan Gustin -- Marshalltown, IA (13) DNF
17. 4 - Ben Mattick -- Hayfield, MN (14) DNF
18. 90 - Steve Wetzstein -- West Concord, MN (2) DNF
19. 3d - Tim Donlinger -- Rochester, MN (7) DNF
20. 74 - Mark Noble -- Blooming Prairie, MN (12) DNF
21. 24 - Garry Oskerson -- Fairmont, MN (20) DNF
22. 21 - Layne Meyer -- West Union, IA (22) DNS
Lap Leaders:
VanderBeek 1-26, Hejna 27-40.
Total Laps Led:
VanderBeek 26, Hejna 14.
AFCO Pole Winner:
Donlinger.
Provisional
Starters: none.
PBM Performance
Products Hard Charger: Konkel
(started 16th, finished 8th).
Next Race:
Sunday, June 21, Nobles County Speedway, Worthington, Minn. (Great Plains
Region).
Yeager Machine
Upper Midwest Points: Tesch
629, Wetzstein 602, VanderBeek 586, Shryock 573, Hejna 555, Donlinger 502,
Bohr 502, Gustin 493, Dereck Ramirez 489, Dripps 465.
DandyLand Farms
Rookie of the Year Points:
Grant Junghans 330, Mike Hansen 282, Rich Lewerke 201, Mike Albertsen 151,
Tate Cole 124.
COMP Cams Engine
Builder of the Year Points:
Sput’s 221, Mullins 165, ASI 139, JR 108, AEM 78.
Chassis Builders
Championship Points: Skyrocket
205, Ramirez 198, Hughes 174, Harris 114, GRT 112.
Contingency Awards:
AFCO Racing Products – Donlinger.
American Racer – Poidinger.
Isky Racing Cams – Tesch.
KSE Racing Products – Dripps.
PBM Performance Products – Konkel.
Marsh Racing Wheels – Meyer.
Nitroquest – VanderBeek.
Out-Pace Racing Products – Schueller.
Quarter Master – Hejna, Konkel.
QuickTime Performance Parts – Shryock.
Real Racing Wheels – Hillson.
Ruter Farms – Hillson.
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