6/13/2022
I-90 Speedway
Lutz and Lambertz score sprint wins at I-90 Speedway
The Sea Foam Midwest Sprint Touring Series presented by Property Solutions of America and QualityFreightRate.com Midwest Power Series teamed up to headline Saturday’s action at I-90 Speedway. It would be Eric Lutz powering from seventh on the starting lineup to the win in the special event. John Lambertz took the Spielman Excavating IMCA Sprint Car feature win. In the T&R Contracting Late Model Street Stocks it was Brylee Gough victorious. Miah Christensen scored the win in the USRA B-modified feature and Levi VanderWeide scored the trophy in the LawnSnow.com USRA Hobby Stocks.
The start of the MSTS & MPS feature event was hotly contested when Scott Broty took the initial command. However, Troy Schreurs would take over the lead on the second lap with a slide job entering the first turn. Broty came back for the lead and the top two banged bumpers multiple times before Schreurs was able to pull away.
Behind them, Lutz was picking his way through the field and found lap traffic to his liking in the 25-lap feature that went non-stop. As Schreurs fought his way through dirty air and slower traffic, Lutz reeled him in and made the move for the top spot with eight laps to go. Lutz, the two-time MSTS champion would go from there to get career win number seven with MSTS.
Lambertz paced the field for all 20 laps on his way to his first victory of 2022. Jesse Lindberg challenged for the top spot on a late-race restart but settled for second ahead of Nick Barger in third. For Lambertz, this was career win number 12 at the Hartford, South Dakota, speedway.
In the Late Model Street Stocks, Gough lost the lead at the white flag to Madison’s Matt Steuerwald. Steuerwald raced from position 18 on the starting grid to the top spot. However, Gough made the right move on the last lap and snuck back into the lead to take the victory by less than a tenth of a second. Steuerwald was second ahead of Zach Olivier.
A last corner move gave Christensen his third win of the year at I-90 Speedway where he is the only repeat winner so far on the season. Christensen chased down race leader Kevin Joachim in the closing laps and followed him in the final turns. It was not to be for Joachim, who was filling in for Chris Goetz, as he’d get clipped in traffic which cut down a tire. Christensen got to the checkered flag first with Joachim second and Aaron DeThury in third.
It was a side-by-side battle late for the hobby stock contest with Dustin Gulbrandson and VanderWeide circling the track racing door-to-door for several laps. While Gulbrandson was in front for eight laps, VanderWeide had the advantage at the checkered by just 0.034 seconds. The victory is the fourth for VanderWeide’s career at I-90 Speedway.
This Saturday is Hartford night at the track – part of the town’s Jamboree Days celebration. The four divisions of the Paramount Racing Series will be in action. Stands open for spectators at 5 p.m. with cars taking to the track at 6:30.
Submitted By: Shawn Neisteadt
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