7/24/2021
Greenbush Race Park
Modified Mania winners Johnson and Blacklance at GRP
A picture perfect day turned into a great night of racing as the Greenbush Race Park welcomed the Advantage RV Modified tour and the Rebel Midwest Modified tour to town, and both classes didn't disappoint the full grandstand that showed up for the full night of racing.
A total of 23 Wissota Modifieds hit the track hoping to win their 40 lap feature. Billy Kendall III of Walker, MN, and Zach Johnson of Lowry, MN, shared the front row and it would be Kendall out in front for the first five laps before Johnson would make the pass for the lead out of corner four. Three cautions at the midway point slowed the race, but when it went back to green, Johnson was off on his own. The real race was deciding who was going to finish second through seventh as Kendall, Jeremy Nelson of Alexandria, MN, Tyler Peterson of Hickson, ND, Shane Sabraski of Rice, MN, and Ryan Gierke of Villard, MN. These five drivers all changed positions several times over the last half of the race. But it would be Johnson in his first ever visit to the Park getting the win and sweep of the night. Nelson would win the battle for second and collect a heat win while Sabraski would finish third. Peterson would pick up the other heat win.
A $2,000 dollar payday was on the line for the winner of the Rebel Wissota Midwest Modified feature, and 24 cars hit the track hoping it would be one of them. Aaron Blacklance of Thief River Falls, MN, would redraw the pole spot and would be out in front early. Cautions kept everything close for the first four laps but then they would run the last 21 laps caution free. Over those last 21 laps, Blacklance had a pretty good lead built up but Lucas Rodin of Marion, ND slowly ate away at that lead. With about seven to go Blacklance and Rodin hit lapped traffic, and Rodin got beside Blacklance at least once, and the pair would race out of corner four for the win, but it would be Blacklance edging out Rodin for the big payday. Nate Reinke of Lisbon, ND would finish in third. Tanner Theis of New Rockford, ND, and Lindsey Hansen of Fargo, ND picked up the B Main wins while heat wins went to Rodin, Jason Grimes of Jamestown, ND, Rusty Kollman of Carrington, ND and Les Schoon of Watertown, SD.
A dozen Wissota Streets lined up for their feature with James Meagher of Grand Forks, ND, the early leader. Meagher would bring out the only yellow for the race when he spun in corner three in front of the whole field; luckily everyone was able to avoid the spin. Dan McNamee of Arvilla, ND would lead the next three laps before Ryan Johnson of Karlstad, MN, made the pass for the lead coming out of corner four. Tucker Pederson of East Grand Forks, MN, would follow Johnson by McNamee. Pederson chased Johnson the last 10 laps, he got to his bumper a few times but could not get beside him to make a pass for the lead as Johnson went off to get his first GRP win of the year. Pederson would finish second and Doug Van Mill of Bagley, MN, third. Heat wins went to McNamee and Aaron Blacklance.
Only six cars on hand for the Wissota Pure Stock feature, but it was far from a boring race. Jace Gust of Strathcona, MN, lead the first four laps until the first of only two cautions came out. Gust would lose the lead as Deryk Weleski of Bemidji, MN, made the pass coming out of corner four on the restart. Dusty Caspers of Bagley, MN, would chase Weleski over the next seven laps, before he would pass Weleski in corner four for the lead. Caspers lead the last three laps as he picked up his second win in a row. Weleski would finish second and get the lone heat win and Tra Ewalt of Thief River Falls, MN, would finish third.
Up next at the Park will be the Olson Cup in memory of Lightning Sprint drivers Chad and Corey Olson. Joining the Lightning Sprints will be the Wissota classes of Modifieds, Streets, Midwest Modifieds, and Pure Stocks along with the 4 Cylinders. Pit gates open at 4:30, grandstands at 5:30, draw cutoff is at 6pm with the racing starting at 7pm sharp. For more info, follow us on Facebook at Official Greenbush Race Park, or online at http://www.greenbushracepark.com, and we hope to see you at the Park.
Results
23 entries
WISSOTA MODIFIEDS
A Feature 1 (40 Laps): 1. 6X-Zach Johnson[2]; 2. 4-Jeremy Nelson[8]; 3. 7A-Shane Sabraski[11]; 4. 9-Billy Kendall III[1]; 5. 26G-Ryan Gierke[12]; 6. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[7]; 7. 73-Andy Jones[3]; 8. 45J-Johnny Broking[4]; 9. 45-Bob Broking[5]; 10. 2J-Blake Jegtvig[17]; 11. 2-Aaron Holtan[14]; 12. 7J-Rick Jacobson[20]; 13. 7T-Joseph Thomas[6]; 14. 95-Mark Esala[15]; 15. 6T-Corky Thomas[9]; 16. 81-Jordan Duray[10]; 17. 74-Dustin Wahl[19]; 18. 64-Shane Wahl[13]; 19. 26-Brent Pulskamp[16]; 20. 57-Michael Tiani[21]; 21. 33-Ryan Hagen[22]; 22. (DNF) C1-Craig Lofdahl[18]; 23. (DNF) 51T-Tim Thomas[23]
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 4-Jeremy Nelson[1]; 2. 7T-Joseph Thomas[4]; 3. 9-Billy Kendall III[7]; 4. 81-Jordan Duray[3]; 5. 64-Shane Wahl[5]; 6. 26-Brent Pulskamp[6]; 7. 74-Dustin Wahl[8]; 8. 33-Ryan Hagen[2]
Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[1]; 2. 45J-Johnny Broking[2]; 3. 45-Bob Broking[3]; 4. 7A-Shane Sabraski[5]; 5. 2-Aaron Holtan[6]; 6. 2J-Blake Jegtvig[8]; 7. 7J-Rick Jacobson[4]; 8. 51T-Tim Thomas[7]
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 6X-Zach Johnson[2]; 2. 6T-Corky Thomas[3]; 3. 73-Andy Jones[7]; 4. 26G-Ryan Gierke[5]; 5. 95-Mark Esala[6]; 6. C1-Craig Lofdahl[4]; 7. 57-Michael Tiani[1]
38 entries
WISSOTA MIDWEST MODS
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[1]; 2. 19+-Lucas Rodin[6]; 3. 71-Nate Reinke[10]; 4. 99-Jason Grimes[3]; 5. 57-Corey Storck[7]; 6. RED1-Dan Wheeler[11]; 7. 87S-Reise Stenberg[14]; 8. 2S-Matt Schow[18]; 9. 1STAR-Scott Bintz[24]; 10. 11H-Harley Kroening[12]; 11. 50H-Haley Lee[17]; 12. 2-Rusty Kollman[5]; 13. 29X-Brandon Bahr[13]; 14. 64-Shane Wahl[15]; 15. 50C-Cody Lee[8]; 16. 32-Lindsey Hansen[22]; 17. 27-Les Schoon[2]; 18. 35-Tanner Theis[21]; 19. 5C-Preston Carr[9]; 20. 5W-Jacob Wilde[19]; 21. (DNF) 69R-Terry Reilly[4]; 22. (DNF) 17L-Jason LaValley[23]; 23. (DNF) 54-Terry Nelson[20]; 24. (DNF) 169-Justin Olson[16]
B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 35-Tanner Theis[1]; 2. 17L-Jason LaValley[2]; 3. 47W-Tony Wensloff[7]; 4. 99E-Ed Lehrke[6]; 5. 180-Scott Kaml[3]; 6. 06-Chris Vargason[5]; 7. 15C-Chris Edmonds[8]; 8. (DNF) 8-Sherman Rogalski Sr[4]; 9. (DNS) 21-Joel Olson
B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 32-Lindsey Hansen[2]; 2. 1STAR-Scott Bintz[1]; 3. 28S-Ryan Schow[4]; 4. 11L-Joseph LaValley[9]; 5. 79-Alex Senger[3]; 6. 33G-Connor Graff[6]; 7. 007-Alex Johnson[7]; 8. 333-Sherman Rogalski Jr[5]; 9. (DNF) 15-Eric Gadach[8]
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 99-Jason Grimes[7]; 2. 69R-Terry Reilly[1]; 3. 5C-Preston Carr[3]; 4. 29X-Brandon Bahr[4]; 5. 50H-Haley Lee[5]; 6. 35-Tanner Theis[6]; 7. 180-Scott Kaml[9]; 8. 06-Chris Vargason[10]; 9. 47W-Tony Wensloff[8]; 10. (DNF) 11L-Joseph LaValley[2]
Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 19+-Lucas Rodin[3]; 2. 50C-Cody Lee[2]; 3. 71-Nate Reinke[4]; 4. 87S-Reise Stenberg[9]; 5. 2S-Matt Schow[8]; 6. 1STAR-Scott Bintz[10]; 7. 79-Alex Senger[6]; 8. 333-Sherman Rogalski Jr[5]; 9. 007-Alex Johnson[1]; 10. 15C-Chris Edmonds[7]
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 2-Rusty Kollman[9]; 2. 57-Corey Storck[5]; 3. RED1-Dan Wheeler[2]; 4. 64-Shane Wahl[8]; 5. 5W-Jacob Wilde[4]; 6. 17L-Jason LaValley[6]; 7. 8-Sherman Rogalski Sr[3]; 8. 99E-Ed Lehrke[7]; 9. (DNF) 15-Eric Gadach[1]
Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 27-Les Schoon[2]; 2. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[4]; 3. 11H-Harley Kroening[6]; 4. 169-Justin Olson[5]; 5. 54-Terry Nelson[3]; 6. 32-Lindsey Hansen[8]; 7. 28S-Ryan Schow[7]; 8. 33G-Connor Graff[1]; 9. (DNF) 21-Joel Olson[9]
6 entries
WISSOTA PURE STOCK
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 5-Dusty Caspers[6]; 2. 39-Deryk Weleski[5]; 3. 77E-Tra Ewalt[2]; 4. 74-Steve Nordhagen[4]; 5. 42-Jace Gust[1]; 6. 88-Macey Anderson[3]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 39-Deryk Weleski[3]; 2. 88-Macey Anderson[2]; 3. 77E-Tra Ewalt[4]; 4. 74-Steve Nordhagen[6]; 5. 42-Jace Gust[1]; 6. (DNF) 5-Dusty Caspers[5]
13 entries
WISSOTA STREET STOCK
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 25-Ryan Johnson[6]; 2. 27P-Tucker Pederson[5]; 3. 8T-Doug VanMill[11]; 4. 539-Aaron Blacklance[8]; 5. 96-Jeremy Gust[7]; 6. 65-Jerome Berger[4]; 7. 29-Dan McNamee[3]; 8. 87M-Dave Meyer[9]; 9. 7-James Meagher[2]; 10. 34-Bill Gustafson[1]; 11. 5S-Chris Smeby[13]; 12. 21-Cadin Brekkestran[10]; 13. (DNS) 51L-Justin Lundeen
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 539-Aaron Blacklance[1]; 2. 96-Jeremy Gust[6]; 3. 25-Ryan Johnson[3]; 4. 65-Jerome Berger[7]; 5. 87M-Dave Meyer[2]; 6. 8T-Doug VanMill[4]; 7. 5S-Chris Smeby[5]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 29-Dan McNamee[2]; 2. 7-James Meagher[5]; 3. 34-Bill Gustafson[1]; 4. 27P-Tucker Pederson[3]; 5. 21-Cadin Brekkestran[6]; 6. 51L-Justin Lundeen[4]
Article Credit: Keith Cumming
Submitted By: Shelly Linert
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