Edmonds and Ramsrud get first Greenbush Race Park wins

5/28/2022

Greenbush Race Park

Edmonds and Ramsrud get first Greenbush Race Park wins

The Greenbush Race Park opened it's 2022 Wissota race season with a beautiful night for racing and 65 cars in the pits, and it included two drivers picking up their first ever GRP win.

The Wissota Midwest Mods would send 19 cars to take the green flag and it was polesitter Chris Edmonds from Larimore, N.D. in front early. Edmonds was out in front by himself for the first half of the race until the caution flags came. Two yellows on lap eight and one on lap 10 kept everybody close and when the green flew with five to go Edmonds got a good start, but Gary James Nelson of Ponemah, Mn. was right on his bumper. Edmonds was able to hold off Nelson to pick up his first Race Park win, Nelson finished second and Doyle Erickson of Bagley, Mn. was third. Heat wins went to Erickson, Joseph LaValley of Bemidji, Mn., and Shane Wahl of Greenbush, Mn.

The 11 car Wissota street feature started with a caution before they even got a lap in. When the green did fly it was Weston Ramsrud of Bagley, Mn. out in front. After a couple more cautions on lap five Ramsrud had to hold off challenges from John Halvorson of Warren, Mn., and Jeremy Gust of Strathcona, Mn. Gust got beside Ramsrud with a couple to go but Ramsrud was able to hold him off to pick up his first ever GRP win, Gust finished second and Halvorson third. Heat wins went to Halvorson and Trey Hess of Grand Forks, N.D.

Aaron Holtan of Newfolden, Mn., would start outside front row for the 13 car Wissota Modified feature and lead the first seven laps. On lap eight, Tyler Peterson of Horace, N.D. slid up in front of Holtan in corner two and made it stick, but when they got to corner four, Holtan ended up spinning to the infield bringing out the only caution. Peterson was unchallenged over the last seven laps and went on to pick up the win with Dustin Strand of East Grand Forks, Mn., finishing second and Ward Imrie of Winnipeg, Mb., third. Heat wins went to Imrie and Shane Wahl.

The seven car Wissota Pure Stock feature ran caution free as Deryk Weleski chased Dusty Caspers for 15 laps. Weleski could get to about a car length from Caspers several times but didn't have enough momentum to get beside him for the pass. Caspers took home the checkers with Weleski finishing second and Dustin Puffe of LaPorte, Mn., third. Weleski was the lone heat winner.

The 12 car MinnKota PowerI Lightning Sprint feature saw outside polesitter Alex Trucinski of Greenbush, Mn., take the early lead. Trucinski lead the first five laps before polesitter Dexter Dvergsten of Greenbush wrestled the lead away in corner two. The only caution came on lap 12 when Wes Van Drunen of Fargo, N.D. slid of the top of corners three and four. He was running second at the time. Dvergsten would go unchallenged over the last eight laps to get the win, Alex Trucinski would finish second and Alan Trucinski, third. Heat wins went to Alex Trucinski and Kelsi Pederson.

Up next at the Park, will be a regular night of racing featuring the Wissota classes of Mods, Streets, Midwest Mods, and Pure Stocks, along with the MinnKota PowerI Lightning Sprints and 4 Cylinders. Pit gates open at 4:30, Grand stands at 5:30, cutoff for the draw is 6pm and the racing starting at 7pm sharp. For more info go to http://www.greenbushracepark.com, or follow us on Facebook at Official Greenbush Race Park.

Results

LIGHTNING SPRINTS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[1]; 2. 10-Alex Truscinski[2]; 3. 13-Alan Truscinski[6]; 4. 93-Kelsi Pederson[4]; 5. 4-Dylan Langevin[10]; 6. 40-Lawrence Veralrud[9]; 7. 72-Kate Taves[3]; 8. 27-Weston Olson[12]; 9. 30M-Parker Monroe[8]; 10. 1W-Mark Williams[11]; 11. 19S-Travis Surerus[7]; 12. (DNF) 08-Wesley Van Drunen[5]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10-Alex Truscinski[1]; 2. 72-Kate Taves[2]; 3. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[4]; 4. 19S-Travis Surerus[6]; 5. 40-Lawrence Veralrud[3]; 6. 1W-Mark Williams[5]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 93-Kelsi Pederson[2]; 2. 13-Alan Truscinski[3]; 3. 08-Wesley Van Drunen[6]; 4. 30M-Parker Monroe[1]; 5. 4-Dylan Langevin[4]; 6. 27-Weston Olson[5]
14 entries
WISSOTA MODIFIEDS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[3]; 2. 71-Dustin Strand[6]; 3. 10W-Ward Imrie[8]; 4. 1R-Rick Delaine[7]; 5. 39-Shawn Teunis[1]; 6. 81-Jordan Duray[9]; 7. 64-Shane Wahl[4]; 8. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[11]; 9. 74-Dustin Wahl[5]; 10. 25-Jamie Trautner[12]; 11. 2-Aaron Holtan[2]; 12. 25J-Ryan Johnson[13]; 13. 65-Ron Reed[10]; 14. (DNS) 33-Ryan Hagen
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 64-Shane Wahl[2]; 2. 2-Aaron Holtan[3]; 3. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[6]; 4. 1R-Rick Delaine[4]; 5. 81-Jordan Duray[5]; 6. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[1]; 7. (DNF) 33-Ryan Hagen[7]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 10W-Ward Imrie[4]; 2. 74-Dustin Wahl[3]; 3. 71-Dustin Strand[6]; 4. 39-Shawn Teunis[5]; 5. 65-Ron Reed[7]; 6. 25-Jamie Trautner[1]; 7. 25J-Ryan Johnson[2]
19 entries
WISSOTA MIDWEST MODS

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 15C-Chris Edmonds[1]; 2. 74-Gary James Nelson[3]; 3. 99-Doyle Erickson[5]; 4. 64-Shane Wahl[8]; 5. 88-Paul Veert[10]; 6. 40-Patrick Sobolik[6]; 7. 169-Justin Olson[7]; 8. 08JR-Frank Veert[9]; 9. 11L-Joseph LaValley[4]; 10. 13-Devyn Weleski[12]; 11. 32B-Brennan Schmidt[11]; 12. 33G-Connor Graff[17]; 13. 00-Justin Hacker[18]; 14. 77E-Tra Ewalt[15]; 15. 007-Alex Johnson[16]; 16. (DNF) 57-Blake Higginbotham[14]; 17. (DNF) 29-Cylen Vargason[13]; 18. (DNF) 18X-Connor Drewry[2]; 19. (DNF) 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[19]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 11L-Joseph LaValley[4]; 2. 15C-Chris Edmonds[1]; 3. 18X-Connor Drewry[2]; 4. 88-Paul Veert[3]; 5. 29-Cylen Vargason[7]; 6. 77E-Tra Ewalt[5]; 7. (DNF) 33G-Connor Graff[6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 99-Doyle Erickson[2]; 2. 08JR-Frank Veert[1]; 3. 169-Justin Olson[4]; 4. 32B-Brennan Schmidt[3]; 5. (DNF) 00-Justin Hacker[6]; 6. (DNF) 5BA-Aaron Blacklance[5]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 64-Shane Wahl[4]; 2. 74-Gary James Nelson[5]; 3. 40-Patrick Sobolik[3]; 4. 13-Devyn Weleski[2]; 5. 57-Blake Higginbotham[1]; 6. 007-Alex Johnson[6]
7 entries
WISSOTA PURE STOCK

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 5-Dusty Caspers[2]; 2. 39-Deryk Weleski[4]; 3. 21X-Dustin Puffe[7]; 4. 25-Billy Binkley[3]; 5. 62-Joshua Bitker[5]; 6. 88-Macey Anderson[1]; 7. 469-Aaden Olson[6]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 39-Deryk Weleski[5]; 2. 5-Dusty Caspers[6]; 3. 25-Billy Binkley[4]; 4. 62-Joshua Bitker[1]; 5. 88-Macey Anderson[7]; 6. 469-Aaden Olson[2]; 7. (DNF) 21X-Dustin Puffe[3]
12 entries
WISSOTA STREET STOCK

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 67-Weston Ramsrud[3]; 2. 96-Jeremy Gust[4]; 3. 35-John Halvorson[5]; 4. 4-Trey Hess[6]; 5. 17-Nick Shumansky[11]; 6. 2-Zackory Johnson[10]; 7. 34-Bill Gustafson[1]; 8. (DNF) 69-Jayson Bronk[9]; 9. (DNF) 7-David Barker[12]; 10. (DNF) 65-Jerome Berger[2]; 11. (DNF) 87Z-David Hangsleben[7]; 12. (DNS) 99-Josh Barker
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Trey Hess[6]; 2. 67-Weston Ramsrud[5]; 3. 87Z-David Hangsleben[1]; 4. 34-Bill Gustafson[2]; 5. 69-Jayson Bronk[3]; 6. 17-Nick Shumansky[4]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 35-John Halvorson[1]; 2. 96-Jeremy Gust[2]; 3. 65-Jerome Berger[5]; 4. 99-Josh Barker[4]; 5. 2-Zackory Johnson[3]; 6. (DNF) 7-David Barker[6]

Article Credit: Keith Cumming

Submitted By: Shelly Linert