7/22/2017
Greenbush Race Park
Truedson get Olson memorial win
Some light rain and high humidity’s made for a heavy hammer down racetrack, and track records fell in three classes, as it was the Race of Champions qualifier for the three Wissota PolyDome Dirt Track Series classes and the Chad Olson Memorial for the Lightning Sprints.
The eighth running of the Chad Olson Memorial for the Lightning Sprints would start with time trials, and it would be two 15 year old young ladies to set the quickest times. Presley Truedson of Kennedy, MN set the fast time of 12.63 and Kelsi Pederson of East Grand Forks, MN timed in at 12.69. Both gals won their heats and would start on the front row of the dash with the win going to Pederson and Truedson second. This would mean the talented pair would lead the 21 car field to the green, but it would be Truedson to jump to the front. Two time winner, Brandon Johnson of Holt, MN would pass Pederson for second on lap seven and began the hunt to catch Truedson. Truedson was in control working her way through lapped traffic, but with six to go Johnson drove it hard into corner three and came out of corner four with the lead. One lap later the only caution of the race flew as Corey Olson of Badger, MN, came to a stop on the backstretch. While the lineup was getting set, Johnson came to a stop in corner two, and mechanical issues forced him to retire from the race. This would hand the lead back to Truedson and on the restart she didn't let the lead slip away again and lead the last five laps to pick up her first win of the year. Pederson would finish second and Dexter Dvergsten of Greenbush, MN third and win his heat with the other heat win to Roland Bernard of Winnipeg, MB.
Dustin Wahl of Greenbush, MN would sit on the outside pole of the 15 car Modified feature and would rocket out to the early lead. The only thing that slowed this race was a couple of early cautions. Wahl held off the challenge of Ward Imrie of Winnipeg, MB on a couple of different occasions by using the high side while Imrie ran the bottom. Wahl would go on to get the win and a sweep on the evening and broke the track record of 13.98 seconds previously held by Jamen Foss of Greenbush, MN in his heat and would do it again in the feature for a new track record of 13.665 seconds. Imrie would finish second and Jordan Duray of Halma, MN would finish third and win his heat. Aaron Holtan of Newfolden, MN, would win the other heat.
Pole sitter Art Linert of Badger, MN would sit on the pole and lead the 19 car Street feature to the green. Linert used the number one starting spot to his advantage as he quickly to the lead followed closely by Justin Vogel of Brooten, MN. The pair ran bumper to bumper for the first three laps before the yellow flew. On one of those restarts Vogel was tagged for jumping the start and sent to the rear. Linert used a good restart to get about a three to four car length lead over Mike Olson of Lancaster, MN, Jeremy Gust of Strathcona, MN, and Ryan Johnson of Karlstad, MN. Johnson would pass Gust for the second spot coming out of corner two on lap eight, and began to track Linert down. But when the double checkers flew, it was Linert winning by a few car lengths; Johnson would finish second and win his heat. Other heat wins to Olson and Eric Riley of Morris, MN.
Fifteen cars started the Midwest Modified feature and Patrick Sobolik of Hallock, MN would use his number one starting spot to get out to the early lead. Sobolik would lead the first eight laps before the first caution flew. Brock Gronwold of Fergus Falls, MN was making his first visit to the Race Park and would start seventh, but was in third for the restart and made the pass for the lead coming out of corner four. In the closing laps Gary James Nelson of Blackduck, MN made sure Gronwold earned the win and the sweep of the night. Nelson and Aaron Blacklance of Thief River Falls, MN picked up the other heat wins.
Jerome Berger of Badger, MN, led green to checkered in the Pure Stock feature and picked up the sweep with second place going to Jared Palm of Warroad, MN. Palm started seventh and by the time he made it into the second spot Berger was a half lap ahead, but Palm managed to cut into Berger's lead a little bit and set a new Pure Stock track record in doing so with a time of 16.511 seconds beating the old record of 16.558.
Up next for the fastest 1/4 mile dirt track in Northwestern Minnesota will be the Brad Wall Memorial for the Streets paying $500 to win. Also racing that night will be the Modifieds, Midwest Modifieds, Pure Stocks, and Lightning Sprints. Gates open at 4pm with the cutoff for the draw at 6pm and the racing starting at 7pm sharp. Check us out on the web at www.greenbushracepark.com.
Results
Modifieds
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 74-Dustin Wahl, [2]; 2. 10W-Ward Imrie, [4]; 3. 81-Jordan Duray, [7]; 4. 7R-Ryan Restad, [1]; 5. 1R-Rick Delaine, [15]; 6. 2-Aaron Holtan, [6]; 7. 57-Michael Tiani, [3]; 8. 95-Mark Esala, [9]; 9. 27-Chris Unrau, [8]; 10. 33-Ryan Hagen, [13]; 11. (DNF) 7-Dev Malmlov, [11]; 12. (DNF) 21J-Joe Chaplinski, [14]; 13. (DNF) 64-Shane Wahl, [10]; 14. (DNF) 39-Shawn Teunis, [5]; 15. (DNF) 47-Jordan Wahl, [12]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 81-Jordan Duray, [2]; 2. 7R-Ryan Restad, [4]; 3. 57-Michael Tiani, [3]; 4. 64-Shane Wahl, [5]; 5. 33-Ryan Hagen, [1]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 74-Dustin Wahl, [3]; 2. 27-Chris Unrau, [2]; 3. 10W-Ward Imrie, [5]; 4. 7-Dev Malmlov, [1]; 5. (DNF) 1R-Rick Delaine, [4]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Aaron Holtan, [2]; 2. 95-Mark Esala, [1]; 3. 39-Shawn Teunis, [3]; 4. 47-Jordan Wahl, [4]; 5. 21J-Joe Chaplinski, [5]
Midwest Modifieds
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 5BA-Aaron Blacklance, [2]; 2. 00-Steve Hougard, [5]; 3. 35F-Davis Forst, [4]; 4. 188-Hunter Hougard, [3]; 5. 17K-Nathaniel Hietala, [1]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 74-Gary James Nelson, [2]; 2. 6R-Nate Reynolds, [3]; 3. 169-Justin Olson, [1]; 4. 55-Murray Kozie, [4]; 5. 24X-Benjamin Silliker, [5]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2G-Brock Gronwold, [4]; 2. 64-Shane Wahl, [1]; 3. 40-Patrick Sobolik, [3]; 4. 13-Alex Johnson, [2]; (DNS) 99-Ed Lehrke,
Lightning Sprints
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 2K-Presley Truedson, [2]; 2. 93-Kelsi Pederson, [1]; 3. 11-Dexter Dvergsten, [4]; 4. 2-Roland Bernard, [5]; 5. 16-Josh Abrahamson, [7]; 6. 10-Alex Truscinski, [6]; 7. 13-Alan Truscinski, [8]; 8. 16C-Kyle Cole, [9]; 9. 1-Mark Williams, [10]; 10. 40-Lawrence Veralrud, [11]; 11. 30M-Parker Monroe, [14]; 12. 17K-Zachary Kwiatkoski, [13]; 13. 19-Brad Borowicz, [17]; 14. (DNF) 22-Brandon Johnson, [3]; 15. (DNF) 2C-Corey Olson, [16]; 16. (DNF) 21-Steve Hildebrand, [19]; 17. (DNF) 100W-Dan Wiskow, [20]; 18. (DNF) 11M-Brendan Mullen, [12]; 19. (DNF) 24-Brett Schmiedeberg, [18]; 20. (DNF) 18-Ryan Davis, [15]; 21. (DNF) 22H-Dylan Herman, [21]; (DNS) 43-Jim Hadfield,
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 2K-Presley Truedson, [1]; 2. 13-Alan Truscinski, [2]; 3. 16C-Kyle Cole, [4]; 4. 17K-Zachary Kwiatkoski, [3]; 5. 19-Brad Borowicz, [5]; 6. (DNF) 22H-Dylan Herman, [6]
Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 93-Kelsi Pederson, [1]; 2. 16-Josh Abrahamson, [2]; 3. 1-Mark Williams, [3]; 4. 30M-Parker Monroe, [4]; 5. 24-Brett Schmiedeberg, [5]; (DNS) 43-Jim Hadfield,
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 2-Roland Bernard, [1]; 2. 10-Alex Truscinski, [2]; 3. 40-Lawrence Veralrud, [4]; 4. 18-Ryan Davis, [5]; 5. 21-Steve Hildebrand, [3]
Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 11-Dexter Dvergsten, [2]; 2. 22-Brandon Johnson, [1]; 3. 11M-Brendan Mullen, [3]; 4. 2C-Corey Olson, [5]; 5. (DNF) 100W-Dan Wiskow, [4]
Pure Stock
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 65-Jerome Berger, [5]; 2. 11X-Jared Palm, [7]; 3. 96A-Jeremy Anderson, [6]; 4. 7-Cory Peterson, [2]; 5. 68B-Austin Brekkestran, [3]; 6. 50-Ethan Larson, [4]; 7. 16-MiKara Johanson, [1]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 65-Jerome Berger, [3]; 2. 7-Cory Peterson, [5]; 3. 68B-Austin Brekkestran, [2]; 4. 50-Ethan Larson, [7]; 5. 16-MiKara Johanson, [4]; 6. (DNF) 96A-Jeremy Anderson, [1]; 7. (DNF) 11X-Jared Palm, [6]
Street Stocks
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 2L-Art Linert, [1]; 2. 25-Ryan Johnson, [7]; 3. 96-Jeremy Gust, [4]; 4. 70-Jesse Teunis, [11]; 5. 17-Mike Olson, [2]; 6. 3-Zach Lee, [6]; 7. 10-Justin Vogel, [3]; 8. 3C-Cory Dykhoff, [12]; 9. 105-Terry Blacklance, [17]; 10. 11-Kyle Dykhoff, [8]; 11. 4J-Taylor Jacobson, [9]; 12. 27P-Tucker Pederson, [15]; 13. 21J-Brian Johanson, [14]; 14. 11P-Jeremiah Porter, [16]; 15. (DNF) 48-Chase Boen, [13]; 16. (DNF) 76P-Ron Olafson, [10]; 17. (DNF) 35-John Halvorson, [19]; 18. (DNF) 39-Aaron Blacklance, [18]; 19. (DNF) 51-Eric Riley, [5]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Ryan Johnson, [2]; 2. 3-Zach Lee, [4]; 3. 4J-Taylor Jacobson, [3]; 4. 76P-Ron Olafson, [5]; 5. 48-Chase Boen, [7]; 6. 11P-Jeremiah Porter, [6]; 7. (DNF) 35-John Halvorson, [1]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Mike Olson, [2]; 2. 2L-Art Linert, [6]; 3. 11-Kyle Dykhoff, [5]; 4. 70-Jesse Teunis, [3]; 5. 21J-Brian Johanson, [1]; 6. (DNF) 39-Aaron Blacklance, [4]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 51-Eric Riley, [2]; 2. 10-Justin Vogel, [3]; 3. 96-Jeremy Gust, [4]; 4. 3C-Cory Dykhoff, [1]; 5. 27P-Tucker Pederson, [6]; 6. 105-Terry Blacklance, [5]
Article Credit: Keith Cumming
Submitted By: Shelly Linert
