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Cole Chernosky (Paul Phillips File Photo)

Chernosky chops up two feature fields at Thunder City while Simpson and Wolframe win the other WISSOTA classes

THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO (July 17) - It was Tom Jones Corp. night Wednesday, July 17 at Thunder City Speedway. Following fast and thrilling action on the track located in Thunder Bay, Ontario, WISSOTA Dirt Track Series winners included Cole Chernosky, who picked up two trophies on the night, David Simpson, and Darren Wolframe.

In the WISSOTA Modifieds, Chernosky started way back in the fourth row. For the first eight laps, he patiently worked his way forward, taking the lead from front-row starter Shawn Polonoski on lap eight. For the next 10 laps, he led the way to victory lane, taking the checkered flag ahead of Joel Cryderman, Riley Matthews, 10th-starter John Toppozini, and Polonoski, who slipped back to fifth.

Simpson had a tough go of it in the first two laps of the 18-lap WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature. Starting fifth on the grid, he slipped back to eighth during the second lap, but worked his way forward during the third tour of the speedway, grabbing second. The next time around, he took over out front from front-row starter Tanner Henderson and wheeled his way to the checkered flag for the next 14 laps. He was followed to the stripe by Curtis Stieh, who displaced Henderson for second, Kyle Monteith and 10th-starter Kevin Monteith in the top five.

David Simpson (Paul Phillips File Photo)

Darren Wolframe (Paul Phillips File Photo)

Starting eighth in the WISSOTA Street Stocks, Darren Wolframe grabbed the lead around lap eight from Andrew Piilo and drove off to the victory. Piilo had to settle for second, seventh-starter Cory Ward improved four spots to third, ninth-starter Kyle Bolt finished his charge in fourth, and Nathan Henny completed the top five.

Lap four of the WISSOTA Super Stock feature was good for four spots for eventual winner Chernosky, who doubled up with the win in the fendered class following his open-wheeled win in the Modifieds. Chernosky moved from fifth to the top spot about four laps in and drove off to the victory. Fellow fourth-row starter Rick Simpson finished second, John Garrity was third, ninth-starter John Toppozini was fourth, and Danny Young finished fifth.

In the track’s Hornet class, eighth-starter Michael Shalley improved seven spots to garner the victory. Jesse Owen, Nate Owen, Selena Owen, and Avery Chaschuk rounded out the top five.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Chernosky[8]; 2. 51-Joel Cryderman[7]; 3. 9-Riley Matthews[4]; 4. T23-John Toppozini[10]; 5. 316-Shawn Polonoski[2]; 6. 621-Colin Chaschuk[3]; 7. 15-Adam Dennhardt[1]; 8. 32C-Curtis Stieh[5]; 9. 146-Dan Bertrand[9]; 10. 1-Greg Foglia[11]; 11. (DNF) 27-Scott McKinnon[6]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 621-Colin Chaschuk[1]; 2. 27-Scott McKinnon[2]; 3. 9-Riley Matthews[4]; 4. 15-Adam Dennhardt[5]; 5. 146-Dan Bertrand[3]; 6. 1-Greg Foglia[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Chernosky[1]; 2. 316-Shawn Polonoski[4]; 3. 51-Joel Cryderman[3]; 4. 32C-Curtis Stieh[5]; 5. T23-John Toppozini[2]

WISSOTA Super Stocks:

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Chernosky[8]; 2. 77-Rick Simpson[7]; 3. 37-John Garrity[2]; 4. T23-John Toppozini[9]; 5. 37A-Danny Young[6]; 6. 316-Shawn Polonoski[3]; 7. 22R-Nathan Roy[4]; 8. 15G-Andrew Groom[5]; 9. 61-Tom Smart[16]; 10. 37J-Tyler Wade[11]; 11. 498-Tanner House[1]; 12. 24-Josh Oleksuk[15]; 13. 88A-David Allen[10]; 14. 51-Aaron Sacek[19]; 15. 07-Jeremy Britten[17]; 16. 81B-Doug Bolt[12]; 17. 13-Simon Hachez[14]; 18. 95-MacKenzie Holmwood[18]; 19. (DNF) 219-Ryan House[13]; 20. (DNS) 25-Mike Plas

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 77-Rick Simpson[1]; 2. 37-John Garrity[7]; 3. 316-Shawn Polonoski[2]; 4. 22R-Nathan Roy[9]; 5. T23-John Toppozini[6]; 6. 37J-Tyler Wade[5]; 7. 219-Ryan House[4]; 8. 24-Josh Oleksuk[10]; 9. 61-Tom Smart[8]; 10. 07-Jeremy Britten[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Chernosky[3]; 2. 37A-Danny Young[5]; 3. 15G-Andrew Groom[1]; 4. 498-Tanner House[6]; 5. 88A-David Allen[8]; 6. 81B-Doug Bolt[4]; 7. 13-Simon Hachez[9]; 8. (DNF) 95-MacKenzie Holmwood[7]; 9. (DNF) 51-Aaron Sacek[10]; 10. (DNF) 25-Mike Plas[2]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 70-David Simpson[5]; 2. 32C-Curtis Stieh[4]; 3. 40-Tanner Henderson[2]; 4. 3DJR-Kyle Monteith[7]; 5. 3D-Kevin Monteith[10]; 6. 17K-David Kivi[1]; 7. 67-Glen Brown[12]; 8. 86EH-Tanner Ulakovic[19]; 9. M17-Matthew Mitchell[8]; 10. 66-Bill Speak[21]; 11. 17-Rob Groom[6]; 12. 15K-Jeff Kelly[15]; 13. 47-Don Craig[18]; 14. 10D-Patrick Davis[17]; 15. 18-Hunter Brink[14]; 16. M20-Travis MacArthur[11]; 17. 97-Mark Earl[16]; 18. 2-Dan Tocheri[20]; 19. 6-Joel Macleod[13]; 20. (DNF) 88-Andrew Opas[9]; 21. (DNF) 85-Jamie Davis[3]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 85-Jamie Davis[2]; 2. 17-Rob Groom[3]; 3. M20-Travis MacArthur[4]; 4. 47-Don Craig[8]; 5. 10D-Patrick Davis[1]; 6. 03-Jami Oshust[6]; 7. 99J-John Coppock[7]; 8. 32S-Connor Stieh[9]; 9. (DNF) 56-Keith LaPlante[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17K-David Kivi[3]; 2. 3DJR-Kyle Monteith[4]; 3. 67-Glen Brown[5]; 4. 66-Bill Speak[7]; 5. 26-Paul Hari[2]; 6. 80-Doug Wakefield[6]; 7. 99D-Ben DeFoy[1]; 8. (DNF) 49J-Bill Jeffers[9]; 9. (DNF) 222-Brian Hari[8]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 70-David Simpson[4]; 2. M17-Matthew Mitchell[1]; 3. 6-Joel Macleod[2]; 4. 2-Dan Tocheri[5]; 5. 14C-Colby Petrunak[8]; 6. 18W-Brad Walker[6]; 7. 13-Ted Horst[3]; 8. 007-Shawn Liddicoat[7]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 40-Tanner Henderson[5]; 2. 88-Andrew Opas[2]; 3. 18-Hunter Brink[3]; 4. 86EH-Tanner Ulakovic[7]; 5. 97-Mark Earl[8]; 6. 11-Kevin Armstrong[1]; 7. 44-Bryce Melanson[4]; 8. 723-Wayne deBruin[6]

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 32C-Curtis Stieh[1]; 2. 3D-Kevin Monteith[3]; 3. 15K-Jeff Kelly[6]; 4. 31J-Mike Jacques[7]; 5. 9-Reuben Thomas[4]; 6. 95-Connor Moro[5]; 7. (DNF) 89-Kolby Reed[2]; 8. (DNS) 57JR-Robert Squitti

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 97-Mark Earl[5]; 2. 47-Don Craig[1]; 3. 2-Dan Tocheri[2]; 4. 26-Paul Hari[4]; 5. 03-Jami Oshust[6]; 6. 18W-Brad Walker[7]; 7. 99D-Ben DeFoy[9]; 8. 95-Connor Moro[8]; 9. 44-Bryce Melanson[10]; 10. 222-Brian Hari[13]; 11. 007-Shawn Liddicoat[11]; 12. (DNS) 31J-Mike Jacques; 13. (DNS) 57JR-Robert Squitti; 14. (DNS) 49J-Bill Jeffers

B Feature 2 (8 Laps): 1. 10D-Patrick Davis[3]; 2. 86EH-Tanner Ulakovic[2]; 3. 66-Bill Speak[1]; 4. 89-Kolby Reed[10]; 5. 14C-Colby Petrunak[4]; 6. 9-Reuben Thomas[5]; 7. 11-Kevin Armstrong[7]; 8. 99J-John Coppock[8]; 9. 80-Doug Wakefield[6]; 10. 56-Keith LaPlante[12]; 11. 13-Ted Horst[9]; 12. 32S-Connor Stieh[13]; 13. (DNF) 723-Wayne deBruin[11]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 96W-Darren Wolframe[8]; 2. 24-Andrew Piilo[4]; 3. 32-Cory Ward[7]; 4. 77-Kyle Bolt[9]; 5. 35-Nathan Henny[6]; 6. 9E-Cameron Ellis[3]; 7. 1JT-Justin Tougas[5]; 8. 25-Kathryn Stieh[2]; 9. 59-Johnny Staal[14]; 10. 6R-Spencer Reid[11]; 11. 17-Don Mitchell[1]; 12. 88-Steven Hitchman[10]; 13. 317-Austin Polonoski[17]; 14. 12SB-Scott Gregory[18]; 15. 9-Jack Williamson[16]; 16. 3B-BJ Kapush[15]; 17. S13-Mike Stover[20]; 18. 12K-Chase Kivi[12]; 19. 49-Derek Ross[13]; 20. 2-Charlie Merkley[19]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Don Mitchell[3]; 2. 32-Cory Ward[5]; 3. 9E-Cameron Ellis[7]; 4. 88-Steven Hitchman[2]; 5. 49-Derek Ross[9]; 6. 9-Jack Williamson[4]; 7. 2-Charlie Merkley[1]; 8. (DNF) 69R-Shawn Reid[8]; 9. (DNF) 17A-David Mitchell[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 77-Kyle Bolt[1]; 2. 25-Kathryn Stieh[7]; 3. 1JT-Justin Tougas[6]; 4. 6R-Spencer Reid[2]; 5. 59-Johnny Staal[3]; 6. 317-Austin Polonoski[5]; 7. S13-Mike Stover[8]; 8. (DNF) 16-Teagan Britten[4]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 96W-Darren Wolframe[3]; 2. 35-Nathan Henny[1]; 3. 24-Andrew Piilo[5]; 4. 12K-Chase Kivi[6]; 5. 3B-BJ Kapush[4]; 6. 12SB-Scott Gregory[7]; 7. 29-Ricky Reid[2]; 8. 50S-Amanda Smith[8]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Charlie Merkley[1]; 2. S13-Mike Stover[2]; 3. 29-Ricky Reid[3]; 4. 69R-Shawn Reid[4]; 5. (DNS) 16-Teagan Britten; 6. (DNS) 50S-Amanda Smith; 7. (DQ) 17A-David Mitchell[6]

Hornets:

A Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 8X-Michael Shalley[8]; 2. 22-Jesse Owen[6]; 3. 21N-Nate Owen[7]; 4. 34-Selena Owen[5]; 5. 16-Avery Chaschuk[4]; 6. 57-Spencer Smith[1]; 7. 11-Carrie Allen[9]; 8. M11-Merissa Currie[14]; 9. 23-Jimmy Owen[11]; 10. 5-Hunter Marshall[12]; 11. 44J-Jessica Mina[2]; 12. 6JR-Taylor Scaffeo[19]; 13. (DNF) 37-Connor Danylko[13]; 14. (DNF) 09-Joshua Kruzel[10]; 15. (DNF) 26-Sam Bolt[15]; 16. (DNS) 10K-Kathleen Speaker; 17. (DNS) 26B-Martin Bolt; 18. (DNS) 66-Sydney Chaschuk; 19. (DNS) 69-Rick Reid; 20. (DQ) 555-Carter Wieringa[3]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 22-Jesse Owen[6]; 2. 8X-Michael Shalley[7]; 3. 555-Carter Wieringa[2]; 4. 34-Selena Owen[8]; 5. 11-Carrie Allen[1]; 6. 23-Jimmy Owen[4]; 7. 37-Connor Danylko[10]; 8. M11-Merissa Currie[9]; 9. 26-Sam Bolt[3]; 10. (DNF) 6JR-Taylor Scaffeo[5]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 21N-Nate Owen[6]; 2. 16-Avery Chaschuk[2]; 3. 57-Spencer Smith[4]; 4. 44J-Jessica Mina[10]; 5. 09-Joshua Kruzel[1]; 6. 5-Hunter Marshall[5]; 7. (DNF) 10K-Kathleen Speaker[3]; 8. (DNF) 26B-Martin Bolt[9]; 9. (DNF) 66-Sydney Chaschuk[7]; 10. (DNF) 69-Rick Reid[8]