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Peterson, Gierke, Rodin, Randt and Pourrier lead the holiday weekend traffic at I-94 Speedway

By Ron Krog

FERGUS FALLS, MN (July 5) - Race fans at I-94 emr Speedway celebrated the Fourth of July weekend with fan appreciation Friday night, including $10 tickets and a very nice fireworks display. There was also great racing, as 125 cars showed up for the party. All six classes were in action and it was a very entertaining show.

WISSOTA Dirt Track Series winners included Chase Pourrier, Levi Randt, Ryan Gierke, Tyler Peterson, and Lucas Rodin.

The WISSOTA Street Stocks had a pair of young and talented drivers on the front row, as 2023 track champion Cole Greseth and Levi Randt set the pace. Randt slipped ahead early, but Cory Dykhoff came calling and took over out front just four laps in. Dykhoff looked strong and held the lead until lap 10 of the 15 lapper when he lost a tire.

On the restart, Randt held the lead with Greseth, Tyler Klugman and Eric Riley close behind. Then, with two laps left, Riley caught Randt and was alongside the young gun, but Randt drove a tremendous race for his first win. Riley was second, Davey Kruchten grabbed third, Klugman was fourth and Greseth was fifth in the 24-car race.

A nice field of 27 WISSOTA Midwest Mods also had a familiar name up front, as Landyn Randt took the early lead with several strong cars behind him. On lap four, “The Nightmare” Lucas Rodin showed up and took the lead with Matt Schow right behind him in second. A series of three cautions pulled the field together, and pretty soon point leader Nate Reinke was in the mix and into second, as Schow and Tanner Bitzan had a fantastic back-and-forth battle for third. When the checkered flew, Rodin got the win followed by Reinke, Bitzan, Tayten Blascyk, and Schow.

The WISSOTA Late Models started 29 cars in their feature with Shawn Kirwin and Ryan Engels leading the pack early. The car on the move was Shawn Meyer, as he took the lead with three laps scored. Soon enough Tyler Peterson came along, moving into second from his eighth starting spot, with Josh Zimpel third and Dave Mass moving into fourth.

With 12 laps left in the race, Peterson and Meyer were in heavy lapped traffic, with Peterson taking the lead, and a lap later Mass got by Zimpel for third. Cole Schill, who started 13th, was on the charge and moved to third, while Mass raced into second. Peterson held on for the win with Mass, Schill, Meyer and 23rd-starter Chad Becker in the top five in an amazing run.

It was not a big field of WISSOTA Modifieds, with 15 cars on hand, but it was not lacking in talent. Early on Tyler Peterson took the lead with Avery Anderson, Ryan Gierke and a host of others going at it hard. Peterson and Gierke fought back and forth until Gierke took the top spot. Then Brady Gerdes, who had been in a dandy battle with Travis Saurer, joined in and Gerdes took the lead as the two swapped spots several times. Peterson’s car seemingly began to fade, as Saurer, Brendan Blascyk, and Dusty Bitzan all gave the fans their money’s worth.

With the checkered in the air, Gierke got the win just ahead of Gerdes and a charging Saurer, a sight that had fans off their seats.

The smallest class of the night was the WISSOTA Hornets, but they had a wild feature, with only three of the 10 cars finished. There were tough wrecks involving Tylar Pourrier and Madison DeNoble, who went for a wild ride and luckily was okay. In the end, Chase Pourrier grabbed his fourth win of the year.

A nice field of 20 Cliff Viessman Gen X Late Models put on a great race with Joe Thomas grabbing the win.

I-94 thanks Quality Circuits for sponsoring the fireworks again as they do every year, and also Bobcat of Morris and Village Bank for their sponsorship.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Late Models:

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[8]; 2. 2-Dave Mass[7]; 3. 44*-Cole Schill[13]; 4. 18X-Shawn Meyer[4]; 5. 12-Chad Becker[23]; 6. 5-Josh Zimpel[5]; 7. 10K-Shawn Kirwin[1]; 8. 10R-Kevin Robertson[16]; 9. X-Chuck Swenson[11]; 10. 18C-Chase Gelling[10]; 11. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[6]; 12. 47-Danny Vang[19]; 13. 1E-Ryan Engels[2]; 14. 00-Mitch Johnson[3]; 15. 15X-Blake Boelens[9]; 16. 66-Sam Zender[14]; 17. 50-Ben Wolden[21]; 18. 55S-Ryan Schaufler[29]; 19. 8R-Travis Robertson[26]; 20. 73-Larry Fitzsimmons[12]; 21. 12F-Greg Friestad[15]; 22. 9R-Erik Robertson[25]; 23. 25-Jamie Trautner[22]; 24. 18-Josh Rieck[20]; 25. 54-Terry Nelson[27]; 26. 24-Mike Hart[18]; 27. 3H-Jerry Hauge[24]; 28. (DNF) 56-Laine Schwehr[17]; 29. (DNS) 27-Jared Zimpel

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 5-Josh Zimpel[1]; 2. 00-Mitch Johnson[2]; 3. 15X-Blake Boelens[5]; 4. 44*-Cole Schill[6]; 5. 56-Laine Schwehr[3]; 6. 50-Ben Wolden[7]; 7. 9R-Erik Robertson[4]; 8. 55S-Ryan Schaufler[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 18X-Shawn Meyer[2]; 2. 2-Dave Mass[6]; 3. 18C-Chase Gelling[4]; 4. 66-Sam Zender[3]; 5. 24-Mike Hart[5]; 6. 25-Jamie Trautner[7]; 7. (DNS) 27-Jared Zimpel

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[1]; 2. 10K-Shawn Kirwin[2]; 3. X-Chuck Swenson[5]; 4. 12F-Greg Friestad[3]; 5. 47-Danny Vang[4]; 6. 12-Chad Becker[6]; 7. 8R-Travis Robertson[7]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[6]; 2. 1E-Ryan Engels[7]; 3. 73-Larry Fitzsimmons[3]; 4. 10R-Kevin Robertson[5]; 5. 18-Josh Rieck[2]; 6. 3H-Jerry Hauge[4]; 7. 54-Terry Nelson[1]

WISSOTA Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 26G-Ryan Gierke[3]; 2. 2X-Brady Gerdes[8]; 3. 21X-Travis Saurer[6]; 4. 9B-Brendan Blascyk[7]; 5. 10X-Dustin Bitzan[11]; 6. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[1]; 7. 51A-Avery Anderson[2]; 8. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[10]; 9. 11-Jody Bellefeuille[12]; 10. 6T-Corky Thomas[13]; 11. 11X-Austin Chyba[15]; 12. 7-Bryce Borgen[9]; 13. 19-Lucas Rodin[4]; 14. 33-Jeff Nelson[14]; 15. (DNF) 112-Brennan Gave[5]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 21X-Travis Saurer[4]; 2. 26G-Ryan Gierke[3]; 3. 51A-Avery Anderson[2]; 4. 9B-Brendan Blascyk[6]; 5. 7-Bryce Borgen[1]; 6. 10X-Dustin Bitzan[5]; 7. 6T-Corky Thomas[7]; 8. 11X-Austin Chyba[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Lucas Rodin[2]; 2. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson[5]; 3. 2X-Brady Gerdes[4]; 4. 112-Brennan Gave[1]; 5. 6ST-Joseph Thomas[3]; 6. 11-Jody Bellefeuille[7]; 7. 33-Jeff Nelson[6]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 19-Lucas Rodin[4]; 2. 71-Nate Reinke[6]; 3. 42B-Tanner Bitzan[3]; 4. 2B-Tayten Blascyk[5]; 5. 2S-Matt Schow[7]; 6. 24TB-Taylor Bitzan[13]; 7. 66-Kyle Langland[17]; 8. 42-Ron Saurer[15]; 9. L1-Shane Howell[8]; 10. 11R-Landyn Randt[1]; 11. 10B-Tyler Bitzan[18]; 12. 4-Phil Christlieb[14]; 13. 97-Michelle Hutt[11]; 14. 554-Alan Oeltjen[27]; 15. 30-Cole Neset[2]; 16. TS42-Scott Samuelson[16]; 17. 75JR-Daniel Harstad[19]; 18. 28K-Nick Preston[20]; 19. 21Z-Zach Kort[24]; 20. 13T-Tyson Roush[25]; 21. (DNF) 99S-Bob Sagen[21]; 22. (DNF) 13K-Brad King[22]; 23. (DNF) 13-Scott Oeltjen[12]; 24. (DNF) 10M-Noah McFarlane[26]; 25. (DNF) 12X-Jamie Norman[10]; 26. (DNF) 28-Brennon Weight[9]; 27. (DNF) 17K-Kamey Leedom[23]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 28-Brennon Weight[1]; 2. 30-Cole Neset[2]; 3. 2B-Tayten Blascyk[7]; 4. 12X-Jamie Norman[4]; 5. 24TB-Taylor Bitzan[9]; 6. TS42-Scott Samuelson[6]; 7. 75JR-Daniel Harstad[5]; 8. 13K-Brad King[8]; 9. (DNF) 554-Alan Oeltjen[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. L1-Shane Howell[3]; 2. 71-Nate Reinke[8]; 3. 11R-Landyn Randt[4]; 4. 97-Michelle Hutt[6]; 5. 4-Phil Christlieb[9]; 6. 66-Kyle Langland[7]; 7. 28K-Nick Preston[1]; 8. 17K-Kamey Leedom[2]; 9. 13T-Tyson Roush[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Lucas Rodin[2]; 2. 42B-Tanner Bitzan[1]; 3. 2S-Matt Schow[7]; 4. 13-Scott Oeltjen[3]; 5. 42-Ron Saurer[9]; 6. 10B-Tyler Bitzan[6]; 7. 99S-Bob Sagen[8]; 8. 21Z-Zach Kort[4]; 9. 10M-Noah McFarlane[5]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 11R-Levi Randt[2]; 2. 51-Eric Riley[9]; 3. 11K-Davey Kruchten[8]; 4. 2K-Tyler Klugman[6]; 5. 19-Cole Greseth[1]; 6. 12-Kevin Pender[18]; 7. 18J-Justin Peterson[3]; 8. 17-Nick Shumansky[15]; 9. 5-Royce Jawaski[17]; 10. 7X-Peter Martin[22]; 11. 2-Joe Martin[12]; 12. 30B-Wade Bergerud[10]; 13. 80-Tony Miller[20]; 14. 84-Doug Martin[21]; 15. 81X-Brock Volker[16]; 16. 31-Chris Winter[23]; 17. (DNF) 16-Greg Platzer[5]; 18. (DNF) 24-Mike Hart[14]; 19. (DNF) Z28-Greg Jose[11]; 20. (DNF) 3C-Cory Dykhoff[4]; 21. (DNF) 24X-Aaron Blacklance[13]; 22. (DNF) 2U-Kasey Ussatis[7]; 23. (DNF) 57-Jason Fechtner[24]; 24. (DNS) 23-Maverick Janssen

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 11K-Davey Kruchten[4]; 2. 2U-Kasey Ussatis[2]; 3. 18J-Justin Peterson[7]; 4. 30B-Wade Bergerud[3]; 5. 24X-Aaron Blacklance[6]; 6. 81X-Brock Volker[5]; 7. 23-Maverick Janssen[8]; 8. 7X-Peter Martin[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 3C-Cory Dykhoff[3]; 2. 2K-Tyler Klugman[8]; 3. 19-Cole Greseth[2]; 4. Z28-Greg Jose[5]; 5. 24-Mike Hart[1]; 6. 5-Royce Jawaski[4]; 7. 80-Tony Miller[6]; 8. 31-Chris Winter[7]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 16-Greg Platzer[1]; 2. 11R-Levi Randt[3]; 3. 51-Eric Riley[7]; 4. 2-Joe Martin[5]; 5. 17-Nick Shumansky[8]; 6. 12-Kevin Pender[6]; 7. 84-Doug Martin[4]; 8. 57-Jason Fechtner[2]

WISSOTA Hornets:

A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 35-Chase Pourrier[8]; 2. 10-Dexyn Habraken[3]; 3. 19A-Alysha Christenson[9]; 4. (DNF) 20-Christopher Winter Jr[7]; 5. (DNF) 90-Kreg Anderson[1]; 6. (DNF) 988H-Jonah Hove[6]; 7. (DNF) 03-Christian Kast[4]; 8. (DNF) 35P-Tylar Pourrier[2]; 9. (DNF) 988M-Madison DeNoble[10]; 10. (DNF) 17-Nick Shirley[5]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 03-Christian Kast[2]; 2. 90-Kreg Anderson[4]; 3. 17-Nick Shirley[3]; 4. 988H-Jonah Hove[5]; 5. 19A-Alysha Christenson[1]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 35-Chase Pourrier[2]; 2. 10-Dexyn Habraken[1]; 3. 20-Christopher Winter Jr[3]; 4. 35P-Tylar Pourrier[4]; 5. 988M-Madison DeNoble[5]

Gen X Late Models:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 1776-Joseph Thomas[4]; 2. 10-Brad Staples[3]; 3. 811-Bodie Croninger[5]; 4. 1-Konner Sperle[13]; 5. 50-Ben Wolden[9]; 6. 27-Jarrett Huus[11]; 7. 18A-Mike Anderson[10]; 8. 2-Derek Quinn[12]; 9. 11*-Larry Samuelson[2]; 10. 49-Andrew Tysdal[16]; 11. 4C-Brent Clemensen[15]; 12. 0-Shawn Beto[17]; 13. 71-John Plaster[19]; 14. 1E-Tai Engels[20]; 15. (DNF) 00-Kevin Youngquist[1]; 16. (DNF) 26D-Chad Dawson[18]; 17. (DNF) 17J-John Winge[7]; 18. (DNF) 20Z-Scott Zimmerman[14]; 19. (DNF) 8T-Tony Croninger[8]; 20. (DNF) 7-Rick Schroeder[6]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 50-Ben Wolden[5]; 2. 10-Brad Staples[1]; 3. 811-Bodie Croninger[6]; 4. 18A-Mike Anderson[4]; 5. 1-Konner Sperle[2]; 6. 49-Andrew Tysdal[7]; 7. 26D-Chad Dawson[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11*-Larry Samuelson[1]; 2. 17J-John Winge[4]; 3. 00-Kevin Youngquist[6]; 4. 27-Jarrett Huus[5]; 5. 20Z-Scott Zimmerman[3]; 6. 0-Shawn Beto[7]; 7. 71-John Plaster[2]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 1776-Joseph Thomas[2]; 2. 8T-Tony Croninger[1]; 3. 7-Rick Schroeder[4]; 4. 2-Derek Quinn[3]; 5. 4C-Brent Clemensen[5]; 6. (DNF) 1E-Tai Engels[6]