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Chernosky scores in Supers, Simpson spanks Midwest Mods, Bolt blows by Streeters and Adams makes long visit from US base to score in Mod main at Thunder City Speedway

THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO (August 28) - Kevin Adams made the more than five-hour mid-week trip to the Thunder Bay area Wednesday pay off handsomely for point chasing, as he drove from eighth on the grid to pick up the WISSOTA Modified victory at Thunder City Speedway.

He was joined in WISSOTA Dirt Track Series victory lane by David Simpson, Kyle Bolt, and Cole Chernosky.

Early leader Shawn Polonoski was out front for lap one of the Modified feature, before he was overtaken by Curtis Stieh. Stieh then held the top spot for a few laps before Joel Cryderman got by for the lead.

As the battle intensified behind him, a marker tire from the corner was kicked out onto the racing surface, with the call going against Cole Chernosky.

Adams started eighth on the grid, and eventually found a line that worked for him. He drove by Cryderman to take the lead and began to pull away, as Chernosky marched back up through the field to second. Adams was comfortably in front when the yellow waved with three laps to go.

Adams put distance on Chernosky following the restart and drove on for the win. Chernosky had to settle for second, Cryderman was third, John Toppozini was fourth and Colin Chaschuk completed the top five.

Danny Young took the lead from the second row on the opening lap of what became a caution-filled WISSOTA Super Stock feature. Nathan Roy and Rick Simpson pressured him in the early going, as eighth-starter Chernosky marched toward the front.

He battled with Simpson before taking second, and then pressured Young before taking over out front. He then maintained his spot through a number of cautions, driving on for the win. In the back-and-forth war for second, Young topped Simpson, while Shawn Polonoski charged his way into fourth from 17th at the start. John Garrity rounded out the top five.

Simpson has simply been unstoppable in the WISSOTA Midwest Modified class this season, wherever he races, and he hit up victory lane again on his home turf Wednesday. It took him one lap past the halfway point to grab the lead from his eighth starting spot.

Early on, David Kivi held the top spot, but couldn't hold off Tanner Ulakovic, who passed him for the point.

Ulakovic, in return, couldn't protect the bottom when Simpson moved into second; Ulakovic slipped up the track in turn two and Simpson capitalized, pulling away to take the win. Ulakovic was second ahead of Kivi, Rob Groom and Kevin Monteith in the top five.

Bolt dominated the WISSOTA Street Stock feature, starting sixth on the grid and taking just three laps to pass early leader Justin Tougas for the position. As he checked out on the field, Nathan Henny eventually claimed second. Andrew Piilo, eighth-starter Brendan Makkinga and A.J. Kellar were top-five finishers.

In the track’s Hornet division, Jesse Owen took home top honors.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 40-Kevin Adams[8]; 2. 33C-Cole Chernosky[7]; 3. 51-Joel Cryderman[6]; 4. T23-John Toppozini[5]; 5. 621-Colin Chaschuk[3]; 6. 316-Shawn Polonoski[2]; 7. 32C-Curtis Stieh[4]; 8. 15-Adam Dennhardt[10]; 9. 27-Scott McKinnon[1]; 10. 1-Greg Foglia[9]; 11. (DNF) 17B-Kelly Brown[11]; 12. (DNS) 99-Brody Strachan

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 32C-Curtis Stieh[3]; 2. 51-Joel Cryderman[6]; 3. 316-Shawn Polonoski[5]; 4. 27-Scott McKinnon[2]; 5. 1-Greg Foglia[1]; 6. 17B-Kelly Brown[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Chernosky[1]; 2. T23-John Toppozini[4]; 3. 621-Colin Chaschuk[5]; 4. 40-Kevin Adams[6]; 5. 15-Adam Dennhardt[2]; 6. (DNF) 99-Brody Strachan[3]

WISSOTA Super Stocks:

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

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 37-John Garrity[2]; 2. 15G-Andrew Groom[7]; 3. 22R-Nathan Roy[8]; 4. 88A-David Allen[4]; 5. 219-Ryan House[6]; 6. 19-Larry Both[9]; 7. 07-Jeremy Britten[3]; 8. 13-Simon Hachez[5]; 9. 95-MacKenzie Holmwood[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Chernosky[1]; 2. 77-Rick Simpson[3]; 3. 37A-Danny Young[4]; 4. T23-John Toppozini[6]; 5. 24-Josh Oleksuk[8]; 6. 498-Tanner House[7]; 7. 61-Tom Smart[2]; 8. (DNF) 316-Shawn Polonoski[5]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 70-David Simpson[8]; 2. 86EH-Tanner Ulakovic[5]; 3. 17K-David Kivi[1]; 4. 17-Rob Groom[6]; 5. 3D-Kevin Monteith[7]; 6. 40-Tanner Henderson[3]; 7. 67-Glen Brown[10]; 8. 32C-Curtis Stieh[16]; 9. 88-Andrew Opas[4]; 10. 10D-Patrick Davis[12]; 11. 6-Joel Macleod[15]; 12. 3DJR-Kyle Monteith[20]; 13. M17-Matthew Mitchell[18]; 14. M20-Travis MacArthur[9]; 15. 18-Hunter Brink[2]; 16. 97-Mark Earl[14]; 17. 80-Doug Wakefield[17]; 18. 26-Paul Hari[11]; 19. 11-Kevin Armstrong[13]; 20. 03-Jami Oshust[19]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 70-David Simpson[9]; 2. 18-Hunter Brink[1]; 3. M20-Travis MacArthur[4]; 4. 11-Kevin Armstrong[6]; 5. 03-Jami Oshust[2]; 6. 14C-Colby Petrunak[3]; 7. 56-Keith LaPlante[8]; 8. 13-Ted Horst[10]; 9. 007-Shawn Liddicoat[5]; 10. 222-Brian Hari[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 86EH-Tanner Ulakovic[4]; 2. 88-Andrew Opas[2]; 3. 67-Glen Brown[5]; 4. 97-Mark Earl[10]; 5. M17-Matthew Mitchell[7]; 6. 95-Connor Moro[1]; 7. 9-Reuben Thomas[8]; 8. 723-Wayne deBruin[9]; 9. 44-Bryce Melanson[3]; 10. 32S-Connor Stieh[6]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Rob Groom[2]; 2. 3D-Kevin Monteith[4]; 3. 26-Paul Hari[3]; 4. 6-Joel Macleod[6]; 5. 80-Doug Wakefield[5]; 6. 2-Dan Tocheri[9]; 7. 99J-John Coppock[1]; 8. 99D-Ben DeFoy[8]; 9. (DNF) 15F-Greg Foglia[7]; 10. (DNS) 15K-Jeff Kelly

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 17K-David Kivi[1]; 2. 40-Tanner Henderson[3]; 3. 10D-Patrick Davis[4]; 4. 32C-Curtis Stieh[9]; 5. 3DJR-Kyle Monteith[6]; 6. 66-Bill Speak[2]; 7. 89-Kolby Reed[8]; 8. 27B-Dave DeVente[5]; 9. 49J-Bill Jeffers[10]; 10. (DNF) 57JR-Robert Squitti[7]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 80-Doug Wakefield[2]; 2. 03-Jami Oshust[1]; 3. 2-Dan Tocheri[4]; 4. 56-Keith LaPlante[5]; 5. 99J-John Coppock[6]; 6. 99D-Ben DeFoy[8]; 7. 57JR-Robert Squitti[12]; 8. 32S-Connor Stieh[11]; 9. 13-Ted Horst[7]; 10. 14C-Colby Petrunak[3]; 11. (DNF) 007-Shawn Liddicoat[9]; 12. (DNS) 15F-Greg Foglia

B Feature 2 (8 Laps): 1. M17-Matthew Mitchell[1]; 2. 3DJR-Kyle Monteith[2]; 3. 89-Kolby Reed[6]; 4. 66-Bill Speak[4]; 5. 723-Wayne deBruin[7]; 6. 95-Connor Moro[3]; 7. 9-Reuben Thomas[5]; 8. 44-Bryce Melanson[9]; 9. 49J-Bill Jeffers[12]; 10. (DNF) 222-Brian Hari[10]; 11. (DNF) 27B-Dave DeVente[8]; 12. (DNS) 15K-Jeff Kelly

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 77-Kyle Bolt[6]; 2. 35-Nathan Henny[4]; 3. 24-Andrew Piilo[2]; 4. 426-Brendan Makkinga[8]; 5. 54X-AJ Kellar[7]; 6. 96W-Darren Wolframe[9]; 7. 9E-Cameron Ellis[3]; 8. 32-Cory Ward[17]; 9. 1JT-Justin Tougas[1]; 10. 25-Kathryn Stieh[16]; 11. 17A-David Mitchell[5]; 12. 88-Steven Hitchman[13]; 13. 49-Derek Ross[11]; 14. 3B-BJ Kapush[18]; 15. S13-Mike Stover[10]; 16. 17-Don Mitchell[14]; 17. 12K-Chase Kivi[15]; 18. 9-Jack Williamson[12]; 19. 2-Charlie Merkley[20]; 20. 29-Rob Ranttalo[19]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 77-Kyle Bolt[5]; 2. 17A-David Mitchell[2]; 3. 426-Brendan Makkinga[4]; 4. S13-Mike Stover[1]; 5. 88-Steven Hitchman[6]; 6. 2-Charlie Merkley[3]; 7. 6R-Spencer Reid[8]; 8. 22-Tyson Waller[7]; 9. (DNF) 07-Colt Germain[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 54X-AJ Kellar[7]; 2. 1JT-Justin Tougas[1]; 3. 96W-Darren Wolframe[4]; 4. 49-Derek Ross[6]; 5. 17-Don Mitchell[3]; 6. 32-Cory Ward[9]; 7. 23-Steven Piilo[8]; 8. 3B-BJ Kapush[5]; 9. (DNF) 25-Kathryn Stieh[2]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 35-Nathan Henny[3]; 2. 24-Andrew Piilo[2]; 3. 9E-Cameron Ellis[9]; 4. 9-Jack Williamson[5]; 5. 12K-Chase Kivi[8]; 6. 69R-Shawn Reid[4]; 7. 01-Mark Piilo[6]; 8. 29-Rob Ranttalo[1]; 9. 16-Teagan Britten[7]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Kathryn Stieh[11]; 2. 32-Cory Ward[2]; 3. 3B-BJ Kapush[8]; 4. 29-Rob Ranttalo[9]; 5. 2-Charlie Merkley[1]; 6. (DNF) 6R-Spencer Reid[4]; 7. (DNF) 01-Mark Piilo[6]; 8. (DNF) 69R-Shawn Reid[3]; 9. (DNF) 23-Steven Piilo[5]; 10. (DNF) 16-Teagan Britten[12]; 11. (DNS) 22-Tyson Waller; 12. (DNS) 07-Colt Germain

Hornets:

A Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 22-Jesse Owen[6]; 2. 66-Sydney Chaschuk[8]; 3. 23-Jimmy Owen[19]; 4. 6JR-Taylor Scaffeo[2]; 5. 26B-Martin Bolt[12]; 6. 95-Kristina Moro[16]; 7. 8X-Michael Shalley[9]; 8. 34-Selena Owen[1]; 9. 10K-Kathleen Speaker[13]; 10. 44J-Jessica Mina[15]; 11. 205-Curtis Oleksuk[18]; 12. 21D-Dayla Haliuk[11]; 13. (DNF) M11-Merissa Currie[17]; 14. (DNF) 11-Carrie Allen[7]; 15. (DNF) 57-Spencer Smith[3]; 16. (DNF) 555-Carter Wieringa[4]; 17. (DNF) 16-Avery Chaschuk[10]; 18. (DNF) 37-Connor Danylko[14]; 19. (DNF) 09-Joshua Kruzel[20]; 20. (DNS) 26-Sam Bolt; 21. (DQ) 21N-Nate Owen[5]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 555-Carter Wieringa[1]; 2. 57-Spencer Smith[2]; 3. 66-Sydney Chaschuk[5]; 4. 16-Avery Chaschuk[7]; 5. 10K-Kathleen Speaker[4]; 6. 95-Kristina Moro[6]; 7. 205-Curtis Oleksuk[3]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 8X-Michael Shalley[5]; 2. 11-Carrie Allen[1]; 3. 34-Selena Owen[7]; 4. 21D-Dayla Haliuk[6]; 5. 37-Connor Danylko[3]; 6. (DNF) 23-Jimmy Owen[2]; 7. (DNF) 09-Joshua Kruzel[4]

Heat 3 (6 Laps): 1. 21N-Nate Owen[1]; 2. 22-Jesse Owen[6]; 3. 6JR-Taylor Scaffeo[5]; 4. 26B-Martin Bolt[3]; 5. 44J-Jessica Mina[4]; 6. M11-Merissa Currie[7]; 7. (DNF) 26-Sam Bolt[2]