5/29/2023
Outagamie Speedway
Memorial Day at the Races presented by White Claw at Outagamie Speedway was a memorable one.
Presley Harrington and Beau Schroder sat on the front row of the start for your Trailer Express Unified Street Stocks. At the drop of the green Harington found himself in a several car length advantage followed by Schroder and TJ Everard. By lap seven James Fletcher started making a charge to the front. At just over halfway point Justin Jacobsen, Jared Spaulding and the 35X of Paul Diefenthaler were battling for the top spots. Diefenthaler would manage to work his machine around his fellow competitors to battle for the lead. Harrington found himself victim to mechanical issue and came to rest in the infield. Diefenthaler and Jacobson both moved up seven spots to battle for the lead. In the end it was all Diefenthaler followed by Jacobson, Fletcher, and Spaulding.
Skyelin Krohlow found herself on the pole for the 20 lap IMCA Northern Sport Mod A Main Event. Her fellow competitors Derek Fehling, Matthew Radtke, Mason Woods, Bernie Miller and the rest of the field were trying to overtake the young lady number one starting spot. After a few minor cautions the field of Fehling, Miller, Woods, Radtke and Cory Kemkes was starting to battle for the top five positions. Miller was gaining ground on Fehling by lap number eleven but Fehling would not be denied the victory and went on to win followed by Miller, Woods,, Kemkes and Radtke.
In the WABAM Dirt Kings Late Model Salute to Service 30 A main event. "Rocket" Ron Berna and "Mighty" Mike Mullen sat on the front row with the ever so popular AJ Diemel, Troy Springborn, Mitch McGrath and "Mr. Excitement" Terry Casey made up your first three rows. At the drop of the green the home town favorite Mullen showed how he got the name Mighty as he sprung to the lead followed by Berna. By lap eight the race seen Nick Anvelink, Diemel, and Kyle Raddant making a charge to the front. With Springborn sliding back a few positions the battle up front continued between Anvelink, Diemel and Raddant. A little further back saw former feature winner of Justin Ritchie from his twentieth starting spot up into the top ten. With no cautions it didn't allow for any restarts and Mullen was bound and determined to bring home the checkered flag. After moving up eight spots Anvelink was starting to gain on Mullen but time was running out as Anvelink had to settle for second, Diemel taking third, Raddant taking fourth and McGrath settling for fifth.
IMCA Stock Car Feature saw plenty of former feature winners and past champions scattered through out the field. Up front the machines of Clint Forstner, Kurt Olson, Eric Mahlik, John Heinz, Justin Jacobsen, and Brandon Czarapata would lead the field to green. By lap six Devin Snellenberger used his twelfth starting spot to make quick work of his mid pack contenders as he was challenging for a top five spot. By lap seven Mahlik found himself in the lead with Olson close behind. At approximately half way point it seemed nobody could catch Mahlik but Czarapata was on the move and chasing down Olson and your leader. With five to go Czarapata would slide into the second spot over Olson and try to reel in the 9 car of Mahlik. As checkers flew Mahlik would cross the line first however after post race tech deemed Mahlik disqualified from the event which gave Czarapata the win followed by Olson for second and Snellenberger for third.
Professional Plating Inc IMCA Modifieds Feature saw Kurt Moeller and Johnny Whitman on the front row. Whitman would use that outside front row starting spot to drive the cushion around the outside of the track as Moeller, Jordan Bartz, Hunter Parsons and Marcus Yarie looking to chase down "The Hit Man". By lap eleven Benji LaCrosse who started back in the sixteenth position was rapidly making his way towards the front. The home town hero of Mike Mullen which was doing double duty was looking for his second feature win of the night as he passed several cars to put his name into the top five. As the laps started dwindle down Jayden Schmidt was throwing his name into the hat to be considered for the win as well. Whitman set the cruise control and never looked back. As Whitman, Yarie, Mullen, Schmidt and LaCrosse all finished in the top five.
MEDALS IMCA Sport Compacts feature line up had Kaukauna's David Wichman, and Pulaski's Matt Brehmer on the front row. The first several laps the lead changed hands several times between Wichman, Brehmer, Jake Peters, Garrett Goetsch and Bailey Tate all mixing it up. With Tate finding the way to the front. Brehmer would give chase followed by Peters and Brett Deprez. As second on back would jockey for position Tate would never look back and go on to win a twenty lap feature followed by Brehmer, Deprez, Peters and Al Cottrell. Up Next on Friday Night June 2nd, the Wisconsin Dirt Legends join the program, racing starts at 6:30pm.
Trailer Express Unified Street Stocks
A Feature top five 1. 35X-Paul Diefenthaler, 2. 1330-Just5in Jacobsen, 3. 75-James Fletcher, 4. 22S Jaren Spaulding and 5. 35-Brooke Diefenthaler.
IMCA Northern SportMod
A Feature top five 1. 25X -Derek Fehling, 2. 00-Bernie miller, 3. 7W-Mason Woods, 4. 07-Cory Kemkes, and 5. 1R Matthew Radtke.
WBAM Dirt Kings Late Model Salute to Service 30
A Main top five 1. 99M- Mike Mullen, 2. 15-Nick Anvelink, 3. 58-AJ Diemel, 4. 03- Kyle Raddant, and 5. 74- Mitch McGrath.
IMCA Stock Cars
A feature top five 1. 27-Brandon Czarapata, 2. 7- Kurt Olson, 3. 21X Devin Snellenberger, 4. 64-Clint Forstner, 5. 12X-Nick Buckarma.
Professional Plating Inc IMCA Modifieds
A feature top five 1. 08-Johnny Whitman, 2. 58-Marcus Yarie, 3. 99-Mike Mullen, 4. 24 Jayden Schmidt, and 5. 54-Benji LaCrosse.
Medals IMCA Sport Compacts
A feature top five 1. 27T -Bailey Tate, 2. 23B-Matt Brehmer, 3. 54-Brett Deprez, 4. 54P-Jake Peters, and 5. 00A-AJ Corttrell.
Article Credit: Don Rouse
Submitted By: John Tienor
Article Media
