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Dominating Performances Rule the Night
Dave Buss

Dominoes Pizza night at the Oshkosh Speedzone Raceway would run a quick pace sending people home early enough to order a pizza. The drivers put on a solid showing and for the most part made it a great night of racing. In the end, we would watch three of the four features end with dominating performances by the eventual winners.

The Total Power Sales Street Stocks took the track for the first feature of the night with David Hoerning showing the point subbing for Kevin Hebbie in the 19x. Hoerning, the former pilot of the 19x, made himself comfortable from the start grabbing an early lead. Hoerning would catch the back of the pack in no time but that would be the only traffic he would see until caution came out on lap 10. Hoerning wasted little time taking command of the race once again on the restart. Hoerning picked up the win with Brian Drexler, Mike Nehmer, Shawn Haydon, and Jerry Kope rounding out the top five.

The Modifieds were next to take the track and early on it would be the caution flag flying more than the green. An 5 car melee on lap 5 would be the last caution of the night for the Modifieds much to the delight of Jim Zdroik. Zdroik would lead from lap six until the checkered flag flew holding off the valiant efforts of Mike Klenz. Klenz tried every angle to get around Zdroik to no avail. Jay Schruafnagel and Mike Mullen rounded out the top four with Mullen coming from the back of the pack.

The Miller Lite Grand Nationals took the track with a smaller field than started the night due to an incident in the heat races that ended the night of four cars. Tim Doehling would take the lead on lap five and hold it until a lap seven restart when Terry Van Roy would dive to the inside grabbing the lead. Doehling would have none of that taking the point position right back. Despite the effort of Van Roy, Doehling started to expand his lead and by lap fifteen he had a commanding lead and he would cruise to the victory. Van Roy would come home second with Jason Fish and Troy Weich taking third and fourth. For Fish and Weich it would cap a great recovery from an incident earlier in the event that put them at the back of the pack.

The Lynn’s Service Center Dirt Devils complete the evening’s racing with a race that featured a great three way battle for the win. Tyler Kontos would look like the car to beat as he held off numerous assaults from Eddie LeMay and Cory Wegner. On lap fifteen, LeMay, Kontos and Wegner would be packed tightly together and it would be LeMay who came out on top. LeMay would dominate the final eight laps to pick up the feature win. Kontos would hold on to second, Tim Sheppard made a move late to pick up third with Mark Krause fourth and Tyler Lind fifth.