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Funnel Cakes and Racing
Dave Buss

Racing returned for its final Tuesday night event of the year at the Oshkosh Speedzone Raceway to kick off the Winnebago County Fair. The weather was perfect and the crowd was strong as the roar of racecars and the sound of the midway combined.

The Grand Nationals would take the track in what would turn out to be a caution filled event. Jerry Kope would show the way early on and maintain that position until Brian Monday took things three wide down the backstretch and enter corner three in the lead. Monday would hold the lead ever so briefly until Will Schumacher wrestled it away. Schumacher would hold the lead until a caution on lap eight opened the door for Terry Van Roy. Van Roy would grab the lead when the race resumed and hold off a hard charging Tim Doehling for the win. Jestin Danes would grab third with Schumacher and Don Schumacher rounding out the top five.

Repeating the trend set by the Grand Nationals, the Modifieds would also see their feature event slowed by caution throughout. John Schultz would look like the car to beat throughout the first half of the race until the eventual winner Mike Klenz got around him on lap eleven. Klenz would soon find Jay Schraufnagel, who started at the rear of the field, on his rear bumper with five laps to go. Schraufnagel would try for lead on lap sixteen to no avail, losing momentum and second place to Brad Bricco. Klenz woud pick up the win with Bricco, Schraufnagel, Ben Brinkman and Jamie Schmidt in tow.

The Total Power Sales Street Stocks feature event would run a lot more smoothly with Jeff Jungwirth maintaining the lead until Tim Reichenberger grabbed it away on lap ten. Reichenberger would continue his lead while Brian Drexler and Jerry Kope fought it out for second behind him. Drexler would dispose of Kope on lap seventeen and set his sights on Reichenberger. With the white flag flying Drexler made his final assault but it would be Reichenberger at the line by half a car length to pick up the exciting win. Drexler would grab second with Kope third, Steve Gawarsky finished fourth and Jungwirth settled for fifth.

The Lynn’s Service Center Dirt Devils feature can simply be classified as the Tim Sheppard show. Sheppard grabbed the lead on lap number two and drove to as much as a seven second lead over second place. While Sheppard cruised to victory the cars of Nick Furman, Kathy Pierrard, Tyler Lind and Mark Krause eached settled into postions two through five and also cruised to their respective finishes.

The Fastrak Late Models feature went twelve laps with four cars competing. Scott Lewis, picked up the win with Brett Swedberg second, Ron Paulick third and Steve Doehling fourth.