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Corso
chalks up fifth MLM feature win at LGR!
By Dale Erdmann |
August 10, 2001; Lake Geneva, WI. - The ideal weather has finally came back to the this part of the country and a
good size crowd saw a full race program of Friday night action at Lake Geneva Raceway.
Rick Corso of McHenry,IL. the 1999 Mid American champion and Saturday night rookie in both
divisions won his fifth millennium late model 15 lap feature of the season.Chris Carlson
of McHenry,IL. won the 20 lap Rascal Outlaw feature.
Ken Knapik made it three McHenry,IL. drivers to win features tonight
after winning the wild 20 lap Basic International Car main event. Al Smith of
Rockford,IL.just missed a clean sweep of the Perfection Auto Body Legend Cars events after
taking fast time and winning the 20 lap feature after taking second in the dash for a
great night for the point leader with four more point shows. Mike VanHouten of Cary, IL.
won his first career feature race in the Herbs mini modified 15 lapper holding the
top spot every lap.
One of the best features of the night was the mini modifieds even
though Mike VanHouten moved from row two and into the lead all in the first lap. Quickly
Hermie Schultz shot along side the leader with Bill Trusky and Duck Wack in hot pursuit.On
lap four first last weeks feature winner Joe Miller started his quest forward first
getting past Wack, then Schultz as Trusky moved into second.
Within a few laps there were two drivers knocking on the leaders door starting a new three
deep battle up front.There was no room for mistakes as Ken Johnson in the Glen Verneeze
mount looked for an opening. Fast time qualifier Scott Kuxhouse followed Johnsons
every move.Up front VanHouten was holding a slim advantage over the field.
With the two laps to go signal the race was for any of six positions, as VanHouten held
the point for the win over Miller, Johnson and Kuxhouse nipped Trusky at the wire as the
top five finished under a blanket.
Another great feature was the legends which was only one lap old when Lyle Kuklinski spun
around in front of the field. Everyone missed him but the caution was displayed for the
incident. Robb Duffek moved
In front one more time with Larry Will right there. On lap three Curt Gnatzig climbed
along side the leader
Racing side by side one the reminder lap before the top spot changed. With the next two
laps close Al Smith crept along side the new leader and it was another picture perfect run
for the top.On lap five Smith inched ahead with Gnatzig now feeling the pressure from
Clayton Kruse who just past Will and Duffek.With just five laps to go Duffek and Kuklinski
tangled. No one was injured but there was some damage to the Duffek mount.
Another five lap dash had the crowd on their feet as Smith came home the winner, Gnatzig
held onto second with Kruse holding back Herman Grenig with Will taking fifth in another
close race.
In the millennium late model feature former Columbus 151 champion Scott Patrick held the
lead until lap ten before point leader Rick Corso moved out front. Tommy Nevoso who set
fast time didnt let the new leader out of his sight but with only two laps to go
Nevoso headed to the pits with problems. Corso held back Patrick with Steve Maciosek next.
With 55 BIC cars in the pit area the twenty that started the feature race went non stop as
Ken Knapik led all twenty laps of the event. Bill Webb rebounded twice but fell short at
the wire finishing second. Last weeks feature winner Tony Buerafato was third with Nick
Kalties along side for fourth and next to him fast timer Jeff Baum fifth.
Next Friday night will be the third to the last weekly program for the family fun night
program. Points will end with the Small car world championships on Friday September 28th.
For all regular Friday Night divisions.The sport trucks and Rascal Outlaws are back again
to join the BIC cars mini modifieds Legends and millennium late models. Time trials begin
at 6pm. racing at 7:30 pm sharp.
SUMMARY OF EVENTS LAKE
GENEVA RACEWAY, LAKE GENEVA, WI. -- August 10,
2001
Bic
20 Lap Feature |
| 1 |
20 |
Kenneth Knapik |
Mchenry, IL |
| 2 |
67 |
Bill Webb |
Sharon, WI |
| 3 |
63 |
Tony Buerafato |
Mchenry, IL |
| 4 |
27 |
Nick Kalteis |
Lake Villa, IL |
| 5 |
34 |
Jeffrey Baum |
Gurnee, IL |
| 6 |
23 |
Randy Schneider |
Burlington, WI |
| 7 |
25c |
Nick Estes |
, |
| 8 |
17 |
Chris Koleno Sr |
Wonder Lake, IL |
| 9 |
11k |
Kevin Oliver |
, |
| 10 |
327 |
Tim Hanssen |
Elkhorn, WI |
| Bic
15 Lap Semi Feature #1 |
| 1 |
12 |
Louie Kenney |
Burlington, WI |
| 2 |
77k |
Andy Krueger |
Lake Geneva, WI |
| 3 |
51 |
Rob Schiebel |
Ingleside, IL |
| 4 |
24 |
Todd Miller |
Oak Creek, WI |
| 5 |
4 |
James Quast |
Delavan, WI |
| 6 |
73 |
Jessie Johnson |
, |
| 7 |
2 |
Scott Talley |
Rockford, IL |
| 8 |
111 |
two driver |
, |
| 9 |
58D |
Dennis Brant |
Twin Lakes, IL |
| 10 |
1 |
Alan Danielson |
Burlington, WI |
| Bic
15 Lap Semi Feature #2 |
| 1 |
7U |
Leroy Brown |
Beloit, WI |
| 2 |
921 |
Brad Norgard |
Pell Lake, WI |
| 3 |
86 |
Michael Gross |
Kenosha, Wi |
| 4 |
0C |
Ray Caswell |
Twin Lakes, WI |
| 5 |
13 |
Wally Nowak |
Twin Lakes, WI |
| 6 |
92 |
William Brant |
Twin Lakes, WI |
| 7 |
26b |
Matt Bushnell |
Fox River Grove, IL |
| 8 |
69m |
Chris Blake |
Milwaukee, WI |
| 9 |
20t |
Tony Reik |
Elkhorn, WI |
| 10 |
11 |
John Curcio |
, |
| Bic
10 Lap Heat #1 |
| 1 |
151 |
David Schiebel |
Ingleside, IL |
| 2 |
26b |
Matt Bushnell |
Fox River Grove, IL |
| 3 |
111 |
two driver |
, |
| 4 |
13 |
Wally Nowak |
Twin Lakes, WI |
| 5 |
17m |
Mike Rysziewicz |
Muskego, WI |
| 6 |
29 |
Brian Saunders |
Genoa City, WI |
| 7 |
73 |
Jessie Johnson |
, |
| 8 |
33 |
Leroy Dzierzanowski Sr |
, |
| 9 |
29o |
Tyler Olson |
East Troy, Wi |
| 10 |
22m |
Jeff Curcio |
, |
| Bic
10 Lap Heat #2 |
| 1 |
20t |
Tony Reik |
Elkhorn, WI |
| 2 |
77k |
Andy Krueger |
Lake Geneva, WI |
| 3 |
11 |
John Curcio |
, |
| 4 |
92 |
William Brant |
Twin Lakes, WI |
| 5 |
7r |
Rich Roeling |
Elkhorn, WI |
| 6 |
2 |
Scott Talley |
Rockford, IL |
| 7 |
69m |
Chris Blake |
Milwaukee, WI |
| 8 |
58D |
Dennis Brant |
Twin Lakes, IL |
| 9 |
99Z |
Ken Z |
, |
| 10 |
15 |
Brian Legray |
, |
| Bic
10 Lap Heat #3 |
| 1 |
24 |
Todd Miller |
Oak Creek, WI |
| 2 |
86 |
Michael Gross |
Kenosha, Wi |
| 3 |
7U |
Leroy Brown |
Beloit, WI |
| 4 |
8R |
James Raderschadt |
Lake Geneva, WI |
| 5 |
0C |
Ray Caswell |
Twin Lakes, WI |
| 6 |
28 |
Dale Gustum |
Round Lake Beach, IL |
| 7 |
68 |
Matt Schultz |
Elkhorn, WI |
| 8 |
4 |
James Quast |
Delavan, WI |
| 9 |
921 |
Brad Norgard |
Pell Lake, WI |
| 10 |
1 |
Alan Danielson |
Burlington, WI |
| Bic
10 Lap Heat #4 |
| 1 |
63 |
Tony Buerafato |
Mchenry, IL |
| 2 |
20 |
Kenneth Knapik |
Mchenry, IL |
| 3 |
27 |
Nick Kalteis |
Lake Villa, IL |
| 4 |
51 |
Rob Schiebel |
Ingleside, IL |
| 5 |
17 |
Chris Koleno Sr |
Wonder Lake, IL |
| 6 |
11k |
Kevin Oliver |
, |
| 7 |
50 |
Bradley Sherer |
Beloit, WI |
| 8 |
69 |
Todd Booker |
Hebron, IL |
| 9 |
14 |
John Donaldson |
Twin Lakes, WI |
| 10 |
93 |
Dan Giannotti |
Bristol, WI |
| Bic
Time Trials |
| 1 |
34 |
Jeffrey Baum |
Gurnee, IL |
| 2 |
X |
Frank Murray |
Richmond, IL |
| 3 |
67 |
Bill Webb |
Sharon, WI |
| 4 |
3 |
Bob Koch |
Mchenry, IL |
| 5 |
23 |
Randy Schneider |
Burlington, WI |
| 6 |
25c |
Nick Estes |
, |
| 7 |
50 |
Bradley Sherer |
Beloit, WI |
| 8 |
63 |
Tony Buerafato |
Mchenry, IL |
| 9 |
69 |
Todd Booker |
Hebron, IL |
| 10 |
327 |
Tim Hanssen |
Elkhorn, WI |
| Bic
6 Lap Dash |
| 1 |
23 |
Randy Schneider |
Burlington, WI |
| 2 |
3 |
Bob Koch |
Mchenry, IL |
| 3 |
67 |
Bill Webb |
Sharon, WI |
| 4 |
34 |
Jeffrey Baum |
Gurnee, IL |
| 5 |
X |
Frank Murray |
Richmond, IL |
| 6 |
25c |
Nick Estes |
, |
|
|
Legends
20 Lap Feature |
| 1 |
69 |
Al Smith |
Rockford, IL |
| 2 |
6 |
Curt Gnatzig |
Hartford, WI |
| 3 |
3 |
Clayton Kruse |
Burlington, WI |
| 4 |
78 |
Herman Groenig |
, |
| 5 |
59 |
Larry Will |
Batavia, IL |
| 6 |
45 |
Lyle Kuklinski |
, |
| 7 |
8 |
Les Knollenberg |
Groveland, IL |
| 8 |
28 |
Joe Scala |
Fox River Grove, IL |
| 9 |
75 |
David Cerer |
Lindenhurst, IL |
| 10 |
120 |
Jim Verseman |
Cary, IL |
| Legends
10 Lap Heat |
| 1 |
78 |
Herman Groenig |
, |
| 2 |
66 |
Robb Duffek |
Orland Park, IL |
| 3 |
28 |
Joe Scala |
Fox River Grove, IL |
| 4 |
45 |
Lyle Kuklinski |
, |
| 5 |
59 |
Larry Will |
Batavia, IL |
| 6 |
75 |
David Cerer |
Lindenhurst, IL |
| 7 |
120 |
Jim Verseman |
Cary, IL |
| Legends
Time Trials |
| 1 |
69 |
Al Smith |
Rockford, IL |
| 2 |
6 |
Curt Gnatzig |
Hartford, WI |
| 3 |
3 |
Clayton Kruse |
Burlington, WI |
| 4 |
8 |
Les Knollenberg |
Groveland, IL |
| 5 |
78 |
Herman Groenig |
, |
| 6 |
45 |
Lyle Kuklinski |
, |
| 7 |
28 |
Joe Scala |
Fox River Grove, IL |
| 8 |
59 |
Larry Will |
Batavia, IL |
| 9 |
66 |
Robb Duffek |
Orland Park, IL |
| 10 |
75 |
David Cerer |
Lindenhurst, IL |
| Legends
4 Lap Dash |
| 1 |
3 |
Clayton Kruse |
Burlington, WI |
| 2 |
69 |
Al Smith |
Rockford, IL |
| 3 |
6 |
Curt Gnatzig |
Hartford, WI |
| 4 |
8 |
Les Knollenberg |
Groveland, IL |
| MLM
10 Lap Heat |
| 1 |
40 |
Scott Patrick |
Dousman, WI |
| 2 |
88 |
Rick Corso |
, |
| 3 |
84 |
Tommy Nevoso |
, |
| 4 |
11 |
Steve Maciosek |
Burlington, WI |
| MLM
Feature |
| 1 |
88 |
Rick Corso |
|
| 2 |
40 |
Scott Patrick |
Dousman, WI |
| 3 |
11 |
Steve Maciosek |
Burlington, WI |
| 4 |
84 |
Tommy Nevoso |
|
| MLM
Time Trials |
| 1 |
84 |
Tommy Nevoso |
, |
| 2 |
88 |
Rick Corso |
, |
| 3 |
40 |
Scott Patrick |
Dousman, WI |
| 4 |
11 |
Steve Maciosek |
Burlington, WI |
| Mini
Mod 15 Lap Feature |
| 1 |
24 |
Mike Van Houton |
Cary, IL |
| 2 |
11 |
Joe Miller |
Kenosha, WI |
| 3 |
2Th |
Ken Johnson |
Paddock Lake, WI |
| 4 |
2k |
Scott Kuxhouse |
, |
| 5 |
72 |
Bill Trusky |
Silver Lake, WI |
| 6 |
1 |
Duck Wack |
Paddock Lake, WI |
| 7 |
74 |
Jeff the hefer Schultz |
Silver Lake, WI |
| 8 |
71 |
Hermie Schultz |
Silver Lake, WI |
| 9 |
23 |
Mike Heuss |
Elkhorn, WI |
| 10 |
8 |
Bruce Brandenburger |
Baraboo, WI |
| Mini
Mod 10 Lap Heat |
| 1 |
2Th |
Ken Johnson |
Paddock Lake, WI |
| 2 |
24 |
Mike Van Houton |
Cary, IL |
| 3 |
55 |
Joe Marinello |
, |
| 4 |
23 |
Mike Heuss |
Elkhorn, WI |
| 5 |
71 |
Hermie Schultz |
Silver Lake, WI |
| 6 |
8 |
Bruce Brandenburger |
Baraboo, WI |
| 7 |
1 |
Duck Wack |
Paddock Lake, WI |
| Mini
Mod Time Trials |
| 1 |
2k |
Scott Kuxhouse |
, |
| 2 |
11 |
Joe Miller |
Kenosha, WI |
| 3 |
72 |
Bill Trusky |
Silver Lake, WI |
| 4 |
74 |
Jeff the hefer Schultz |
Silver Lake, WI |
| 5 |
2Th |
Ken Johnson |
Paddock Lake, WI |
| 6 |
1 |
Duck Wack |
Paddock Lake, WI |
| 7 |
24 |
Mike Van Houton |
Cary, IL |
| 8 |
71 |
Hermie Schultz |
Silver Lake, WI |
| 9 |
55 |
Joe Marinello |
, |
| 10 |
23 |
Mike Heuss |
Elkhorn, WI |
| Mini
Mod Dash |
| 1 |
2k |
Scott Kuxhouse |
, |
| 2 |
11 |
Joe Miller |
Kenosha, WI |
| 3 |
72 |
Bill Trusky |
Silver Lake, WI |
| 4 |
74 |
Jeff the hefer Schultz |
Silver Lake, WI |
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