Super Late Model point leader Skinner strikes again at Lake Geneva Raceway! By Dale Erdmann

May 5, 2001; Lake Geneva, WI. -  Despite some cool southeast winds and the threat of rain another large crowd came out to Lake Geneva Raceway Saturday night for the fourth night of racing. Over 100 race cars jammed the pit area. Point leader Billy Skinner Jr. of nearby Pell Lake won his second straight 35 lap super late model feature of the young season. Dan Tschida hometown driver from Lake Geneva who is in the US Navy was the surprise winner of the 25 lap McHenry Limo super stock feature race, after actually finishing second. The apparent winner was disqualified after a post race inspection.

Bill Olson, point leader in the Sideine Motorsports Sport truck won his first 15 lap feature. In a first time appearance Paul Zimmerman of Woodstock ,IL. won the BIC car 25 lap feature. This division start their weekly season on Friday night May 18th. Before the race program the drivers and crowd stood for a minute of silence for StveDei of Salem who raced here and at Wilmot in the popular number XXX race car. Dei who was 45 years of age was killed an an automobile accident on Thursday afternoon May 3rd.

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Billy Skinner Jr (#47) won the super late model feature for the second straight week and was joined in victory lane by Junior Fan Club member Adam Gabel. Eventual winner Billy Skinner (#47) drove through this incident on his way to topping Super Late Model main at Lake Geneva. Dan Tschida won his first career McHenry Limo Super Stock main event, at Lake Geneva Raceway Saturday night. Chris Koleno, Sr. (#16) topped the BIC feature Saturday at LGR and was presented his trophy in victory lane by Junior Fan Club member Adam Gabel.

Pole sitters Fran Prestay and Larry Los battled for the lead as the first green was thrown. The caution was out on lap four after a turn three incident. Los secured the top spot on the next green. Semi winner Al Schill dropped out on lap six with problems. As Los was in firm command of that top spot. Prestay now had problems with Bob Koidahl on lap eight, with a tight field behind the top three. Visiting driver Matt Mylin a Re/Max regular was already up to fourth. Jerry Mueller was next , with Rick Corso right there too. On lap twelve Mueller got by Mylin, but Landry Potter was now putting the pressure on them.

On lap twenty Los spun collecting Prestay going around in front of the fast moving field. Joe Fischer, Billy Baumeister, Shane Bishop, Corso and Matt Kocourek became involved just before the caution came out. Fischer and Bishop returned before the next green as Koidahl charged out front. The caution came out before that lap was complete as Los spun again. Koidahl moved in front one more time with Mylin and Mueller all over him. Mylin slipped in front as Koidahl slowed staking up the field . Brian Ulrich smashed into Potter with most of the field spinning to avoid. The caution brought the race to it's final halt.

When the green flag was ready to be shown only thirteen race cars were ready to race. Mylin out dueled Mueller for the lead with Billy Skinner who started sixteenth in the twenty car field up to third. Potter, Wayne Freimund and Jamie Wallace who had fast time next. Starter Dave Rex Jr. warned Mylin to pick a lane as Mueller tried to get by. Skinner looked for a mistake by the two up front, but no one did that.

On lap twenty seven Mylin received the black flag for using too much of the surface,as Mueller took over the lead. One lap later Skinner moved along side the new leader. It was side by side excitment as this twosome put on a real show. With the signal of five laps to go, Skinner inched ahead . The only change came on with three laps to go, as Potter moved past Mueller. The close contest ended with Skinner, Potter, Mueller under a blanket. Freimund,Wallace, Denny Hiffman, a recovered Los and Fischer rounded out the top eight.

John Janssen crept in front of the other nineteen super stocks as Adam Regnier got turned, causing a complete restart. Janssen grabbed the lead again with Andy Szymanskyj moving by one lap later , Byron Oaks tried to drop Janssen one more spot on lap four but to no avail, with Regnier, John Maki Jr. and Dan Tschida next. It was tight across the board, with Maki moving up to third on lap five.

Three laps later Maki was knocking on second place Janssen's door and for the next ten laps these two diced for second place. Regnier dropped out on lap fifteen, plagued with three weeks of problems. One lap later Janssen had problems and Maki now had Tschida on his right side. Oaks wasn't going to go away, with point leader Mike Kooi next. It was close at the top as Szymanskyj drove a great race, but on lap twenty Maki made his move.

The crowd went wild as the top four diced back and forth for the lead. On lap twenty three it looked like only Maki's position was slightly secure. But one lap later Tschida pulled off the move of the race taking over the lead, as fast timer Jack Rubach moved into contention. Szymanskyj was going to give up as it was a four deep fantansy that the crowd loved. Coming into turn one with the white flag shown to the field Maki tried again to regain the lead. Three deep racing ensued as this group entered turn three Tschida held the lead by less than a foot.

Coming of the turn and down into four Maki went up the middle and never touched anyone, scooting across the line first for the win to the delight of the crowd. Tschida was second with Rubach, Szymanskyj and Kooi nextjust about to close to call in a scorers nightmare finish. Pete Olson, Oaks and Doug Peterson were next in another extremely close feature. But then came the post race inspection. Maki was dropped from the finish for too much compression after that excellent run. Rob Summers was moved up to eighth.

Bill Vankirk held onto the lead of the sport truck feature just two laps before Chad Ross was scored in front three more laps. Bill Olson took over that position on lap six and never looked back for the win. C.Ross was next as Vankirk, Todd Ross, Vincent Merry and Jamie Everett a former BIC driver sixth.

The weekly Saturday night race fans were treated to the BIC cars non stop feature for 25 laps as Paul Zimmerman took the lead on lap nine and winning by just afew feet at the line over another nineteen drivers all but two running at the finish with only two others lapped creating another close race.

This weekend marks the second Friday night of weekly motocross racing at 8 pm. on the stadium dirt course. On Saturday night on the paved oval Performance Unlimited McHenry Limousine and Reliable Carpentary presents the first roll over contest of the season. The super late models and super stocks will be joined by the sportsman . Time trials begin at 6pm.racing at 7:30 sharp.

SUPER LATE MODEL DIVISION
FEATURE RACE 35 laps 1) Billy Skinner Jr. Pell Lake 2) Landry Potter,Delavan 3) Jerry Mueller ,West Bend 4) Wayne Freimund ,West Allis 5) Jamie Wallace ,Pell Lake 6) Denny Hiffman ,River Forest,IL. 7) Larry Los ,Darien 8) Joe Fischer ,McHenry,IL.
SEMI FEATURE 20 laps 1) Al Schill ,Franklin 2) Jeff Way ,Waterford 3) Hiffman
HEAT 1. 1) Mike Simon , Grayslake,IL. 2) Mike Vogt Jr. Greenfield 3) Way
HEAT 2. 1) Kent Burkoth ,Pell Lake 2) Hiffman 3) Schill
HEAT 3. 1) Billy Baumeister ,Janesville 2) Freimund 3) Fran Prestay ,Silver Lake
AL SCHILL JR. MEMORIAL DASH 6 laps 1) Potter 2) Wallace 3) Skinner
TIME TRIALS 1) Wallace 16.362 sec. 2) Potter 16.400 sec. 3) Shane Bishop,Pell Lake 16.415 sec.

McHENRY LIMO SUPER STOCKS DIVISION
FEATURE RACE 25 laps 1) Dan Tschida ,Lake Geneva 2) Jack Rubach, Burlington 3) Andy Szymanskyj ,East Troy 4) Mike Kooi ,Island Lake,IL. 5) Pete Olson, Woodstock,IL. 6) Byron Oaks ,Elkhorn 7) Doug Peterson, Antioch,IL. 8) Rob Summers, Lake Geneva
SEMI FEATURE 13 laps 1) Paul Roscoe ,Mundelein,IL. 2) Bob Moeller, McHenry,IL. 3) Erik Engel , Wonder Lake, IL.
HEAT 1. 1) Ron Benedict ,Genoa City 2) Moeller 3) Tervor Mock ,McHenry , IL.
HEAT 2. 1) Mike Olson, Wonder lake,IL. 2) Jeremy Olson ,Spring Grove,IL. 3) John Janssen ,Genoa City
HEAT 3. 1) Summers 2) Oaks 3) Scott Scholl , Menomonee Falls
DASH RACE 6 laps 1) Craig Mertes ,Antioch,IL. 2) Rubach 3) P.Olson
TIME TRIALS 1) Rubach 19.023 sec. 2) D.Peterson 19.233 sec. 3) Greg Peterson ,Paddock Lake 19.301 sec.

SIDELINE MOTORSPORTS SPORT TRUCKS DIVISION
FEATURE RACE 15 laps 1) Bill Olson, Wonder Lake,IL. 2) Chad Ross ,Kenosha 3) Bill Vankirk ,Racine 4) Todd Ross, Hoffman Estates,IL. 5) Vincent Merry, Wadsworth,IL. 6) Jamie Everett ,McHenry,IL.
HEAT RACE: 1) Merry 2) B.Olson 3) C. Ross
TIME TRIALS 1) Merry 19.869 sec. 2) B. Olson 20.035 sec. 3) C.Ross 20.982 sec.

BASIC INTERNATIONAL DIVISION
FEATURE RACE 25 laps 1) Paul Zimmerman ,Woodstock,IL. 2) # 28 unknown 3) Bruce Barry ,Hebron,IL. 4) Rosendo Moreno , Hebron,IL. 5) #69 unknown 6) Ken Knaak , McHenry,IL. 7) Tim Olson ,Delavan 8) Don Emrich ,Janesville
SEMI FEATURE RACE #1 15 laps 1) #67 yellow ,unknown 2) #27 unknown 3) Willie Brant Brian ,Twin Lakes
SEMI FEATURE #2 15 laps 1) Knaak 2) Moreno 3) Al Danielson ,Elkhorn
HEAT 1. #66 unknown 2) #81 unknown 3) John Curricio ,Racine
HEAT 2. 1) Knaak 2) #11k ,unknown 3) #711 , unknwon
HEAT 3. 1) Moreno 2) Brian 3) #1W ,unknown
HEAT 4. 1) Wally Kroncke ,Kenosha 2) Barry 3) #28 unknown
TIME TRIALS 1) Emrich 22.198 sec. 2) Nick Koelt ,Grayslake,IL.22.487 sec. 3) Zimmerman 22.480 sec.