LGR Set for April 6th Opener!  By Dale Erdmann

February 18, 2002; Lake Geneva, WI. - On Saturday night April 6th, the 40th. season of continuous operation will begin at the Lake Geneva Raceway complex. Starting off as a dragway in 1962, the first oval track show was on June 4th. 1966 as the super modifieds invaded the flat quarter mile paved oval of then the Lake Geneva Speed Center. The late Pedro Roehl of Lake Mills won the first feature race.

Now it’s 2002 and the flat oval track has a state of the art one third mile paved banked oval built on and around it. With the 25th. annual BARS “Let’s Go racing” auto show behind us the next is the weekly competition of the Budweiser super late models and the McHenry Limousine super stocks. Performance Unlimited sportsman and Sideline Motorsports Sport Trucks in an all feature program plus dash races and time trials. This week only time trials will be at 6pm. racing at 7:30pm sharp. The rest of the season time trials begin at 5:45 pm and races at 7pm. Originally an earlier release stated different times but this time should help drivers that have to work to make it here in time.

The super late models will not have a defending champion as Landry Potter of Genoa City, who also finished in the top ten during the recent BARS show out of 83 entries. Potter will run a limited ASA schedule during the coming season. Multi champion Al Schill of Franklin will be back to run weekly, another former champion Jamie Wallace is tough and the driver
who averaged the highest per night in points last season Billy Skinner Jr will be on hand.   Also expected to compete are 2001 millennium champion Rick Corso, who also ran a super late last season, 2001 rookie of the year Wayne Freimund and another 5 drivers could all be in the hunt for that top spot.

The super stocks will have defending champion Jack Rubach of Burlington looking for another good year. But others like runner up Mike Kooi, Adam Regnier, Dave Melahn, Rob Summers and part of the Antioch connection including Dan Huber, Craig Mertes and John Maki Jr. are all looking at number one.

The sportsman drivers have a defending champion too, as Mike Lange of Milwaukee will be back but the mild winter has not helped his team with only three snow falls this past season. Lange has his own plowing company that stuffered because of the season. Runner up Brian Baker who also fared well in the BARS show and is a seasoned veteran is looking at the title. Zac Deeringer, Shawn Utphall and Denny Norton Jr. could keep the field in check.

For more information call 262-248-8566. For marketing programs call Heidi Jo Dawson at 262-248-2049 or e mail her at race@Genevaonline.com The raceway is located on Bloomfield Road just afew miles southeast of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.