With a week under their belts, the new Chateau Speedway was all revved up for the second week of racing action for the shortened 2018 season. After Mother Nature made things difficult for the opening weekend with rain into Friday morning and again during the middle of the opening night's show she threw a little more weather at her this week. Rain on Wednesday night slowed track preparation a bit as the crews continued working to get the track back into shape after sitting idle for nearly a year.

The track developed a little “character” on opening night and much of the week was spent on trying to tame it. The bottom half of the track stayed pretty soft a week ago and through a week of blading and rolling it back, the track was looking better with just a few wrinkles in it that the crew will continue to work on.

A solid field filled the pits for the second week in a row and a nice crowd was on hand again for a second go around. Once again seven classes were on hand for the night's program sponsored by Joe Vogt Custom Pumping of Rose Creek and Fast Signs of Rochester.

The Out-Pace USRA B-Mods treated fans to another exciting feature with defending track champion Kadden Kath of Owatonna claiming his first feature win of the year at Lansing. Matt Brooks of Austin held the early lead in the race before Greg Pfeifer Jr. of Austin overhauled him for the lead on lap 3. Brooks came back to the front a lap later before Pfeifer went back past him again.

A mid-race restart did in Pfeifer, however, as Kath was able to close back up on him and found the line to get to the point. Last week's feature winner A.J. Zvorak of Blooming Prairie worked from a row 4 starting spot up to second ahead of Pfeifer and Brooks. Scott Demmer of Ellendale, who started back in row five passed a lot of cars to finish in the top 5. Kath also had a heat win to give him a sweep on the night while Demmer also enjoyed a heat win on the night.

Pfeifer, pulling double duty on the night, also drove a USRA Modified and found himself starting in row 2 for his second feature run of the night. Last week's feature winner Charlie Steinberg of Kasson grabbed the lead on the drop of the green only to have a quick caution come out when his brother Billy Steinberg, also of Kasson, got his car up on two wheels through turns 3-4. Billy Steinberg almost tipped it over but was able to bring it back down on all four wheels but the action jumbled the pack and spun several cars out bringing out a caution.

On the second attempt to start the race Charlie Steinberg again got to the point with Pfeifer pulling in line second. On lap 4, Pfeifer made his move going to the front. As the laps wound down Darwin Karau of Kasson made his way up to second and dogged Pfeifer to the end but had to settle for the runner up spot. Blake Arndt of Brownsdale had a great run from a row 5 starting spot up to third as he actually closed on the top two over the final laps but ran out of time and laps.

Doug Hillson of Blooming Prairie, who picked up a heat win on the night, came home in fourth ahead of Charlie Steinberg. Pfeifer also had a heat win making it a clean sweep on the night.

Next Friday night it will be back to six classes when the track swings its gates open for week #3 of action. Gates will open at 5 p.m. with racing action at 7:15.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Racing Association
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series
Chateau Speedway, Lansing, Minn.
Friday, July 27, 2018

Showing finishing position, starting position in parentheses, car number, driver and hometown.

USRA MODIFIEDS

Heat #1:
1. (1) 73JR Greg Pfeifer Jr., Austin, Minn.
2. (2) 21 Troy Gudmonson, Savage, Minn.
3. (5) 23 Darwin Karau, Kasson, Minn.
4. (3) 24 Charlie Steinberg, Kasson, Minn.
5. (6) 51 Blake Arndt, Browndale, Minn.
6. (4) 1A Dwaine Hanson, Lakefield, Minn.

Heat #2:
1. (1) 72 Doug Hillson, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
2. (4) 18 Mick Glenn, Minnesota City, Minn.
3. (2) 77 Jacob Stark, Austin, Minn.
4. (5) 11 Billy Steinberg, Kasson, Minn.
5. (3) 20JR David Wytaske, Grand Meadow, Minn.
6. (6) 96 Greg Jensen, Albert Lea, Minn.

Feature:
1. (4) 73JR Greg Pfeifer Jr., Austin, Minn.
2. (6) 23 Darwin Karau, Kasson, Minn.
3. (9) 51 Blake Arndt, Browndale, Minn.
4. (5) 72 Doug Hillson, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
5. (1) 24 Charlie Steinberg, Kasson, Minn.
6. (2) 18 Mick Glenn, Minnesota City, Minn.
7. (3) 11 Billy Steinberg, Kasson, Minn.
8. (7) 21 Troy Gudmonson, Savage, Minn.
9. (11) 1A Dwaine Hanson, Lakefield, Minn.
10. (8) 20JR David Wytaske, Grand Meadow, Minn.
11. (12) 96 Greg Jensen, Albert Lea, Minn.
12. (10) 77 Jacob Stark, Austin, Minn.

OUT-PACE USRA B-MODS

Heat #1:
1. (2) 30 Scott Demmer, Ellendale, Minn.
2. (3) 15 Todd Schaufenbuel, New Hampton, Iowa
3. (6) 43 Nick Wagner, Osage, Iowa
4. (1) 30V Dustin Von Hagen, Glenville, Minn.
5. (4) 5 Jesse Baer, Minnesota Lake, Minn.
6. (5) 26G Bryce Gerber, Austin, Minn.

Heat #2:
1. (1) 83X Kadden Kath, Owatonna, Minn.
2. (3) 0 Greg Pfeifer Jr., Austin, Minn.
3. (4) Z29 A.J. Zvorak, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
4. (5) 02K Hunter Kennedy, St. Ansgar, Iowa
5. (6) 44 Matthew Brooks, Austin, Minn.
6. (2) 21T Taylor Ovrebo, Wells, Minn.

Feature:
1. (6) 83X Kadden Kath, Owatonna, Minn.
2. (7) Z29 A.J. Zvorak, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
3. (3) 0 Greg Pfeifer Jr., Austin, Minn.
4. (2) 44 Matthew Brooks, Austin, Minn.
5. (9) 30 Scott Demmer, Ellendale, Minn.
6. (10) 15 Todd Schaufenbuel, New Hampton, Iowa
7. (8) 5 Jesse Baer, Minnesota Lake, Minn.
8. (1) 02K Hunter Kennedy, St. Ansgar, Iowa
9. (5) 30V Dustin Von Hagen, Glenville, Minn.
10. (11) 21T Taylor Ovrebo, Wells, Minn.
11. (4) 43 Nick Wagner, Osage, Iowa
DNS – 26G Bryce Gerber, Austin, Minn.