Brad Waits won the USRA Modified feature.

It was Kids Night on Friday at the Chateau Speedway,  and what started as the track announcing it would be giving away a pair of bicycles and providing kids a chance to take a lap on the famed oval in one of the cars before the races, turned into much more.

As fans and drivers jumped on board with the Kids Night promotion two bikes turned into six, then eight and kept growing until 16 bikes were brought out to the track for a huge drawing at intermission which also included other prizes as well. With all the giveaways and rides it wouldn’t be surprising if the kids forgot about the racing which continued to be some of the best with three grooves of action all night long.

Brad Waits of Rochester capped a perfect night by taking home both the feature win and his heat race in the USRA Modifieds. In fact, he led all but the first lap of his heat and flag to flag in the caution-free main event to make his first visit to the track this season a successful one.

Waits was lapping cars by lap 10 as he streaked away from the field on a night where he set the fastest lap for the season at the track posting a 16.490-second lap time in his heat which equates to an average lap speed of 72.771 mph. He was just a tick slower than that in the feature.

Points leader Darwyn Karau of Kasson led the rest of the field in their battle for second followed by Kylie Kath of Claremont, Mark Motl of Owatonna and Joe Horgdal of Kasson. The other heat win went to Greg Pfeifer Jr. of Austin.

Meanwhile, Kadden Kath of Owatonna claimed his third feature win of the year in the Out-Pace USRA B-Mod class.

Matt Brooks of Austin had the early lead before Kath caught and went by him as they completed lap five in the 25-lap main event. Brooks and a good group of cars put on a spirited show behind the leader as they jockeyed for positions two on back.

Brooks came home in second ahead of Brownsdale’s Brody Shaw, St. Ansgar, Iowa’s Hunter Kennedy and Nick Wagner of Osage, Iowa.

Kath, who padded his points lead on the night, also scored a win in one of the two heats. The other heat race win went to Scott Demmer of Ellendale.

Racing action resumes next Friday at 7:15 p.m. with seven classes of cars taking to the oval celebrating its 62nd Anniversary this year. Headlined by the Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series featuring USRA Modifieds and Out-Pace USRA B-Mods, action will also take place in the WISSOTA Street Stock, WISSOTA Midwest Modified, Y Waste Hornet, Power 96 Pure Stock and Mini-Mod vidisions.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Racing Association
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series
Chateau Speedway, Lansing, Minn.
Friday, Aug. 17, 2018

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

USRA MODIFIEDS

Heat #1:
1. (6) 73JR Greg Pfeifer Jr., Austin, Minn.
2. (2) 2 Jacob Dahle, Morristown, Minn.
3. (4) 29H Joe Horgdal, Kasson, Minn.
4. (7) 11V Alex Hanson, Northwood, Iowa
5. (8) 77 Jacob Stark, Austin, Minn.
6. (5) 72 Doug Hillson, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
7. (3) 11 William Steinberg, Kasson, Minn.
DQ. (1) 15 Chris Loberg, Elma, Iowa

Heat #2:
1. (4) 24 Brad Waits, Rochester, Minn.
2. (2) 65D Dustin Brown, Thornton, Iowa
3. (6) 23 Darwin Karau, Kasson, Minn.
4. (5) 20 Mark Motl, Owatonna, Minn.
5. (1) 83 Kylie Kath, Claremont, Minn.
6. (3) 21R Tony Ranes, Lake Mills, Iowa
7. (7) 20JR David Wytaske, Grand Meadow, Minn.
8. (8) 111JR Keith Tourville, Janesville, Minn.

Feature:
1. (1) 24 Brad Waits, Rochester, Minn.
2. (2) 23 Darwin Karau, Kasson, Minn.
3. (7) 83 Kylie Kath, Claremont, Minn.
4. (3) 20 Mark Motl, Owatonna, Minn.
5. (4) 29H Joe Horgdal, Kasson, Minn.
6. (15) 111JR Keith Tourville, Janesville, Minn.
7. (5) 73JR Greg Pfeifer Jr., Austin, Minn.
8. (9) 2 Jacob Dahle, Morristown, Minn.
9. (6) 65D Dustin Brown, Thornton, Iowa
10. (8) 11V Alex Hanson, Northwood, Iowa
11. (16) 15 Chris Loberg, Elma, Iowa
12. (11) 72 Doug Hillson, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
13. (10) 77 Jacob Stark, Austin, Minn.
14. (13) 11 William Steinberg, Kasson, Minn.
15. (12) 21R Tony Ranes, Lake Mills, Iowa
16. (14) 20JR David Wytaske, Grand Meadow, Minn.

OUT-PACE USRA B-MODS

Heat #1:
1. (2) 83X Kadden Kath, Owatonna, Minn.
2. (1) 27 Channing Warner, Owatonna, Minn.
3. (7) 44 Matthew Brooks, Austin, Minn.
4. (6) 43 Nick Wagner, Osage, Iowa
5. (8) 56H Brandon Hare, Elma, Iowa
6. (4) 81K Caleb Korpi, Claremont, Minn.
7. (5) 97W Shawn Voeltz, Dodge Center, Minn.
8. (3) 88C Eric Condit, Austin, Minn.
DNS. (-) 5 Jesse Baer, Minnesota Lake, Minn.

Heat #2:
1. (1) 30 Scott Demmer, Ellendale, Minn.
2. (6) Z29 A.J. Zvorak, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
3. (3) 02K Hunter Kennedy, St. Ansgar, Iowa
4. (5) 55 Brody Shaw, Brownsdale, Minn.
5. (4) 39 Dan Torgerson, Nicollet, Minn.
6. (7) 693 Cody Torgerson, Pemberton, Minn.
7. (2) 30V Dustin Von Hagen, Glenville, Minn.
DNS. (-) 10 Todd Hanson, Clear Lake, Iowa

Feature:
1. (5) 83X Kadden Kath, Owatonna, Minn.
2. (2) 44 Matthew Brooks, Austin, Minn.
3. (4) 55 Brody Shaw, Brownsdale, Minn.
4. (3) 02K Hunter Kennedy, St. Ansgar, Iowa
5. (8) 43 Nick Wagner, Osage, Iowa
6. (1) 27 Channing Warner, Owatonna, Minn.
7. (9) Z29 A.J. Zvorak, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
8. (16) 10 Todd Hanson, Clear Lake, Iowa
9. (7) 56H Brandon Hare, Elma, Iowa
10. (10) 39 Dan Torgerson, Nicollet, Minn.
11. (14) 30V Dustin Von Hagen, Glenville, Minn.
12. (12) 693 Cody Torgerson, Pemberton, Minn.
13. (17) 5 Jesse Baer, Minnesota Lake, Minn.
14. (11) 81K Caleb Korpi, Claremont, Minn.
15. (6) 30 Scott Demmer, Ellendale, Minn.
16. (13) 97W Shawn Voeltz, Dodge Center, Minn.
17. (15) 88C Eric Condit, Austin, Minn.