SPRING VALLEY Minn. — A warm but Breezy day found a good field of cars and a nice crowd on hand for the Island Pool and Spa day at the Deer Creek Speedway.

Tim Donlinger has had the hot hand at the redraw box through the first two weeks of the season. Both times Donlinger drew the front row redraw for the feature event.

Donlinger bolted into the lead with Mark Noble and Joe Wernecke racing side by side for second. Noble took second and moved alongside of Donlinger for the lead. They drag raced down the back straight but Donlinger was too strong and held the preferred line early on.

A light shower hit and caused a brief rain delay after the five laps had been completed. After a short break for the rain Brad Waits jumped into second with Ryan Gustin following past Noble for third.

The light rain changed the track and outside of the top five the cars were going three and four wide with some really fast cars having to come through the “B” feature now were making their charge through the field fun to watch.

Jay Ihrke and Tommy Myer started outside the top 20 and finished seventh and eighth. Alan Mondus was the other car on the move although not making a big jump he slowly and patiently worked through the field first getting past Nate Wasmund and then working around Gustin to take over the fourth position by the end of the feature.

Donlinger came home with his second win at the track this season with Waits and Noble rounding out the top three.

Next week racing action resumes at 5 p.m. with the Outlaw Modifieds of the O'Reilly USMTS National Tour on hand racing for $2,000 to win. Also on the card will be the WISSOTA Super Stocks for $600 to win and the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds for $400 to win.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
USRA Casey’s General Stores Weekly Racing Series
Deer Creek Speedway, Spring Valley, Minn.
Saturday, May 17, 2008

EZ Fabricating USRA MODIFIEDS

“A” Feature - Tim Donlinger, Brad Waits, Mark Noble, Alan Modus, Ryan Gustin, Nate Wasmund, Tommy Myer, Jay Ihrke, Todd Scharkey, Joe Wernecke, Steve Wetzstein, Mike Sorensen, Zack VanderBeek, Mick Glenn, Jerry King, Ben Anderson, Jeff Schluetter, Shawn Ryan, Doug Hillson, Pat Grahm, Bob Timm, Greg Jensen, Ryan York, Jason Cummins.

“B” Feature - Ihrke, VanderBeek, Steve Arpin (Dq for illegal headers), Grahm, Timm, Kevin Pittman, Jacob Dahle, Gary Schmidt, Jay Poidinger, Adam Martinson, Shawn Peterson, Shaun Olson, Tom Paulson, Terry Timmerman,, Dwaine Hanson, Darwyn Karau, James Parker.

Heat 1 – York, Wernecke, Noble, Wasmund, Anderson, Paulson, Timmerman, Poidinger, Hanson.

Heat 2 – Donlinger, Gustin, Wetzstein, Sorensen, Ryan, VanderBeek, Dahle, Grahm, Olson.

Heat 3 – Schluetter, Glenn, King, Cummins, Jensen, Schmidt, Karau, Martinson, Parker, Timm.

Heat 4 – Waits, Scharkey, Mondus, Hillson, Myer, Ihrke, Arpin, Pittman, Peterson.