SPRING VALLEY, Minn. - A cool day for July was in store for the fans and drivers who headed out to Deer Creek Speedway on Saturday.

With this being the third night of racing in eight days a very nice crowd and a good field of cars took to the speedway on Clement’s Auto Night, along with associate sponsors L & D Ag of Heartland and Rent & Save of Austin.

The final race of the night was the USRA Modifieds with Brad Waits starting on the pole.

Mike Sorensen was digging hard early in second and worked inside of Waits as he tried to get to the front.

With 18 laps to go, Sorensen was still working Waits while Tim Donlinger worked into third as the top three pulled away slightly from the rest of the field.

A restart with 15 laps to go saw Donlinger work past Sorensen and racing Waits for the lead. Sorensen and Donlinger made contact on the next lap with Sorensen spinning into the infield.

With 12 laps to go, Donlinger took over the lead from Waits. Donlinger was really pinching the car off coming out of the corners to keep the machine from drifting out to the wall, and it was working out as he was able to pull out to a good lead quickly as he found extra traction down low.

Another cat who has been fast of late is Jason Cummins. As Donlinger started to pull away, the light blue and white machine of Cummins gaining on Waits. Cummins moved to the low side of the speedway after running up against the wall to work on Waits., then took the second spot with three laps to go.

Waits came home third with Bob Timm and Todd Scharkey rounding out the top-5.

Racing action resumes next Saturday with the Slingshots racing on Button Buck Speedway at 3 p.m. The IRA Sprint Cars will be on hand, along with the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds and the USRA Modifieds beginning action at 6 p.m.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
USRA Casey’s General Stores Weekly Racing Series
Deer Creek Speedway, Spring Valley, Minn.
Saturday, July 12, 2008

USRA MODIFIEDS

Feature: 1. Tim Donlinger, 2. Jason Cummins, 3. Brad Waits, 4. Bob Timm, 5. Todd Scharkey, 6. Jay Ihrke, 7. Steve Wetzstein, 8. Mick Glenn, 9. Tom Paulson, 10. Jeff Schluetter, 11. Doug Hillson, 12. Darwyn Karau, 13. Jeff Rollinger, 14. Ted Marrs, 15. Joe Wernecke, 16. Brandon Aggen, 17. Mark Noble, 18. Mike Sorensen, 19. Tyler Clark, 20. Gary Schmidt, 21. Bob Fisher, 22. Terry Timmerman, 23. Dave Wytaske Jr.

Heat #1: Noble, Waits, Scharkey, Schluetter, Clark, Wetzstein, Wernecke, Schmidt.

Heat #2: Cummins, Donlinger, Glenn, Ihrke, Wytaske, Karau, Aggen, Hillson.

Heat #3: Sorensen, Timm, Paulson, Marrs, Rollinger, Timmerman, Fisher.