Hall of Fame awards highlight Chateau Speedway show
Noah Grinstead won the USRA B-Mod main event.
Week six of racing at Chateau Speedway powered by Garlick’s Water on Friday was highlighted with the Induction of six new members into the Chateau Speedway Hall of Fame.
The third class for the Hall of Fame was highlighted by a group which included drivers from the '60s all the way into the 2000s.
Dick Veldman—a two-time Stock Car track champion in 1962 and 1983—was represented by family members as was three-time champion Louis “Bud” Lomholt who was the Sportsman track champion in 1966 and Street Stock champ in 1972 and 1973.
On hand were three drivers to accept their awards, including 1982 Limited Late Model track champion Steve Sorensen, two-time Modified track champion Todd Scharkey (2005 and 2014) and Larry Nelson—a five-time runner-up between 1986 and 2005 in Street Stock and B-Mod classes.
The Track inducts one Legacy Member each year, an individual who was not necessarily a driver but made significant contributions to racing at Lansing over the years. This year's Legacy Member was Maynard White who spent years as a crew chief and car owner as well as a mechanic working on cars out of his garage in Mapleview.
Before and after the awards there was plenty of action to keep the new inductees and everyone else excited with the current group of drivers that do battle at Chateau every summer keeping the history of the track moving on.
The French’s Repair USRA Modifieds continued their run of a different feature winner every week this season as Aaron Benson of Clear Lake, Iowa, made his first visit of the year a big one as he scored a heat win earlier in the night and then backed it up with the feature win.
Ryan Wetzstein of West Concord—the other heat winner—reeled him in late thanks to some lapped traffic but settled for second ahead of his dad, Steve Wetzstein.
The string of different feature winners every week came to an end however in the Double M Transport USRA B-Mod class as Noah Grinstead of Austin scored his second feature win of the season after leading flag to flag and outrunning the night's two heat winners, Hunter Kennedy of St. Ansgar, Iowa, and Michael Johnson of Rose Creek, who chased him to the checkers.
In Skjeveland Sanitation Medieval USRA Stock Cars, Travis Shipman of Mason City, Iowa, looked to be on his way to his fourth feature win of the year until the car came around under him in turn 1 while leading, bringing out the caution.
That gave the lead to Chris Adams of McInitre, Iowa, who gladly accepted the lead and drove off to his first feature win of the season at Chateau.
Brad Lange of Jordan came home second ahead of Shipman who worked his way back up through the field for third after going to the tail on the caution.
Adams' win gave him a sweep on the night as he also had one of the two heat wins. The other went to Shipman.
The track is back in action next Friday, July 1, with first green flag at 7:15 p.m.
OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Racing Association
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series
Chateau Speedway, Lansing, Minn.
Friday, June 24, 2022
Showing finishing position, starting position in parentheses, car number, driver and hometown.
USRA MODIFIEDS
Heat #1:
1. (1) 24 Aaron Benson, Clear Lake, Iowa
2. (2) 71 Jason Cummins, New Richland, Minn.
3. (4) 97 Cole Anderson, Le Center, Minn.
4. (3) 55H A.J. Hoff, Mantorville, Minn.
5. (5) 4A Joel Alberts, Mantorville, Minn.
6. (6) Z29 A.J. Zvorak, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
Heat #2:
1. (1) 90 Ryan Wetzstein, West Concord, Minn.
2. (3) 90X Steve Wetzstein, West Concord, Minn.
3. (2) 77 Jacob Stark, Austin, Minn.
4. (6) 72 Doug Hillson, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
5. (5) 65D Dustin Brown, Thornton, Iowa
6. (4) 70 Greg Jenson, Albert Lea, Minn.
Feature:
1. (2) 24 Aaron Benson, Clear Lake, Iowa
2. (6) 90 Ryan Wetzstein, West Concord, Minn.
3. (5) 90X Steve Wetzstein, West Concord, Minn.
4. (8) 71 Jason Cummins, New Richland, Minn.
5. (3) 55H A.J. Hoff, Mantorville, Minn.
6. (4) 65D Dustin Brown, Thornton, Iowa
7. (1) 72 Doug Hillson, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
8. (7) 4A Joel Alberts, Mantorville, Minn.
9. (11) Z29 A.J. Zvorak, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
10. (9) 77 Jacob Stark, Austin, Minn.
11. (10) 97 Cole Anderson, Le Center, Minn.
12. (12) 70 Greg Jenson, Albert Lea, Minn.
MEDIEVAL USRA STOCK CARS
Heat #1:
1. (1) 14A Chris Adams, McIntire, Iowa
2. (3) 67X Jacob Dahle, Morristown, Minn.
3. (2) 34 Mike Blowers, Waseca, Minn.
4. (5) 15 Brad Lange, Jordan, Minn.
5. (4) 7X Andrew Eischens, Taopi, Minn.
Heat #2:
1. (3) 87 Travis Shipman, Mason City, Iowa
2. (2) 67II Chris Toot, Albert Lea, Minn.
3. (4) 29S Josh Sousa, Alden, Minn.
4. (1) 32 Jason Newkirk, Austin, Minn.
5. (5) 39J Dan Klingfus, Austin, Minn.
Feature:
1. (3) 14A Chris Adams, McIntire, Iowa
2. (7) 15 Brad Lange, Jordan, Minn.
3. (1) 87 Travis Shipman, Mason City, Iowa
4. (5) 67X Jacob Dahle, Morristown, Minn.
5. (2) 34 Mike Blowers, Waseca, Minn.
6. (6) 67II Chris Toot, Albert Lea, Minn.
7. (4) 29S Josh Sousa, Alden, Minn.
8. (9) 32 Jason Newkirk, Austin, Minn.
DQ – (8) 7X Andrew Eischens, Taopi, Minn.
DNS – 39J Dan Klingfus, Austin, Minn.
USRA B-MODS
Heat #1:
1. (1) 02K Hunter Kennedy, St. Ansgar, Iowa
2. (2) 99 Noah Grinstead, Austin, Minn.
3. (3) 20S Kevin Johnson, Bakersfield, Calif.
4. (5) 08K Toby Kennedy, St. Ansgar, Iowa
5. (4) 81K Caleb Korpi, Claremont, Minn.
Heat #2:
1. (1) 22C Michael Johnson, Rose Creek, Minn.
2. (5) 15 Cole Neisius, Hastings, Minn.
3. (4) 7M Matt Tighe, Austin, Minn.
4. (3) 5 Michael Meyer, New Richland, Minn.
5. (2) 4 Greg Brooks, Spring Valley, Minn.
Feature:
1. (3) 99 Noah Grinstead, Austin, Minn.
2. (5) 02K Hunter Kennedy, St. Ansgar, Iowa
3. (9) 22C Michael Johnson, Rose Creek, Minn.
4. (8) 20S Kevin Johnson, Bakersfield, Calif.
5. (6) 08K Toby Kennedy, St. Ansgar, Iowa
6. (10) 5 Michael Meyer, New Richland, Minn.
7. (2) 81K Caleb Korpi, Claremont, Minn.
8. (1) 7M Matt Tighe, Austin, Minn.
9. (7) 4 Greg Brooks, Spring Valley, Minn.
10. (4) 15 Cole Neisius, Hastings, Minn.
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