SPEEDWAY NOTES FOR AUGUST 19, 2021 1/4-mile asphalt stock car racing oval located in Wausau 147711 North Mountain Road in the Town of Rib Mountain Wausau, WI 54401 Racing primarily on Thursday nights with selected Friday or Saturday specials (715) 212-9006 Public relations contact: Jana Wimmer [email protected] www.stateparkspeedway.com This week: Pit gates open: 3 p.m. 13th Annual Wayne ‘Lodi’ Fan gates: 4:30 p.m. Fred Mueller Qualifying: 6 p.m. Lodholz Memorial Race Racing begins: 7 p.m. A longtime State Park Speedway racer who passed away unexpectedly in 2007 is remembered again with super Ticket prices: late models leading the program. Pure stocks, mini Adults (13 & over): $15 mods and mini stocks will also race, and it also is sea- Kids 6-12: $8 son championship night for the Kids 12 & under: FREE Bandoleros. 2021 State Park Speedway Driver Point Standings Auto Select Super Late Models presented by C-Tech Pos. Car # Name Hometown Points 1 44M Justin Mondeik Gleason 571 2 76W Jason Weinkauf Merrill 464 3 76V Travis Volm Mosinee 442 4 93 Dillon Mackesy Athens 426 5 02 Rayce Haase Wausau 412 6 12 Mark Mackesy Wausau 411 7 52 Brock Heinrich Wausau 392 8 10 Noah Gajewski Marathon 199 9 22 M.G. Gajewski Wausau 127 10 8 Nathan Steif Wausau 113 11 40 Jeremy Lepak Wausau 110 12 15 Gabe Sommers Plover 102 13 36 Louis Goss Green Bay 88 14 23 Levon Van Der Geest Merrill 83 15 11C Mike Cox Jr. Hazelhurst 82 16 86 A.J. Kreager Wausau 81 17 5 John Beale Verona 63 18 2 Jordan Thiel Darboy 57 19 25 Wyatt Brooks Amherst 51 20 4 Luke Fenhaus Wausau 48 21 1 Wyatt Blashe Pella 47 22 11K Michael (Buddy) Kofoid Penngrove, Calif. 45 23 3 Brady Bennett Larsen 41 24 44W Justin Woller Kimberly 33 Super Late Model Notes: Justin Mondeik won his sixth straight super late model feature last week, getting by Dillon Mackesy for first on Lap 17 and leading the rest of the 50-lap feature for his sixth feature win of the season. Mondeik also is in position to clinch his second straight championship in the class, possibly as early as this week, as he holds a 107-point lead over second-place Jason Weinkauf... Weinkauf finished second in the feature, his second runner-up feature finish this season... Dillon Mackesy finished third in the feature and also added a heat win last week... “Hot Shoe” Lou Goss was back for the second time this season in the Tom Gee Mo- torsports 36 car, and he ran well in the first heat coming in second after a good battle with Mark Mackesy and also finished seventh in the feature... Brady Bennett made his first appearance at State Park Speedway. The brother of multi-time Wisconsin International Raceway and Slinger Speedway super late model champion Lowell Bennett finished fourth in the first heat and ninth in the feature. Advance Auto Parts Pure Stocks Pos. Car # Name Hometown Points 1 19 Mitch Stankowski Wausau 554 2 13 Alex Volm Mosinee 545 3 25 Brian (Butchie) Schramm Wausau 517 4 47 Jeff Spatz Wausau 495 5 14 Brett Breitenfeldt Wausau 428 6 37 Brian Plisch Athens 406 7 2 Dave Trute New Lisbon 143 8 27K Brandon Knoblock Wausau 141 9 01L Brian Lashua Nekoosa 125 10 53 Kyle Finke Dorchester 79 11 01W Justin Woller Kimberly 64 12 75 Mark Kalata Almond 63 13 74 Dave Cabelka Wausau 48 14 93 Todd Kuehl Wisconsin Rapids 47 15 20 Jevin Guralski Wausau 45 16 39 Ken Scott Rio 42 17 27A Sierra Alexander Schofield 9 Pure Stock Notes: Just as he did a year ago, Mitch Stankowski finally cashed in late in the summer for his first feature win of the season after repeated near misses. Stankowski drove the 19th Hole care past Justin Woller for the lead midway through and drove away to become the fifth different feature winner in the class this year... Alex Volm finished second in the feature and remained right behind Stankowski in the point standings, with the top two separated by just nine points with two weeks of racing left.. Woller served as a guest driver of the 01 car of Brian Lashua, and he won a heat race and then finished a solid third in the feature. Rockstar Energy Drink Mini Stocks Pos. Car # Name Hometown Points 1 14B Eric Breitenfeldt Wausau 709 2 77 Garret Strachota Wausau 662 3 2 Chris Boykins Wausau 569 4 85 Hunter Landwehr Stratford 520 5 03 Ashley Schoone Gleason 517 6 12L Tom Lecher Wausau 502 7 55 Zach Budleski Wausau 467 8 6 Brad Abt Schofield 409 9 10B Brad Lecher Wausau 402 10 33C Kyle Check Shantytown 401 11 48 Branden Sischo Stratford 345 12 3 Kendra Baumann Wausau 316 13 14R Amanda Rowe Mosinee 306 14 22 Wayne Gauger Kronenwetter 292 15 47 Joey Blaschka Wausau 290 16 9D Josh Dublin Weston 244 17 7L Luke Mikula Wausau 232 18 65 Clayton Phillips Marathon 224 19 06 Dave Lembke Germantown 200 20 10T Travis Lang Wausau 163 21 78 Tyler Muller Sun Prairie 109 22 76 Jake Halterman Stanley 98 23 7M Max Manowski Wausau 96 24 89 Makayla Last Wausau 88 25 12K Steve Koepke Edgar 63 26 33S Mark Schoone Gleason 42 27 35 Jen Richard Weston 35 28 9M Amelia Marshall West Salem 34 29 04 Gunner Colbert Mosinee 33 30 13 Jenny Wegner Wausau 33 31 7J Justin Marshall West Salem 33 32 07 Kyle Haase Wausau 28 33 10G Noah Gajewski Marathon 24 34 14S Jim Schara Hamburg 1 35 I8U2 Jeremy Wanta Mosinee 1 Mini Stock Notes: Hunter Landwehr became a two-time feature winner this season, edging Eric Breitenfeldt by inches at the finish for his second feature win in four weeks. Landwehr and Breitenfeldt ran side-by-side for the final 12 laps of the feature with Breit- enfeldt usually holding a slight lead, but Landwehr made a run on the final lap and won by .015 seconds... Brad Abt finished third in the feature, his best finish yet in a feature in his rookie season... Amanda Rowe won the semi-feature, the seventh different driver to win the semi this season... Kendra Baumann won the first heat for the third straight week and won her fourth heat of the season. Snap-On Mini Mods Pos. Car # Name Hometown Points 1 06S George Seliger Wausau 653 2 43 Chad Ferge Weston 540 3 31 Joe Kuehn Wausau 523 4 93 Jim Lietz Mosinee 508 5 5 Kevin Tessmer Wausau 485 6 92 John Lietz Mosinee 370 7 17 Keagen Benz Wausau 366 8 32F Kole Ferge Edgar 316 9 40 Brian Marquardt Weston 289 10 9 Dale Louze Mosinee 286 11 55 Gary Garand Weston 230 12 24 Shawn Kemnetz Hancock 180 13 7 Evan Call Aniwa 163 14 06L Dave Lembke Germantown 160 15 22 Greg Blount Marathon 130 16 28 Mike Heidmann Edgar 87 17 88 Mike Jaeger Kronenwetter 78 18 32M Phil Malouf Manitowish Waters 64 Mini Mod Notes: The mini mods featured a first-time feature winner in the class last week as Chad Ferge broke through for his first victory in the class at State Park Speedway. Ferge outran George Seliger in a hotly contested battle over the final 10 laps and became the fourth different feature winner in the class this year... Seliger still finished second, and with Joe Kuehn not on hand he blew open his points lead in the class and now is in great shape for his fourth mini mods championship at State Park... John Lietz won the second heat last week and also finished third in the feature, his best feature finish of the season. E.H. Wolf & Sons Bandoleros Pos. Car # Name Hometown Points 1 88 Cohen Henze Juda 295 2 64 Anna Malouf Rhinelander 247 3 901 Alex Hartwig Portage 237 4 52 Avery Linnerud Milton 213 5 5B Paxton Benz Wausau 210 6 12 Ayrton Brockhouse Shakopee, Minn. 178 7 9 Collin Murphy Janesville 164 8 69 Laci Stargardt Neillsville 159 9 70 Mason Oleson Mosinee 147 10 22 Bentley Thompson West Salem 141 11 76 Oliver Weinkauf Merrill 140 12 13 Ayden Brockhouse Shakopee, Minn. 139 13 5S Penn Sauter DeForest 138 14 19 Brennen Lensing Rockton, Ill. 83 15 29 Axel Oldenhoff Lake Mills 83 16 8 Jayden Johnson Oconomowoc 75 17 7 Harley Johnson Oconomowoc 73 18 44 Markus Obermeyer Union Grove 61 19 07 Jackson Kottschade Ramsey, Minn. 43 20 93 Mason Obermeyer Union Grove 40 Bandolero Notes: The Bandos featured a first-time feature winner last week and now enter their final race of the season at State Park Speedway with the strong possibility of a first-time champion in the class. Cohen Henze won his first-ever feature at State Park last week after finishing as runner-up each of the previous three features this year, and he took over the points lead when point leader Alex Hartwig was not on hand to race last week. Hartwig is the two-time defending champion in the Bandoleros and had won eight consecutive features at SPS before last week... Ayrton Brockhouse set fast time last week and came on to finish second in the feature, his best-ever feature finish at State Park... Anna Malouf finished third in the feature and has finished third or fourth in all four features this season... Collin Murphy won the first heat last week, the seventh different driver to win a heat in the Bandos this year.