Carr Cashes in at Devils Lake Speedway’s Golden Hammer Classic

Preston Carr - Midwest Mods. Photo by Tina March.

Daniel Aberle - Street Stocks. Photo by Tina March.

Tony Bundy - Pure Stocks. Photo by Tina March.

Drew Wilhelmi - Circle Track Mini Trucks. Photo by Tina March.

By Mike Spieker

CRARY, N.D. (July 28, 2018) – A season-high 34 WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds were checked in Saturday night for the $2,000-to-win Golden Hammer Classic. 

The field of 34 was whittled down to the fastest 24 for the 40-lap A-main. Scott Bintz and Austin Hunter led the field to the green flag with Hunter grabbing the early lead. Restarts were the key for 10th place starter, Preston Carr. After jumping into the top five by lap five, Carr used the lap-seven restart to move into the third position.

Carr then went to work on Bintz for second. Following Hunter around the high side, Carr got by Bintz, who was running the extreme low groove, on lap 12. The low groove began to go away on Bintz as the laps wore on as he faded back to the fifth position.

Hunter, Carr, Matt Schow, Reise Stenberg, and Lance Schill made up the top five at the halfway point.

Things began to heat up in the second half of the race as the top five were separated by just eight car lengths. Carr, who was glued to the rear bumper of Hunter, began to work the low side. Hunter saw the nose of Carr below him and went to the bottom to take the line away. Behind them, Schill began to move his way forward.

Schill got by both Stenberg and Schow to take over third as he set his sights on Carr for second. Schill used the highside of the speedway to get by Carr for second as the top three now ran within three car lengths of each other.

Both Schill and Carr split Hunter to take over the top two positions with 10 to go. A lapped car running the high side was exactly what Carr needed to clear Schill for the point. Schill made contact with that lapped car, which allowed Schow to move into second.

With five laps to go, Schow was battling with Schill when he slid off the turn one embankment to bring out the caution. Stenberg and Ryan Schroeder were the big movers on the restart, moving from fifth to second and seventh to third, respectively.

Stenberg was all over Carr as the white flag flew. Stenberg entered turn one in the middle of the race track, but Carr had the momentum coming off the corner. Carr held off Stenberg and Schroeder to take the big payday home to Carrington, N.D. Schill and Eric Haugland rounded out the top five.

Daniel Aberle started fifth on the grid for the WISSOTA Street Stock feature, but grabbed the lead on lap two. Aberle led the remainder of the 20-lap feature to pick up the win by just under a second over Greg Jose. Dan McNamee, Steven Richards, and Bradon Miller rounded out the top five.

Tony Bundy recorded his third consecutive Pure Stock feature win. The Balta, N.D. driver started dead last on the field in 10th, but sliced through the field to take the lead with three to go.

The Circle Track Mini Truck feature win went to Drew Wilhemi.

Racing at Devils Lake Speedway continues next Saturday night, featuring the Buffalo Wild Wings NOSA Sprints and Canadian-American Outlaw Sprints, plus the Professional Dirt Series. Green flag drops at 7pm.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds:
A Feature (40 Laps): 1. 5C-Preston Carr, [10]; 2. 87S-Reise Stenberg, [8]; 3. 77R-Ryan Schroeder, [9]; 4. 17-Lance Schill, [14]; 5. 32-Eric Haugland, [7]; 6. 44-Austin Hunter, [2]; 7. 1S-Scott Bintz, [1]; 8. 6R-Nate Reynolds, [16]; 9. 111-Jason Halverson, [11]; 10. 87-Chris Kruk, [17]; 11. 10C-Cole Haugland, [21]; 12. 2R-Jeff Reed, [12]; 13. 23-Scott Vasichek, [15]; 14. 8-Jason Schuh, [3]; 15. 16-Randy Thompson, [20]; 16. 21-Todd Johnson, [5]; 17. 13B-Jess Brekke, [22]; 18. 22Z-Zach Reinke, [24]; 19. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski, [13]; 20. (DNF) 2S-Matt Schow, [4]; 21. (DNF) 71R-Nate Reinke, [18]; 22. (DNF) 28S-Ryan Schow, [19]; 23. (DNF) 74-Gary James Nelson, [6]; 24. (DNF) 4H-Grant Hall, [23]
B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 77R-Ryan Schroeder, [2]; 2. 111-Jason Halverson, [3]; 3. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski, [1]; 4. 23-Scott Vasichek, [7]; 5. 87-Chris Kruk, [11]; 6. 28S-Ryan Schow, [4]; 7. 10C-Cole Haugland, [10]; 8. 4H-Grant Hall, [6]; 9. 3L-Logan Salazar, [8]; 10. 22S-Tyler Schow, [9]; 11. 25A-Jesse Aho, [5]; (DNS) 68-Joe Henninger, ; (DNS) 33A-Austin Overwater,
B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 5C-Preston Carr, [2]; 2. 2R-Jeff Reed, [1]; 3. 17-Lance Schill, [6]; 4. 6R-Nate Reynolds, [5]; 5. 71R-Nate Reinke, [4]; 6. 16-Randy Thompson, [7]; 7. 13B-Jess Brekke, [3]; 8. 22Z-Zach Reinke, [10]; 9. 12-Jaden Varnson, [13]; 10. 39-Jamie Dietzler, [8]; 11. 735-Tanner Theis, [12]; 12. 7P-Cory Peterson, [11]; 13. (DNF) 11X-Tanner Armstrong, [9]
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 32-Eric Haugland, [4]; 2. 28S-Ryan Schow, [6]; 3. 3L-Logan Salazar, [1]; 4. 111-Jason Halverson, [7]; 5. 22Z-Zach Reinke, [3]; 6. 25A-Jesse Aho, [8]; 7. 13B-Jess Brekke, [9]; 8. (DNF) 17-Lance Schill, [5]; 9. (DNF) 735-Tanner Theis, [2]
Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 77R-Ryan Schroeder, [1]; 2. 2S-Matt Schow, [2]; 3. 5C-Preston Carr, [3]; 4. 23-Scott Vasichek, [6]; 5. 87S-Reise Stenberg, [8]; 6. 87-Chris Kruk, [5]; 7. 6R-Nate Reynolds, [9]; 8. 39-Jamie Dietzler, [7]; 9. 12-Jaden Varnson, [4]
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 1S-Scott Bintz, [5]; 2. 44-Austin Hunter, [7]; 3. 2R-Jeff Reed, [2]; 4. 16-Randy Thompson, [6]; 5. 10C-Cole Haugland, [8]; 6. 4H-Grant Hall, [1]; 7. (DNF) 11X-Tanner Armstrong, [3]; (DNS) 33A-Austin Overwater,
Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 74-Gary James Nelson, [1]; 2. 21-Todd Johnson, [5]; 3. 71R-Nate Reinke, [4]; 4. 8-Jason Schuh, [7]; 5. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski, [8]; 6. 22S-Tyler Schow, [3]; 7. 7P-Cory Peterson, [6]; (DNS) 68-Joe Henninger,
Qualifying 1 (8 Laps): 1. 13B-Jess Brekke, [1]; 2. 17-Lance Schill, [5]; 3. 25A-Jesse Aho, [2]; 4. 111-Jason Halverson, [3]; 5. 32-Eric Haugland, [6]; 6. 28S-Ryan Schow, [4]; 7. 735-Tanner Theis, [8]; 8. 22Z-Zach Reinke, [7]; 9. 3L-Logan Salazar, [9]
Qualifying 2 (8 Laps): 1. 87S-Reise Stenberg, [2]; 2. 6R-Nate Reynolds, [1]; 3. 2S-Matt Schow, [8]; 4. 39-Jamie Dietzler, [3]; 5. 5C-Preston Carr, [7]; 6. 23-Scott Vasichek, [4]; 7. 77R-Ryan Schroeder, [9]; 8. 12-Jaden Varnson, [6]; 9. 87-Chris Kruk, [5]
Qualifying 3 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Austin Hunter, [2]; 2. 1S-Scott Bintz, [4]; 3. 4H-Grant Hall, [8]; 4. 2R-Jeff Reed, [7]; 5. 11X-Tanner Armstrong, [6]; 6. 16-Randy Thompson, [3]; 7. (DNF) 10C-Cole Haugland, [1]; 8. (DNF) 33A-Austin Overwater, [5]
Qualifying 4 (8 Laps): 1. 8-Jason Schuh, [2]; 2. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski, [1]; 3. 21-Todd Johnson, [4]; 4. 74-Gary James Nelson, [8]; 5. 71R-Nate Reinke, [5]; 6. 22S-Tyler Schow, [6]; 7. (DNF) 68-Joe Henninger, [7]; 8. (DNF) 7P-Cory Peterson, [3]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 33-Daniel Aberle, [5]; 2. 28-Greg Jose, [2]; 3. 29D-Dan McNamee, [3]; 4. 3-Steven Richards, [6]; 5. 5-Bradon Miller, [4]; 6. 21J-Brian Johanson, [13]; 7. 7M-James Meagher, [9]; 8. 7J-Josh Worrall, [7]; 9. 99-Josh Barker, [12]; 10. 24T-Tiffany Noreikis, [14]; 11. C4-Cliff Reeves, [8]; 12. B2-Brodee Eckerdt, [16]; 13. 92-Megan McNamee, [15]; 14. (DNF) 7B-David Barker, [10]; 15. (DNF) 10-Thomas Neihart, [11]; 16. (DNF) 1J-Joe Armstrong, [1]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 5-Bradon Miller, [2]; 2. 1J-Joe Armstrong, [1]; 3. 3-Steven Richards, [8]; 4. 7J-Josh Worrall, [5]; 5. 7M-James Meagher, [4]; 6. 10-Thomas Neihart, [3]; 7. 21J-Brian Johanson, [7]; 8. 92-Megan McNamee, [6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 29D-Dan McNamee, [2]; 2. C4-Cliff Reeves, [1]; 3. 33-Daniel Aberle, [8]; 4. 28-Greg Jose, [6]; 5. 7B-David Barker, [4]; 6. 99-Josh Barker, [7]; 7. 24T-Tiffany Noreikis, [5]; 8. B2-Brodee Eckerdt, [3]

Circle Track Mini Trucks:
A Feature (12 Laps): 1. 07J-Drew Wilhelmi, [3]; 2. 8-Trevor Paulson, [1]; 3. 45-Carter Tuenge, [2]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 07J-Drew Wilhelmi, 03:02.250[1]; 2. 8-Trevor Paulson, 03:16.541[3]; 3. 45-Carter Tuenge, 03:16.541[2]

Pure Stocks:
A Feature (15 Laps): 1. 57-Tony Bundy, [10]; 2. 35-Daniel Bromstad, [9]; 3. 21B-Lane Bachmeier, [7]; 4. 1CJ-Cody Armstrong, [6]; 5. 12-Darin Thomas, [8]; 6. 43-Dan Arends, [1]; 7. (DNF) 19-Mark Bromstad, [2]; 8. (DNF) 16-MiKara Johanson, [3]; 9. (DNF) 850-Colten Laber, [4]; 10. (DNF) 68-Barry Hermanson, [5]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 850-Colten Laber, [1]; 2. 12-Darin Thomas, [2]; 3. 1CJ-Cody Armstrong, [3]; 4. 21B-Lane Bachmeier, [4]; 5. 35-Daniel Bromstad, [5]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Mark Bromstad, [3]; 2. 43-Dan Arends, [5]; 3. 68-Barry Hermanson, [2]; 4. 16-MiKara Johanson, [1]; 5. 57-Tony Bundy, [4]