Dennis Prunty continued his hot streak by holding off Lowell Bennett to take the checkers in the Ewald of Hartford/Miss Slinger Pageant 60 at the Slinger Super Speedway.  Prunty, who has won three of the last four features at Slinger, celebrated his birthday in style.

“Hold on, I don’t want too much credit,” said Prunty in Victory Lane.  “I started in the second row and Lowell Bennett started from the back and he was coming hard.  I guess it’s going to be a show all season long.”

Mike Egan and Randy Schuler led the field to the green flag with Egan getting the early advantage.  Egan cleared Schuler on lap 2 and would hold the lead until lap 34.  Meanwhile, Prunty and Conrad Morgan ran the outside groove towards the front.

Morgan used the outside to his advantage and methodically ran down Egan.  However, just after Morgan passed Egan on the high side going into turn one, his night would come to a premature end.  Morgan apparently thought he had cleared Egan coming off of turn two, but came down a tad too soon.  There was just enough contact from Egan to cause Morgan to spin bringing out the race’s only caution.

“Morgan thought he had me cleared and came down just enough,” said Egan.  “I barely touched him, I got on the brakes, but there isn’t even a mark on my car.”

The subsequent restart had Prunty getting the jump on Egan from the outside and slowly pulling away to a comfortable lead.  Meanwhile, Bennett, who had to start behind the invert due to winning last week’s feature event, worked his way up to third all on the outside.  However, Bennett’s march to the front was delayed as he seemingly had a hard time getting around Egan.

“Egan wasn’t quite giving me a lane either way,” said Bennett.  “They finally gave him the one lane sign and he finally kept it down. Just had to work a little bit at it.”

Once Bennett finally cleared Egan to take over second place, he set his sights on Prunty.  However, Bennett would run out of laps and have to settle for second place.

“I’m never disappointed with second place,” said Bennett.  “I’ll take that.  That’s no problem.  We had a pretty good race car and we were coming pretty good at the end and no complaints.”

Prunty, for his part said he was merely on cruise control towards the end.

“We finished right where we like to finish,” said Prunty.  “I worked for it tonight.  When you start up front you should have an advantage as long as you’re not on the outside too long.  I was just taking it easy, saving the tires.”

Apparently he saved them enough to hold onto the win and close the gap in points down to a mere eight.

Mike Egan held onto third, while Randy Schuler and Scott Schoeni rounded out the top five.

Wayne Freimund captured his first late model victory at Slinger in over 10 years by holding off Rob Braun.

“Hard-fought, man. I gave up the inside and then he gave it up for me,” said Freimund.

Freimund was referring to the battle he had with Steven Schulz as the two traded the lead with aggressive inside/outside moves.

Freimund would take the early lead from his outside pole starting position, until he began to feel the pressure from Schulz.  Schulz would duck underneath Freimund in turn 2 on lap 17 to take over the lead.  Just three laps later, Freimund would duck back underneath Schulz in the same spot to retake the lead.  Schulz would then take the high side and draw back to even with Freimund.

Schulz would clip the wall with the rear of his car coming off of turn four on lap 27 and got the car completely sideways before saving it at the end of the straightaway.  That dropped Schulz back to fifth spot and allowed Rob Braun to take up the chase on Freimund.

However, Freimund was able to maintain his slight advantage and hold off Braun for the victory. Steve Apel came home in third place, while the Soup Nazi Jacob Vanoskey and Steven Schulz would finish in fourth and fifth place respectively.

James Swan continued his dominance in the Midwest Sportsman division by racking up his second win of the season.  Along with his two wins, Swan’s lowest finish has been third place in the six events thus far.

This week’s win was total domination as Swan would vault to the lead by lap 10, and stretch his lead to almost half a lap.

Tom Elsinger would get the early lead from his outside front row starting position and lead the first 10 laps.  James Swan would work his way to the front on the outside and easily clear Elsinger and stretch his lead to a comfortable margin.

The race’s only real battle was for second place, as Elsinger and Andy Haver would battle side by side for most of the race.  Haver would take the spot on lap 23, and take the checkers in second place.  However, in the post race inspection, Haver was disqualified for an unspecified tech infraction, allowing Elsinger to inherit second place, while Brian Holtz would take third.  Gregg Pawelske would wind up in fourth, with Jay Shambeau in fifth.

Eric Lingford backed up his pole in qualifying by capturing the Thunderstock feature.  Lingford used the high side to his advantage and easily worked his way to the front.  Lingford took the checkers over Al Stippich by a little over a second.  Andy Welter would come home in third place, while Ryan Farrell and Jake Larson would round out the top five.

Alex Prunty kept the winning evening in the family by capturing his second straight feature win in the 4 cylinder Slinger Bees division. Prunty, who started mid pack in a field of twenty cars, took advantage of a restart and cruised to an easy win.  Nick Wagner was the runner up, while defending track champion Joe Lang would finish third.  Erik Long continued his consistency placing fourth, while Russ Lorbiecki rounded out the top five.

Dan Dewey would take the win in the Speedway Guest cars.

Peter Breis would capture the Spectator Eliminator victory.

The Figure 8 Division would find defending track champion Scott Goetzke claiming his second straight feature win by holding off Shane “The Shark” Becker.  Willy Van Camp would end up in third place, while Jeff Wohlrabe and Justin Poenitsch would round out the top five.

Finally, in what was perhaps the most anticipated event of the evening, Ashley Hoffman defended her crown, by being voted Miss Slinger Super Speedway for the 2010 season.

 

Super Late Models - Feature

Finish	Start	Car	Driver	Hometown	Race Points
1	4	42P	Dennis Prunty	Lomira , Wi	80.00
2	9	2B	Lowell Bennett	Neenah , Wi	72.00
3	1	89E	Mike Egan	Slinger , Wi	67.00
4	2	72S	Randy Schuler	Mequon , Wi	50.00
5	11	31S	Scott Schoeni	Slinger , Wi	46.00
6	3	16A	Steve Apel	Sussex , Wi	45.00
7	7	6L	Austin Luedtke	Adell , Wi	43.00
8	10	3H	Tommy Hromadka	Brookfield , Wi	40.00
9	14	88C	Rick Corso	Mchenry , Il	38.00
10	12	45S	Steven Schultz	Waukesha , Wi	36.00
11	15	00R	Ronnie Ragan	Hartford , Wi	35.00
12	16	61E	Jerry Eckhardt	Johnson Creek, Wi	34.00
13	13	55M	Vincent Merry	Wadsworth , Il	33.00
14	6	38H	Jeff Holtz	Muskego , Wi	32.00
15	5	92M	Conrad Morgan	Waukesha , Wi	31.00
16	8	8W	Josh Wallace	Pell Lake, Wi	30.00
17	17	4O	Dustin Ostberg	Slinger , Wi	30.00
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Late Models - Feature

Finish	Start	Car	Driver	Hometown	Race Points
1	2	44F	Wayne Freimund	West Allis, Wi	85.00
2	7	98B	Rob Braun	Wales , Wi	72.00
3	9	13A	Steve Apel	Sussex , Wi	63.00
4	10	84V	Jacob Vanoskey		5	5	45S	Steven Schultz	Waukesha , Wi	49.00
6	6	26B	Chris Blawat	Palmyra , Wi	45.00
7	3	66M	Dave Mccardle Jr.	Menomonee Falls, Wi	41.00
8	4	0D	Ryan Destefano	Colgate , Wi	38.00
9	1	35M	Patrick Mcintee	West Bend, Wi	36.00
10	12	97S	James Swan	Genoa City, Wi	34.00
11	8	2G	Mike Graczkowski	Jackson , Wi	32.00
12	11	7D	John Deangelis	Hubertus , Wi	30.00
13	13	1S	Bill Shavlik	Hartford , Wi	0.00
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Midwest Sportsman - Feature

Finish	Start	Car	Driver	Hometown	Race Points
1	1	3S	James Swan	Genoa City, Wi	85.00
2	6	13H	Andy Haver	West Bend, Wi	0.00
3	5	33E	Tom Elsinger	West Bend, Wi	63.00
4	2	8H	Brian Holtz	Muskego , Wi	56.00
5	3	7P	Gregg Pawelski	West Allis, Wi	49.00
6	4	5S	Jay Shambeau	Milwaukee , Wi	45.00
7	7	88S	Scott Shambeau	Milwaukee , Wi	41.00
8	9	101E	Jimmie Evans	New Berlin, Wi	38.00
9	11	92K	Jesse Knutson	Franklin , Wi	36.00
10	10	9C	Danny Church	Big Bend, Wi	34.00
11	8	26S	Jack Stern	Slinger , Wi	32.00
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Thunder Stocks - Feature

Finish	Start	Car	Driver	Hometown	Race Points
1	5	87L	Eric Lingford	Franklin , Wi	95.00
2	3	66S	Al Stippich	Jackson , Wi	72.00
3	1	32W	Andy Welter	Cedarburg , Wi	63.00
4	4	80F	Ryan Farrell	East Troy, Wi	56.00
5	9	47L	Jake Larson	Jackson , Wi	49.00
6	6	31S	Rick Schaefer	Hartford , Wi	45.00
7	10	29S	Ken Schraufnagel	Slinger , Wi	41.00
8	2	66P	Adam Peschek	Oconomowoc , Wi	38.00
9	8	60F	Shawn Fick	Grafton , Wi	36.00
10	7	35D	John Daley	West Bend, Wi	34.00
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Slinger Bees - Feature

Finish	Start	Car	Driver	Hometown	Race Points
1	11	1P	Alex Prunty	Lomira , Wi	27.00
2	10	38W	Nick Wagner	Hartford , Wi	21.00
3	9	11L	Joe Lang	Neosho , Wi	20.00
4	6	90L	Erik Long	Brookfield , Wi	19.00
5	8	9L	Russ Lorbiecki	Sussex , Wi	18.00
6	5	97G	Taylor Gehrke	Waukesha , Wi	17.00
7	4	92S	Daniel Schroeder	West Allis, Wi	16.00
8	12	33W	Shane Westphal	Eden , Wi	15.00
9	2	92K	Erica Knutson	Franklin , Wi	14.00
10	16	3S	Ryan Savage	Saukville , Wi	13.00
11	3	2T	Martin Tackes	Newburg , Wi	12.00
12	13	55S	Tyler Schley	Richfield , Wi	11.00
13	15	28S	Jimmy Strane	Winthrop Harbor, Il	10.00
14	19	67L	Ryan Lovald	Muskego , Wi	9.00
15	17	74S	Joe Shelby	Slinger , Wi	8.00
16	20	84S	Alexis Strobel	Hartford , Wi	7.00
17	7	9B	Braison Bennett	Neenah , Wi	6.00
18	1	29W	Nathan Wiedmeyer	Theresa , Wi	5.00
19	14	03O	Nick Ostberg	Slinger , Wi	4.00
20	18	68E	Jeremy Esser	Waterford , Wi	3.00
21	22	24T	Brandon Tackes	Newburg , Wi	2.00
22	21	22S	Brian Strane	Kenosha , Wi	0.00
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Spectators - Feature

Finish	Start	Car	Driver	Hometown	Race Points
1	-	60610	Peter Breis	-	0.00
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Figure 8s - Feature

Finish	Start	Car	Driver	Hometown	Race Points
1	7	4G	Scott Goetzke	Iron Ridge, Wi	100.00
2	5	20B	Shane Becker	Hartford , Wi	85.00
3	6	11V	Willy Van Camp	Appleton , Wi	75.00
4	1	13W	Jeff Wohlrabe	Appleton , Wi	70.00
5	3	87P	Justin Poenitsch	Richfield , Wi	65.00
6	4	17B	Rick Bruskiewicz	Mayville , Wi	55.00
7	8	8K	Ross Schuppel	Slinger , Wi	55.00
8	2	50W	Brandon Wolf	St Lawrence, Wi	50.00