August 21, 2004; Ashland, WI: -  Three drivers returned to the ABC Raceway's winner's circle Saturday night, while another edged closer to a points championship, and weather played a part as well.

Photo Highlights

Jerry Hartman won his second WISSOTA modified feature of the season and 30th of his career at the ABC Raceway Saturday night, after rains ended the race on lap 14. Pat Cook (32) works the inside line against Steve Tesch (18) through turn 4 during six-cylinder heat action Saturday night at ABC Raceway. Cook came away with the win. Larry Haderly (3x) challenges Rich Morrison (7m) for position during a WISSOTA street stock heat Saturday at ABC. Haderly won both his heat and the feature to extend his points lead. Steve Anderson shows the way as he heads for the win in one of the WISSOTA street stock heats in early action Saturday at the ABC Raceway.

Larry Haderly completed a sweep of street stock action by winning his heat and his third feature of the season in commanding fashion. Haderly pulled away from his pole position start and Trevor Wilson and Tim Baum in
the non-stop 15-lapper to extend his points lead over Marshall Andrews to 36 with one night remaining. Baum slipped by Wilson in the late stages for runner-up honors, as did Dennis Groom for third and Steve Anderson for fourth.

Randy Spacek survived an early tussle with Darin Meierotto and then held off a strong Ken Truscott for his second super stock feature victory of '04.

In the caution-plagued 20-lapper Meierotto challenged Spacek for the lead several times, and on lap 12 snuck inside on Spacek going into turn 1, but the two made contact and Spacek spun. With Meierotto sent to the back of the pack for the incident Spacek then had to outrun Truscott the remainder of the way. Rick Rivord finished a solid third.

Early in the event Greg Kuklinski's car broke, and on lap 11 John Copp tangled with Jeff Lindsey, putting Copp into the front chute concrete hard nose-first. Their hard luck, combined with Spacek's win and Shawn McFadden's fourth-place run, knocked Kuklinski and Copp to fourth and fifth, respectively, in the super stock points battle. Spacek moved into the
runner-up spot in the standings, 43 behind leader Scott Lawrence, who took fifth in Saturday's A-main, while McFadden moves to third in points, eight behind Spacek and one ahead of Kuklinski, with two shows remaining.

Russ Weber started from the pole and led every lap, despite steady pressure from a strong-running Pat Cook, for his third six-cylinder feature win of the season. Weber and Cook ran one-two throughout the 15-lap run, while Jim Anderson switched off between challenging Cook for second and fighting back a determined Steve Stuart before settling for third place. Points leader Ron Swanson claimed fifth, and extended his points lead to 28 over new second-in-line Weber. Dale Coddington dropped from second to seventh in points after troubles in his heat led to a non-start in the semi-feature, while Stuart took over third. Only 11 points separate second through fifth in the sixes with one race remaining.

Jerry Hartman was the only feature winner tonight that did not start on the pole, as he came from ron 2 to win the modified A-main. Hartman took the lead after a heated battle with Al Uotinen on lap 2 and extended that lead after a lap 5 restart before heavy rains swooped in and washed out the balance of the race on lap 14. It was Hartman's second win this season and 30th of his career here. Uotinen held on to second and pushed his points lead out to 25 over Dean Yrjanainen, who started 17th in the 19-car field but flew to a fifth-place finish. Scott Hudack¹s nice run netted him third at the pay window, ahead of Bob Root.

The pure stock feature will be made up during the season finale on August 28. After heat action Cory Casari holds a 21-point advantage over Al Rapp.

On Tuesday night the speedway will host the rescheduled fourth leg of the AmsOil Late Model Series, with super stocks as the companion division. Hot laps are at 6:30 pm, with green-flag action beginning at 7. The ABC Raceway is located three miles south of Ashland on Highway 13, then one mile west on Butterworth Road. For more information, visit the track website at <www.abcraceway.com> or call (715) 682-4990 for raceday information.

Results

WISSOTA Modifieds
Heat 1: Cory Jorgenson, Hermantown, MN; Mike Bauer, Marshfield; Kent Baxter, Dorchester.
Heat 2: Al Uotinen, Superior; Jerry Hartman, Marenisco, MI; Jeff Spacek, Phillips.
Feature: Hartman; Uotinen; Scott Hudack, Ashland; Bob Root, Washburn; Dean Yrjanainen, Lake Nebagamon; Jorgenson; Baxter; Spacek; Darrell Carlson, Superior; Dennis Checkalski, Superior.

WISSOTA Super Stocks
Heat 1: Al Uotinen, Superior; Scott Lawrence, Superior; Darin Meierotto,Ashland.
Heat 2: Randy Spacek, Phillips; Jeff Lindsey, Thunder Bay, Ont.; KenTruscott, Greenland, MI.
Heat 3: Shawn McFadden, Ashland; Mike Duhr, Hazelhurst; Greg Kuklinski,Ironwood, MI.
Feature: Spacek; Truscott; Rick Rivord, Superior; McFadden; Lawrence;Dave Elliott, Minocqua; Ron Hmielewski, Washburn; Bob D'Antonio, Ironwood,MI; Todd Bonney, Bayfield; Charlie Anderson, Ironwood, MI.

WISSOTA Street Stocks
Heat 1: Steve Anderson, Ironwood, MI; Dennis Groom, Ashland; RandyVezina, Duluth, MN.
Heat 2: Larry Haderly, Marengo; Ryan Adamczak, Ashland; Roger Walker,Phillips.
Feature: Haderly; Tim Baum, Superior; Groom; Anderson; Trevor Wilson,Superior; Marshall Andrews, Duluth, MN; Vezina; Walker; Adamczak; MikeKalkbrenner, Duluth, MN.

Six-Cylinders
Heat 1: Pat Cook, Washburn; Brian Nevala, Ashland; Steve Tesch,Prentice.
Heat 2: Chris Lustig, Ashland; Tim Beeksma, Ashland; Scott Ovaska,Marengo.
Heat 3: Jim Anderson, Mason; Steve Stuart, Ashland; Ron Swanson,Ashland.
Semi-Feature: Shawn McFadden, Jr., Ashland; Steve Walston, Marengo; DanMihalek, Ashland.
Feature: Russ Weber, Bayfield; Cook; Anderson; Stuart; Swanson; GregJaeger, Mellen; Tesch; Chuck Hawkinson, Mellen; Nevala; Ken Tyykila, IronRiver.

Pure Stocks
Heat 1: Kevin Eder, Ashland; Scott Niemi, Bessemer, MI; Dan Kingsley,Superior.
Heat 2: Clay Passuello, Ironwood, MI; Jim Eliason, Ashland; KevinTruchon, Highbridge.
Heat 3: Bruce Kalmon, Ashland; Cory Casari, Hurley; Ricky Davis, Bruno,MN.
Feature: ppd; to be run 8/28.