Thunderhill Raceway Race Reports

Sternard Wins Second of the Year
 By Joe Hegnet
July 14, 2007; Sturgeon Bay, WI. - Kevin Sternard of Sturgeon Bay took the lead on lap four from Kyle Kudick and never looked back at The Forest County Potawatomi Thunderhill Speedway. A total of 124 entered the pits on Havel Welding night.
 

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Kevin Sternard won his second feature by outdistancing #54 Benji LaCrosse and #21c Tim Czarneski.
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Kevin Sternard won his second feature race of 2007, taking the lead and eventual win away from rookie front runner Kyle Kudick.51201b.jpg (17266 bytes)
Charlie Kroll won the Sport Mod feature, his sixth consecutive win, putting Saturday's bounty up to $300 for Saturday
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Rookie racer #11v Von Eytcheson scored his first Stock Car feature win last week over Cory Cochart and Charlie Kroll. 51201b.jpg (17266 bytes)
Scott Reinhardt won his second consecutive feature win on Saturday night. 51201b.jpg (17266 bytes)
It came this close to having a second Sternard in the winner's circle, with John falling victim to a faster Scott Reinhardt, who scored his second feature win in as
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Dave DeGrave now has his third win of the last four IMCA Hobby Stock feature races. He outlasted Keith Kickbusch for the win. 51201b.jpg (17266 bytes)
Brothers #42Jason LaViolette #49 Roger LaViolette each got their own share in last Saturday's heat wins, but it was Kody that took a feature race win also.51201b.jpg (17266 bytes)
Bomber #48 Kody LaViolette earned a sweep on Saturday night, taking his heat and feature wins. Kody is the son of
Hobby Stock Roger LaViolette and nephew to Hobby Stock Jason LaViolette. This put three LaViolettes into the winner's circle a total of four times for the night.  Anyone remember a showing like that for one family?51201b.jpg (17266 bytes)
#9 Kasey Gross, Gleason, won his feature race ahead of Kipp Burlo. It was Gross' second feature win in 2007 at the Hill.51201b.jpg (17266 bytes)
4-Cylinder racer #11m Marc Clark walked away from this rollover in a heat race last weekend.
The IMCA Modifieds Kyle Kudick was the early leader in the IMCA Modifieds until Kevin Sternard came from his fourth row starting spot to take the lead away on lap 4. He then pulled out to a good straightaway lead. A late caution an lap 18 would then set up for a green white checkered finish with James Tebon on the inside behind Sternard and Benji Lacrosse outside. Sternard was able to hold them off at the line followed by Lacrosse, Tim Czarneski and Tebon.

The IMCA Stock Car Feature Forestville’s Von Eytcheson would use his second row outside starting position to grab the lead on lap one and never really challenged as the event went only had one caution early on for debris. With Eytcheson showing puffs of smoke every lap it still didn’t stop him from winning his first ever IMCA Stock Car Feature event. Cory Cochart, Charlie Kroll, and Shawn Havel rounding out the top four trailed him at the line.

In the Algoma Motors Street Stock Division Johnny the Jett Sternard was looking to take home two trophies for Sternard Racing Saturday night, but with a caution a lap 9 that bunched the field back up and set up for Scott Reinhardt to take the lead away from him and went on to win his second in a row. John Sternard was second followed by Jeremy Witala in a back-up car and rounding out the top four was Ryan Brandes making his first trip to the Hill this year.

Roger Laviolette took early command of the IMCA Hobby stock feature until a late caution brought out by his brother Jason Laviolette set up Dave Degrave outside row two to take the lead right after the restart following him was Keith Kickbush, Brandon Peterson, and Jarred Vanlaanen.

In the IMCA Sport mod division it looked as if the Bounty on Charlie Kroll might have been collected until the 11car of Joe White Lost a spring on lap 4 and then Kroll inherited the lead and went on to his Sixth Feature in a row Now increasing the Bounty to $300 for Saturday nights show. Aaron Holiday had a good run for second followed by Jeff Dubios and Dave Degrave.

Kasey Gross Passed Kipp Burlo Late in the Race to go on to win the Four Cylinder feature event on Saturday night.

Kody Laviolette led every lap of your Lackie Rentals and Remodeling Feature event to win his first ever Bomber Feature.


IMCA Modified Feature-1.Kevin Sternard 2. Benji Lacrosse 3. Tim Czarneski 4. James Tebon 5. Kyle Kudick

Heats#1 Lacrosse, Jeremy Jacobs
Heat #2 Czarneski, Dan Rataczjak
Heat #3 Randy LeMeiux Jr., Tebon

IMCA Stock Car Feature- 1.Von Eytcheson 2. Cory Cochart 3. Charlie Kroll 4. Shawn Havel 5. Troy Muench

Heat #1 Mark Derenne, Pat Davister
Heat #2 Eytcheson, Dave Bouche
Heat #3 Cochart, Pepe Vlies

Street Stock Feature- 1. Scott Reinhardt 2. John Sternard 3. Jeremy Witala 4. Ryan Brandes 5. Harley Simon

Heat #1 Witala, James Iverson
Heat #2 Paul White, Reinhardt
Heat #3 Harley Simon, John Sternard

Hobby Stock Feature- 1. Dave Degrave 2. Keith Kickbush 3. Brandon Peterson 4. Jared Vanlaanen 5. John Hill

Heat #1Jason Laviolette, Jeff Lautenbach
Heat #2 Roger Laviolette, Vanlaanen

Sport Mod Feature- 1. Charlie Kroll 2. Aaron Holiday 3. Jeff Dubois 4. Dave Degrave

Heat #1 Dave Davister, Kroll

4cyl. Feature- 1. Kasey Gross 2. Kipp Burlo 3. Jason Cornelius 4. Ken Malcore 5. Brandon McKeefry

Heat #1 Tony Everard, Charlie Gross
Heat #2 Kasey Gross, Ken Malcore

Bomber Feature- 1. Kody Laviolette 2. Dan Merkle 3. Jesse Kroll

Heat Laviolette Merkle