Thunderhill Raceway Race Reports

Havel outlasts Cochart to win Stock Car Feature!
By Edward Anschutz Jr.

September 1, 2007; Sturgeon Bay, WI. - Shawn Havel wrested the lead away from  Cory Cochart to win on a last lap pass. Shannon Guellette took the lead on lap one of the Street Stock feature.  Brian Drexler looked extremely fast in his heat race, charged to second early in the contest, but was never able to challenge. As Guellette went on  the win the feature, making it a clean sweep for the night. Followed at the  line by Brian Drexler, Ryan Brandes, and the 2007 ThunderHill Street Stock  Champion Scott Reinhardt was fourth.
 

Photo Highlights

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WDLMA Late Model #10 Pete Parker grabbed the early lead and went home with the $2,000 first prize money. He was joined in the winner’s circle by his grandson, Lee Parker.
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WDLMA Late Model #15 Russ Scheffler and #10 Pete Parker, veterans in this prestigious class, battled it out Saturday night at Thunderhill. Parker grabbed the early lead and went home with the $2,000 first prize money. Scheffler finished second followed by Tom Naeyaert.
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Six-time feature winner, #54 Benji LaCrosse took home a convincing feature event win on Saturday after taking an early lead. 51201b.jpg (17266 bytes)
Former track champion Jeremy Jacobs led the first two circuits of the Modified headliner before newly crowned ThunderHill Mod champ, #54 Benji LaCrosse made his presence felt taking over the top spot. #10p Paul Parker then quickly shot to second.
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IMCA Sportmod #27, driver by youngster Jesse Kroll, took home a win against Dennis Meisler on Saturday and was joined by family members in the winner’s circle. 
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Shawn Havel was all smiles after taking home his first 2007 win from the Hill. Havel went wheel-to-wheel with #4 Cory Cochart for a good portion of the IMCA Stock Car feature before Havel was able to final grab the win.
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Probably one of the best battles of the night, #4cc Cory Cochart poured on the coals to stay even with #9 Shawn Havel in the IMCA Stock Car feature event. Cochart was able to hold onto second with Havel taking his first 2007 win in the track’s first post-season non-points night.
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Keith Kickbusch looked like he was running “Eddie Anschutz Jr.’s setup” in taking his seventh Hobby Stock feature event win last week. Dave DeGrave wound up runner-up.
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Two-time Thunderhill IMCA Hobby Stock Track Champion #47 Keith Kickbusch outdueled the 2007 Wisconsin State Champ #40d Dave DeGrave in Saturday’s feature event.
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Luke Lemmens held off 2007 Sport Four Champ Tony Everard to win the his second 2007 Sport Four feature.
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#20 Mike Sargent tried to hold onto a faster #07 Luke Lemmens at the start of the Sport Four feature.

Shawn Havel wrested the lead away from Mike Weitor in the opening laps
Stock Car Feature. Havel was able to open up a sizable lead until a series of caution. This bunched the field and put Cory Cochart in second place.
Cochart was able to snatch the lead away from Havel with four to go. The duo ran side by side for the lead, until the last lap where Cochart would bobble and slide high allowing Havel to regain the lead and pick up the win.  Crossing the line second; Cochart, Bernie Reinhardt, and Doug Kropp rounding  out the top 4.

Jeremy Jacobs would lead the first two circuits of the Modified headliner before Newly Crown ThunderHill Mod Champ, Benji LaCrosse made his presence  felt taking over the top spot. Paul Parker then quickly shot to second.

Lacrosse was out to a commanding lead when the caution would fly, setting up a 9 lap dash to the finish. On the restart Parker would try and use the low line to make a pass for the lead, but it was LaCrosse who found enough bite to pull away and win his second feature of the weekend. Parker second, closely followed by Jacobs and Brian Drexler.

Pete Parker would use his front row starting spot to take command of the WDLMA A-main event. By midway, Parker would encounter heavy lap traffic allowing Rick Scheffler and Tom Naeyaert to pull up to the leaders rear bumper. As the laps waned down Parker was able to clear himself of the lap cars and reestablish his sizeable lead going on to win the $2000 purse. The battle for second would go to Rick Scheffler, followed by Naeyaert, Bret Sievert and point leader coming into the night, Russ Scheffler.

06’ and 07’ Hobby Stock Champion Keith Kickbusch would out duel the 07’ Wis. State Champ Dave Degrave and pick up the feature win. Third was Jeff  Lautenbach, and fourth to Brandon Peterson.

Luke Lemmens would hold off 07’ 4cyl Champ Tony Everard to win the 4cyl
feature.

Jesse Kroll picked up the Sport Mod win.

There will be no racing Saturday night September 15. Racing will return September 21 & 22 for the ThunderHill Fall Classic. The track is located at the John Miles County Park on Sturgeon Bay's east  side. For more information, visit the track's website at  www.racethunderhill.com

Race Summary:


Modified
Feature Results,1stBenji LaCrosse, 2nd Pete Parker, 3rd Jeremy Jacobs, 4th Brian Drexler, 5th Kevin Sternard

Heat 1 Results, 1st LaCrosse, 2nd Drexler
Heat 2 Results, 1st Billy Lemieux, 2nd Evan Maddenn

Stock Car
Feature Results, 1st Shawn Havel, 2nd Cory Cochart, 3rd Bernie Reinhardt, 4th Doug Kropp, 5th Tony Bouche

Heat 1 Results, 1st Havel, 2nd Reinhardt
Heat 2 Results, 1st Cochart, 2nd Kropp

Hobby Stock
Feature Results, 1st Keith Kickbusch, 2nd Dave Degrave, 3rd Jeff Lautenbach, 4th Brandon Peterson, 5th Jarred VanLaanen

Heat 1 Results, 1st Degrave, 2nd VanLaanen
Heat 2 Results, 1st Peterson, 2nd Lautenbach

Street Stock
Feature Results, 1st Shannon Guellette, 2nd Brian Drexler, 3rd Ryan Brandes, 4th Scott Reinhardt, 5th Joel Beyer

Heat 1 Results, 1st Drexler, 2nd Reinhardt
Heat 2 Results, 1st Guelette, 2md John Sternard

WDLMA
Feature Results, 1st Pete Parker, 2nd Rick Scheffler, 3rd Tom Naeyaert, 4th Bret Sievert, 5th Russ Scheffler

Heat 1 Results, 1st Ru. Scheffler, 2nd Seivert
Heat 2 Results, 1st Bill Rezutek, 2nd Frank Geiger

4cyl Feature
Results, 1st Luke Lemmens, 2nd Tony Everard, 3rd Kipp Burlo,  4th Brad Lautenbach

Heat 1 Results, 1st Everard, 2nd Lemmens

Sport Mod
Feature Results, 1st Jesse Kroll, 2nd Dennis Meisler

Heat 1 Results, 1st Kroll