FAIR RACES NIGHT #2 GONDIK LAW SPEEDWAY FRIDAY 8-5-22

by · Published August 5, 2022 · Updated August 15, 2022

By Jerry O’Brien

(8-5-22) Superior, WI

The second night of racing at the Head of the Lakes Fair in Superior was held

Friday August 8th. Warm weather plus Friday night being the weekly race night at

Gondik Law Speedway may have contributed to a better sized crowd to witness

racing in four WISSOTA divisions, Midwest Modifieds, Super Stocks, Pure

Stocks and Hornets. A total of 57 cars in the four divisions conspired to give the

fans some of the fastest, closest racing they could ask for.

In the Super Stocks heat races were won by Andrew Mackey and DJ Keeler,

Midwest Modified heats went to Andrew Inman and Jimmy Latvala, the Pure

Stock heats went to Cory Jorgensen and Tyler Kachinski and DeJay Jarecki topped

the Hornet heats.

First up for their 20 lap feature were the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds. Pole

sitter Wyatt Andrew Inman. At the green Boyum took the lead followed by

McLean Andrews, Inman, Jimmy Latvala and Ashton Schulte. The caution flag

was thrown one lap in when a pair of cars tangled in turn two. The restart saw

Boyum in the lead, Andrews second Inman third and Cody Carlson up into the top

five from the fourth row. Four laps in the caution flag reappeared for Scott

Thompson’s spin in turn four. At the restart Boyum retained the lead over Inman,

Shulte, Jamie Davis, Andrews and Carlson. Boyum continued his strong run in the

lead with Inman close behind. Davis moved to third and Carlson was fourth.

Caution number three flew for the 4L of Carey LePage’s spin in turn one. The

restart came with nine circuits remaining and Boyum still holding on to the lead.

The fourth caution flag immediately appeared for Anthony Gallian’s spin in the

first turn. The green flg appeared still with nine laps to go and Boyum still holding

the lead. This time it was Carlson who drove into second. After some close pack

racing behind Boyum with Carlson, Inman, Shulte, Davis and Tanner Gehl all

fighting for position, yet another caution flag flew, the fourth thus far for

Andrews’ spin in turns three and four. The restart came with four laps remaining

and Boyum still hanging on to the lead, caution four appeared when Gallian spun

in turns one and two. He was sent to the pits as the cause of two stoppages, there

were still four laps to go at the restart with Carlson right on Boyum’s bumper.

Next time around Carlson found the grip he needed and drove past Boyum to the

lead. A complete lap after the lead change, caution number five occurred when

Davis got turned around at the exit of turn four setting up a green/white/checkered

finish. Carlson was able to pull away from the pack to win his third feature at the

speedway and sixth over all. Boyum, Inman, James Berglund (from 10th) and

Tanner Gehl (from 11th) finished in the top five.

Then it was time for the Super Stoc ks to take center stage for their 20 lap main

event. Kyle Copp had the pole with Scott Lawrence next to him. Before the race

could be started Lawrence dived into the pits and came out a few moments later

and headed for the back of the pack. As the green flag flew Lawrence again

headed to the pits out of the race. Before a lap could be completed Andrew

Mackay hit the wall at the upper exit bringing out the caution. Matt Deragon then

moved up to the outside pole creating an all ABC Raceway regular front row.

Copp shot into the lead at the green with Deragon falling to second and into the

clutches of Terran Spacek. DJ Keeler was fourth and Ryan Kostreba fifth. Spacek

soon drove to second as Copp raced away from the field to a huge lead. Five las

later caution number two flew for a pair of cars tangled at the bottom of turn two.

They failed to make a full lap when the caution flag again was out for a tangle near

the exit to turn four that included Keeler, Deragon and Spacek. The incident was

hung on Keller who was sent to the rear. Deragon’s damage was too severe and he

was out while Spacek went back to the front to regain his place. The restart saw

Copp move off to the huge lead again ahead of a pack of cars that included

Spacek, Jim Campbell, R. Kostreba, Doug Koski, Jack Koranda and Andy

Grymala. Copp’s lead grew and Spacek broke away from the pack and set off in

pursuit. Campbell was in third place but losing ground to Spacek. With four laps

to go Dan Peterson spun at the bottom of turns one and two closing up the pack on

Copp and Spacek. Neither lost a place at the restart but Grymala got past Campbell

to third and R. Kostreba ended up fifth. It was Kyle Copp’s second feature win of

the 2022 season.

It was a dozen laps for the Pure Stocks and the outcome, while not set in stone,

was like many, Cory Jorgensen flying off the outside of the front row and leading

flag to flag for the sweep, his seventh feature win at the speedway and 17th over

all

for the season, another sweep. There was a good battle for second between Aaron

Bernick and Tom Treviranus won by Bernick. Tyler Kachinske and Nate Rose

were the top five. This night marked the return of “Bad Chad” Carlson driving the

15x of Rob Christman with a sixth place finish.

The Hornet feature also had a familiar ring as DeJay Jarecki quickly moved up

from his fifth starting spot, got past leader Kristy Marken and drove off to another

sweep, his sesond of the week having also won on Tuesday. Marken hung tough

and finished a strong second while Josh Kough finished third. Justin Schelitzche

was fourth and AJ House was fifth.