Neenah, Wisconsin’s Braison Bennett grabbed the lead on a lap 20 restart and held to top spot the remainder of the way to capture the 50 lap Auto Value series late model feature at Norway Speedway Friday, July 8th.
The win, which was Bennett’s second here of the year, was worth $1,200 to the third generation racer.
Norway’s 2021 rookie of the year Wyatt Spade led much of the early going in the contest but surrendered the lead to Scott Stanchina after a lap 19 spin.
Bennett, wheeling the Coleman Racing Products 119, stormed past Stanchina on the restart and never looked back, stretching his lead to a full straightaway for much of the race.
Gleason, Wisconsin’s Justin Mondeik closed the gap slightly on Bennett after a caution flew with 10 laps remaining but Bennett fought off the challenge. Mondeik settled for second place money, followed by Stanchina and Fort Collins, Colorado’s Jonathon Knee who wheeled the Mike Butz Racing entry to a fourth place finish.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin’s Gregg Haese rounded out the top five finishers. “Randy Klitzke prepared one heckuva car for me tonight – it was on rails” exclaimed Bennett in victory lane. “This is the car Johnny Sauter raced to a second place finish here last week in the Stateline Challenge. Even with the yellow with ten laps to go, tonight I wasn’t really worried about Justin (Mondeik). We had him covered tonight.”
Earlier in the night hometown driver Joey Pontbriand led wire-to-wire, guest driving Ryan Wender’s machine to a $750 Auto Value super stock win.
Defending stock car champion B.J. Schoneck of Marion, Wisconsin emerged triumphant in that division’s feature race while Kingsford’s Brent Barglind fought off his brother Brad Barglind at the wire to score the sport truck feature win.
The spectator eliminator feature was won by Kingsford’s Ryan Okler.
There is no racing next Friday night, July 15 but the TUNDRA super late model series comes to town Saturday night, July 16. The track’s weekly divisions will be in action including super stocks, stock cars and 4 cylinders with the action getting underway at 7 p.m.
Please check our website norwayspeedway.com for further information or email ostermannjohn@hotmail.com.
RACE SUMMARY
BINK’S COCA COLA SUPER LATE MODEL FEATURE – Braison Bennett, Neenah, WI; Justin Mondeik, Gleason, WI; Scott Stanchina, Kingsford; Jonathon Knee, Fort Collins, CO; Greg Haese, Manitowoc, WI; Will Timmers, Kaukauna, WI; Bruce White, Kingsford; Parker Cain, Big Bay; Jason Wells, Kingsford; Cory Cootware, Iron Mountain; Wyatt Spade, Norway; Scott Bolster, Marquette; John Ostermann, Norway
HEAT – Stanchina; Cain
DASH – Haese
FAST TIME – Braison Bennett, 14.544
AUTO VALUE SUPER STOCK FEATURE – Joey Pontbriand, Norway; Tim Schultz, Vulcan; Anthony Schiefelbein, Pembine, WI; Dave Sanicki, Niagara, WI; Devon Wilcox, Florence, WI; Trevor Pankratz, Little Suamico, WI; Tony Wender, Upper Pine Creek; Destiny Bullard, Marquette; Andy Gerwig, Norway; Kevin Peterson, Marinette, WI; Lukas Peterson, Marinette, WI
HEAT – Tony Wender; Pankratz
DASH – Anthony Schiefelbein
FAST TIME – Anthony Schiefelbein, 15.778
141 AUTO SALES STOCK CAR FEATURE – B.J. Schoneck, Marion, WI; Jon Maenpaa, Kingsford; Travis Hulsizer, Menominee; Bobby Lewis, Bark River; Nick Kroehler, Appleton, WI
HEATS 1) Brian Massicotte, Kingsford; Lewis 2) Gary Thom, Aurora, WI; Schoneck
FAST TIME – Maenpaa, 18.145
SPORT TRUCK FEATURE – Brent Barglind, Kingsford; Brad Barglind, Kingsford; Andrew Ross, Appleton, WI; Tanner Fickel, Appleton, WI; Bode Johnson, Ishpeming; Courtney Anderson, Menominee; Kasey Vander Loop, Freedom; Beth Craig, Appleton (DNS); Jamie Newby, Wausaukee (DNS)
HEAT – Brad Barglind; Johnson
FAST TIME – Brent Barglind, 16.475
MC SIGNS & GRAPHICS 4 BANGER FEATURE – Dean Bellmore, Hermansville; Zach Gazda, Vulcan; Elliot Reid, Faithorn; Dylan Terschel, Kingsford; Cassandra Freeman, Niagara, WI
SEMI FEATURE – Owen Eichmeyer, Powers; Devin Farah, Iron Mountain
HEATS 1) Terschel; James Strahl, Hermansville 2) Brett Ayotte, Hermansville; Jurnee Bennett, Appleton, WI
FAST TIME – Dean Bellmore, 18.073
Spectator Eliminator – Ryan Okler, Kingsford
