Familiar Face Finds Victory Lane in USRA Modifieds

May 20, 2022 | by Matthew Grage

Steve Wetzstein of West Concord won the French's Repair USRA Modified main event at the Chateau Speedway on Friday, May 20, 2022. (Photo by Ashley Myhre, Deep Wolf Graphics)

Temperatures were a bit cool for racing action Friday Night at Chateau Speedway Powered by Garlick’s Water but some fast action warmed everybody up. One of the biggest highlights of week two of the 2022 season was the return of an old friend to Victory Lane. French’s Repair USRA A Mod Driver Steve Wetzstein of West Concord who has been in and out of car the last few years found his way back to Chateau Speedway Victory Lane for the first in almost three years. Last time Steve brought him a Feature win at The Track was June 14 2019 and he did it with a thrilling 3 wide pass for the lead. Steve’s son, Ryan lead the first eighteen laps but a three wide scramble off a restart with the two of them and Dustin Sorensen of Rochester saw Steve take over the top spot and power away for the win. Dustin took second ahead of Ryan Sanders of Happy Texas, Jason Cummins of New Richland and Jacob Bleess of Chatfield. Ryan faded to sixth. Bleess and Sorensen took the classes heat wins.

Twenty-Five Double M Transport USRA B Mods were scheduled for their Main Event but three drivers failed to make the grid. In the end it was Hunter Kennedy of St Ansgar Iowa who lead flag to flag for his first feature win of the year. Noah Grinstead of Austin pushed him to the checkers challenging him. Third went to Michael Johnson of Austin ahead of Jett Sorensen of Rochester who came from back in row nine for a solid top five finish ahead of Brandon Hare of Elma Iowa. Grinstead, Hare and Trevor Fecht of Ankeny Iowa scored heat wins in the class.

Jack Paulson of Faribault swept his way to a pair of wins in the Power 96 Pure Stocks leading every lap of both races. Andrew Eischens of Taopi came home second in the caution free main event. The classes other heat win went to PJ Duchene of Faribault.

Skjeveland Sanitation USRA Stock Cars were lead for the second week in a row by Travis Shipman of Mason City Iowa. Shipman scored the classes heat win as well. Chance Larson of Dunnel chased him home in both events.

Shawn Poston of Red Wing became the third driver on the night to score a sweep as he scored a pair of wins in the Manke’s Outdoor Equipment Hornets. He did it by leading every lap of his heat and feature as well. Bailey Wolf of Janesville gave Shawn a good run in the feature and was on her way to the lead as the pair worked traffic but a caution scrapped that and Shawn took control off the restart and never looked back. Colin Wittenberg of Hastings had the classes other heat win.

In Hansen Tire WISSOTA Midwest Modified action Trevis Underdahl of Northfield grabbed the early lead in the Feature before Kadden Kath of Ellendale worked under him on lap three. Underdahl stayed in the hunt until his car caught the wall in turn 4 coming to the white flag. Kath got the win with last weeks feature winner Jake Smith of St Joseph taking second ahead of Greg Pfeifer Junior of Austin, Ryan Goergen of Stacyville Iowa and Tony Bloom of Rochester. Matt Heinzerling of Spearfish South Dakota made the long haul and came away with a heat win in the class while Kobie Kath of Owatonna scored the classes other heat win.

Chateau Speedway now turns its attention to the big $10,000 to win USMTS Special next Friday Night. The USMTS A Mods will be running in the area for much of the Labor Day weekend and will make there Friday Night stop in Lansing. Running along with the big A Mods will be the USRA B Mods, USRA Stock Cars, and WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds. First Green Flag Friday Night is scheduled for 7:15.

PURE STOCKS

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 17P-Jack Paulson[2]; 2. 7X-Andrew Eischens[5]; 3. 1-Jack Maas[1]; 4. 17-Michael Wick[4]; 5. 00-Bobby Crews[8]; 6. 44D-PJ Duchene[6]; 7. 96-Kyndra Guttormson[9]; 8. 31R-Raey Hastings IV[3]; 9. 38-Dylan Pederson[7]; 10. 69-Brandon Wiedeman[11]; 11. 5V-Viola Brannan[12]; 12. (DNF) 63-Bailey Wolff[10]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 44D-PJ Duchene[4]; 2. 00-Bobby Crews[3]; 3. 17-Michael Wick[1]; 4. 31R-Raey Hastings IV[2]; 5. 96-Kyndra Guttormson[6]; 6. 69-Brandon Wiedeman[5]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 17P-Jack Paulson[1]; 2. 7X-Andrew Eischens[2]; 3. 1-Jack Maas[5]; 4. 38-Dylan Pederson[3]; 5. 63-Bailey Wolff[4]; 6. 5V-Viola Brannan[6]

USRA B-MODS

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 02K-Hunter Kennedy[1]; 2. 99-Noah Grinstead[5]; 3. 22C-Michael Johnson[6]; 4. 54-Jett Sorensen[17]; 5. 56H-Brandon Hare[7]; 6. 15-Cole Neisius[8]; 7. RED1-Dan Wheeler[10]; 8. 83R-Kullen Kath[4]; 9. 15Z-Zach Elward[11]; 10. 45-Cole Lonergan[12]; 11. 81K-Caleb Korpi[2]; 12. 29-Lilli Reps[13]; 13. 07-Logan Alseth[16]; 14. 10T-Trevor Fecht[9]; 15. 5-Michael Meyer[15]; 16. 11J-Jacob Lynch[23]; 17. 17-Klay Beemer[18]; 18. (DNF) 52-Hunter Nelson[3]; 19. (DNF) 88DH-Dylan Hutkowski[21]; 20. (DNF) 21M-Brandon McFarland[22]; 21. (DNF) 2C-Cole Bennerotte[25]; 22. (DNF) 21-Rian Leichtnam[14]; 23. (DNS) 27X-Max Anderson; 24. (DNS) 96-Isaiah Rowe; 25. (DNS) 64-John Ross

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 56H-Brandon Hare[1]; 2. 15Z-Zach Elward[6]; 3. 83R-Kullen Kath[8]; 4. 15-Cole Neisius[4]; 5. 29-Lilli Reps[3]; 6. 07-Logan Alseth[5]; 7. 54-Jett Sorensen[9]; 8. 17-Klay Beemer[7]; 9. (DNF) 21M-Brandon McFarland[2]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 10T-Trevor Fecht[1]; 2. 22C-Michael Johnson[7]; 3. 52-Hunter Nelson[2]; 4. 81K-Caleb Korpi[8]; 5. 21-Rian Leichtnam[6]; 6. (DNF) 27X-Max Anderson[4]; 7. (DNS) 11J-Jacob Lynch; 8. (DNS) 64-John Ross

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 99-Noah Grinstead[5]; 2. 45-Cole Lonergan[3]; 3. RED1-Dan Wheeler[7]; 4. 02K-Hunter Kennedy[4]; 5. 5-Michael Meyer[2]; 6. (DNF) 96-Isaiah Rowe[8]; 7. (DNF) 88DH-Dylan Hutkowski[1]; 8. (DQ) 2C-Cole Bennerotte[6]

USRA MODIFIEDS

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 90X-Steve Wetzstein[10]; 2. 19-Dustin Sorensen[5]; 3. 20-Rodney Sanders[6]; 4. 71-Jason Cummins[8]; 5. 21-Jacob Bleess[7]; 6. 90-Ryan Wetzstein[2]; 7. 55H-AJ Hoff[3]; 8. 83-Kylie Kath[1]; 9. 4A-Joel Alberts[11]; 10. 23-Darwin Karau[4]; 11. Z29-AJ Zvorak[12]; 12. 77-Jacob Stark[9]; 13. (DNF) 8L-Lyle Sathoff[14]; 14. (DNF) 15W-Alex Williamson[15]; 15. (DNF) OD-Thomas Rolfes[13]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Dustin Sorensen[3]; 2. 23-Darwin Karau[5]; 3. 83-Kylie Kath[1]; 4. 71-Jason Cummins[4]; 5. 77-Jacob Stark[2]; 6. 4A-Joel Alberts[7]; 7. OD-Thomas Rolfes[8]; 8. (DNF) 15W-Alex Williamson[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Jacob Bleess[1]; 2. 55H-AJ Hoff[3]; 3. 90X-Steve Wetzstein[6]; 4. 20-Rodney Sanders[7]; 5. 90-Ryan Wetzstein[4]; 6. Z29-AJ Zvorak[5]; 7. 8L-Lyle Sathoff[2]

HORNETS

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 511-Shawn Poston[1]; 2. 63-Bailey Wolff[7]; 3. 3D-Daniel Bjonfald[3]; 4. 21S-Brian Schott[4]; 5. 511JR-Maison Poston[2]; 6. 19C-Colin Wittenberg[6]; 7. 151-Shawn Morris[5]; 8. 3-Curtis Wilson[12]; 9. 35-Parker Foster[10]; 10. (DNF) 29-Tate Bauer[8]; 11. (DNF) 97X-Carter Kmett[9]; 12. (DNS) 77-Aaron Morgan

Heat 1 (5 Laps): 1. 19C-Colin Wittenberg[1]; 2. 63-Bailey Wolff[5]; 3. 21S-Brian Schott[6]; 4. 29-Tate Bauer[3]; 5. 97X-Carter Kmett[4]; 6. (DQ) 3-Curtis Wilson[2]

Heat 2 (5 Laps): 1. 511-Shawn Poston[1]; 2. 151-Shawn Morris[2]; 3. 3D-Daniel Bjonfald[5]; 4. 511JR-Maison Poston[6]; 5. 35-Parker Foster[3]; 6. (DNF) 77-Aaron Morgan[4]

WISSOTA MIDWEST MODS

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 83X-Kadden Kath[4]; 2. 21-Jake Smith[7]; 3. 00JR-Greg Pfeifer Jr[6]; 4. 22-Matt Heinzerling[8]; 5. G12-Ryan Goergen[10]; 6. 35-Tony Bloom[1]; 7. 79-Jeremy Misgen[9]; 8. 40-Colton Kramer[14]; 9. 79H-Luke Hainka[15]; 10. 69-Gary Wilde[13]; 11. 33-Darryl Hainka[11]; 12. (DNF) 17-Trevis Underdahl[3]; 13. (DNF) 4-Brayten Cisneros[12]; 14. (DNF) 5-Tyler McFarland[5]; 15. (DNF) 43-Broderick Diekman[16]; 16. (DNF) 83K-Kobie Kath[2]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 22-Matt Heinzerling[3]; 2. 83X-Kadden Kath[2]; 3. 00JR-Greg Pfeifer Jr[6]; 4. 17-Trevis Underdahl[7]; 5. 79-Jeremy Misgen[4]; 6. 33-Darryl Hainka[1]; 7. 69-Gary Wilde[5]; 8. (DNF) 43-Broderick Diekman[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 83K-Kobie Kath[2]; 2. 21-Jake Smith[6]; 3. 35-Tony Bloom[5]; 4. 5-Tyler McFarland[4]; 5. G12-Ryan Goergen[7]; 6. 4-Brayten Cisneros[1]; 7. 40-Colton Kramer[8]; 8. 79H-Luke Hainka[3]

USRA STOCK CARS

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 87-Travis Shipman[5]; 2. 95-Chance Larson[4]; 3. 7X-Andrew Eischens[1]; 4. 16K-Kevin Vogt[2]; 5. (DNF) 29S-Josh Sousa[6]; 6. (DNS) 14A-Blake Adams; 7. (DNS) 32-Jason Newkirk

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 87-Travis Shipman[1]; 2. 95-Chance Larson[4]; 3. 7X-Andrew Eischens[2]; 4. 16K-Kevin Vogt[3]; 5. 32-Jason Newkirk[7]; 6. 29S-Josh Sousa[6]; 7. (DNF) 14A-Blake Adams[5]