Nuttleman Track Champion/ Brad Powell gets 3rd of Season!

Nuttleman Track Champion/ Brad Powell gets 3rd of Season!
By Philip Jahnke

September 7, 2002; West Salem, WI - Kevin Nuttleman has officially took the honor of being the Kwik Trip Late Model track champion of the 2002 seson Saturday night. Nuttleman locked into that didtinction last week with his third place finish.

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Nuttleman who raced Saturday with his teammate Blake Horstman's car after blowing his engine in hot lap action earlier that day aded to his point total by taking fourth. Nuttleman has now ben the track champion eight times in his career.

He didn't really have a game plan coming into the season but his main effort was to stay out of trouble and keeping the car runing great. Kevin credits his success to a great running car, a great team, a great sponsor, and a bit of luck. Nuttleman wasn't the only champion Saturday as Brad Powell raced very hard to get his third feature win of the season.

Powell worked his way up through the pack to fight it out on the last few laps with Charlie Menard who took second; Menard ws the fast qualifyer of the night. Steve Holzhausen who also worked his way through traffic ended up tkaing third, and Brent Kirchner ended th night with a fifth place finish. The action on the track was disturbed due to three restarts that included John Towner spinning out with twelve to go, Ken Christenson getting loose with six to go, and Mike Belling who hit the wall hard and ended up being towed off the track with four to go.

Spotrsman racing was hard, fast, and full of action and victorious for Dan Gilster. Dan Gilster, a former track champion ,who started fifth at the start worked his way up racing hard and getting the right line to gain the lead and take off to a sizable lead and take the checkered flag and his second win of the season. Dan Gilster took the lead on lap seven over third place finisherTom Thill. The top five positions were changing on every lap with great race action that featured Tony Ciano taking second, and Dan's brother Jimmy Gilster taking fourth, and trent Boettcher takinf fifth.

The race action in the Ray Hutson Sportsman feature was disrupted as Lucas Korish hit hard in turn four with four to go to bring up the only caution of the night.

Ed Senn won a hard fought first palce finish, an all expenses paid trip to victory lane, and a feature win in the United Auto Supply Thunderstox feature. To round out the top five, Shane Ulvestad, Andy Moore, John Hendrickson, and Al Bartels respecfully.

The Features Sports Bar & Grill Horntes were also in action Saturday night putting on a great show for the fans at the LaCrosse fairgrounds speedway featuring three features and one heck of a showing by the four cylinder wonders.

For complete results from the RACESTAT computer click here

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RESULTS FROM SEPTEMBER 7, 2002

KWIK TRIP ///NASCAR LATE MODEL DIVISION
Budweiser 25: 1. Brad Powell, LaCrosse; 2. Charlie Menard; 3. Steve Holzhausen, Bangor; 4. Kevin Nuttleman, Bangor; 5. Brent Kirchner, LaCrosse; 6. Dan Steele, West Slaem; 7. Rick Wateski, LaCrosse; 8. Tony Bagstad, Cashton; 9. Paul Proksch, Stoddard; 10. Tim Hagen, LaCrescent, MN
Semi-feature: 1. Todd Oliver,Bangor; 2. Greg Scheck, West Salem; 3. Jim Christianson, Holmen; 4. John Towner, Trempeleau; 5. Troy Godenough, Mindoro
Heat 1: 1. Gib Scharf, LaCrosse; 2. Tim Nelson, LaCrescent, Mn; 3. Todd Oliver, Bangor; 4. Jim Christianson, Holmen; 5. John Towner, Trempeleau
Heat 2: 1.Jeff Krueger, LaCrescent, MN; 2. Kevin Eddy, Sparta; 3. Kraig Burrows, West Salem; 4. Troy Godenough, Mindoro; 5. Greg Scheck, West Salem
Bud Odd: 1. Brent Kirchner, LaCrosse; 2. Jim Hagel, Holmen; 3. Kevin Nuttleman, Bangor; 4. Ken Christianson, Jr, west Salem; 5. Rick Wateski, LaCrosse
Bud Even: 1. Mark Lameroux, Bloomington, MN; 2. Kurt Thicke, West Salem; 3. Mike Belling, LaCrosse; 4. Steve Holzhausen, Bangor; 5. Paul Proksch, Stoddard
Qualifying: 1. Charlie Menard, Eau Claire; 20.247 sec; 2. Steve Holzhausen, Bangor; 3. Rick Wateski, LaCrosse; 20.501 sec; 4. Mike Belling, LaCrosse; 20.512 sec; 5. Brad Powell, LaCrosse; 20.535 sec; 6. Tony Bagstad, Cashton; 20.586 sec; 7. Kevin Nuttleman, Bangor; 20.596 sec; 8. Paul Proksch, Stoddard; 20.626 sec; 9. Tim hagen, laCrescent, MN; 20.642 sec; 10. Dan Steele, West Salem; 20.654 sec

RAY HUTSON CHEVROLET SPORTSMAN DIVISION
Budweiser 15: 1. Dan Gilster, West Salem; 2. Tony Ciano, LaCrosse; 3. Ton Thill, West salem; 4. Jimmy Gilster, West Salem; 5. Trent Boettcher, LaCrescent, MN; 6. Larry Bolster, Sparta; 7. Scott Beckler, Sparta; 8. Jeff Baker, Holmen; 9. Corey Jankowski, Tomah; 10. Randy Steinhoff, Cashton
B Semi-feature: 1. Rick Shisler, LaCrosse; 2. Jeff Winterfielad, Westby; 3. Adam Degenhartd, Coon Valley; 4. Lucas Korish, LaCrosse; 5. Doug Lee, laCrosse
C Semi-Feature: 1. Al Dobbs, Onalaska; 2. Laurel Viera, Eagle Lake, MN; 3. Al Bartels, Tomah; 4. Maynard Rave; 5. Randy hass, LaCrosse
Heat 1: 1. Al Bartels, Tomah; 2. Randy Hass, LaCrosse; 3. Chris Skrede, Holmen; 4. Laurel Viera, Eagle Lake, MN; 5. Maynard Rave
Heat 2: 1. Scott Stingl, Mindoro; 2. Jamie Millis, Black River Falls; 3. Jes Tenner, Melrose; 4. Morris Proctor, Genoa; 5. Adam Degenhardt, Coon Valey
Heat 3: 1. Mike Campbell, Bangor; 2. Branden Berg, North Bend; 3. Mike Albrecht Jr., LaCrescent, MN; 4. Jeff Winterfield, Westby; 5. Dan Linnehan, Sparta
Odd Heat: 1. Corey Jankowski, Tomah; 2. Chand Wheling, Stoddard; 3. Sam Anderson, Melrose; 4. Dan Gilster, West Salem; 5. Jimmy Gilster, West Salem
Even heat: 1. Scott Beckler, Sparta; 2. Marv Degarmo, Chaseburg; 3. Todd Lockington, Mindoro; 4. Larry Bolster, Sparta; 5. Tom Thill, West Salem
Qualifying: 1.Corey Jankowski, Tomah; 22.743 sec; 2. Trent Boettcher, LaCrescent, MN; 22.864 sec; 3. Tony Ciano, LaCrosse, 22.946 sec; 4.Jeff Baker, Holmen; 22.955 sec; 5. Dan Gilster, West Salem; 22.962 sec; 6. Aaron Hass, LaCrosse; 23.001 sec; 7. Jimmy Gilster, West Salem; 23.019 sec; 8. Larry Bolster,Sparta; 23.096 sec; 9. John Olson,Sparta; 23.100 sec; 10. Tom Thill, West Salem; 23.106 sec

UNITED AUTO SUPPLY THUNDERSTOX
Budweiser 15: 1. Ed Senn, LaCrosse; 2. Shane Ulvestad, Onalaska; 3. Andy Moore, Sparta; 4. John Hendrickson, LaCrosse; 5. Al Bartels, Tomah; 6. Chad Rosendahl, Hokah, MN; 7. Danielle Neary, LaCrosse; 8. Dwayne Anderson, Norwalk; 9. Jes Tenner, Melrose; 10. Jason Bolster, Sparta
Semi-feature: 1. Jason Bolster, Sparta; 2. Ron Heller, Onalaska; 3. Al Bartels, Tomah; 4. Jake Arneson, Taylor; 5. Tony Leis, Middle Ridge
Bud Dash: 1. Al Bartels, Tomah; 2. Ed Senn, LaCrosse; 3. Dwayne Anderson, Sparta; 4. Danielle Neary, LaCrosse; 5. Bill Inglett, LaCrosse
Heat 1: 1. Danielle Neary, LaCrosse; 2. Al Bartels, Tomah; 3. Andy Moore, Sparta; 4. Joey Johnson, Mindoro; 5. Dan Erdman, Holmen
Heat 2: 1. Ray Hardie; 2. Ed Sen, LaCrosse; 3. Nicholas Schroeder, Cashton; 4. Mary Schill, Minneapolis, MN; 5. Shane Ulvestad
Heat 3: 1. John Hendrickson, laCrosse; 2. Dwayne Anderson, Sparta; 3. Tim Steinhoff, Winona, MN; 4. Joe Rinartz, LaCrescent, MN; 5. Dean Ashbacher, Rockland
Heat 4: 1. Jeff Meil, Holmen; 2. Bill Inglett, LaCrosse; 3. Chad Rosendahl, Hokah, MN; 4. Greg Lindvig, Holmen; 5. Jason Schaller, LaCrosse