NELSON
DOUBLES UP AGAIN AT PROCTOR
By
Jerry O'Brien 6-22-03
Hermantown
Minnesota's Darrell Nelson has got his rivals at the
Proctor Speedway seeing double this season. For
the second consecutive Sunday Nelson has won both the
WISSOTA Late Model and Modified features. The
rest of the program was won by Mother Nature as a brief
heavy shower soaked the race track five laps into the
Super Stock feature.
 As
Nelson said in the post race interview after the Modified
main event, "The draw is so important because the
cars are so close". This
premise was born out when Nelson drew the outside of the
front row in both events.
At
the green flag, in the 20 lap Late Model, feature Nelson
shot into the lead with pole sitter Tim McMann, Jeff
Provinzino, Clint Larson, and Harry Hanson following. As
Nelson streaked away the battle for fifth was joined
between Hanson, Don Copp and Larson. Nelson
had a ten car-length lead over McMann. Copp
grabbed fourth as Hanson and Larson continued to battle
him.
At
the half way point, Nelson was in a different zip code
closing on the rear of the field. Provinzino
maintained third as the fourth place battle was the one to
watch. Larson was desperately hanging on to fourth but couldn't stave
off Hanson as the checkered flag flew. The
final top five finish was Nelson, McMann, Provinzino,
Hanson, and Larson.
Nelson
led from the get go in the WISSOTA Modified feature which,
unlike the Late Model main which went caution free, would
see four caution periods.
Nelson
led pole sitter Scott Schultie from the green flag over
Cory Jorgenson, Jeff Hart, and Duane Dale. With
a single circuit in Tony Lund spun in turn one creating
the first caution period. It
was a single file restart which turned into a no start as
newcomer Jamie Davis spun in turn two. The
next try was a good one and Nelson scooted away from
Schultie who was trying to hold off Hart and Dale.
A
couple of circuits later the caution flag moved over to
turn three when another newcomer, Ken Anderson, stalled at
the top of the corner. The
restart was right at the half way point of the 15 lap
event and, at the green, while Nelson resumed his quest
for the checkered flag, Schultie was passed for second by
Hart with Jorgenson to fifth.
The
battle for fifth was a tight one and the almost inevitable
occured when Jorgenson, Dale, Steve Arpin and Dave Lear
tangled. Jorgenson was charged with the incident and sent to the rear.
At
the green Arpin took the third spot but the caution flag
quickly appeared when he slid off the top of the first
turn and was sent to the rear. Up to this point, there had
been a great deal of shuffling occurring further back in
the field and Jayme Lautigar, who had started eighth, had
worked his way to fourth with the help of some attrition
while Jason Miller had come from 17th to crack the top
five.
After
the green flag, to start what would be the final run to
the finish, Miller took fourth as Schultie slid off turn
four and rejoined the field in ninth a spot he would lose
to Tommy Turcotte who had started last in the 21 car
field.
Nelson
had little trouble taking the win leading every lap. Hart, a flying Kelly Estey up from the 11th starting spot to
third, Miller and Lautigar.
With
five tough caution filled laps finished in the Super Stock
feature with Johnny Erickson leading Jay Kuras, Scott
Lawrence and pole sitter Spike McDougall, a brief heavy
rain shower soaked the speedway causing officials to
cancel the rest of the program which will résumé next
Sunday with the final ten laps of the Super Stock feature.
The Midwest
Modified and Pure Stock features will be run at a date to
be named.
Results:
WISSOTA
Late Model
Heat
1: Paul Wrazidlo, Darrell Nelson, Clint Larson, John
Massingill, Tim McMann
Heat 2: Harry Hanson, Nick Nelson, Kelly Estey, Jeff
Provinzino, Don Copp
Feature: Nelson, McMann, Provinzino, Hanson, Larson, Copp,
Nick Nelson, Tom Waseleski, Estey, Massingill
WISSOTA
Modified
Heat
1: Duane Dale, Jayme Lautigar, Ken Hron, Rod Heitala, John
Balich
Heat 2: Kelly Estey, Matt Sorenson, Jeff Hart, Scott
Schultie, Steve Arpin
Heat 3: Jodi Olson, Darrell Nelson, Cory Jorgenson, Dave
Lear, Jamie Davis
Feature: Nelson, Hart, Estey, Jason Miller, Lautigar,
Lear, Olson, Sorenson, Turcotte, Schultie
WISSOTA
Super Stock
Heat
1: Paul Schultz, Scott Lawrence, Spike McDougall, Jay
Kuras, Eric Nelson
Heat 2: Johnny Erickson, Donnie Lofdahl, Gary Cornelison,
Brad Arnes, Shawn Ziels
Feature Postponed
WISSOTA
Midwest Modified
Heat
1: Dick Peterson, Mark Kangas, Mark Anderson, Darren
Brown, Justin Jones
Heat 2: JJ Thompson, Steve Inman, Tyler Hynnes, Jody
Bellefeuille, D J Severin.
Feature Postponed
Pure
Stocks
Heat
1: Gary Campbell, Jon McKinnon, Al McDougall, Scott
Larsen, Rick Wilhelm
Heat 2: Cory Ziebol, Tom Cornelison, Jim Rich Sr, Wade
Ziels, Mark Carlson
Heat 3: Nick Lavato, Melissa Lillo, J P Aase, Al Rapp,
Ricky Davis
B Main: Jim Rich, Jr, Flynn, Cheryl Deloach, Todd Monahan,
Glen Dammer.
Feature Postponed |
