SMITH DOMINATES SECOND LEG OF AMSOIL SERIES
16 Year Old Kyle Peterlin Wins First Career WISSOTA Super Stock Feature

By Jerry O'Brien

Proctor, MN - 2001 AMSOIL Series Champion Brady Smith of Solon Springs , WI dominated the 35 lap WISSOTA Late Model feature at the Proctor Speedway Tuesday night.

Smith started from the outside of the second row and, after wrestling the lead away from Steve Laursen, he proceeded to run away and hide.  By lap 21 he had lapped 12 cars or half the field.

As the 25 car field took the green flag under threatening skies, pole sitter Steve Laursen grabbed the point but outside pole sitter Todd Gehl took over the next time by as Smith was third and Steve Vesel fourth.  Bill Byholm and Jeff Provinzino waged a wheel to wheel battle for fifth.  Gehl suddenly slowed across the back stretch and was able to limp around to the pits.  Smith was then into second and then slipped past Laursen into the lead.  Once he got out front he quickly opened up a huge lead and began to lap the field.  Laursen was losing ground to Smith but had, in turn, a big margin over the third place battle that involved Provinzino, Byholm and Darrell Nelson.

As the action up front became more hectic, defending champion and current point leader Joel Cryderman was working his way forward from the outside of the 8th row and was in 9th.  Pat Doar was also moving forward and hit the top five in fifth.

The battle for third resolved itself at the half way point with Nelson in third ahead of Provinzino, Doar and 13th starting Rick Egersdorf into the top five.  Cryderman continued his march forward capturing two more spots to 7th.

At lap21 the caution flag flew when Terry Lillo spun in turn two.  This brought the field back to Smith's bumper but to no avail.

At the green Smith again showed his superiority by again pulling out to a huge lead and was again in traffic within a couple laps.  Nelson tried to take second from Laursen but couldn't pull off the pass.  Cryderman picked up another spot at this point and was just outside the top five.  Egersdorf got by a slowing Doar into fourth as Doar pulled off to a disappointing 20th place finish.  The final caution flew when Jon Chrest slipped sideways in front of Smith who couldn't avoid tapping him sending the #84 around.

With four laps to go Laursen was again on Smith's bumper but did not have anything for him as Smith led the rest of the way to the checkered flag.  Laursen, Egersdsorf, Nelson and Cryderman rounded out the top five.

Kyle Peterlin won his first career WISSOTA Super Stock feature in convincing fashion starting from the outside of the front row and leading all 20 circuits for a sweep.  Johnny Erickson came home in second ahead of former National Champion Don Eichens who had fought his way forward from 16th.   Mike Bellefeuille and Jeff Tardy rounded out the top five.  Attrition was high in the event as only nine of 20 starters were running at the finish.

Results AMSOIL Series Race 2

WISSOTA Late Model (36 cars)

Heat 1: Darrell, Nick Nelson, Brady Smith, Rick Egersdorf
Heat 2: Jeff Provinzino, Steve Laursen, Bill Byholm, Jon Chrest
Heat 3: Todd Gehl, Pat Doar, Steve Vesel, Tim McMann, Jeff Broking
Heat 4: Tom Waseleski, Don Copp, Ryan Aho, Joel Cryderman, Kevin Carlson
B Main: Kelly Estey, Ed Wakefield, Terry Lillo, Danny Young, Tom Nesbitt
Feature (25 cars John Henkemeyer, Promoter's Option)
(1-10) Smith, Laursen, Egersdorf, Darrell Nelson, Cryderman, Copp, Waseleski, Provinzino, McMann, Wakefield
(11-18) Byholm, John Kaanta, Harry Hanson, Henkemeyer, Lillo, Vesel, Ryan Aho, Danny Young
(DNF 19-25) Broking, Doar, Chrest, Nick Nelson, Kevin Carlson, Kelly Estey, Todd Gehl

WISSOTA Super Stock

Heat 1: John Copp, Rick Simpson, Eric Nelson, Paul Schultz, Mike Bellefeuille
Heat 2: Kyle Peterlin, Spike McDougall, Jay Kuras, Steve Beach, Jeff Lindsey
Heat 3: Kevin Adams, Scott Lawrence, Jerrick Vesel, Shawn Ziels, Kevin Salin
B Main: Jeff Lindsey, Don Eischens, Jeremy Snow, Jeff Tardy, Aaron Lillo
Feature: Peterlin, Erickson, Eischens, Bellefeuille, Tardy, Copp, Beach, Lawrence
(DNF) McDougall