5/5/2019
IRA Interstate Racing Association
Jeremy Schultz Returns to Victory Lane at Wilmot Raceway
Jeremy Schultz out dueled Bill Balog for the victory on night number three of IRA competition.
The A main got off to an exciting start with Jeremy Schultz taking the early lead over Ben Schmidt. Schmidt chased the Bob Hood 10w piloted by Schultz. As the feature continued Indiana’s Brandon Wimmer moved his 7TW car past Schmidt and into second place and tried his hand at reeling in Schultz. Behind Wimmer, Bill Balog worked past Schmidt and into third. Schultz reached the tail of the field and began navigating lapped traffic, allowing Balog and Wimmer to get to his rear bumper. Contact between Wimmer’s 7TW and Balog’s 17B would send Wimmer around bringing out the caution. This would set up a 5 lap dash to the finish with Schultz setting the pace. Balog stalked Jeremy Schultz for the closing laps waiting for a mistake that would never come. As the checkered flag fell Jeremy Schultz was victorious by .085 seconds over the North Pole Nightmare. 11th Starting Rico Abreu came home third followed by Paul Nienhiser and defending IRA champion Jake Blackhurst.
28 teams pulled into the pits at Wilmot Raceway for the third night of Bumper to Bumper Interstate Racing Association (IRA) competition. Qualifying saw Bill Balog set quick time in Osborn and Son Trucking Qualifying. Brandon Wimmer timed in second quick ahead of Ben Schmidt and Todd Daun. Former Wilmot and IRA champion Jeremy Schultz was fifth quick.
Heat race number one saw a pair for former champions battling for the top spot as Scotty Neitzel emerged victorious over Bill Balog. Steve Meyer brought his Meyer Electric 85M home in third followed by Scotty Thiel and Todd Daun.
The second heat race was dominated by Mike Reinke. Reinke brought the SCA 02 across the line in first over California's Rico Abreu. Brandon Wimmer came home in third while Jeremy Schultz and Joey Moughan rounded out the top 5.
Heat race number three was won by Joey Moughan's teammate Ben Schmidt. Paul Neinhiser came home in second followed by Russel Borland and Jake Blackhurst. Dave Uttech brought his black and blue 68 across in fifth.
B main action saw Wayne Modjeski lead all twelve laps en route to victory ahead of Jimmy Fifeld and Brayton Lynch. The California transplant Austin Deblauw finished in the fourth position with Kris Spitz rounding out the top five.
A Feature 1 30 laps | 00:23:24.158 Presented by Bumper To Bumper Auto Parts 1. 10W-Jeremy Schultz, 23:24.158[1]; 2. 17B-Bill Balog, 23:24.242[7]; 3. 24-Rico Abreu, 23:25.270[11]; 4. 9X-Paul Nienhiser, 23:26.758[12]; 5. 25-Jake Blackhurst, 23:27.716[8]; 6. 73AF-Joey Moughan, 23:28.660[14]; 7. 64-Scotty Thiel, 23:29.387[13]; 8. 85M-Steve Meyer, 23:29.492[3]; 9. 02-Mike Reinke, 23:29.713[10]; 10. 4B-Scott Biertzer, 23:30.815[17]; 11. 19-Todd Daun, 23:31.791[2]; 12. 2W-Scott Neitzel, 23:32.216[9]; 13. 65-Austin Deblauw, 23:33.332[22]; 14. 29L-Brayton Lynch, 23:34.136[21]; 15. 68-Dave Uttech, 23:34.311[15]; 16. 14F-Jim Fifield, 23:35.499[20]; 17. 14AJ-Wayne Modjeski, 23:36.085[19]; 18. 20I-Kelsey Ivy, 23:36.382[18]; 19. 23-Russel Borland, 23:36.874[5]; 20. 43-Jereme Schroeder, 23:37.457[16]; 21. 29-Hunter Custer, 23:38.927[24]; 22. 73-Ben Schmidt, 23:04.945[4]; 23. 7TW-Brandon Wimmer, 18:56.992[6]; 24. (DNF) 4K-Kris Spitz, 06:14.092[23] B Feature 1 12 laps | 00:05:17.613 Presented by Behling Racing 1. 14AJ-Wayne Modjeski, 05:17.613[1]; 2. 14F-Jim Fifield, 05:21.676[2]; 3. 29L-Brayton Lynch, 05:22.604[4]; 4. 65Austin Deblauw, 05:22.782[3]; 5. 4K-Kris Spitz, 05:23.348[9]; 6. 29-Hunter Custer, 05:23.813[5]; 7. 63-Nick Matuszewski, 05:25.869[6]; 8. 45-Matt Wiese, 05:29.103[8]; 9. 22S-Brian Strane, 05:33.241[7]; (DNS) 18-Keith Fellner, 05:33.241 Heat 1 10 laps | 00:11:37 Presented by Weld Wheels 1. 2W-Scott Neitzel, 11:37.474[1]; 2. 17B-Bill Balog, 11:40.501[4]; 3. 85M-Steve Meyer, 11:41.811[2]; 4. 64-Scotty Thiel, 11:43.208[7]; 5. 19-Todd Daun, 11:44.175[3]; 6. 43-Jereme Schroeder, 11:46.400[5]; 7. 14AJ-Wayne Modjeski, 11:47.217[6]; 8. 63-Nick Matuszewski, 11:49.606[8]; 9. 4K-Kris Spitz, 11:51.689[10]; 10. (DNF) 18-Keith Fellner, 03:39.544[9] Heat 2 10 laps | 00:05:53 Presented by All Star Performance / AutoMeter 1. 02-Mike Reinke, 05:53.066[2]; 2. 24-Rico Abreu, 05:54.330[1]; 3. 7TW-Brandon Wimmer, 05:55.720[4]; 4. 10WJeremy Schultz, 05:58.130[3]; 5. 73AF-Joey Moughan, 05:59.297[5]; 6. 4B-Scott Biertzer, 06:02.137[6]; 7. 14F-Jim Fifield, 06:05.467[8]; 8. 29-Hunter Custer, 06:07.657[7]; 9. 22S-Brian Strane, 05:57.722[9] Heat 3 10 laps | 00:04:24 Presented by EMI 1. 73-Ben Schmidt, 04:24.281[4]; 2. 9X-Paul Nienhiser, 04:25.768[1]; 3. 23-Russel Borland, 04:28.545[2]; 4. 25-Jake Blackhurst, 04:31.048[3]; 5. 68-Dave Uttech, 04:32.805[7]; 6. 20I-Kelsey Ivy, 04:33.188[6]; 7. 65-Austin Deblauw, 04:33.723[8]; 8. 29L-Brayton Lynch, 04:35.275[5]; 9. 45-Matt Wiese, 04:38.857[9]
5/5/2019 IRA Sprints - 5/4/19 - Wilmot Raceway
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Qualifying 1 2 laps | 00:17:57 Presented by Osborn and Sons Trucking 1. 17B-Bill Balog, 00:13.315[12]; 2. 7TW-Brandon Wimmer, 00:13.520[2]; 3. 73-Ben Schmidt, 00:13.543[6]; 4. 19-Todd Daun, 00:13.635[16]; 5. 10W-Jeremy Schultz, 00:13.688[15]; 6. 25-Jake Blackhurst, 00:13.731[5]; 7. 85M-Steve Meyer, 00:13.737[10]; 8. 02-Mike Reinke, 00:13.819[27]; 9. 23-Russel Borland, 00:13.825[7]; 10. 2W-Scott Neitzel, 00:13.870[20]; 11. 24-Rico Abreu, 00:13.930[4]; 12. 9X-Paul Nienhiser, 00:14.010[22]; 13. 43-Jereme Schroeder, 00:14.016[23]; 14. 73AF-Joey Moughan, 00:14.060[18]; 15. 29L-Brayton Lynch, 00:14.137[14]; 16. 14AJ-Wayne Modjeski, 00:14.146[17]; 17. 4B-Scott Biertzer, 00:14.183[24]; 18. 20I-Kelsey Ivy, 00:14.200[26]; 19. 64-Scotty Thiel, 00:14.268[19]; 20. 29-Hunter Custer, 00:14.326[28]; 21. 68-Dave Uttech, 00:14.345[13]; 22. 63-Nick Matuszewski, 00:14.469[1]; 23. 14F-Jim Fifield, 00:14.490[8]; 24. 65-Austin Deblauw, 00:14.547[21]; 25. 18-Keith Fellner, 00:14.893[3]; 26. 22S-Brian Strane, 00:15.168[9]; 27. 45-Matt Wiese, 00:15.253[25]; 28. 4K-Kris Spitz, 00:16.197[11]
Article Credit: Gared Tennyson
Submitted By: Kim Tennyson
