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Guilford Puts on a Show for Wipperfurth and Neitzel Memorial Race Victory
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8/30/2025

8/30/2025

IRA Interstate Racing Association


Guilford Puts on a Show for Wipperfurth and Neitzel Memorial Race Victory

Night number two of the weekend for the Bumper to Bumper IRA Sprint Car Series for the Jim Wipperfurth Memorial and the Harry Neitzel Tribute. 34 Sprint Cars checked into possibly the final time to the Beaver Dam Raceway.

Fastest in Box3 Media Hot Laps was Blake Nimee, Danny Schlafer would bring home the Hi-Plains Building Division- Quicktime Award in Carbon Safety Technologies Qualifying. Fox Lake Harbor Presents Allstar Performance Heat number one was won by Kyle Schuett, BodyCraft of Antioch presents Behling Racing Heat Two was brought home by Blake Nimee, Game Day Men’s Health presents Engler Machine & Tool Heat Three was won by Logan Julien, and Thomas Schinderle was on top of the charts in BR Motorsports presents King Racing Products Heat Four.

The Horizon Whiskey Dash Draw sat Kyle Schuett and Logan Julien on the poles of the dashes. Optimum Electric Dash One was won by Dave Uttech and Kristine Hartmann Pleasant View Reality Dash Two was won by Logan Julien. The Behling Racing Equipment was won by Jake Blackhurst, and picking up the A-Main Apparel B-Main Award went to Justin Erickson.

At the top of the race, we would race into turn one and two, with Sterling Cling and Thomas Schinderle colliding in turn two. Both drivers were okay from the scene. We would restart the field and go green once more.

Uttech would lead the field once more to the green as Julien would lead into the turns and into the first set of turns. Max Guilford would jump to third as Julien would try to go three in a row. Just as Max and Uttech were about to catch up to the tail of the 85J, we would come to a stop for Austin Hartmann and Jack Dover. Both were able to walk away from the scene.

Julien would continue his dominance on the restart, but Guilford would take the opportunity to jump into the second spot. We would also see Blake Nimee with a charge on the bottom to take fourth. Logan would begin to hit lap traffic as the 16c and 79 would be in pursuit.

With 20 laps remaining, Max Guilford would continue to close the gap just as race-long leader Logan Julien would spin in turn one with 18 laps remaining. Max Guilford would lead the feature back to green with Nimee and Blackhurst up from 21st. Tyler Tischendorf would also drive the 26 up to fourth as the laps would wind down for the 2025 Rookie of the Year Contender of Max Guilford. He would plant the 16c in the Real American Beer Victory Lane for the second time this season, Jake Blackhurst would earn the RT’s 5th Quarter Hard Charger Award racing to second, and Danny Schlafer would round out the podium.

The action continues tonight at The Hill Raceway for the final night of the Labor Day weekend. Watch the action all season long on FloRacing.

Photo by Dave Olson

A Feature 30 Laps | 00:50:24.079

  1. 16C-Max Guilford[8]; 2. 96-Jake Blackhurst[21]; 3. 25-Danny Schlafer[9]; 4. 26-Tyler Tischendorf[13]; 5. 9K-Kyle Schuett[3]; 6. 85J-Logan Julien[2]; 7. 21H-TJ Haddy[4]; 8. 25T-Travis Arenz[18]; 9. 49-Josh Schneiderman[23]; 10. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[17]; 11. 2W-Scott Neitzel[22]; 12. 3N-Jake Neuman[12]; 13. 99-Tyler Brabant[20]; 14. 4K-Kris Spitz[16]; 15. GR8-Will Gerrits[24]; 16. 41-Thomas Schinderle[5]; 17. (DNF) 79-Blake Nimee[7]; 18. (DNF) 45-Rob Pribnow[19]; 19. (DNF) 68-Dave Uttech[1]; 20. (DNF) 4W-Matt Wasmund[14]; 21. (DNF) 53-Jack Dover[15]; 22. (DNF) 87A-Austin Hartmann[10]; 23. (DNF) 10V-Matt VanderVere[11]; 24. (DNF) 34-Sterling Cling[6]

B Feature 12 Laps | 00:02:33.320

  1. 96-Jake Blackhurst[1]; 2. 2W-Scott Neitzel[2]; 3. 49-Josh Schneiderman[8]; 4. GR8-Will Gerrits[4]; 5. 3-Justin Erickson[5]; 6. 09-Clayton Rossmann[3]; 7. 4-Alex Pokorski[9]; 8. 55P-Brady Portschy[6]; 9. 52-Cody Schlafer[7]; 10. 24-Scott Conger[10]; 11. 43-Jereme Schroeder[12]; 12. 70W-Logan Wienke[13]; 13. 7F-Lance Fassbender[11]; 14. (DNS) 12-Corbin Gurley

Dash 1 4 Laps | 00:00:47.864

  1. 68-Dave Uttech[2]; 2. 9K-Kyle Schuett[1]; 3. 41-Thomas Schinderle[4]; 4. 79-Blake Nimee[5]; 5. 25-Danny Schlafer[3]

Dash 2 4 Laps | 00:00:49.890

  1. 85J-Logan Julien[1]; 2. 21H-TJ Haddy[2]; 3. 34-Sterling Cling[3]; 4. 16C-Max Guilford[5]; 5. 87A-Austin Hartmann[4]

Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:02:19.401

  1. 9K-Kyle Schuett[1]; 2. 25-Danny Schlafer[4]; 3. 4W-Matt Wasmund[2]; 4. 21H-TJ Haddy[3]; 5. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[5]; 6. GR8-Will Gerrits[7]; 7. 52-Cody Schlafer[6]; 8. 7F-Lance Fassbender[9]; 9. 43-Jereme Schroeder[8]

Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:03:20.064

  1. 79-Blake Nimee[4]; 2. 3N-Jake Neuman[1]; 3. 53-Jack Dover[2]; 4. 87A-Austin Hartmann[3]; 5. 25T-Travis Arenz[6]; 6. 3-Justin Erickson[7]; 7. 4-Alex Pokorski[8]; 8. 2W-Scott Neitzel[5]; 9. 70W-Logan Wienke[9]

Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:01:37.239

  1. 85J-Logan Julien[2]; 2. 26-Tyler Tischendorf[1]; 3. 68-Dave Uttech[4]; 4. 16C-Max Guilford[3]; 5. 45-Rob Pribnow[6]; 6. 09-Clayton Rossmann[5]; 7. 49-Josh Schneiderman[7]; 8. 24-Scott Conger[8]

Heat 4 8 Laps | 00:04:56.403

  1. 41-Thomas Schinderle[1]; 2. 10V-Matt VanderVere[2]; 3. 34-Sterling Cling[4]; 4. 4K-Kris Spitz[6]; 5. 99-Tyler Brabant[7]; 6. 55P-Brady Portschy[8]; 7. 96-Jake Blackhurst[3]; 8. 12-Corbin Gurley[5]

Qualifying | 00:00:24.373

  1. 25-Danny Schlafer, 00:11.733[17]; 2. 79-Blake Nimee, 00:11.762[20]; 3. 68-Dave Uttech, 00:11.792[32]; 4. 34-Sterling Cling, 00:11.796[23]; 5. 21H-TJ Haddy, 00:11.818[25]; 6. 87A-Austin Hartmann, 00:11.895[3]; 7. 16C-Max Guilford, 00:11.905[11]; 8. 96-Jake Blackhurst, 00:11.928[8]; 9. 4W-Matt Wasmund, 00:11.930[22]; 10. 53-Jack Dover, 00:11.931[31]; 11. 85J-Logan Julien, 00:11.935[18]; 12. 10V-Matt VanderVere, 00:11.943[13]; 13. 9K-Kyle Schuett, 00:11.960[26]; 14. 3N-Jake Neuman, 00:11.983[27]; 15. 26-Tyler Tischendorf, 00:12.032[6]; 16. 41-Thomas Schinderle, 00:12.046[34]; 17. 65-Jordan Goldesberry, 00:12.050[9]; 18. 2W-Scott Neitzel, 00:12.071[19]; 19. 09-Clayton Rossmann, 00:12.082[2]; 20. 12-Corbin Gurley, 00:12.088[21]; 21. 52-Cody Schlafer, 00:12.133[12]; 22. 25T-Travis Arenz, 00:12.152[1]; 23. 45-Rob Pribnow, 00:12.168[30]; 24. 4K-Kris Spitz, 00:12.179[4]; 25. GR8-Will Gerrits, 00:12.191[7]; 26. 3-Justin Erickson, 00:12.242[15]; 27. 49-Josh Schneiderman, 00:12.246[14]; 28. 99-Tyler Brabant, 00:12.322[29]; 29. 43-Jereme Schroeder, 00:12.451[28]; 30. 4-Alex Pokorski, 00:12.606[16]; 31. 24-Scott Conger, 00:12.615[10]; 32. 55P-Brady Portschy, 00:12.712[24]; 33. 7F-Lance Fassbender, 00:12.730[33]; 34. 70W-Logan Wienke, 00:12.823[5]

Hot Laps | 00:07:19.713

  1. 79-Blake Nimee[20]; 2. 34-Sterling Cling[23]; 3. 53-Jack Dover[31]; 4. 9K-Kyle Schuett[26]; 5. 10V-Matt VanderVere[13]; 6. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[9]; 7. 2W-Scott Neitzel[19]; 8. 12-Corbin Gurley[21]; 9. 3N-Jake Neuman[27]; 10. 16C-Max Guilford[11]; 11. 85J-Logan Julien[18]; 12. 21H-TJ Haddy[25]; 13. 25-Danny Schlafer[17]; 14. 96-Jake Blackhurst[8]; 15. 41-Thomas Schinderle[34]; 16. 99-Tyler Brabant[29]; 17. 49-Josh Schneiderman[14]; 18. 4W-Matt Wasmund[22]; 19. 52-Cody Schlafer[12]; 20. 26-Tyler Tischendorf[6]; 21. 87A-Austin Hartmann[3]; 22. 25T-Travis Arenz[1]; 23. 09-Clayton Rossmann[2]; 24. 45-Rob Pribnow[30]; 25. 4K-Kris Spitz[4]; 26. 7F-Lance Fassbender[33]; 27. GR8-Will Gerrits[7]; 28. 43-Jereme Schroeder[28]; 29. 3-Justin Erickson[15]; 30. 68-Dave Uttech[32]; 31. 4-Alex Pokorski[16]; 32. 24-Scott Conger[10]; 33. 70W-Logan Wienke[5]; 34. 55P-Brady Portschy[24]

Article Credit: Madeline "Chatty Madi" Schultz

Submitted By: Madeline Schultz

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