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Brauer bags Street Stock main as only one feature finished at Thunder City before rain sets in

THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO (June 25) - The original plans for Thunder City Speedway race fans Wednesday night included a special bonus in the WISSOTA Midwest Mods, where the winner was set to take home a cool $750. Mother Nature had other plans, however, and the program was rained out following the WISSOTA Street Stock feature.

In that feature, A.J. Kellar moved forward from the second row to hold the slightest of advantages over third-row starter Kolton Brauer to lead lap one. One lap later Brauer drove into the lead, with Kellar remaining close behind. Trey Hess was also part of the battle out front.

At about the halfway point of the race, a large wreck into the backstretch wall brought the field back together again and gave Kellar another viable shot at Brauer.

During this yellow flag, the rain was falling lightly; back under green, Brauer had heavy pressure from Kellar and Kellar regained the lead on lap 12.

Kellar and Brauer continued to run closely together, and on the final lap Brauer nosed to the inside of Kellar. They came off the final corner side by side, and Brauer edged out Kellar to take the win in a thrilling photo finish. Hess, Andrew Piilo, and Tyson Waller were top-five finishers.

The rains then picked up and the racing for the night was over, with the other four WISSOTA-sanctioned races rained out.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Modifieds:

Feature - Rained out

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 70-David Simpson[1]; 2. 32C-Curtis Stieh[2]; 3. 27-Scott McKinnon[3]; 4. 22-Brandon Copp[7]; 5. 40-Tanner Henderson[6]; 6. 07-Jeremy Britten[4]; 7. 007-Shawn Liddicoat[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Chernosky[1]; 2. 51-Joel Cryderman[3]; 3. 9M-Riley Matthews[7]; 4. 15-Adam Dennhardt[5]; 5. (DNF) T23-John Toppozini[6]; 6. (DNF) 24-Jarrett Dowell[2]; 7. (DNF) 73-Jeff Helget[4]

WISSOTA Super Stocks:

Feature - Rained out

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 77-Rick Simpson[3]; 2. 316-Shawn Polonoski[7]; 3. 15G-Andrew Groom[1]; 4. 37-John Garrity[9]; 5. 37J-Tyler Wade[5]; 6. 24-Joshua Oleksuk[8]; 7. 51-Aaron Sacek[2]; 8. 219-Ryan House[6]; 9. 19-Larry Both[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 33C-Cole Chernosky[4]; 2. 22R-Nathan Roy[5]; 3. 498-Tanner House[6]; 4. 0-Jeremy Britten[1]; 5. 2-Carson Bamford[8]; 6. 207-Tj Lynch[3]; 7. 518-Mike Plas[7]; 8. (DNF) 37A-Danny Young[2]

WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds:

Feature - Rained out

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 70-David Simpson[2]; 2. 26-Paul Hari[5]; 3. 47-Don Craig[6]; 4. 723-Wayne deBruin[9]; 5. 97-Mark Earl[7]; 6. 32C-Curtis Stieh[8]; 7. 44-Bryce Melanson[1]; 8. 67-Glen Brown[3]; 9. 17K-David Kivi[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 87-William Moelter[1]; 2. 17-Rob Groom[2]; 3. 6-Joel Macleod[6]; 4. 27B-Dave DeVente[3]; 5. 2-Dan Tocheri[7]; 6. 57JR-Robert Squitti[4]; 7. 99D-Ben DeFoy[5]; 8. 95-Connor Moro[9]; 9. 46B-Addy Beerthuizen[8]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 41-Tyler Vernon[5]; 2. 3D-Kevin Monteith[2]; 3. 86EH-Tanner Ulakovic[3]; 4. 10D-Patrick Davis[6]; 5. M17-Matthew Mitchell[8]; 6. 18-Hunter Brink[7]; 7. 56-Keith LaPlante[1]; 8. 13-Ted Horst[4]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 66-Bill Speak[3]; 2. 3DJR-Kyle Monteith[1]; 3. 22R-Nathan Roy[5]; 4. 8X-Michael Shalley[7]; 5. 89-Kolby Reed[4]; 6. 267-Bill Jeffers[2]; 7. 18W-Brad Walker[6]; 8. 32S-Connor Stieh[8]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 32C-Curtis Stieh[3]; 2. M17-Matthew Mitchell[2]; 3. 17K-David Kivi[9]; 4. 67-Glen Brown[7]; 5. 18-Hunter Brink[4]; 6. 97-Mark Earl[1]; 7. 44-Bryce Melanson[5]; 8. (DNF) 56-Keith LaPlante[6]; 9. (DNS) 13-Ted Horst

B Feature 2 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Dan Tocheri[1]; 2. 89-Kolby Reed[2]; 3. 95-Connor Moro[7]; 4. 99D-Ben DeFoy[5]; 5. 267-Bill Jeffers[4]; 6. 18W-Brad Walker[6]; 7. 32S-Connor Stieh[8]; 8. (DNF) 57JR-Robert Squitti[3]; 9. (DNF) 46B-Addy Beerthuizen[9]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 34J-Kolton Brauer[5]; 2. 54X-AJ Kellar[3]; 3. 4-Trey Hess[4]; 4. 24-Andrew Piilo[2]; 5. 22-Tyson Waller[1]; 6. 426-Brendan Makkinga[10]; 7. 96W-Darren Wolframe[8]; 8. 17A-David Mitchell[11]; 9. 32-Cory Ward[15]; 10. 77-Kyle Bolt[7]; 11. 1JT-Justin Tougas[6]; 12. 73-Freddy Henny[12]; 13. 12SB-Scott Gregory[18]; 14. 555-Johnny Staal[14]; 15. 21-Nate Owen[20]; 16. (DNF) 35-Nathan Henny[9]; 17. (DNF) 9-Sam Williamson[16]; 18. (DNF) 49-Derek Ross[17]; 19. (DNF) 19-Paul Krawec[19]; 20. (DNF) 12K-Chase Kivi[13]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Trey Hess[7]; 2. 22-Tyson Waller[1]; 3. 35-Nathan Henny[4]; 4. 12K-Chase Kivi[6]; 5. 49-Derek Ross[5]; 6. 12SB-Scott Gregory[3]; 7. 55-Carter Wieringa[2]; 8. 50S-Amanda Smith[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 34J-Kolton Brauer[8]; 2. 77-Kyle Bolt[1]; 3. 426-Brendan Makkinga[7]; 4. 555-Johnny Staal[4]; 5. 25-Kathryn Stieh[6]; 6. 17-Don Mitchell[2]; 7. 19-Paul Krawec[3]; 8. S13-Mike Stover[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 54X-AJ Kellar[6]; 2. 96W-Darren Wolframe[5]; 3. 17A-David Mitchell[7]; 4. 32-Cory Ward[3]; 5. 3B-BJ Kapush[4]; 6. 2-Charlie Merkley[1]; 7. 88-Steven Hitchman[8]; 8. 27-Chris Daze[2]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 24-Andrew Piilo[2]; 2. 1JT-Justin Tougas[4]; 3. 73-Freddy Henny[1]; 4. 9-Sam Williamson[7]; 5. 21-Nate Owen[5]; 6. 29-Ricky Reid[6]; 7. 16-Teagan Britten[3]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 49-Derek Ross[1]; 2. 12SB-Scott Gregory[5]; 3. 19-Paul Krawec[10]; 4. 21-Nate Owen[4]; 5. 3B-BJ Kapush[3]; 6. 55-Carter Wieringa[9]; 7. 88-Steven Hitchman[11]; 8. 2-Charlie Merkley[7]; 9. 17-Don Mitchell[6]; 10. S13-Mike Stover[14]; 11. 27-Chris Daze[15]; 12. 16-Teagan Britten[12]; 13. (DNF) 29-Ricky Reid[8]; 14. (DNF) 50S-Amanda Smith[13]; 15. (DNF) 25-Kathryn Stieh[2]

WISSOTA Hornets:

Feature - Rained out

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 57-Spencer Smith[3]; 2. 26B-Rick Breukelman[1]; 3. 37-Connor Danylko[6]; 4. 09-Joshua Kruzel[5]; 5. 10K-Kathleen Speaker[7]; 6. (DNF) 12SB-Jaxon Gregory[4]; 7. (DNF) 5-Hunter Marshall[2]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 34-Selena Owen[3]; 2. 26-Martin Bolt[2]; 3. 205-Curtis Oleksuk[1]; 4. 95-Kristina Moro[5]; 5. 23-Jimmy Owen[4]; 6. M11-Merissa Currie[6]