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Sabraski steals two to lead the way at ABC Raceway’s Farm Stock special event

By Nick Gima

ASHLAND, WI (July 2) - ABC Raceway hosted its fifth annual Farm Stock Special on Thursday night, saluting area farmers and agricultural workers. On track, Shane Sabraski made the most of his visit to the Chequamegon Bay area, with two wins out of the five features.

Tyler Vernon was also a winner in WISSOTA Dirt Track Series action, grabbing the victory in the Midwest Mods.

For the sixth time in his career, Sabraski - the five-time Red Clay Classic winner and 12-time WISSOTA National Champion - pulled off the “double” at the venerable northern Wisconsin speedplant.

In the WISSOTA Modified spotlight event, Sabraski started on the pole and led all 25 laps. He gained the advantage ahead of fellow front-row starter Steve Lavasseur after a two-car spin on the initial drop of the green flag. Sabraski was just beginning to pull away from Lavasseur, Dave Cain, Tyler Vernon and Kaden Blaeser when two more cars came to a stop on lap four.

Lavasseur’s strong start came to a frustrating end when his car failed him on the restart, and Cain held off Vernon for second on the next attempt under green. Again Sabraski was just starting to flex his ride’s muscle until lap eight, when Ross Fuhrman’s car lost a tire to bring about another yellow flag.

From there the race stayed under green and Sabraski finally took command and grew his lead to nearly 2.3 seconds during the final 10 laps. Vernon stayed with and eventually passed Cain for second with eight laps remaining, and then began to reel Sabraski in during the closing laps as the leaders were catching the tail-end of the field, but he simply ran out of laps.

The win was Sabraski’s 22nd overall at ABC, with Vernon within a car-length at the checkers. Cain, Blaeser, and division points leader Brandon Copp completed the top five.

Sabraski’s 21st career win here came in the WISSOTA Super Stock feature, which ran just before the Modified feature, and again he benefitted from a pole-position start and led all 25 laps.

Sabraski beat Cole Chernosky through the first turn and quickly pushed out to a half-second margin, while Steve Stuart challenged Shawn McFadden for third. Terran Spacek’s spin on lap two bunched the field together, and on that restart several cars tangled in turn one; Kyle Copp’s ride flipped and landed on its roof. Copp was shaken but otherwise unhurt.

Back under green McFadden worked his way past Chernosky for second and kept pace with the leader, while Dylan Nelson slipped past Stuart for fourth. Sabraski maintained anywhere from a half-second to full-second lead on McFadden as the lead pair eventually distanced themselves from the pack. Stuart drove by both Nelson and Chernosky to take third just after the halfway point of the run.

Sabraski held a .82-second lead as he crossed the finish line ahead of McFadden, who moved into the division’s points lead, while Stuart held off Nelson for third and Spacek clawed his way back to fifth during the final laps.

Vernon beat polestarter Marcus Dunbar through the first turn and set the pace for the entire 20 laps of the WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature for his 26th career feature win here and fourth of the season overall.

After a James Vendela spin on lap two and a lap four caution flag for debris, Vernon used the next nine green-flag laps to pull away by as much as 1.2 seconds over Dunbar, who came into the night tied with Vernon for the division’s points lead. Paul Ripley held down third in front of Jimmy Latvala for much of that run, with David Simpson working hard to move forward from fifth.

Connor Kaseno’s stalled ride on the front straight on lap 13 brought Dunbar and the rest of the field back to Vernon’s rear bumper. This time, Vernon had his hands full keeping a determined Dunbar at bay, but he held on for a quarter-second margin of victory and the 19th Midwest Mod win of his career at Ashland, putting him just one behind the division’s all-time wins leader here, George Dalbeck.

Simpson worked his way past Ripley for third on lap 15 and held the position at the final stripe, while Canadian visitor Curtis Stieh charged through late for fifth. Vernon also took over the division’s points lead by one over Dunbar.

Roger Walker moved to the top of the ABC Six-Cylinders standings with his third feature win of the summer and 11th of his career here. He took the lead on lap six and from there ran smooth, clean laps for the runaway win. Alex Bond ran a strong race to come home with a career-best second-place effort. Cody Eichmann, Shane Basina and Travis Swanson rounded out the top five.

The USRA Late Models made their second-ever visit to ABC on this night, and for the second time Rice Lake’s Josh Wahlstrom dominated for the feature win. T.J. Adams, Jason McFadden, Steven O’Brien, Jr. and Lucas Peterson completed the top five.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 7A-Shane Sabraski[1]; 2. 40JR-Tyler Vernon[5]; 3. 2C-Dave Cain[3]; 4. 43K-Kaden Blaeser[4]; 5. 22-Brandon Copp[9]; 6. 57-Mike Anderson[13]; 7. 7XJR-Marcus Dunbar[8]; 8. 33C-Cole Chernosky[20]; 9. 22S-Cole Spacek[15]; 10. 7-Andrew Mackey[10]; 11. 21F-Nick Oreskovich[21]; 12. 11JR-Andrew Inman[11]; 13. 17B-Zach Benson[16]; 14. 9-Riley Matthews[12]; 15. 32C-Curtis Stieh[18]; 16. 3H-Jake Hiatt[14]; 17. 14F-Blake Ferris[19]; 18. (DNF) 26G-Ryan Gierke[17]; 19. (DNF) 70-David Simpson[22]; 20. (DNF) 9B-Brady Uotinen[6]; 21. (DNF) 00-Ross Fuhrman[23]; 22. (DNF) 99L-Steve Lavasseur[2]; 23. (DNF) 11-Justin Weinberger[7]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 2C-Dave Cain[1]; 2. 11-Justin Weinberger[3]; 3. 7XJR-Marcus Dunbar[2]; 4. 7-Andrew Mackey[6]; 5. 57-Mike Anderson[5]; 6. 17B-Zach Benson[8]; 7. 14F-Blake Ferris[4]; 8. (DNF) 70-David Simpson[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7A-Shane Sabraski[2]; 2. 22-Brandon Copp[6]; 3. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[1]; 4. 11JR-Andrew Inman[3]; 5. 3H-Jake Hiatt[4]; 6. 26G-Ryan Gierke[5]; 7. 33C-Cole Chernosky[7]; 8. 00-Ross Fuhrman[8]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 9B-Brady Uotinen[4]; 2. 40JR-Tyler Vernon[1]; 3. 43K-Kaden Blaeser[5]; 4. 9-Riley Matthews[2]; 5. 22S-Cole Spacek[3]; 6. 32C-Curtis Stieh[6]; 7. 21F-Nick Oreskovich[7]

WISSOTA Super Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 7A-Shane Sabraski[1]; 2. 51JR-Shawn McFadden[3]; 3. 80-Steve Stuart[6]; 4. 25-Dylan Nelson[5]; 5. 22T-Terran Spacek[8]; 6. 44-Trenton Bond[10]; 7. 33C-Cole Chernosky[2]; 8. 21C-Patrick Beeksma[14]; 9. 27-Matt Deragon[11]; 10. 19-Tristan LaBarge[7]; 11. 2-Don Livingston[4]; 12. 49-Thomas Hauert[17]; 13. 12K-Duane (DJ) Keeler[9]; 14. 77K-Rick Simpson[13]; 15. 3B-Austin Blom[20]; 16. 11R-Rita Anderson[19]; 17. (DNF) 22-Randy Spacek[15]; 18. (DNF) 26-Kyle Copp[16]; 19. (DNF) 9-Jakob Bond[18]; 20. (DNF) 62-Dalton Truchon[12]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Don Livingston[1]; 2. 22T-Terran Spacek[3]; 3. 33C-Cole Chernosky[2]; 4. 44-Trenton Bond[4]; 5. 77K-Rick Simpson[7]; 6. 26-Kyle Copp[6]; 7. 11R-Rita Anderson[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 80-Steve Stuart[1]; 2. 51JR-Shawn McFadden[3]; 3. 7A-Shane Sabraski[6]; 4. 27-Matt Deragon[4]; 5. 21C-Patrick Beeksma[7]; 6. 49-Thomas Hauert[2]; 7. 3B-Austin Blom[5]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 12K-Duane (DJ) Keeler[2]; 2. 25-Dylan Nelson[3]; 3. 19-Tristan LaBarge[1]; 4. 62-Dalton Truchon[5]; 5. 22-Randy Spacek[4]; 6. 9-Jakob Bond[6]

WISSOTA Midwest Mods:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 41-Tyler Vernon[2]; 2. 7XJR-Marcus Dunbar[1]; 3. 70-David Simpson[8]; 4. 28-Paul Ripley[4]; 5. 32C-Curtis Stieh[7]; 6. 21-Jake Smith[6]; 7. 16-Ryan Savoy[11]; 8. 89-Kolby Reed[12]; 9. 91-Paul Suzik[9]; 10. 15V-James Vendela[17]; 11. 20-Judd Skubal[13]; 12. 15-Eric Gadach[14]; 13. 21L-Jimmy Latvala[3]; 14. 21+7-Ryan Barningham[15]; 15. 10D-Patrick Davis[10]; 16. 10Z-Cade Johnson[16]; 17. (DNF) 79-Bryan Lund[18]; 18. (DNF) 71-Jacob Anderson[5]; 19. (DNF) 15K-Connor Kaseno[20]; 20. (DNS) T17-Tanner Hicks

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 32C-Curtis Stieh[2]; 2. 70-David Simpson[4]; 3. 91-Paul Suzik[7]; 4. 10D-Patrick Davis[1]; 5. 20-Judd Skubal[5]; 6. 10Z-Cade Johnson[3]; 7. T17-Tanner Hicks[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 21L-Jimmy Latvala[1]; 2. 71-Jacob Anderson[5]; 3. 28-Paul Ripley[7]; 4. 16-Ryan Savoy[3]; 5. 15-Eric Gadach[6]; 6. 15V-James Vendela[4]; 7. 15K-Connor Kaseno[2]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 7XJR-Marcus Dunbar[1]; 2. 41-Tyler Vernon[5]; 3. 21-Jake Smith[6]; 4. 89-Kolby Reed[4]; 5. 21+7-Ryan Barningham[2]; 6. 79-Bryan Lund[3]

USRA Late Models:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 19-Josh Wahlstrom[2]; 2. T18-TJ Adams[1]; 3. 52-Jason McFadden[3]; 4. 14-Steven O'Brien Jr[6]; 5. 65-Lucas Peterson[4]; 6. 63-Patrick Kelley[7]; 7. 55-Clayton Hofteig[5]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Josh Wahlstrom[2]; 2. 65-Lucas Peterson[4]; 3. 52-Jason McFadden[1]; 4. T18-TJ Adams[3]; 5. 55-Clayton Hofteig[6]; 6. 14-Steven O'Brien Jr[5]; 7. 63-Patrick Kelley[7]

Six Cylinders:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 5-Roger Walker[6]; 2. 97-Alex Bond[1]; 3. 92-Cody Eichmann[9]; 4. 69ER-Shane Basina[5]; 5. 28-Travis Swanson[8]; 6. 7R-RJ Holly[3]; 7. 05-Kyle Weber[7]; 8. 23-Mathew Rohlfing[10]; 9. 43-Jim Anderson[11]; 10. (DNF) 81-Adam Traaholt[12]; 11. (DNF) 42-Cameron Bond[4]; 12. (DNS) 73-Dale Coddington

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 28-Travis Swanson[3]; 2. 7R-RJ Holly[1]; 3. 97-Alex Bond[5]; 4. 73-Dale Coddington[4]; 5. 92-Cody Eichmann[6]; 6. 43-Jim Anderson[2]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 69ER-Shane Basina[2]; 2. 5-Roger Walker[6]; 3. 05-Kyle Weber[1]; 4. 42-Cameron Bond[4]; 5. 23-Mathew Rohlfing[5]; 6. 81-Adam Traaholt[3]