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Scott Winters Wheels To Richert Memorial Win
By Justin Zoch (9-11-10)

The IRA Sprints gathered at Cedar Lake Speedway on
Saturday night September 11 for the tenth time to honor Jerry Richert, and they put
on a show befitting the legend. Front row starters Mark Dobmeier and
Scott Winters put on a thrilling battle through lapped traffic with
Winters eventually nabbing the lead and cruising to the $3,300 victory.

After a false start, Dobmeier got the jump from the pole
position and set a blistering pace until a lap eight red flag for
second place Davey Heskin, who tangled with the lapped car of Ty
Bartz and tipped over. Both were finished for the night. On the
restart, Winters was on Dobmeier's tail with Travis Whitney, running
the Dewall 16, and Bill Balog in tow. Winters caught Dobmeier in
lapped traffic, and they put on a thrilling show, swapping the top
spot lap after lap until a lap 24 caution for a spinning Billy Hafemann.

Scott Winters lined up in front on the restart and was
able to pull away from Dobmeier and Balog to take the win, his fifth
career IRA score at Cedar Lake Speedway. Dobmeier was second while
Balog kept his consecutive top-five IRA streak alive with his
nineteenth consecutive top five finish in full IRA point shows alive.
Ian Madsen was fourth in his first visit to the speedway and Scott
Biertzer was fifth.

Heat races for the 36 car field were won by Dobmeier,
Balog, Winters and John Haeni while Ian Madsen scored quick time with
a lap of 11.238 seconds and also won the B-main. The IRA returns to
action next weekend with a Friday night stop at the Oshkosh Speedzone
before heading to the Sheboygan County Fair Park in Plymouth,
Wisconsin, on Saturday night.

Osborne and Sons Trucking Qualifications: Ian Madsen 11.238 seconds

Weld Racing Heat Race #1:1.Dobmeier, 2. Biertzer, 3. Neitzel, 4.
Zemken / 5. Madsen, 6. D. Uttech, 7. Modjeski, 8. Thomas, 9. Thone

Lane Automotive Heat Race #2: 1. Balog, 2. Davey Heskin, 3. Bartz, 4.
Mock, / 5. Wilson, 6. Tatnell DNF, 7. Meyer DNF, 8. Vandevere DNF

DMI Heat Race #3: 1. Winters, 2. Spitz, 3. Sernett, 4. Hafemann / 5.
Wolfgang, 6. McCarl, 7. Blandford Jr., 8. Wirth, 9. S. Uttech DNF

King Racing Products Heat Race #4: 1. Haeni, 2. Warren, 3. Whitney,
4. Borland / 5. Reinke, 6. Danny Heskin, 7. Hunt, 8. Kerzman, 9. Kaus DNF

Behling Racing Products B-main: 1. Madsen, 2. Reinke, 3. McCarl, 4.
Wolfgang, 5. Tatnell, 6. Modjeski / 7. Bill Wirth, 8. Scott Uttech,
9. Dave Uttech, 10. Danny Heskin, 11. Matt Vandevere, 12. Brandon
Thone, 13. Leigh Thomas, 14. Duane Olson, 15. Andy Hunt DNF, 16. Tony
Kaus DNF, 17. Jeremy Kerzman DNF, 18. Sid Blandford Jr. DNF, 19. Ryan
Wilson DNF, 20. Steve Meyer DNS

30-Lap A-Feature: 1. Scott Winters (2), 2. Mark Dobmeier (1), 3. Bill
Balog (6), 4. Ian Madsen (11), 5. Scott Biertzer (7), 6. Scott
Neitzel (9), 7. Bill Warren (15), 8. Jessica Zemken (4), 9. Brooke
Tatnell (21), 10. Mike Reinke (12), 11. Travis Whitney (5), 12.
Austin McCarl (19), 13. John Haeni (10), 14. Robbie Wolfgang (20),
15. Phillip Mock (13), 16. Billy Hafemann (8), 17. Kris Spitz (17),
18. Wayne Modjeski (22), 19. John Sernett (14) DNF, 20. Russel
Borland (18) DNF, 21. Davey Heskin (3) DNF, 22. Ty Bartz (16) DNF

The combined field of 62 sprint cars at the 10th Annual Jerry Richert Sr Memorial last night set the record for the most sprint cars signed into the Cedar Lake Speedway pits. A quality field of 36 IRA 410 outlaw sprinters and 26 UMSS 360 sprints certainly caught the attention of many race fans, as most were quite pleased with the turnout in the two divisions. There have certainly been higher car counts in the 410 and 360 divisions respectively at CLS, but the combined total topped last year's mark of 53 sprint cars (34+19). I know the current individual 360 sprint car count record for a race at CLS is 36, set way back at the season opener in 1995 when Randy Nygaard won the feature. The 410 car count record was set several years ago at the Richert Memorial. I'm going to have to look that one up, as it was around 47-48 range.

47 stands out in my mind. I think that's what it was.

Stan Meissner

47 Cars back in 2003 when Terry McCarl was the winner