Skelton Captures MSA Sprint Special at Monster Hall!
By Rena Rogers and George Baumann

July 20, 2003; Unity, WI. - Monster Hall Raceway held another Midwest Sprint Car night along with the Wissota Street Stock. The night was sponsored by Hellman Distributors and Pep's Pizza presented by R&J Promotions.

The Wissota Street Stock were on the track first with Todd Heier and Jim Marshall making up the front row. Heier held the lead as Steve Bangart closed in on him. Within the next lap Bangart passed Heier for first.

Joe Bablick moved from the back all the way up to the first position within the first five laps of the race. Roger Walker moved to the inside of Heier and passed him, closing the gap between him and Bangart where Walker was able to pass him for second. Bablick won this no caution event.

In MSA Sprint Car action, K.J. Skelton needed just 11laps to move from his sixth place starting spot to the front. For Skelton it was his second A-Main win of the season.

A lap two crash knocked T.J. Luedke and Troy Wondra out of the race after they collided with Dean Erfurth. Erfurth's continued in his damaged car and managed a tenth place finish. Skelton started his charge to the front early and was fourth by lap four and third two laps later. He then worked his way around Danny Schlafer for second and set sail for race leader Al Schlafer.

Then on lap eleven he passed Schlafer and was soon lapping cars. Series points leader and fast qualifier Doug Schenck started 12th and slowly worked his way forward. At the race's midway point he was seventh and ready to close in on the leaders.

Michael Emme who started fifth ran a steady race and moved into second place but couldn't get close to Skelton. Schenck would finish third ahead of Al Schlafer and David O'Neal who passed 11 cars to earn the KSE Hard Charger Award.

Danny Schlafer was running third until a tire went down sending him to the pits and then the back of the pack. He would recover nicely and finish seventh.

Heat race winners were Al Schlafer, Keith Olejnik and Danny Schlafer. Schenck's fast qualifying lap was a 14.212.

Summary

MSA Sprints
A-Main: 1-K.J. Skelton 2-Michael Emme 3-Doug Schenck 4-Al Schlafer 5-David O'Neal 6-Lance Fassbender 7-Danny Schlafer 8-Scott Conger 9-Keith Olejnik 10-Dean Erfurth 11-Tim Haddy 12-Chris Wiser 13-Lloyd Dykstra 14-Andy Hunt 15-Chad Tessman 16-Jerry Ski 17-Troy Wondra 18-T.J. Luedke
Hepfner Racing Products First Heat: 1-Al Schlafer 2-K.J. Skelton 3-Dean Erfurth 4-Scott Conger 5-Chris Wiser 6-Lloyd Dykstra
JB Enterprise Racing Products Second Heat: 1-Keith Olejnik 2-Troy Wondra 3-Jerry Ski 4-T.J. Luedke 5-Andy Hunt 6-Chad Tessman
B&B Oval Track Products Third Heat: 1-Danny Schlafer 2-Lance Fassbender 3-Tim Haddy 4-Michael Emme 5-Doug Schenck 6-David O'Neal
Wisconsin PC Fast Time Award - Doug Schenck - 14.212

WISSOTA Street Stock
Feature- Joe Bablick, Roger Walker, Steve Bangart, Todd Heier, Rod Herman, Butch Kummer, Jared Lindner, Jim Marshall, Jim Uptagraw