7/26/24
Jackson Motorplex
Jackson, MN
Border Battle Round 1
Merle Johnson Memorial
38 410’s
40 305’s
410’s
Round 1 of the Border Battle at Jackson sees $7,000 to win, and will be followed by Knoxville on Saturday and Huset’s on Sunday. Cars were split into two groups, with Group 1 comprising heats one and two, and the second group making up heats three and four. Kerry Madsen (2nd car out to time) was quickest in the first group and overall at 12.906 seconds. Aaron Reutzel (8th car out) was second quick, followed by Tim Kaeding (1st), Gage Pulkrabek (14th) and Matt Juhl (5th). Chase Randall (2nd car out) set quick time in the second group at 13.083. Garet Williamson (3rd) was second quick, followed by Scott Bogucki (18th), Tanner Holmes (4th) and Christopher Thram (1st). Bill Wagner had issues in hot laps and retired for the night.
Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Kaleb Johnson 22 (1*) 2. Madsen 55 (4*) 3. Juhl 09 (2*) 4. Kaeding 3 (3*) 5. Mark Dobmeier 13 (5*) 6. Skylar Prochaska 35 (6) 7. Cam Martin 4 (8) 8. Dominic Dobesh 9 (9) 9. Luke Nellis 74N (7) 10. Corbin Erickson 18 (10)
8-lap heats added points to qualifying. The top 20 in points were in the A main, the top eight were in the feature redraw. DKW Transport paid each heat winner $250. Johnson led the distance on a heavy track. Madsen grabbed second from Juhl on lap two.
Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Brooke Tatnell 16 (2*) 2. John Carney II J2 (1*) 3. Reutzel 87 (4*) 4. Tyler Drueke 95 (6*) 5. Chris Maritn 44 (8) 6. Gage Pulkrabek G5 (3*) 7. Sam Henderson 83x (5) 8. Ryan Bickett 17B (7) 9. Jacob Hughes 8H (9)
Tatnell was gone in a mostly single-file affair. Hughes exited early.
Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Bogucki 10 (3*) 2. Jace Park 45x (1*) 3. Thram 24T (2*) 4. Randall 2KS (4*) 5. Koby Werkmeister 51A (6*) 6. Logan McCandless 29 (5*) 7. Sawyer Phillips 3P (7) 8. Trevor Serbus 10x (8) DNS – Bill Wagner 78
Park led Thram and Bogucki early. Bogucki shot by Thram on lap three for second and slowly reeled in the leader. He moved under Park to take the lead in turn two on the last lap.
Heat four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Dusty Zomer 3J (2*) 2. Brendan Mullen 11m (1*) 3. Williamson 23 (4*) 4. Holmes 18T (3*) 5. Andy Pake 64 (6) 6. Scott Winters 14H (7) 7. Tim Estenson 14T (5) 8. Matt Wasmund 4w (8) 9. Dylan Opdahl 2 (9)
Zomer dominated this one ahead of Mullen. Williamson took third from Holmes on lap two. Omdahl exited early.
B main (started): 1. Estenson (1) 2. Chris Martin (2) 3. Pake (3) 4. Cam Martin (6) / 5. Winters (5) 6. Phillips (7) 7. Prochaska (4) 8. Serbus (10) 9. Bickett (9) 10. Dobesh (8) 11. Wasmund (11) 12. Ingle (12) 13. Erickson (13) 14. Omdahl (14) DNS – Henderson, Nellis, Hughes, Wagner
The 12-lapper took the top four to the A. Estenson led Chris Martin and Pake to transfers. The fourth and final transfer were up for grabs. Winters held it early. Cam Martin snagged it on lap two and held it through a caution at the halfway point for Omdahl.
A main (started):1. Randall (1) 2. Williamson (2) 3. Johnson (5) 4. Juhl (10) 5. Thram (11) 6, Kaeding (9) 7. Tatnell (4) 8. Dobmeier (17) 9. Holmes (12) 10. Madsen (7) 11. Park (13) 12. Cam Martin (24) 13. Mullen (15) 14. Drueke (19) 15. Chris Martin (22) 16. Pake (23) 17. Werkmeister (20) 18. Estenson (21) 19. McCandless (18) 20. Pulkrabek (16) 21. Reutzel (3) 22. Bogucki (6) 23. Carney II (14) 24. Zomer (8)
The 25-lapper saw Zomer suffer a flat right rear tire in staging. He gave up his starting spot outside row four and did a start and park. Randall shot out to lead over Williamson, Reutzel, Bogucki and Johnson. A caution five laps in involved Carney and Werkmeister, with Carney retiring. Randall kept his lead and the top five remained the same until hitting lapped traffic with ten to go. Reutzel took second from Williamson with five to go, and Bogucki followed him into third two laps later. With two to go, Bogucki cruised under Reutzel to take second on the backstretch. In turn three, Reutzel attempted a slider that sent Bogucki hard into the turn three wall. As Bogucki climbed out quickly, Reutzel, limped his car with a blown right rear to the pits. Randall led the restart ahead of Johnson, Williamson, Juhl and Thram. Randall pulled away to win, as Williamson snagged second on the last lap. Cam Martin was the hard-charger.
305’s
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 43-Jake Greenwood[4]; 2. 55R-Ryan Serrao[1]; 3. 05-Brandon Allen[5]; 4. 9A-Hunter Hanson[7]; 5. 53X-Joe Miller[6]; 6. 13-Mel Halverson[2]; 7. (DNF) 90-Eric Schulz[3]; 8. (DNF) 81X-Kyla Anderson[8]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 85-Mathew Jasper[1]; 2. 80P-Jacob Peterson[3]; 3. 24G-Rob Rawson[2]; 4. 9X-Ramsie Shoenrock[4]; 5. 6B-Bayley Ballenger[7]; 6. 28-Madi Miller[6]; 7. (DNF) 62J-Jay Masur[5]; 8. (DNF) 41-Jeff Wilke[8]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 24B-Brandon Buysse[3]; 2. 56-Bill Johnson[2]; 3. 23-Brandon Bosma[5]; 4. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[7]; 5. 17-Lee Goos Jr[8]; 6. 19-Nate Eakin[4]; 7. (DNF) 35X-Jeff Lackey[1]; 8. (DNF) 15-Laela Eisenschenk[6]
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 3K-Jeremy Kerzman[2]; 2. 4SS-Brandon Halverson[8]; 3. 23C-Ben Crees[1]; 4. 18-Tyler Rabenberg[5]; 5. 12L-John Lambertz[3]; 6. 4-Mike Stien[7]; 7. 91X-Johnny Sullivan[6]; 8. (DNF) 28G-Gracyn Masur[4]
Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 1300-Brett Allen[2]; 2. 30-Matt Johnson[1]; 3. X-Dylan Waxdahl[3]; 4. 2D-Dusty Ballenger[8]; 5. 9-Laney Moore[5]; 6. 6-Logan Moore[7]; 7. 81-Jared Jansen[6]; 8. 88-Nathan Thelen[4]
B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 9A-Hunter Hanson[1]; 2. 9X-Ramsie Shoenrock[2]; 3. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[3]; 4. 53X-Joe Miller[4]; 5. 6B-Bayley Ballenger[5]; 6. 19-Nate Eakin[8]; 7. 28-Madi Miller[7]; 8. 13-Mel Halverson[6]; 9. 62J-Jay Masur[10]; 10. (DNS) 90-Eric Schulz; 11. (DNS) 81X-Kyla Anderson; 12. (DNS) 41-Jeff Wilke; 13. (DNS) 15-Laela Eisenschenk
B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 18-Tyler Rabenberg[1]; 2. 17-Lee Goos Jr[3]; 3. 2D-Dusty Ballenger[2]; 4. 12L-John Lambertz[4]; 5. 91X-Johnny Sullivan[8]; 6. 81-Jared Jansen[9]; 7. 9-Laney Moore[5]; 8. 6-Logan Moore[7]; 9. (DNF) 4-Mike Stien[6]; 10. (DNF) 88-Nathan Thelen[10]; 11. (DNF) 28G-Gracyn Masur[12]; 12. (DNS) 35X-Jeff Lackey
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 4SS-Brandon Halverson[1]; 2. 80P-Jacob Peterson[3]; 3. 3K-Jeremy Kerzman[4]; 4. 1300-Brett Allen[5]; 5. 23-Brandon Bosma[13]; 6. 17-Lee Goos Jr[19]; 7. 30-Matt Johnson[10]; 8. 55R-Ryan Serrao[2]; 9. 9A-Hunter Hanson[16]; 10. 85-Mathew Jasper[6]; 11. 1-Amelia Eisenschenk[20]; 12. 43-Jake Greenwood[9]; 13. X-Dylan Waxdahl[15]; 14. 2D-Dusty Ballenger[21]; 15. 56-Bill Johnson[7]; 16. 9X-Ramsie Shoenrock[18]; 17. 24G-Rob Rawson[12]; 18. 23C-Ben Crees[14]; 19. (DNF) 05-Brandon Allen[11]; 20. (DNF) 18-Tyler Rabenberg[17]; 21. (DNF) 24B-Brandon Buysse[8]
Halverson led the 20-lap distance to collect $1,500. It was his first win at Jackson with a wing. He had previous wins in the non-wing 360’s. Peterson ran second the whole way. Kerzman took third on lap nine from Allen. Bosma rounded out the top five by taking the spot for good on lap 12. Goos came from the B to sixth.