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LA COUNT SCORES FIRST NORWAY SUPER STOCK WIN – BUTZ SWEEPS LATE MODELS
Posted on: Friday July 9, 2021
Athlestane, Wisconsin’s Kelly La Count scored his first career super stock feature at Norway Speedway Friday, July 9.
ATTENTION SPORTS/MOTORSPORTS – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LA COUNT SCORES FIRST CAREER NORWAY SPEEDWAY SUPER STOCK FEATURE
(Butz sweeps late model action)
(Norway, MI) July 9 – Athelstane, Wisconsin’s Kelly La Count fought off Anthony Schiefelbein and Andy Gerwing in a three lap dash to the checkers and went on to win the first of two super stock features at Norway Speedway Friday night. The win was the first of La Count’s three-year career racing at Norway.
In late model action Green Bay’s Chad Butz padded his point lead. Butz opened the night up scoring fast time and wound up winning both 25 lap features.
In the second super stock feature point leader Joey Pontbriand padded his point lead by winning the main event.
Little Suamico, Wisconsin’s Trevor Pankratz led every lap and survived a late race yellow to win the stock car feature.
Freedom, Wisconsin’s Kasey Vander Loop fended off his brother Cody Vander Loop after a late race restart to win the sport truck feature.
Hermansville’s Dean Bellmore skillfully weaved his way through lapped cars to win the four banger feature.
Next Friday, July 16 will be Round I of the Auto Value Challenge series races. Spectator eliminator races are also on the card. Racing gets underway at 7 p.m.
Please check our website norwayspeedway.com and our page on Facebook for further information or email ostermannjohn@hotmail.com.
RACE SUMMARY
BINK’S COCA COLA SUPER LATE MODEL FEATURES 1) Chad Butz, Green Bay, WI; Jason Wells, Kingsford; Greg Haese, Manitowoc, WI; Scott Stanchina, Kingsford; Cory Cootware, Iron Mountain; Ryan Hood, Vulcan; Bruce White, Kingsford; Mike Lantange, Vulcan; Wyatt Spade, Norway; Greg Borchardt, Prior Lake, MN; Scott Bolster, Marquette; Dean Varda, Vulcan (DNS) 2) Varda (DNS)
FEATURE 2) Butz; Stanchina; Wells; Reed; White; Lantange; Spade; Borchardt; Bolster; Cootware; Haese; Varda (DNS)
FAST TIME – Butz, 14.142
AUTO VALUE SUPER STOCK FEATURES 1) Kelly La Count, Athelstane, WI; Anthony Schiefelbein, Pembine, WI; Andy Gerwig, Norway; Joey Pontbriand, Norway; Kevin Peterson, Marinette, WI; Tony Wender, Kingsford; John Komp, Menominee; Bob Schiefelbein, Pembine, WI; Al Bilski, Norway; Destiny Bullard, Marquette 2) Pontbriand; Anthony Schiefelbein; Komp; La Count; Gerwig; Bilski; Wender; Bullard; Peterson; Bob Schiefelbein
FAST TIME – Komp, 15.795
141 AUTO SALES STOCK CAR FEATURE – Trevor Pankratz, Little Suamico, WI: B.J. Schoneck, Marion, WI; Paul Bourgeois, Iron Mountain; John Ostermann, Norway; Bobby Lewis, Bark River
HEATS 1) Zachery Krans, Kingsford; Todd Schmidt, Spread Eagle, WI 2) Gary Thom, Aurora, WI; Brian Massicotte, Kingsford
FAST TIME – Schoneck, 18.064
KEN’S SPORTS SPORT TRUCK FEATURE – Kasey Vander Loop, Freedom, WI; Cody Vander Loop, Freedom, WI; Andy Secrist, Florence, WI; Brad Barglind, Kingsford; Brent Barglind, Kingsford
HEATS 1)Tanner Fickel, Appleton, WI; Bode Johnson, Ishpeming 2) Kasey Vander Loop; Brent Barglind
FAST TIME – Brad Barglind, 16.648
MC SIGNS & GRAPHICS 4 BANGER FEATURE – Dean Bellmore, Hermansville; Elliot Reid, Faithorn; Trevor Cronick, Faithorn; Cory Grondine, Hermansville; Cassandra Freeman, Niagara, WI
SEMI FEATURE – Cronick; Brent Ayotte, Hermansville; Lukas Peterson, Marinette, WI
HEATS 1) Devin Farah, Iron Mountain; Ayotte 2) Freeman; Dean Bellmore
FAST TIME – Dean Bellmore, 18.171