Rain Cuts Racing Short At Proctor Speedway

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June 16, 2012

By Jerry O’Brien

The Sunday night festivities were cut short by rain Sunday night at the proctor speedway. With just one feature race in the books, rain forced the cancellation of all remaining events. Super Stock, Modified, Late Model, as well as pure stock features will be made up as part of the regular program on Sunday June 25th.

It was Old Timer Picnic time at the Proctor Speedway on Father’s Day 2012 as all former racers at the speedway were invited to the track in the afternoon for a get together and picnic. Northern Vintage Stock cars were also on hand for the event. Also the Northern Vintage Stock Car club was on hand as part of the show. A large number of former racers were on hand and a good time was had by all.

Unfortunately a big black cloud loomed to the west of the track and officials hurried to complete the show, especially the Vintage cars that brought the largest contingent of cars to the track in memory. A total of 21 cars, ten full bodied cars and eleven “super modifieds” were on hand. All heat races of the weekly cars as well as both the vintage heats and feature races were completed.

The weekly show got under way with the WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature which was won by Superior’s Dan Kingsley, his first feature win at the speedway. As the Super Stock feature rolled onto the track the rain began to fall and the rest of the show was cancelled.

Since the rain started after the heat races were done the race was called complete. The features for the Super Stocks, Late Models, Modifieds and Pure Stocks are scheduled to be run next Sunday June 24th starting at 5 p.m. followed immediately by the scheduled weekly program. There will be no hot laps.

In the Midwest Modified feature, Andrew Inman jumped into the lead from outside the front row as the field began its 20 lap contest, but Dan Kingsley drove by on the back stretch to take the lead. After a lap the caution flag flew when Ross Siiter’s car stalled on the pit road.

At the green Kingsley continued to lead with Loren Inman and Neil Balduc close behind as Andrew Inman slipped back to fourth and Josh Heavirland fifth. Kingsley began to widen the gap back to second as Loren Inman and Balduc battled for second with Balduc taking the position. Seventh starting Deven Van House moved into third as Dan Doran and Dan Larsen tangled in turn two.

At the restart Kingsley held the lead and a light sprinkle began to fall on the track. Kingsley led Loren Inman and Van House took over second from Inman. Balduc and Andrew Inman ran in the top five as the half way point was reached with another caution flag showing as Andrew Inman went off the back stretch and needed a wrecker to extract him.

At the green flag Van House made a run on Kingsley for the lead but was unable to pull off the pass. The two leaders opened a wide gap on the third place battle between Loren Inman and Heavirland. Kingsley pulled away from Van House and went on to take the win. Heavirland, Loren Inman and Jeff Forseen rounded out the top five.

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