Proctor Speedway

By Jerry O’Brien

6-24-12

Proctor, MN

Due to the rain out of all but one feature event on June 17, the four remaining

events were run prior to the 6-24 program. Each was a full length feature. Darrell

Nelson won both the WISSOTA Late Model and Modified main events. In the 25

Late Model event Nelson tracked down Aaron Lillo from the seventh starting

position. Lillo started from the outside of the front row and it took Nelson until the

21st lap to make the pass after the first caution flag of the race. Earlier there had

been a red flag situation as the cars of Gregg Hill and Late Model rookie Scott

Herrick tangled off turn two and crashed into the ditch along the back stretch.

Herrick’s #00 did a side over roll and landed on its wheels while Hill’s #8 finished

partially on one of the huge tractor tires that are in front of the guard rail. Hill was

soon out and walking about but it took rescue workers several minutes to extract

Herrick who was seen walking to the ambulance. Word came later that he was

taken to St. Mary’s Essentia Health in Duluth where he was admitted to the I.C. U. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

By Jerry O’Brien
6-10-12
Proctor, MN

The big broom was out Sunday night at the Proctor Speedway as four of five

divisions saw clean sweeps. Ryan Aho from Chisholm had the measure of the

WISSOTA Modified division as he won the heat and led all the way in the 15 lap

feature. The event went flag to flag without a caution flag as Aho had a big lead by

the time Darrell Nelson shook free of the pack. Nelson made up ground but not

enough to reel in Aho who stayed the course for the dominant win. Jody

Bellefeuille finished third, E. J. Hietala fourth and Scott Heikkinen was fifth.

It was 20 laps for the WISSOTA Super Stocks and Donnie Lofdahl of Proctor

fended off all challenges to win the feature on his hometown track. Seven caution

flags kept the challengers close to Lofdahl after his initial lead was erased with the

first one. After the fourth slowdown Lofdahl went high in turn one on the restart

and Mike Bellefeuille and Scott Lawrence got by leaving him third but Lofdahl’s

luck held out and before a lap could be completed Ashley Smith spun in turn four. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

By Jerry O’Brien
5-25-12

Rob Weber prevailed in the 15 lap WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature

hanging around near the front until a lap past the mid point when he took over the

lead from Neil Balduc who had led from the initial green flag. Balduc grabbed the

lead from the outside pole over Jeff Pohjonen followed by Dan Kingsley, Taylor

Leuthner and Cody Carlson. Leuthner and Pohjonen battled with Leuthner to

second. Meanwhile Balduc moved out to an eight car length lead as Leuthner an

pohjonen ran sise by side for second. Loren Inman joined up and the top four ran

in a pack as Cody Wolkowski was ten car lengths back in fifth. At the half way

point the order was Balduc, Inman, Pohjonen and Leuthner but this where Weber

made his move and came by the flag stand in the lead the next time by. Pohjonen

ran second and Wolkowski was closing on Leuthner for fourth. Inman fell off the

pace and out of the event as Weber put a lap on last week’s winner Deven

VanHouse. The event went flag to flag and was Weber’s first Midwest Modified

feature win at the speedway. Second place finisher Jeff Pohjonen’s car failed post

race inspection and he was disqualified moving Leuthner to second, Balduc to

third, Wolkowski fourth and Carlson fifth. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…