KASSON, Minn. -- A beautiful day was in store for drivers and fans at the Dodge County Speedway in Kasson and a record car count for a one-day USMTS event was broken. Seventy-two cars checked in for the racing action on Sunday from nine different states.

The good thing of this was rookie contender Nate Wasmund started the race from the fifth row and showed all the USMTS drivers the fast way around the speedway and picked up his first ever USMTS win against a very tough field of modifieds. Wasmund’s win did not come very easy as he had to battle a very strong Justin Boney.

Boney jumped out into the early lead and led until lap eight when Wasmund would get past Boney coming out of turn four. Wasmund and Boney would race side by side for several more laps, by lap twenty-four Boney would take back the top spot and look to be enroute to his third USMTS win of the season.

A hard charging Steve Wetztein was on the move and had worked his way to third by lap twenty-eight and look as if he would challenge for the win, when his tire would let go sending him off the track. By lap thirty-two Wasmund would move his Kraft Kar back around Boney and put some distance on Boney.

Wasmund would run the rest of the race unchallenged and pick up the $2000 paycheck. A very hard charging Scott Drake would beat Boney by inches for the runner-up spot and Boney would settle for third. Rounding out the top five was Mark Noble and Eddie Martin.

This fifty lap main event would run non-stop caution free. This is the second time the USMTS has went caution free at Kasson. With Boney’s third place finish he has moved back into the USMTS National point lead heading into Owatonna, MN Monday race.

After heat races track promoter Jeff Fitzpatrick put some water on the speedway, which really helped the speedway out and the racing went four wide by feature time.

In the first Harris Auto Racing B-main Brad Waits came from the tail to finish second after water was put on the speedway.

Winning the Haulmark Trailer Heat Races were Mark Elliott, Darin Walker, Nate Wasmund, Dean Mahlstadt, Jason Hughes, John VanDenBerg, and Kelly Shryock.

The Harris Auto Racing B-mains were won by Jason Hughes, Kelly Shryock, and Scott Drake.

RESULTS

Heat #1: Mark Elliott, Justin Boney, Bruce Hanford, Todd Klees, Paul Hamernik, Barry Underdahl, Todd Stinehart, Brad Moriarty, Chris Prussman, Kelly Harmelink, Jason Slegh.

Heat #2: Darin Walker, Ron Schreiner, Jay Ihrke, Jon Tesch, Jordan Steier, David Siercks, John Logue, Mick Glenn, Martin Bennett, Mike Bennett, Randy Geisler.

Heat #3: Nate Wasmund, Eddie Martin, Scott Megonigle, Bret Frieden, Bob Timm, Mike Hernke, Dennis Hillson Craig Scott, Mike Wedelstadt, Jay Poidinger.

Heat #4: Dean Mahlstedt, Scott Drake, Pat Graham, Mike Sorensen, Tim Donlinger, Joe McBirnie, Bobby Sorensen, TJ Artz, Neil Eckhart, Kevin Stoa.

Heat #5: Jason Hughes, Steven Wezstein, Brad Waits, Corey Dripps, Kevin Peters, Ron Ver Beek, Ben Anderson, James Richert, Craig Brightbill Jr., Joey Jensen.

Heat #6: John VanDenBerg, Mark Trautner, Jason Krohn, Jerry Young, David Wytaske, Kenny Hainka, Gary Schmidt, Don Brightbill, Mike Mehling, Chris Johnson.

Heat #7: Kelly Shryock, Mark Noble, Tommy Myer, Dan Bohr, Marty Thompson, Jason Miller, Jason Connoyer, Mike Chasteen, James Parker, Darwin Karau.

B-main #1: Jason Hughes, Ron Schreiner, Bret Frieden, Mike Sorensen, Mike Chasteen.

B-main #2: Kelly Shryock, Brad Waits, Scott Megonigle, Jon Tesch, Jason Connoyer.

B-main #3: Scott Drake, Tommy Myer, John Logue, Bob Timm, Corey Dripps.

A-main: Nate Wasmund, Scott Drake, Justin Boney, Mark Noble, Eddie Martin, John VanDenBerg, Kelly Shryock, Jason Hughes, Tommy Myer, Jason Krohn, Ron Schreiner, Bruce Hanford, Scott Megonigle, Pat Graham, John Logue, Mark Trautner, Mark Elliott, Darin Walker, Dean Mahlstedt, Jason Connoyer, Bret Frieden, Brad Waits, Steve Wetzstein, Mike Chasteen.