Changes help Ulmer win 2nd feature at Southwest Speedway

• Travis Ulmer

Press Photo by Colton Pool Travis Ulmer, top left, leads T.C. Shelhamer as Zach Frederick, bottom inside, and Allan Frederick, bottom outside, go side-by-side around the turn on Saturday night at the Southwest Speedway.

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A last-second adjustment helped Travis Ulmer pick up his second feature victory of the season Saturday night at the Southwest Speedway.

Ulmer took home the win in the Wissota Street Stocks to move into the season point standings lead. He entered the night tied for the lead with Josh Olheiser.

“I felt great” said Ulmer.

Ulmer said a late call to swap out a tire before the race helped him out.

“My dad made the call” Ulmer said with a grin. “I guess it paid off. We had a fast start.”

Ulmer made the adjustments based on the track, on which there were three cautions in the first 10 laps of the 20-lap feature.

“It was a little rough, but if you could pick the right spot, you could get around it, so that’s why I stayed a little high” said Ulmer, a Dickinson native who drives out of Mandan. “I stayed out of the rough stuff and I think that’s how I stayed up in front.”

Cole LaMontagne won his first ever feature race in the Modifieds Division. Despite the four cautions in the race, the Bismarck driver was able to take a solid win.

“From my vantage point, every driver was driving clean out there” LaMontagne said with a smile. “It was a good clean race.”

Scott Gartner of Bismarck got his second feature win in the Pure Stocks. He managed to hold off the field after an early caution, and didn’t forfeit the lead after.

“The smooth driver wins the race every time” said Gartner.

Gartner didn’t have any problems with the slick track, especially in the feature race.

“In the heat race, the track was pretty greasy, but in the feature race I stayed out of that and came out on top.” Gartner said.

Dickinson’s Derek Nitschke took his third win of the year in the Thunder 4 feature race. But it was no easy race for him.

“I raced my heart out” Nitschke said with a smile. “It was a good, clean race.”

Cautions played a large role in the race. At the start, Nitschke lost a big lead to Cory Reisenauer, who won the Thunder 4 heat race earlier in the evening.

“Cautions were a big part of it” Nitschke said. “It brought all of the cars back together and gave me a chance.”

Southwest Speedway

June 16 Regular Races

IMCA Modifieds

Heat 1: 1, Dwight Burwick. 2, Tracey Domagala. 3, Wyatt Dinius. 4, Randy Burwick. 5, Jeff Decker. 6, Randy Sandvick. 7, Jamall Wold. 8, Dave Aberle.

Heat 2: 1, Bill Miller. 2, Eric Paul. 3, Cole LaMontagne. 4, Jim Harris. 5, Rusty Corneliusen. 6, Jeremy Sorensen. 7, Dale Burwick, DNF. 8, Brent Schlafmann, DNF.

Heat 3: 1, Darrell Bauer. 2, Travis Olheiser. 3, Lenny Makowski. 4, Tim Perkins. 5, Jason Walla. 6, Kirk Wojahn. 7, Darin Wendt.

Feature: 1, LaMontagne. 2, Miller. 3, Perkins. 4, Domagala. 5, Bauer. 6, Paul. 7, Decker. 8, D. Burwick. 9, Sorensen. 10, Walla. 11, Corneliusen. 12, Olheiser. 13, Sandvick. 14, Harris. 15, R. Burwick. 16, Aberle. 17, Wendt, DNF. 18, Makowski, DNF. 19, Wold. 20, Dinius, DNF. 21, Wojahn, DNF.

Wissota Street Stocks

Heat 1: 1, Terry Zastoupil. 2, Josh Olheiser. 3, Rick Johnson. 4, Mike Miller. 5, J.D. Kuntz. 6, Paul Decker. 7, Richard Jordan. 8, Kelly Wanner.

Heat 2: 1, Travis Ulmer. 2, T.C. Shelhamer. 3, Monte Gawryluk. 4, Allan Frederick. 5, Zach Frederick. 6, Dustin Frank. 7, Darin Tarrel. 8, Hailey Jordan.

Feature: 1, Ulmer. 2, Z. Fredrick. 3, Miller. 4, Zastoupil. 5, Olheiser. 6, A. Fredrick. 7, Gawryluk. 8, Johnson. 9, Decker. 10, Jordan. 11, Frank, DNF. 12, Shelhamer, DNF. 13, Wanner, DNF. 14, Kuntz, DNF. 15, Tarrel, DNF.

Pure Stocks

Heat 1: 1, Kendall Booke. 2, Chad Jahner. 3, Schaun Olheiser. 4, Jeremy Binstock. 5, Nathan Messer. 6, Cole Lewis. 7, Hunter Domagala, DNF.

Heat 2: 1, Deryk Voller. 2, Scott Gartner. 3, Casey Vernon. 4, Terin Gawryluk. 5, Jon Wells. 6, Thayne Maher. 7, Devon Wandler.

Heat 3: 1, Mark Selle. 2, Alex Braun. 3, Brandon Deavy. 4, Darren Kruger, DNF. 5, Tyler Bartholomew, DNF. 6, Roy Erickson, DNF.

Feature: 1, Gartner. 2, Olheiser. 3, Voller. 4, Booke. 5, Selle. 6, Erickson. 7, Gawryluk. 8, Lewis. 9, Binstock. 10, Wandler. 11, Jahner. 12, Maher. 13, Deavy. 14, Vernon. 15, Bartholomew. 16, Domagala. 17, Kruger. 18, Messer. 19, Wells, DNF. 20, Braun, DNF.

Thunder 4

Heat 1: 1, Cory Reisenauer. 2, Nylee Boyce. 3, Cody Hulse. 4, Derek Nitschke. 5, Lucas Preston. 6, Steve Jahner. 7, Scott Hagemeister. 8, Khord Christe. 9, Gary Barnett, DNF.

Feature: 1, Nitschke. 2, Hulse. 3, Reisenauer. 4, Barnett. 5, Preston. 6, Christe. 7, Boyce, DNF. 8, Hagemeister, DNF. 9, Jahner, DNF.

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