Eagle Cave Wisconsin

Veteran racer wins first Iron Brigade 100

CLERMONT - A veteran was a rookie at Lucas Oil Raceway Saturday night, but Bill Prietzel used its resources to win the inaugural Iron Brigade veteran 100.

The former champion of the Mid-American Stock Car Series and current runner up took the lead from Tim Salyers Advance Racing Association driver to turn 43 during the co-sanctioned event and led the rest of the way of his first visit to the famous hotel.

This completed a clean sweep of the West Allis, Wis. driver. It was also the qualifier plumbing $ 100 Tri-County fast and won the $ 250 bonus for leading the Care Center Meineke Car Challenge half.

He also won his 40th wedding anniversary.

"These guys are drivers ARA difficult," said Prietzel. "We had a little better set up and we even changed it in mid-stop."

Salyers remained close, before falling to the end.

"We had no driver and I ran out of the race car at the end," he said. "We picked up a leg, but it was a good finish."

"The last 15 laps I backed off a bit because I did not see anyone in my mirror," said Prietzel. "We really enjoyed it. I do not feel too bad, but a little tired."

Bret Widdis, Mark and Michael Lange Pluer, all competitors MASC, rounded out the top five. Teenage sisters Claire and Paige Decker were the last two cars on the lead lap in sixth and seventh.

MASC current Chief James Swan took the point early leader Lange on Lap 20. Salyers beat him on Lap 39 restart when Lange brushed the wall. Swan had to retire when his engine expired on lap 63.

The race was slowed only three times by the caution. In fact, the race has never started a clean Salyers collected four spinning in turn three on the right after the green flag flew.One of these ARA defending champion Keith Lyon, which was done for the night.

Three-quarters of the grid was reversed from qualification, which gives the 16th fast qualifier Michael Cline Prietzel post and started in the eighth line.

Prietzel circled in 24.426 seconds and 100,105 miles per hour in qualifying.

A pair of champions won in other classes.

Scotty Tomasik Avon won the PXP Racewear change function. Joe Axsom, Rodney Cropper, Don Skaggs and Harold Johnson came next.

Steve Blair took the final MC2 Home Inspections Truck Pro John Wicks, AJRidn, Bradley and Ben Harrington Park.

The ARA is next in action on August 20 LOR.

The results of the Iron Brigade 100 Advance Racing Association / Mid-American Stock Car Series race Saturday at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway.

Wisconsin Motorcycle Rides: Touring the Lower Wisconsin Riverway

Sauk City to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, the road and the river will take you to another time and place, with great lateral movement along the path. Lower Wisconsin Riverway is a very special part of North America that runs through what is called the "Driftless Area" of southwestern Wisconsin. It is unique because of the ice age glaciers surrounded but do not cover it. Instead, runoff or "spreading" of the melting glaciers carved the sandstone in the kind of spectacular rock formations usually associated with the Southwest desert.

Sauk City to Prairie du Chien, a distance of only about 72 miles, the Riverway offers soaring sandstone formations, prehistoric effigy mounds Native American Battlefields of the War of Black Hawk, the remains preserved in the graphite day of the 19th century and family dairy farms that predate the Civil War. It can be enjoyed as a day trip or dipped slowly over several days.

State Highway 60 is the axis of the tour, clinging to the shores of the Lower Wisconsin River.South of the broad valley of the river, the roads up to Uplands in the State where the sky and rolling hills seem endless Everyplace down to where you are. North Kickapoo River follows its way through the tangled steep mountain redoubts Ocooch. The Wisconsin River ends at its confluence with the Upper Mississippi River in a canyon majority of sandstone cliffs a few miles wide.

At its western end, Highway 60 joins State Highway 35, known as the Great River Road, which is a National Scenic Byway.Six miles west of Sauk City, according to Ferry Bluff Road a half mile takes you to a small parking area at the foot of Ferry Bluff. The walk is only about 800 feet up, and the last 300 meters are steep, but the view is worth the hike.

Eleven miles north of 60 along County Highway C is the tiny hamlet of Leland, which is the end point of the Slimey Crud Run Café Racer. The Crud Run takes place on the first Sunday in May and October, from Pine Bluff, Dane County.Usually drawing anywhere between one and two thousand horsemen, the race Crud is probably one of the largest spontaneous countries nonsponsored motorcycle rallies.

Less than a mile northeast of Leland on County Highway C lies Natural Bridge State Park, home to one of the state of natural bridges. The natural bridge is about 35 feet overhead and its bays arc of about 25 feet. Take the path left the parking lot a quarter mile and back in time thousands of years.

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