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Reinhart FoodService 400 - Milwaukee International
Round 3 of 14
October 8, 2009
Fast Facts
The Reinhart FoodService 400
What: The Reinhart Foodservice 400
Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Int’l Speedway
When: Thursday October, 8th 2009
U.S. TELEVISION SCHEDULE: YouTube.com, Indy Slot Car Web Site
2008 Champion: Mike Fitzlaff
2008 Pole sitter: Mark Walczak
TRACK LAYOUT: Oval
RACE LENGTH: 400 laps
TRACK RECORDS: Qualifying-Mark Walczak-24.500-07’
Race: N/R
Fast Lap: Mark Walczak-1.703- 07’
RACE ROUND: 3 of 16 in the 2009-2010 Indy Slot Car Series
Instant Replay:
The second race of the year was contested at Milwaukee International Raceway, due to the lingering weather remnants of Hurricane Gustav. Hometown driver Chris Spehert easily took the win in the first heat over Dan Margetta, Andy Spehert, and rookie John Wiedemann. John completed 36 laps prior to a spectacular crash and DNF, that left the driver dazed and confused asking everybody when his race would begin.
Larry Rotter held off a late race challenge from Tom Spehert to take the win. Matt Hayek would finish a distant third. Mike Fitzlaff would cruise to a ten lap victory over Ev Kamikawa and forty laps over Mike Kristof. In the forth and final heat race, pole sitter Mark Walczak would jump out to a 15 lap lead over John Shea and rookie Mike Lack, only to see it shrink to 3 laps over Shea at the end of the race
In the finals Fitzlaff would jump out to a 21 lap lead over Walczak and would cruise to a 13 lap final marker as Walczak tried but couldn’t make up the distance he needed dealing with handling issues. Larry Rotter would come home third while Chris Spehert would finish fourth.
THE Reinhart Foodservice 400 HISTORY (16 events, 1993 - Present)
Year Race Winner
1993 Jim Chitel
1994 Dave Austin
1995 Phil Cianciola
1996 Dave Austin
1997 Jim Kaehny
1998 Jim Kaehny
1999 Phil Marich HO Road America
2000 Ev Kamikawa
2001 Dan Margetta
2002 Jim Kaehny
2003 Larry Rotter
2004 Dan Margetta
2005 Ev Kamikawa Road Wisconsin
2006 Jim Iverson Milwaukee Int’l Speedway
2007 Jim Iverson Milwaukee Int’l Speedway 2nd version
2008 Mike Fitzlaff
2009 ????????????
Top Stories:
Two races in this season and we’ve had eight different drivers make the finals. Mike Lack collected his first win of the year at the Lia Sophia Grand Prix over Mark Walczak. The two Husarsbilt Cup title favorites staged a back and forth battle over the last 2 minutes that would result in Walczak making a rare error in the final 10 seconds allowing Lack to collect the win. Only two drivers have collected top five finishes in the first two races, Ev Kamikawa and Mark Walczak.
Stat Watch:
The win by Mike Lack was his 3rd career win, good for a tie for 13th all time
Mike Lack moved into a tie for 18th with his 8th career heat win
- John Wiedemann moved in to 21st with his 3rd career heat win
Mike Lack moved into 18th all time with his 9th career finals appearance
- Dean Strom is tied for 19th all time, with his 8th career Finals appearance
- John Wiedemann is 24th all time with 3 career finals appearances
Ev Kamikawa moved into 3rd place all time on the laps completed list
- Mike Kristof is now 13th all time on the laps completed list
- Dean Strom moved into 18th all time on the laps completed list
- John Wiedemann moved into 25th on the laps completed list
Tom Spehert has moved into 2nd place all time on the career starts list with 174
- Chris Spehert moved into 7th place all time with 136 career starts
- Mike Kristof is now 9th an the all time starts list with 119
Larry Rotter moved into a tie for 5th all time on the DNF list with his 25th DNF
- Amy Butler collected her 11th DNF, good for 17th all time
Who’s Hot:
Ev Kamikawa has two top five finishes this year, a win and fifth place
Mark Walczak has two top five finishes, a fifth and a second place finish so far this year
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