PRACTICE 1 • PRACTICE 2 • QUALIFYING • RESULTS • PHOTOS

By: Kevin Ramsell
OREGON, WI (Sunday, May 04, 2008) – Dan Fredrickson will admit that he never had a good run at Madison International Speedway. After tonight, Madison is one of his favorite tracks as he captured the ASAMT ECHO Chainsaw 100 in front of a large crowd.

“I haven’t won here and never been real good here, but had a pretty sweet car here tonight,” a happy Fredrickson stated in victory lane. “I hope we can keep going with this, it was cool to beat Carlson and Busch. And now Madison is one of my favorite tracks.”

Fredrickson held off a late charge from Steve Carlson to take his fourth ASA Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment win. “The deal here is you can’t run pretty well with someone on your back bumper. But once I got two car lengths on him, I could run my line and run better.” Fredrickson stated.

Andrew Morrissey was the early leader as he got the jump at the start from polesitter Chris Wimmer. Fredrickson started tenth and worked his way to the front. On lap 45, he would get on the inside of second place runner Donny Reuvers and take over the spot.

It wasn’t until lap 69 when Fredrickson would get a great run off of turn two and get on the inside of Morrissey going into turn three. As the two would race side-by-side coming off of turn four, it was Fredrickson leading the lap by a nose. Fredrickson would take over the spot going down the backstretch a lap later.

Carlson would put on a challenge for the win, but Fredrickson was just too strong for him, “I had a really good car,” Carlson stated. “Danny just had a bit more than I did in the end.”

Kyle Busch, current NASCAR Sprint Cup Points Leader, would have an up and down night as he battled with an ill handling car, “Just didn’t have the car tonight, we just messed up just a little bit,” Busch stated. “But, overall it was a good night. I don’t know what we did, we screwed up in qualifying which got us back there, and so that kind of hurt us having to come through and waste up our tires and stuff. Overall, it was a good finish.”

Busch didn’t have an easy drive to the finish as he and Mark Eswein put on a great side-by-side battle to the finish line over the last three laps. At the line, Busch would take the spot by .007 seconds. “It was good racing; he raced me clean so that is great to have that here in this series. No one touched my bumper and I don’t think I touched anyone else’s.”

Josh Vadnais would come home fifth after starting 19th. Wimmer would finish sixth with Blake Horstman in seventh. Andy Monday had a solid run with an eighth place finish with Russ Blakely and Frank Kreyer rounding out the top ten.

The event saw seven caution flags fly with the worse incident coming on lap 87 when Jamie Iverson and Tim Schendel were battling for fourth when the two made contact in turns one and two causing Schendel to spin. Kyle Calmes climbed up the back of Iverson’s car, but was able to continue.

For Fredrickson, it was his fourth ASAMT win and continues to be the only multiple winner in the series.

The next event will take place on Saturday, May 17th at Jefferson Speedway outside of Cambridge, WI for the Kwik Trip Stores 100 on Wisconsin’s Action Track.

To learn more about the American Speed Association Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment and the engine giveaway program, please contact the ASA Midwest Tour office by calling (262) 514-3880 or by e-mailing Tim Olson at tim@asamidwesttour.com or Steve Einhaus at steve@asamidwesttour.com.

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