By: Kevin Ramsell
BURLINGTON, WI (Monday, April 21, 2008) – The first event of the 2008 ASA Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment is now in the record books with the running of the Kwik Trip 125 last Saturday night at Elko Speedway in Elko, MN. A total of 47 teams were on hand with Jake Ryan coming home the winner.

Ryan’s win makes him the 10th different driver to win and ASAMT event in twelve point events. Ryan was fast all day long as he recorded the fastest laps in both practice sessions. In the first session, he set a fast lap of 13.674 seconds (98.728 mph) and in the second session, it was lap time of 13.809 seconds (97.762 mph). Ironically, both of those fast laps came on lap 7.

But, in qualifying it was Dan Fredrickson earning another ECHO Leaf Blower with a fast time of 13.604 seconds (99.236 mph).

CLOUDY DAY FOR SOME OF THE TOURING STARS

By: Kevin Ramsell
ELKO, MN (Saturday, April 19, 2008) – A great crowd was on hand to witness Jake Ryan lead a trio of hometown drivers to capture the Kwik Trip 125 at Elko Speedway in Elko, MN. It was Ryan’s first win in the ASA Kwik Trip Midwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment.

“We were chasing the car all day, and I thought we were just going to be a second place car, but we kept chasing the set up and made some big changes at the break and that got us to the win,” an exhausted Ryan stated in victory lane.

RESULTS • LAST CHANCE • QUALIFYING/HEAT RESULTS • PHOTOS

Ryan and Dan Fredrickson appeared to be repeating the great battle they both displayed at Elko two weeks ago where Fredrickson came home with the win. “We had a good run, we worked all day on making the car better,” Fredrickson stated. “Jake just got out ahead of me and ran away, still had a good time.”

F - S - # Driver - Hometown Laps Reason
1 - 11 - 19 Jake Ryan - Farmington, MN 125 running
2 - 13 - 36 Dan Fredrickson - Elko, MN 125 running
3 - 5 - 72 Jacob Goede - New Germany, MN 125 running
4 - 6 - 21 Tim Schendel - Sparta, WI 125 running
5 - 7 - 41 Donny Reuvers - Dundas, MN 125 running
6 - 8 - 39 Andrew Morrissey - DeForest, WI 125 running
7 - 10 - 5 Travis Sauter - Necedah, WI 125 running
8 - 1 - 12 Nick Murgic - Rosemount, MN 125 running
9 - 3 - 50 Steve Anderson - Lakeville, MN 125 running
10 - 18 - 11 Josh Vadnais - White Bear Lake, MN 125 running
11 - 14 - 25 Jeff Storm - Waterford, WI 125 running
12 - 19 - 52 Chris Wimmer - Wausau, WI 125 running
13 - 21 - 6 Darrin Giles - New Market, MN 125 running
14 - 22 - 9c Kyle Calmes - Freedom, WI 124 running
15 - 17 - 22 Russ Blakely - Whitewater, WI 124 running
16 - 15 - 77 Jonathan Eilen - Hampton, MN 124 running
17 - 9 - 11s Jason Schneider - New Market, MN 124 running
18 - 24 - 99 Bryan Roach - Minneapolis, MN 124 running
19 - 25 - 87 Nathan Haseleu - Marshall, WI 124 running
20 - 4 - 43 Matt Kocourek - Franklin, WI 124 running