September 6
Hibbing Speedway,
Hibbing, MN
Sanction: Structural Buildings WISSOTA Challenge Series (Labor Day Shootout) - $3,000
Information provided by: Series and track reports (last updated September 7, 2:40 am)
Hibbing champ grabs first WCS victory
Labor Day Shootout
- Skeeter Estey
- Johnny Broking
- Darrell Nelson
- Kevin Burdick
- Ryan Mikkelson
- Kyle Peterlin
- Dave Mass
- Shane Sabraski
- Joel Bennett
- Jeff Massingill
- Jeff Provinzino
- Cory Crapser
- Adam Ayotte
- Donnie Lofdahl
- T.J. Heinle
- Derek Vesel
- Nicholas Jacobson
- Rick Niemi
- Dexton Koch
- Gunner Frank
- Zach Wohlers
- Keith Niemi
- Jayme Lautigar
- Jim Morris
- Taylor Madrinich
Skeeter Estey heads for a $3,000 victory at Hibbing.
What won the race: Going under Johnny Broking on the 13th lap, track champion Skeeter Estey of Kelly Lake, Minn., fought off repeated challenges from a high-running Broking the rest of Saturday's 40-lap Labor Day Shootout finale for his first career Structural Buildings WISSOTA Challenge Series victory. The pole-starting Estey took the checkers 0.626 of a second ahead of Broking to earn $3,000.
Quotable: "We've been great here all year, so it would have been a little disappointing not to get one of these things. So I'm glad I got it done," Estey said. "(Broking) got out front at the beginning and I was pacing him pretty good, and then I felt (the track) start to latch up on the bottom and luckily I got in front of him there. And then at the end I knew he was out there. I was just trying to take up all the rubber so he didn't have much of it left and it worked out for us."
Key notes: Skeeter Estey won his eighth Late Model feature of the season and his second Hibbing special, adding to a July 18 WISSOTA Late Model victory, also worth $3,000. ... Among multiple divisions, Estey is a 13-time winner of Labor Day Shootout events. ... Runner-up Johnny Broking, who led 22 laps in the previous night's feature and 12 laps Sunday, pulled alongside Estey on laps 37-38 but couldn't complete the pass. ... Seven cautions slowed the race, the first on the sixth lap for a turn-one scramble involving Jeff Massingill, Nicholas Jacobson and T.J. Heinle. ... Five cautions appeared between laps 31-33. On the 31st lap with Broking pressuring the leader, Estey clipped the slower Rick Niemi exiting turn two, sending Niemi facing the wrong direction inside the backstretch. ... Cory Crapser spun on the ensuing restart. ... Shane Sabraski, Crapser, Jacobson and Donnie Lofdahl got into a turn-four scramble on the next restart. ... On lap 33, Dexton Koch and Jacobson were among cars getting tangled up on the frontstretch. ... On the 36th lap, Rick Niemi spun inside turn two. ... The 30-minute feature concluded at 8:03 p.m. ... Joel Bennett of Hortonville, Wis. won Saturday's Labor Day Shootout opener; he finished ninth Sunday.
On the move: Hometown driver Kyle Peterlin started 14th and finished sixth.
Winner's sponsors: Estey's AK Race Car is powered by a Race City Performance CT 525 and sponsored by Shain & Sons Sand and Gravel, Northstar Services, Superior Fuel, Ed’s Electric, Homer Bar, Northern Lumber, CarQuest and Wagner Construction.
Points chase: After Hibbing: 1. Kevin Burdick (760); 2. Shane Sabraski (733); 3. Dave Mass (699); 4. Johnny Broking (665); 5. Jeff Provinzino (657).
Current weather: Clear, 79°F
Car count: 29
Fast qualifier: Shane Sabraski
Time: 14.054 seconds
Polesitter: Skeeter Estey
Heat race winners: Jeff Provinzino, Skeeter Estey, Johnny Broking
Consolation race winners: Jayme Lautigar
Provisional starters: Taylor Madrinich, Rick Niemi, Jim Morris
Next series race: September 15, I-94 EMR Speedway (Fergus Falls, MN) $3,000
Editor's note: Results and race details are unofficial.




































