(Kevin Lee photo) Dan Lindsley of Vulcan won the 2020 Late Model championship at Norway Speedway. His first Late Model championship since 2014.
By Joe Verdegan
For The Daily News
NORWAY TOWNSHIP — It’s been a few years since a Michigan driver last won the Stateline Challenge at Norway Speedway.
Dalton Zehr, then living in Menominee, was the last Michigan winner in 2017 to capture the annual border battle event.
Since that time Wisconsin drivers have swept Upper Michigan’s biggest stock car race, with NASCAR truck champion Johnny Sauter winning in 2018, Travis Sauter in 2019 and Gleason, Wisconsin’s Justin Mondeik finding victory lane in ’20. Both Mondeik and Johnny Sauter are expected entrants into Friday night’s race.
Former track champion Dan Lindsley is looking to keep that winner’s trophy in state. The 38th annual running of the Stateline Challenge is set at the third-mile, paved oval for Friday night. The Vulcan native has won the weekly super late model championship twice (2014 and 2020) but winning the Stateline Challenge is one event Lindsley would like to add to his resume.
“It’s one race that’s always plagued me for some reason,” Lindsley said. “I finished second to Dalton Zehr one year and that’s the closest I’ve gotten. It’s going to take a good car, a little bit of luck and most certainly doing your homework before you get there for sure.”
Other Michigan regulars who plan on competing in the 2021 edition of the Stateline Challenge include Kingsford drivers Scott Stanchina, Jason Wells and Bruce White, Norway’s Joey Pontbriand, Vulcan’s Mike Lantange and Dean Varda, Marquette’s Mike D’Angelo Jr. and Scott Bolster, Waucedah’s Tanner Kelly, Iron Mountain’s Cory Cootware and the track’s top rookie contender 15-year-old Wyatt Spade of Norway. Spade is Lindsley’s stepson.
Johnny Sauter leads the Wisconsin contingent along with defending race winner Mondeik, who’s scored one feature win at Norway so far in ’21. Manitowoc’s Gregg Haese plans on competing, along with former race winner Mike Reichenberger of Appleton, central Wisconsin standout Mark Mackesy of Wausau, Kaukauna’s Will Timmers and Neenah’s Braison Bennett, among others.
Over the years Wisconsin visitors have recorded 25 Stateline Challenge wins while Michigan drivers have found victory lane during this prestigious event 11 times. The list of former winners of Norway Speedway’s Stateline Challenge reads like a “who’s who” of short track racers in the Midwest. Wisconsin Rapids legend Dick Trickle won the inaugural race in 1981.
Second generation late model standout Jamie Iverson won five Stateline Challenge races. Norway Speedway Hall of Fame inductee Mike Kelly and his son Kris Kelly are the only father-son tandem to win the Stateline Challenge, with Mike winning in 1984 and Kris in 2016.
A 75-lap super late model feature is on tap. The event is presented by Island Resort Casino and Aurora Liquors. The race also serves as the Kent Pearson Memorial.
Pearson won the event twice, back in 1982 and 1983.
Qualifying begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday. Racing gets underway at 7 p.m.
Norway Speedway Stateline Challenge Winners
2020 – Justin Mondeik, Gleason, Wis.
2019 – Travis Sauter Prairie Du Sac, Wis.
2018- Johnny Sauter, Necedah, Wis.
2017- Dalton Zehr, Menominee
2016- Kris Kelly, Norway
2015- Dalton Zehr, Menominee
2014- (Tundra Race)
2013- Dillon Kralovetz, Bonduel, Wis.
2012- Jamie Iverson, Escanaba
2011- Jamie Iverson, Escanaba
2008-2010: No Race
2007- Mike Reichenberger, Appleton, Wis.
2006- Jamie Iverson, Escanaba
2005- Jamie Iverson, Escanaba
2004- Jamie Iverson, Escanaba
2003- Terry Baldry, Omro, Wis.
2002- Dale Peterson, Escanaba
2001- Mark Schroeder, Green Bay, Wis.
2000- Wayne Breitenfeldt, Wausau, Wis.
1999- Mark Schroeder, Green Bay, Wis.
1998- Dale Peterson, Bark River
1997- Terry Baldry, Omro, Wis.
1996- Kevin Cywinski, Mosinee, Wis.
1995- Kevin Cywinski, Mosinee, Wis.
1994- Kevin Cywinski, Mosinee, Wis.
1993- Matt Kenseth, Cambridge, Wis,
1992- Bob Menor, Wausaukee, Wis.
1991- Bob Menor, Wausaukee, Wis,
1990- Terry Baldry, Omro, Wis.
1989- Allen Check, Stevens Point, Wis.
1988- Dick Trickle, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.
1987- Scott Hansen, Green Bay, Wis.
1986- Scott Hansen, Green Bay, Wis.
1985- Mike Mattson, Marquette
1984- Mike Kelly, Norway
1983- Kent Pearson, Kingsford
1982- Kent Pearson, Kingsford
1981- Dick Trickle, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.
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