Superpro Series

Fast qualifier Jason Dietsch took the lead with 10 laps to go and won the Team Tech Motorsports 75 Presented by Lipari Foods for the SUPEPRO Series at Spartan Speedway Friday night.

Point leader Tom Smith was second followed by Rob Buckley, rookie leader Kyle Hayden, and Mike Kugler. More to follow.....

DIETSCH SNAGS SUPERPRO WIN AT SPARTAN

Edgerton, Ohio veteran Jason Dietsch took the lead with ten laps to go and went on to win the Team Tech Motorsports 75 Presented by Lipari Foods Friday night at Spartan Speedway in Mason, Michigan.
Rookie contenders Mark Hankowsky and Kyle Hayden brought the 19 car field to the green with Hayden jumping to the early lead. The first caution came out on lap 3 when Terry Bogusz and Ryan Inman got together on the front stretch sending both to the pits for repairs. Rick Everidge’s season of bad luck continued as he went out on lap 4 with motor trouble.
Hayden held his advantage until point leader Tom Smith began to challenge on lap 5. Hayden and Smith ran side by side for the next fifteen laps before Smith took over the top spot. At the halfway point, it was Smith, Hayden, Rob Buckley, Dietsch, Andy Marchiniak, Derek Bischak, Hankowsky, and Brian Bauman.
Dietsch moved into third on lap 42 and grabbed second from Hayden on lap 54. On lap 57, he moved inside of Smith and the two drivers battled side by side for the lead for the next eight laps before Dietsch took command. At the checkers, it was Dietsch, Smith, Buckley, Hayden, and Mike Kugler. Marchiniak, Bischak, Hankowsky, Danny Leeck, and Steven Brooks rounded out the top ten.
Dietsch was the Aluminum Racing Products fast qualifier with a lap of 13.311 seconds around the quarter mile paved oval. Kugler was the AllStar Performance Hard Charger, Hayden was the Turbo Blue Racing Gas- Corrigan Oil Rookie of the Race, and Bogusz was the recipient of the ARP “Hard Luck Award”. Kevin Todd won the RaceStatus.com award and Smith and Dietsch each won $50 certificates from race sponsor Team Tech and Tyler Middleton grabbed the Penske Racing Shocks “Shocking Move of the Race.
The SUPERPRO Series moved to the three-eighths mile Angola Motor Speedway on Saturday, July 25 for the “Engineered Systems Inc. 75 Presented by Turbo Blue Racing Gas-Corrigan Oil Co. and Penske Racing Shocks. For more information, go to the web at www.superproracing.com.

TEAM TECH MOTORSPORTS 75 PRESENTED BY LIPARI FOODS
1. JASON DIETSCH
2. TOM SMITH
3. ROB BUCKLEY
4. KYLE HAYDEN
5. MIKE KUGLER
6. ANDY MARCHINIAK
7. DEREK BISCHAK
8. MARK HANKOWSKY
9. DANNY LEECK
10. STEVEN BROOKS
11. BRIAN BAUMAN
12. PAUL FREELAND
13. HANK TEWS
14. TYLER MIDDLETON
15. MATT HALL
16. KEVIN TODD
17. TERRY BOGUSZ
18. RYAN INMAN
19. RICK EVERIDGE