WILMOT, Wis. — Bill Balog scored his eighth Bumper to Bumper Interstates Racing Ass’n sprint car victory of the season Saturday night at Wilmot Raceway.
Balog overtook the lead from Mike Reinke eight laps into the 11th annual 36-lap Roger Iles Tribute presented by Carriage Auto Body. The victory marketed Balog’s fifth in the Iles event, having won in 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2019.
The win also secured Balog’s first Wilmot Raceway 410 Outlaw Winged Sprint Car Regular Season Series Championship.
Reinke finished second. Blake Nimee was third.
Derek Crane won his second Autometer/Brewington Electric Wisconsin Wingless Sprints feature of the season.
C.J. Malueg captured his second IRA Lightning Sprints feature win in a row.
Ryan Johnson, defending Bandit 4-Cylinder Stock Car champion, finally cracked the feature win column in 2020 taking top honors in the non-stop 20-lap main event.
The finish:
Feature (36 laps): 1. 17B-Bill Balog[5]; 2. 10W-Mike Reinke[1]; 3. 79-Blake Nimee[6]; 4. 5J-Jeremy Schultz[7]; 5. 73-Jake Blackhurst[4]; 6. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[9]; 7. 2W-Scott Neitzel[12]; 8. 23-Russel Borland[11]; 9. 25-Danny Schlafer[15]; 10. 20R-Rob Pribnow[23]; 11. 4B-Scott Biertzer[13]; 12. 68-Dave Uttech[2]; 13. 19-Todd Daun[10]; 14. 43-Jereme Schroeder[16]; 15. 77-Wayne Modjeski[8]; 16. 14R-Sean Rayhall[14]; 17. 29-Hunter Custer[22]; 18. 2A-Austin Archdale[20]; 19. 4K-Kris Spitz[24]; 20. 0-John Fahl[19]; 21. 55-Austin Deblauw[17]; 22. 10V-Matt VandeVere[18]; 23. 73AF-Scotty Thiel[3]; 24. 70-Chris Klemko[25]; 25. (DNS) 5H-Patrick Haynes; 26. (DNS) 14-Jack Routson