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Arenz Holds Off Schlafer for Second Victory at 141 Speedway in 2025
By: Madeline “Chatty Madi” Ruh
Photo by: Dave Olson

A solid 25 sprint cars in the pit area made for an eventful night at 141 Speedway at the Rod Wittkopf Memorial. Box3 Media Hot Laps went to Danny Schlafer. Blake Nimee was fastest in Carbon Safety Technologies Qualifying picking up the Hi-Planes Building Division Quicktime Award.

Heat races belonged to Travis Arenz in Fox Lake Harbor Presents Allstar Performance Heat One, BodyCraft of Antioch presents Behling Racing Heat Two went to Jake Blackhurst, and Game Day Men’s Health presents Engler Machine & Tool Heat three wrapped up with Scotty Netizel bringing home the win.

Travis Arenz and Danny Schlafer were awarded pole positions by the Horizon Whiskey Dash Draw. Travis Arenz earned pole position from winning Optium Electric Dash One, and the outside front row was awarded to Danny Schlafer winning Kristine Hartmann Realtor Dash Two.

Schlafer and Arenz would bring the field to the green. Schalfer would lead the field over the Rayce Rudeen Foundation Champion. Scotty Neitzel would fall to third and Max Guilford would follow behind.

With three laps into the feature, we’d draw out the Honest Abe Roofing Caution Flag. We’d restart the field with the 25 leading the way. With 5 laps into the feature, Danny would continue the lead, but the 25T, 2W, and 16c would all be hot on his tail. Jake Blackhurst was also getting ready to throw himself into the mix as well.

Schlafer would hit lap traffic with 7 laps into the story, this gave the competition a chance to close the gap. We would throw the red flag for Jordan Goldesberry, Logan Julien, and Cruz Dickerson tangled in turn four. All drivers were able to walk away from the scene. We’d restart the field, and Schalfer would continue to lead the way in front of Arenz. With 17 laps remaining, Travis would power around the 25 of Schalfer to take the lead. Max Guilford would use the opportunity to try to grab second, but Schalfer would continue on. Arenz would tick away laps until the white then checkered flag to take the win at 141 Speedway for the second time this season. Schlafer second and Max Guilford would round out the podium. RT’s 5th Quarter Hard Charger Award went to Tyler Brabant, and the Honest Abe Rookie of the Race was awarded to Max Guilford.

The series returns to Minnesota for the Jackson Nationals this Friday and Saturday with the Northern Sprint Car Association for $12,000 to win. Watch live on Floracing.

410 Sprints - Winged 25 Entries
A Feature 30 Laps | 00:25:08.161

1. 25T-Travis Arenz[1]; 2. 25-Danny Schlafer[2]; 3. 16C-Max Guilford[3]; 4. 2W-Scott Neitzel[4]; 5. 96-Jake Blackhurst[7]; 6. 9K-Kyle Schuett[13]; 7. 79-Blake Nimee[5]; 8. 99-Tyler Brabant[17]; 9. 17-Tylar Rankin[11]; 10. 13G-Van Gurley Jr[14]; 11. 12-Corbin Gurley[19]; 12. 26-Tyler Tischendorf[10]; 13. 21H-TJ Haddy[12]; 14. 55P-Brady Portschy[15]; 15. 7F-Lance Fassbender[21]; 16. 24-Scott Conger[18]; 17. (DNF) 4K-Kris Spitz[16]; 18. (DNF) 3BK-Billy Kreutz[20]; 19. (DNF) 70W-Logan Wienke[22]; 20. (DNF) 85J-Logan Julien[9]; 21. (DNF) 65-Jordan Goldesberry[6]; 22. (DNF) 4D-Cruz Dickerson[8]; 23. (DNF) 3-Justin Erickson[23]; 24. (DNS) 47-Todd King; 25. (DNS) 4-Alex Pokorski

Dash 1 4 Laps | 00:00:44.910

1. 25T-Travis Arenz[1]; 2. 16C-Max Guilford[2]; 3. 79-Blake Nimee[3]; 4. 96-Jake Blackhurst[4]; 5. 85J-Logan Julien[5]

Dash 2 4 Laps | 00:00:45.922

1. 25-Danny Schlafer[1]; 2. 2W-Scott Neitzel[2]; 3. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[3]; 4. 4D-Cruz Dickerson[5]; 5. 26-Tyler Tischendorf[4]

Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:06:26.886

1. 25T-Travis Arenz[1]; 2. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[2]; 3. 25-Danny Schlafer[3]; 4. 79-Blake Nimee[4]; 5. 9K-Kyle Schuett[6]; 6. 4K-Kris Spitz[5]; 7. 3BK-Billy Kreutz[7]; 8. (DNF) 3-Justin Erickson[8]; 9. (DNS) 47-Todd King

Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:01:29.614

1. 96-Jake Blackhurst[3]; 2. 16C-Max Guilford[4]; 3. 26-Tyler Tischendorf[2]; 4. 21H-TJ Haddy[5]; 5. 13G-Van Gurley Jr[6]; 6. 99-Tyler Brabant[7]; 7. 7F-Lance Fassbender[8]; 8. (DNS) 12-Corbin Gurley

Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:03:31.274

1. 2W-Scott Neitzel[1]; 2. 17-Tylar Rankin[2]; 3. 85J-Logan Julien[4]; 4. 4D-Cruz Dickerson[3]; 5. 55P-Brady Portschy[6]; 6. 24-Scott Conger[7]; 7. 70W-Logan Wienke[8]; 8. (DNF) 4-Alex Pokorski[5]

Qualifying | 00:00:24.296

1. 79-Blake Nimee, 00:10.858[2]; 2. 16C-Max Guilford, 00:10.901[22]; 3. 85J-Logan Julien, 00:10.911[6]; 4. 25-Danny Schlafer, 00:11.020[16]; 5. 96-Jake Blackhurst, 00:11.076[17]; 6. 4D-Cruz Dickerson, 00:11.093[20]; 7. 65-Jordan Goldesberry, 00:11.100[7]; 8. 26-Tyler Tischendorf, 00:11.179[8]; 9. 17-Tylar Rankin, 00:11.206[14]; 10. 25T-Travis Arenz, 00:11.232[11]; 11. 12-Corbin Gurley, 00:11.249[13]; 12. 2W-Scott Neitzel, 00:11.277[25]; 13. 4K-Kris Spitz, 00:11.289[5]; 14. 21H-TJ Haddy, 00:11.301[10]; 15. 4-Alex Pokorski, 00:11.349[15]; 16. 9K-Kyle Schuett, 00:11.378[9]; 17. 13G-Van Gurley Jr, 00:11.386[3]; 18. 55P-Brady Portschy, 00:11.409[24]; 19. 3BK-Billy Kreutz, 00:11.434[19]; 20. 99-Tyler Brabant, 00:11.461[23]; 21. 24-Scott Conger, 00:11.728[4]; 22. 3-Justin Erickson, 00:11.735[18]; 23. 7F-Lance Fassbender, 00:11.900[21]; 24. 70W-Logan Wienke, 00:12.114[1]; 25. 47-Todd King, 00:17.191[12]

Hot Laps | 00:00:37.815

1. 25-Danny Schlafer[16]; 2. 96-Jake Blackhurst[17]; 3. 16C-Max Guilford[22]; 4. 17-Tylar Rankin[14]; 5. 2W-Scott Neitzel[25]; 6. 79-Blake Nimee[2]; 7. 4D-Cruz Dickerson[20]; 8. 12-Corbin Gurley[13]; 9. 25T-Travis Arenz[11]; 10. 4-Alex Pokorski[15]; 11. 55P-Brady Portschy[24]; 12. 9K-Kyle Schuett[9]; 13. 3BK-Billy Kreutz[19]; 14. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[7]; 15. 85J-Logan Julien[6]; 16. 47-Todd King[12]; 17. 21H-TJ Haddy[10]; 18. 4K-Kris Spitz[5]; 19. 99-Tyler Brabant[23]; 20. 3-Justin Erickson[18]; 21. 13G-Van Gurley Jr[3]; 22. 7F-Lance Fassbender[21]; 23. 26-Tyler Tischendorf[8]; 24. 24-Scott Conger[4]; 25. 70W-Logan Wienke[1]

• Madeline Schultz on Sep 14, 2025
• Article Date: 9/14/2025 by Madeline "Chatty Madi" Schultz