Eagle Raceway 5-20-2006 Results

By Greg Soukup

A cloudy, drizzly morning at Eagle Raceway gave way to a sunny, warm afternoon. Eventually, that gave way to a wonderful, cool evening of racing at “America’s Home Track”.

All told, the crowd saw 11 heats, 2 B Features and 4 A Features on the high-banked 1/3 mile. Thankfully, there were no major accidents during the show.

The A Feature for the Stereo West Auto Toys Tuners was won by the 01 car of Adrian Dover.

Taking the checkered flag first in the IMCA No Fear Modifieds was Stacey Wilhelm in the 3W.

The victor of the Stereo West Auto Toys Hobby Stocks was #42, Rob Brown. After the races, I spoke with Rob and asked him if he had anything he would like to pass along to the fans. Rob replied: “It’s always great to win a feature, especially at a track like Eagle. I do want to say that I won tonight as a birthday present for my girlfriend Jean.”“It’s easy to be fast when you have a good pit crew like mine, and great sponsors like I have.”“I want to thank Brown Glass Company, L G S of Lincoln, Dean and Don Johnson, Spyder Race Cars and a big thanks to Jim & Todd”.

The Budweiser Championship 360 Sprint feature was thrilling to say the least, although there were several cautions in the early going. Don Droud Jr. broke from his outside pole position to lead the first 17 laps, despite a furious challenge from young Ryan Roberts, he gave Droud all that he could handle. After having gotten over the cushion in turns 3 & 4 on the 12th lap, Ryan came very close to tipping over; but recovered to again catch Droud and attempt to overtake him. Unfortunately, after what can only be described as a banzai move in turns 1 & 2 on the 17th lap, Roberts spun out and had to retire in 18th position. Eventual sprint winner Mike Boston had a lot of praise for Ryan, but did say that “he just needs to learn patience. In fact, Ryan was “the”subject of many conversations in the pits afterwards.

Boston moved into first place on lap 18. 2 laps later, Gene Acklund flipped in the 3rd turn. Mike had to hold off the 19J of Jay Jordan and Larry Pinegar II who finished 3rd after moving up from 15th starting position. Also making a huge rush to the front was Jeff Griffis who advanced from his 20th starting spot to finish 7th.

When I spoke to Mike after the races, I accused him of lying to me. Mike had to be reminded that when he came into the pits that afternoon I had told him that I had asked Darrel Boston if the team was going to let someone else win that night, to which he replied “Heck No!!!”. So, I asked Mike the same question, and he told me “of course, it’s boring if the same guy wins every week”.

Mike then told me: “Honestly, I’d rather be lucky than good. Sometimes, like tonight, things just fall your way. As I said last week, it’s unbelievable to win 1 feature here at Eagle, let alone 3 in a row.”

Eagle Raceway Results for 5/20/06

Championship Sprints B Feature 1) 77 John Klabunde 2) 23R Tadd Holliman 3) 96KX Adam Gullion 4) 24W Bruce Divis 5) 76 Jay Russell 6) 71X Kellen Love 7) 31 Mark Pace 8) 17 Gage Dorr 9) 69 Name TBA 10) 3G Bill Garrow 11) 17B Jason Becker 12) 6 Nick Bryan 13) 24J Jeffrey Reiman 14) 7 Lonnie Jensen 15) 7L Rob Lipker

A Feature 1) 51 Mike Boston 2) 19J Jay Jordan 3) 13F Larry Pinegar, II 4) 44 Doug Lovegrove 5) 2 Don Droud Jr. 6) 84 Toby Chapman 7) 3 Jeff Griffis 8) 23 Terry Holliman 9) 4s Stuart Snyder 10) 1 Cori Eckley 11) 23R Tadd Holliman 12) 8b Bobby Becker 13) 96KX Adam Gullion 14) 53 Jack Dover 15) 14 Josh Riggins 16) 71 Tige Jensen 17) 14G Gene Ackland 18) 18 Ryan Roberts 19) 28 Ken Klabunde 20) 77 John Klabunde

IMCA Modifieds

B Feature 1) S56 Scott Bivens 2) 12X George Haney 3) 52 Sean Manning 4) 21 Phil Penney 5) 42K Jan Korth 6) 3A Aaron Pella 7) 44 Tom Lenz 8) 00 Tim Pickens 9) 28N Daniel Neeman 10) 21J Jeremy Leiting 11) 91 Chris Brenning 12) 4d Pat Donovan 13) 11X Steve Devitt 14) 82 Brad Koehn 15) 1R Matt Richards 16) 1M Mike Anderson 17) 29 Jeff Mazza 18) 8 Larry Goertz

A Feature 1) 3W Stacey Wilhelm 2) 2M Mike Meyer 3) 3 Chris Alcorn 4) S56 Scott Bivens 5) 13 Doug Deterding 6) B9 Sean Burkland 7) 19 Scott Anderson 8) 7 Bob Ruisinger 9) 52 Sean Manning 10) 42K Jan Korth 11) 21 Phil Penney 12) 10K Don McCown 13) 5ST Dan Wayman 14) 11AA Ed Raines 15) 12X George Haney 16) 75J Jesse Robinson 17) 95R Lucas Robinson 18) 1 Robert Brinkman 19) V45 Rik Gropp 20) 27 Clint Homan

IMCA Hobby Stocks

A Feature 1) 42 Rob Brown 2) 86 Justin Wulf 3) 57 Brian Cudly 4) 1x Rich Small 5) 21H Shane Hiatt 6) 14 Ron Novak 7) 92 Don Hall Jr. 8) 28B Rick Bradley 9) 94 Mike Hansen 10) 38C Casey Meyer 11) 10 Brad Schreiner 12) 21 Derick Noonan 13) 98 Daniel Jackson 14) 9X Jenny Sylvester 15) 4 Troy Mencke 16) 3K Jerry Keaton 17) 53 Jeff Kros 18) 9 Rex Schreiner 19) 1R RJ Macku 20) 8 Murray Haugen II 21) M70 Rick Munson

Tuners (Hornets)

A Feature 1) 01 Adrian Dover 2) 85 Michael Kennedy 3) 09 Harm Rogman 4) 0k Maynard Kinnersley 5) 0 Rich White 6) 00 Barry Kinnersley 7) 2 Dan Rhiley 8) 1K Kevin Kuker 9) 10J Doug Lyons 10) 62 Justin Busboom 11) 44 Jack Prall III 12) 67 Jack Prall Jr. 13) 12X Name TBA 14) 2k Kyle Schamp 15) B32 Brian Haller 16) 95 Cody Kennedy 17) 3 Harry White