I-80 May 20: Hobscheidt, Bulin And Carlson Get First Feature Wins In 2006

By Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne., 5/20/06) – The NASCAR, Dodge Weekly Racing series saw 106
cars and drivers sign in to compete Saturday night. Jason Hobscheidt, Shawn Bulin and
Lynn Carlson picked up their first feature wins of the year.

Hobscheidt started the Crate Late Model feature in the 10th position and watched as
Jon Schwartz grabbed the early lead. Ron Tilley, who started 6th, moved into 2nd on
lap 3 and took the lead from Schwartz on lap 5. Dave Livingston took 2nd on lap 6 followed by Hobscheidt and Jody Krug. Hobscheidt took over the lead on lap 8.
Tilley, Livingston and Krug then locked in a 3 way battle for 2nd with Krug taking
that position on lap 13. Livingston came on strong to take 2nd with 3 laps left.
But Livingston could not overhaul Hobscheidt and had to settle for 2nd. Hobscheidts
first win of the season combined with Billy Leighton finishing 9th, gave Hobscheidt
the points lead after 4 nights of racing. Krug finished 3rd ahead of Dave Doll, Kent
Schimenti and Trevor Millikan.

In the Certified Transmission Pro-am 18 lap feature Terry Cleveland took the early
lead from his pole starting position and held it til lap 12. Shawn Bulin, who started
9th had been steadily moving up in the field and grabbed the lead on that lap. From
that point Bulin pulled away and went on to record his first win of the year. Cleveland
held on to 2nd ahead of Jeff Kupke, Don Mohr and Scotty Hartman.

Ben Romey charge in front from his pole position in the B-Mod 10 lap feature event.
But it would be short lived as Mike Christiansen passed him on the back straight.
Floyd Richards took over the lead on lap 3 with Harry Nixon moving to 3rd.
Christiansen who dropped all the way to 4th made contact with Nixon and spun him
out. On the next yellow flag Christiansen was set back 2 spots. Nixon worked his
way up to challenge Richards at the end. With both drivers running side by side
Richards was able to hold on and record his 2nd win of the season. Jim Fritz finished
3rd ahead of Jim Hendricks Jr. and Lacey Tuttle.

The Smoke Free Nebraska Hornets had a lot of problems on this night; the Pro-Hornets
had a 9 car pileup on the back straight away in the opening lap. Austin Kurtzers car
would end up standing on its nose. When they restarted Rick Havenridge charged to
the early lead. But officials ruled that Havenridge had jumped the start passing one car
before the green flag flew. So after lap 3 a yellow flag flew so official could set back
Havenridge his 3 spots. Perry “The Soul Man” Soule took over the lead on lap 4 and
Went on to record his 2nd feature win of the year.

In the SFN Novice Hornet feature on the opening lap a mixup on the back stretch saw
Amanda Leonardo get sideways and flip 5 times before coming to rest. The Safety Crew
got her stabilized and had to cut the roof off of her car to extract her. She was complaining of some neck pain, so the ambulance took her into the hospital to be
checked over. On the restart Mollee Collins took the early lead only to lose it in turn 1
to Lynn Carlson. Carlson held off a late charge by Nate Christensen to record her first
career win and in turn snapped Christensen win streak at 3. Collins held on for 3rd ahead
of Nathan Brown and Sara Doll.

There was a special Challenge race for teachers and administrators from the Ralston
School district in Hornet cars. The “Teacher Feature” started 8 cars. Mark Fugleberg,
The Ralston High School Tech teacher who helped some of his students build a hornet
car in 2005, won the race over Greg Sheperd, the Ralston High School Principal and
Bob Brown, the president of the Board of Education.



Nebraska Raceway Park I-80 Speedway NASCAR Dodge Weekly Racing Series
Division III

Crate Late Models

A-Feature: 1) 1 Jason Hobscheidt, 2) 17 Dave Livingston, 3) 2K Jody Krug, 4) 97d
Dave Doll, 5) 22 Kent Schimenti, 6) 22M Trevor Millikan, 7) 74 Justin Clark, 8) 25
Brad Perdue, 9) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 10) 50 Brad Soll, 11) 18j Jon Schwartz, 12) 55d
Curt Drake, 13) 96 Tony Leonardo, 14) 21x Brent Baker, 15) 2 Dwane Pospisil, 16)
2d Todd Morgan, 17) 7 Gary Joens Jr., 18) 55 Mike Merrill, 19) 56t Ron Tilley,
20) 85A Rob Kosiski, 21) 40 Shawn Harker, 22) 2x Scott Carlson, 23) 3 Mike
Wallace, 24) 18 Laini Schwartz


Certified Transmission Pro-Ams

A-Feature: 1) 36 Shawn Bulin, 2) 12 Terry Cleveland, 3) 71x Jeff Kupke, 4) 24 Don
Mohr, 5) 88 Scotty Hartman, 6) 25x Joe Feyen, 7) 33x Chuck Dillon, 8) 49x Chad Sanders, 9)35 Rich Steier, 10) 3T Tim Podraza, 11) 20 Mike Gillespie, 12) 64 Nick
Hermsen, 13) 8 Nick Steier, 14) 74c Dave Christensen, 15) 41 Doug Oliverius,
16) 9x John Allensworth, 17) 49 Jeff Atkins, 18) 15 Andy Thompsen, 19) 55 Ray
Dessell, 20) 72 Rick Negrete, 21) 16j Jason Cieslik, 22) 52 Shane Bales, 23) 56
Jeremy Longmeyer, 24) 08 Roger Harpster, 25) 84 Doug Stevenson (DNS)


B-Mods

A-Feature: 1) 71 Floyd Richards, 2) 5 Harry Nixon, 3) 21 Jim Fritz, 4) 33 Jim
Hendricks Jr., 5) Z00 Lacey Tuttle, 6) 0H Scott Plantz, 7) 52x Mike Christiansen,
8) 20 Ben Romey

Heat Race: 1) Romy, 2) Christiansen, 3) Richards, 4) Nixon, 5) Hendricks

Tobacco Free Nebraska Pro-Hornets

A-Feature: 1) 16j Perry Soule, 2) 96 Corey Hutchison, 3) 99 Rick Havenridge,
4) 23 Ole Olson, 5) 9x Joe Baker, 6) 4 Travis Meyer, 7) 22 Mike Boehmer,
8) 81 Steve England, 9) 20 Lindsey Yost, 10) 68 Tony Barnes, 11) 33 Tim
Shidler, 12) 61 Chuck Wergon, 13) B52 Skip Brown, 14) 99x Jason Tadlock,
15) 43 Mark Krueger, 16) 13 James Hayes, 17) 36 Joe McConnell, 18) 28x
Anthony Abboud, 19) 78 Randy Allen, 20) 57 Austin Kurtzer, 21) 24 Greg
Ryba, 25) 10 Joe Thomas, 26) 7 Jason Clark, 27) 15 Jamie Spanel, 28) 61b
Brandon Wergon, 29) 19 Darin Hoegren, 30) 33t Brian Willard(DNS)



Tobacco Free Nebraska Novice Hornets

A-Feature: 1) 23 Lynn Carlson, 2) 37 Nate Christensen, 3) 3X Mollee
Collins, 4) B52 Nathan Brown, 5) 97s Sara Doll, 6) 13 Bryan Hull,
7) 22 Eric Fryman, 8) 3d Taylor Collins, 9) 60 Thomas Liechti, 10) 16j
Justin Soule, 11) 74c Megan Christensen, 12) 4 Deanna Wallace, 13) 06
Andrew Cuva, 14) 68 Ridge Barnes, 15) 35 Kortney Kosiski, 16) 33x
Shevi Collins, 17) 33 Steve McConnell, 18) 1 Matt Slominsky, 19) 5
Tyler Mass, 20) 96 Amanda Leonardo(DNF), 21) 38 Will McConnell(DNF),
22) 78 Teresa Allen(DNF)


Ralston Education “Teacher Feature”

1) 9x Marc Fugelberg, Tech Teacher, 2) 5 Greg Sheperd, High School Principal,
2) 3)41 Bob Brown, Board of Education , 4) 1 Jerry Riibe, Assistant Superintendant,
3) 5) 06 Don Groesser, Ralston Mayor, 6) B52 Dr. Virginia Moon, Superintendant,
4) 7) 11 Kathi Kryzki, Middle School Principal, 8) 1y Dan Mussman High School Athletic Director