I-80: Livingston, Leighton Late Model Winners

By Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne., 6/10/06) Saturday nights NASCAR , Dodge Weekly Racing Series
saw double features in the Crate Late Models with Dave Livingston winning the first
one and Bill Leighton Jr winning the 2nd one. Along the way Jason Cieslik, Harry
Nixon, Austin Kurtzer and Eric Fryman also won their respective features.

The night got started with the make up Dodge Crate Late Model feature from June 3rd.
Jason Hobscheidt and Trevor Millikan battled early on with Millikan in the lead
after 1 lap. Millikan and Hobscheidt hooked up with Livingston for a 3 wide
shootout before Hobscheidt grabbed the lead on lap 5. Livingston, running a low
groove near the inside guard rail, took the lead on lap 7. Livingston then survived
4 restarts to win his 2nd feature of the year with Hobscheidt finishing 2nd. Third
through 5th went to Mike Wallace, Bill Leighton Jr and Dave Doll.

The 2nd feature saw Jody Krug and Shawn Harker battle for the early lead
with Harker in front at the end of lap 1. Krug took the lead on lap 5 but Bill Leighton
Jr. was on the move. Leighton, the current track point leader and 5th in NASCAR
Division 4 points, moved up to take the lead on lap 12. But Krug battled with him
side by side for several laps before Leighton began pulling away. Dave Doll made
a late race charge but had to settle for 2nd ahead of Krug, Wallace and Harker.

The Certified Transmission Pro-am feature saw Chuck Dillon take the early lead
followed by Jason Cieslik. Shawn Bulin and Scotty Hartman made it a 4 car
battle for the lead. Cieslik took the lead on lap 10 and went on to record his
first win of the season. Hartman took 2nd over Bulin, Rick Negrete and Dillon.

Harry Nixon started on the outside front row of the B-Mod feature. Mike
Christiansen came on to challenge for the lead which he took on lap 8. Nixon
Retook the lead on lap 10. On the last lap going into turn 4 Christiansen tried a
Slide job to take the lead. But it failed and Nixon took the checkers for the
3rd time this year.

In the Tobacco Free Nebraska Pro-Hornet feature Austin Kurtzer took advantage
Corey Hutchison being set back 4 spots for jumping on the start, to record his 1st
win of the season. Perry Soule came on to finish 2nd and Hutchison fought back to
finish 3rd.

In the TFN Novice Hornet feature Eric Fryman took the car he borrowed from
Will McConnell and won his first feature of the year. Nate Christensen tried to
overtake him, but could’nt get the job done.


Next Saturday night will be Coca Cola night at the races. All fans will receive a
free Coca Cola product. Hot laps are at 6:30 and racing at 8. .


Nebraska Raceway Park I-80 Speedway NASCAR Dodge Weekly Racing Series
Division IV
Dodge Crate Late Models

Make-up A-Feature: 1) 17 Dave Livingston, 2) 1 Jason Hobscheidt, 3) 3 Mike
Wallace, 4) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 5) 97d Dave Doll, 6) 56T Ron Tilley, 7) 25
Brad Perdue, 8) 33 Jeff Tilley, 9) 50 Brad Soll, 10) j1 Jay Burdic, 11) Jon
Schwartz, 12) Shawn Harker, 13) Brent Baker, 14) Scott Carlson, 15) Randy
Archer, 16) Jody Krug, 17) Todd Morgan, 18) Trevor Millikan, 19)
Justin Clark, 20) Gary Joens Jr., 21) Curt Drake, 22) Laini Schwartz,
23) Kenny Edwards(DNS), 24) Robbie Kosiski(DNS), 25) Tony
Leonardo(DNS)

A-Feature: 1) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 2) 97d Dave Doll, 3) 2k Jody Krug, 4) 3
Mike Wallace, 5) 40 Shawn Harker, 6) 25 Brad Perdue, 7) 8x Ron Tex Jr.,
8) 56t Ron Tilley, 9) 50 Brad Soll, 10) 96 Mark Wyman, 11) Curt Drake,
12) Scott Carlson, 13) Jay Burdic, 14) Jason Hobscheidt, 15) Gary Joens
Jr., 16) Jeff Tilley, 17) Jon Schwartz, 18) Laini Schwartz, 19) Todd Morgan,
20) Harley Moen, 21) Dave Livingston, 22) Brent Baker, 23) Trevor
Millikan(DNS), 24) Randy Archer(DNS), 25) Justin Clark(DNS)


Certified Transmission Pro-ams

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


B-Mods

A-Feature: 1) 5 Harry Nixon, 2) 52x Mike Christiansen, 3) 53 Larry Robinson Sr.,
4) 52 Daryl Weilage, 5) 21 Jim Fritz, 6) 71 Floyd Richards, 7) 33 Jim Hendricks,
8) 0H Scott Plantz, 9) 20 Ben Romey, 10) Z00 Lacey Tuttle

Tobacco Free Nebraska Pro-Hornets

A-Feature: 1) 57 Austin Kurtzer, 2) 16j Perry Soule, 3) 96 Corey
Hutcheson, 4) 16 Jessica Soule, 5) 36 Joe McConnell, 6) 20 Lindsey Yost,
7) 10j Doug Lyons, 8) 15 Jamie Spanel, 9) 4 Travis Meyer, 10) 10 Joe Thomas,
11) Brandon Wergin, 12) Cory Askeland, 13) Chuck Wergin, 14) Steve England,
15) Ole Olson, 16) Dave Christensen, 17) Anthony Abboud, 18) Skip Brown,
19) Tim Shidler, 20) Brian Williard, 21) Tony Barnes, 22) Cody Kennedy,
23) Rick Havenridge

Tobacco Free Nebraska Novice Hornets

A-Feature: 1) 22 Eric Fryman, 2) 37 Nate Christensen, 3) 16j Justin Soule,
4) 33 Steve McConnell, 5) 3X Mollee Collins, 6) 13 Bryan Hull, 7) B52
Nathan Brown, 8) 3c Brady Deyeager, 9) 60 Thomas Liechti, 10) 38
Will McConnell, 11) Jake Urbach, 12) Lynn Carlson, 13) Amanda
Leonardo, 14) Andrew Cuva, 15) Sara Doll, 16) Lana Castilla, 17) Megan
Christensen, 18) Deanna Wallace, 19) Ashley Hoeft, 20) Ridge Barnes,
21) Taylor Collins, 22) Shevi Collins, 23) Teresa Allen