Joe Kosiski Does It Again, Livingston Doubles Up at I-80

By Joey Sparano

(GREENWOOD NEB., 07/09/06) Joe Kosiski picks up his fourth win in a row at the I-80 Speedway, while Dave Livingston picks up his second feature win this weekend. Other feature winners were Jerimiah Sillman and Josh True on Kids Money Grab night.

The 25 lap NASCAR Dodge Weekly Racing Series "A" feature event saw the #1L of Mike Wallace take the lead on lap one. Wallace would maintain the point until lap seven when the #76 of "Awesome Al" Zeitner would pull to the low side and take the lead. Action would slow one lap later for a piece of debris. On the restart current NASCAR Division II leader Joe Kosiski would drive from fifth to second in the running order. Two laps later Kosiski would edge out Zeitner for the lead at the line. The race would stay green the rest of the way and Kosiski would go on to take his sixth victory of the season. Zeitner would finish second ahead of Ed Kosiski, Bryant Goldsmith, and Leon Zeitner.

Jerimiah Sillman would start on the pole and win the 18 lap Home Pride Modified feature. Justin Clark would take second. Mike Meyer would start tenth and take third. Mike Johnson and Nick Carlson rounded out the top five.

The 20 lap Grand National division feature would have Randy Archer jump to an early lead on lap one. Archer would keep the lead until lap four, that's when Rick Stolley would loose control of his #10 in turn two. Andrew Kosiski would hit Stolley's car, but they both were able to continue with damage. On the restart the #17 of Dave Livingston would lead the fifth lap, but the caution flew again for the #T3 of Gary Leapley. After the restart the race went for 15 straight green flag laps and Livingston would take the checkers. This was Livingston's second feature win of the weekend as he won Saturday's NASCAR Division IV CRATE latemodel "A" main. Point leader Dave Doll took second, Shawn Harker brought home third after battling Ron Tex Jr. to the line. The 2005 NRP Grand National Champion Joey Bauer Jr. came home fifth.

The Stereo West Auto Toys Hobby Stocks would have trouble on lap one. That is when the #15m of Brandon Richards would get upside down and roll in turn one. Richards was unhurt, but his car had heavy damage to it. When the race got restarted it was "SpongeBob" Kracher who was the race leader. On lap four hard charging Chuck Madden Jr. would loose the handle on his #2x. Madden who started 11th would keep his car running and rejoin the field a half lap down. Kracher would keep the lead, but he would be challenged by Josh True and Tom Myers for the last half of the race. The three would race three wide until Myers pulled into the pits on lap eleven. With Myers gone, that gave True a little more room and he would pass Kracher on the white flag lap. True would then come around and take the checkers. Jesse Sobbing would come from fourth to second on the last lap. Kracher held on for third. Jeremy Auten and Justin Leach came across fourth and fifth.

I-80 Speedway Results From 07/09/06

Dodge Super Latemodels

"A" Feature: 1) 53 Joe Kosiski, 2) 76 Al Zeitner, 3) 9 Ed Kosiski, 4) 24 Bryant Goldsmith, 5) 62 Leon Zeitner, 6) 1L Mike Wallace, 7) 00 Clint Benson, 8) 2v John Hampel, 9) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 10) 19d Jason Hobsheidt, 11) 80 Scott Koskovich, 12) 33 Jeff Tilley, 13) 82 Robbie Andersen, 14) 58 Keith Mander Jr., 15) 89 Jerry Warner, 16) 4 Russ Haden, 17) 1m Todd Bell, 18) 44z Alonzo Grosse, 19) 71 Joe Julian, 20) z62 Justin Zeitner, 21) 8c Chad Andersen, 22) 77 John Nicholson.

Heat 1: 1) 71 Joe Julian, 2) 82 Robbie Andersen, 3) 89 Jerry Warner, 4) 2v John Hampel, 5) 4 Russ Haden, 6) 33 Jeff Tilley.

Heat 2: 1) 00 Clint Benson, 2) 77 John Nicholson, 3) 58 Keith Mander Jr., 4) 9 Ed Kosiski, 5) 76 Al Zeitner, 6) 19d Jason Hobsheidt.

Heat 3: 1) 1L Mike Wallace, 2) 53 Joe Kosiski, 3) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 4) 24 Bryant Goldsmith, 5) 62 Leon Zeitner, 6) 80 Scott Koskovich.

Home Pride Modifieds

"A" Feature: 1) 52s Jerimiah Sillman, 2) 74 Justin Clark, 3) 2m Mike Meyer, 4) 3x Mike Johnson, 5) 1c Nick Carlson, 6) 43 Brian Foote, 7) 72 Mike Lineberry, 8) 71 Jeff James, 9) 1s Scott Carlson, 10) 3r Rodney Stopak, 11) 69x Bill Bader Jr., 12) 1 Jeremy Holdapp, 13) 5 Chris Hogan, 14) 34 James Showers.

Heat 1: 1) 52s Jerimiah Sillman, 2) 1s Scott Carlson, 3) 5 Chris Hogan, 4) 1 Jeremy Holdapp, 5) 43 Brian Foote, 6) 34 James Showers.

Heat 2: 1) 3x Mike Johnson, 2) 2m Mike Meyer, 3) 69x Bill Bader Jr., 4) 72 Mike Lineberry, 5) 3r Rodney Stopak, 6) 71 Jeff James.

Grand National

"A" Feature: 1) 17 Dave Livingston, 2) 97d Dave Doll, 3) 40 Shawn Harker, 4) 8x Ron Tex Jr., 5) 83 Joey Bauer Jr., 6) 22m Trevor Millikan, 7) 33 Jeff Tilley, 8) 2k Jody Krug, 9) 50 Brad Soll, 10) 88 Brian Scott, 11) 56t Ron Tilley, 12) 18j Jon Schwartz, 13) j1 Harley Moen, 14) 9 Dave Cook, 15) 12 Todd Hipnar, 16) t3 Gary Leapley, 17) 33x Brian Kenkel, 18) 25 Kenny Edwards, 19) 10 Rick Stolley, 20) 2 Dwane Pospisil, 21) 9x Kathy Cook, 22) 2x Andrew Kosiski, 23) 56 Jason Longmeyer, 24) 20 Randy Archer(DQ).

"B" Feature: 1) 2k Jody Krug, 2) 18j Jon Schwartz, 3) 9 Dave Cook, 4) 88 Brian Scott, 5) 33x Brian Kenkel, 6) 2 Dwane Pospisil, 7) 85a Micah Brown, 8) 92k Rob Kosiski, 9) 15x Scott Krause-Mahan, 10) 18 Laini Schwartz, 11) 91 Steve Farnsworth, 12) 35 Kortney Kosiski, 13) 23 Dave Hanke.

Heat 1: 1) 8x Ron Tex Jr., 2) 25 Kenny Edwards, 3) j1 Harley Moen, 4) 2x Andrew Kosiski, 5) 83 Joey Bauer Jr., 6) t3 Gary Leapley.

Heat 2: 1) 40 Shawn Harker, 2) 17 Dave Livingston, 3) 33 Jeff Tilley, 4) 22m Trevor Millikan, 5) 10 Rick Stolley, 6) 9x Kathy Cook.

Heat 3: 1) 97d Dave Doll, 2) 56t Ron Tilley, 3) 12 Todd Hipnar, 4) 20 Randy Archer, 5) 50 Brad Soll, 6) 56 Jason Longmeyer.

Stereo west Auto Toys Hobby Stocks

"A" Feature: 1) 2t Josh True, 2) 99 Jesse Sobbing, 3) 66 Bob Kracher, 4) 6a Jeremy Auten, 5) 1 Justin Leach, 6) 51s Jeremy Smith, 7) 4x Chad Bassinger, 8) 2x Chuck Madden Jr., 9) 11x Kenny Toliver-Humpal, 10) 14 Greg Houdesheldt, 11) 7 Tom Myers, 12) 4 George Whitmore, 13) 15m Brandon Richards.

Heat 1: 1) 2x Chuck Madden Jr., 2) 51s Jeremy Smith, 3) 1 Justin Leach, 4) 14 Greg Houdesheldt, 5) 2t Josh True, 6) 6a Jeremy Auten.

Heat 2: 1) 66 Bob Kracher, 2) 99 Jesse Sobbing, 3) 7 Tom Myers, 4) 4 George Whitmore, 5) 15m Brandon Richards, 6) 4x Chad Bassinger.