Joe Kosiski Dominates Double Features at I-80 Speedway

By Joey Sparano

(GREENWOOD NEB., 07/02/06) Independence weekend saw double latemodel "A" features at the I-80 Speedway, and with that the current NASCAR Division II points leader Joe Kosiski brought home both feature wins. Brian Foote, Jody Krug, and Jesse Sobbing all picked up feature victories on Military Appreciation night at the 4/10 of a mile oval.

The first 25 lap Dodge Super Latemodel feature took awhile to get started after two pileups that collected seven different cars. When the race finally got under way it was the "Real Deal" Jeff Tilley who jumped to an early lead. Tilley would keep the lead for the first 14 circuits until the #53 of Joe Kosiski would get by for the top spot. One lap later action would slow for the spinning Alonzo Grosse. After that it was all Kosiski who went on to take his fourth win of the season. Second through fifth were Bryant Goldsmith, Scott Koskovich, Leon Zeitner, and Jason Hobscheidt.

The second Dodge latemodel feature saw much of the same. Jeff Tilley would again take the lead on lap one. This time he could only keep the lead until lap nine, that's when the #9 of Ed Kosiski passed him for the lead. Meanwhile, Joe Kosiski would make his way into the third spot by getting around the #76 of Al Zeitner. Joe Kosiski would get by Tilley and on lap 12 he would take the lead from brother Ed. A couple of minor accidents on lap 14 would make the race interesting, on the restart Ed Kosiski would get along side of Joe. After a few laps of side by side racing Joe Kosiski pulled away and took the checkered flags. His second of the night, and third straight at I-80. Ed Kosiski finished second. John Hampel finished third in Ryan Vickers #2v. Bryant Goldsmith and Al Zeitner finished off the top five.

Nick Carlson grabbed the lead early in the 18 lap Home Pride Modified feature event. When the field entered turn four to complete lap one, front runners Bill Bader Jr. and Mike Lineberry would both loose the handle on their cars. Justin Clark, John O'neal, Jerimiah Sillman, James Showers, Bob Zoubek, Brian Foote, and Chris Hogan all were caught up in the wreck in one way or another. Fortunately all drivers were able to continue. When the race continued it was still Carlson with the #44 of Jonnie Wyman close behind. Wyman would take the lead on lap seven after going by Carlson on the high side. Just past halfway, Wyman would loose the lead to a hard charging Brian Foote. Foote would keep the lead and go on to take the win. A great battle for second would see Missouri's John O'neal edge out J.C. Wyman, Mike Meyer, and Jonnie Wyman at the line.

The Grand National division would see Dave Cook make his way to the lead on lap one from his front row starting spot. Cook would keep the lead until lap four when the #J1 of Harley Moen would make the pass for the point. Jody Krug would work his way to second from his ninth starting position when disaster almost struck on lap ten. That's when the lap car of Kortney Kosiski would make contact with Krug's right rear quarter panel. Jody was able to save it, but Kosiski's car slammed head on into the outside wall. Krug's misfortune would turn into victory as on the restart he would get by Moen and drive on for the win. Dave Doll, Dave Livingston, Moen, and Brian Kenkel rounded out the top five.

Jesse Sobbing would start on the pole and win the 15 lap Stereo West Auto Toys Hobby Stock "A" main event. Chuck Madden Jr would come from 11th to finish second. Brandon Richards had his best run of the season by finishing third. Jeremy Auten and Tom Myers finished fourth and fifth.


I-80 Speedway Results From 07/02/06

Dodge Super Latemodels

"A" Feature 1: 1) 53 Joe Kosiski, 2) 24 Bryant Goldsmith, 3) 80 Scott Koskovich, 4) 62 Leon Zeitner, 5) 19d Jason Hobsheidt, 6) 9 Ed Kosiski, 7) 2v John Hampel, 8) 00 Clint Benson, 9) 82 Robbie Andersen, 10) 76 Al Zeitner, 11) 33 Jeff Tilley, 12) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 13) 58 Keith Mander Jr., 14) 97d Craig Preble, 15) 8c Chad Andersen, 16) 55d Curt Drake, 17) z62 Justin Zeitner, 18) 77 John Nicholson, 19) 1m Todd Bell, 20) 71 Joe Julian, 21) 50j Jay Cooper, 22) 44z Alonzo Grosse, 23) 53x Scott Carlson, 24) 89 Jerry Warner, 25) 21 Mike Nanfito, 26) 1 Kenny Edwards, 27) 1L Mike Wallace.

"A" Feature 2: 1) 53 Joe Kosiski, 2) 9 Ed Kosiski, 3) 2v John Hampel, 4) 24 Bryant Goldsmith, 5) 76 Al Zeitner, 6) 33 Jeff Tilley, 7) 62 Leon Zeitner, 8) 19d Jason Hobsheidt, 9) 82 Robbie Andersen, 10) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 11) 00 Clint Benson, 12) 44z Alonzo Grosse, 13) 80 Scott Koskovich, 14) 77 John Nicholson, 15) 8c Chad Andersen, 16) 1L Mike Wallace, 17) 58 Keith Mander Jr., 18) 89 Jerry Warner, 19) 1m Todd Bell, 20) z62 Justin Zeitner, 21) 50j Jay Cooper, 22) 55d Curt Drake, 23) 71 Joe Julian, 24) 97d Craig Preble, 25) 21 Mike Nanfito.

"B" Feature: 1) 97d Craig Preble, 2) 77 John Nicholson, 3) 58 Keith Mander Jr., 4) 8c Chad Andersen, 5) 1L Mike Wallace, 6) 1m Todd Bell, 7) z62 Justin Zeitner, 8) 55d Curt Drake, 9) 89 Jerry Warner, 10) 21 Mike Nanfito, 11) 50j Jay Cooper, 12) 71 Joe Julian.

Home Pride Modifieds

"A" Feature: 1) 43 Brian Foote, 2) 15 John O'neal, 3) 4 J.C. Wyman, 4) 2m Mike Meyer, 5) 44 Jonnie Wyman, 6) 1s Scott Carlson, 7) 72 Mike Lineberry, 8) 5s Bob Zoubek, 9) 3w Stacey Wilhelm, 10) 1c Nick Carlson, 11) 3x Mike Johnson, 12) 5 Chris Hogan, 13) 77f Larry Foote, 14) 74 Justin Clark, 15) h1 Lowell Holland, 16) 3 Roger Ruwe, 17) 34 James Showers, 18) 69x Bill Bader Jr., 19) 52s Jerimiah Sillman, 20) 28 Don Lang.

Grand National

"A" Feature: 1) 2k Jody Krug, 2) 97d Dave Doll, 3) 17 Dave Livingston, 4) j1 Harley Moen, 5) 33x Brian Kenkel, 6) 9 Dave Cook, 7) 83 Joey Bauer Jr., 8) 56t Ron Tilley, 9) 33 Jeff Tilley, 10) 8x Ron Tex Jr., 11) 50 Brad Soll, 12) 85a Joe Feyen, 13) 40 Shawn Harker, 14) t3 Gary Leapley, 15) 20 Randy Archer, 16) 2 Dwane Pospisil, 17) 25 Kenny Edwards, 18) 56 Jason Longmeyer, 19) 92k Jacob Brown, 20) 9x Kathy Cook, 21) 15x Scott Krause-Mahan, 22) 35 Kortney Kosiski, 23) 2x Andrew Kosiski.

Stereo west Auto Toys Hobby Stocks

"A" Feature: 1) 99 Jesse Sobbing, 2) 2x Chuck Madden Jr., 3) 15m Brandon Richards, 4) 6a Jeremy Auten, 5) 7 Tom Myers 6) 1 Justin Leach, 7) 4x Chad Bassinger, 8) 2t Josh True, 9) 11x Kenny Toliver-Humpal, 10) 66 Bob Kracher, 11) 51s Jeremy Smith, 12) 4 George Whitmore, 13) 6d Dru Williams, 14) 83 Clay Christian, 15) 14 Greg Houdesheldt.