I-80 Saturday Aug 19 Results

HARTMAN MAKES IT 2 IN A ROW IN CHASE; LIVINGSTON &
NIXON RETURN TO WINNERS CIRCLE

Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne., 8/19/06) The NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series Race for
the Chase saw Scotty Hartman make it 2 in a row in the Pro-ams while Dave
Livingston and Harry Nixon returned to the winners circle in the Late Model
And Sports Mod classes.

The Certified Transmission Pro-am 18 lap feature saw Larry Robinson Jr. jump
out front from his outside front row start. Robinson looked like he would be heading
to the winners circle until lap 6 when he retired with a flat tire. Shawn Bulin
inherited the lead at this point. But Hartman was on the move taking over second on
lap 8 when Thad Thomson spun out. Hartman took the lead on lap 10 and then survived
a restart on lap 11 to record his 2nd straight win in the Race for the Chase and fifth
win overall. Bulin held on to 2nd ahead of Joe Feyen, Shane Bales and Terry Cleveland.
Nick Steier, Chad Sanders, Ray Dessel, Jeff Atkins and Jason Cieslik rounded out
the top 10.

The Dodge Crate Late Model 20 lap feature started out with a bang as five cars tangled
in turn 4 bringing out the red flag. It started when Todd Morgan got sideways and
collected the cars of Scott Green, Shawn Harker, Kortney Kosiski and Kenny Edwards.
Green and Harker were able to restart but the others went to the pits. When the green
Flew again Trevor Millikan jumped out to the early lead ahead of Livingston. But by
the time the first lap ended Livingston had the lead in a brand new car. But the car was
pushing in the corners and Livingston wore himself out trying to keep the car turning
left. Livingston managed to put it away after a restart on lap 17 and recorded his first win since July eighth and his 4th of the year. Dave Doll had a strong finish to come home
second ahead of Billy Leighton Jr., Ron Tex Jr. and Scott Carlson. Leighton reclaimed
the point lead as Jason Hobscheidt finished 8th.

The B-Mod feature saw Jim Hendricks grab the early lead only to lose it to Harry
Nixon in turn 3. Nixon would be challenged by Roger Harpster first and the Daryl
Weilage late. Weilage was just inside his rear quarter as the checkered flag fell.
Harpster held on to third ahead of Floyd Richards and Jim Fritz. For Nixon it was
his 7th win of the season. But Weilage took over the point lead by 1 over Nixon.

The Tobacco Free Nebraska Pro-Hornets saw Austin Kurtzer take the early lead,
but by lap 3 Cory Hutchison was challenging. Hutchison took the lead on lap 6
but lost it on the next lap to second generation driver, Joe McConnell in the M & M’s
#36. McConnell held on for his first win of the season over Jamie Spanel, Lindsey
Yost, Steve England and Travis Meyer.

The TFN Novice Hornet feature saw another McConnell brother, Steve, take the
early lead over Nathan Brown. McConnell would hold the lead til lap 6 when point
leader Nate Christensen passed him. Christensen went on to record his eighth feature
win of the year. Kelson Kurtzer closed strong to take 2nd ahead of Steve McConnell,
Brown and Will McConnell.

NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series action continues next Saturday with the Crate
Late Models, Pro-ams, B-Mods, Pro-Hornets and Novice Hornets. Hot laps are
at 6:30 with the first green flag dropping at 7. It will Cookies Food Products night
with a kids candy grab at intermission.

NRP/I-80 Speedway is located between Omaha and Lincoln just north of I-80 exit 420 and runs the NASCAR Weekly Racing Series on Saturday and Sunday nights during their regular season; one of only two tracks in the USA to hold two NASCAR Dodge Weekly Sanctions. For more information, contact the NRP General Offices at 402-342-3453 during normal business hours or visit the web site at www.neracewaypark.com. On race days after 4pm, the track info line is 402-944-2233.

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

Dodge Crate Late Models

A-Feature: 1) 17 Dave Livingston, 2) 97d Dave Doll, 3) 28 Billy Leighton Jr.,
4) 8x Ron Tex Jr., 5) 2x Scott Carlson, 6) 25 Brad Perdue, 7) 3 Mike Wallace,
8) 1 Jason Hobscheidt, 9) 18j Jon Schwartz, 10) 22m Trevor Millikan,
11) 7 Gary Joens Jr., 12) j1 Jay Burdic, 13) 50 Brad Soll, 14) 20 Randy
Archer, 15) 55d Curt Drake, 16) 2 Dwane Pospisill, 17) 40 Shawn Harker,
18) 41 Scott Green, 19) 96 Tony Leonardo, 20) Laini Schwartz, 21) 2d Todd
Morgan(DNF), 22) Kenny Edwards(DNF), 23) 35 Kortney Kosiski(DNF)

1st Heat: 1) Carlson, 2) Pospisill, 3) Burdic, 4) Joens, 5) Tex, 6) Edwards,
7) Perdue

2nd Heat: 1) Harker, 2) Morgan, 3) Doll, 4) Livingston, 5) Leighton,
6) Archer, 7) Leonardo

3rd Heat: 1) Millikan, 2) Wallace, 3) Hobscheidt, 4) Soll, 5) J. Schwartz,
6) Green, 7) L. Schwartz

Certified Transmission Pro-ams

A-Feature: 1) 88 Scotty Hartman, 2) 36 Shawn Bulin, 3) 25x Joe Feyen, 4) 52
Shane Bales, 5) 12 Terry Cleveland, 6) 8 Nick Steier, 7) 49x Chad Sanders,
8) 55 Ray Dessel, 9) 49 Jeff Atkins, 10) 16j Jason Cieslik, 11) 64 Nick Hermsen,
12) 24 Don Mohr, 13) 35 Rich Steier, 14) 4u Randy Preul, 15) 9x John
Allensworth, 16) 20 Mike Gillespie, 17) 15 Andy Thompsen, 18) 85 John
Riggleman, 19) 72 Rick Negrete, 20) 09c Eric Cunningham, 21) T72 Thad
Thomson, 22) 71x Jeff Kupke, 23) 48 Larry Robinson Jr., 56 Jeremy
Longmeyer

1st Heat: 1) Robinson, 2) Bulin, 3) Cieslik, 4) Dessel, 5) Bales, 6) Hermsen,
7) N. Steier

2nd Heat: 1) Hartman, 2) T. Thomson, 3) Negrete, 4) Sanders, 5) Longmeyer,
6) Riggleman, 7) Allensworth

3rd Heat: 1) Feyen, 2) Mohr, 3) Cleveland, 4) Kupke, 5) Atkins, 6) Preul,
7) Gillespie

Sport Mods

A-Feature: 1) 5 Harry Nixon, 2) 52 Daryl Weilage, 3) 48 Roger Harpster,
4) 71 Floyd Richards, 5) 21 Jim Fritz, 6) 33 Jim Hendricks, 7) 20 Ben Romey,
8) 6 Bret Shepperd, 9) 53 Larry Robinson Sr., 10) 0H Scott Plantz,
11) 52x Mike Christiansen

1st Heat: 1) Hendricks, 2) Harpster, 3) Fritz, 4) Weilage, 5) Robinson, 6) Plantz

2nd Heat: 1) Nixon, 2) Richards, 3) Christiansen, 4) Shepperd, 5) Romey

Tobacco Free Nebraska Pro-Hornets

A-Feature: 1) 36 Joe McConnell, 2) 15 Jamie Spanel, 3) 20 Lindsey Yost,
4) 81 Steve England, 5) 4 Travis Meyer, 6) 16j Perry Soule, 7) 30 Kevin
Stanzel, 8) 60 Dave LaFleur, 9) 19 Darin Hoegren, 10) 61b Brandon
Wergin, 11) 33 Tim Shidler, 12) 10 Joe Thomas, 13) 57 Austin Kurtzer,
14) 61 Chuck Wergin, 15) 99x Jason Tadlock, 16) 78 Randy Allen,
17) 42 Brian Castilla, 18) 9x Joe Baker, 19) B52 Skip Brown, 20) 13
James Hayes, 21) 96 Cory Hutchison, 22) 23 Ole Olson

1st Heat: 1) Baker, 2) Meyer, 3) Spanel, 4) B. Wergin, 5) Yost, 6) C.
Wergin, 7) Shidler

2nd Heat: 1) Kurtzer, 2) England, 3) Stanzel, 4) Soule, 5) Thomas,
6) Tadlock, 7) Hayes

3rd Heat: 1) McConnell, 2) Hutchison, 3) Olson, 4) Hoegren, 5) LaFleur,
6) Allen, 7) Brown


Tobacco Free Nebraska Novice Hornets

A-Feature: 1) 37 Nate Christensen, 2) 57 Kelson Kurtzer, 3) 33 Steve
McConnell, 4) B52 Nathan Brown, 5) 38 Will McConnell, 6) 60
Thomas Liechti, 7) 16j Justin Soule, 8) 23 Lynn Carlson, 9) 13
Bryan Hull, 10) 3c Brady Deyeager, 11) 06 Andrew Cuva, 12) 97s
Sara Doll, 13) 4 Deanna Wallace, 14) 11 Alex Fink, 15) 1 Pete Fink
Jr., 16) 1T Ben Duffy, 17) 52 Rachel Leapley, 18) 74 Megan
Christensen, 19) 96 Amanda Leonardo, 20) 78 Trish Hultgren

1st Heat: 1) S. McConnell, 2) Kurtzer, 3) W. McConnell, 4) Brown,
5) Leonardo, 6) Liechti, 7) Hull

2nd Heat: 1) N. Christensen, 2) Doll, 3) Wallace, 4) Hultgren, 5) Soule,
6) Deyeager, 7) Carlson