I-80 Saturday 9-16-06

Wallace, Bulin, Nixon, England, Soule, Schween &Dover Earn Season Championship Feature Wins

Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne., 9/16/06) – The NASCAR Weekly Racing Series Race for the
Chase came to an end Saturday night with Mike Wallace, Shawn Bulin, Harry
Nixon, Steve England, Justin Soule, Justin Schween and Trish Dover taking
feature wins in their respective classes.

The Dodge Crate Late Model feature saw Mike Wallace take command on lap 2
From early leader Gary Joens Jr. Dave Doll came from an 11th place start to
challenge Wallace by lap 5. But try as he might Doll could not make a pass on
Wallace and had to settle for a 2nd place finish. For Wallace it was his 4th feature
win of the year tying him with Dave Livingston and Jason Hobscheidt for the most
wins. Ron Tex Jr. was 3rd while Hobscheidt edged Bill Leighton Jr. for 4th. But
Leighton earned the Chase Championship. Livingston missed the nights action as
he was with his wife at the hospital expecting a new arrival at any time.

Larry Robinson Jr. jumped to the early lead in the Certified Transmission Pro-am
Feature and looked like the car to beat until lap 6 when Rick Negrete passed him.
In a race that had 6 restarts, Negrete maintained the lead until lap 12 when Jason Cieslik
took over. Negrete took the lead back with 3 laps left when Cieslik lost a wheel.
But Shawn Bulin was set to break out of a month and a half dry spell, when he took the lead with one lap left. Negrete hung on for 2nd ahead of Dr. Nick Steier, point champion Scotty Hartman and Chad Sanders.

The Tobacco Free Nebraska Pro-Hornet feature saw Cory Hutchison take the early lead
only to lose it on lap 3 to Steve England. Lindsey Yost was on the move though and
by lap 7 she was 2nd. But she could not overtake England and had to settle for 2nd
ahead of Joe McConnell, Cory Hutchison and Brandon Wergin. With her 2nd place
finish Yost earned the Chase Championship.

The Trail Performance/Trade Center Automotive 305 Sprint Car’s were the only class
to get in their double features. The first feature saw Michael Oliver win his 2nd feature
of the year in a borrowed car. About a month ago Oliver had totaled his car at the Huskerland Nationals. Oliver swapped the lead with Trish Dover, before taking control
on lap 6. Track newcomer Justin Schween closed fast to take 2nd from Dover at the end.
In the 2nd feature Matt Stephanson took the early lead only to lose it on the back chute to Dover. Dover then built nearly a half a lap lead before Schween could get to 2nd. Schween began to reel in Dover but ran out of laps and had to settle for another 2nd.
Matthew Stelzer finished 4th in both features and earned the Championship by 2 points over Dover.

After an opening lap melee, Kyle Harpster took the early lead in the Sports Mod feature.
Harry Nixon was involved in the opening lap mixup but fought his way back to take
his 9th feature win of the year. Nixon also earned the Chase Championship over Floyd
Richards, who finished 3rd in the feature.

The Tobacco Free Nebraska Novice Hornets feature saw Justin “Soulman Jr.” Soule
take the lead at the end of lap 1 from Nathan Brown. Soule then led the rest of the way
for his second win of the year. Nate Christensen finished 2nd and was crowned the Chase Champion. At the end of this feature lightning was in the skies and with bad weather on the way the rest of the double features were scrubbed.

Next Friday night starts the 2 day Cornhusker Classic Championship featuring the WDRL Super Late Models, Grand Nationals, Modifieds, Hobby Stocks, Pro-Stocks
(Pro-ams and Stock Cars) and the IMCA/CNCTA Late Models. Hot laps will be at
6:30 with racing getting under way at 7 with qualifying heats and a 25 lap WDRL feature. Saturday will have last chance races and A-Features topped by a 50 lap
WDRL feature. Hot laps are tentatively scheduled for 6 with racing getting under way at 6:30.

Nebraska Raceway Park I-80 Speedway Results for 09/16/06

Dodge Crate Late Models

A-Feature: 1) 3 Mike Wallace, 2) 97d Dave Doll, 3) 8x Ron Tex Jr., 4) 1 Jason
Hobscheidt, 5) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 6) 2x Scott Carlson, 7) 7 Gary Joens Jr.,
8) j1 Jay Burdic, 9) 25 Brad Perdue, 10) 50 Brad Soll, 11) 40 Shawn Harker,
12) 22m Trevor Millikan, 13) 2 Dwane Pospisil, 14) 18j Jon Schwartz, 15) 55d
Curt Drake, 16) 85A Jacob Brown, 17) 41 Scott Green, 18) 18 Laini Schwartz,
19) 20k Scott Keffer, 20) 96jr Amanda Leonardo, 21) 96 Tony Leonardo,
22) 56t Ron Tilley(DNS), 23) 38L Larry Lindstrom(DNS), 24) 25x Scott
Koskovich(DNS), 25) 35 Kortney Kosiski(DNS)


1st Heat: 1) Hobscheidt, 2) Tilley, 3) Burdic, 4) Joens, 5) Harker

2nd Heat: 1) Perdue, 2) Doll, 3) Wallace, 4) Brown, 5) T. Leonardo

3rd Heat: 1) Carlson, 2) Tex, 3) Leighton, 4) Soll, 5) Millikan


Certified Transmission Pro-ams

A-Feature: 1) 36 Shawn Bulin, 2) 72 Rick Negrete, 3) 8 Nick Steier, 4) 88
Scotty Hartman, 5) 49x Chad Sanders, 6) 55 Ray Dessel, 7) 25x Joe Feyen,
8) 12 Terry Cleveland, 9) 20 Mike Gillespie, 10) 24 Don Mohr, 11) 84
Doug Stevenson, 12) 49 Jeff Atkins, 13) 35 Rich Steier, 14) 85 John
Riggleman, 15) 15 Andy Thompsen, 16) 5 Marty Steinbach, 17) 16j Jason
Cieslik, 18) 1j Travis Alley, 19)Erik Cunningham, 20) 52 Shane Bales,
21) 48 Larry Robinson Jr., 22) 64 Nick Hermsen, 23) 83 John Hickman,
24) T72 Thad Thomson

1st Heat: 1) Feyen, 2) Thomson, 3) Steinbach, 4) Dessel, 5) Sanders

2nd Heat: 1) Robinson, 2) Negrete, 3) Cieslik, 4) Gillespie, 5) Thompsen

3rd Heat: 1) Bulin, 2) Bales, 3)Hartman, 4) Cleveland, 5) Steier

Trail Performance/Trade Center Automotive 305 Sprint Cars

1st A-Feature: 1) 96.1 Michael Oliver, 2) 76 Justin Schween, 3) 9T
Trish Dover, 4) 99 Matthew Stelzer, 5) 55 Matt Stephanson,
6) 45 Steve Hurst

2nd A-Feature: 1) 9t Trish Dover, 2) 76 Justin Schween, 3) 55 Matt
Stephanson, 4) 99 Matthew Stelzer, 5) 45 Steve Hurst, 6) 96.1
Michael Oliver

Tobacco Free Nebraska Pro-Hornets

1st A Feature: 1) 81 Steve England, 2) 20 Lindsey Yost, 3) 36 Joe McConnell,
4) 96 Cory Hutchison, 5) 61b Brandon Wergin, 6) 15 Jamie Spanel, 7) 16j Perry Soule,
8) 57 Austin Kurtzer, 9) 4 Travis Meyer, 10) 33 Tim Shidler, 11) 22 Mike Boehmer,
12) 77 Jason Miller, 13) B52 Skip Brown, 14) 7 Jason Clark, 15) 10 Joe Thomas,
16) 69 Mark Busler, 17) 42 Brian Castilla, 18) 13 James Hayes, 19) 60 Dave LaFleur,
20) 78 Randy Allen, 21) 34 Ward Neesen, 22) 23 Mark Lamer, 23) 57k Chad Barrett,
24) 85 Mike Kennedy, 25) 9x Joe Baker, 26) 19 Daren Hoegrin, 27) 28 Cory Askeland,
28) 61 Chuck Wergin

TFN Novice Hornets

A-Feature: 1) 16j Justin Soule, 2) 37 Nate Christensen, 3) 33 Steve McConnell,
4) 38 Will McConnell, 5) 12 Alex Fink, 6) B52 Nathan Brown, 7) 60 Thomas
Liechti, 8) 97s Sara Doll, 9) 13 Bryan Hull, 10) 06 Andrew Cuva, 11) 78
Therese Allen, 12) 74 Megan Christensen, 13) 5 Chad Barrett, 14) 31 Pete Fink Jr.,
15) 4 Deanna Wallace, 16) 23 Lynn Carlson, 17) 22 Eric Fryman

Sports Mods

A-Feature: 1) 5 Harry Nixon, 2) 52x Mike Christiansen, 3) 71 Floyd Richards,
4) 20 Ben Romey, 5) 52 Daryl Weilage, 6) Z00 Lacey Tuttle, 7) 53j Dustin Jarillo,
8) 0H Scott Plantz, 9) 84 Anthony Newburg, 10) 28 Don Lang, 11) 48 Kyle Harpster,
12) 33 Jim Hendricks, 13) 53 Larry Robinson Sr., 14) 21 Jim Fritz

1st Heat: 1) Nixon, 2) Weilage, 3) Romey, 4) Robinson, 5) Fritz

2nd Heat: 1) Richards, 2) Harpster, 3) Hendricks, 4) Tuttle, 5) Lang