Simpson, Saathoff, Steinbach, Swanson Cornhusker Classic Winners

Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne., 10/08/06) – After a 2 week rain delay the Cornhusker
Classic for 2006 was completed with Chris Simpson completing a Simpson sweep
in the WDRL/Polydome Super Late Models while Johnny Saathoff, Marty
Steinbach and Jeremy Swanson won the support class features.

The WDRL 50 lap feature saw Dave Eckrich take the early lead only to lose it
on the back straight to Kelly Boen. Joe Kosiski was 3rd and Chris Simpson
was 4th in the early going. Simpson passed Kosiski on lap 4 for 3rd. There
was a yellow flag on lap 12 for John Nicholson, who stopped on the track
with a flat tire. On the restart Simpson took 2nd. On lap 34 Simpson passed
Boen for the lead and went on to record his first career WDRL feature win.
His brother Chad had won the opening night WDRL feature on September 22nd.
Boen held on for second ahead of Dave and Denny Exkrich, Delbert Smith,
Steve Kosiski, John Anderson Alonzo Grosse, Joe Kosiski and Eddie Moore.
Brian Harris, 2nd in WDRL points, blew a motor in the last laps of his
qualifier and had to use a backup car in the feature putting him in the 24th
starting position. He had moved into the top 10 when a flat tire stopped him
and he ended up in 15th.

After an opening lap mishap, Saathoff started on the outside front row and
charged into the lead on the opening lap and blew away the rest of the field
to take the win by almost a quarter of a lap over Mike Meyer. J. C. Wyman
came home 3rd over Grant Junghans, Dan Mueller and Jeremiah Sillman. Kevin
Larkins came fro a 14th place start to finish 7th.

The Pro-am 20 lap feature seemed tp have the closest racing as Nick Steier,
Rick Negrete, Shawn Bulin and Joe Feyen battled for the early lead with
Negrete taking command on lap 2. Steinbach, who started 12th after winning
the 1nd B-Feature, was up to second by lap 3 and charged into the lead on
lap 9.He battled for a couple of laps with Steier back and forth with
Steinbach in the lead for good on lap 11. Steinbach went on to win over
Negrete, Feyen, Bulin, Jason Cieslik and Steier.

Jeremy Auten took the early lead in the Hobby Stock A-Feature followed by
Max Harder. Harder took the lead on lap 2. Jesse Sobbing took the lead on
lap 4.
Sobbing held on to the lead until lap 12 when Swanson passed him. Kyle
Vanover and Jesse Van Laningham came on to take 2nd and 3rd at the checkered
flag. Sobbing finished 4th.

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 Results for 10/08/06

Cornhusker Classic

WDRL Late Models

A-Feature: 1) 32 Chris Simpson, 2) 07 Jelly Boen, 3) 58 Dave Eckrich, 4) 50
Denny Eckrich, 5) 92 Delbert Smith, 6) 52 Steve Kosiski, 7) 1k John
Anderson,
8) 44zo Alonzo Grosse, 9) 53 Joe Kosiski, 10) 17m Eddie Moore, 11) u2 Scott
Daly,
12) Craig Preble, 13) Davey Nall, 14) Kyle Berck, 15) Brian Harris, 16)
Chris
Spieker, 17) Chad Simpson, 18) Bill Leighton Jr., 19) Dave Jorgensen, 20)
John
Nicholson, 21) Todd Bell, 22) Jason Utter, 23) Jerry Warner, 24) Alan
Vaughn,
25) Bill Koons, 26) Trent Follmer

1st B-Feature: 1) Leighton, 2) Spieker, 3) Daly, 4) Kenny Edwards

2nd B-Feature: 1)Bell, 2 Grosse, 3) Vaughn, 4) Clint Benson

Pole Dash: 1) Dave Eckrich, 2) Boen, 3) Joe Kosiski, 4) Chris Simpson,
5) Chad Simpson, 6) Denny Eckrich, 7) Steve Kosiski

Modifieds

A-Feature: 1) 96j Johnny Saathoff, 2) 2M Mike Meyer, 3) 4 J. C. Wyman,
4) 2 Grant Junghans, 5) 43x Dan Mueller, 6) 52s Jeremiah Sillman,
7) 4x Kevin Larkins, 8) 19j Jeff Jones, 9) 74 Justin Clark, 10) 1S Scott
Carlson,
11) Randy Foote, 12) Scott Bivens, 13) Ricky Stephan, 14) Justin Cooper,
15) Mike Lineberry, 16) Chris Alcorn, 17) Brian Foote, 18) Larry Goertz,
19) Jon Thompson, 20) Scott Styskal, 21) Larry Foote, 22) Shane Stutzman

1st B-Feature: 1) Jones, 2) Mueller, 3) Alcorn, 4) Stutzman, 5) Cooper,
6) Mike Johnson, 7) L. Foote, 8) B. Foote

2nd B-Feature: 1) Sillman, 2) R. Foote, 3) Goertz, 4) Larkins, 5) Carlson,
6) Stephan, 7) Lineberry, 8 Robert Brinkman

Pro-Ams

A-Feature: 1) 5 Marty Steinbach, 2) 72 Rick Negrete, 3) 25x Joe Feyen,
4) 36 Shawn Bulin, 5) 16j Jason Cieslik, 6) 8 Nick Steier, 7) 88 Scotty
Hartman, 8) 49x Chad Sanders, 9) 30j Kevin Jobe, 10) 24 Don Mohr,
11) Thad Thomson, 12) Mike Brown, 13) Denny Berghahn, 14) Terry
Cleveland, 15) Andy Thompsen, 16) Denny Berghahn Jr., 17) Rich
Steier, 18) Shane Bales, 19) Jeff Atkins, 20) Nick Hermsen, 21) Ray
Dessel, 22) Jeremy Longmeyer, 23) Steve Peoples, 24) Jeff Joldersma

1st B-Feature: 1) Peoples, 2) Hartman, 3) Sanders, 4) Cleveland,
5) Berghahn, 6) Joldersma, 7) Hermsen

2nd B-Feature: 1) Steinbach, 2) Cieslik, 3) Brown, 4) Dessel,
5) Berghahn Jr., 6) Atkins

Hobby Stocks

A-Feature: 1) 68 Jeremy Swanson, 2) 19 Kyle Vanover, 3) 72 Jesse
Van Laningham, 4) 99 Jesse Sobbing, 5) Z34 Max Harder, 6) 7 Tom
Myers, 7) 15 Chris Vannausdale, 8) 1 Justin Leach, 9) 20 Chad
Borgman, 10) 3k Jerry Keaton, 11) Bob Kracher, 12) Josh Sink,
13) Terry Shearer, 14) Jeremy Auten, 15) Rick Munson, 16) Scott
Robinson, 17) Jesse McNeal, 18) Derek Fralin, 19) Mike Barton,
20) Nate Thompson, 21) Josh True, 22) Roger Timperley

1st B-Feature: 1) True, 2) Robinson, 3) VanLaningham, 4) Barton,
5) Borgman, 6) Keaton, 7) Ashley Darnold, 8) Travis Alley

2nd B-Feature: 1) Munson, 2) Timperley, 3) Leach, 4) Sink, 5) Fralin,
6) Thompson