Humphrey Wins Opening Night Crate Late Model Feature at I-80 Speedway

By Joey Sparano

(GREENWOOD NEB., 05/26/07) On opening night of the Saturday NASCAR
Whelen All-American Series at I-80 Speedway, over 110 cars checked in
the pit gate in seven different classes, with the entire race program
being complete in a little over three hours. Al Humphrey, Scotty
Hartman, Scott Carlson, Trish Dover, Austin Kurtzer, Jase Kaser, and
Kenny Danley all visited victory lane on Cass County Night at the speedway.

The 20 lap Great Clips Crate Late Model "A" Feature event saw the #55 of
Al Humphrey drive from the sixth starting spot to victory lane. Humphrey
would pass pole sitter Todd Morgan for the lead near the halfway point
and never look back on route to the winners circle. Morgan finished
second followed by Jason Hobscheidt, Dave Doll, and Shawn Harker.

The Ty's Outdoor Power Equipment 18 lap Pro Stock "A" main event looked
to be in the bag for front row starter Larry Robinson Jr. Robinson would
jump out to an early lead, and would stretch it further as the first 15
laps went caution free. With five laps remaining the #48 of Robinson
would start showing smoke, and when the caution came out with three laps
to go Larry Jr. would pull into the pit area with a broken engine. With
the #48 out of the picture, that gave the race to the #88 of Scotty
Hartman. Hartman would finish out the event on his way to victory. Nick
Steier would hold off Joe Feyen for second, Shawn Bulin and Rich Steier
rounded out the top five.

The 15 lap Midas B-Mods seen veteran Scott Carlson take the win. Carlson
would battle the #48o of Greg Tichey, and the #21 of Jim Fritz in the
closing laps and would hold on after using the high line. Tichey, Fritz,
Harry Nixon, and the #z00 of Lacey Tuttle finished in the top five.

Trish Dover would win the 12 lap Midwest Lining 305 Sprint Car "A" main.
Dan Satriano would be the only other car to finish as three of the five
cars has mechanical problems.

The #57 of Austin Kurtzer would hold off Jeff Joldersma and Peter Fink
in the 12 lap Stereo West Auto Toys Pro Hornet "A" main. Over twenty
five cars would show in the highly competitive Pro Hornet division.

Rising sprint car star Jack Dover would win the first ever Novice Crate
Late Model "A" Feature. Steve Sanders would finish second followed by
Jase Kaser, Ryan Gladwin, and Lindsey Yost. However in post race
inspection both Dover and Sanders would have the wrong rev limiting
chip. With both drivers being disqualified, 14 year old Jase Kaser would
be declared the winner after finishing third.

"The Redhead Wonder" Kenny Danley visited victory lane in the 8 Lap
Stereo West Auto Toys Novice Hornet Feature event. Alex Fink would
finish second after contact with Thomas Liechti on the last last.
Liechti came home third.

Top Finishers In Each Division, Complete Results will be on the I-80
Speedway website by 3:00pm Tuesday. www.neracewaypark.com

Great Clips Crate Late Models "A" Feature: 1) 55 Al Humphrey, 2) 2d Todd
Morgan, 3) 1 Jason Hobscheidt, 4) 97d dave Doll, 5) 40 Shawn Harker, 6)
7 Gary Joens Jr., 7) 17 Dave Livingston, 8) J1 Jay Burdic, 9) 55d Curt
Drake, 10) 3 Mike Collins.

Ty's Outdoor Power Equipment Pro Stock "A" Feature: 1) 88 Scotty
Hartman, 2) 8 Nick Steier, 3) 25x Joe Feyen, 4) 36 Shawn Bulin, 5) 35
Rich Steier, 6) 72 Rick Negrete, 7) 24 Don Mohr, 8) 6x Denny Berghahn,
9) 66j Jeff Joldersma, 10) 12 Terry Cleveland.

Midas B-MOD "A" Feature: 1) 1s Scott Carlson, 2) 48o Greg Tichey, 3) 21
Jim Fritz, 4) 5 Harry Nixon, 5) z00 Lacey Tuttle, 6) 71 Floyd Richards,
7) 53 Larry Robinson Sr., 8) 83 Nick Hermsen, 9) 33 Jim Hendricks Jr.,
10) 9 Hank Demzo.

Midwest Lining 305 Sprint Cars "A" Feature: 1) 9t Trish Dover, 2) 95 Dan
Satriano, 3) 99c Nick Clifford, 4) Steve Hurst, 5) 96.1 Michael Oliver.

Stereo West Auto Toys Pro Hornet "A" Feature: 1) 57 Austin Kurtzer, 2)
66 Jeff Joldersma, 3) 13 Peter Fink, 4) 81 Steve England, 5) 37 Nate
Christensen, 6) b22 Nate Brown, 7) 16j Justin Soule, 8) 9x Joe Baker, 9)
15 Jamie Spanel, 10) 38 Will McConnell.

Novice Crate "A" Feature: 1) 15 Jase Kaser, 2) J1 Ryan Gladwin, 3) 20
Lindsey Yost, 4) 3 Mollee Collins, 5) 96jr Amanda Leonardo, 6) 25 Jack
Dover, 7) 44 Steve Sanders.

Stereo West Auto Toys Novice Hornets "A" Feature: 1) 10 Kevin Danley, 2)
Alex Fink, 3) Thomas Liechti, 4) 50 Brett Smith, 5) 3c Brady Deycager,
6) 97s Sarah Doll, 7) 21 Rod Schremer, 8) b52 Dan Rasmussen, 9) 1
Spencer Whitley, 10) 3 Shevi Collins.