Collins, Coffee, Hipnar, and Sink Visit Victory Lane At I-80 Speedway

By Joey Sparano

(GREENWOOD NEB., 06/03/07) On a night where rain showers threatened the
speedway, 90+ cars filled the pit area at I-80 Speedway. Mike Collins, Reese
Coffee, Todd Hipnar, and Josh Sink all took the checkered flag first on an
excitement packed night of NASCAR Whelen All-American Series action.

The 25 lap Dodge Super Late Model "A" main event saw the #25 of Kenny
Edwards take the early lead from his front row inside starting position. As
the cars hit the back straightaway Edwards would be passed by outside front
row starter Mike Collins. The Council Bluffs Iowa native would maintain the
lead through a series of cautions that halted the race over a hand full of
times. The final restart of the night came on lap 19, Collins would receive
major pressure from the #76 of "Awesome" Al Zeitner. Zeitner would try to
work under Collins, but doing so gave Joe Kosiski time to make up ground. On
the final lap Kosiski would be able to pass Zeitner in turns three and four
as Mike Collins held the lead. Collins would finish first followed by
Kosiski, Zeitner, Al Humphrey and Corey Zeitner.

Reese Coffee would take the early lead in the 18 lap modified "A" feature.
Coffee would start fifth, and use the inside lane to take the lead down the
back straightaway going into turn three. With Coffee out front the battle
for second was between Matt Richards, Mike Johnson, and Mike Meyers.
Richards would pull away from Johnson and on the final lap Meyers would
loose an engine going into turn three. Meyers would slow and the yellow
would fly. As the yellow came out the #92 of Bub Lerette would spin on the
front straight away and stack up the rest of the field. Luckily everyone
came to a stop in time. With the checkered flag already out, Reese Coffee
would get the win. Richards, Johnson, Jonah Chin who started 17th, and
Justin Clark round out the top five.

The 20 lap City Weekly Grand National "A" feature event would have the #12
of Todd Hipnar take the win. Hipnar would start 12th and make his way
through the field in the opening laps of the event. Dave Cook and Harley
Moen would battle during the closing laps with Cook passing Moen on the
final corner. Gary Leapley would finish fourth after starting on the pole
and the #2x of Andrew Kosiski finished fifth after starting tenth. A very
scary moment happened on the second lap of the first Grand National heat
race. Laini Schwartz would get upside down going down the back stretch. Her
car would flip multiple times before coming to a rest right-side-up.
Thankfully she would be able to walk away uninjured.

The 15 lap Hobby Stock main event saw the #10 of Josh Sink jump to an early
lead. Sink would run away and hide as he had a 15+ car length advantage in
the opening laps. Around half way through the event the yellow would come
out as the #10g of Jeremy Garrison blew an engine. On the restart Sink would
be challenge by the #7 of Tom Myers. Myers would try to pull close to Sink,
but Sink was just to much. Sink would take the win, followed by Myers, Jimmy
Nichols, Jeremy Auten, and Josh True. The #99 of "Crazy" Jesse Sobbing would
be running up front until making contact with the wall in the closing laps.
With the win Josh Sink picks up a $100 Tom & Tiffs Family Restaurant Bonus.

I-80 Speedway is located off I-80 at exit 420 between Omaha and Lincoln and
is part of the Nebraska Raceway Park complex, which also includes the Little
Sunset Speedway go-kart track and Soaring Edge Motocross Park. I-80 Speedway
is home to the NASCAR Whelen All American Series (NWAAS) on Saturday and
Sunday nights; the ONLY track in the United States to hold two nights of
NASCAR-sanctioned weekly racing. The Speedway hosts events from April
through September. For track information contact the Omaha general office
during normal business hours Monday thru Friday, 9am-5pm at 402-342-3453 or
the track phone on race days at 402-944-2233. Check out the official I-80
Speedway website at www.neracewaypark.com.

Results

Dodge Super Late Models "A" Feature: 1) 3c Mike Collins, 2) 53 Joe Kosiski,
3) 76 Al Zeitner, 4) 6 Al Humphrey, 5) 26jr Corey Zeitner, 6) 1 Jason
Hobscheidt, 7) z62 Justin Zeitner, 8) 62 Leon Zeitner, 9) 10 Jay Stewart,
10) 25 Kenny Edwards, 11) 1m Todd Bell, 12) 00 Clint Benson, 13) 44z Alonzo
Grosse, 14) 58 Keith Mander Jr., 15) 44 Troy Daly, 16) 68x Beau Sheffield,
17) 23 Dave Hanke, 18) 5 Jeremy Houck, 19) 28 Bill Leighton Jr., 20) 11 Don
Droud, 21) 1h Chad Humston, 22) 1t Vance Tonack, 23) 77 John Nicholson, 24)
80 Scott Koskovich, 25) 1w Mike Wallace, 26) 89 Jerry Warner, 27) 3 Dan
Jackson.

Heat 1: 1) 76 Al Zeitner, 2) 6 Al Humphrey, 3) 5 Jeremy Houck, 4) 77 John
Nicholson, 5) 89 Jerry Warner.

Heat 2: 1) 62 Leon Zeitner, 2) 1w Mike Wallace, 3) 11 Don Droud, 4) 10 Jay
Stewart, 5) Kenny Edwards.

Heat 3: 1) 26jr Corey Zeitner, 2) z62 Justin Zeitner, 3) 3c Mike Collins, 4)
1 Jason Hobscheidt, 5) 53 Joe Kosiski.

Modified "A" Feature: 1) 16 Reese Coffee, 2) 1r Matt Richards, 3) 3x Mike
Johnson, 4) 1j Jonah Chin, 5) 74 Justin Clark, 6) 95 Buzz Wilson, 7) 92 Bub
Lerette, 8) 4 J.C. Wyman, 9) 43 Brian Foote, 10) 21n Dave Newton, 11) 07
Mike Goldfuss, 12) 92x Josh Most, 13) 69x Bill Bader Jr., 14) 1s Scott
Carlson, 15) 21 Phil Penny, 16) h1 Lowell Holland, 17) 8x Mark Hoover, 18)
2m Mike Meyer, 19) 33r Larry Robinson Jr., 20) 53 Staci Stava, 21) 20 Mark
Leiting, 22) 5 Harry Nixon, 23) 52s Jerimiah Sillman, 24) 1m Robert
Brinkman.

Heat 1: 1) 74 Justin Clark, 2) 92 Bub Lerette, 3) 95 Buzz Wilson, 4) 21 Phil
Penny, 5) h1 Lowell Holland.

Heat 2: 1) 1m Robert Brinkman, 2) 33r Larry Robinson Jr., 3) 21n Dave
newton, 4) 1r Matt Richard, 5) 3x Mike Johnson.

Heat 3: 1) 16 Reese Coffee, 2) 5 Harry Nixon, 3) 43 Brian Foote, 4) 07 Mike
Goldfuss, 5) 20m Mark Leiting.

City Weekly Grand National "A" Feature: 1) 12 Todd Hipnar, 2) 9 Dave Cook,
3) j1 Harley Moen, 4) t3 Gary Leapley, 5) 2x Andrew Kosiski, 6) 50 Brad
Soll, 7) 97d Dave Doll, 8) 56 Ron Tilley, 9) 40 Shawn Harker, 10) 2 Dwane
Pospisil, 11) 55d Curt Drake, 12) 96 Tony Leonardo, 13) 29 Lennie Pospisil,
14) 92 Jacob Brown, 15) 17v Rick Vanderheiden, 16) 3 Molliee Collins, 17)
96c Corey Hutchinson, 18) 15x Scott Krause-Mahan, 19) 20 Lindesy Yost, 20)
51 Matt Boler, 21) 18 Laini Schwartz.

Heat 1: 1) t3 Gary Leapley, 2) 55d Curt Drake, 3) 56 Ron Tilley, 4) 51 Matt
Boler, 5) 29 Lennie Pospisil.

Heat 2: 1) 97d Dave Doll, 2) 9 Dave Cook, 3) 12 Todd Hipnar, 4) j1 Harley
Moen, 5) 96c Corey Hutchinson.

Heat 3: 1) 50 Brad Soll, 2) 2 Dwane Pospisil, 3) 2x Andrew Kosiski, 4) 40
Shawn Harker, 5) 96 Tony Leonardo.

Hobby Stocks "A" Feature: 1) 10 Josh Sink, 2) 7 Tom Myers, 3) 6 Jimmy
Nichols, 4) 20 Jeremy Auten, 5) 2t Josh True, 6) 4x Chad Bassinger, 7) 13
Jesse Mcneal, 8) 99 Jesse Sobbing, 9) 40 Mike Mass, 10) m70 Rick Munson, 11)
32d Kenny Darnold, 12) 52 Roger Timperley, 13) 16d Ashley Darnold, 14) 86j
Jarod Weston, 15) 10g Jeremy Garrison, 16) 4w Joe Wollenhaupt, 17) 12 George
Whitmore, 18) 77 Ben Heyne.

Heat 1: 1) 4w Joe Wollenhaupt, 2) 6 Jimmy Nichols, 3) 4x Chad Bassinger, 4)
86j Jerod Weston, 5) 2t Josh True.

Heat 2: 1) 10 Josh Sink, 2) 20 Jeremy Auten, 3) m70 Rick Munson, 4) 13 Jesse
Mcneal, 5) 99 Jesse Sobbing.