Kosiski Is King Of I-80 Speedway's Race Of Champions

By: Joey Sparano

(GREENWOOD NEB., 06/24/07) With the best drivers in the midwest converging
on I-80 Speedway, 16 year old Andrew Kosiski would prove to have the best
luck on his side on his way to the 2nd Annual I-80 Speedway Race Of
Champions victory. Kenny Edwards, Chris Spieker, Rick Negrete, and Josh Sink
would all visit victory lane in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series weekly
program.

The 25 lap I-80 Speedway Race Of Champions feature event saw the #2x of
Andrew Kosiski jump to the early lead from his inside front row starting
position. Kosiski would lead until lap 9 when the #51 of Chad Simpson would
enter the spin cycle in turn four. When the green waved again it was Kosiski
out front, but the #1 of Jason Hobscheidt would be right in his tire tracks.
Hobscheidt would try a run at the lead, but Kosiski would pull away coming
off turn two. Kosiski would maintain the top spot until the final caution
period of the night when the #4k of Josh Krug spun on the front chute. After
the restart it was Hobscheidt that was on a mission. Hobscheidt's #1 would
find a better groove one lane lower than Kosiski, and with six laps to go
pull along side the #2x down the front straightaway. Kosiski would gather
the lead back in turns one and two, and go on to lead the final 5 laps on
his way to victory. Hobscheidt finished second, Kyle Berck third, Al
Humphrey fourth, and Chris Spieker came home fifth.

Missouri driver Kenny Edwards would jump out front from his front row
starting spot and lead the entire 25 lap Dodge Super Late Model "A" feature.
Edwards would be the dominant car early on in the feature, and show his
ability on the short run after surviving a green-white-checker finish. Jay
Stewart would finish 2nd after starting fifth. Mike Wallace would come third
after starting second. John Nicholson and Mike Collins rounded out the top
five.

The 20 lap City Weekly Grand National feature event saw the #92 of Jacob
Brown take the lead from the outside front row. The second year racer Brown
would have the race of his young career until lap 18 when the #56 of Chris
Spieker would use the high side to take the lead coming off turn four. The
2005 NASCAR Division II Champion Spieker would lead the remaining laps on
his way to victory. Brown finished second, Kyle Berck finished third after
starting 20th. Brad Soll and Shawn Harker finished off the top five.

Rick Negrete would use the inside lane of the track to come from the 16th
starting position to win the 18 lap Certified Transmission "A" feature.
Shawn Bulin finished second after being on Negrete's tail for the final few
laps. Marty Steinbach finished third after coming off his win Saturday night
in the Pro Stock division. Ray Dessel finished fourth and Doug Stevenson
came home fifth.

The 15 lap Hobby Stock feature event seen the #10 of Josh Sink drive from
the 9th starting position to win the race. Tom Myers finished second. Joe
Wollenhaupt finished third after starting on the pole. Chad Bassinger
finished fourth. Rick Munson came across the line fifth.

Results From 6/24/07

2nd Annual I-80 Speedway Race Of Champions

1) 2x Andrew Kosiski, 2) 1 Jason Hobscheidt, 3) 14 Kyle Berck, 4) 55 Al
Humphrey, 5) 56 Chris Spieker, 6) 2d John Anderson, 7) 2 Al Zeitner, 8) J1
Chris Simpson, 9) 51x Ed moore, 10) 55d Joe Kosiski, 11) 12 Brian Harris,
12) 35 Ed Kosiski, 13) b56 Kelly Boen, 14) 8x Bill Leighton Jr., 15) 9
Bryant Goldsmith, 16) 97d Dave Doll, 17) 51 Chad Simpson, 18) 40 Alex
Humphrey, 19) 80 Kenny Edwards, 20) 52 Steve Kosiski, 21) 4k Josh Krug.

Dodge Super Late Model:

1) 25 Kenny Edwards, 2) 10 Jay Stewart, 3) 1w Mike Wallace, 4) 77 John
Nicholson, 5) 3c Mike Collins, 6) 44 Troy Daly, 7) 44z Alonzo Grosse, 8) 28
Bill Leighton Jr., 9) 1 Jason Hobscheidt, 10) 26jr Corey Zeitner, 11) 15
Jason O'Brien, 12) 58 Keith Mander Jr., 13) 00 Clint Benson, 14) 76 Al
Zeitner, 15) 62 Leon Zeitner, 16) 80 Scott Koskovich, 17) 6 Al Humphrey, 18)
53 Joe Kosiski, 19) z62 Justin Zeitner, 20) 1m Todd Bell, 21) 92 Josh Most,
22) 2d Todd Morgan, 23) 11 Don Droud Jr., 24) 68x Beau Sheffield.

City Weekly Grand Nationals

1) 56 Chris Spieker, 2) 92 Jacob Brown, 3) 14 Kyle Berck, 4) 50 Brad Soll,
5) 40 Shawn Harker, 6) 51x Ed Moore, 7) 9 Dave Cook, 8) 97d Dave Doll, 9) 2d
John Anderson, 10) 55d Curt Drake, 11) 51 Matt Buller, 12) t3 Gary Leapley,
13) 2x Andrew Kosiski, 14) 12 Todd Hipnar, 15) 96c Cory Hutchinson, 16) 12m
Matt McAtee, 17) j1 Harley Moen, 18) b56 Kelly Boen, 19) 2 Dwane Pospisil,
20) 8x Ron Tex Jr., 21) 3 Mollee Collins, 22) 35k Ed Kosiski, 23) 15x Scott
Krause-Mahan, 24) 80 Kenny Edwards, 25) 35 Kortney Kosiski, 26) 4k Josh
Krug.

Certified Transmission Pro Ams

1) 72 Rick Negrete, 2) 36 Shawn Bulin, 3) 5 Marty Steinbach, 4) 55 Ray
Dessel, 5) 84 Doug Stevenson, 6) 6 Denny Berghahn Jr., 7) 33x Chuck Dillion,
8) t72 Thad Thomson, 9) 8 Nick Steier, 10) 24 Don Mohr, 11) 55d Nick Deal,
12) 3t Tim Podraza, 13) 49x Chad Sanders, 14) 35 Rich Steier, 15) 66 Jeff
Joldersma, 16) 49 Jeff Atkins, 17) 12 Terry Cleveland, 18) 9x John
Allensworth, 19) 51 Chris Collins, 20) 25x Joe Feyen, 21) 64 Nick Hermsen,
22) 75 Max Dale, 23) 6x Denny Berghahn Sr.

Hobby Stock

1) 10 Josh Sink, 2) 7 Tom Myers, 3) 4w Joe Wollenhaupt, 4) 4x Chad
Bassinger, 5) m70 Rick Munson, 6) 6 Jimmy Nichols, 7) 99 Jesse Sobbing, 8)
2t Josh True, 9) 52 Roger Timperley, 10) 40 Mike Mass, 11) 7x Jared Myers,
12) 12 George Whitmore, 13) 32d Kenny Darnold, 14) 11x Kenny Toliver-Humpal,
15) 00 John Austin.