Humphrey Ends Independence Weekend With A Win At I-80 Speedway

By: Joey Sparano

(GREENWOOD NEB., 07/01/07) With Independence weekend coming to a close, it
was Al Humphrey, Reese Coffee, Dave Cook, and Jimmy Nichols all visiting
victory lane as Waste Management presented the NASCAR Whelen All-American
Series at I-80 Speedway.

The 25 lap Dodge Super Late Model "A" feature event seen veterans Joe
Kosiski and Al Humphrey lead the field to the green flag. Humphrey would
take the early advantage using the high line of the track to lead lap one.
The race would be halted three times during the event, and each restart
Kosiski would challenge Humphrey for the top spot. Kosiski would pull along
side of Humphrey's #6 on a few occasions, but "The Hombre" was to strong. Al
Humphrey would take the double checkered flags for his first Super Late
Model win of the year. Kosiski was second. Leon Zeitner finished third,
followed by Scott Koskovich and Jason O'Brien. With the win, Humphrey will
pad his lead in the Nebraska State Points standings.

Reese Coffee would start in the 6th row and charge through the field to win
the 18 lap Modified "A" feature. Coffee would use the bottom side of the
speedway to launch his #16 to lead. After that it was smooth sailing, as
Coffee took his third win of the 2007 season. Matt Richards would finish
second after starting 8th. Bob Zoubek, Jeff Stephens, and J.C. Wyman rounded
out the top five.

The 20 lap City Weekly Grand National "A" feature was the excitement race of
the night. ARCA series driver Josh Krug would jump to an early lead in his
#4k machine. With Krug out front, all eyes were on the #55 of Mike Merrill.
Merrill would drive from the 12th starting position through the field and
would make his way to second by lap 14. With the yellow flag flying on lap
14, the stage was set up for a marvelous finish. When the green waved it was
Krug taking the high line through one and two, and Merrill hugging the
bottom. Merrill would then slide up the track where contact was made between
the #55 and #4k. Krug's car would climb the wall as Merrill went spinning
down the back chute. Third place runner Todd Hipnar would enter the spin
cycle as the entire field weaved through the carnage. All three of the top
runners would be taken out of the race. With Krug, Merrill, and Hipnar out
of the picture, that handed the lead to the #2 of Dwane Pospisil. Pospisil
would lead the field to the green, but it was Dave Cook who grabbed the top
spot and took the checkered flags. Dave Doll finished second, Pospisil
third, Ron Tilley finished fourth with Curt Drake coming home fifth.

Josh True would be the dominant car early on in the 15 lap Hobby Stock "A"
main event. True would stay out front with Jesse Sobbing close behind. The
two drivers would run first and second until a few laps remaining when the
yellow came out. On the restart, Sobbing would try and pass True on the
outside, but Sobbing's #99 would run out of real estate and make contact
with True's #2 on the front straightaway. The slight contact would open the
door for the #6 of Jimmy Nichols. Nichols would drive from third to first,
and after taking the lead he would never look back on route to his first
win. True would finish second, Rick Munson third, Chad Bassinger fourth and
Tom Myers fifth. Nichols would pick up the Tom & Tiffs Family Restaurant
bonus for winning the feature event.

Results From I-80 Speedway 07/01/07

Dodge Super Late Models:
1) 6 Al Humphrey, 2) 53 Joe Kosiski, 3) 62 Leon Zeitner, 4) 80 Scott
Koskovich, 5) 15 Jason O'Brien, 6) 00 Clint Benson, 7) 1 Jason Hobscheidt,
8) 58 Keith Mander Jr., 9) 10 Jay Stewart, 10) 1w Mike Wallace, 11) 1m Todd
Bell, 12) 3c Mike Collins, 13) 11 Don Droud Jr., 14) 25 Kenny Edwards, 15)
28 Bill Leighton Jr., 16) 1t Vance Tonack, 17) 76 Al Zeitner, 18) 44 Troy
Daly, 19) 48 Bob Moore, 20) 44z Alonzo Grosse, 21) 10L Rick Stolley, 22) 77
John Nicholson, 23) 23 Dave Hanke, 24) z62 Justin Zeitner, 25) 54 Marty
Doner.

Modifieds:
1) 16 Reese Coffee, 2) 1r Matt Richards, 3) 5s Bob Zoubek, 4) 92 Jeff
Stephens, 5) 4 J.C. Wyman, 6) 37f Randy Foote, 7) 21n Dave Newton, 8) 43
Brian Foote, 9) 95 Buzz Wilson, 10) 5 Harry Nixon, 11) 1s Scott Carlson, 12)
h1 Lowell Holland, 13) 69 Kevin Bills, 14) 8 Larry Goertz, 15) 1 Jeremy
Hodapp, 16) 07 Mike Goldfuss, 17) 3r Rodney Stopak, 18) 91 Tim Thomas, 19)
83x Ben Wolverton, 20) 3x Mike Johnson, 21) 3L Bub Lerette, 22) 69x Bill
Bader Jr., 23) 21 Phil Penny, 24) 52s Jeremiah Sillman, 25) 20m Mark
Leiting, 26) 73 James Oaks.

City Weekly Grand National:
1) 9 Dave Cook, 2) 97d Dave Doll, 3) 2 Dwane Pospisil, 4) 56 Ron Tilley, 5)
55d Curt Drake, 6) 50 Brad Soll, 7) 12m Matt McAtee, 8) 17 Dave Livingston,
9) t3 Gary Leapley, 10) 2x Andrew Kosiski, 11) 96 Tony Leonardo, 12) 91
Steve Farnsworth, 13) 96c Cory Hutchison, 14) 35 Kortney Kosiski, 15) 51
Matt Buller, 16) 92 Jacob Brown, 17) 4k Josh Krug, 18) 55 Mike Merrill, 19)
12 Todd Hipnar, 20) 56m Paul Moore, 21) 15x Scott Krause-Mahan.

Hobby Stock:
1) 6 Jimmy Nichols, 2) 2t Josh True, 3) m70 Rick Munson, 4) 4x Chad
Bassinger, 5) 7 Tom Myers, 6) 99 Jesse Sobbing, 7) 40 Mike Mass, 8) 32d
Kenny Darnold, 9) 4w Joe Wolllenhaupt, 10) 52 Roger Timperley, 11) 00 John
Austin, 12) 10 Josh Sink, 13) 11x Kenny Toliver-Humpal, 14) 12g Jeremy
Ribbey, 15) 86j Jerod Weston, 16) 12 George Whitmore.