Saturday Night Season Championships Decided At I-80

Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne., 08/18/07) The NASCAR Whelen All American Series
Season Championship races were held Saturday night with Ron Tex Jr.,
Kortney Kosiski, Scott Carlson, Shawn Bulin, Pete Fink Jr., Kennin Colestock
And Dan Satriano taking feature wins in their respective classes.

The Pro-Stock 18 lap feature saw Jim Kruse take the early lead only to lose it
in turn 2 to Shawn Bulin. Bulin led the rest of the way for his feature win of the year.
Larry Robinson Jr. closed on him late in the race but ran out of laps and had to
settle for second ahead of Tim Podraza, Scotty Hartman and Jason Cieslik.
Bulin also won the track championship. The top 2 rookie contenders Doug Stevenson
and Nick Deal finished 7th and 8th.

The 25 lap Crate Late Model feature saw Dwane Pospisil take the early lead. But it was short lived as Brad Soll passed him on the back chute. Soll stayed in front til about 5 laps left when Ron Tex Jr. blew by him on the high side of the track and went on to record his 1st win of the season overSoll, Joe Kosiski, Jason Hobscheidt and Kenny Edwards.
Hobscheidt is the 2007 Track Champion.

For the second week in a row the Novice Crate Late Models saw another career milestone win for a young lady, Kortney Kosiski. Mike Gillespie took the early lead and held it til lap 5 when Kosiski took over. Last week’s winner Mollee Collins ended up 2nd after Kenny Bartram’s car was too light crossing the scales. Gillespie held on for 3rd ahead of Rob Kosiski, Ryan Gladwin and Lindsey Yost. Gladwin ended up winning the Track
Points Title.

The B-Modified feature saw Nick Hermsen grab the early lead. But point leader Jared
Hoefelman shot through the pack and took the lead on lap 3. Scott Carlson took 2nd on lap 7 and began to real Hoefelman in. Carlson was hooking up on the high side of the track
And passed Hoefelman with 5 to go. Carlson went on to his 7th feature win of the year but
Hoefelman, a rookie, won his first Track Championship. Harry Nixon, Hermsen and Floyd Richards rounded out the top 5 in the feature.

Dan Satriano was the only 305 Sprint Car to show up, so he won his first feature of the year against himself.

The Pro-Hornet Feature saw Pete Fink Jr. pick up his first career win over Steve McConnell, Steve England, Joe Baker and last years champion Austin Kurtzer.
Justin Soule with a 7th place finish took the track championship over Baker and England.

The Novice Hornet feature saw Kennin Colestock lead from start to finish for his 2nd win of the year. Alex Fink came on to take 2nd over Dan Rasmussen, Russell Johnson and Sarah Preble. Fink won the Track Championship.

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.

I-80 NASCAR WHELEN All American Series Results for 08/18/07

Great Clips Crate Late Models

A-Feature: 1) 8x Ron Tex Jr, 2) 50 Brad Soll, 3) 3k Jos Kosiski, 4) 1 Jason
Hobscheidt, 5) 9 Kenny Edwards, 6) 55 Al Humphrey, 7) 3 Mike Collins,
8) 7 Gary Joens Jr., 9) 2 Dwane Pospisil, 10) 97d Dave Doll, 11) Shawn Harker,
12) Matt Buller, 13) Andrew Kosiski, 14) Lennie Pospisil, 15) Jason Cieslik,
16) Kent Schimenti, 17) Rick Vanderheiden, 18) Ray Baughn, 19) Tony Leonardo,
20) Dave Livingston, 21) Brent Baker, 22) Cory Hutchison, 23) Mike Svagara

Novice Crate Late Models

A-Feature: 1) 35 Kortney Kosiski, 2) 3 Mollee Collins, 3) 17v Mike Gillespie,
4) 52 Rob Kosiski, 5) j1 Ryan Gladwin, 6) 20 Lindsey Yost, 7) 10k Scott
Keffer, 8) 38 Jeff Hatten, 9) 2x Steve Sequentia, 10) 96jr Amanda Leonardo,
11) Shawn Armandariz, 12) Steven Saunders, 13) Shawn Pospisil, 14) Travis Pastrana,
15) Cory Collins, 16) Kenny Bartram

Midas Pro-Stocks

A-Feature: 1) 36 Shawn Bulin, 2) 48 Larry Robinson Jr., 3) 3t Tim Podraza,
4) 88 Scotty Hartman, 5) 16j Jason Cieslik, 6) 25x Joe Feyen, 7) 84 Doug
Stevenson, 8) 55d Nick Deal, 9) 24 Don Mohr, 10) 8 Nick Steier, 11) Chad
Sanders, 12) Andy Miller, 13) Steve Peoples, 14) Alan Schmitt, 15) Jeff Atkins,
16) John Allensworth, 17) Chris Wredt, 18) Ken Simmerman, 19) Jim Kruse,
20) Joe Robey, 21) Max Dale, 22) Denny Berghahn Sr., 23) Mike Powell,
24) Denny Berghahn Jr., 25) Terry Cleveland

B-Modifieds

A-Feature: 1) 1s Scott Carlson, 2) 15h Jared Hoefelman, 3) 5 Harry Nixon,
4) 83 Nick Hermsen, 5) 71 Floyd Richards, 6) z00 Lacey Tuttle, 7) 08 Roger
Harpster, 8) 48 Kyle Harpster, 9) 21 Jim Fritz, 10) 52x Ethan Christiansen,
11) Jim Hendricks, 12) Joe Thomas, 13) Sean Conaway, 14) Bill Bader Jr.,
15) Dave Dubas, 16) Greg Tichy, 17) Ron Allen, 18) Larry Robinson Sr.,
19) Dave LaFleur, DQ’ed too light, 20) Jim Bicking (DNS)

Stereo West Auto Toys Pro-Hornets

A-Feature: 1) 13 Pete Fink Jr., 2) 33 Steve McConnell, 3) 81 Steve England,
4) 9x Joe Baker, 5) 57 Austin Kurtzer, 6) B22 Nathan Brown, 7) 16j Justin
Soule, 8) 85 Mike Kennedy, 9) 23s Joshua Schlotfeld, 10) 97s Rick Havenridge,
11) Will McConnell, 12) Ward Neesen, 13) Jamie Spanel, 14) Randy Allen,
15) Cory Askeland, 16) Nate Christensen, 17) Dave Christensen, 18) Ole Olson,
19) Skip Brown, 20) Cory Powers

Stereo West Auto Toys Novice Hornets

A-Feature: 1) 7 Kennin Colestock, 2) 2 Alex Fink, 3) B52 Dan Rasmussen, 4) 61j
Russell Johnson, 5) 97s Sarah Preble, 6) 41 NRP House Car, 7) 04 Brandon Darnold,
8) 96 Andy Combs, 9) 6T Tim Berghahn, 10) 19 Daren Hoegren

305 Sprint Cars

A-Feature: 1)95 Dan Satriano