Humston, Kosiski Top I-80 Labor Day Extravaganza

Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne., 09/02/07) The NASCAR Whelen All American Series
Chase for the Championship continued Sunday night with the Nebraska/Iowa
Supply Labor Day Extravaganza. Twin Late Model features were on tap with Rookie Chad Humston winning the first and veteran Joe Kosiski overcome a rollover in the 2nd heat to record a feature win in the 2nd one.

Kosiski went up on the back wall on lap 2 of his heat and kind of barrel rolled over coming to rest on its wheels. So with his car beyond repair for the 1st feature, he had to try and borrow a car that had qualified. That turned out to be his brother-in-law, Scott
Koskovich. The feature started with Todd Bell getting the early lead ahead of Humston and Jason Hobscheidt. Humston took the lead on lap 3 and never relinquished it. Kosiski, who started 26th with the borrowed car worked his way up to an 11th place finish..
Al Humphrey took 2nd ahead of Leon Zeitner, Hobscheidt and Al Zeitner.

For the 2nd feature they inverted the top 12 from the first feature which put Kosiski on the outside front row. Mike Wallace jumped out front early but by the end of lap 1 Kosiski had the lead and held it the rest of the way with Wallace holding on for 2nd ahead of Leon Zeitner, Craig Preble and Justin Zeitner. Humphrey finished 8th and is unofficially the track champion. Results are pending a tech inspection of the top 4 cars.

The Modified feature saw Larry Goertz jump out front early from his outside front row starting position. And despite some challeges by the likes of Scott Carlson, J.C. Wyman and Jeff Stephens, Goertz was able to go flag to flag for his first career feature win, It was a brand new car he brought out for the 1st time. Wyman finished 2nd ahead of Stephens, Matt Richards and Carlson.

The Grand National feature saw Jeff Tilley lead from start to finish in his dad’s #56. No one could mount a serious challenge as Shawn Harker came home 2nd ahead of Dave Doll, Ron Tex Jr. and point leader Todd Hipnar.

The Hobby Stock feature started with 13 cars and finished with 10. Roger Timperly took the early lead and held it til lap 2 when he spunout in turn 4. Point leader Jesse Sobbing inherited the lead and went on to record his 5th win of the year. Josh Sink finished 2nd ahead of Tom Myers, Brandon Wergin, Jimmy Nichols and Timperly.

The start of the Pro-am feature had the first 2 rows all bunchec up going into turn 1 and Marty Steinbach threaded the needle to take the lead in turn 2. Rick Negrete would come forward to challenge Steinbach over the last 7 laps, taking the lead on the high side with 3 laps left. Chad Sanders took 3rd ahead of Doug Stevenson Jr. and Don Mohr. Point leader Shawn Bulin finished 6th. For Negrete it was his 3rd win of the year.
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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 9/02/07
Nebraska/Iowa Supply Labor Day Extravaganza

Dodge Super Late Models

1st A-Feature: 1) 1h Chad Humston, 2) 6 Al Humphrey, 3) 62 Leon Zeitner, 4) 1 Jason Hobscheidt, 5) 76 Al Zeitner, 6) 26jr Corey Zeitner, 7) 1m Todd Bell, 8) 28 Billy Leighton Jr.,
9) Z62 Justin Zeitner, 10) 22 Craig Preble, 11) Joe Kosiski, 12) Mike Wallace, 13) John Nicholson, 14) Travis Roth, 15) Clint Benson, 16) Vance Tonack, 17) Robbie Andersen, 18) Mel Zeitner, 19) Rick Stolley, 20) Jay Stewart, 21) Dave Jorgensen Sr., 22) Dan Jackson, 23) Troy Daly, 24) Keith Mander Jr., 25) Mike Nanfito, 26) Mike Merrill

1st B-Feature: 1) Leighton, 2) Roth, 3) Mander, 4) Stolley, 5) Andersen, 6) Merrill, 7) Nanfito,
8) Daly

2nd A-Feature: 1) 53 Joe Kosiski, 2) 1w Mike Wallace, 3) 62 Leon Zeitner, 4) 22 Craig Preble, 5) z62 Justin Zeitner, 6) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 7) 76 Al Zeitner, 8) 6 Al Humphrey, 9) 60 Travis Roth, 10) 1m Todd Bell, 11) Jay Stewart, 12) Jason Hobscheidt, 13) John Nicholson, 14) Clint Benson, 15) Vance Tonack, 16) Kenny Edwards, 17) Keith Mander Jr., 18) Robbie Andersen, 19) Troy Daly, 20) Dave Jorgensen Sr., 21) Mike Nanfito, 22) Rick Stolley, 23) Chad Humston, 24) Mel Zeitner, 25) Mike Merrill, 26) Corey Zeitner

2nd B-Feature: 1. Stewart, 2) Jorgensen, 3) Nanfito, 4) Stolley, 5) Edwards, 6) Daly, 7) Mander,
8) Merrill

City Weekly Grand Nationals

A-Feature: 1) 56x Jeff Tilley, 2) 40 Shawn Harker, 3) 97d Dave Doll, 4) 8x Ron Tex Jr., 5) 12 Todd Hipnar, 6) 50 Brad Soll, 7) 51 Matt Buller, 8) 9 Dave Cook, 9) 2 Dwane Pospisil, 10) 55d Curt Drake, 11) Mike Merrill, 12) Andrew Kosiski, 13) Dave Livingston, 14) Gary Leapley, 15) Gary Joens Jr., 16) Jay Burdic, 17) Lennie Pospisil, 18) Jacob Brown, 19) Tony Leonardo, 20) car #21, 21) Kortney Kosiski, 22) Cory Hutchison, 23) Scott Krause-Mahan, 24) Pat McAtee

B-Feature: 1) Brown, 2) car #21, 3) Kosiski, 4) McAtee, 5) Hutchison, 6) Krause-Mahan

Modifieds

A-Feature: 1) 8 Larry Goertz, 2) 4 J. C. Wyman, 3) 92 Jeff Stephens, 4) 1r Matt Richards, 5) 1s Scott Carlson, 6) 20M Mark Leiting, 7) 5 Harry Nixon, 8) 16 Reese Coffee, 9) 95 Buzz Wilson, 10) 1m Robert Brinkman, 11) Rodney Stopak, 12) Tim Thomas, 13) Randy Foote, 14) Sean Barragan, 15) Bill Bader Jr., 16) Staci Stava, 17) Lowell Holland, 18) Nick Deal, 19) Joe Thomas, 20) Mike Christiansen, 21) Michael Anderson, 22) Jeremy Leiting, 23) Dave Newton, 24) Mike Johnson

Pro-ams
A-Feature: 1) 72 Rick Negrete, 2) 5 Marty Steinbach, 3) 49x Chad Sanders, 4) 84 Doug Stevenson Jr., 5) 24 Don Mohr, 6) 36 Shawn Bulin, 7) 64 Nick Hermsen, 8) 88 Scotty Hartman, 9) 8 Nick Steier, 10) 74 Alan Schmitt, 11) Thad Thomson, 12) John Allensworth, 13) Jim Kruse, 14) Jeff Atkins, 15) Joe Robey, 16) Rich Steier, 17) Denny Berghahn Jr., 18) Tim Podraza, 19) Terry Cleveland, 20) Ray Dessell, 21) Denny Berghahn Sr. (DNS)

Hobby Stocks
A-Feature: 1) 99 Jesse Sobbing, 2) 10 Josh Sink, 3) 7 Tom Myers, 4) 61b Brandon Wergin, 5) 6 Jimmy Nichols, 6) 52 Roger Timperly, 7) 12 George Whitmore, 8) 4w Joe Wollenhaupt, 9) 40 Mike Mass, 10) 32d Kenny Darnold, 11) Josh True, 12) Chad Bassinger, 13) Jack Marsh, 14) Rick Munson