I-80: Hampel Wins NCRA/TORA Feature

Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne., 09/22/07) Over 200 cars descended on I-80 Speedway for the
opening night of the Cornhusker Classic on Saturday night. The featured
class was the NCRA/TORA Super Late Models and John Hampel came away with his
first feature win of the year in one of the biggest races on the schedule.

By virtue of the most passing points collected in the heat races, Kelly Boen
and John Anderson sat on the front row for the 35 lap feature event.And
after an early battle Anderson claimed the lead by the end of lap 1. Chris
Spieker passed Boen for 2nd on lap 2
And Hampel was in 3rd by lap 5. Hampel moved up to 2nd on lap 7 and set out
to catch Anderson. Anderson and Hampel opened up a quarter of a lap
advantage over the rest of the field and started threading there way through
lapped traffic. Finally Hampel caught up to Anderson and took the lead with
3 laps left as Anderson's motor started popping and cracking. Anderson held
on to 2nd ahead of Bryant Goldsmith, Al Humphrey, Leon Zeitner, Boen, Chris
Spieker and Joe Kosiski. Delbert Smith and Billy Leighton Jr. rounded out
the top 10. After winning consolation races Al Zeitner and Mike Collins
finished 11th and 12th.

Qualifying heats were run in the Modifieds, B-Modifieds, Grand Nationals,
IMCA/USRA/I-80 Late Models, Hobby Stocks and Pro-Am/Stock Cars.
Winning Modified heats were J.C. Wyman, Dave Newton Jr, Terry Hurt, Jeff
James and Jason Friesen; winning Hobby Stock Heats were Max Harder and Tom
Myers; winning Grand Natioanl heats were Gary Joens Jr., Al Humphrey, Brad
Solland Curt Drake; winning B-Mod heats were B.J Bruck, Chad Dills and Sean
Conaway; winning Pro-am heats were Andy Miller in his "Hot Rod Lincoln",
Dave Plowman and Marty Steinbach; winning the I-80/IMCA/USRA Late Model
heats were Chris Spieker, Al Humphrey, Clint Benson and Jay Stewart.

I-80 Cornhusker Classic Results for 9/22/2007

NCRA/TORA Late Models

A-Feature: 1) 2h John Hampel, 2) 2j John Anderson, 3) 24 Bryant Goldsmith,
4) 6 Al Humphrey, 5) 62 Leon Zeitner, 6) 07 Kelly Boen, 7) 56 Chris Spieker,
8) 53 Joe Kosiski, 9) 92 Delbert Smith, 10) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 11) 76 Al
Zeitner, 12) 3c Mike Collins, 13) 14 Kyle Berck, 14) 15w Mike Wiarda, 15) 89
Jerry Warner, 16) 02 John Kuchar, 17) 10 Jay Stewart, 18) 56T Jeff Tilley,
19) 15j Jason O'Brien, 20) 90 Steve Kempt, 21) 97d Craig Preble, 22) 64l
Greg Larsen, 23) 15 Ryan Rairden, 24) 1h Chad Humston

1st Heat: 1) Boen, 2) Humston, 3) Kempt, 4) Leon Zeitner, 5) Tilley

2nd Heat: 1) Anderson, 2) Hampel, 3) Al Zeitner, 4) Eddie Moore, 5) Robbie
Anderson

3rd Heat: 1) Humphrey, 2) Joe Kosiski, 3) Collins, 4) Larsen, 5) Kuchar

4th Heat: 1) Goldsmith, 2) Jim Beaman, 3) Leighton, 4) Preble, 5) Brian
Kenkel

5th Heat: 1) Spieker, 2) Smith, 3) Berck, 4) Vance Tonack, 5) Wiarda

Passing Points: Boen, Anderson, Spieker, Smith, Hampel, Humphry, Goldsmith,
Leighton, Berck, Kosiski,

1st Consey: 1) Collins, 2) Preble, 3) Stewart

2nd Consey: 1) Wiarda, 2) Humston, Kempt

3rd Consey: 1) Al Zeitner, 2) Tilley, 3) O'Brien