Collins takes first win of SLMR season at I-80

From I-80 Speedway

Greenwood, NE (April 6, 2008) –Nearly 1000 fans braved the cold weather to watch 126 cars start off the 2008 season during a night filled with yellow flags and rollovers. Mike Collins started on the pole and jumped to an early lead in the Spec Late Model Racing Series, battling multiple yellow flags to take the win. The next stop on the SLMR series schedule is on Sunday, April 20 at I-80 Speedway.

Three drivers started off their IMCA point seasons with wins on the cold Saturday night. Brad Deery (37d) took the Hobby Stock win, ending a r race that included a spectacular flip on the front stretch by the 3k car of Jerry Keaton.

Brett Moffit took the checkered in the Midas Northern Sport Mods and Clint Homan won the Great Clips Modified main event.

Midas Northern Sport Mods
1) 13 Brent Moffit 2) 480 Greg Tichey 3) 121 Robert Tipperly 4) 1t Tony Attanasio 5) 64 Nick Hermsen 6) z00 Lacey Tuttle 7)72 Jesse Vanlaningham 8) 08 Roger Harpster 9) s53 Scott Robinson 10) 2g Jeoff Olson 11) 96c Kyle Chalek 12)10 Joe Thomas 13) 6 Denny Berghahn Jr. 14)03k Kenny Layton 15)9 Hank DeWild 16)33 Jim Hendricks 17)84x Shawn Stevenson 18)56 Jeremy Longmeyer 19)52x Ethan Christianson 20)23 Steve Swarthout 21)34 Max Harder 22)26x Ron Allen 23)48 Kyle Harpster

Great Clips IMCA Mods
1)27 Clint Homan 2)95x Dylan Smith 3)31 Eric Rempel 4)24t Terry Hurt 5)22s Shane Stutzman 6)37f Randy Foote 7)3L Bub Lerette 8)8 Larry Goertz 9)z34 Brett Schlake 10)1rx Craig Reetz 11)92 Jeff Stephens 12)19j Jeff Jones 13)1ms Bob Brinkman 14)4m Doug Wilson 15)1 Mike Johnson 16)78 Jeff Anderson 17)5 Marty Steinbach 18)21j Jeremy Leiting 19)30Jordan Grabowski 20) 96j John Saathoff 21) 1r Matt Richards 22)69x Bill Bader 23)33z Kyle Berck 24)5g Harry Nixon 25) 3w Stacy Wilhelm 26)1s Scott Carslon 27)25 Ricky Stephans 28) 1c Nick Carlson 29) 20m Mark Leiting 30)18 Terry Richards

Hobby Stocks
1) 37d Brad Derry 2) 52 Kevin Vanlaningham 3)86 Justin Wulf 4)1r Randall Macku 5)86j Jared Weston 6)13 Jesse McNeal 7)2r Ryan Rofchewski 8)6 Jimmy Nichols 9)99 Jesse Sobbing 10)78 Shannon Anderson 11)61b Brandon Wergin 12)3k Jerry Keaton 13)25 Dustin Benning 14)9 Roger Timperley 15)2x Chuck Madden 16)11 Robby Marsh 17)10 Rick Ritchie 18)2 Corey Madden 19)4x Chad Bassinger 20)7 Tom Myers 21) 21h Shane Hiatt (DQ)

SLMR
1)3Mike Collins 2)15 Jason O’Brien 3)28 Bill Leighton, Jr. 4)21t Travis Dickes 5)6 Al Humphrey 6)97d Craig Preble 7)40 Shawn Harker 8)26jr Corey Zeitner 9)90 Steve Kempt 10)10 Jay Stewart 11)25 Kenny Edwards 12)1x Bo Egge 13)82 Robbie Anderson 14)33x Brian Kenkel 15)00 Clint Benson 16)56 Mike Danburg 17)2d Todd Morgan 18)8x Ron Tex Jr. 19)64 Greg Larson 20)z62 Justin Zeitner 21) 80 Scott Koskovich 22)14 Kyle Berck 23)1h Chad Humston 24) 1 Mike Wallace Non Qualifiers: 2x Andrew Kosiski, 58 Keith Mander, 93 Alan Jordening, 70 Keven Hamele, 50 Brad Soll, 96c Corey Hutchinson, 96 Tony Leonardo, 76 Al Zeitner, 53 Joe Kosiski, 5 Mike Svagera, 1m Todd Bell, 6x Harold Claussen, 77 Jay Smith, 62 Leon Zeitner, 38d Al Druesedow