I-80 Close finish in ProAm feature

Greenwood, NE(May 4, 2008) – The finish of the first night of the NASCAR Whelen All American Series belonged to the 66 of Jeff Joldersma in the NASCAR Certified Transmission Pro Am feature as he battled the 72 of Rick Negrete in a 2 lap shootout to the checkered flag.

With 12 laps remaining, Negrete had nearly a half-straightaway lead until a yellow came out with only two laps to go, giving Joldersma the chance to pull out the win on the inside.

The first four laps were filled with cautions in the Dodge NASCAR Late Model feature race because of several car failures, but the 28 of Bill Leighton Jr. \managed to take the lead with 13 to go and held on to it to take the checkered flag.

JC Wyman (4) led the Great Clips Modifieds feature race until he broke an r bar and his car died with 11 laps to go giving the 7n of Jay Noteboom the lead. With two laps to go, the 16 of Reese Coffee almost made it a run for the money, but Noteboom pulled it out with one lap left and took the checkered flag.

The IMCA Midas Northern Sport Mods feature race saw the 2007 IMCA Northern Sport Mod National Champion Chris Abelson in the 1x visit victory lane.

The 23 of Ole Oleson led the feature race for the IMCA Sport Compacts from green to checkered flag.

Unofficial Results:

NASCAR Dodge Late Models
1) 28 Bill Leighton, Jr. 2) 1 Mike Wallace 3) 12Todd Hipnar 4) 17 Dave Livingston 5) 56 Ron Tilley 6) 25 Kenny Edwards 7) 9 Dave Cook 8) 50 Brad Soll 9) 88 Scotty Hartman 10) 43 Matt Buller 11) 51 Les Siebert 12) 55 Curt Drake 13) 12p Lennie Pospisol 14) 35 Kortney Kosiski 15) 21 Jason Longmeyer 16)22 Kent Schimenti 17) 7 Gary Joens, Jr. 18) 5m Mike Svagera 19) 1j Jason Hobscheidt 20) 00 Clint Benson 21) 29 Billy Koons, Jr 22) 96 Tony Leonardo 23) 07 Steve Farnsworth 24) 2x Andrew Kosiski (DQ-Too Light)


NASCAR Certified Transmission Pro Ams
1) 66 Jeff Joldersma 2) 72 Rick Negrete 3) 74 Alan Schmitt 4) 12 Terry Cleveland 5) 25x Joe Feyen 6) 3t Tim Podraza 7) 7k Jim Kruse 8)9x John Allensworth 9) 24 Don Mohr 10) 5 Marty Steinbach 11) 64 Nick Hermsen 12) T72 Thad Thomson 13) 49 Jeff Atkins 14) 2 Steve Peoples 15) 6x Denny Berghahn, Sr. 16) 84 Doug Stevenson, Jr. 17) 6t Tim Berghahn 18) 16j Jason Cieslik 19) 8 Nick Steier 20) 36 Shawn Bulin 21) 6 Denny Berghahn Jr 22) 48 Larry Robinson, Jr. 23) 55 Ray Dessel 24) 5b Matt Boucher 25) 28 Casey Cleveland

NASCAR Great Clips Modifieds
1) 7n Jay Noteboom 2) 16 Reese Coffee 3) 83 Jesse Cowles 4) 1f Jason Friesen 5) 95x Dylan Smith 6) 3l Bub Lerette 7) 71j Jeff James 8) 14 Bonnie 9) 1mf Robert Brinkman 10) 1r Matt Richards 11) R21 Ryan Schaffer 12) 78x Derrick Hicks 13) 8 Larry Goertz 14) 95 Buzz Wilson 15) 1s Scott Carlson 16) H1 Lowell Holland 17) 4 JC Wyman 18) 003 Cody Stutheit 19) 1 Mike Johnson 20) 53 Staci Stava 21) 59 Jarred Stiens

IMCA Midas Northern Sport Mods
1) 1x Chad Abelson 2) 34 Max Harder 3) 33 Jim Hendricks Jr. 4) 23 Steve Swarthout 5) 121 Robert Tippery 6) 9 Hank DeWild 7) z00 Lacey Tuttle 8) 26x Ron Allen 9) 08 Roger Harpster 10) 12 George Whitmore 11) 52x Ethan Christiansen 12) Joe Thomas 13) 64 Nick Hermsen 14) 56 Jeremy Longmeyer 15) 48 Roger Harpster 16) 2g Geoff Olson 17) s53 Scott Robinson 18) 6 Denny Berghahn, Jr. 19) 480 Greg Tichy

IMCA Sport Compacts
1) 23 Ole Olsen 2) 13 Pete Fink Jr. 3) 74c Dave Christensen 4) 2r Dan Rhiley 5) Jamie Spanel 6) 77 Jason Miller 7) 16t Tyler Saathoff 8) z60 Kevin Zeitner 9) 40 Jake McCloud 10) 51 Amanda Rhiley 11) 21e John Elwood 12) 18 Will McConell 13) 19 Gene Martin 14) b52 Skip Brown 15) 04 Ashley Darnold 16) 31 Chris LaChappelle 17) 23s Joshua Schlotfeld 18) 7 Kennin Colestock 19) 31x Shawn Turner 20) 6 Daniel Markham 21) 78 Randy Allen 22) 37 Nate Christensen 23) 34w Ward Neesen 24) 61 Chuck Wergin 25) 33 Steve McConnell 26) 50 Brett Smith 27) 18r Ronald Frank 28) 2 Alex Fink 29) b22 Nathan Brown 30) 57 Austin Kurtzer

NASCAR Dodge Late Models (B Feature)
1) 00 Clint Benson 2) 5m Mike Svagera 3) 07 Steve Farnsworth 4) 25 Kenny Edwards 5) 22 Kent Shimenti 6) 88 Scotty Hartman 7) 52 Rob Kosiski 8) 2 Dwayne Pospisil 9) 44 Steven Saunders 10) 96 Tony Leonardo 11) 92 Jacob Brown 12) 01 Bobby Sukup 13) 32 Mike Robey 14) 68 Gary Joens, Sr. 15) 21x Brent Baker