Trauernicht gets Monkey off his back at Beatrice

By Scott Wisdom

What an opening night after 3 rainouts in a row, Beatrice Speedway got night #1 of the 2008 Regular race in the books and what an exciting night. With over 100 cars in the pits. The crew and the racers ran off a very entertaining and timely show completing hte show in 3 hrs from the drop of the green flag in the first heat race. The 2008 race season looks to be an excitement filled show each and every week.

Dave Trauernicht took home the win in his BMS Mods, Seneca Sanitation, Friend Freightways, Holtmeier Farms, Body-n-Balance Massage, Reedy Machine and Fab, K & B Tobacco and Brown's Shoe Fit sponsored IMCA Modified. He took the lead about 3/4 of the way into the feature after chasing down Lance Borgman and Jordy Nelson from the 12th starting postion. Borgman and Nelson were waging quite the battle and then it became a 3 car battle with Trauernicht getting the lead and eventually holding of Borgman too take home the win. Borgman, Jordan Grabouski, Jordy Nelson and Dan Nelson followed him across the line.

Adam Armstrong dominated the Factory Stock A Feature too take home the win in his Denny's Hot Rod Repair and Neapco sponsored Armstrong Chassis. Neal Mittan, Gary Laflin, Jeff Shew and Dustin Schmidt rounded out the front 5.

Benji Legg of Beatrice Took the top honors in the IMCA Sport Mod A Feature in his Spady-Runcie, Extreme Race Signs, The Buss Stop, Jet Racing and The Rail sponsored IMCA Sport Mod. He took the lead from his cousin Craig Evers and then they waged a "family feud" till the end with Legg taking the win and Evers finishing in the Bridesmaid position. Evers, Mark Saathoff, Max Harder and Ricky Rohr completed the top 5.

Chad Borgman of Beatrice took home the win in the IMCA Hobby Stocks in his Griffith transmission and Joel "The Beer Guy" sponsored Intimidator Chassis. Borgman held off a challenging Robby Marsh, Murray, Haugen, Matt Fralin and RJ Macku. Dan Rhiley of Bennington in his 2 Men in Shop sponsored IMCA Sport Compact. Rhiley held off Amanda Rhiley, Ron Frank, Monte Fralin and Scott Parde.

Factory Stock A Feature 1) 6a Adam Armstrong 2) 5m Neal Mittan 3) 9 Gary Laflin 4) 7 Jeff Shew 5) 69 Dustin Schmidt 6) 4t Lisa Wagner 7) 6 Ernie Reiss 8) 32 Joe Ryan 9) 29 John Meyer 10) 66 Jeff Watts 11) 00 Mark Busboom 12) 23 Scott Schneider

Sport Mods 1) 25 Benji Legg 2) 2x Craig Evers 3) 97 Mark Saathoff 4) 34 Max Harder 5) 74 Rick Rohr 6) 23 Steve Swarthout 7) 33 Travis Runcie 8) 72 Jesse Vanlaningham 9) 12k Ron Karpisek 10) 3d Daryl Dorn 11) 06 Jacqes Smit 12) 96 Gary Saathoff

Hobby Stocks 1) 20 Chad Borgman 2) 11 Robby Marsh 3) 8 Murray Haugen 4) 7 Matt Fralin 5) 1r RJ Macku 6) 1 Brian Langdale 7) 11c Eric Chab 8) 22 Nick Beckman 9) 34s Shane Slezak 10) 35s Shawn Slezak 11) 6b Travis Burger 12) d64 Greg Post 13) 32 Trevor Kropp 14) 21 Josh Blumer 15) 99 Matt Smith 16) 2 Ryan Roschewski 17) 07 Eric Oblinger 18) 38 Lee Beethe 19) 48 Travus Snyder 20) 92 Don Hall Jr 21) 52 Kevin Vanlaningham 22) 6 Tony Spunaugle 23) 47x Jake Creek 24) 17j Danny Lane

Sport Compacts 1) 2 Dan Rhiley 2) 51 Amanda Rhiley 3) 18r Ron Frank 4) 7m Monte Fralin 5) 17 Scott Parde 6) 55 Garrett Rech 7) 72 Ben Simpson 8) 88 Everett Watkins 9) 87 Nick Lindblad 10) 12m Ronda Mewes 11) 21t Brandon Thornton 12) 3j Jordan Junker 13) 7c Courtney Slightom 14) 5 Jeremy Graham 15) 77 Jason Miller 16) 4 Jeff Creek 17) 33 Jeremy Noonan 18) 16t Tyler Saathoff 19) 6j Jake Harms

Modifieds 1) 4 Dave Trauernicht 2) 76 Lance Borgman 3) 30 Jordan Grabouski 4) 4j Jordy Nelson 5) 94 Dan Nelson 6) 7b Chris Burk 7) 3w Stacy Wilhelm 8) 1mf Robert Brinkman 9) 5s Bob Zoubek 10) 50 Scott Smith 11) 24 Dan Bohlmeyer 12) 81 Mike Densberger 13) 7d Dusty Leonard 14) 34 Brent Schlake 15) 48 Paul Burck 16) 11n Nathan Landauer 17) 19 Kyle Vanover 18) 1m Mannix Winningham 19) 5st Dan Wayman 20) 76w Nick Warnke 21) 41 Clint Hummer 22) 18k Spencer Sutton 23) 8 Dan McKnight 24) 96j John Saathoff