I-80: Leighton & Hobscheidt Take NASCAR Features On Carl Edwards Night

Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne. 07/13/09) On Carl Edwards night at the races Billy Leighton
Jr. and Jason Hobscheidt were winners of the dual NASCAR Late Model
features.

In the first feature Marc Peters won the battle for the early lead with
Jacob Brown. But Billy Leighton Jr. was on the move and took over the lead
on lap 7. From there on out it was all Leighton as the battle continued
behind him for 2nd thru 5th. Track point leader Matt Buller won this 3 car
battle for 2nd over Micah Brown, Todd Hipnar and Peters. Heat race winners
were Leighton, Buller and Clint Benson while Brad Soll won the B-Feature.
The top 12 were inverted for the start of the 2nd feature.

The 2nd 25 lap feature saw Kenny Edwards grab the early lead. But he became
involved in a 5 car battle for that lead with Dave Doll, Andrew Kosiski,
Jason Hobscheidt and Tom Svoboda. Doll took the lead on lap 3 and stayed
there til lap 8 when Kosiski grabbed the lead. From there on out it was a 3
car battle for the lead between Kosiski, Hobscheidt and Doll. Hobscheidt
took the lead on lap 12 and held off Kosiski and Doll the rest of the way
for his 1st feature win of the season. Leighton was involved in a accident
with Todd Hipnar early in the race and had to restart at the back of the
field. But he charged through the field and got 4th at the finish ahead of
Edwards.

Carl Edwards did not race on this visit to I-80, but gave rides to some
lucky fans in the 2 seater car. And afterwards signed autographs for the
crowd.

The IMCA Modified feature was a heck of a race. Larry Robinson Jr. took the
early lead from the pole starting position and stayed there til lap 3 when
Stacey Wilhelm passed him. Dylan Smith took the lead on lap 4. Ricky "The
Racer" Stephan moved into 2nd on lap 8 and did his best to chase Smith. Both
drivers were staying close to the guard rail on the track and Stephan could
not get past Smith and had to settle for 2nd. Point leader Johnny Saathoff
went to the pits on a lap 7 yellow with a flat tire and had to restart at
the rear. And then he proceeded to show why he is nicknamed "The Jet" making
his way back to 6th at the finish.

The Crate Late Model feature had Carl Edwards Sr. driving the #96 car of
Tony Leonardo. He started 6th in the 6 car field and could not catch early
leader Steven Saunders. Saunders started 3rd in the field and quickly found
his way to the front. This was a 12 lap feature and with no restarts Edwards
could not reel Saunders in.

The Pro-am feature had Terry Cleveland taking the lead at the drop of the
green flag with Ray Dessel and Greg Cooper following him. Dessel took the
lead on lap 6. But point leader Rick Negrete was making his move up from the
12th starting spot grabbing the lead on lap 10. Jeff Joldersma and Scotty
Hartman kept things close. Joldersma suffered mechanical woes with 1 lap
left and Hartman came home 2nd ahead of Cooper, Dessel and Shawn Bulin.

Results:

Whelen NASCAR Late Models

1st A-Feature: 1) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 2) 43 Matt Buller, 3) 24x Micah
Brown, 4) 12 Todd Hipnar, 5) 1M Marc Peters, 6) 1W Mike Wallace, 7) 1J Jason
Hobscheidt, 8) 92 Jacob Brown, 9) 51 Les Siebert, 10) 2x Andrew Kosiski, 11)
Tom Svoboda, 12) Dave Doll, 13) Kenny Edwards, 14) Brad Soll, 15) Jase
Kaser, 16) Dave Cook, 17) Glenn Robey, 18) Kent Schimenti, 19) Gary Joens
Jr., 20) Michael Svagera Jr., 21) Mollee Collins, 22) Clint Benson, 23) Ryan
Joens, 24) Kortney Kosiski

1st B-Feature: 1) Brad Soll, 2) Kenny Edwards, 3) Kent Schimenti, 4) Michael
Svagera Jr., 5) Kortney Kosiski

2nd A-Feature: 1) 1J Jason Hobscheidt, 2) 2x Andrew Kosiski, 3) 97d Dave
Doll, 4) 28 Billy Leighton Jr., 5) 25 Kenny Edwards, 6) 1w Mike Wallace, 7)
51 Les Siebert, 8) 15x Jase Kaser, 9) 92 Jacob Brown, 10) 24X Micah Brown,
11) Marc Peters, 12) Tom Svoboda, 13) Brad Soll, 14) Dave Cook, 15) Clint
Benson, 16) Steve Farnsworth, 17) Gary Joens Jr., 18)
Glenn Robey, 19) Todd Hipnar, 20) Kent Schimenti, 21) Scott Green, 22)
Michael Svagera Jr., 23 Mollee Collins, 24) Kortney Kosisiki

2nd B-Feature: 1) Steve Farnsworth, 2) Clint Benson, 3) Kent Schimenti, 4)
Gary Joens Jr., 5) Michael Svagera Jr.

IMCA Modifieds

A-Feature: 1) 95 Dylan Smith, 2) 25 Ricky Stephan, 3) 3w Stacey Wilhelm, 4)
37f Randy Foote, 5) 83 Jesse Cowles, 6) 96j Johnny Saathoff, 7) 1S Scott
Carlson, 8) 98 Denny Johnson, 9) 48 Larry Robinson Jr., 10) 21H Shane Hiatt,
11) Lacey Tuttle, 12) Nick Carlson, 13) Bill Bader Jr., 14) Darren Meinke,
15) Jim Fritz, 16) H1 Lowell Holland, 17) Paul Tindal, 18) Brad Bergren, 19)
Harry Nixon,

IMCA Crate Late Models

A-Feature: 1) 44 Steven Saunders, 2) 96 Carl Edwards Sr., 3) 2 Tyler Zander,
4) 14 Michael Powell, 5) 34 Michalea Kosiski, 6) 5C Shevi Collins

Pro-Ams

A-Feature: 1) 72 Rick Negrete, 2) 88 Scotty Hartman, 3) 37 Greg Peters, 4)
55 Ray Dessel, 5) 36 Shawn Bulin, 6) 5b Matt Boucher, 7) 68 Jeremy Swanson,
8) 25 , 9) 8 Nick Steier, 10) 80 Jeff Bonney, 11) Alan Schmitt, 12) Denny
Berghahn, 13) Terry Cleveland, 14) Jeff Joldersma, 15) Chad Sanders, 16)
Erik Cunningham, 17) Don Atkins, 18) Don Mohr