Justin Zeitner Collects Bounty For Beating Kyle Berck At I-80 Speedway

Jim Brennan

(Greenwood, Ne., 07/19/09) Spec Late Model Racing invaded I-80 Speedway on
Sunday night and there was a bounty of $500 for the driver who could beat
Kyle Berck. Berck had been a perfect 6 for 6 in races he competed in. Berck
also was offered a $1,000 bonus if he could win from the 20th starting
position. Berck took that challenge.

17 year old Jase Kaser took the lead at the drop of the green for the 25 lap
main event. But 19 year old Justin Zeitner, after starting 7th in the field,
charged to 2nd by lap 5 and we had a battle between the 2 young racers until
lap 12 when Zeitner took command. His cousin Corey followed him in 2nd.
Meanwhile Berck was working his way through the pack. Justin's dad Leon took
over 2nd on lap 16. But by lap 17 Berck was in 3rd. It was a 3 car battle
from there and several yellow flags set up a 2 lap dash to the finish. With
1 lap left Berck passed Leon and set his sights on Justin. While Justin was
working the low side of the track Berck had a slight advantage up high.
Berck tried to get around Zeitner on the last lap, but the young Zeitner
held off the veteran. Leon Zeitner finished 3rd ahead of his nephew Corey
and Dave Livingston. For Justin it was the biggest win of his young career.

The IMCA Modified Feature saw Larry Robinson Jr. take the early lead over
Dustin Andersen. But Central Region point leader Dylan Smith was on the move
and into 2nd on lap 8. On lap 9 he grabbed the lead and went on to win over
Andersen, Robinson, Nick Carlson and Scott Carlson. Smith and Andersen were
heat race winners.

The IMCA Sports Mod feature saw Dustin Thayer take the early lead over Jason
Fusselman. Steve Swarthout took over 2nd on lap 3. But Harlan's Chad Dills
was hard charging from his 11th starting position and took the lead on lap
4. Jesse Sobbing moved up to challenge Dills on lap 8 and the 2 ran side by
side for several laps. But Dills was able to hold off Sobbing for his 2nd
win of the year. Cory Hutchison, Kyle Harpster and Swarthout rounded out the
top 5.

The Sport Compacts only ran about 4 laps of their feature due to many yellow
flags and a time limit. But winning this feature was point leader Pete Fink
Jr. in a borrowed car. Joe Baker finished a close 2nd ahead of Brett Smith,
Jake McCloud and Jamie Spanel.

Next Sunday the MLRA/NCRA Late Models will come calling once again along
with the NASCAR Late Models and Pro-ams. The Late Models and Pro-ams will
run double features.

Hot laps are at 5:30 with racing getting underway at 5:55.

Spec Late Model Racing Series

A-Feature: 1) z62 Justin Zeitner, 2) 14 Kyle Berck, 3) 62 Leon Zeitner, 4)
26jr Corey Zeitner, 5) 17 Dave Livingston, 6) 15 Jase Kaser, 7) 10 Jay
Stewart, 8) 53 Joe Kosiski, 9) 1j Jason Hobscheidt, 10) 1W Mike Wiarda, 11)
John Nicholson, 12) Andrew Kosiski, 13) Al Zeitner, 14) RobbieAndersen, 15)
Jerry Warner, 16) Craig Preble, 17) Mike Marushak, 18) Brian Kenkel, 19)
Mike Collins, 20) Travis Dickes, 21) Todd Bell, 22) Mike Wallace

B-Feature: 1) Marushak, 2) Hobscheidt, 3) Kenkel, 4) Warner

IMCA Modifieds:

A-Feature: 1) 95 Dylan Smith, 2) 8a Dustin Andersen, 3) 48 Larry Robinson
Jr., 4) 1c Nick Carlson, 5) 1s Scott Carlson, 6) 25 Ricky Stephan, 7) 21p
Phil Penney, 8) 3w Stacey Wilhelm, 9) 26 Scott Styskal, 10) 21h Shane Hiatt,
11) Lacey Tuttle, 12) Larry Goertz, 13) Terry Hurt, 14) Jesse Cowles, 15)
Chris Andersen, 16) Johnny Saathoff, 17) Bill Bader Jr., 18) Kyle Berck, 19)
Ethan Christiansen, 20) Denny Johnson

IMCA SportMods

A-Feature: 1) 11 Chad Dills, 2) 99 Jesse Sobbing, 3) 96c Cory Hutchison, 4)
48 Kyle Harpster, 5) 239 Steve Swarthout, 6) 2 Mike Brown, 7) 121 Robert
Tippery, 8) 33 Jim Hendricks Jr., 9) 45 Dennis Cook, 10) 55 Jason Fusselman,
11) Jeremy Longmeyer, 12) Denny Berghahn Jr., 13) Bret Daringer, 14) Denny
Nielsen Jr., 15) Sean Conaway, 16) Mark Hunzinger, 17) Dustin Thayer, 18)
Laini Schwartz, 19) Nick Hermsen, 20) John Riggleman, 21) Brian Florian, 22)
Joe Feyen, 23) Buddy Ray Jones

IMCA Sport Compacts

A-Feature: 1) 13 Pete Fink Jr., 2) 9x Joe Baker, 3) 50 Bret Smith. 4) 40
Jake McCloud, 5) 15 Jamie Spanel, 6) 16j Justin Soule, 7) 93x John
Sedlachek, 8) 89 Andrew Cuva, 9) 94 David Neesen, 10) 93 Preston Gigax, 11)
Wayne Stricklett, 12) Skip Brown, 13) Dan Markham, 14) Jordan Walker, 15)
Will McConnell, 16) Trisha Hultgren, 17) Tammy Clark, 18) Amanda
Christensen, 19) Kevin Zeitner, 20) John Irvine, 21) Ole Olsen, 22) Steve
Niederhaus, 23) Rocky Harris, 24) Brandon Hammons