Dickies prevails on caution-filled night at I-80
Greenwood, NE - April 22, 2008
By: Danielle Jensen
NRP Director of Operations and Marketing
A tired, but happy Travis Dickes (21t) took the second feature win of the Spec Late Model Racing season at I-80 Speedway after battling yellow flags and a rough track.
“I am worn out,”Dickes said after his first SLMR feature win.
The race saw the 1x of Bo Egge taking the lead with Mike Collins (3) and Kyle Berck (14) pulling up to battle for the top spot. Egge brought the yellow out with 21 to go, giving Collins the lead. After another yellow, Dickes took the lead with eleven to go. Berck tried to make a surge to the front, but couldn’t catch Dicke.
The Great Clips IMCA Modifieds had an exciting final five laps with Reese Coffee (16) taking the lead from Chris Mills (00c) who went on to win the race at the line by a bumper.
One of only two caution free feature races of the night, the Hobby Stock division provided one of the most exciting finishes of the night. The 37d of Brad Derry and the 78 of Shannon Anderson traded the leave several times before mechanical problems caused the two to push up into each other coming out of turn four on the final lap, allowing the 21h of Shane Hiatt to cruise the bottom of the track and take the checkered flag.
The Sport Compacts also saw a caution free night as Pete Fink Jr. (13) took the first win of the season.
Brent Baker (21x) took the win in the IMCA Crate Models, which saw a battle for second between two brothers: the 92 of Jacob Brown and the 24x of Micah Brown.
Unofficial Results:
SLMR
1) 21t Travis Dickes 2) 14 Kyle Berck 3) 6 Al Humphrey 4) 3 Mike Collins 5) 6x Heath Clausen 6) 28 Bill Leighton Jr. 7) 97d Craig Preble 8) 90 Steve Kempt 9) 10 Jay Stewart 10) 77j Jay Smith 11) 26jr Corey Zeitner 12) 53 Joe Kosiski 13) 1h Chad Humston 14) 76 Al Zeitner 15) 2d Todd Morgan 16) 82 Robbie Anderson 17) 00 Clint Benson 18) 33x Brian Kenkel 19) 25 Kenny Edwards 20) 62 Leon Zeitner 21) 1 Mike Wallace 22) 15 Jason O’Brien 23) 1x Bo Egge 24) 80 Scott Koskovich
IMCA Crate Models
1) 21x Brent Baker 2) 92 Jacob Brown 3) 24x Micah Brown 4) 101 Billy Soukup 5) 35 Kortney Kosiski 6) 20 Lindsey Yost 7) 96 jr Amanda Leonardo 8) 5 Chad Primmer 9) 68 Gary Joens Sr. 10) 97S Sarah Preble 11) 3 Mollee Collins 12) 9 Trevor Perdue
Great Clips IMCA Mods
1) 00c Chris Mills 2) 16 Reese Coffee 3) 96j Johnny Saathoff 4) 86jr Dirk Kirk 5) 55 Jim Cole 6) 8 Larry Goertz 7) 83 Jesse Cowles 8) 1r Matt Richards 8) s56 Scott Bivens 9) 37f Randy Foote 10) 95xDylan Smith 11) 27 Clint Homan 12) 3l Bub Lerette 13) 92 Jeff Stephens 14) 33z Kyle Berck 15) 30 Jordan Grabowski 16) 12h Mike Hansen 17) 9 Brandon Brochlinger 18) 18 Terry Richards 19)78 Jeff Anderson 20) 1mf Bob Brinkman 21) 22s Shane Stutzman 22)1s Scott Carlson 23) 7n Jay Noteboom
IMCA Hobby Stocks
1) 21h Shane Hiatt 2) 37d Brad Derry 3) 78 Shannon Anderson 4) 1r Randall Macku 5) 10 Rick Ritchie 6) 86 Justin Wolfe 7) 17j Danny Lane 8) 6 Jimmy Nichols 9) 7 Tom Myers 10) 4x Chad Bassinger 11) 99 Jesse Sobbing 12) 2t Josh True 13) 93 Randy Anderson 14) m70 Rick Munson 15) 61b Brandon Wergin 16) 12 George Whitmore 17) 42 Scott Santee 18) 13 Jesse McNeal 19) 04 Brandon Darnold 20) 20t Steve Sheppard
IMCA Sport Compacts
1) 13 Pete Fink Jr. 2) 33m Joe McConnell 3)2r Dan Rhiley 4)23s Joshua Schlotfield 5) 74c Dave Christensen 6) 7 Kennin colestock 7) 34w Ward Neesen 8) 55j Joe Copeland 9)61j Russell Johnson 10) 16t Tyler Saathoff 11) 51 Amanda Rhiley 12) 15 Jamie Spanel 13) 37 Nate Christensen 14) 57 Austin Kurtzer 15) 18 Will McConnell 19) 78 Randy Allen 20) 04 Brandon Darnold 21) 19 Gene Martin 22) 81j Jasper Copeland 23) 97s Chris Olsen 24) 2 Alex Fink 25) z60 Kevin Zeitner 26) 40 Jake McCloud 27) 77 Jason Miller 28) b52 Skip Brown 29) 23Ole Olsen 30) 55l Mark Lamer 31) 6 Daniel Markham
I-80 Speedway is located off I-80 at exit 420 between Omaha and Lincoln and is part of the Nebraska Raceway Park complex, which also includes the Little Sunset Speedway go-kart track and Soaring Edge Motocross Park. I-80 Speedway is home to the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series (NWAAS) and International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) on Sunday nights. The Speedway hosts events from April through September including weekly racing, touring late model specials and sprint car specials. For track information contact the Omaha general office during normal business hours Monday Friday, 9am-4pm at 402-342-3453 or the track phone on race days at 402-944-2233. Check out the official I-80 Speedway website at www.neracewaypark.com.
