The Nebraska
Cup, presented by Hoosier Racing Tire, is possibly my favorite event of the
year; even if it is the final one on the racing schedule every season. This
year it featured several classes including the Good Old Time Racing Association
and their cars that go back to the early days of dirt track racing. The ‘Hoodoos’
as they used to be called took me back to my first memories of racing. Also, on
the track were the Midwest Classic Stock Car Association’s 50’s and 60’s cars
that brought me back to my twenties when I first introduced my sons to the
sport. Of course, the POWRI WAR wingless sprints were also a part of that same
era. Add in the Racesaver Winged Sprints and the Malvern Bank SLMR Late Models and
you have one heck of a racing event!!
In the A
Feature for the GOTRA, Carrol Adamy was the winner with Bob Werkmeister and
Darrin Adamy rounding out the top 3.
The A Main
for the MCSCA saw Mike Ganskow with the win followed by Ryan Cech and Dennis
Proskocil.
Neil Nickolite
took off from the pole position at the start of the Racesaver IMCA Sprint Car A
Feature, only to do a 360-degree spin in turn 2, bringing out the yellow flag
and sending his 12N to the rear of the field. Once a lap was officially in the
books the top 4 were Joey Danley’s 14, the 1B of Brandon Horton, Stu Snyder in
the 5 and Tim Hilfiker’s 20. Cody Ledger’s 47 tangled with Jason Martin’s 5X on
lap 2, sending him to the infield with both left side tires flat and Martin
heading to the pits. Tyler Drueke jumped up to third on the restart in the #12.
Snyder regained third the next time around before advancing to second the following
lap. Lap 6 saw Drueke again move back to third. By this time Danley had a
straightaway lead. Toby Chapman put the #7 into fourth 3 laps later. Josh
Riggins’ 14J got loose on lap 14 after contact with the 53 of Jack Dover and
the yellow lights again came on in the corners. Both cars headed to the pits.
The final change in the top 4 came with 5 circuits left when Adam Gullion put
the 91 into fourth. From there to the finish it was all Danley with Snyder
second, Drueke third and Gullion fourth.
Danley said “We
got the start that we needed and got to the front right away and kind of
checked out from there. The track was great tonight! The best track all year I
thought. I honestly wish we could have gone out later for our A Feature when it
was slick from top to bottom. I mean, the track was perfect tonight; they
really did a great job on it. I started fifth and got a great start, getting to
the lead in just a lap or 2. Everything just kind of went my way tonight.
Lapped traffic was good, and I just held on for the win”. Danley’s sponsors
include Heiserman Flooring, Nissen Hardwood Floors, Automotive Services,
Russell Shoulders Racing Engines, CleanRite Sweeping, Empire Fencing and
Complete Window and Door Solutions.
The
initial lap of the POWRI WAR wingless sprint A Main saw the 22S of Slater Helt,
Trey Gropp in the 54, Dylan Kadous’ 31 and Don Droud Jr. in the 1M out front.
Gropp made a move to the inside of Helt on lap 2 and got hooked on another car,
causing the bottom line of cars to get backed up and caused a huge jam on the
back stretch. Both TJ Artz in the 57 and
Wyatt Burks’ 11W went flying. Neither driver was seriously injured, but both
cars went to the pits on the hook. Kadous grabbed the lead on the restart with
Helt second, the 15B of Quinton Benson third and Riley Kreisel’s 90 third.
Chris Parkinson passed Kreisel 2 laps later, putting the 65 into fourth as
Benson moved up to second. Lap 8 saw Kreisel take over the third position. Helt
lost second to Benson on lap 10 as Kreisel again moved to fourth. Benson
grabbed the lead onlap 12 with Parkinson second, Helt third and the 18 of Terry
Richards fourth. Richards moved up to third the next lap with Kadous regaining
fourth. Helt stopped the next time around in turn 1. Kadous moved to second on
the restart with Jason Martin’s 1B in third and Richards fourth. Martin advanced
to second the next lap and Richards moved up to third with 10 to go as
Parkinson took over the fourth spot. 3 laps later Martin snagged the lead and
Richards advanced to second. Kreisel again went to third with 5 to go as Benson
fell to fourth. The final top 4 were Martin, Richards, Kreisel and Benson.
Martin’s
victory came from the 17th spot on the starting grid. “It’s pretty cool
to start that far back and work your way up. Just being comfortable here at
Eagle Raceway is the key to getting around this place. I just kept telling myself
to slow down, slow down, slow down so I could keep going faster. Craig Bolz is
the owner of the car, he pays every bill and he has nobody else who helps him.
I just have to thank him. He gave me the opportunity to drive his car a few
times and we got 2 wins for him this year. He’d hadn’t had a win in I don’t
know how long. This has just been the happiest time of my life!” he stated.
The finale
for the 2018 season at ‘America’s Home Track’ was the A Feature for the Malvern
Bank SLMR Late Models. Corey Zeitner’s 26JR was first back to the flag stand on
lap 1 with the 1S of Jesse Sobbing second, Brad Perdue’s 25 third and the 15 of
Jason Obrien fourth. Sobbing grabbed the lead on lap 2 as John Anderson’s 21X
took over the fourth spot from Obrien. Anderson moved up to third onlap 7.
Brian Kosiski looped the #52 in turn 4 with 12 to go. Anderson advanced to
second on the restart as Tad Pospisil put the 04 into fourth. Sobbing held off
the field to the end, making the final top 4 Sobbing, Anderson, Zeitner and
Pospisil.
“This ride
came about just yesterday. They’d asked me about Knoxville next week, and I was
kind of tied up for that. So, I asked them about hitting Eagle on Sunday. They
said ‘Well, we can probably get the car there. I think they had to thrash a little
bit to get 2 cars ready to race here. It’s always really hard work getting 2
cars together to race. They really had their work cut out for them, but they
brought me a really fast car tonight. I wish Eagle Raceway was like this every
week! I knew that if I could keep my momentum up to like that it would be good.
In lapped traffic we would kind of dive through the middle, and it wasn’t too
bad there either. I was pretty comfortable up there on the cushion, because the
car was free enough to turn on the cushion, so it worked out. You never know
when you take the lead early like that where a guy is going to get you at. I
for sure need to thank Rick Hunnicut; it’s his equipment and his crew. Travis
Hatcher, my buddy came down and helped too. I want to thank Jay at Malvern Bank
and Jay Cochran at SSS Motorsports. A big thanks to my wife for lining up a
babysitter for tonight while she went to work so that I could come race” said
Sobbing.
That
concludes the racing action for 2018 at Eagle Raceway, but don’t forget that
Eagle Hollow Haunts kicks off the Halloween season on October 4th
2018. For full information, tickets and schedule, go to http://eaglehollowhaunts.com/ for
everything you need to know.
RESULTS:
GOTRA A-Feature 1. Carrol Adamy 2. Bob
Werkmeister 3. Darrin Adamy David City, Ne. 4. Dennis Proskocil 5. Darrell
Doerr 6. Pat Adamy 7. John Orlowski 8. Kevin Kay 9. Larry Aldrich 10. Larry
Theierer 11. Terry Price 12. Cheyenne Holexa 13. Ron Stohlmann 14. Jeff Triggs
15. Dennis Witthuhn DNS. Ron Falk
GOTRA Heat 1 1. Terry Price 2. Dennis
Proskocil 3. John Orlowski 4. Ron Falk 5. Larry Aldrich 6. Dennis Witthuhn
GOTRA Heat 2 1. Ron Stohlmann 2. Darrell
Doerr 3. Cheyenne Holexa 4. Larry Theierer 5. Pat Adamy
GOTRA Heat 3 1. Darrin Adamy David City,
Ne. 2. Carrol Adamy 3. Jeff Triggs 4. Kevin Kay 5. Bob Werkmeister
IMCA Sprint A-Feature 1. Joey Danley
Lincoln, Ne. 2. Stuart Snyder Lincoln, Ne. 3. Tyler Drueke Eagle, Ne. 4. Adam
Gullion Lincoln, Ne. 5. Jason Danley Lincoln, Ne. 6. Mike Boston Lincoln, Ne.
7. Toby Chapman Panama, Ne. 8. Gene Ackland Martell, Ne. 9. Nathan Weiler
Lavista, Ne. 10. Doug Lovegrove Waverly, Ne. 11. Danny Nekolite O'neill, Ne. 12.
Brandon Horton Omaha, Ne. 13. Boyd Peterson Ithaca, Ne. 14. Jimmy Grasso Omaha,
Ne. 15. Josh Riggins(r) Lincoln, Ne. 16. Jack Dover Springfield, Ne. 17. Tim
Hilfiker Greenwood, Ne. 18. Cody Ledger Omaha, Ne. 19. Jason Martin Lincoln,
Ne. 20. Neil Nickolite Bellwood, Ne.
IMCA Sprint B-Feature 1. Jason Martin
Lincoln, Ne. 2. Doug Lovegrove Waverly, Ne. 3. Jason Danley Lincoln, Ne. 4.
Jimmy Grasso Omaha, Ne. 5. Matt Richards Lincoln, Ne. 6. Terry Richards Denton,
Ne. 7. Keith Dragoo Greenwood, Ne. 8. Paul Hendrickson Lincoln, Ne. 9. Nate
Johnson Hastings, Ne. 10. Clint Benson Papillion, Ne. 11. Dwight Carter
Lincoln, Ne. 12. Chase Weiler Lincoln, Ne. 13. Jason Miller Omaha, Ne. DNS.
Shayle Bade Lincoln, Ne. DNS. Andrew Jackson Fremont, Ne.
IMCA Sprint Heat 1 1. Toby Chapman Panama,
Ne. 2. Joey Danley Lincoln, Ne. 3. Adam Gullion Lincoln, Ne. 4. Danny Nekolite
O'neill, Ne. 5. Doug Lovegrove Waverly, Ne. 6. Matt Richards Lincoln, Ne. 7.
Jason Danley Lincoln, Ne. 8. Paul Hendrickson Lincoln, Ne.
IMCA Sprint Heat 2 1. Tyler Drueke Eagle,
Ne. 2. Neil Nickolite Bellwood, Ne. 3. Tim Hilfiker Greenwood, Ne. 4. Nathan
Weiler Lavista, Ne. 5. Chase Weiler Lincoln, Ne. 6. Jason Martin Lincoln, Ne.
7. Clint Benson Papillion, Ne. 8. Keith Dragoo Greenwood, Ne.
IMCA Sprint Heat 3 1. Mike Boston Lincoln,
Ne. 2. Gene Ackland Martell, Ne. 3. Josh Riggins(r) Lincoln, Ne. 4. Jack Dover
Springfield, Ne. 5. Terry Richards Denton, Ne. 6. Jason Miller Omaha, Ne. 7.
Dwight Carter Lincoln, Ne. 8. Shayle Bade Lincoln, Ne.
IMCA Sprint Heat 4 1. Stuart Snyder
Lincoln, Ne. 2. Brandon Horton Omaha, Ne. 3. Cody Ledger Omaha, Ne. 4. Boyd
Peterson Ithaca, Ne. 5. Jimmy Grasso Omaha, Ne. 6. Nate Johnson Hastings, Ne.
DNS. Andrew Jackson Fremont, Ne.
MCSA A-Feature 1. Mike Ganskow 2. Ryan
Cech 3. Dennis Proskocil 4. Adam Armstong Beatrice, Ne. 5. Branden Proskocil 6.
Trevor Pecena 7. Bill Rombach Platte Center, Ne. 8. Joseph Baker Plattsmouth,
Ne. 9. Larry Knop 10. Eric Cerny 11. Trent Proskocil 12. Kevin Bruck Donlap,
Ia. 13. Trevor Baker Omaha, Ne. 14. Colby Cech DNS. Greg Moravec
MCSA Heat 1 1. Trevor Pecena 2. Ryan Cech
3. Branden Proskocil 4. Mike Ganskow 5. Bill Rombach Platte Center, Ne. 6.
Colby Cech 7. Kevin Bruck Donlap, Ia. DNS. Trevor Baker Omaha, Ne.
MCSA Heat 2 1. Larry Knop 2. Joseph Baker
Plattsmouth, Ne. 3. Eric Cerny 4. Adam Armstong Beatrice, Ne. 5. Dennis
Proskocil 6. Trent Proskocil 7. Greg Moravec
SLMR Late Models A-Feature 1. Jesse
Sobbing Malvern, Ia. 2. John Anderson 3. Corey Zeitner 4. Tad Pospisil 5. Jason
Obrien 6. Bill Leighton 7. Kyle Berck 8. Ben Schaller 9. Matt Buller 10. Brad
Perdue 11. Andrew Kosiski 12. Nelson Vollbrecht 13. Jim Johnson 14. Josh Krug
15. Jake Bridge 16. Mike Wallace 17. Ben Sukup 18. Vic Lovejoy 19. Paul
Glendenning 20. Zach Zeitner 21. Dan Battaglia 22. Brian Kosiski
SLMR Late Models B-Feature 1 1. Brian
Kosiski 2. Matt Buller 3. Mike Wallace 4. Bob Milander 5. Tyler Smith 6. Dan
Battaglia 7. Matt Snoberger 8. Jack Snoberger 9. Michael Rice
SLMR Late Models C-Feature 2 1. Ben Sukup
2. Ben Schaller 3. Jim Johnson 4. Vic Lovejoy 5. Steve McConnell 6. Jason
Wallace 7. Curt Drake 8. Shonn Mapes 9. Rece Vaught
SLMR Late Models Heat 1 1. John Anderson
2. Corey Zeitner 3. Kyle Berck 4. Brian Kosiski 5. Mike Wallace 6. Bob Milander
7. Jason Wallace 8. Matt Snoberger
SLMR Late Models Heat 2 1. Jesse Sobbing
Malvern, Ia. 2. Jason Obrien 3. Andrew Kosiski 4. Tad Pospisil 5. Jim Johnson
6. Dan Battaglia 7. Michael Rice 8. Rece Vaught
SLMR Late Models Heat 3 1. Nelson
Vollbrecht 2. Paul Glendenning 3. Bill Leighton 4. Josh Krug 5. Matt Buller 6.
Vic Lovejoy 7. Tyler Smith 8. Jack Snoberger SLMR Late Models Heat 4 1. Brad
Perdue 2. Jake Bridge 3. Zach Zeitner 4. Ben Sukup 5. Ben Schaller 6. Steve
McConnell 7. Curt Drake 8. Shonn Mapes
WAR Sprints A-Feature 1. Jason Martin
Lincoln, Ne. 2. Terry Richards Denton, Ne. 3. Riley Kreisel(r) Warsaw, Mo. 4.
Quinton Benson Sweet Springs, Mo. 5. Chris Parkinson 6. Ty Hullsey 7. Dylan
Kadous 8. Ryan Kitchen(r) Lincoln, Ne. 9. Trey Gropp(r) Lincoln, Ne. 10. Wesley
Smith 11. Craig Carroll Collinsville, Ok. 12. Cody Ledger Omaha, Ne. 13. Don
Droud Jr Lincoln, Ne. 14. Slater Helt Pleasant Hill, Mo. 15. Brad Wyatt
Kearney, Mo. 16. Ryan Kent 17. Michael Cromwell 18. John Klabunde Fort Calhoun,
Ne. 19. Vinny Ward Springfield, Il. 20. Tj Artz Lincoln, Ne. 21. Wyatt Burks
Topeka, Ks. DNS. Jonathan Hughes(r) Knoxville, Ia.
WAR Sprints Heat 1 1. Don Droud Jr
Lincoln, Ne. 2. Dylan Kadous 3. Tj Artz Lincoln, Ne. 4. Chris Parkinson 5.
Terry Richards Denton, Ne. 6. Wyatt Burks Topeka, Ks. 7. Ty Hullsey 8. John
Klabunde Fort Calhoun, Ne.
WAR Sprints Heat 2 1. Riley Kreisel(r)
Warsaw, Mo. 2. Slater Helt Pleasant Hill, Mo. 3. Cody Ledger Omaha, Ne. 4. Ryan
Kitchen(r) Lincoln, Ne. 5. Brad Wyatt Kearney, Mo. 6. Jason Martin Lincoln, Ne.
7. Ryan Kent
WAR Sprints Heat 3 1. Quinton Benson Sweet
Springs, Mo. 2. Trey Gropp(r) Lincoln, Ne. 3. Craig Carroll Collinsville, Ok.
4. Vinny Ward Springfield, Il. 5. Michael Cromwell 6. Jonathan Hughes(r)
Knoxville, Ia. 7. Wesley Smith
