4/9/11
I-80 Speedway
Greenwood, NE
ASCS-Midwest
39 cars
Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Ryan Anderson 71R (2*) 2. Don Droud Jr. 2 (6*) 3. Gregg Bakker 11x (4*) 4. Mark Pace 31 (3) 5. Ryan Roberts 18R (8*) 6. Ryan Kitchen 21x (1) 7. Jody Rosenboom 14 (7) 8. Tige Jensen 71 (9) 9. John Klabunde 77 (5) DNS – Toby Chapman 32
Chapman spun twice while getting lined up and was sent pitside. Ry. Anderson shot out to the lead and left the rest of the field behind. A scary crash occurred when Jensen broke his front end on the backstretch and drifted down the track. Klabunde couldn’t avoid him and veered into a concrete barrier in the pits where his car flew airborne inside the pits. No one was injured.
Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Brian Brown 21 (2*) 2. Jack Dover 53 (1*) 3. Russ Hall 45c (3) 4. Chad Meyer 1w (6*) 5. Logan Forler 2L (4) 6. Tony Bruce Jr. 18 (8) 7. Jason Danley 82 (7) 8. Justyn Cox 21c (5) 9. Brant O’Banion 47 (10) 10. Jeremiah Jordahl 3J (9)
Cox spun before a lap could be completed. Brown led the 10-lap distance. The best racing was for fourth between Meyer and Forler. They exchanged a few slidejobs in a good battle.
Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (9*) 2. Lee Grosz 4J (4*) 3. Mitch Runge 28 (6*) 4. Tyler Drueke 12 (5) 5. Gage Dorr 17 (2) 6. Danielle Ossenfort 10D (7) 7. Jordan Boston 4 (1) 8. CJ Johnson 45x (10) 9. Jake Ossenfort 99J (3) 10. Robby Wolfgang 7K (8)
Boston led early. J. Ossenfort spun with one lap in the books. Boston led Dorr, Grosz, a surging Hafertepe and Runge back to green. Two more laps were recorded when Drueke spun. Grosz and Hafertepe had moved into second and third, while CJ Johnson had moved from 10th up to fourth. CJ’s run would end soon thereafter when he pulled it in. After taking the white flag, disaster struck for Boston when something broke in turn one and sent his car straight into the wall and a nasty crash. He was uninjured. Haftertepe assumed the lead and went on to win.
Heat four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Wayne Johnson 38 (3*) 2. Terry McCarl 24A (5*) 3. Seth Bergman 23 (7*) 4. Billy Alley 22 (9*) 5. Mike Hess 51 (4) 6. Doug Lovegrove 44 (2) 7. Jeff Osborn 0 (8) 8. Bryan Gossel 6G (1) 9. Ryan Bickett 17B (6)
In arguably the strongest heat of the night, four of the eight feature redraw qualifiers came from this one. W. Johnson assumed the pole after Gossel spun before a lap could be completed. He took advantage by dominating out front. McCarl followed him, while Bergman and Alley followed him from rows three and four respectively.
B main one (started): 1. Hall (1) 2. Pace (2) 3. Forler (3) 4. J. Ossenfort (10) 5. Cox (7) / 6. Rosenboom (6) 7. Lovegrove (5) 8. Osborn (8) 9. D. Ossenfort (4) 10. Chapman (9) DNS – Jensen, Boston, Klabunde
Hall led throughout despite a pair of spins by Chapman on laps one and five. Cox did well to move up to a transfer, and J. Ossenfort made a late charge on the high side to get by Lovegrove, Rosenboom and Cox for fourth.
B main two (started): 1. Bruce Jr. (2) 2. Hess (3) 3. O’Banion (8) 4. Kitchen (6) 5. Danley (5) / 6. Bickett (10) 7. Gossel (7) 8. Wolfgang (11) 9. Drueke (1) 10. Jordahl (9) 11. Dorr (4) DNS – CJ Johnson
Bruce Jr. and Hess were the class of this field in the 10-lapper. Some of the best racing occurred in a battle for third, fourth and fifth. O’Banion was one of the few cars to use the high side on both ends of the dry-slick surface and shot his way into third. Kitchen and Danley joined a duel that saw three-wide racing for several laps.
A main (started): 1. Brown (4) 2. W. Johnson (7) 3. Dover (11) 4. Droud Jr. (1) 5. Bergman (2) 6. Ry. Anderson (8) 7. McCarl (5) 8. Alley (3) 9. Bakker (12) 10. Bruce Jr. (16) 11. Hafertepe Jr. (6) 12. Cox (23) 13. Hess (18) 14. Roberts (14) 15. Forler (19) 16. Grosz (9) 17. Pace (17) 18. Meyer (13) 19. Danley (24) 20. J. Ossenfort (21) 21. O’Banion (20) 22. Kitchen (22) 23. Runge (10) 24. Hall (15)
Droud jumped out to an early lead in the 25-lapper. With three laps in the books, Hall was contacted by Pace and the front-end collapsed. That left Runge with nowhere to go on the backstretch. Hall and Runge were done. Droud led Brown, Bergman, Alley and Hafertepe back to green. Brown closed in on Droud and the two went at it for about five laps, before Brown took the lead on lap eleven. W. Johnson battled with McCarl, and Bergman to move into fourth. Alley pressured Droud for second and took the spot on lap 18, but the pass was negated when a caution flew for a spun Grosz. Brown led Droud, Alley, W. Johnson and Bergman back to green. W. Johnson moved by Alley and then Droud to grab second after the restart. Dover was also on the move into fourth. A lap 23 restart set up a two lap dash to the finish, but Brown prevailed with a strong run to capture his 8th career I-80 feature win in 17 tries. Cox was the hard-charger, moving up eleven spots.