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Icebreaker Challenge 2008 Day 2 EAGLE, NE (April 6) - Although the weather was cold with a strong West/Northwest wind, nothing could dampen the excitement of the second day of the 2008 Icebreaker Challenge at Eagle Raceway; America’s Home Track. And even though the track dried quickly, the racing was fantastic all through the afternoon and evening. And the crowd stayed warm by rooting on their favorite drivers, and the racing kept their blood flowing freely. In the IMCA Hobby Stock A Main, RJ Macku’s 1R took the lead from the pole position with Lee Kracht’s 10K in second, the 32 of Trevor Kropp in third and the 99 of Jesse Sobbing in fourth. On the third lap, Chris Mills spun his #00c into the infield, giving fourth spot to Justin Wulf in the #86. On lap #6 Kyle Bond drove his #0 around Wulf for the fourth position. Three laps later, Kropp made contact with the 28B of Rick Bradley and retired from the race. That put Wulf back into fourth, behind Macku, Kracht and Bond. Despite many attempted passes, the top four positions remained the same until the checkers flew. RJ Macku would like to thank his sponsor’s The Shop Inc, Chad Fegley, Pat Heng, Capital Towing, Pillsworth Remodeling and especially his father Randy Macku. Jordan Grabouski’s #30 took the early lead in the IMCA Modified A, followed by the 00C of Chris Mills and the 3 of Chris Alcorn. Mills spun on lap 7, and was put to the rear of the field. At that time, the running order was Grabouski, Alcorn, the V45 of Rik Gropp and the #13 of Doug Deterding. Late in the race, Grabouski spun, and Alcorn dropped from the race shortly after. That gave the lead to Gropp, with Deterding in second and the 95 of Dylan Smith in third. Making a charge to the front after being sent to the rear, Chris Mills came home in third spot behind Deterding and Gropp. “We may not have been the best car out there, but we were as quick as any” Gropp said. Gropp has been driving a modified since 1988, but hasn’t brought home a win since the 2005 season at Eagle Raceway. “I owe this win to my car owner, Kevin Klein; Kevin also sponsors the car through Vermeer High Plains. And just as much credit goes to my crew. Jeff Williams, Todd Sanford, Travis Fox and ‘DeVito’ do a great job for me every week” he stated. The Deery Brothers Summer Series IMCA Late Model feature was next on the track. Mike Collins took the point at the drop of the green, with Todd Cooney’s #30 in second spot and the #21 of Corey Goldbeck in third. Collins managed to hold off the competition in his #3, despite several charges by Cooney and heavy lapped traffic all of the way around the speedway. Collins, who calls Council Bluffs Iowa his home, said “I’ve only raced in 2 Deery Brothers races, and got my first win. I was really afraid of bad luck, after winning the race at I-80 Speedway last night. But, I just held the bottom of the track and kept a cool head.” “I don’t have the motor that a lot of the drivers have. I’m using a $6500 motor that I just threw together to go racing. But, I must be doing pretty good, because everyone asks how I’m cheating. With the track like it was tonight, any more horsepower would have hurt me a lot” he continued. “Actually, a lot of the credit goes to Gary Winger. He does all of the setups on the car, and I think I called him 4 or 5 times tonight from the track. I told him what the car was doing, and he told me what to change. In fact, he built both of my Rocket chassis himself” Collins stated. Collins’ sponsors include Charlie’s Speed & Machine, GW Performance, NC3 Properties and 5150 Race Car Trailers. The evening’s final event was the Budweiser 360 Championship Sprint A Feature. On the initial start, Larry Pinegar III rolled the #44 in turn #4. On the restart Terry McCarl took off from the pole position in the Mark Burch 1M, with Gene Acklund’s 14 in second spot, the 76 of Jay Russell and Billy Alley’s #22 in third and fourth. It took Alley only 3 laps to move into third around Russell and five laps later he overtook Acklund for the runner-up position. 2 laps later, Brian Brown drove his #21 sprinter around Acklund to take third. McCarl was challenged several times by Alley, but came home the victor; followed by Alley and Brown. “I got lucky, drawing the #1 pill. But, that’s happened before; drawing #1 and doing something to mess up and falling back. I kind of read Austin the riot act for his mistake in the B Feature, and just hoped I didn’t do the same” McCarl stated. “Tonight I managed to do the right thing and take home the victory” he continued. “Mark Burch gave me such great equipment, just like he always does. His stuff is the top of the line, every time. So, I took his advice. I stayed on the bottom and held on” Terry said. “To be honest, I told Mark I wasn’t going to race today when he called me this morning at 10:30 this morning. I’d driven until 2:30 in the morning, getting home from the World of Outlaws show in Pevely Missouri and was still asleep when the phone rang. But, after I talked for awhile, I finally woke up enough to say yes”. “Eagle Raceway’s a great track, and I love racing here; especially for Mark” he finished. Eagle Raceway’s regular season opens in two weeks on April 19th. Featured in the weekly show are the Championship 360 Sprints, the IMCA Modifieds, the IMCA Hobby Stocks and the IMCA Sport Compacts. Gates open at 5 P.M., with hot laps at 6:15 and racing at 7 o’clock. We look forward to seeing each and every one of you at Eagle Raceway, America’s Home Track. Eagle Raceway Race Results for 4-6-08 IMCA Deery Brother’s Late Models A Feature: 1) 3 Mike Collins 2) 30 Todd Cooney 3) 45 Mike Klinkkammer Jr 4) 14 Boone McLaughlin 5) 99d Darrel DeFrance 6) c21 Corey Goldbeck 7) 22 Charlie McKenna 8) 26jr Corey Zeitner 9) 77k Stephan Kammerer 10) 7 Andy Nezworski 11) g1 Mike Garland 12) 00 JD Auriner 13) 0f Jason Farnkel 14) 42 Tom Darbyshire 15) 15 Matt Strassheim 16) 8 Al Johnson 17) 12j TJ Criss 18) 75 Clint Wender 19) 23r Craig Roberts 20) 99 Luke Petska 21) 76 Jason Hahne 22) 12n Terry Neal 23) 21 Ben Nading 24) 93 Jay Johnson 360 Sprints A Feature: 1) 1m Terry McCarl 2) 22 Billy Alley 3) 21 Brian Brown 4) 14g Gene Ackland 5) 51 Mike Boston 6) 1 Eric Lutz 7) 76 Jay Russell 8) 1x Don Droud Jr 9) 85 Stu Snyder 10) 4j Lee Gross 11) 53 Jack Dover 12) 23w Scott Winters 13) 31 Mark Pace 14) 18 Ryan Roberts 15) 23 Terry Holliman 16) 17 Gage Dorr 17) 4 Mike Chadd 18) 57x Jake Peters 19) 44 Larry Pinegar 20) 94s Natalie Sather IMCA Modifieds A Feature: 1) v45 Rik Gropp 2) 13 Doug Deterding 3) 00c Chris Mills 4) 95 Dylan Smith 5) 31 Eric Rempel 6) 24 Dan Bohlmeyer 7) 8c Chad Andersen 8) 4 Chevy Hadan 9) 22s Shane Stuzman 10) 3w Stacey Wilhelm 11) 07 Brandon Jessen 12) 55d Nick Deal 13) 95r Lucas Robinson 14) 22j Justin Jurgens 15) 30 Jordan Grabouski 16) 3 Chris Alcorn 17) s56 Scott Bivens 18) 00 Tim Pickens 19) m16 Jim Matheson 20) 24t Terry Hurt (DNS A) IMCA Hobby Stocks A Feature: 1) 1r RJ Macku 2) 10k Lee Kracht 3) 0 Kyle Bond 4) 86 Justin Wulf 5) 52 Kevin VanLaningham 6) 14 Ron Novak 7) 22 Nick Beckman 8) 92 Don Hall Jr 9) 42 Rob Brown 10) 99t Jason Tadlock 11) 95 Josh Hughes 12) 9er Charles Bartels 13) 99 Jesse Sobbing 14) 93 Thom Marsh 15) 32 Trevor Kropp 16) 28b Rick Bradley 17) 6a Adam Armstrong 18) 94 Mike Hansen 19) 17j Danny Lane 20) 20t Steve Shepard (DNS A) |