Familiar faces in Red Cloud’s victory
lane
By Mike Hughes
RED
CLOUD, NE (July 13)—Six
familiar faces made their way to The
Speed Bowl’s victory lane Friday night,
July 13, in Red Cloud, NE.
Hometown
driver Lonnie Schriner put on a show for
the local fans in the IMCA Modified
feature, or should I say marathon.
Schriner started 18th in the
19-car field after missing his heat race
to change a motor. Josh Carpenter led
the opening lap until the red flag flew
one lap later when Jon Thompson rolled
in turn one, causing an 11-car melee.
Thompson was okay but done for the
night. Carpenter led the field back to
green as 16 cars were able to continue.
Brandon Blochlinger took over the top
spot on lap 4 and built up a good lead
at the halfway mark of the 20-lap race,
with Carpenter, Tim Watts, Schriner and
Micaah Johnson rounding out the top
five. But a caution on lap 13 bunched
the field, and on lap 15, Schriner took
the lead and went on to record his fifth
win of the season at Red Cloud.
Blochlinger held on for second, followed
by Watts, Johnson and Carpenter. Heat
race winners were Carpenter, Troy
Johnson, and Watts.
In the IMCA
Stock Car feature, Cory Struckhoff of
Kensington, KS, led all 16 laps for his
second win of the year. Matt Streit was
glued to Struckhoff’s back bumper the
entire distance, and Streit tried to
make a pass several times but could not
make it stick and had to settle for
second. Josh Hudson finished third,
followed by Brett Behrends and Nathan
Glendening. Jason McCartney and Jared
Remus were victorious in the heat races.
Mike Shriver
looked to be on his way to victory in
the IMCA Hobby Stock feature, but after
leading the first 11 laps, Shriver
developed a left rear flat tire and
stopped on the track to bring out a
caution. That handed the lead over to
hometown driver ‘Smokin’ Joe McDole who
was able to hold off Kyle Bond the final
3 laps for his second Red Cloud win this
season. Heat one winner Jeromy Wagner
finished third, followed by Rocky
Zimmerman and Jim Buss. Shriver won the
other heat race.
Adam Sidlo &
E.J. Kothe of Hastings got under
race-long leaders Drew Barry & Ethan
Vogler on the final lap to win their
sixth Cruiser feature of the season at
‘The Bowl’. Heat race winners Josh &
Chris Graczyk finished third.
After
winning his heat race, Andy Sole of
Nelson drove away for his 5th
win of the season in the 4-cylinder
Young Gun division.
The regular
five divisions return this Friday night,
July 20. Racing begins at 8:00 p.m.
RACE
RESULTS
IMCA
Hobby Stock
Heat
1:
1.
Jeromy Wagner, 2. Rocky
Zimmerman, 3. Joe McDole, 4. Jebb
Linner.
Heat
2:
1. Mike
Shriver, 2. Delbert Selvage, 3.
Jerry Hudson, 4. Kyle Bond.
Feature:
1. McDole, 2. Bond, 3. Wagner, 4.
Zimmerman, 5. Jim Buss, 6. Selvage,
7. Shriver, 8. Linner, 9. Kaid
Calhoon, 10. Hudson (DNF), 11. Jared
Lewis (DNS).
IMCA
Stock Car
Heat
1:
1. Jason McCartney, 2. Nathan
Glendening, 3. Josh Hudson, 4. Matt
Streit.
Heat
2:
1. Jared Remus, 2. Cory Struckhoff,
3. Wayne Walker, 4. Brett Behrends.
Feature:
1. Struckhoff, 2. Streit, 3. Hudson,
4. Behrends, 5. Glendening, 6.
Walker, 7. Remus, 8. Troy Attwood,
9. McCartney, 10. Jason Smidt (DNF),
11. Brant Beam (DNS).
IMCA
Modified
Heat
1:
1. Josh
Carpenter, 2. Jon Thompson, 3. Larry
Sutton, 4. Ed Putman.
Heat
2:
1. Troy Johnson, 2. Brandon
Blochlinger, 3. Micaah Johnson, 4.
Lance Borgman.
Heat
3:
1. Tim Watts, 2. Scott Smith, 3.
Devon Housh, 4. Brian Calhoon.
Feature:
1. Lonnie Schriner, 2. Blochlinger,
3. Watts, 4. M. Johnson, 5.
Carpenter, 6. T. Johnson, 7. Smith,
8. Sutton, 9. Borgman, 10. Jeff
Linner, 11. Devon Housh, 12. Caesare
Linner, 13. Randy Fogo (DNF), 14.
Everett Honts (DNF), 15. Dwight
Housh (DNF), 16. Calhoon (DNF), 17.
Putman (DNF), 18. Lonnie Veteto (DNF),
19. Thompson (DNF).
4-cylinder Young Gun
Heat:
1. Andy Sole, 2. Troy Porter.
Feature:
1. Sole, 2. Porter (DNF).
Cruiser
Heat:
1. Josh
Graczyk/Chris Grazcyk, 2. Adam Sidlo/E.J.
Kothe, 3. Drew Barry/Ethan Vogler.
Feature:
1. Sidlo/Kothe, 2. Barry/Vogler, 3.
Graczyk/Graczyk.
