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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2008 Points Champions
UMP Late Model - Brian Bielong
UMP Modified - Chris Smith
UMP Sportsman - Justin Durbin
Street Stock - Jason Zobrist
UMP Hornets - Matt Hamblin
| April 23, 2005 Results |
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Story by Jack Pugh Highland Speedway was the only racetrack to get their program in on Saturday as mother nature did not cooperate. She brought cold temperature and windy conditions along with moisture over the past two days. There were plenty of cars and a hardy crowd. In the UMP Late Model division, there were 30 on hand for the program. Mark Faust set fast time for the evening. In the first heat race, Mark Voigt took the win over Mark Faust, Brian Collins, Rick Standridge, Bingham, Dan Dondero, Mike Hammerle and John Landford. In the second heat, Michael Kloos took the checkered flag followed by Randy Korte, Frankie Martin, Rusty Schlenk, Dan Jacober, Bruce Unterbrink, Brent Helmkamp, and Bob Geaschel. In the third heat, Chad Zobrist won with Ed Dixon, Matt Taylor, Steve Unterbrink, Scott Ford, Tony Boyle and Vince Grondzki trailing. The fourth heat saw Rick Slater take the checkered flag ahead of Jimmy Burwell, Jim Morrison, Steve Sheppard, Troy Ernst, John Paule and Barry Quade. The dash went to Kloos over Zobrist, Korte, Faust, Burwell, Dixon, Voigt and Salter. The semi sent Ford, Jacober, Dondero and Bingham to the feature. The 25-lap feature saw the front row of Zobrist and Kloos start the race. On the dropping of the green flag, Zobrist took command of the race with Kloos and Korte putting on the pressure. The lead runners were using the top side of the track to do their racing. The first caution came out as Ford spun out in turn one. The running order was Zobrist, Kloos Korte, Faust and Voigt at this point in the race. On the dropping of the green flag, Zobrist continue the command. Kloos and Korte continued to put the pressure on but could not get around Zobrist. The next caution came on lap 7 as Burwell and Dixon spun on the back straight. The caution was blamed on Salter, who was on the outside of these two cars. Burwell and Dixon got their spots back in the top five and Salter was sent to the rear. The green flag came out again with Zobrist continuing to show the way. Korte took over second during this run of green flag racing. As the field began to lap the slower cars, the whole complexion of the race was about to change. On the running of the 15th lap, trouble happened on the back straight. As Zobrist went under the lapped car of Dondero, Korte was trying the outside. Zobrist was about to clear Dondero when the pair touched sending both cars towards the outside wall. This move collected Korte and the three wound up in the outside wall. While that was going on, Faust and Voigt would get collected in the accident. Zobrist, Korte and Voigt wound up leave the track and were done for the night. Dondero returned to the race as did Faust, with a lot of the right rear sheet medal missing. The running order now was Kloos, Faust, Martin, Dixon and Burwell in the top five. When the race continued, Kloos took command and never was strongly pressured. Faust would have problems keeping is car in the top five and faded to finish 10th after the accident. Schlenk was the car on the move as he entered the top over the caution free final 11 laps. Kloos went on to win his first ever UMP Late Model feature and first at Highland. He also brought the broom with him and had a sweep for the night as well. Following Kloos were Martin Dixon, Schlenk, and Burwell to complete the top five. In the UMP Modified class, there were also 30 cars on hand. Bobby Bittle set fast time for the night. In the first heat, Scott Weber took the win followed by Bobby Bittle, Brent Mullins, Roger Fohne, Kent Schoeck, Chad Zobrist, Chad Reum and Joe Pendergrass. In the second heat, Ryan Driemeyer won with Bobby Martintoni, Chad Sellers, Jim Werner, Mike Schulte, Leroy Hayne, Matt Acord, and Eric Goetter trailing. In the third heat, David Cann got the win over Steve Ellison, Scott Sugg, Steve Myer, Leon Raker, Tommie Seets and Rob Pendergrass. The fourth heat went to Paul Bailey followed by Mike Harrison, Brian Bielong, Dave McDougal, Marty Smith Jr., Matt Verbeck and Dave Thorton. The dash saw the win go to Weber followed by Driemeyer, Cann, Bittle, Bailey, Martintoni, Ellison and Harrison. The semi sent Schoeck and Smith Jr. to the feature. The 20-lap feature started with Driemeyer and Weber on the front row. On the dropping of the green flag, it was Weber to the lead with Driemeyer in pursuit. These two cars broke away from the rest of the pack and had their own race while the rest of the field battled for positions. As the laps clicked off, the front runners were having a very good battle with Weber staying in command. The other pack of cars were having their own battle for position with eighth starting Harrison moving into the top five while Cann and Bittle were doing battle for second. This race went green for the full 20 laps with no cars dropping out. The final two laps of this race were the best for the fans. Weber and Driemeyer did some extra driving for the crowd as the exchange for the lead during the last two laps was intense. Weber had the lead then Driemeyer would take the lead in turns one and two. Then Weber would retake the lead in three and four. On the last lap, Driemeyer made the final move in turns one and two and took the lead for good and went on to win his first victory of the 2005 season. Weber took second with Cann holding off Harrison for third and Bittle rounding out the top five. UMP Late Model - 30 cars Fastest Qualifier - 51 Mark Faust 14.943 Heat 1 1. 30V Mark Voigt 2. 51 Mark Faust 3. 112 Bryan Collins 4. 12 Rick Standridge Heat 2 1. 6K Michael Kloos 2. 00 Randy Korte 3. 25 Frankie Martin 4. 91 Rusty Schlenk Heat 3 1. 78 Chad Zobrist 2. 50 Ed Dixon 3. 3L Matt Taylor 4. 4S Steve Unterbrink Heat 4 1. 1S Rick Salter 2. 10 Jimmy Burwell 3. 85 Jim Morrison 4. 5S Steve Sheppard Dash 1. 6K Michael Kloos 2. 78 Chad Zobrist 3. 00 Randy Korte 4. 51 Mark Faust Consi 1. 16 Scott Ford 2. 22 Dan Jacober 3. B1 Randy Bingham 4. 2 Dan Dondero 5. 32 Vince Grondzki 6. 16H Mike Hammerle 7. 42 John Lansford 8. 14U Bruce Unterbrink 9. 22D John Paule 10. 19 Barry Quade 11. 31 Brent Helmkamp 12. 27E Tory Ernst 13. 84 Tony Boyles DNS 14. 8C Bob Geaschel DNS FEATURE 1. 6K Michael Kloos 2. 25 Frankie Martin 3. 50 Ed Dixon 4. 91 Rusty Schlenk 5. 10 Jimmy Burwell 6. 85 Jim Morrison 7. 3L Matt Taylor 8. 12 Rick Standridge 9. 1S Rick Salter 10. 51 Mark Faust 11. 5S Steve Sheppard 12. 112 Bryan Collins 13. 22 Dan Jacober 14. 16 Scott Ford 15. 4S Steven Unterbrink 16. B1 Randy Bingham 17. 2 Dan Dondero 18. 78 Chad Zobrist 19. 30V Mark Voigt 20. 00 Randy Korte UMP Modified - 30 cars Fastest Qualifier - 89 Bobby Bittle 15.873 Heat 1 1. 4J Scott Weber 2. 89 Bobby Bittle 3. 41M Brent Mullins 4. 29 Roger Fohne Heat 2 1. 66M Ryan Driemeyer 2. 48 Bobby Martintoni 3. E55 Chad Sellers 4. 44 Jim Werner, Jr Heat 3 1. 224 David Cann 2. 00 Steve Ellison 3. 69 Scott Sugg 4. 21M Steve Myers Heat 4 1. 81 Paul Bailey 2. 24 Mike Harrison 3. 70 Brian Bielong 4. 97 Dave McDougal Dash 1. 4J Scott Weber 2. 66M Ryan Driemeyer 3. 224 David Cann 4. 89 Bobby Bittle Consi 1. 31 Kent Schoeck 2. 55 Marty Smith, Jr 3. 8 Chad Zobrist 4. 16 Tommy Seets, Jr 5. 9 Chad Reum 6. 40E Mike Schulte 7. 56 Dave Thornton 8. 27 Joe Pendergrass 9. 17M Matt Verbeck 10. 14 Leroy Haney 11. 76 Eric Goetter 12. 3R Leon Rakers DNS 13. 20 Matt Acord DNS 14. 10 Rod Pendergrass DNS FEATURE 1. 66M Ryan Driemeyer 2. 4J Scott Weber 3. 224 David Cann 4. 24 Mike Harrison 5. 89 Bobby Bittle 6. 70 Brian Bielong 7. 41M Brent Mullins 8. 81 Paul Bailey 9. 69 Scott Sugg 10. 44 Jim Werner, Jr 11. 00 Steve Ellison 12. 48 Bobby Martintoni 13. 55 Marty Smith, Jr 14. E55 Chad Sellers 15. 31 Kent Schoeck 16. 21M Steve Myers 17. 29 Roger Fohne 18. 97 Dave McDougal Sportsman - 17 cars Heat 1 1. 6 Joe Volluz 2. 15 Jason Bohnenstiehl 3. 75 Aaron Marquardt 4. 31 Brian Shubirg Heat 2 1. 55 Chris Smith 2. 88 Billy Knebel, Jr 3. 2 Matt Koch 4. 23B Mark Bohnenstiehl Dash 1. 15 Jason Bohnenstiehl 2. 88 Billy Knebel, Jr 3. 66 Joe Volluz 4. 55 Chris Smith FEATURE 1. 88 Billy Knebel, Jr 2. 15 Jason Bohnenstiehl 3. 66 Joe Volluz 4. 23B Mark Bohnenstiehl 5. 55 Chris Smith 6. 2 Matt Koch 7. 75 Aaron Marquardt 8. 31 Brian Shubirg 9. 29 Dan Dondero 10. 19 Jimmy Cummins 11. X Dennis Wernle 12. 316 Bill Russell 13. 441 Aaron Melton 14. 88S Scott Drew 15. 9E Joe Emig DNS 16. 8R Marty Kopp DNS Bomber - 17 cars Heat 1 1. 20C John Cory 2. 6 Luke Hewitt 3. 19 Nathan Schmitt 4. 0 Tim Haeffner Heat 2 1. 29 Khris Fohne 2. 5 Jeremy Pate 3. 00 Justin Ketrow 4. 18 Matt Workman FEATURE 1. 29 Khris Fohne 2. 20C John Cory 3. 00 Justin Ketrow 4. 5 Jeremy Pate 5. 19 Nathan Schmitt 6. 6 Luke Hewitt 7. 379 Steve Steele 8. 18 Matt Workman 9. 12 Tony Miller 10. B27 Casey Crane 11. 2 Dustin Sellers 12. 11 Adam Pate 13. 27H Adam Haas 14. 441S Shannon Hilmes 15. 1 Tim Driscoll 16. 20V Kelly Vogel 17. 4 Larry Smith, Jr 18. 0 Tim Haeffner Hornets - 25 cars Heat 1 1. 3E Robbie Eilers 2. 77 Chad Burgess 3. 222 Nathan Rakers 4. 18 Rob Shaw Heat 2 1. 12 Dustin Korte 2. 7D Bob Zbinden 3. 21 Chris Rakers 4. 11 Joe Swip Heat 3 1. 17 Keith Nordhaus 2. 3 Ryan Eilers 3. 8E Russell Eilers 4. 54 Jayson Schulte FEATURE 1. 3E Robbie Eilers 2. 18 Rob Shaw 3. 70 Bob Zbinden 4. 3 Ryan Eilers 5. 8E Russell Eilers 6. 18J Justin Shaw 7. 17 Keith Nordhaus 8. 11 Joe Swip 9. 222 Nathan Rakers 10. 54 Jayson Schulte 11. 97 Bobby Funderburk 12. L-11 Gary Jenkins 13. 18W Chris Williams 14. 11G Eric Gilomen 15. 16 Keith Rose 16. 13D Mitch Dennison 17. 5A Nic Antonovich 18. 72 Allen Missey 19. 77 Chad Burgess 20. 5 Chris Korte 21. 14 Blake Sabo 22. 12 Dustin Korte 23. 20 Tracy VonRohr 24. 21 Chris Rakers 25. 3L David Lisak DNS |