Huls, Foster share Lee County Speedway Spotlight During Casey’s General Stores
Night at the Races
by Jake Croxton
Donnellson, IA (May 9) - Three first-time winners and two repeat winners shared victory lane during Casey’s General
Stores Fan Appreciation Night at the Lee County Speedway.
Abe Huls, John Oliver Jr., and Jeff Mueller waged a three-car war during the Budweiser IMCA Stock Car feature. Huls and
Mueller spent the majority of the event side-by-side with Oliver Jr. in tow. Mueller went under the five-to-go signal first but
got into turn one too deep and nearly looped his Chevrolet. Huls finished what he started and drove his Country View
Kennels / Monte Carlo into the winner’s circle for the first time at Lee County Speedway. Oliver Jr., Kirk Kinsley, Chris
Wibbell, and Jason Cook rounded out the top five, while Mueller rejoined the race and finished eighth. Nick Fenton and
Huls won in heat race action.
Josh Foster drove to the front of an action-packed Miller Lite IMCA Modified 20-lapper. Mike Weikert Jr., Foster, and Rich
Smith enjoyed the three-wide view from the front of the field early in the event before caution flew for Brandon Rothzen
and Darin Thye’s grinding crash in turn one. Both cars were destroyed. Foster led the remainder of the event to notch his
first win of the season in his Five Star Drywall / Chevy. Smith, Bill Roberts, tenth-starting Bill Parks, and Weikert Jr.
finished in the top five. Brandon Savage and Smith won the heat races.
Joe Hooper and Jim Gillenwater dueled throughout the Lawson Racing Engines and Parts Supply SportMod 15-lapper.
Gillenwater stole the show on a lap 11 restart and drove his Discount Tire & Service / Chevy into victory lane. Hooper had
to settle for second, while Rob Kirchner charged from thirteenth to third. Phillip Cossel and Levi Smith ended the event in
the top five. Hooper and Jim Kuhlmeier picked up heat race wins.
Dean Kratzer scored his second straight Donnellson Tire Hobby Stock feature win in a race marred by a scary accident
involving Rodger Dresden on the back straightaway. Dresden’s car was turned head-on into the concrete after contact
from another car. Dresden was talking to emergency personnel while being extricated from his mangled racer. When
racing resumed, Kratzer withstood a challenge from former track champion Jeff Soper. Jim Lynch, Decorah’s Steve
Christopher, and Jacob Smith followed Kratzer across the line.
Rob Hammel stunk up the Shottenkirk Parts Express Wild Thing 12-lapper as he found the front and walked away from the
field. Hammel is perfect thus far in 2008. Chris Loring Jr. crossed the line in second, while Dustan Fenton, Chuck
Fullenkamp, and Travis DeMint completed the top five.
Next week, the Ideal Ready Mix IMCA Late Models hit the track with all five weekly classes. Race time is 7:30. One lucky
fan aged 5-17 will walk out of the grandstand with a Nintendo Wii gaming system. General admission is $10 for Adults,
which includes a free drink courtesy of Pepsi, Budweiser, and Miller Lite.
RESULTS
Budweiser IMCA Stock Cars
Heat 1: 1. Nick Fenton; 2. Jason Cook; 3. Dave Hemsted; 4. Chris Wibbell; 5. Travis Finke; 6. Doug Huls; 7. Patrick
Mincer; 8. Corey Strothman; 9. Ray Raker DQ
Heat 2: 1. Abe Huls; 2. Jeff Mueller; 3. John Oliver Jr.; 4. Kirk Kinsley; 5. Cale Samberg; 6. Rod Staats; 7. Dennis
Harwood; 8. Jake Wenig DNS; 9. Rickey Hutcherson DNS
Casey’s General Store 20: 1. A. Huls; 2. Oliver Jr.; 3. Kinsley; 4. Wibbell; 5. Cook; 6. Hemsted; 7. D. Huls; 8. Mueller;
9. Staats; 10. Fenton; 11. Samberg; 12. Finke; 13. Raker; 14. Mincer; 15. Harwood; 16. Strothman; 17. Wenig DNS;
18. Hutcherson DNS
Miller Lite IMCA Modifieds
Heat 1: 1. Brandon Savage; 2. Mike Weikert Jr.; 3. Terry Houston; 4. Bill Roberts; 5. Jim Roach; 6. Brad Carson; 7. Darin
Thye; 8. Chris Larson
Heat 2: 1. Rich Smith; 2. Josh Foster; 3. Tyler Cale; 4. Bill Parks; 5. Dean McGee; 6. Brandon Rothzen; 7. Andy Krieger;
8. Adam Carson
Casey’s General Store 20: 1. Foster; 2. Smith; 3. Roberts; 4. Parks; 5. Weikert Jr.; 6. Roach; 7. Cale; 8. Houston;
9. Krieger; 10. McGee; 11. A. Carson; 12. B. Carson; 13. Larson; 14. Rothzen; 15. Thye; 16. Savage DNS
Lawson Racing Engines & Parts Supply SportMods
Heat 1: 1. Joe Hooper; 2. Jim Gillenwater; 3. Levi Smith; 4. Beau Taylor; 5. Bill Seyb; 6. Bob Jennings; 7. Rob Kirchner
Heat 2: 1. Jim Kuhlmeier; 2. Mark Winkel; 3. Phillip Cossel; 4. Thad Gaylord; 5. Travis Jordan; 6. Chad Sovern; 7. Jerad
Fuller DNS
Casey’s General Store 15: 1. Gillenwater; 2. Hooper; 3. Kirchner; 4. Cossel; 5. Smith; 6. Fuller; 7. Jennings; 8. Gaylord;
9. Sovern; 10. Kuhlmeier; 11. Winkel; 12. Seyb; 13. Taylor; 14. Jordan
Donnellson Tire Hobby Stocks
Heat 1: 1. Rodger Dresden; 2. Dan Wenig; 3. Jeff Soper; 4. Jon Rooney; 5. Jim Lynch; 6. Steve Christopher; 7. Derek St.
Clair; 8. Chris Hibbard; 9. Jacob Smith; 10. Robert Kephart
Heat 2: 1. Dean Kratzer; 2. Jim Oliver Jr.; 3. Brian Holmes; 4. Rob Wilsey; 5. Bruce Summers; 6. Matt England; 7. Jim
Oliver Sr.; 8. Austin Schulte; 9. Jason Billings DNS; 10. Jermy Billings DNS
Casey’s General Store 15: 1. Kratzer; 2. Soper; 3. Lynch; 4. Christopher; 5. Smith; 6. Kephart; 7. England; 8. Schulte;
9. Wilsey; 10. Oliver Jr.; 11. Dresden; 12. Summers; 13. Holmes; 14. Hibbard; 15. Je. Billings; 16. St. Clair; 17. Wenig;
18. Rooney; 19. Oliver Sr.; 20. Ja. Billings DNS
Shottenkirk Parts Express Wild Things
Heat 1: 1. Chuck Fullenkamp; 2. Chuck Loring Jr.; 3. Chase Klenk; 4. Dustan Fenton; 5. Richard Vandermaiden; 6. Donny
Oliver; 7. John Lynn; 8. Mike Horning Jr.; 9. Brent Hartley
Heat 2: 1. Rob Hammel; 2. Bryan Rodefer; 3.Travis DeMint; 4. Kimberly Abbott; 5. Amy Mason; 6. Jayson Barnes;
7. Jordan Delonjay; 8. Jim Oliver III
Casey’s General Store 12: 1. Hammel; 2. Loring Jr.; 3. Fenton; 4. Fullenkamp; 5. DeMint; 6. Rodefer; 7. Hartley;
8. Klenk; 9. Abbott; 10. D. Oliver; 11. Lynn; 12. Vandermaiden; 13. Mason; 14. Horning Jr.; 15. Barnes; 16. Delonjay DNS;
17. Oliver III DNS
Night at the Races
by Jake Croxton
Donnellson, IA (May 9) - Three first-time winners and two repeat winners shared victory lane during Casey’s General
Stores Fan Appreciation Night at the Lee County Speedway.
Abe Huls, John Oliver Jr., and Jeff Mueller waged a three-car war during the Budweiser IMCA Stock Car feature. Huls and
Mueller spent the majority of the event side-by-side with Oliver Jr. in tow. Mueller went under the five-to-go signal first but
got into turn one too deep and nearly looped his Chevrolet. Huls finished what he started and drove his Country View
Kennels / Monte Carlo into the winner’s circle for the first time at Lee County Speedway. Oliver Jr., Kirk Kinsley, Chris
Wibbell, and Jason Cook rounded out the top five, while Mueller rejoined the race and finished eighth. Nick Fenton and
Huls won in heat race action.
Josh Foster drove to the front of an action-packed Miller Lite IMCA Modified 20-lapper. Mike Weikert Jr., Foster, and Rich
Smith enjoyed the three-wide view from the front of the field early in the event before caution flew for Brandon Rothzen
and Darin Thye’s grinding crash in turn one. Both cars were destroyed. Foster led the remainder of the event to notch his
first win of the season in his Five Star Drywall / Chevy. Smith, Bill Roberts, tenth-starting Bill Parks, and Weikert Jr.
finished in the top five. Brandon Savage and Smith won the heat races.
Joe Hooper and Jim Gillenwater dueled throughout the Lawson Racing Engines and Parts Supply SportMod 15-lapper.
Gillenwater stole the show on a lap 11 restart and drove his Discount Tire & Service / Chevy into victory lane. Hooper had
to settle for second, while Rob Kirchner charged from thirteenth to third. Phillip Cossel and Levi Smith ended the event in
the top five. Hooper and Jim Kuhlmeier picked up heat race wins.
Dean Kratzer scored his second straight Donnellson Tire Hobby Stock feature win in a race marred by a scary accident
involving Rodger Dresden on the back straightaway. Dresden’s car was turned head-on into the concrete after contact
from another car. Dresden was talking to emergency personnel while being extricated from his mangled racer. When
racing resumed, Kratzer withstood a challenge from former track champion Jeff Soper. Jim Lynch, Decorah’s Steve
Christopher, and Jacob Smith followed Kratzer across the line.
Rob Hammel stunk up the Shottenkirk Parts Express Wild Thing 12-lapper as he found the front and walked away from the
field. Hammel is perfect thus far in 2008. Chris Loring Jr. crossed the line in second, while Dustan Fenton, Chuck
Fullenkamp, and Travis DeMint completed the top five.
Next week, the Ideal Ready Mix IMCA Late Models hit the track with all five weekly classes. Race time is 7:30. One lucky
fan aged 5-17 will walk out of the grandstand with a Nintendo Wii gaming system. General admission is $10 for Adults,
which includes a free drink courtesy of Pepsi, Budweiser, and Miller Lite.
RESULTS
Budweiser IMCA Stock Cars
Heat 1: 1. Nick Fenton; 2. Jason Cook; 3. Dave Hemsted; 4. Chris Wibbell; 5. Travis Finke; 6. Doug Huls; 7. Patrick
Mincer; 8. Corey Strothman; 9. Ray Raker DQ
Heat 2: 1. Abe Huls; 2. Jeff Mueller; 3. John Oliver Jr.; 4. Kirk Kinsley; 5. Cale Samberg; 6. Rod Staats; 7. Dennis
Harwood; 8. Jake Wenig DNS; 9. Rickey Hutcherson DNS
Casey’s General Store 20: 1. A. Huls; 2. Oliver Jr.; 3. Kinsley; 4. Wibbell; 5. Cook; 6. Hemsted; 7. D. Huls; 8. Mueller;
9. Staats; 10. Fenton; 11. Samberg; 12. Finke; 13. Raker; 14. Mincer; 15. Harwood; 16. Strothman; 17. Wenig DNS;
18. Hutcherson DNS
Miller Lite IMCA Modifieds
Heat 1: 1. Brandon Savage; 2. Mike Weikert Jr.; 3. Terry Houston; 4. Bill Roberts; 5. Jim Roach; 6. Brad Carson; 7. Darin
Thye; 8. Chris Larson
Heat 2: 1. Rich Smith; 2. Josh Foster; 3. Tyler Cale; 4. Bill Parks; 5. Dean McGee; 6. Brandon Rothzen; 7. Andy Krieger;
8. Adam Carson
Casey’s General Store 20: 1. Foster; 2. Smith; 3. Roberts; 4. Parks; 5. Weikert Jr.; 6. Roach; 7. Cale; 8. Houston;
9. Krieger; 10. McGee; 11. A. Carson; 12. B. Carson; 13. Larson; 14. Rothzen; 15. Thye; 16. Savage DNS
Lawson Racing Engines & Parts Supply SportMods
Heat 1: 1. Joe Hooper; 2. Jim Gillenwater; 3. Levi Smith; 4. Beau Taylor; 5. Bill Seyb; 6. Bob Jennings; 7. Rob Kirchner
Heat 2: 1. Jim Kuhlmeier; 2. Mark Winkel; 3. Phillip Cossel; 4. Thad Gaylord; 5. Travis Jordan; 6. Chad Sovern; 7. Jerad
Fuller DNS
Casey’s General Store 15: 1. Gillenwater; 2. Hooper; 3. Kirchner; 4. Cossel; 5. Smith; 6. Fuller; 7. Jennings; 8. Gaylord;
9. Sovern; 10. Kuhlmeier; 11. Winkel; 12. Seyb; 13. Taylor; 14. Jordan
Donnellson Tire Hobby Stocks
Heat 1: 1. Rodger Dresden; 2. Dan Wenig; 3. Jeff Soper; 4. Jon Rooney; 5. Jim Lynch; 6. Steve Christopher; 7. Derek St.
Clair; 8. Chris Hibbard; 9. Jacob Smith; 10. Robert Kephart
Heat 2: 1. Dean Kratzer; 2. Jim Oliver Jr.; 3. Brian Holmes; 4. Rob Wilsey; 5. Bruce Summers; 6. Matt England; 7. Jim
Oliver Sr.; 8. Austin Schulte; 9. Jason Billings DNS; 10. Jermy Billings DNS
Casey’s General Store 15: 1. Kratzer; 2. Soper; 3. Lynch; 4. Christopher; 5. Smith; 6. Kephart; 7. England; 8. Schulte;
9. Wilsey; 10. Oliver Jr.; 11. Dresden; 12. Summers; 13. Holmes; 14. Hibbard; 15. Je. Billings; 16. St. Clair; 17. Wenig;
18. Rooney; 19. Oliver Sr.; 20. Ja. Billings DNS
Shottenkirk Parts Express Wild Things
Heat 1: 1. Chuck Fullenkamp; 2. Chuck Loring Jr.; 3. Chase Klenk; 4. Dustan Fenton; 5. Richard Vandermaiden; 6. Donny
Oliver; 7. John Lynn; 8. Mike Horning Jr.; 9. Brent Hartley
Heat 2: 1. Rob Hammel; 2. Bryan Rodefer; 3.Travis DeMint; 4. Kimberly Abbott; 5. Amy Mason; 6. Jayson Barnes;
7. Jordan Delonjay; 8. Jim Oliver III
Casey’s General Store 12: 1. Hammel; 2. Loring Jr.; 3. Fenton; 4. Fullenkamp; 5. DeMint; 6. Rodefer; 7. Hartley;
8. Klenk; 9. Abbott; 10. D. Oliver; 11. Lynn; 12. Vandermaiden; 13. Mason; 14. Horning Jr.; 15. Barnes; 16. Delonjay DNS;
17. Oliver III DNS
