Spieker, Stewart, Pitzer and Vicker take Adams County Speedway victories

CORNING, Ia. (May 6, 2006) - It was 3M night along with Teacher Feature races at the Adams County Speedway and the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series for the second event of the season. Chris Spieker, Russell Stewart, Rick Pitzer and Ryan Vicker came home with the racing victories. The second annual Teacher Feature event was won by the team from Griswold High School with teacher Brittany Elmquist as the driver.

Last week’s misfortunes landed defending NASCAR division II champion Chris Spieker on the front row of the Dodge late model feature. After a few early race cautions, the last 23 laps went non-stop as Spieker ran away and hid from the field to claim the victory. Ed Kosiski worked up to second late in the race after winning the battle with Bryant Goldsmith through lapped traffic. At the finish it was Spieker, Ed Kosiski, Goldsmith, Joe Kosiski and Karl Ritterbusch.

The Budweiser modifieds ran the only non-stop feature of the night as Denny Rosenberg claimed the early lead and began to pull away. Russell Stewart had no intentions of letting Rosenberg get too far as he worked to second from his sixth starting spot and reeled in Rosenberg for the lead. After a few laps of sizing up the leader, Stewart blasted around the outside to take the lead and left the rest of the field far behind in claiming his first career ACS victory. Rosenberg finished second ahead of Dan Mueller, Jeremy Tibben and Jeff James.

Rick Pitzer started second in the Northland Oil pro street feature, ran the high side, led all the laps and took the victory, but this was far from an easy win. As Pitzer led early in the going, the racing behind him was as good as it gets with lots of three and a few four wide battles. Late in the going, Joe Zadina and Tony Hardisty put heavy pressure on Pitzer, but neither had what it took to get around him for the lead. Pitzer scored the win with Zadina, Hardisty, Ron Ballinger and Dave Schafroth rounding out the top five.

Matt Williamson broke out of early traffic to lead the beginning of the NAPA hobby stock feature. Williamson’s lead lasted quite a while until Ryan Vicker went around the outside as Matt Hudson made it three wide by going to the bottom. Vicker and Hudson then had to hold off Les Helvie to retain the top spots. Vicker went on to take the win over Hudson, Helvie, Jerry Parker and David Weeda.

Join us next week for the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series with more great action of the Dodge late models, Budweiser modifieds, Northland Oil pro streets, and NAPA hobby stocks. Gates open at 5:00, hot laps are at 6:30, and racing starts at 7:00. Admission is just $8 for adults, $6 for students, and 12 and under are free. For more information go to acspeedway.com or call 712-785-3271.



Results:

NAPA Hobby Stock:

Heat 1: 1.Swanson 2.Helvie 3.Orr
Heat 2: 1.Hudson 2.Williamson
Heat 3: 1.Sexton 2.Weeda 3.Pellman
Heat 4: 1.True 2.Tull 3.Ritchie
First B Feature: 1.Bergren 2.Tuttle
Second B Feature: 1.Derry 2.Cihak

A Feature: 1.Ryan Vicker 2.Matt Hudson 3.Les Helvie 4.Jerry Parker 5.David Weeda 6.Matt Williamson 7.Cody Werner 8.Brit Pellman 9.Brad Derry 10.Cory Luther 11.Josh True 12.Jim Tull 13.Jeff Tuttle 14.Rick Ritchie 15.Cody Luther 16.Brent Ricker 17.Brad Bergren 18.Glenn Orr 19.Donald Sexton 20.Chris Vannausdle 21.Louis Ring 22.Gerald Snyder 23.Jeremy Swanson 24.Vince Cihak



Northland Oil Pro Street:

Heat 1: 1.Ballinger 2.Knipe 3.Hamilton
Heat 2: 1.Pitzer 2.Hardisty 3.Zadina
Heat 3: 1.AJ Miller 2.Bond 3.Schafroth

A Feature: 1.Rick Pitzer 2.Joe Zadina 3.Tony Hardisty 4.Ron Ballinger 5.David Schafroth 6.Mike Garner 7.Ed Hamilton 8.Jeff Orr 9.AJ Miller 10.Greg Miller 11.Craig Garner 12.Steve Churchill 13.Ray Knipe 14.Billy Rock 15.Raymond Gebhardts 16.Scott Bond 17.Brian Broermann 18.David White 19.Todd Owens 20.Mike McCurdy 21.Matt Bashor 22.Eddie Taylor 23.Robert Hague 24.Nick Rush 25. David Nail 26. Jason Oathoudt 27. Kevin Jobe



Budweiser Modified:

Heat 1: 1.Hogan 2.Cooper 3.B. Foote
Heat 2: 1.Rosenberg 2.Sandeman 3.Tibben
Heat 3: 1.Carlson 2.James 3.Hull
B Feature: 1.Peckham 2.L. Foote 3.Schultz

A Feature: 1.Russell Stewart 2.Denny Rosenberg 3.Dan Mueller 4.Jeremy Tibben 5.Jeff James 6.Chris Hogan 7.Jerry Carlson 8.Ron Gay 9.Brian Foote 10.John O’Neal 11.Barry Sandeman 12.Bill Hull 13.Larry Foote 14.Kirby Stiens 15.Todd Van Eaton 16.Jesse Dennis 17.Ryan Peckham 18.Kevin Bills 19.Kelley Roof 20.Jeff Wiggins 21.Matt Schultz 22.Randy Foote 23.Rick Bissell 24.Justin Cooper



Dodge Late Model:

Heat 1: 1.Spieker 2.Glendenning 3.Vicker
Heat 2: 1.Goldsmith 2.Grosse 3.C. Zeitner

A Feature: 1.Chris Spieker 2.Ed Kosiski 3.Bryant Goldsmith 4.Joe Kosiski 5.Karl Ritterbusch 6.Paul Glendenning 7.Jeremy Houck 8.Corey Zeitner 9.Ryan Vicker 10.Scott Koskovich 11.Mike Whitehead 12.Josh Most 13.Trent Jackson 14.Troy McKee 15.Chad Anderson 16.Alonzo Grosse 17.Jay Norton 18.Steve Delevan 19.Jamie Kinyon 20.Al Zeitner 21.Todd McKee