McKee, Carlson, Garner and Yearington (twice) are Best at Adams County Speedway

CORNING, IA (Aug 4) - The Chase for the Championship has begun at the Adams County Speedway for the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series. Todd McKee, Jerry Carlson, Mike Garner and Kevin Yearington all picked up feature wins with Yearington also taking the NAPA hobby stock King of the Hill presented by Sunoco/Diamond Oil/Ironman Racing Supply.

Todd McKee jumped from his outside front row start in the Whelen late model feature and raced to a comfortable lead. Paul Glendenning was the first to get through traffic to try to get to McKee. Glendenning got the job done of reeling in McKee, but ran out of laps to see if passing for the lead could be accomplished. For McKee it was his first win on the season. Glendenning, Chris Spieker, Karl Ritterbusch and Jason O’Brien rounded out the top five.

Jesse Dennis wiggled out of traffic quickly to take the lead in the Budweiser modified feature. Jerry Carlson was the first to challenge Dennis for the lead as he raced by after only a few laps. Carlson ran with a small lead until Chris Spieker moved around the outside to take the top spot. Spieker would lead until a couple of laps remained, when he slid too high in turn 3, giving the spot back to Carlson. Carlson went on to his fourth win of the season ahead of Dennis, Spieker, Ryan Peckham and Jeremy Tibben.

Les Helvie took early command of the Northland Oil pro street feature but it was soon a battle between Greg Miller and Tony Hardisty for the lead. Miller and Hardisty swapped the lead for a few laps until contact sent Miller spinning and Hardisty to the tail of the field with Miller for the restart. This left a great three car shootout over the last laps between Jeremy Swanson, Steve Churchill and Mike Garner as they raced wheel to wheel until Garner was finally able to secure the lead with only a few laps to go. For Garner, it was his first win on the season and he was followed to the checkered by Swanson, Churchill, Ron Ballinger and Chuck Hulett.

Jeremy Auten jumped to the early lead of the NAPA hobby stock feature. Kevin Yearington and Brad Bergren came up to challenge Auten for the lead and Yearington finally was able to race into the lead with only 5 laps remaining. Yearington went on to his first win of the season followed by Bergren, Jesse Sobbing, Auten and Brad Derry. Yearington capped off his evening by out-gunning Matt Hudson in the final of the King of the Hill presented by Sunoco/Diamond Oil/Ironman Racing Supply.

Join us next week for the Northland Oil pro street King of the Hill presented by Sunoco/Diamond Oil/Ironman Racing Supply along with the regular action of the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series with Whelen 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.J. Sink 2.Bergren 3.Myers
Heat 2: 1.Sobbing 2.Auten 3.B. Sink
Heat 3: 1.Hudson 2.Ribbey 3.Derry

A Feature: 1.Kevin Yearington 2.Brad Bergren 3.Jesse Sobbing 4.Jeremy Auten 5.Brad Derry 6.David Weeda 7.Brent Ricker 8.Pat Shiflett 9.Tom Myers 10.Brett Sink 11.Rick Ritchie 12.Cody Werner 13.Joshua Sink 14.Ron Helvie 15.Dean Orr 16.Matt Hudson 17.Heath Anderson 18.Jeremy Ribbey 19.Steve Gibilisco 20.Glenn Orr 21.Chris Vannausdle 22.Matt Williamson

King of the Hill: Round 1: Yearington over Williamson, Sobbing over Werner, Derry over Bergren, Hudson over Myers Round 2: Yearington over Sobbing and Hudson over Derry Final: Yearington over Hudson



Northland Oil Pro Street:

Heat 1: 1.G. Miller 2.Helvie 3.Gebhards
Heat 2: 1.Churchill 2.Hardisty 3.Jobe
Heat 3: 1.Swanson 2.AJ Miller 3.Ballinger

A Feature: 1.Mike Garner 2.Jeremy Swanson 3.Steve Churchill 4.Ron Ballinger 5.Chuck Hulett 6.Todd Owens 7.AJ Miller 8.Greg Miller 9.Joe Zadina 10.Tony Hardisty 11.Kevin Jobe 12.Scott Bond 13.Raymond Gebhards 14.Les Helvie 15.Dwain Pelzer 16.Glen Hoyt 17.Paul Kinyon 18.Jason Oathoudt 19.Craig Garner 20.Austin Arndt 21.Jeff Orr



Budweiser Modified:

Heat 1: 1.Dennis 2.Mueller 3.B Foote
Heat 2: 1.Spieker 2.James 3.Tibben
Heat 3: 1.Peckham 2.Stiens 3.Carlson

A Feature: 1.Jerry Carlson 2.Jesse Dennis 3.Chris Spieker 4.Ryan Peckham 5.Jeremy Tibben 6.Russell Stewart 7.Brian Foote 8.Chris Hogan 9.Dan Mueller 10.John Davis 11.Larry Foote 12.Eric Hanna 13.Kirby Stiens 14.Brain Broermann 15.Mark Hoover 16.Keven Parman 17.Derrick Hicks 18.Ryan Stiens 19.Jack Larson 20.Josh Most 21.Todd Van Eaton 22.Ben Wolverton 23.Jared Stiens 24.Stoney Stuart 25. Jeff Wiggins 26. Jeff James



Whelen Late Model:

Heat 1: 1.Most 2.Glendenning 3.Vicker
Heat 2: 1.Ritterbusch 2.Spieker 3.L. Zeitner

A Feature: 1.Todd McKee 2.Paul Glendenning 3.Chris Spieker 4.Karl Ritterbusch 5.Jason O’Brien 6.Josh Most 7.Jeremy Houck 8.Ryan Vicker 9.Leon Zeitner 10.Justin Zeitner 11.Scott Koskovich 12.Al Zeitner 13.Mike Eversole 14.Troy McKee