Pedersen, Chrisman, Koch, and Herbst Take Lincoln County Raceway Feature Wins
By Darin Racek

NORTH PLATTE, NE (July 22, 2006) - Twenty degrees difference in temperature makes a big difference, and it showed at Lincoln County Raceway July 22. With temperatures in the mid-80’s, the track was easier to maintain, the crowd was larger, the car count was good, and the racing went smoother, as the last race was finished fifteen minutes before ten. Dave Pedersen of Brady, Todd Chrisman and Jeremy Herbst of North Platte, and Jason Koch of Cambridge were pretty smooth in their A Features as well, taking the wins.

The IMCA Modified A Feature went fourteen laps before the first caution flag waved. When it did, Dave Pedersen unknowingly had a straightaway lead over Jay Steffens of North Platte and the rest of the field. Jay not only made his presence felt on the restart, but so did Ronnie Wallace and Andrew Dillenburg of North Platte. When Wallace and Dillenburg worked to get by Steffens, Pedersen again got some breathing room. With two laps to go, the caution came out again, setting the field up for a shootout. Dillenburg got by Wallace with one lap to go and tried to set his sights on Dave. However, Pedersen had the line and lined the car directly to the finish line in first place. Dillenburg was followed by Wallace and Steffens. Charley Brown of Maxwell rounded out the top five.

Todd Chrisman seems to win his IMCA Stock Car A Features at Lincoln County Raceway in pairs. Earlier in the season, Chrisman won two weeks in a row. After winning last week’s main event, he had intentions to do it again. He was running in third place when the caution slowed the field on lap seven. On the restart, he got by North Platte racers Zach Schultz and Stew Holmes in corner two and had a comfortable lead on lap eight. Despite three more cautions, Chrisman was not threatened out front. Schultz held onto second place at the finish. Shane Stout of North Platte got by Holmes in the waning laps to take third place, reversing their finish in their heat race. Lloyd Meeske of Champion started the race in eighteenth place, but was up to fifth place at the finish.

Jason Koch paced most of the way of the IMCA Hobby Stock A Feature, and had the lead at the finish. Last week’s winner John Huffman of McCook had a pretty good run on the road to finish in second place. Bruce Hagan, Sr. of Culbertson took third place, while Thomas Lower of North Platte finished in fourth. Shane Klockman of Ogallala rounded out the top five.

The Mini Sprints went twenty laps in their A Feature without a caution period. Toph Harmon of Holbrook took the lead on lap three from John Webster of North Platte and drove out to a nice lead. Jeremy Herbst kept him in eyesight and found his way around Harmon on lap thirteen. Herbst led the last seven laps en route to the win. Harmon maintained second place. Trent Hansen of North Platte finished in third, ahead of Webster. Josh Sabin of North Platte rounded out the top five.

The Lincoln County Ag Society Sandhills Shootout is the next event at Lincoln County Raceway. The race this year will be two night, July 28 - 29, and will include the Modified and Stock Car classes. Qualifying and Pole Dashes will be run the first night, with last chance races and A Features running on Saturday. Based on 50 cars, the Modifieds could run for $5,000 to win. Based on 40 cars, the winner of the Stock Car Feature could win $2,000. The races will start at 7 PM each night. Grandstand prices will be $10 for adults on Friday night and $12 on Saturday night. Admission for kids 6 - 12 will be $5 each night, and kids under 6 will not be charged. Advanced tickets are on sale around North Platte which could save an adult $2 on a two night pass.


July 15 Results
IMCA Modified
A Feature
4P-Dave Pedersen
71-Andrew Dillenburg
3RW-Ronnie Wallace
12J-Jay Steffens
4C-Charley Brown
29S-Mike Saathoff
20-Tony Schultz
9-R. C. Heil
20K-Kyle Clough
19J-Jim Mlady
21H-Brandon Hagan
94H-Don Hagan, Jr
69-Brad Turner
1GE-Jeremy Eatherton
2-Jeremy Herbst
14-Jason Gallentine
4KJ-Terry Houchin
31-Dan Carl (DNF)
A19-Art Porter (DNS)


IMCA Stock Car
Cash Dash
11-Todd Chrisman

A Feature
11-Todd Chrisman
55Z-Zach Schultz
5S-Shane Stout
18-Stewart Holmes
32-Lloyd Meeske
4K-Kent Lower
24KC-Casey Werkmeister
64X-Dustin Small
12J-Kerry Jones
72D-Justin Gentry
5B-Buddy Brown
7-Jeremy Halouska
42KC-Kyle Werkmeister
45-Mikey Dancer (DNF)
69-Adam Kackmeister (DNF)
8-Jeff Ward (DNF)
25W-Ritchie Wickizer (DNF)
25H-Bryan Hagan (DNF)

IMCA Hobby Stock
A Feature
74KO-Jason Koch
3-John Huffman
23H-Bruce Hagan, Sr.
3T-Thomas Lower
33-Shane Klockman
X5-Eric Picquet (DNF)
93MC-Matt Caudillo (DNF)

Mini-Sprints
A Feature
20-Jeremy Herbst
25-Toph Harmon
9-Trent Hansen
2X-John Webster
23S-Josh Sabin
15-Jamey Kennicutt
4-Rick Putnam
1-Meddie Cote
28-J. R. Way
42-Arden Myers
3H-Bobby Houser
7-Tom Koster (DNF)