6/22/2017
Austin Svoboda
Four win on big night at races
Austin Svoboda of David City won the feature event, taking home over $2,000 for winning the IMCA Northern Sport Modified Feature on Tuesday at Lincoln County Raceway. Presenting Svoboda, center, with the accolades were Zach Schultz, left, and Lincoln County Raceway co-promotor Bobbi Fletcher.
Photo courtesy Steve Towery
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In front of a capacity crowd, the stars aligned for four competitors that claimed victory at the Marcie Schultz Memorial Night at the Lincoln County Raceway on Tuesday.
The quartet of Jesse Taylor, Austin Svoboda, Casey Woken and Brady Bencken made the trip to the winner’s circle for their efforts on the oval.
Starting from the outside of the front row, Taylor, from Fort Morgan, Colorado, wasted no time in finding the cushion and riding it to the checkered flag in the IMCA Modified Feature.
Taylor led all 25 laps of the feature.
Coming forward from his third-row starting position, Eddie Belec of Arvada, Colorado, wasted no time in putting himself into a podium-finishing position as the runner-up.
Trying to work the top and bottom grooves, Anthony Roth of Columbus was able to show some versatility with his hotrod to earn the third-place finish when the checkered flag was waved.
In the featured event of the evening, with 36 IMCA Northern Sport Modifieds assembling for the jackpot race of the night, it was Svoboda, from David City, who was the last one standing in the winner’s circle.
Svoboda started on the outside of the front row, found his groove early and was able to finish strong to claim the memorable victory.
Jarred Hackler of Hastings showed great patience and perseverance in finishing second overall in the feature.
Hackler started the feature in the third row and was able to work through traffic with ease to put the pressure on Svoboda during the waning laps.
Hometown favorite Zach Schultz of North Platte was in contention from the onset on the memorial night.
Schultz started in the second row and was able to display great consistency throughout the 25 lap main event to cross the finish line in third place.
Dakota Sproul of Ellis, Kansas, and Trent Roth of Columbus were the top two contenders for the hard charger accolades, as they finished fourth and fifth, respectively, after advancing to the main event from the B features.
The third time was the charm for Woken in winning the special event for IMCA Stock Cars during Nebraskaland Days.
Woken, from Norton, Kansas, had finished second in this race twice and with the stars all aligned, he was able cross the finish line first after leading all 25 laps of the feature after starting in the inside of the second row.
It took a lot of handy work behind the wheel, with the assistance of some caution flags that bunched the field of competitors and allowed reigning Nebraskaland Days champion Jason Rogers of Selden, Kansas, to be in contention near the end.
Rogers was right at Woken’s back bumper for many of the final laps in hopes of making the pass for the win.
Rogers was forced to settle with runner-up honors as he wasn’t able to beat Woken on the final lap.
Colin Heim of Hoxie, Kansas, started in the fifth row and snared a third-place finish.
Starting on the front row, getting the lead early and never looking back, Bencken, from Oakley, Kansas, was the victor in the IMCA Hobby Stock Feature event despite the heavy hitters that were on his heels throughout the spotlighted event.
Runner-up finisher Brendyn Nordyke of Holly, Colorado, had Bencken in his sights throughout the feature event, he just wasn’t able to work his magic to get past the hotshoe to take the lead.
Tathan Burkhart of Hays, Kansas, was among the early contenders that battled for the podium positions throughout the feature. Burkhart was able to finish strong and be in the right place at the right time to earn show accolades, finishing third.
Lincoln County Raceway
June 20
(Unofficial Results)
IMCA Modified Feature — 1. 05-Jesse Taylor; 2. 3b-Eddie Belec; 3. 60iv-Anthony Roth; 4. XII-Jay Steffens; 5. 3rw-Ronnie Wallace; 6. 50-Cale Osborn; 7. 50c-Colton Osborn; 8. 34jw-Cole Hodges; 9. 11h-Henry Henderson; 10. 4p-Dave Pederson; 11. 848-Troy Douglas; 12. 67m-Mikey Dancer; 13. 51b-Brett Gartrell; 14. 7-Justin Gregg; 15. 67eh-Alex Fletcher; 16. 17j-Jeremy Frenier; 17. 97m-David Murray Jr.
Heat Race Winners — 60iv-Roth; 3b-Belec; 17j-Frenier.
IMCA Northern Sport Modified Feature — 1. 16-Austin Svoboda; 2. 00-Jarred Hackler; 3. 55z-Zach Schultz; 4. 08-Dakota Sproul; 5. 14T-Trent Roth; 6. 55d-Dillon Schultz; 7. 78-Brian Cross; 8. 4d-Danny Concelman; 9. 74-Steven Lewis; 10. 62-Ronnie Hulse; 11. 3-Gary Long; 12. 9-Monte Nordyke; 13. 38-Jeremy Gnat; 14. 16j-Justin Svoboda; 15. 30-Taylor Metz; 16. 5-Ken Eckhoff; 17. 12j-Kerry Jones; 18. 88j-Jacob Olmstead; 19. 40-CJ Pfannenstiel; 20. 0hp-Bryan Herrick; 21. 20m-Mark Leiting; 22. 15k-Jamey Kennicutt; 23. 18c-Ryan Moser; 24. 33-Dustin Daniels.
Heat Race Winners — 16-A. Svoboda; 16j-Justin Svoboda; 12j-Kerry Jones; 15k-Jamey Kennicutt.
IMCA Stock Car Feature — 1. 35jw-Casey Woken; 2. 37-Jason Rogers; 3. 6-Colin Heim; 4. 5d-Travis Demilt; 5. 24w-Casey Werkmeister; 6. 11k-Kyle Clough; 7. 1-Chris Heim; 8. 71-Andrew Dillenburg; 9. 24-Bob Chalupa; 10. 09h-Bob Hoing; 11. 32m-Michael Brunswig; 12. 42w-Kyle Werkmeister; 13. 75-Dan Eller; 14. 19-Dana Morgan; 20. 90-Allen Zimmerman; 21. 47-Russ Small Jr. ; 22. 16w-Jeff Whiting; 23. 72h-Jim Hagan; 24. 45-Mikey Dancer; 25. 03-Ben Arvdahl; 26. 6x-Jason Schoenberger.
Heat Race Winners — 16w-Whiting; 35jw-Woken; 24w-Werkmeister.
IMCA Hobby Stock Feature — 1. 711-Brady Bencken; 2. 9-Brendyn Nordyke; 3. 250-Tathan Burkhart; 4. R89-Nate Refior; 5. 98z-Zach Olmstead; 6. 3m-Brent Moss; 7. 83-Jeff Ware; 8. 22w-Brady Weinman; 9. 5150-Josh Barnhart; 10. 15r-Robbie Kosmacek; 11. 72b-Jacob Hagan; 12. 5-Chuck Ledbetter; 13. 88m-TC McKain; 14. 12t-Tanner Jones; 15. 99m-Allyn Myers; 16. 1-Tanner Clough; 17. 2w-Luke Wassom; 18. 7s-Scott Gibson.
Heat Race Winners — 15r-Kosmacek; 98z-Olmstead.
Article Credit: Steve Towrey