3/20/2022
RacinBoys
Saturday night special again for Grabouski with IMCA Modified and Stock Car Spring Nationals wins
By IMCA (Beatrice, NE) -- Opening night of the 2022 Spring Nationals looked a lot like opening night of the 2021 special.
Just like he did last March, Jordan Grabouski won both IMCA Sunoco Stock Car and IMCA Sunoco Modified features at hometown Beatrice Speedway Saturday night. The two sets of checkers upped his Spring Nationals career record total to 14, a dozen of them in a Modified and dating to 2008.
“It was fun. It’s kind of crazy to think about,” said Grabouski, who motored to B & B Racing Chassis All-Star Invitational qualifying eligibility with the $2,000 Stock Car win before taking the $2,500 Modified victory. “Every year you ask, ‘How can I do it again?’ but we had some luck and it all played out. It was awesome.”
Grabouski raced from ninth starting to battle Tyler Frye and take over the lead with five laps to go in the Stock Car headliner.
Frye, the Saturday winner at Beatrice Octoberfest last fall, stayed right behind to the finish. Kyle Vanover, Scott Brown and Jed Williams ran third through fifth, respectively.
After falling further off the pace from his fifth starting spot in the Modified feature, Grabouski rallied to pass defending national champion Jeff Larson for the Modified lead.
Larson, Jordy Nelson, Johnny Saathoff and Todd Shute followed at the stripe.
“We hadn’t raced since last year and spent all winter getting ready. It doesn’t get any better than this,” said Grabouski, already Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational qualifying eligible.
The 29th annual special brought more than 170 entries to Beatrice.
Former Spring Nationals Sport Compact winner Dillon Richards drove from eighth starting to win the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock feature. Two-time king Roy Armstrong was second, Justin Frederick third.
Lee Horky reigned at Spring Nationals for the first time, topping the IMCA Northern SportMod main event ahead of Lance Borgman and Tyler Nerud.
And Devin Schmidt captured his first Mach-1 Sport Compact crown, with Kaden Murray and Zach Bohlmeyer scored next.
Inclement weather and wet track conditions on Friday forced postponement of Spring Nationals to Saturday and Sunday.
RESULTS
BUDWEISER IMCA MODIFIEDS
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 30-Jordan Grabouski[5]; 2. B1-Jeff Larson[4]; 3. 4J-Jordy Nelson[10]; 4. 96J-Johnny Saathoff[12]; 5. 5-Todd Shute[9]; 6. 71-Jeff James[1]; 7. 10-Jeremy Mills[19]; 8. 01-Jacob Hobscheidt[6]; 9. 3W-Cole Wayman[2]; 10. 20-Brandon Schmitt[7]; 11. 7C-Benjamin Chukuske[18]; 12. 3-Trey Duensing[13]; 13. 10T-Brett Smith[20]; 14. M80-Jim Mathieson[17]; 15. 4B-Brandon Verbeek[14]; 16. (DNF) 14M-Danny Morrison[3]; 17. (DNF) 4-David Trauernicht[23]; 18. (DNF) 16-Austin Svoboda[15]; 19. (DNF) 33X-Dan Rodel[16]; 20. (DNF) 35D-Dylan Sillman[8]; 21. (DNF) 96-Jaxon Saathoff[21]; 22. (DNF) 21H-Shane Hiatt[24]; 23. (DNF) 33-Nicholas Carpenter[22]; 24. (DNF) 30T-Terry Phillips[11]
B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 96-Jaxon Saathoff[5]; 2. 33-Nicholas Carpenter[2]; 3. 4-David Trauernicht[1]; 4. 21H-Shane Hiatt[3]; 5. 72-Mike Lineberry[10]; 6. 15-Devin Fouqette[11]; 7. (DNS) 33M-James Mesenbrink; 8. (DNS) 10G-Don Geist; 9. (DNS) 3T-Nate Thompson; 10. (DNS) 54D-Dillon Schultz; 11. (DNS) 75K-Kyle Olberding; 12. (DNS) 10X-TeeJay Janousek
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 30-Jordan Grabouski[4]; 2. 71-Jeff James[3]; 3. 3W-Cole Wayman[2]; 4. 3-Trey Duensing[7]; 5. M80-Jim Mathieson[1]; 6. (DNF) 4-David Trauernicht[6]; 7. (DNF) 96-Jaxon Saathoff[9]; 8. (DNF) 10X-TeeJay Janousek[5]; 9. (DNS) 33M-James Mesenbrink
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 30T-Terry Phillips[2]; 2. 14M-Danny Morrison[7]; 3. 20-Brandon Schmitt[8]; 4. 4B-Brandon Verbeek[1]; 5. 7C-Benjamin Chukuske[6]; 6. 33-Nicholas Carpenter[4]; 7. 3T-Nate Thompson[5]; 8. 72-Mike Lineberry[3]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 01-Jacob Hobscheidt[3]; 2. 96J-Johnny Saathoff[6]; 3. 4J-Jordy Nelson[5]; 4. 16-Austin Svoboda[1]; 5. 10-Jeremy Mills[4]; 6. 21H-Shane Hiatt[7]; 7. 54D-Dillon Schultz[2]
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. B1-Jeff Larson[4]; 2. 5-Todd Shute[5]; 3. 35D-Dylan Sillman[2]; 4. 33X-Dan Rodel[8]; 5. 10T-Brett Smith[7]; 6. (DNF) 10G-Don Geist[3]; 7. (DNF) 75K-Kyle Olberding[6]; 8. (DNF) 15-Devin Fouqette[1]
MCA SPORT COMPACTS
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 33D-Devin Schmidt[11]; 2. 9K-Kaden Murray[13]; 3. 24Z-Zach Bohlmeyer[1]; 4. 61F-Tyler Fiebelkorn[12]; 5. 3R-Marschall Robinson[6]; 6. 89-Kaylee Richards[8]; 7. 6M-Madison Reed[19]; 8. 23B-Jacob Schwab[2]; 9. 84-Josh Black[7]; 10. 28R-Trent Reed[4]; 11. 33R-Jordan Runge[14]; 12. 34V-Dakota Voight[3]; 13. 12C-Brandon Carmichael[17]; 14. 32R-Michael Recker[23]; 15. 76-Hallie Borgman[20]; 16. 52-Tobey VanLaningham[18]; 17. (DNF) 3-Jordan Bender[22]; 18. (DNF) #7-Mylee JoAnn[21]; 19. (DNF) 77-Branston Arnder Jr[5]; 20. (DNF) 48-Tyler Hooper[9]; 21. (DNF) 05H-Shaye Howe[10]; 22. (DNF) 24G-Dale Gatton[16]; 23. (DNS) 14Z-zachary cleghorn; 24. (DNS) 3T-Trenten Fugett
B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 6M-Madison Reed[9]; 2. 76-Hallie Borgman[1]; 3. #7-Mylee JoAnn[2]; 4. 3-Jordan Bender[3]; 5. 32R-Michael Recker[4]; 6. (DNS) 3T-Trenten Fugett; 7. (DNS) 45-Josh Buchli; 8. (DNS) 92C-Dylan Crannell; 9. (DNS) 32X-Nathan Wahlstrom
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 89-Kaylee Richards[6]; 2. 84-Josh Black[2]; 3. 33D-Devin Schmidt[7]; 4. 77-Branston Arnder Jr[4]; 5. 9K-Kaden Murray[9]; 6. 24G-Dale Gatton[8]; 7. 76-Hallie Borgman[3]; 8. 32R-Michael Recker[5]; 9. (DNS) 32X-Nathan Wahlstrom
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 61F-Tyler Fiebelkorn[3]; 2. 3R-Marschall Robinson[2]; 3. 23B-Jacob Schwab[5]; 4. 24Z-Zach Bohlmeyer[8]; 5. 33R-Jordan Runge[1]; 6. 12C-Brandon Carmichael[9]; 7. #7-Mylee JoAnn[7]; 8. (DNF) 3T-Trenten Fugett[4]; 9. (DNF) 92C-Dylan Crannell[6]
Heat 3 (6 Laps): 1. 28R-Trent Reed[1]; 2. 34V-Dakota Voight[3]; 3. 48-Tyler Hooper[5]; 4. 05H-Shaye Howe[8]; 5. 14Z-zachary cleghorn[6]; 6. 52-Tobey VanLaningham[9]; 7. 3-Jordan Bender[4]; 8. 45-Josh Buchli[2]; 9. (DNS) 6M-Madison Reed
IMCA HOBBY STOCKS
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 24R-Dillon Richards[8]; 2. 6R-Roy Armstrong[3]; 3. 83X-Justin Frederick[6]; 4. 00J-John Martinez[15]; 5. 20-Chad Borgman[7]; 6. 3N-Neil Pella[21]; 7. 4-Jeremy Purdy[14]; 8. 2C-David Carter[10]; 9. 47P-Parker Anderson[24]; 10. 7N-Nick Ronnebaum[9]; 11. 88K-Jeremy Kinsey[20]; 12. 24T-Tylan Lambertus[16]; 13. (DNF) 8-Murray Haugen[17]; 14. (DNF) 69-Brendon Stigge[4]; 15. (DNF) 41-Adam Wasserman[22]; 16. (DNF) 45-Travis Landauer[2]; 17. (DNF) 77W-Andrew Burk[19]; 18. (DNF) 66-Jeff Watts[23]; 19. (DNF) 46-Ryan Gilland[5]; 20. (DNF) 214-Kirk Westring[12]; 21. (DNF) 12K-Eric Knutson[1]; 22. (DNF) 8X-Travis Blythe[18]; 23. (DNF) 3-Taylor Huss[11]; 24. (DNS) 23-Tayte Harazin
B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 3N-Neil Pella[4]; 2. 66-Jeff Watts[7]; 3. 22T-Tyler Smith[1]; 4. 98-Jared Jackson[9]; 5. 99-Dellas Williams[8]; 6. 33-Carter Davis[6]; 7. (DNS) 87-John Briggs; 8. (DNS) 71C-Christian Destefano; 9. (DNS) 1F-Troy Wachsnicht
B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 41-Adam Wasserman[4]; 2. 47P-Parker Anderson[1]; 3. 90-Lucas Phillips[6]; 4. 13T-Tyler Jackson[2]; 5. 14Z-Zach Bales[3]; 6. 12G-Tyler Gray[5]; 7. 92-Brandon Schneider[7]; 8. 5CO-Travis Coe[8]; 9. (DNF) 98Z-Zach Olmstead[9]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7N-Nick Ronnebaum[4]; 2. 24R-Dillon Richards[9]; 3. 46-Ryan Gilland[7]; 4. 23-Tayte Harazin[5]; 5. 8-Murray Haugen[10]; 6. 22T-Tyler Smith[3]; 7. 71C-Christian Destefano[2]; 8. (DNF) 1F-Troy Wachsnicht[8]; 9. (DNF) 66-Jeff Watts[1]; 10. (DNF) 98-Jared Jackson[6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 6R-Roy Armstrong[2]; 2. 214-Kirk Westring[3]; 3. 83X-Justin Frederick[6]; 4. 4-Jeremy Purdy[7]; 5. 8X-Travis Blythe[9]; 6. 47P-Parker Anderson[8]; 7. 14Z-Zach Bales[1]; 8. 12G-Tyler Gray[10]; 9. 92-Brandon Schneider[4]; 10. (DNS) 98Z-Zach Olmstead
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 12K-Eric Knutson[6]; 2. 3-Taylor Huss[7]; 3. 2C-David Carter[1]; 4. 00J-John Martinez[8]; 5. 77W-Andrew Burk[3]; 6. (DNF) 87-John Briggs[9]; 7. (DNF) 3N-Neil Pella[5]; 8. (DNS) 33-Carter Davis; 9. (DNS) 99-Dellas Williams
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 45-Travis Landauer[6]; 2. 69-Brendon Stigge[2]; 3. 20-Chad Borgman[3]; 4. 24T-Tylan Lambertus[5]; 5. 88K-Jeremy Kinsey[4]; 6. 13T-Tyler Jackson[1]; 7. 41-Adam Wasserman[9]; 8. 90-Lucas Phillips[8]; 9. 5CO-Travis Coe[7]
IMCA SPORTMODS
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 7-Lee Horky[2]; 2. 76-Lance Borgman[5]; 3. 5T-Tyler Nerud[10]; 4. 30-Greg Metz[4]; 5. 19XX-Brandon Spanjer[9]; 6. 17C-Shane Paris[16]; 7. 27-Dane Martindale[14]; 8. 27W-Andrew Whitmore[15]; 9. 11-Izac Mallicoat[18]; 10. 24-Drake Bohlmeyer[21]; 11. 5H-Shawn Hein[19]; 12. 05-David Sherwood[22]; 13. 6SJ-Shawn Pospisil[25]; 14. 18M-Mason Richards[24]; 15. 74-Rick Rohr[7]; 16. (DNF) 17M-Mary Hahn[6]; 17. (DNF) 24R-Dillon Richards[1]; 18. (DNF) 23-Steve Swarthout[13]; 19. (DNF) 6A-Adam Armstrong[11]; 20. (DNF) 117-Dylan VanWyk[12]; 21. (DNF) 16J-Justin Svoboda[8]; 22. (DNF) 4C-Dylan Cherry[23]; 23. (DNF) 31-Jason York[17]; 24. (DNF) 112-Adam Birck[20]; 25. (DNF) 25-Kyle Ord[3]
B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 112-Adam Birck[2]; 2. 24-Drake Bohlmeyer[3]; 3. 05-David Sherwood[1]; 4. 4C-Dylan Cherry[8]; 5. 6SJ-Shawn Pospisil[12]; 6. 1-Paul Donovan[10]; 7. 45-Lane Malchow[5]; 8. 193-Jessiah Taylor[4]; 9. (DNF) 28K-Ryan Kirchoff[11]; 10. (DNF) 11J-Joseph Cooper[7]; 11. (DNF) 0NA-Ahnna Schouten[9]; 12. (DNS) 0-Michael Sherwood
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 16J-Justin Svoboda[2]; 2. 76-Lance Borgman[5]; 3. 7-Lee Horky[8]; 4. 23-Steve Swarthout[6]; 5. 31-Jason York[3]; 6. 05-David Sherwood[1]; 7. 45-Lane Malchow[4]; 8. (DNF) 0NA-Ahnna Schouten[7]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 5T-Tyler Nerud[3]; 2. 6A-Adam Armstrong[7]; 3. 24R-Dillon Richards[1]; 4. 27-Dane Martindale[2]; 5. 11-Izac Mallicoat[8]; 6. 112-Adam Birck[4]; 7. (DNF) 0-Michael Sherwood[6]; 8. (DNF) 1-Paul Donovan[5]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 74-Rick Rohr[3]; 2. 17M-Mary Hahn[2]; 3. 25-Kyle Ord[1]; 4. 27W-Andrew Whitmore[6]; 5. 5H-Shawn Hein[4]; 6. 24-Drake Bohlmeyer[7]; 7. 11J-Joseph Cooper[8]; 8. (DNS) 28K-Ryan Kirchoff
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 117-Dylan VanWyk[3]; 2. 30-Greg Metz[2]; 3. 19XX-Brandon Spanjer[6]; 4. 17C-Shane Paris[5]; 5. 18M-Mason Richards[8]; 6. 193-Jessiah Taylor[7]; 7. 4C-Dylan Cherry[4]; 8. 6SJ-Shawn Pospisil[1]
IMCA STOCK CARS
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 30-Jordan Grabouski[9]; 2. 77-Tyler Frye[3]; 3. 19-Kyle Vanover[1]; 4. 11B-Scott Brown[2]; 5. 77K-Jed Williams[10]; 6. 3J-Dan Nelson[6]; 7. 64-Dusty Blake[14]; 8. 84-Benji Legg[12]; 9. 11K-Kyle Clough[16]; 10. 10A-Austin Brauner[15]; 11. 3-Nate Thompson[13]; 12. 6C-Chanse Hollatz[21]; 13. 46-JJ Baumli[7]; 14. 4JR-Boone Evans[23]; 15. 6-Trace Ayers[5]; 16. 119-Dustin Reeh[18]; 17. 3TX-Tim Podraza[22]; 18. 55R-George Ramey[20]; 19. 7B-Paul Burck[19]; 20. 30T-Terry Phillips[17]; 21. (DNF) 38-Joe Schmit[8]; 22. (DNF) 37D-Brad Derry[11]; 23. (DNF) 34-Max Harder[24]; 24. (DNF) 17-Mike Nichols[4]
B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 6C-Chanse Hollatz[1]; 2. 4JR-Boone Evans[4]; 3. 3AM-Dan Jackson[3]; 4. 7-Matt Fralin[12]; 5. 1X-Bo Egge[8]; 6. 31K-Nate Desive[2]; 7. 3T-Terry Dulin[11]; 8. 11-Christine Holt[5]; 9. 28-Bobby Eubanks[9]; 10. 7C-Chris Cherney[6]; 11. 88-Dylan Lauenstein[7]; 12. (DNS) 19J-Jay Schmidt
B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 3TX-Tim Podraza[2]; 2. 34-Max Harder[5]; 3. 67-Darin Nelson[4]; 4. 11A-Andy Huffaker[3]; 5. 1-Austin Kaplan[1]; 6. 26J-Justin Addison[11]; 7. 29-John Meyer[7]; 8. 26T-Alex Donovan[6]; 9. 4W-Jaret Wood[12]; 10. (DNF) 7D-Daniel Holt[8]; 11. (DNF) 39W-Darren Wurdeman[9]; 12. (DNS) 12T-Tanner Jones
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Kyle Vanover[9]; 2. 46-JJ Baumli[4]; 3. 37D-Brad Derry[1]; 4. 11K-Kyle Clough[6]; 5. 6C-Chanse Hollatz[7]; 6. 11A-Andy Huffaker[8]; 7. 7C-Chris Cherney[3]; 8. (DNF) 7D-Daniel Holt[5]; 9. (DNF) 12T-Tanner Jones[2]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 3J-Dan Nelson[5]; 2. 11B-Scott Brown[1]; 3. 84-Benji Legg[3]; 4. 30T-Terry Phillips[8]; 5. 1-Austin Kaplan[7]; 6. 4JR-Boone Evans[6]; 7. 26T-Alex Donovan[4]; 8. (DNF) 28-Bobby Eubanks[2]; 9. (DNF) 3T-Terry Dulin[9]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 30-Jordan Grabouski[4]; 2. 38-Joe Schmit[3]; 3. 3-Nate Thompson[5]; 4. 119-Dustin Reeh[2]; 5. 31K-Nate Desive[1]; 6. 67-Darin Nelson[7]; 7. 88-Dylan Lauenstein[6]; 8. 39W-Darren Wurdeman[8]; 9. (DNF) 26J-Justin Addison[9]
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 77-Tyler Frye[8]; 2. 6-Trace Ayers[1]; 3. 64-Dusty Blake[4]; 4. 7B-Paul Burck[2]; 5. 3TX-Tim Podraza[7]; 6. 11-Christine Holt[5]; 7. 29-John Meyer[6]; 8. 4W-Jaret Wood[9]; 9. 7-Matt Fralin[3]
Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 77K-Jed Williams[1]; 2. 17-Mike Nichols[8]; 3. 10A-Austin Brauner[2]; 4. 55R-George Ramey[4]; 5. 3AM-Dan Jackson[6]; 6. 34-Max Harder[7]; 7. 1X-Bo Egge[5]; 8. (DNF) 19J-Jay Schmidt[3]
Submitted By: Kirk Elliott
