By Greg Soukup
It was another cool night at Eagle Raceway as Avid Realty and Empire Fence presented the Opening Night of the 2025 regular season. The large crowd that had been anticipating the start of the regular season and braved the chill saw an astonishing field of 172 cars pack the pits of America’s Home Track. As a post on the Jet Racing Team Page on Facebook put it “172 racecars at Eagle Raceway on a weekly night!!! Boone Who??? Wow is all I can say!!!”.
I think you can definitely say that the fans got their money’s worth and more with 1 E Feature, a D Feature, 4 C and B Features and of course 5 A Mains.
There were no serious incidents in the preliminary racing.
As usual, the finale for the evening was for the Nebraska Septic IMCA Racesaver Sprint Cars. Brandon Bosma was first back to the flag stand on lap 1 in the 23 with the 63 of Jack Thomas, Nate Weiler’s 4W and the 100 of Clint Benson second through fourth. Bosma already started picking off lapped cars on lap 6. Alex Davenport looped the 25A in turn 1 on lap 9 for a caution. Benson took advantage of the restart to move up to third with Lee Goos’s 17X jumping up to fourth. Goos passed Benson the next lap to grab third. Adam Gullion went around Benson on lap 11 to put the 91 into the fourth position. Tyler Hendrickson spun his 14T out at the bottom of turns 1 and 2 the next lap for a caution. Gullion passed Goos for third on lap 14 Thomas took advantage of a bobble by Bosma with 10 circuits remaining to take over the lead. Goos passed Gullion on the final lap to make the top 4 Thomas, Bosma, Goos and Gullion.
This was the 15 year-old’s second victory. His first was last season in his rookie year in an IMCA Racesaver Sprint. I mentioned that fact to him, inquiring if he planned on a lot more this year, to which he related “Yeah. We’re going to try to get some more. This is my second win this year with 6 races down. We’ve got pretty good speed right now and hopefully we can keep it up and win some more races. We want to get to double digit wins this year. We’ll see what we can do. We started third tonight and were running around down by the tires. There was a big feature down in turn 1 but we were missing it. On the first restart I showed Brandon where I was running, so he started running the same line. But on the second restart I was able to get around him and make some speed. Brandon was fast but I was able to get around him and put my car where it needed to be. I want to thank everybody who helps me out during the week; Riley, Devin, my Dad and Mom, my sister and Jacob. I couldn’t do it without them”. Jack’s sponsors include Morgan’s Towing, Diamond Plumbing, Rocket Media, AFD Graffix, Surebuilt Suspension, Speedway Motors, Nathan Benson Motorsports.
Next week is Junior Fan Club Night, presented by Pepsi and Hotsy. All kids 12 and under receive free front gate admission and can take part in the Kids Candy Grab during intermission.
All 5 classes will be in competition, including the A1 Iron Stock Cars, Avid Realty IMCA Sportmods, Nebraska’s Best IMCA Modifieds, Valentino’s IMCA Hobby Stocks and the Nebraska Septic IMCA Racesaver Sprint Cars.
General Admission Grandstands: Adult (13+): $15 Youth 12 & under: FREE Pit Passes: $35 (All ages cost the same. Minors 17 & younger must have a minor waiver on file with the track)
Pits Open: 3:15PM Driver Check-in ends: 5:30PM Grandstands open: 5:15PM Hot Laps: 5:45PM -Stock Cars -SportMods -Modifieds -Hobby Stocks -Sprint Cars Racing: 6:30PM Heats & Features same order as Hot Laps
RESULTS:
IMCA Sprints 31 Entries A Feature 1 25 Laps | 00:13:05.090 1. 63-Jack Thomas[3]; 2. 23-Brandon Bosma[1]; 3. 17X-Lee Goos Jr[12]; 4. 91-Adam Gullion[6]; 5. 18W-Cole Wayman[15]; 6. 4X-Jason Danley[10]; 7. 15V-Cole Vanderheiden[11]; 8. 31-Koby Werkmeister[7]; 9. 25-Gunnar Pike[13]; 10. 32-Trefer Waler[16]; 11. 2T-Cameron Thompson[18]; 12. 100-Clint Benson[5]; 13. 76-Jay Russe l[9]; 14. 14G-Gene Ackland[19]; 15. 14T-Tyler Hendrickson[17]; 16. 17-Justin Bolte[14]; 17. 2A-Alex Salzman[8]; 18. 4W-Nathan Weiler[2]; 19. 12-Troy Sanford[4]; 20. 25A-Alex Davenport[20]
B Feature 1 12 Laps | 00:02:55.840 1. 14T-Tyler Hendrickson[5]; 2. 2T-Cameron Thompson[1]; 3. 14G-Gene Ackland[4]; 4. 25A-Alex Davenport[3]; 5. 14N-Nick Barger[7]; 6. 2-Casey Friedrichsen[11]; 7. 97-Jackson Weber[8]; 8. 6K-Logan Kafka[9]; 9. 8B-Kaedon Thurman[15]; 10. 1B Brandon Horton[10]; 11. 23V-Michalob Voeltz[2]; 12. 20T-Travis Christensen[6]; 13. 11K-Bily Aley[13]; 14. (DNS) 3T-Dan Satriano; 15. (DNS) 98-Nate Barger
Heat 1 10 Laps | 00:03:51.000 1. 4W-Nathan Weiler[1]; 2. 91-Adam Gullion[4]; 3. 12-Troy Sanford[2]; 4. 25-Gunnar Pike[3]; 5. 2T-Cameron Thompson[8]; 6. 14T-Tyler Hendrickson[5]; 7. 6K-Logan Kafka[7]; 8. 11K-Bily Aley[6]
Heat 2 10 Laps | 00:02:11.000 1. 23-Brandon Bosma[4]; 2. 76-Jay Russel[6]; 3. 2A-Alex Salzman[2]; 4. 17-Justin Bolte[3]; 5. 23V-Michalob Voeltz[7]; 6. 20T-Travis Christensen[1]; 7. 1B-Brandon Horton[5]; 8. 3T-Dan Satriano[8]
Heat 3 10 Laps | 00:02:10.000 1. 63-Jack Thomas[4]; 2. 15V-Cole Vanderheiden[2]; 3. 31-Koby Werkmeister[3]; 4. 18W-Cole Wayman[7]; 5. 25A-Alex Davenport[1]; 6. 14N-Nick Barger[6]; 7. 2-Casey Friedrichsen[5]; 8. 8B-Kaedon Thurman[8]
Heat 4 10 Laps | 00:02:12.000 1. 100-Clint Benson[2]; 2. 17X-Lee Goos Jr[5]; 3. 4X-Jason Danley[7]; 4. 32-Trefer Waller[4]; 5. 14G-Gene Ackland[3]; 6. 97-Jackson Weber[6]; 7. 98-Nate Barger[