By Greg Soukup
The Days of Thunder Clash presented by Nebraska Realty, S & L Trenching and Empire Fence held at Eagle Raceway Saturday could only be described as nearly perfect!
169 teams showed up to put on a great show for the nearly overflow crowd under a clear blue sky. And a great show it was!!! A total of 31 races in the 5 classes plus the always entertaining School Bus Races following the final checkered flag sent everyone home knowing that there just is no better place to be on a Saturday night than at America’s Home Track.
There were no serious incidents in the preliminary racing.
The first A Feature was for the IMCA Racesaver Sprint Cars. Tyler Drueke’s #12 was first back to the flag stand on lap 1 followed by the 25 of Gunnar Pike, Gene Ackland’s 14G and Shayle Bade in the 03. Bade passed Ackland for 3rd on lap 3. Adam Gullion put the 91 into fourth place on lap 6. Drueke started catching the tail of the field on lap 9. Jason Danley’s 4X slowed to a stop on the back stretch on lap 13 to slow the action, bringing out the Eastepwheels.com Choose cone. Gullion passed Bade on the restart for third as Brandon Bosma put his #23 into fourth after also getting by Bade. Lap 16 saw Cole Wayman get too high in turn 1, hitting the wall with his right rear. That sucked his front end into the Armco Barrier and sent him pirouetting through the air. He was unhurt but his night was done and he headed to his pit to get strapped into his sportmod. Gullion again used the restart to move up a spot, passing Pike for second with Billy Alley joining the leaders putting the #11 into fourth place. Alley moved up to third the next lap, lost the spot back to Pike with 7 to go but regained the position the following lap. The top 4 went unchanged to the checkers with Drueke, Gullion, Alley and Pike your top 4.
He said “We were okay tonight; we could have been a little bit better. I was worried as the race went on about the rubber coming in. I definitely was charging the top pretty hard, and I didn’t want anybody to try and slide underneath med, find the rubber before me. So, I caught lapped traffic, paying attention to what they were doing to see where the rubber was. I think I did a fairly decent job of not letting anybody get inside of me.” Tyler’s sponsors include Forbes Motorsports, Cherney Enterprises, LLC, American Trailer Co. , Drueke Trucking & Ranch, Zoz Farms, Jeffres Trucking LLC, Angels Energy Service, Johnson Farms, Kings Auto Supply, Jimbell, Double Z Express, Gordon Electric Inc., Midwest Racing Performance, J&J Auto Racing, Speedway Motors Racing Engines, Victory Fuel.
RESULTS:
IMCA Sprints 28 Entries A Feature 1 25 Laps | 00:17:24.848 1. 12T-Tyler Drueke[12]; 2. 91-Adam Gulion[9]; 3. 11-Bily Aley[14]; 4. 25-Gunnar Pike[2]; 5. 22D-Daniel Nekolite[5]; 6. 35 Trevor Grossenbacher[20]; 7. 23-Brandon Bosma[8]; 8. 5-Stuart Snyder[15]; 9. 03-Shayle Bade[7]; 10. 15V-Cole Vanderheiden[17]; 11. 32-Trefer Wa ler[11]; 12. 4X-Jason Danley[16]; 13. 14G-Gene Ackland[4]; 14. 14T-Tyler Hendrickson[6]; 15. 100-Clint Benson[3]; 16. 1B-Brandon Horton[18]; 17. 2T-Cameron Thompson[19]; 18. 8B-Kaedon Thurman[1]; 19. 18W-Cole Wayman[10]; 20. 77X-John Klabunde[13]
B Feature 1 12 Laps | 00:02:47.057 1. 4X-Jason Danley[1]; 2. 15V-Cole Vanderheiden[4]; 3. 1B-Brandon Horton[5]; 4. 2T-Cameron Thompson[2]; 5. 35-Trevor Grossenbacher[3]; 6. 35L-Ty Ledger[8]; 7. 99X-Braydn Greubel[9]; 8. 3T-
Dan Satriano[11]; 9. 25A-Alex Davenport[7]; 10. 2A-Alex Salzman[6]; 11. 19-Tadd Ho liman[10]; 12. 11C-Cole Cloud[13]; 13. (DNS) 28-Madi Miler
Heat 1 10 Laps | 00:02:16.201 1. 25-Gunnar Pike[2]; 2. 14G-Gene Ackland[3]; 3. 91-Adam Gulion[6]; 4. 14T-Tyler Hendrickson[4]; 5. 77X-John Klabunde[8]; 6. 4X-Jason Danley[7]; 7. 15V-Cole Vanderheiden[9]; 8. 25A-Alex Davenport[5]; 9. 19-Tadd Ho liman[10]; 10. 11C-Cole Cloud[1]
Heat 2 10 Laps | 00:02:24.670 1. 12T-Tyler Drueke[9]; 2. 8B-Kaedon Thurman[1]; 3. 22D-Daniel Nekolite[3]; 4. 18W-Cole Wayman[6]; 5. 11-Bily Aley[8]; 6. 2T-Cameron Thompson[4]; 7. 1B-Brandon Horton[7]; 8. 35L-Ty Ledger[5]; 9. 3T-Dan Satriano[2]
Heat 3 10 Laps | 00:02:24.016 1. 100-Clint Benson[2]; 2. 03-Shayle Bade[4]; 3. 23-Brandon Bosma[5]; 4. 32-Trefer Wa ler[7]; 5. 5-Stuart Snyder[8]; 6. 35 Trevor Grossenbacher[6]; 7. 2A-Alex Salzman[3]; 8. 99X-Braydn Greubel[9]; 9. 28-Madi Miler[1]