Chad Zobrist
Russell Eilers
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(July 24, 2010) Highland IL – The forces of Mother Nature captured three of the five feature events this past Saturday night at the Highland Speedway. The Steve Schmitt UMP Modifieds, The UMP Street Stocks, and Factory Stocks all lost out due to a Midwestern Summer Thunderstorm that washed out their features. All three features will be completed when regular Saturday night racing resumes at The Speedway on August 7th.
The first of two features to beat the weather was the UMP Late Models and it was a green to checker event. Pole sitter Michael “The Trenton Tornado” Kloos jumped out to an early lead with The Speedway’s current point’s leader Chad “The Highland Bulldog” Zobrist in hot pursuit. By lap 8 the two were running into lap traffic and this gave Zobrist, driving his familiar blue and white number 78 to slip past the 6K of Kloos and take the point, leading the duo through the lap traffic.
Kloos was hanging onto the spoiler of the 78 as the two went high and low around the back half of the field. Kloos could get no closer than the rear bumper of Zobrist. When the double checkers flew Zobrist crossed the stripe first and the 6K machine of Kloos finished in second. “The Gear Jammer” from Summerfield IL, Mike Schulte was third, “Fast” Frankie Martin from DuQuoin IL came from the eight spot to finish fourth and “The Hammer Man” Mike Hammerle of St. Charles MO rounded out the top five. The win was the 6th for point’s leader Zobrist this year, opening his points lead over Mark Faust who took the evening off.
The UMP Sportsmen’s feature featured numerous yellow flags as the competition is getting aggressive toward wining the $1250 Sportsmen Challenge that has been posted by various sponsors of the track. Current point’s leader Russell Eilers started from the pole and stayed ahead of all the cautions that went on behind him. When the dust settled Russell Eilers won his 8th feature of the 2010 season, his younger brother Ryan finished second, long time Highland Sportsmen driver Rick Johnson hung in and finished third. Jim Lafferty, Jr was fourth and Allan Geiseking was back behind the wheel of MPR’s number 6 and finished 5th.
There will be no regular racing at the Highland Speedway on Saturday night July 31st
The next night of regular racing will be August 7th; a race that is always a fan favorite, Topless Night, the Late Models, Modifieds, and Sportsman will be competing without their roofs.
On the next two Tuesday nights, The Highland Speedway will host two special races. The first is on July 27th. It’s the Madison County Fair UMP Challenge of Champions presented by Budweiser and the Scott Wernle Memorial for the Extreme Sportsmen.
The following Tuesday August 3rd it’s the first annual Racing for a Cure.
Information about these and all the racing from the Highland Speedway is available by going to the tracks web site at Highland Speedway.com or by becoming a fan of the Speedway on Facebook at Facebook.com/Highland Speedway.
Race Results for 7/24/2010
UMP Late Model - Heat 1
Finish Car No Driver
1 77H Brandon Hogenson
2 27 Mike Schulte
3 49 Steve Leach
4 5 Michael Jacober
5 33 Shannon Kuhn
6 10C DJ Cygan
7 20 John Cory
8 87 Jason Zobrist
9 11D Brian Diveley
UMP Late Model - Heat 2
Finish Car No Driver
1 78 Chad Zobrist
2 6K Michael Kloos
3 16H Mike Hammerle
4 25 Frankie Martin
5 22 Dan Jacober
6 12T Dave Thornton
7 01 Brett Cygan
8 81 Paul Bailey
UMP Late Model - Feature
Finish Car No Driver
1 78 Chad Zobrist
2 6K Michael Kloos
3 27 Mike Schulte
4 25 Frankie Martin
5 16H Mike Hammerle
6 22 Dan Jacober
7 81 Paul Bailey
8 11D Brian Diveley
9 33 Shannon Kuhn
10 12T Dave Thornton
11 49 Steve Leach
12 01 Brett Cygan
13 10C DJ Cygan
14 20 John Cory
15 5 Michael Jacober
16 87 Jason Zobrist
17 77H Brandon Hogenson
UMP Steve Schmitt Modified - Heat 1
Finish Car No Driver
1 73 Brian Bielong
2 00 Steven Ellison
3 44 Jim Werner, Jr
4 E55 Chad Sellers
5 75 Eric Faust
6 11 Adam Pate
UMP Steve Schmitt Modified - Heat 2
Finish Car No Driver
1 42 Steve Lach
2 56 Ron Hartnagel
3 T Tim Fohne
4 71 Lynn Tidwell
5 3R Jeremy Thoele
6 10F Todd Ferber
UMP Steve Schmitt Modified - Heat 3
Finish Car No Driver
1 241D Dean Hoffman
2 24H Mike Harrison
3 76 Scott Sugg
4 84 Tyler Deibert
5 25 Brett Korves
6 316 Stephen Plog
Feature to be run on 8-7-10
UMP Sportsman - Heat 1
Finish Car No Driver
1 1 Robbie Eilers
2 3 Ryan Eilers
3 92J Rick Johnson
4 6 Allan Geiseking
5 19P Mark Pflueger
6 23B Mark Bohnenstiehl
7 96 Matt Koch
8 18 Jimmy Miller
UMP Sportsman - Heat 2
Finish Car No Driver
1 88 Rob Lee
2 8E Russell Eilers
3 56B Jim Lafferty, Jr
4 441 Brian Bielong
5 07 Andy Casper
6 1G Len Garson
7 C16 Cory Brown
8 196 Jon Ripperda
UMP Sportsman - Feature
Finish Car No Driver
1 8E Russell Eilers
2 3 Ryan Eilers
3 92J Rick Johnson
4 56B Jim Lafferty, Jr
5 6 Allan Geiseking
6 23B Mark Bohnenstiehl
7 196 Jon Ripperda
8 07 Andy Casper
9 18 Jimmy Miller
10 1G Len Garson
11 441 Brian Bielong
12 1 Robbie Eilers
13 C16 Cory Brown
14 19P Mark Pflueger
15 88 Rob Lee
16 96 Matt Koch
UMP Sportsman top 5 were teched after the Feature.
UMP Street Stock - Heat 1
Finish Car No Driver
1 88 Gerald Landolt
2 1Z Zach Hoffman
3 52 Tim Koch
4 4 Larry Smith, Jr
5 54 Shaun Hortsmann
6 17C AJ Cline
UMP Street Stock - Heat 2
Finish Car No Driver
1 7 Dennis Ponder
2 12 Brian Crawford
3 101 Jeff Buss
4 53 Justin Leichsenring
5 36 Eric Harris
6 52J Cody Johnson
UMP Street Stock - Heat 3
Finish Car No Driver
1 55V Brad Venhaus
2 15 Michael Ripperda, Jr
3 8T T J Eilers
4 6 Jake Hewitt
5 29 Stephen Fohne
6 5H James Hale
Feature to be run on 8-7-10
UMP Factory Stock - Heat 1
Finish Car No Driver
1 9X Trevor Isaak
2 6 Austin Isaak
3 29H Cale Hartnagel
4 4 Justin Suhre
5 21M Willy Myers
6 121V Rick Viviano
UMP Factory Stock - Heat 2
Finish Car No Driver
1 97 Bobby Funderburk
2 26 Jordan Suhre
3 6S Shea Gagne
4 17R Jacob Rexing
5 9T Travis Horner
6 93 Kaleb Stajduhar
Feature to be run on 8-7-10