I-80 Speedway Greenwood, Nebraska (April 6, 2019)—The Carpetland Nebraska 360 Sprint Series presented by Malvern Bank returned to the 4/10 mile facility in Greenwood, Nebraska for night #2 of the Spring Meltdown. Tonights feature paid $2500 to the winner. Twenty-seven cars checked into the pits making for three heat races, a B feature and then the main event.
The Saldana Racing Products pole winner, Jack Dover, brought the field to the green flag with Seth Brahmer on his outside. Dover got a great start and took the low lane in turn 1 leading lap #1. The battle for third ensued between Terry McCarl and Clint Garner for several laps but McCarl gathered the momentum and jumped to a 5 car advantage over Garner for third place. Meanwhile after 5 laps Dover extended his lead by half a straightaway and ran into lap traffic on lap #8. After 9 laps the top five were Dover, Brahmer, McCarl, Garner, and Ryan Roberts. Dover sliced and diced traffic extending a full straightaway lead over Brahmer and lap traffic kept him from challenging Dover. A great battle between McCarl and Justin Henderson kept the excitement going on through several laps leaving 10 laps remaining. With a half a lap lead, Dover put half the field a lap down but a spin by Lee Grosz, in turn 2, brought out the yellow leaving 8 laps left. The top 5 were Dover, Henderson, McCarl, Brahmer, and Roberts.
Dover brought the field to green flag leaving the rest of the field in the dust extending his lead to a straightaway over second running Justin Henderson. With 2 laps left, something broke on Seth Brahmer putting him into the turn 3 wall bringing out the yellow for the second time.
On the restart, Dover took to the high side and Henderson went low but Dover had the momentum coming off turn two and gathered a 4 car lead going down the backstretch. With the lead, Dover was able to hang on and take the win plus $2500.
Heat Race #1 (Results) 8 Laps
Stuart Snyder
Clint Garner
Jason Danley
Matt Juhl
Shayle Bade
Cody Ledger
Wade Nygaard
Ryan King
Jade Hastings
Heat Race #2 (Results) 8 Laps
Terry McCarl
Jack Dover
Lee Grosz
Justin Henderson
Jake Bubak
Ryan Bickett
Joey Danley
John Klabunde
Rich Cerveny
Heat Race #3 (Results) 8 Laps
Seth Brahmer
Dusty Ballenger
Ryan Roberts
Jason Martin
Jody Rosenboom
Frank Galusha
Brendan Mullen
Tyler Drueke
Dylan Opdahl
A Main (Results) 24 Laps
Jack Dover
Justin Henderson
Terry McCarl
Matt Juhl
Clint Garner
Wade Nygaard
Jake Bubak
Ryan Roberts
Stuart Snyder
Jason Martin
Cody Ledger
Jody Rosenboom
Joey Danley
Shayle Bade
Jason Danley
Brendan Mullen
Ryan Bickett
Lee Grosz
Dusty Ballenger
Seth Brahmer
Contingency Awards
Saldana Racing Products Pole Award- Jack Dover
Speedway Motors Hard Charger $200- Wade Nygaard
Electrical Systems Inc Podium Draw $300- Clint Garner
Points (As of April 5, 2019)
Pos Driver Points Gap
1 Justin Henderson 284 -
2 Matt Juhl 280 4
3 Jack Dover 248 36
4 Jason Martin 245 39
5 Jake Bubak 232 52
6 Clint Garner 221 63
7 Seth Brahmer 220 64
8 Wade Nygaard 216 68
9 Ryan Roberts 216 68
10 Ryan Bickett 215 69
The series will resume its 2019 season in 3 weeks when we head north to South Dakota for the $10,000 to win, South Dakota Sprint Car Nationals. The two night event will feature dual heat races on Friday evening and the Saturday night event will run all of the features. This event is co-sanctioned with us and the Property Solutions of America Midwest Sprint Touring Series. For more information on this event, please go to www.parkjeff.com.
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- Travis Johnson on Apr 07, 2019
- Article Date: 4/7/2019 by Travis Johnson