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Williams, Lunow and Nau Pick Up Wins At the Motorplex

The Jetmore Motorplex once again came to life as the URSS Sprint Cars, Modifieds and Stocks all appeared on the racing card for Fan Appreciation/Merchant Night. The fans in attendance were treated to some great racing in all classes. When the night was over, Ty Williams, Butch Leiker and Brandon Nau all visited the Motorplex’s Winners Circle.  

Liberal Kansas’s Ty Williams led the field to the green and jumped to the lead as Kirby Hagans, Keefe Hemel, Jeff Crook and Taylor Velasquez rounded out the top five at the end of lap one. C.J. Johnson and Brian Herbert were on Velasquez’s bumper as they turned up the heat on the young driver. Velasquez pressured Crook for the third spot for several laps and took the position on lap four bring Johnson with him. Herbert made the pass on Crook for the fifth spot on lap five 

Lap eight saw Herbert take the fifth spot from Johnson and quickly take the third spot from Hagans as slipped back to the fourth position. Lap eleven saw Velasquez take the fourth spot back from Johnson, up front Williams continued to hold the lead.  Lap eighteen saw Johnson pass Velasquez for the fourth spot and set his sights on third place Herbert. 

As the checkered flag flew it was Williams picking up his second Feature win of the ear with Hemel, Herbert, Johnson and Velasquez rounding out the top five.

The Weld Racing Wheels “Hard Charger Award” went to Dodge City’s Tyler Knight who came from his twentieth starting spot to finish the race in the twelfth position.

Heat Race Winners were Ray Seemann, Taylor Milton and Brian Herbert.

A-Main: 1-Ty Williams (1), 2-Keefe Hemel (11), 3-Brian Herbert (97), 4-C J Johnson (45X), 5-Taylor Velasquez (21), 6-Taylor Milton, (91X), 7-Ray Seemann (72), 8-Kirby Hagans (4), 9-Randy Washburn (0T), 10-Mike Woodruff (83X), 11-Steve Dalton (12D), 12-Tyler Knight (11K), 13-John Colbert (79C), 14-Lance Davis (9DJ), 15-Kris Moore (49), 16-Criag Jecha (17X), 17-Jeff Crook (52), 18-Kris Miller (33), 19-Justin Chaffin (69), 20-Darren Bowman (9B)

In the Modifieds, Brian Kreger led the field to the green, with Kent Lampe jumping out to the early lead with Butch Leiker, Jerry Teel, Tim Leiker and Mike Lunow rounding out the top five. Lap two saw Lampe take the second spot with Kreger taking the fifth position.  Jerry Teel and Tim Leiker took the second and third spots respectively on lap three. Tim Leiker passed Teel for the runner up spot on lap six with Mike Lunow and Mike Martin coming up to the fourth and fifth spots.

With the white flag out, Mike Lunow pressured Teel for the third position and as checkers flew it was Butch Leiker taking the win with Tim Leiker, Mike Lunow, Jerry Teel and Mike Martin rounding out the top five.

Heat race winners were Mike Lunow and Tim Leiker.

Kevin Sprott lead the Stock Car class to the green and jumped out to the early lead with Cody Zimmerman, Brandon Nau, Chris Schulte and Bart Baker rounding out the top five. Nau took over the runner up spot on lap four as he passed Cody Zimmerman for the position. Lap seven saw Nau take the lead as he and Schultz passes Nau for position. Nau got the second spot back on lap nine. Sprott and Schultz battled for the second spot for several laps until Schultz took the spot for good on lap thirteen.

As the checkers flew it was Brandon Nau picking up the victory with Chris Schultz, Kevin Sprott, Chris Oliver and Cody Zimmerman rounding out the top five.

Heat Race winners were Chris Schultz and Bart Baker.

A-Main: 1-Brandon Nau (22), 2-Chris Schultz (18R), 3-Kevin Sprott (9), 4-Chris Oliver (3), 5-Cody Zimmerman (2Z), 6-Keith Riley (55), 7-Dalton Bauer (80D), 8-Bart Baker (37), 9-Tex Zimmerman (7), 10-Ray Blackburn  (31), Eric Venard DNS

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Mike Woodruff Claims Victory In 2008 URSS Season Opener

April 28th - Despite cold temperatures, the fans that came out and braved the elements were treated to a classic old-fashioned shootout at the Jetmore Motorplex Saturday night as Mike Woodruff claimed the victory in the "Spring Fling" Sponsored by D&S Machine.  Twenty three teams pulled through the pit gate to start the Season long battle to determine both the Regional and National Titles, and if tonight’s race is any indication of how the 2008 URSS Season will be, you won’t want to miss a single race.

Lacrosse, Kansas’s Kirby Hagans and Jetmore’s Ray Seemann led the field do the green flag, but it was to be short lived as the caution flew for an incident in turn two which sent Keefe Hemel back to the pits on the hook. On the restart Seemann jumped to the lead, flowed closely by Hagans, Nick King, Kris Miller and Tyler Knight rounding out the top five. Tenth place starter, Brian Herbert started his charge to the front taking the fifth position from Knight on lap five.  King, Miller and Herbert battled for the runner up spot for several laps with Herbert taking the spot for good on lap nine.

Turpin Oklahoma’s Taylor Velasquez methodically moved his way through the field to grab the fourth spot away from Miller and set his sights on King only to suffer a spin in turn two. Seemann and Herbert would put on a show for the fans as they sliced and diced their way through traffic lap after lap as they battled for the lead. Lap thirteen, Herbert had something break on his car, which caused him to brush the front-stretch wall coming off of turn four and ended his night as he pulled off the track. Lap fourteen saw twelfth place starter, Satanta’s Mike Woodruff break into the top five and battle Kris Miller for the fourth spot.

Lap seventeen saw the battle for the fifth position heat up as Brooke Boyd worked her way up to battle Tyler Knight for the spot. Boyd took the spot and joined the fight for the third spot with Miller.  Seemann’s car worked well on the top side and Woodruff’s hugged the bottom as they wove their way through traffic followed closely by Miller, Boyd and Knight. Lap twenty-three saw Boyd take the third position away from Miller and Velasquez who had worked his back through the field take the fifth spot away from Knight. 

 As the white flag flew, Seemann held his line on the cushion into turn one as Woodruff dove to the bottom and took the position coming off of turn two to take the victory, followed by Seemann, Boyd, Miller and Velasquez rounding out the top five. The victory was a vindication for Woodruff and his team, as the evening didn’t go quite as planned. Mike got upside down in his heat before reaching the flag stand, the damage was minimal and the team had the car repaired. Woodruff started last in the B-Main to race to a Second place finish.

The “Weld Racing Wheels Hard Charger Award” went to Mike Woodruff who came from his twelfth place starting position to pick up the win.

The “Keizer Aluminum Wheels B-Main” winner was Dodge City’s Kris Moore.

Heat Race winners were Brian Herbert, Brooke Boyd and Taylor Velasquez.

 Results:

A-Main:

1) Mike Woodruff – 83X - 2) Ray Seemann – 72 - 3) Brooke Boyd – B2 - 4) Kris Miller – 33 - 5) Taylor Velasquez – 21 - 6) Tyler Knight – 11K - 7) Justin Chaffin – 69 - 8) Kris Moore – 49 - 9) Brian May – 8 - 10) Randy Bantam – 5R - 11) Nick King – 83 - 12) Brandon Fisher – 14 - 13) Craig Jecha – 17X - 14) John Colbert – 79C - 15) Brian Herbert – 97 - 16) Lance Davis – 9DJ - 17) Kirby Hagans – 1B - 18) Keefe Hemel – 11 - 19) Willie Wynn – 36W (DNS) - 20) Smokey Fairbank – 2 (DNS)

 B-Main:

1) Kris Moore, 2) Mike Woodruff, 3) John Colbert, 4) Justin Chaffin, 5) Randy Bantam, 6) Brian May, 7) Craig Jecha, 8) Smokey Fairbank, 9) Willie Wynn, 10) Lance Davis, 11) Ken Lutters (DNS), Steve Dalton (DNS), Cody Salem (DNS)

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Rucker and Baker Score Wins at the Jetmore Motorplex

April 28th - The action was fast and furious at the “Spring Fling sponsored by D&S Machine” at the Jetmore Motorplex as Matt Rucker took the win in the BST Modifieds and Bart took the checkers in the Stock Car Feature.

 The BST Modified Series rolled into the Motorplex 36 strong and the racing action did not disappoint the fans that braved the elements.  Matt Brack and Shannon Maughlin led the field to the green with Brack taking he top spot followed by Maughlin, Matt Rucker, Clay Bontrager and Rob Day to round out the top five. Rucker took the top spot on lap five and would never relinquish it. The race for positions two through five was the show of the evening, as Leiker, M. Brack, W. Brack and Bontrager changed positions lap after lap for the remainder of the race.

When the checkers flew, it was Rucker taking the win with Tim Leiker, Will Brack, Matt Brack and Nate Moore rounding at the top five.

 B-main winners were Dale Wanger and Mike Petersillie.

Heat races winners were Tim Leiker, George Tyler, Clay Bontrager and Matt Rucker.

The Stock Car division had fourteen teams pull through the gate to do battle on the 3/8’s mile oval. Mel Law and Bart Baker brought the field to the green with Law jumping out to the lead with Baker in tow followed by Billy Phelps, Chris Schultz and Arnold Williams rounding out the top five. Baker took the lead on lap two with Williams on his tail, the two battled back and forth but Baker would never give u the lead. Back in the pack Toby Witthuhn, Tony Corpening and Chris Schultz all battled for third through fifth as they wove through traffic.

When the checkers flew, it was Baker taking the win with Williams, Witthuhn, Corpening and Schultz rounding out the top five.

Heat Race winners were Kevin Sprott and Tony Corpening

Results

Modifieds: A-Main

1- Rucker, 2-Leiker, 3-W. Brack, 4-M. Brack, 5- Moore, 6-Gearhart, 7-Petersillie, 8-S. Brown, 9-Maughlin, 10-Tyler, 11-Schoenberger, 12-Zorn, 13-Bontrager, 14-C. Wanger, 15-Lampe, 16-C. Brown, 17-Kirchoff, 18-Hembree, 19-Day, 20-Frabizius, 21-Berger, 22-Teel, 23-D. Wanger, 24-Martin

Stocks A-Main

1-Baker, 2-A. Williams, 3-Witthuhn, 4-Corpening, 5-Schultz, 6-Law, 7-M. Williams, 8-Wadel, 9-Bauer, 10-Mathes, 11-Sauser, 12-Phelps, 13-Nessmore, 14-Sprott

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Jetmore Motorplex Opens For The 2008 Season

April 21st - The high banks of the Jetmore Motorplex will roar to life Saturday April 25^th as the United Rebel Sprint Series hits the track to open its Third Season. The Series has grown from its humble beginnings with 15 cars in its first year, to 65 cars last season. With the beginning of the 2008 Season, the URSS boasts 100 cars and counting will be racing in the four newly formed Regions, all-vying for Regional Championships and a shot at the National Crown.  2007 URSS Champion Smokey Fairbank will return to defend his title with a stiff group of veteran drivers along with a boisterous crop of first year drivers; the URSS Series is poised to be a slugfest.

Joining the URSS Sprint Cars in the season opener will be the BST Modified Touring Series. The BST Series is sanctioned by IMCA and will bring a host of area drivers as well as driver from Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas to the Motorplex. The first two BST races have produced two and three wide racing and close finishes and is sure to bring the crowd to their feet. This will be the first of two appearances for the BST Modifieds at the Motorplex in 2008. The BST Two-Seater Modified will be on hand for some lucky fans and BST Registered Drivers to give rides in an actual 500 Horsepower race car.

Filling the evenings Racing Card will be the Stock Cars. Always a crowd pleaser the best of the area drivers will join the chase for the checkers.

Friday night there will be an open test and tune night beginning at 7:00 pm for all classes.

For more information contact Rick Salem at 785-475-7010 or at . You can also visit the URSS website at www.unitedrebelsprintseries.com  or the BST website at www.bstracing.com

Catch Video Highlights at the Longhorn Saloon

April 7th, 2008 -  The United Rebel Sprint Series has put a deal together with the 

Longhorn Saloon in Dodge City and Wayne Morgan with Creative Digital to show 

video's on Tuesday nights of the previous weekends racing action. 

The Longhorn Saloon (Located at the Dodge House) is also a sponsor of Steve 

Dalton's sprint car and is excited about becoming a part of the local racing scene

and wants to invite all racers, crews, and fans to come out on Tuesday nights to 

enjoy a recap of the weekends racing action at both the Jetmore Motorplex and 

Dodge City Raceway Park. 

You can visit the Creative Digital Website by pointing your web browser to......

 http://www.creatvdigitl.com

for pictures from the 2007 DCRP Racing Season and to find out the services

available from Wayne at Creative Digital or send Wayne an e-mail at .....