By Anthony Ainslie (Norfolk, NE) -- A fourth consecutive win and a weekend sweep for Tad Pospisil as he wins on his home track at Off-Road Speedway Saturday night.
Saturday’s visit to Off-Road Speedway in Norfolk, Nebraska marked round ten of the 2020 season for the Malvern Bank Super Late Models West Series. The race was also the final race for the speedway for the year as the series took on the quarter-mile bullring for the Bob Haase Memorial. A field of 29 cars made the trip out to Norfolk. The Norfolk natives came out in full force as Pospisil and 2020 Off-Road Speedway Champion Ben Sukup took the top two qualifying spots.
PHOTO CREDIT: Todd Boyd (file)
However, it was Charlie McKenna, in his first visit to the track, who was on the pole for the 35-lap main event. Bill Leighton Jr. was to his outside on the front row, and the duo traded the lead a few times. Leighton was driving Jay Burdic’s # J1 car after suffering mechanical failures in his primary car the night before at I-80 Speedway.
The battle for the lead between Leighton and McKenna was intense while Tad Pospisil worked his way to third and tried to chase them down. While that went on, Andrew Kosiski and Zach Zeitner went wheel to wheel for fourth.
McKenna’s race went south when he spun out entering turn one while running second with 23 laps remaining. The Ames, Iowa native went to the rear and came back to finish tenth.
When racing resumed, Leighton continued to lead while Pospisil did everything to work the bottom line to catch up. Pospisil’s work on the inside lane paid off as he caught and passed Leighton for the lead off turn two with 11 laps to go.
The second and final caution came out for a slow car in turn four which set up a four-lap dash to the finish. Pospisil hit his marks on the restart, and the championship points leader from Norfolk got the win he was wanting for years.
Pospisil scored his first win on his home track. The win completed the weekend sweep for Pospisil after his win the night before at I-80. It was Pospisil’s sixth win of the season between the East and West series and his 23rd career win with the Malvern Bank and Haulin’ with Hoker Trucking Super Late Models.
Leighton took second with a borrowed car while Andrew Kosiski made it back-to-back third-place finishes on the weekend. Defending Series Champion Kyle Berck finished fourth, and Off-Road Speedway regular Jim Johnson rounded out the top five. Zach Zeitner also got his career-best feature finish with a sixth-place finish.
The Malvern Bank and Haulin’ with Hoker Trucking Super Late Model Series now turn their attention to the richest weekend of the year. Both tours head east to the 300 Raceway in Farley, Iowa for the 43rd annual Yankee Dirt Track Classic. The weekend will feature a $3,000 to win feature on Friday and a massive $10,000 to win main event on Saturday.
RESULTS
A Feature 1
Pos Start Driver Hometown Car
1 5 Tad Pospisil Norfolk, NE #04
2 2 Bill Leighton Lavista, NE #J1
3 4 Andrew Kosiski Lavista, NE #53
4 10 Kyle Berck Marquette, NE #14
5 6 Jim Johnson Plainview, NE #36
6 3 Zach Zeitner Bellevue, NE #76
7 14 Corey Zeitner Omaha, NE #26JR
8 13 Chris Spieker Massena, IA #56
9 11 Jason O'Brien Atlantic, IA #15
10 1 Charlie McKenna Ames, IA #22
11 9 Curt Schroeder Newton, IA #15C
12 8 John Anderson Omaha, NE #21X
13 7 Nelson Vollbrecht Stanton, NE #11X
14 22 JC Wyman Griswold, IA #4
15 20 Ben Schaller Omaha, NE #98
16 19 Darrel DeFrance Marshalltown, IA #99D
17 12 Eric Vanosdall Hoskins, NE #9
18 23 Josh Krug Omaha, NE #4K
19 17 Justin Zeitner Malvern, IA #62
20 15 Brad Perdue Council Bluffs, IA #25
21 18 Brian Kosiski Papillion, NE #52
22 21 Josh Leonard Gibbon, NE #85
B Feature 1
Pos Start Driver Hometown Car
1 2 Justin Zeitner Malvern, IA #62
2 1 Brian Kosiski Papillion, NE #52
3 3 Darrel DeFrance Marshalltown, IA #99D
4 4 Ben Schaller Omaha, NE #98
5 6 Chase Osborne Norfolk, NE #14C
6 5 Robert Osborne Norfolk, NE #35
7 9 Travis Paulson Omaha, NE #99
8 11 Josh Krug Omaha, NE #4K
9 7 Matt Haase Norfolk, NE #94
10 12 Kaleb Jasperson Pierce, NE #4J
11 8 Josh Leonard Gibbon, NE #85
12 13 Brock Carlson Winside, NE #49
13 10 JC Wyman Griswold, IA #4
Heat 1
Pos Start Driver Hometown Car
1 1 Corey Zeitner Omaha, NE #26JR
2 3 Jim Johnson Plainview, NE #36
3 6 Tad Pospisil Norfolk, NE #04
4 2 Chase Osborne Norfolk, NE #14C
5 5 Kyle Berck Marquette, NE #14
6 7 JC Wyman Griswold, IA #4
7 4 Josh Leonard Gibbon, NE #85
8 8 Brock Carlson Winside, NE #49
Heat 2
Pos Start Driver Hometown Car
1 2 Zach Zeitner Bellevue, NE #76
2 7 Brad Perdue Council Bluffs, IA #25
3 3 Chris Spieker Massena, IA #56
4 4 Eric Vanosdall Hoskins, NE #9
5 5 Jason O'Brien Atlantic, IA #15
6 1 Travis Paulson Omaha, NE #99
7 6 Ben Sukup Norfolk, NE #07
Heat 3
Pos Start Driver Hometown Car
1 2 Nelson Vollbrecht Stanton, NE #11X
2 5 Bill Leighton Lavista, NE #J1
3 1 Matt Haase Norfolk, NE #94
4 6 Charlie McKenna Ames, IA #22
5 3 Robert Osborne Norfolk, NE #35
6 4 Ben Schaller Omaha, NE #98
7 7 Josh Krug Omaha, NE #4K
Heat 4
Pos Start Driver Hometown Car
1 2 John Anderson Omaha, NE #21X
2 1 Darrel DeFrance Marshalltown, IA #99D
3 5 Andrew Kosiski Lavista, NE #53
4 3 Justin Zeitner Malvern, IA #62
5 4 Brian Kosiski Papillion, NE #52
6 6 Curt Schroeder Newton, IA #15C
7 7 Kaleb Jasperson Pierce, NE #4J
Qualifying 1
Pos Start Driver Hometown Car
1 25 Tad Pospisil Norfolk, NE #04
2 29 Ben Sukup Norfolk, NE #07
3 10 Charlie McKenna Ames, IA #22
4 9 Curt Schroeder Newton, IA #15C
5 18 Kyle Berck Marquette, NE #14
6 20 Jason O'Brien Atlantic, IA #15
7 13 Bill Leighton Lavista, NE #J1
8 28 Andrew Kosiski Lavista, NE #53
9 7 Josh Leonard Gibbon, NE #85
10 8 Eric Vanosdall Hoskins, NE #9
11 15 Ben Schaller Omaha, NE #98
12 17 Brian Kosiski Papillion, NE #52
13 21 Jim Johnson Plainview, NE #36
14 2 Chris Spieker Massena, IA #56
15 26 Robert Osborne Norfolk, NE #35
16 23 Justin Zeitner Malvern, IA #62
17 22 Chase Osborne Norfolk, NE #14C
18 14 Zach Zeitner Bellevue, NE #76
19 19 Nelson Vollbrecht Stanton, NE #11X
20 3 John Anderson Omaha, NE #21X
21 24 Corey Zeitner Omaha, NE #26JR
22 27 Travis Paulson Omaha, NE #99
23 1 Matt Haase Norfolk, NE #94
24 6 Darrel DeFrance Marshalltown, IA #99D
25 5 JC Wyman Griswold, IA #4
26 12 Brad Perdue Council Bluffs, IA #25
27 16 Josh Krug Omaha, NE #4K
28 4 Kaleb Jasperson Pierce, NE #4J
29 11 Brock Carlson Winside, NE #49