Adams County Speedway
September 10, 2011
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Glendenning wins to clinch track championship at Adams County Speedway

CORNING, Iowa (September 10) - With 103 cars signed in and a clear sky overhead the stage was set for the final points night for the 2011 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series season at the Adams County Speedway. When it came down to a winner-takes-all situation in the Coors Light Silver Bullet late models it was Mt Ayr’s Paul Glendenning capturing not only the win, but his first track championship as well.

Trailing JC Wyman by two points entering the final night Glendenning needed either to finish in front of Wyman by more than one position or to win the feature in order to lock down the championship. And win the feature he did, but not without a challenge nearly every lap of the twenty-five lap feature. From the drop of the green flag it was Atlantic’s Jason O’Brien charging to the front. O’Brien had won his heat race by a commanding six seconds over Glendenning and when he took the lead on lap five it looked like he might run off and hide from the field. But Glendenning, with Wyman glue to his rear bumper moved thru traffic and they were running one, two, three by lap eleven.

On lap twelve O’Brien and Glendenning touched in turn two spinning to a halt. Fortunately for both of them another car stopped in turn one brought out the yellow sending the realignment back to the prior lap. When O’Brien made a quick trip to the pits it turned the lead over to Glendenning, but left Wyman directly behind him.

For the second half of the race Wyman tried every move he could to get around Glendenning’s #33 , and while he could pull even he was never able to take the top spot away. At the checkers the margin was less than four tenths of a second. In third was Corey Zeitner, with Trent Jackson fourth and Al Zeitner fifth.

Glendenning took the championship by a five point margin – the five bonus points he received for the win. Wyman was second with Justin Zeitner third, Trent Jackson fourth, and Jason O’Brien fifth.
In the Late Model King of the Hill event it was Corning’s Trent Jackson and Atlantic’s Jason O’Brien facing off in the championship round. Jackson had advanced with wins over Jack Larson and Max Stone, while O’Brien had defeated Tim Cooney and JC Wyman to get to the finals. Jackson took the King’s trophy home taking the last checkered flag of the evening.

In the Poet Biorefining modifieds it was only one point separating Conception Junction’s Kirby Stiens from Stanton’s Jeff James for the championship race. While the feature race was the Jesse Dennis show, as the Corning driver lead all but the first two laps of the eighteen lap race to capture his second win of the season, Kirby battled his way as high as second before dropping back to third at the checkers. James, on the other hand, found himself mired in traffic mid-pack and was never able to make a charge to the front.

At the end of the feature it was Dennis, Jared Stiens, Kirby Stiens, Derrick Hicks and Dennis Elliott in the top five. Jeff James finished ninth leaving him eleven points behind Stiens in the points race. Mt Ayr’s Dennis Elliot was four points behind James for third, with Creston’s Todd Van Eaton and Jesse Dennis next in line.

In the full-bodied Northland Oil pro-stock division Avoca’s Jason Rold carried a comfortable thirty point lead into the evening knowing a finish of thirteenth or better would lock in his first ever track championship. In a division know for trading paint and bending sheet-metal Rold started eleventh and ran to a conservative fifth place finish to win the points battle.

Waging a battle up front in the feature were two Corning area drivers, Clay Mercer and Tony Hardisty. Mercer held the lead for the first fifteen laps until Hardisty was able to slip by and claim the win in a race that was extended an extra lap due to a late yellow flag and a green, white, checker restart. Bedford’s Brad Derry finished second in the feature garnering him forty-three points and securing what should be the national Division 3 Dirt championship based on his points won at both ACS and I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, NE.

Rounding out the top five in the feature were Greg Miller, Craig Garner, and Rold. In the points battle behind Champion Rold were Hardisty, Derry, Miller, and Glenn Orr.

Knoxville’s Bill Gibson came to the track with the first ever Stalker Chevrolet B-Mod points championship firmly in hand as he held an insurmountable lead over Stanton’s Jerod Weston and Blain Petersen of Essex. In a feature event that hosted several new cars Gibson started sixth and wasted no time moving to the front and capturing his eighth win in fifteen starts this season. Creston’s Robert Hague garnered his best finish of the season running second, followed by Villisca’s Chris Vannausdle, Omaha’s Larry Robinson Jr, and Fairfax, MO’s Tim Sutter.

In the points battle Gibson finished eighty-nine points ahead of Petersen, with Weston ten points back in third, Bedford’s Trent Davison fourth, and Hague in fifth.

The champion’s trophy in the Chat Mobility hobby stock division will end up in the Waukee home of Matt McAtee. With a division leading three wins for the season McAtee finished twenty three points ahead of Bedford’s Rick Ritchie with Clarinda’s Jeremy Auten just two points further back in third.

Auten did everything he could to improve his points position by winning the feature event from his inside row four starting position. Veteran racer David Weeda from Mt Ayr finished second followed by Ritchie, Creston’s Patrick Pellman, and Clarinda youngster Kenny Champ.

The lights will stay dark at ACS on September 17th, but action will roar back to the speedway on the 24th for the fourteenth annual Tradition at ACS. Pro-stock and modified drivers from far and wide will race for $1500 to win, while hobby stock and B-mods will run for $1000 to win. Since no NASCAR license is needed at the Tradition car counts are expected to swell as drivers compete for the largest single-night purse found in the area. Gates open an hour earlier than normal with the pits opening at 3:00 o’clock, grandstands at 4:00, and racing starting at 6:00. See www.acspeedway.com for full details.

Late Models  
1 33 Paul Glendenning
2 4 JC Wyman
3 26jr Corey Zeitner
4 12 Trenton Jackson
5 76 Al Zeitner
6 62 Leon Zeitner
7 12x Tim Cooney
8 3t Jeff French
9 z62 Justin Zeitner
10 15 Jason O'Brien
11 13 Mike Leal
12 9f Fred Miller
13 8 Sterlin Perkins
14 77 Jack Larson
15 M80 Max Stone
16 65 Ron Binning
17 13jr Colton Leal
18 53 Doug Burgess
19 4x Troy McKee
20 32 David Carlisle

Modifieds  
1 70 Jesse Dennis
2 59 Jared Stiens
3 0 Kirby Stiens
4 78 Derrick Hicks
5 29e Dennis Elliott
6 13h Eric Hanna
7 2 John Davis
8 V31 Todd Van Eaton
9 71 Jeff James
10 64 Russell Stewart
11 1 Ryan Stiens
12 36t Jeff Wiggins
13 43 Brian Foote
14 29 Les Helvie
15 42 Jonny Hughes
16 5 Chris Hogan
17 83 Ben Wolverton
18 43x Dan Mueller
19 32 Dave Carlisle
20 33r Tim Richmond

Pro Stocks  
1 0 Tony Hardisty
2 37d Brad Derry
3 83 Greg Miller
4 38 Craig Garner
5 96 Jason Rold
6 113x Steve Churchill
7 3 Joe Zadina
8 66 Jeff Joldersma
9 77 Glen Hoyt
10 13x Glenn Orr
11 2 Kevin Sharp
12 17 Jeff Orr
13 69c Cody Clark
14 81 Dwain Pelzer
15 14 Chad Helvie
16 24 Tyler Mark
17 28c Jake Christensen
18 36m Clay Mercer
19 20r Ron Helvie
20 10g Tom Steinbach

Hobby Stocks  
1 20 Jeremy Auten
2 40x David Weeda
3 10 Rick Ritchie
4 73 Patrick Pellman
5 3 Kenny Champ
6 13 Jeremy Ribbey
7 7 Tom Myers
8 72 Matt McAtee
9 4 Jeremy Purdy
10 8x Pat Shiflett
11 67 Dean Orr
12 33 Tim McCollum
13 18 Joe Murphy
14 74 Heath Anderson
15 18e John Murphy
16 20j Jake Jenkins
17 9 Curtis Gaunt
18 92 Buck Schafroth
19 21d Andy Davison
20 56 Delmar Derry
21 70b Luke Ramsey
22 78 Dean Richards
23 71 Derek Pellman
24 79 Ryan Sutter

B-Mods  
1 38 Bill Gibson
2 10 Robert Hague
3 15 Chris Vannausdle
4 48 Larry Robinson Jr.
5 43s Tim Sutter
6 14 Jeff Jones
7 98 Brett Sheppard
8 10t Dustin Thayer
9 32 Jared Miller
10 22 DJ Doebeling
11 19 Trent Davison
12 21 Adam Smith
13 68+1 Blaine Peterson
14 53 Larry Robinson Sr.
15 15c Cody Hillgartner
16 86J Jarod Weston
17 E85 Chris Stanley
18 74 Glen Gladson Jr.