West Liberty Raceway
August 4, 2014
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Birkhofer and Harris net 'Tornado Tuesday' wins at West Liberty Raceway

WEST LIBERTY, IA (August 5) - Brian Birkhofer took command early and went on to score the Coors Light Open Late Model Shootout feature win on Tuesday night at the West Liberty Raceway. Birkhofer actually made his most important pass of the night in the 8 lap fast dash by overtaking Billy Moyer for the second finishing position which placed him on the outside front row along side of pole winner Chris Simpson. The 50 lap main event took the green with Birkhofer taking command early. Despite the main being stopped for minor cautions Birkhofer was up to all challenges as he was clearly the class of the field on Tuesday night. Chris and Chad SImpson battled for second for much of the race until the late stages when Jason Feger was able to get between the two brothers. At the finish line Chris Simpson ran second to Birkhofer with Feger in third ahead of Chad SImpson. Dave Eckrich rounded out the top five.

The iWireless IMCA Late Models were also on the card on Tuesday night. Kyle Hinrichs led the 30 lapper for the majority of the race until a late race caution bunched the field and allowed Brian Harris to make a winning move on the restart. Harris crossed the finish line ahead of Hinrichs, with Tyler Bruehning taking third.


Late Models
1 15B Brian Birkhofer
2 32 Chris Simpson
3 25X Jason Feger
4 25 Chad Simpson
5 58 Dave Eckrich
6 22 Gregg Satterlee
7 21B Rich Bell
8 22B Jonathan Brauns
9 21 Billy Moyer
10 31 Jason Utter
11 33 Nick Marolf
12 56 Andy Eckrich
13 50 Denny Eckrich
14 29 Spencer Diercks
15 15K Justin Kay
16 28X Justin Mitchell
17 20 Jake Meier
18 93 Jay Johnson
19 26B Wayne Brau
20 3X Skip Frey
21 9 Lyle Zanker
DNS 4 JC Wyman

IMCA Late Models
1 15R Brian Harris
2 15 Kyle Hinrichs
3 16 Tyler Bruening
4 88 Kevin Kile
5 21M Luke Merfeld
6 32C Chad Holladay
7 74 Ron Boyse
8 35 Curran Beckler
9 70 Shawn Mulvany
10 6 Jay Chenoweth
11 02T Tanner Allen
12 40 Joel Callahan
13 58 Ray Guss Jr.
14 56 Andy Eckrich
15 38 Colby Springsteen
16 33 Nick Marolf
17 84 Sam Halstead
DNS 1M Rob Moss
DNS 46 Nate Beuseling