Pospisil on pole for Malvern Bank Series Finale
CORNING, Ia. — Tad Pospisil battled through two rounds of heat races and a “King of the Hill” battle to score the pole in Friday’s opening night of the Pumpkin Dash for the Malvern Bank Super Late Model Series’ final race weekend.
The half-mile Adams County Speedway is host to the final weekend of racing for the both the East and West Series. Friday served as the qualifying night for all drivers to try to make it into the first six spots for Saturday’s championship feature.
Instead of the normal time trials and one round of heat races, every driver competed in two rounds of heat races. Afterwards, the top six in points would battle in a 1-on-1, 2-lap “King of the Hill” style gauntlet race with the winner starting on the pole of Saturday’s Main Event.
The three heat races in round 1 were won by Andy and Dave Eckrich and Curtis Glover. After a break, Brian Kosiski, Justin Zeitner and JC Wyman came out and were victorious in round two.
After the points were tallied up, Tad Pospisil, JC Wyman, Bill Leighton Jr., Justin Zeitner, Andrew Kosiski, and Jake Neal were the top six to race head-to-head for the top six spots. Pospisil and Wyman were the first pair up with Pospisil taking the win.
Pospisil would go on to take on Leighton. Leighton was not able to get the run he needed to make a pass, and Pospisil advanced.
Pospisil would win again and then face Neal. Neal tried to keep the race close but did not prove to be a match for Pospisil.
The next match against Jusin Zeitner looked to be the heavyweight battle of the gauntlet, but Zeitner unfornately pulled off on the first lap leaving Pospisil to cruise to the final battle against Kosiski.
Kosiski had speed on the bottom lane, but Pospisil was too strong on the outside lane. Tad Pospisil would go undefeated in five rounds to score the pole position for the 30-lap, $6,000 to win main event to decide the West and East Series titles.
Both tours will return to action at Adams County Speedway on Saturday for the last group of heat races to set up the remainder of the feature lineup and then settle the score in the final feature.
RESULTS
Heat 1 - 1 (10 Laps): 1. 56-Andy Eckrich[5]; 2. 32C-Chad Holladay[3]; 3. 22-Charlie McKenna[1]; 4. 3C-Mike Collins[2]; 5. 04-Tad Pospisil[7]; 6. 4-JC Wyman[6]; 7. 20-Zach Less[4]; 8. 33-Paul Glendenning[9]; 9. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[8]
Heat 1 - 2 (10 Laps): 1. 58-Dave Eckrich[1]; 2. 53-Andrew Kosiski[4]; 3. 6-Jake Neal[2]; 4. 10T-Jeff Tharp[7]; 5. 62-Justin Zeitner[9]; 6. 26JR-Corey Zeitner[6]; 7. 1-Jake Bridge[3]; 8. 18-Ty Webster[8]; 9. 33X-Dennis Elliott[5]
Heat 1 - 3 (10 Laps): 1. 30-Curtis Glover[1]; 2. 14-Kyle Berck[3]; 3. 24-Bill Leighton[4]; 4. 15C-Curt Schroeder[2]; 5. 35D-Dylan Sillman[8]; 6. 38T-Dylan Thornton[7]; 7. 76H-Jason Hahne[6]; 8. 56S-Chris Spieker[5]; 9. 52-Brian Kosiski[9]
Heat 2 - 1 (10 Laps): 1. 52-Brian Kosiski[1]; 2. 53-Andrew Kosiski[5]; 3. 10T-Jeff Tharp[3]; 4. 76H-Jason Hahne[4]; 5. 14-Kyle Berck[6]; 6. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[2]; 7. 58-Dave Eckrich[8]; 8. 3C-Mike Collins[7]; 9. 56-Andy Eckrich[9]
Heat 2 - 2 (10 Laps): 1. 62-Justin Zeitner[1]; 2. 04-Tad Pospisil[3]; 3. 35D-Dylan Sillman[2]; 4. 26JR-Corey Zeitner[4]; 5. 1-Jake Bridge[7]; 6. 20-Zach Less[6]; 7. 15C-Curt Schroeder[8]; 8. 56S-Chris Spieker[5]; 9. 22-Charlie McKenna[9]
Heat 2 - 3 (10 Laps): 1. 4-JC Wyman[4]; 2. 24-Bill Leighton[6]; 3. 38T-Dylan Thornton[3]; 4. 6-Jake Neal[8]; 5. 33-Paul Glendenning[1]; 6. 32C-Chad Holladay[7]; 7. 18-Ty Webster[2]; 8. 30-Curtis Glover[9]; 9. 33X-Dennis Elliott[5]
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STOCK CARS
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 92-Josh Most[4]; 2. 70-Jesse Dennis[2]; 3. 37D-Brad Derry[9]; 4. 55-Steve Churchill[6]; 5. 33VH-Dusty Van Horn[5]; 6. 62-Rick Barton[3]; 7. 97-Mark Karg[8]; 8. 20-Lance Swartz[10]; 9. 101-Marvin Henriksen[12]; 10. 81-Daniel Davis[11]; 11. 8-Derek Myers[1]; 12. (DNF) 90-Bob Walker[13]; 13. (DQ) 21X-John Anderson[7]
Heat 1 Redraw Top 5 (6 Laps): 1. 92-Josh Most[3]; 2. 37D-Brad Derry[4]; 3. 62-Rick Barton[1]; 4. 20-Lance Swartz[2]; 5. 8-Derek Myers[5]; 6. 81-Daniel Davis[6]
Heat 2 Redraw Top 5 (6 Laps): 1. 55-Steve Churchill[2]; 2. 21X-John Anderson[7]; 3. 70-Jesse Dennis[6]; 4. 33VH-Dusty Van Horn[4]; 5. 97-Mark Karg[1]; 6. 101-Marvin Henriksen[5]; 7. (DNF) 90-Bob Walker[3]
B MODIFIEDS
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 78-Evan Davis[10]; 2. 777-Cody Olsen[3]; 3. 20-Kirk McKay[1]; 4. 95N-Garrett Nelson[11]; 5. 11W-Andy Roberts[2]; 6. 11-Austin Hardisty[9]; 7. 86J-Jerod Weston[5]; 8. 57-Tyler Gross[7]; 9. 9-Dominick Sexton[4]; 10. 64-Nick Hermsen[13]; 11. 34X-Damian Haas[15]; 12. (DNF) 17-Tate Haffner[14]; 13. (DNF) 58-Hunter Poston[8]; 14. (DNF) 3-Kyle Tanner[6]; 15. (DNF) 16A-Josh Most[12]
Heat 1 Top 4 Redraw (6 Laps): 1. 3-Kyle Tanner[3]; 2. 58-Hunter Poston[4]; 3. 20-Kirk McKay[5]; 4. 9-Dominick Sexton[2]; 5. 64-Nick Hermsen[1]
Heat 2 Top 4 Redraw (6 Laps): 1. 78-Evan Davis[1]; 2. 16A-Josh Most[5]; 3. 95N-Garrett Nelson[2]; 4. 777-Cody Olsen[4]; 5. 17-Tate Haffner[3]
Heat 3 Top 4 Redraw (6 Laps): 1. 11-Austin Hardisty[1]; 2. 86J-Jerod Weston[5]; 3. 57-Tyler Gross[4]; 4. 11W-Andy Roberts[3]; 5. 34X-Damian Haas[2]
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