July 30, 2023 | By Anthony Ainslie

Justin Zeitner wins Gail and Karen Hampel Memorial at Corning

Corning, IA —  The career season for Justin Zeitner continued as he ran a flawless race in Saturday’s visit to the Adams County Speedway for the Gail and Karen Hampel Memorial.

The big half-mile at the Adams County Fairgrounds hosted the Malvern Bank Super Late Models West Series and the Haulin’ with Hoker Trucking East Series for the second running of the Gail and Karen Memorial. The race marked round 14 for both tours on the 2023 season.

East Series Point Leader Chad Holladay started off the night setting the night’s top lap in qualifying when he stopped the watch at 20.194 seconds. The four heat races were won by Dylan Sillman, Matt Ryan, Bill Leighton Jr., who came back from restarting in the back, and Andy Eckrich.

After Corey Zeitner and Josh Leonard won the two B-Features, a 26-car field was assembled to battle it out in the 30-lap finale. Justin Zeitner started on the pole with Jaxon Saathoff on the outside in his Adams County Speedway Late Model debut.

The race was only stopped one time on lap three when Bill Leighton Jr. and Jason Hahne went around in turns three and four. Leighton would battle back to finish 16th while Hahne finished 22nd.

The race went green the rest of the way. Justin Zeitner ran away with the show as the Malvern, Iowa driver was able to maneuver lapped traffic with ease. Meanwhile, a tight battle for second, third and fourth ensued between Andrew Kosiski, Dylan Sillman and Chad Holladay.

Zeitner consistently was the fastest car on the race track and kept plenty of distance and lapped cars between himself and the rest of the leaders. Zeitner led all 30 laps to capture his second consecutive victory in the Gail and Karen Hampel Memorial. The win was his sixth win of the season and the 14th of his career.

Dylan Sillman scored his career best finish at Adams County with a second-place finish while Andrew Kosiski came in third after running second for most of the race. Chad Holladay came in fourth while Kyle Berck rounded out the top five.

With the Hampel Memorial in the record books, the Haulin’ with Hoker Trucking East Series will be back in action for the re-scheduled Dale DeFrance Memorial at Marshalltown Speedway on August 4th. The very next night, it’s another East vs. West showdown at the Kossuth County Speedway in Algona, Iowa.

RESULTS

Malvern BankHoker Trucking A Feature: 1. 62-Justin Zeitner[1]; 2. 35D-Dylan Sillman[7]; 3. 53-Andrew Kosiski[3]; 4. 32C-Chad Holladay[5]; 5. 14-Kyle Berck[12]; 6. 22-Charlie McKenna[9]; 7. 04-Tad Pospisil[4]; 8. 1-Jaxon Saathoff[2]; 9. 99-Jesse Sobbing[10]; 10. 56S-Chris Spieker[16]; 11. 56-Andy Eckrich[11]; 12. 58-Dave Eckrich[15]; 13. 07-Matt Ryan[14]; 14. 26JR-Corey Zeitner[17]; 15. 4-JC Wyman[19]; 16. 24-Bill Leighton[6]; 17. 43-Derrick Stewart[22]; 18. 15C-Curt Schroeder[21]; 19. 52-Brian Kosiski[13]; 20. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[23]; 21. 33-Paul Glendenning[20]; 22. 76H-Jason Hahne[8]; 23. 76Z-Zach Zeitner[25]; 24. 85-Josh Leonard[18]; 25. 32-Curtis Glover[24]; 26. 25-Brad Perdue[26]

Predator Custom Trailers B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 26JR-Corey Zeitner[3]; 2. 4-JC Wyman[1]; 3. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[4]; 4. 76Z-Zach Zeitner[2]; 5. 32-Curtis Glover[5]; 6. 5S-Jeff Segebart[7]; 7. 77-Jeff Aikey[6]; 8. 43-Derrick Stewart[8]

Predator Custom Trailers B Feature 2 (8 Laps): 1. 85-Josh Leonard[1]; 2. 33-Paul Glendenning[3]; 3. 25-Brad Perdue[5]; 4. 15C-Curt Schroeder[2]; 5. 1J-Jay Burdic[6]; 6. U2-Scott Daly[7]; 7. 42-Fred Remley[4]; 8. 45-Dan Battaglia[8]

Ideal Ready Mix Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 35D-Dylan Sillman[2]; 2. 53-Andrew Kosiski[5]; 3. 14-Kyle Berck[3]; 4. 26JR-Corey Zeitner[7]; 5. 32C-Chad Holladay[6]; 6. 85-Josh Leonard[4]; 7. 5S-Jeff Segebart[8]; 8. 1J-Jay Burdic[1]

Ideal Ready Mix Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 07-Matt Ryan[1]; 2. 62-Justin Zeitner[4]; 3. 4-JC Wyman[6]; 4. 1-Jaxon Saathoff[5]; 5. 76Z-Zach Zeitner[3]; 6. 25-Brad Perdue[7]; 7. 42-Fred Remley[2]; 8. 43-Derrick Stewart[8]

Ideal Ready Mix Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 24-Bill Leighton[5]; 2. 58-Dave Eckrich[2]; 3. 22-Charlie McKenna[4]; 4. 56S-Chris Spieker[3]; 5. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[7]; 6. 52-Brian Kosiski[6]; 7. 32-Curtis Glover[1]; 8. U2-Scott Daly[8]

Ideal Ready Mix Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 56-Andy Eckrich[2]; 2. 99-Jesse Sobbing[3]; 3. 04-Tad Pospisil[6]; 4. 76H-Jason Hahne[5]; 5. 33-Paul Glendenning[1]; 6. 15C-Curt Schroeder[4]; 7. 77-Jeff Aikey[7]; 8. 45-Dan Battaglia[8]

Qualifying A: 1. 32C-Chad Holladay, 00:20.194[3]; 2. 43-Derrick Stewart, 00:20.196[6]; 3. 53-Andrew Kosiski, 00:20.258[11]; 4. 1-Jaxon Saathoff, 00:20.369[2]; 5. 85-Josh Leonard, 00:20.429[1]; 6. 62-Justin Zeitner, 00:20.457[9]; 7. 14-Kyle Berck, 00:20.457[14]; 8. 76Z-Zach Zeitner, 00:20.474[8]; 9. 35D-Dylan Sillman, 00:20.697[12]; 10. 42-Fred Remley, 00:20.722[4]; 11. 1J-Jay Burdic, 00:20.742[10]; 12. 07-Matt Ryan, 00:20.837[7]; 13. 26JR-Corey Zeitner, 00:20.868[13]; 14. 4-JC Wyman, 00:21.108[16]; 15. 5S-Jeff Segebart, 00:21.348[5]; 16. 25-Brad Perdue, 00:21.836[15]

Qualifying B: 1. 52-Brian Kosiski, 00:20.706[3]; 2. 04-Tad Pospisil, 00:20.738[15]; 3. 24-Bill Leighton, 00:20.804[13]; 4. 76H-Jason Hahne, 00:20.938[16]; 5. 22-Charlie McKenna, 00:20.941[12]; 6. 15C-Curt Schroeder, 00:20.994[5]; 7. 56S-Chris Spieker, 00:21.041[7]; 8. 99-Jesse Sobbing, 00:21.159[8]; 9. 58-Dave Eckrich, 00:21.183[1]; 10. 56-Andy Eckrich, 00:21.290[14]; 11. 32-Curtis Glover, 00:21.300[2]; 12. 33-Paul Glendenning, 00:21.336[4]; 13. 99D-Darrel DeFrance, 00:21.430[9]; 14. 77-Jeff Aikey, 00:21.475[10]; 15. U2-Scott Daly, 00:21.838[11]; 16. 45-Dan Battaglia, 00:22.204[6]

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COMPACTS

A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 28-Andrew Akers[4]; 2. 5-Zander Steiner[9]; 3. 15H-Tyler Housley[6]; 4. 27-Tyler Hoover[3]; 5. 12-John Berg[10]; 6. 15V-Bryan Vannausdle[8]; 7. 99P-Justin Best[2]; 8. 8F-Jeremy Frazier[5]; 9. R4T-Chris Hutt[15]; 10. 23-Dustin Sheppard[7]; 11. 63B-Andrew Mills[16]; 12. 20X-Cooper Owens[1]; 13. 19-Jesse Ramos[14]; 14. 91-Cody Allbee[12]; 15. 34-Scott Hennenan[13]; 16. (DNF) 69-Destry Jarmin[11]

HOBBY STOCKS

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 22-Tanner Dixon[3]; 2. 7-Tom Myers[4]; 3. 21-Cody Werner[9]; 4. 7H-Adam Hensel[10]; 5. 17-Luke Ramsey[7]; 6. 16-Buddy Haidsiak[8]; 7. 40X-David Weeda[2]; 8. 95-Jerid Lund[5]; 9. 21X-Bennett Johnson[1]; 10. 64L-Tommy Luft[12]; 11. 7K-Bobby Key[14]; 12. 29-Anthony Fletchall[6]; 13. 12G-Tyler Gray[13]; 14. 5-Derek Myers[11]; 15. 19H-Sam Hudson[16]; 16. (DNF) 100-Spencer Zellweger[15]; 17. (DNF) 21C-Travis Cavin[17]

STOCK CARS

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 96-Jason Rold[1]; 2. 37D-Brad Derry[9]; 3. 50B-Brock Badger[8]; 4. 55-Steve Churchill[10]; 5. 6-John Kinser[6]; 6. 14-Tim Cooney[5]; 7. 31-Nick Woodard[2]; 8. 42-David Nail[11]; 9. 62-Rick Barton[4]; 10. 9-Dominick Sexton[12]; 11. (DNF) 0-Tony Hardisty[7]; 12. (DNF) 24-Rick Bissell[3]

B MODIFIEDS

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 78-Evan Davis[1]; 2. 16A-Bryce Allen[10]; 3. 0-Shawn Kralik[11]; 4. 3-Kyle Tanner[8]; 5. 5-Josh Sink[5]; 6. 58-Hunter Poston[7]; 7. 20-Kirk McKay[15]; 8. J2K-Jordan Krug[13]; 9. 6B-Daniel Baudler[16]; 10. 12-Nick Gross[3]; 11. 76-David Orr[2]; 12. 17-Tate Hafner[18]; 13. 75-Dalton Davis[12]; 14. 57S-David Schwartz[9]; 15. (DNF) 72-DJ Most[17]; 16. (DNF) 20T-Tyler Provence[19]; 17. (DNF) 60-Kevin Zeitner[6]; 18. (DNF) 25-Braxton Van Gelder[14]; 19. (DNF) 11-Austin Hardisty[4]

MODIFIEDS

A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 70-Jesse Dennis[2]; 2. 6-Ryan Jenkins[6]; 3. 38-Brad Bergren[1]; 4. 36T-Jeff Wiggins[10]; 5. A5-Austin Paul[3]; 6. 11F-Colton Garside[9]; 7. 7-Blaine Webster[8]; 8. 1M-Mike Johnson[7]; 9. 10J-Josh Cooper[5]; 10. 0-Tony Hardisty[11]; 11. 88-Hayden Johnston[4]; 12. 3C-Andrew Clark[16]; 13. 37-Alison Davidson[15]; 14. 38X-Craig Garner[12]; 15. (DNF) 29-Monte Most[13]; 16. (DNF) 01-Jacob Hobscheidt[14]