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Kopellah Speedway
Friday, August 28, 2009
Richert Pads Point Lead with Sixth UMSS Win
by Justin Zoch
CENTURIA, Wis. -- The Upper Midwest Sprint Series visited Kopellah Speedway for the final time during the 2009 season and, appropriately enough, Jerry Richert Jr. drove his number 62 to victory lane. Richert has been dominant in series action this year, particularly at Kopellah Speedway where he had won four of the eight races contested there. On Friday night, Richert started fiffh and worked his way by Brad Barickman early in the race to take second place. Meanwhile, rookie driver Cody Hahn was having a great night as he led from his pole position.
Richert pursued Hahn and the veteran snookered the youngster when they approached a lapped car to take the lead. Shortly after, Barickman also moved by Hahn and attempted to reel in Richert.
On the final lap, Jimmy Kouba flipped in turn one which set up a green-white-checkered finish. Barickman gave Richert a run but the Forest Lake, Minnesota, driver was too strong and held on for his sixth win of the season. Barickman, Hahn, Sye Anderson and tenth-starting Scotty Thiel followed him across the line.
Hahn, Leigh Thomas and Richert won Ultimate Sprint Races and Thomas doubled up with a win in the Bryant Heating and Cooling Systems Challenge Race while Barickman bested Richert to score the Haley Comfort Systems Challenge Race.
The next race for the UMSS sprint cars will be the two-day Mighty Axe Nationals next Saturday and Sunday at North Central Motor Speedway in Brainerd, Minnesota. . For more information on the UMSS sprint car series, please visit our website at www.umsprints.com or pick up a copy of The UMSS Report provided free at each UMSS race event.
RESULTS
A-Feature (20-laps)
1. Jerry Richert Jr., 2. Brad Barickman, 3. Cody Hahn, 4. Sye Anderson, 5. Scotty Thiel, 6. Greg Gunderson, 7. Leigh Thomas, 8. Jeff Wilke, 9. Eric Schultz, 10. Jack Zweber, 11. Kevin Nickel (DNF), 12. Jimmy Kouba (DNF), 13. Lynn Franklin (DNF), 14. Joseph Kouba (DNF), 15. Joe Kouba (DNS)
Ultimate Sprint Race #1
1. Hahn, 2. Wilke, 3. Barickman, 4. Anderson, 5. Jimmy Kouba
Ultimate Sprint Race #2
1. Thomas, 2. Gunderson, 3. Joseph Kouba, 4. Zweber, 5. Nickel
Ultimate Sprint Race #3
1. Richert Jr., 2. Thiel, 3. Franklin, 4. Schultz, 5. Joe Kouba
Bryant Heating and Cooling Systems Challenge Race
1. Thomas, 2. Anderson, 3. Jimmy Kouba, 4. Joseph Kouba, 5. Thiel, 6. Schultz, 7. Wilke
Haley Comfort Systems Challenge Race
1. Barickman, 2. Richert Jr., 3. Franklin, 4. Gunderson, 5. Hahn, 6. Nickel, 7. Zweber, 8 Joe Kouba (DNS)
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