Seemann Wins URSS Jetmore “305 Nationals”

 

Thirty Six 305 drivers from Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska and Oklahoma descended on the high banked 3/8’s mile oval at The Jetmore Motorplex in Jetmore Ks. as the United Rebel Sprint Series hosted the Second Annual Jetmore 305 Nationals. The beautifully prepared track made for some great racing and had the fans on their feet for most of the 25 lap feature as local favorite Ray Seemann took the win and the $1000 winners share.

 

Leading the field to the green was Kansas City’s Corey Lutters, with Kinsley’s Kirby Hagans on the outside pole, jumping into the early lead and Ensign’s Brandon Fischer and Dodge City’s Brian Herbert on his tail. Being the leader would prove to be a jinx in the early going as Hagans looped his ride on Lap 3 to bring out the caution. On the restart, last years winner Brandon Fisher took over the lead only to have something break and slow to a stop on lap 7. The restart saw Herbert assume the lead closely followed by Utica’s Jon Johnson who had quietly worked his way to the runner up spot with 8^th place starter Ray Seeman from Jetmore in 3^rd followed by Dodge City’s Keefe Hemel and Lutters.

 

While Herbert and Johnson put on a torrid battle for the lead the 76J of Justin Schwien, Smokey Fairbank and Hagans, who was fighting his way back from his earlier spin, were in their own battle for the 6^th position. Hagan’s finally worked his way around Fairbanks and Schwien and wrestled the 5^th spot from Jetmore’s Don Stieben on lap 19 as Cody Salem had worked his way from the back from an earlier spin and Dodge City’s Nick King overtook Fairbank for 8^th and 9^th.

 

Lap 21 saw the battle for the lead heat up and the move of the night as a rim riding Seeman had the crowd going wild when he drove around both Johnson and Herbert to take the lead coming off turn two and then held both off as they battled through lapped traffic the last four laps to take his first URSS feature victory of the season. A jubilant Seemann crawled from his car and quoted “Man, I had to work for that one” as the fans were on their feet cheering their local driver. Following Seemann across the line were Herbert, Johnson, Hemel and Hagans. In post race inspection, Don Steibens refused to allow URSS Officials to tech his car resulting in a disqualification from the race moving Schwien to 6^th followed by Salem, King, Fairbanks and Dodge City’s Tyler Knight charging from his 21^st starting position to round out the top ten and earning the Weld Wheels “Hard Charger” award..

 

Results

Myers Engine Service  Heat #1 - Cody Salem

Thornton Cattle Company - Heat #2 – Brian Herbert

Steve Hilker Trucking - Heat #3 – Brandon Fischer 

S.O.S. Engines - Heat #4 – Don Steiben

 

A-Main:  1-Seemann, 2-Herbert, 3-Johnson, 4-Hemel, 5-Hagans, 6-Schwien, 7-Salem, 8-King, 9-S.Fairbank, 10-Knight, 11-Potter, 12-Bowman, 13-C. Lutters, 14- J. Radcliffe, 15-K. Lutters, 16-L. Radcliffe, 17- Spear, 18- Fisher, 19-Berry, 20-Miller, DQ- Steiben

 

Qualifier #1:  1-Bowman, 2-L.Radcliffe, 3-S. Fairbank, 4-Berry, 5-K.Lutters, 6-Knight, 7-Bernbeck, 8-Chaffin, 9-Kieswetter, 10-Hayes, 11-Kuhn, 12-Fields, 13-Burns

 

Qualifier #2:  1-King, 2-Schwien, 3-Spear, 4-Potter, 5-Miller, 6-R.Bantam, 7-Moore, 8-Decker, 9-Colbert, 10-Perkins, 11-Dalton, 12-Roth, 13-J.Fairbank