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Nimee Outlasts Neitzel for Victory at Plymouth
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5/18/2024

5/18/2024

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Nimee Outlasts Neitzel for Victory at Plymouth

Nimee Outlasts Neitzel for Victory at Plymouth

Neitzel and Nimee would set the pace of the front row of our 25 lap feature of the night. Nimee would jump to the early lead until the 26 of Tischendorf would go for a wild one in turn one. He would walk away from the scene. We would try it again a second time, then Scotty Thiel would be the next to draw out a caution. On the third green flag, we would begin the feature again with Nimee leading the way around the Plymouth Dirt Track.

This would only be until the 2022 IRA Champion of Jordan Goldesberry would get bitten by the mechanical gremlin and force him to retire for the night. It would still be the 79 of Nimee leading the way. Nix-Six Motorsports driver Jake Blackhurst on the restart would continue to gain ground on the 2w heading down the backstretch. Neitzel’s command of second would be reeled back in with Sage Fruit/Hepfner Racing Products Rookie of the Year points leader would draw out our next caution who was around in turn two.

We would only have five laps in the books, with Nimee continuing to lead the way followed by Neitzel and Blackhurst. Soon after the green dropped again, the leader would hit lap traffic in a hurry beginning the dance of the night. With ten laps in, it was 79, 2W, 96, 10W, and 79M. We would bring out another caution for the 4B of Biertzer at a stop in turn two.

We would release the field once more with thirteen laps for Nimee. We would then race to the checkered to end the night with Blake Nimee bringing home round one of the Hopf Farms Bullring Showdown, Neitzel second, and Jake Blackhurst would round out the podium.

The IRA Sprint Car Series are back in action tonight at Angell Park Speedway for their season opener and Dahlke Family Night.

EVENT TIMES
Pits Open 1:30 PM
Gates Open 4:00 PM
Hot Laps 5:00 PM
Racing Starts 6:00 PM

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A Feature 30 Laps | 00:27:49.235

  1. 79-Blake Nimee[2]; 2. 2W-Scott Neitzel[1]; 3. 96-Jake Blackhurst[4]; 4. 10W-Mike Reinke[6]; 5. 79M-Max Guilford[3]; 6. 85M-Steve Meyer[5]; 7. 87A-Austin Hartmann[7]; 8. 49-Josh Schneiderman[11]; 9. 25-Danny Schlafer[15]; 10. 42P-Preston Perlmutter[8]; 11. 3N-Jake Neuman[17]; 12. 1T-Trevin Littleton[12]; 13. 25T-Travis Arenz[10]; 14. 9K-Kyle Schuett[19]; 15. 16C-Tylar Rankin[22]; 16. 73-Scotty Thiel[9]; 17. (DNF) 10V-Matt VanderVere[18]; 18. (DNF) 3B-Shelby Bosie[13]; 19. (DNF) 26R-Preston Ruh[23]; 20. (DNF) 4B-Scott Biertzer[24]; 21. (DNF) 14AJ-Ryan Zielski[20]; 22. (DNF) 65-Jordan Goldesberry[16]; 23. (DNF) 47-Todd King[21]; 24. (DNF) 26-Tyler Tischendorf[14]

B Feature 12 Laps | 00:20:33.636

  1. 47-Todd King[1]; 2. 16C-Tylar Rankin[2]; 3. 26R-Preston Ruh[4]; 4. 4B-Scott Biertzer[3]; 5. 68-Dave Uttech[5]; 6. 43-Jereme Schroeder[7]; 7. 99-Tyler Brabant[10]; 8. 16-Anthony Knierim[9]; 9. 85J-Logan Julien[11]; 10. 21-Will Gerrits[8]; 11. 88-Christopher Flick[12]; 12. (DNF) 4K-Kris Spitz[6]

Dash 1 4 Laps | 00:03:52.912

  1. 2W-Scott Neitzel[1]; 2. 79M-Max Guilford[3]; 3. 85M-Steve Meyer[4]; 4. 87A-Austin Hartmann[2]; 5. 73-Scotty Thiel[5]

Dash 2 4 Laps | 00:01:46.013

  1. 79-Blake Nimee[1]; 2. 96-Jake Blackhurst[2]; 3. 10W-Mike Reinke[3]; 4. 42P-Preston Perlmutter[4]; 5. 25T-Travis Arenz[5]

Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:06:22.871

  1. 79M-Max Guilford[2]; 2. 49-Josh Schneiderman[1]; 3. 87A-Austin Hartmann[4]; 4. 2W-Scott Neitzel[3]; 5. 9K-Kyle Schuett[5]; 6. 4B-Scott Biertzer[7]; 7. 68-Dave Uttech[6]; 8. 16-Anthony Knierim[8]

Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:05:09.187

  1. 85M-Steve Meyer[2]; 2. 3B-Shelby Bosie[1]; 3. 25-Danny Schlafer[3]; 4. 3N-Jake Neuman[6]; 5. 79-Blake Nimee[4]; 6. 47-Todd King[5]; 7. 43-Jereme Schroeder[7]; 8. (DNS) 85J-Logan Julien

Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:04:20.045

  1. 42P-Preston Perlmutter[1]; 2. 1T-Trevin Littleton[2]; 3. 96-Jake Blackhurst[4]; 4. 25T-Travis Arenz[3]; 5. 10V-Matt VanderVere[6]; 6. 16C-Tylar Rankin[5]; 7. 4K-Kris Spitz[8]; 8. 99-Tyler Brabant[7]

Heat 4 8 Laps | 00:04:42.606

  1. 73-Scotty Thiel[2]; 2. 10W-Mike Reinke[4]; 3. 26-Tyler Tischendorf[1]; 4. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[3]; 5. 14AJ-Ryan Zielski[6]; 6. 26R-Preston Ruh[5]; 7. 21-Will Gerrits[8]; 8. 88-Christopher Flick[7]

Qualifying A | 00:00:39.336

  1. 87A-Austin Hartmann, 00:11.762[10]; 2. 79-Blake Nimee, 00:11.832[11]; 3. 2W-Scott Neitzel, 00:11.949[13]; 4. 25-Danny Schlafer, 00:12.006[1]; 5. 79M-Max Guilford, 00:12.018[9]; 6. 85M-Steve Meyer, 00:12.049[8]; 7. 49-Josh Schneiderman, 00:12.166[14]; 8. 3B-Shelby Bosie, 00:12.167[2]; 9. 9K-Kyle Schuett, 00:12.203[12]; 10. 47-Todd King, 00:12.314[15]; 11. 68-Dave Uttech, 00:12.359[4]; 12. 3N-Jake Neuman, 00:12.367[5]; 13. 4B-Scott Biertzer, 00:12.438[3]; 14. 43-Jereme Schroeder, 00:12.450[16]; 15. 16-Anthony Knierim, 00:13.815[6]; 16. 85J-Logan Julien[7]

Qualifying B | 00:00:23.716

  1. 96-Jake Blackhurst, 00:11.563[14]; 2. 10W-Mike Reinke, 00:11.606[12]; 3. 25T-Travis Arenz, 00:11.628[1]; 4. 65-Jordan Goldesberry, 00:11.844[13]; 5. 1T-Trevin Littleton, 00:11.999[4]; 6. 73-Scotty Thiel, 00:12.007[5]; 7. 42P-Preston Perlmutter, 00:12.063[11]; 8. 26-Tyler Tischendorf, 00:12.090[16]; 9. 16C-Tylar Rankin, 00:12.134[6]; 10. 26R-Preston Ruh, 00:12.305[2]; 11. 10V-Matt VanderVere, 00:12.334[15]; 12. 14AJ-Ryan Zielski, 00:12.578[10]; 13. 99-Tyler Brabant, 00:12.671[8]; 14. 88-Christopher Flick, 00:12.817[3]; 15. 4K-Kris Spitz, 00:12.917[7]; 16. 21-Will Gerrits[9]

Hot Laps | 00:10:11.861

  1. 96-Jake Blackhurst[30]; 2. 3N-Jake Neuman[5]; 3. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[29]; 4. 3B-Shelby Bosie[2]; 5. 10W-Mike Reinke[28]; 6. 10V-Matt VanderVere[31]; 7. 25-Danny Schlafer[1]; 8. 25T-Travis Arenz[17]; 9. 26-Tyler Tischendorf[32]; 10. 42P-Preston Perlmutter[27]; 11. 4B-Scott Biertzer[3]; 12. 14AJ-Ryan Zielski[26]; 13. 49-Josh Schneiderman[14]; 14. 79M-Max Guilford[9]; 15. 21-Will Gerrits[25]; 16. 9K-Kyle Schuett[12]; 17. 1T-Trevin Littleton[20]; 18. 43-Jereme Schroeder[16]; 19. 16-Anthony Knierim[6]; 20. 47-Todd King[15]; 21. 73-Scotty Thiel[21]; 22. 87A-Austin Hartmann[10]; 23. 85M-Steve Meyer[8]; 24. 2W-Scott Neitzel[13]; 25. 16C-Tylar Rankin[22]; 26. 4K-Kris Spitz[23]; 27. 26R-Preston Ruh[18]; 28. 99-Tyler Brabant[24]; 29. 68-Dave Uttech[4]; 30. 79-Blake Nimee[11]; 31. 88-Christopher Flick[19]; 32. (DNS) 85J-Logan Julien

Article Credit: Madeline "Chatty Madi" Schultz

Submitted By: Madeline Schultz

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