Holzmeister Scores Hometown Win!

05/03/2025

By: Sheldon Wickwar

Thomas County Speedway

Colby, KS

Eighty-six race teams checked into a windy, and chilly night at the Thomas County Speedway in Colby, KS. Visiting victory lane were Doug Holzmeister in the stock car, Clay Money in the modified, Dylan Bell in the hobby stock, Josh Barnhart in the sport mod and Gage Porter in the sport compact.

Porter Wins at the Line over Leibhart in the Sport Compacts!

The sport compacts started the night off with a heat race won by Brock Leibhart, the front row of their feature started with Jarrett Marker and Brock Leibhart. Leibhart gained the initial advantage and led most of the race. On the final lap Gage Porter and Leibhart battled side-by-side with Porter grabbing the close victory at the start/finish line. Gage Porter picked up his first win of the season, Brock Leibhart finished second, third was Kaishen Brack, fourth was Grant Logue and fifth was Jarrett Marker. Hard charger in the event was Gage Porter who gained four spots.

Gage Porter Celebrates his IMCA Sport Compact win! Photo courtesy of Carl Red Larson-Photos By Red!

Barnhart Slides to Sport Mod Victory Lane!

The sport mods ran second on the program, they ran two heat races won by Brianna Maughlin and Josh Barnhart. Their twenty-lap main event started with a front row of Josh Barnhart and Blaine Walt. Walt gained the early advantage and led the first six laps, caution came out on lap six where Walt would restart the field and quickly build a healthy lead over Barnhart. A caution at halfway set up another restart, and this time Barnhart stayed door to door with Walt, Walt scooted away for a little while. Lap thirteen saw Josh Barnhart deliver a slider in turns three and four, and it was perfectly executed, as Barnhart gained the momentum, Walt's crossover attempt came up short, and it was smooth sailing for Barnhart as he went on to pick up the race win. Josh Barnhart picked up win number one on the season, second was Blaine Walt, third was Adam Weber, fourth was Austin Carter and fifth was Ryan Kirchoff. Ryan Kirchoff was the hard charger with six spots gained, Brady Bencken gained four spots, and rookie Josiah Lopez gained three spots.

Josh Barnhart celebrates his IMCA Sport Mod Win! Photo courtesy of Carl Red Larson-Photos by Red!

Holzmeister Scores Hometown Win!

The stock cars were third on the program, they ran two heat races won by Kyle Pfeifer and Brett Berry, their twenty-lap main event started with a front row of Doug Holzmesiter and Kolby Stegman. Holzmeister gained an early lead, and jumped out to a good-sized margin, throughout the feature Quinton Yutterman, Kyle Pfeifer and the Burkhart duo started moving forward. The top five battled closely throughout the entire event, with the veteran driver Holzmeister using all of his car to hold off a very fast Yutterman to pick up his fourth win of the season, after collecting wins in Texas and New Mexico. Second was Quinton Yutterman, third was Tathan Burkhart, fourth was Troy Burkhart and fifth was Kyle Pfeifer. The new father Tathan Burkhart was hard charger as he gained five spots, Keith Stegman gained four spots, and Troy Burkhart picked up three spots.

Doug Holzmiester celebrates his IMCA Stock Car Win! Photo courtesy of Carl Red Larson- Photos by Red!

Bell Untouchable in Hobby Stock Win!

The hobby stocks ran fourth on the program, with three heat races and a b-main, Justin Yutterman, Morgan Olmstead and Trent Matson all won heat races. With Zach Olmstead winning the b-main after suffering a flat tire in his heat race. Their twenty-lap main event started with a front row of James Love and Levi Jones, quickly Dylan Bell gained the race lead from a fourth-place starting position, and the third-place starter Brady Bencken jumped to second place. Dylan Bell was dominant as not even a late race caution could slow down Bell. Dylan Bell grabbed his first win of the season, continuing a streak of four straight podium finishes to start the season. Second was Brady Bencken, third was Morgan Olmstead, fourth was Cody Williams, and fifth was Zach Olmstead. Hard charger was Zach Olmstead who used that b-main win to advance eleven spots in the feature event. Other nice runs included Chad Wulf and Cash Tubbs up six spots each, Cody Williams, Travis Branum and Bret Conness all gained five spots each.

Dylan Bell celebrates his IMCA Hobby Stock Win! Photo courtesy of Carl Red Larson-Photos by Red!

Money Dominant in Modified Action!

The modifieds closed out the program with two heat races won by Brett Berry and Kyle Rohleder, their twenty-lap main event started with a front row of Clay Money and Greg Gustus. Gustus tried to stay close to Money, but the Money-Man was too good and took off like a rocket on the initial start. A spinning John Fabrizius early on, stacked the field up, but Money was riding off into the sunset. Brett Berry and Kyle Rohleder both made a late race charge but just needed a couple more laps to catch Money in lapped traffic. Clay Money picked up his second win of the season, after winning at RPM Speedway in Hays, KS earlier on. Second went to Kyle Rohleder, Brett Berry was third, fourth went to Jeremy Frenier and Dylan Sherfick rounded out the top five. Hard chargers in the event were Brett Berry and rookie Aiden Miller who gained seven spots each, Kyle Rohleder gained four spots.

Clay Money celebrates his IMCA Modified Win! Photo courtesy of Carl Red Larson-Photos by Red!

The next event in Colby will be "O'Reily's Night at the Races" on Friday, May 9th with hot laps starting at 7:15pm and racing scheduled for 8:00pm.

FULL RESULTS:

IMCA Hobby Stock

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 31-Dylan Bell[4]; 2. 711-Brady Bencken[3]; 3. 88-Morgan Olmstead[5]; 4. 77-Cody Williams[9]; 5. 98Z-Zach Olmstead[16]; 6. 82-Chad Wulf[12]; 7. 55J-James Love[1]; 8. 58-Bret Conness[13]; 9. 3T-Travis Branum[14]; 10. 2M-Trent Matson[10]; 11. 8B-Brayden Hilzer[11]; 12. 24W-Wade Kolbo[15]; 13. 31R-Ray West[6]; 14. 37X-Cash Tubbs[20]; 15. 420-Justin Yutterman[8]; 16. 37XJ-Austin Janousek[19]; 17. 48H-Carson Hageman[7]; 18. 8A-Alicia Hilzer[17]; 19. (DNF) 00BUCK-Bruce Plumisto[18]; 20. (DNF) 8J-Levi Jones[2]

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 98Z-Zach Olmstead[10]; 2. 8A-Alicia Hilzer[2]; 3. 00BUCK-Bruce Plumisto[3]; 4. 37XJ-Austin Janousek[1]; 5. 37X-Cash Tubbs[8]; 6. T21-Ted Trumbo[4]; 7. 16Y-Emmanuel Young[6]; 8. 32B-Levi Lippelmann co[13]; 9. 55R-Dustin Riley[7]; 10. (DNF) 49J-Jayla Miller[5]; 11. (DNS) 24-Ray Caldwell; 12. (DNS) 45R-Brian Riley; 13. (DNS) 77F-Mitchell Fischer

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 420-Justin Yutterman[2]; 2. 82-Chad Wulf[6]; 3. 55J-James Love[8]; 4. 8B-Brayden Hilzer[3]; 5. 58-Bret Conness[7]; 6. 37XJ-Austin Janousek[5]; 7. T21-Ted Trumbo[1]; 8. 32B-Levi Lippelmann co[10]; 9. (DNS) 77F-Mitchell Fischer; 10. (DNS) 45R-Brian Riley

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 88-Morgan Olmstead[2]; 2. 77-Cody Williams[5]; 3. 8J-Levi Jones[4]; 4. 31R-Ray West[6]; 5. 3T-Travis Branum[8]; 6. 8A-Alicia Hilzer[7]; 7. 49J-Jayla Miller[9]; 8. 55R-Dustin Riley[1]; 9. (DNF) 98Z-Zach Olmstead[3]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2M-Trent Matson[5]; 2. 31-Dylan Bell[7]; 3. 711-Brady Bencken[4]; 4. 48H-Carson Hageman[2]; 5. 24W-Wade Kolbo[8]; 6. 00BUCK-Bruce Plumisto[3]; 7. 16Y-Emmanuel Young[6]; 8. 37X-Cash Tubbs[9]; 9. (DNS) 24-Ray Caldwell

18 entries

IMCA Modified

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 7-Clay Money[1]; 2. 0-Kyle Rohleder[6]; 3. 09B-Brett Berry[10]; 4. 17J-Jeremy Frenier[3]; 5. 66D-Dylan Sherfick[4]; 6. 3B-Eddie Belec[8]; 7. 6U-Dominic Ursetta[9]; 8. 14G-Greg Gustus[2]; 9. 49M-Aiden Miller[16]; 10. 33-Dustin Daniels[7]; 11. 28-John Burrow[12]; 12. 51-Mike Bainter[11]; 13. 98-Danny Keller[13]; 14. 49-Drew Miller[5]; 15. 42-John Fabrizius[14]; 16. 7P-Lloyd Stover[15]; 17. (DNF) 27-Grant Florence[18]; 18. (DQ) 83L-Taos Leighton[17]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 09B-Brett Berry[1]; 2. 7-Clay Money[9]; 3. 17J-Jeremy Frenier[4]; 4. 33-Dustin Daniels[5]; 5. 49-Drew Miller[2]; 6. 51-Mike Bainter[6]; 7. 98-Danny Keller[3]; 8. 7P-Lloyd Stover[7]; 9. (DNF) 83L-Taos Leighton[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 0-Kyle Rohleder[2]; 2. 3B-Eddie Belec[1]; 3. 6U-Dominic Ursetta[5]; 4. 66D-Dylan Sherfick[8]; 5. 14G-Greg Gustus[7]; 6. 28-John Burrow[3]; 7. 42-John Fabrizius[4]; 8. 49M-Aiden Miller[6]; 9. 27-Grant Florence[9]

17 entries

IMCA Northern SportMod

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 17M-Brianna Maughlin[3]; 2. 14W-Blaine Walt[5]; 3. 99H-Nick Hankins[6]; 4. 63C-Austin Carter[7]; 5. 9-Monty Nordyke[2]; 6. 28K-Ryan Kirchoff[1]; 7. (DNF) 5X-Donovan Ohlrogge[9]; 8. (DNF) 11J-Josiah Lopez[8]; 9. (DNF) 17-Garth Griffith[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 5150-Josh Barnhart[2]; 2. 3-Adam Weber[5]; 3. 32G-Jasen Gray[4]; 4. 9JR-Brendyn Nordyke[3]; 5. 88J-Jack Kirchoff[8]; 6. 711-Brady Bencken[1]; 7. 99R-Jeff Ray[7]; 8. (DNF) 21C-Brian Conness[6]

8 entries

IMCA Sport Compact

A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 69G-Gage Porter[5]; 2. 15B-Brock Leibhart[2]; 3. 8B-Kaishen Brack[3]; 4. 16L-Grant Logue[4]; 5. 808-Jarrett Marker[1]; 6. 49C-Chris Glass[6]; 7. (DNF) 19N-Rickie Bose[8]; 8. (DNS) 3F-Blake Fladgard

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 15B-Brock Leibhart[3]; 2. 16L-Grant Logue[1]; 3. 69G-Gage Porter[6]; 4. 808-Jarrett Marker[5]; 5. 8B-Kaishen Brack[7]; 6. 49C-Chris Glass[2]; 7. 3F-Blake Fladgard[4]; 8. (DNF) 19N-Rickie Bose[8]

15 entries

IMCA Stock Car

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 34H-Doug Holzmeister[1]; 2. 38-Quinton Yutterman[4]; 3. 250-Tathan Burkhart[8]; 4. 25Y-Troy Burkhart[7]; 5. 54P-Kyle Pfeifer[3]; 6. 95-Tyler Tipton[6]; 7. 37X-Jeff Tubbs[10]; 8. 7-Bobby Eubanks[9]; 9. J10-Johnny Yutterman[11]; 10. 19K-Kolby Stegman[2]; 11. 19-Keith Stegman[15]; 12. X-Wheat Lippelman[14]; 13. 9-Monty Nordyke[13]; 14. (DNF) 10-Brett Berry[5]; 15. (DNF) 1C-Cody Ghumm[12]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 54P-Kyle Pfeifer[2]; 2. 250-Tathan Burkhart[5]; 3. 19K-Kolby Stegman[1]; 4. 25Y-Troy Burkhart[7]; 5. 38-Quinton Yutterman[8]; 6. J10-Johnny Yutterman[3]; 7. 9-Monty Nordyke[4]; 8. 19-Keith Stegman[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 10-Brett Berry[6]; 2. 7-Bobby Eubanks[2]; 3. 34H-Doug Holzmeister[7]; 4. 95-Tyler Tipton[3]; 5. 37X-Jeff Tubbs[4]; 6. 1C-Cody Ghumm[5]; 7. X-Wheat Lippelman[1]