Season enters home stretch at Off Road

By Randy Pospishil sports@norfolkdailynews.com NORFOLK, Neb. (June 9) – After 10 years and much success racing an IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock, Tiffany Bittner is competing in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car division for a second season and starting to find similar success. Last year Bittner won one feature while finishing with “a ton of top five finishes” in a division she describes as “a very popular class right now … I feel like everybody is moving up to the Stock Cars.” On Saturday night at Off Road Speedway, Bittner won her first feature of the young 2018 season. Avoiding much of the early race chaos, Bittner remained positioned among the six cars compet­ing for the lead. When the final caution brought the field together with six laps left, Bittner found herself in a three-wide battle for second, with Chad Bruns and Austin Brauner, behind leader Doug Adamy. Three laps later, after Bruns drifted up the track, that competition transitioned into a three-wide contest for the lead with Brauner and Adamy, which Bittner secured after a [Read More]

By Randy Pospishil sports@norfolkdailynews.com NORFOLK, Neb. (June 23) – Lightning provided a fitting background display to the south of Off Road Speedway during Saturday night’s races, contended in front of well over 1,000 fans, be­lieved to be the biggest crowd ever at the Norfolk oval. Colby Langenberg earned his long-awaited first Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod win of the sea­son, after starting five rows back in the field. Langenberg secured the lead with six laps remain­ing, darting between Joey Haase and Troy Bruns, then winning by several car lengths. “It’s been a struggle. We started the year down at Beatrice and had a heck of a car, ran second and third down there, then struggled for about five weeks with motor and carburetor issues,” Langen­berg said. “It felt good to finally get the monkey off our back and get a win this year. I had four wins last year and have been trying to get that first one this year.” Cameron Wilkinson returned to victory lane for the fourth time in seven IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock [Read More]

By Randy Pospishil sports@norfolkdailynews.com NORFOLK, Neb. (Aug. 3, 2024) – Competition during Saturday night’s program at Off Road Speedway included battles not only for the lead, but also for positions among the top five. As a result, collisions and cautions, and even a pair of roll-overs, created a busy night for the track’s wrecker service as damaged cars were escorted to the pit area. Jordan Uehling, who had led all of the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock feature’s prior 14 laps, spun out after making contact with the rear of Gage Koch’s car as the two exited turn four, followed closely by cars driven by Nate Buck and Jason Wilkinson. Video of the race convinced race officials that Koch had attempted a slide job as he entered turn four and, as his car skidded up the track impeded Uehling, who could not avoid contact which caused the spin-out. The ruling determined Uehling as the feature winner and Koch, who had crossed the finish line first, was moved back one position to second. Meanwhile, Buck and Wilkinson were [Read More]