Off Road winners are Mielke, Landauer, Kirk

By Randy Pospishil

sports@norfolkdailynews.com

NORFOLK, Neb. (Aug. 10, 2024) – Tejay Mielke, Travis Landauer and Willy Kirk all won IMCA main events Saturday at Off Road Speedway.

Mielke began the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature in the middle of the pack but used two caution restarts to move into the top five, battling with Cameron Wilkinson and Justin Bertschinger to challenge race leader Kyle Wilkinson.

Mielke pulled away from that competition to pursue Kyle Wilkinson, closed the distance, then passed on the outside of turn four to take over the lead.

Four laps later, despite one final caution, Mielke took the checkered flag for the win.

Cameron Wilkinson, meanwhile, had been in third place behind the leaders but passed brother Kyle immediately after that last caution, spun out as the cars entered turn four on the final lap, leaving brother Kyle to secure second place with Derek Sehi finishing third.

In the IMCA Sunoo Hobby Stock feature, Landauer parlayed a chance to start on the pole into a wire-to-wire win, while the other front-row starter, Dakota Span, chased Landauer all 15 laps before settling for second place. 

Jason Wilkinson steadily moved up from the middle of the 17-car field to earn third.

Starting in the 10th position among a field of 14 cars, Kirk continued his competitive season at Off Road Speedway by picking up a win in the Friesen Performance IMCA Northern SportMod feature.

Kirk moved forward quickly, needing just three laps to fall in behind race leaders Kyle Wilkinson and Cameron Meyer, before taking the lead on the outside of Meyer with nine laps left and doing the same to pass Wilkinson a lap later.

Meyer finished second with Robbie Thome taking third place.

Off Road Speedway will host a regular program of points racing on Saturday before wrapping up the season the following week with the Lynn Langenberg Memorial special.

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