April 14 Racing Section

The Robert Haase family has owned and operated the Norfolk dirt track since 1965. *** With the track’s golden anniversary season just around the corner, Janet Haase shares memories and plans to pay tribute to her late husband, a co-founder of Riviera Raceway.

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NORFOLK DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014

Riviera Raceway one of a kind Haase family helps put heart and soul into Norfolk track

By JAY PRAUNER

Haase said all five children have contributed to the track’s success.

“They all started by cleaning.

But it would take them the entire week to do it,” she said. “Once we finally decided to hire some people to do it, they would finish in a half-day.”

As for the children, the oldest, Renee Wallace, serves as the assistant manager and is in charge of the concession stand. The next in line, Robbie, who lives in Lincoln, will run the show this season after last year’s track manager, brother-in-law Jason Jensen, received a promotion at work and is unavailable on race nights.

Haase said Russel, the middle child, has done everything there is to do at the track, and Ryan, the youngest son, was not quite as involved but did a little announcing and worked in the concession stand. The youngest, Regan, helps a great deal with promotions, communications and paperwork.

As for herself, Haase said she’s done everything but sell beer.

“We all learned how to do everything . . . except Robert,” she said with a chuckle. “Given, none of us learned how to grade the track.”

But it was something he became well known for. Each night after the last car’s engine went silent, the putt-putt-putt of a roadgrader starting up would soon follow.

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orfolk’s Riviera Raceway officially turns 50 years old Saturday.

For racing enthusiasts in Norfolk and the surrounding area,

it’s a big deal.

For Janet Haase and her family, it’s a really big deal.

Three years after the death of Robert “Bob” Haase — Janet’s husband and the father of their five children — reaching the 50-year milestone means a great deal.

“It does for me. For wanting to do it for Robert,” Haase said. “Yes, I know he’s gone and doesn’t know it . . . but I know it, and the kids know it, and it was his baby.”

Beginning Saturday, and over the next four months, Riviera will pay tribute to the man, who along with his older brother, Ray, co-founded the track in 1965.

Robert and his family took full control of the track within a couple of years.

“What we want to try to do this year is to resurrect as many of the different ideas Robert came up with over the years,’’ she said. “All those years, I just pushed the pencil, and whatever he wanted to do, we did.”

Well, maybe not everything.

“He always said, ‘Man, I come up with 100 ideas and you shoot them all down.’ ” Haase said. “Actually, one or two of them would be pretty good and we’d go ahead and try them. He was always thinking.”

A few ideas that made the cut were tic-tac-toe, nag drag and hare and the hound.

With tic-tac-toe, similar to bingo, fans were given a card at the beginning of the night to mark the numbers matching winning cars. Anyone getting three in a row won a prize. A nag drag consists of a blindfolded male driver being guided by a female partner located in the back seat.

The hare and the hound had two drivers trying to catch and corner a third driver.

Wrecking derbies and figure eight races were also popular but were discontinued after a pump was installed in the infield to help drain rain water from the track.

But, according to Haase, none of the above held a candle to bikini night.

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JANET HAASE poses next to the grandstands and the booth in which she spends every race night at Riviera Raceway in Norfolk.

“To give you an idea of how far the Madison County Fair has come, we used to hold bikini night against the Madison County Fair and would draw our biggest crowd of the season,” she said.

“Now we no longer run against them, we take that weekend off.”

AMAZINGLY, Riviera was built in April 1965 and held its first program already the next month.

“Opening night we had 17 cars,” Haase said. “We ran three heats, a trophy dash, a C-feature, B-feature and all the cars in an Afeature — and that was our entire program.”

Admission was $1. And the ticket-takers who were there that night, Betty and Gary Uttecht of

Madison, have been there ever since.

“I remember Robert telling me he had stood behind the bleachers the first night and noticed several boards were dipping from the weight of the crowd,” Haase said.

“He said, ‘We better look into that.’ ” As race cars grew in size, so did the track.

“We extended the track twice to adjust for the increased speed,” Haase said. “Once we did it a second time, we really didn’t have the room to make it any bigger, but Robert really didn’t want to anyway.”

As the speeds increased, so did Robert Haase’s awareness for safety.

“He started beginner classes

so inexperienced drivers could get in there, get the bug and then hopefully move up after gaining some experience,” Haase said.

For decades, the small Norfolk track was a big attraction.

“Back in the day, the smallest crowd we ever had was 900 adults,’’ she said. “If we got 900 adults nowadays, I’d be ecstatic.”

LOOKING BACK, she has bittersweet memories about the past 50 years.

“If I had known then what I know now, I probably would have gotten out a long time ago,” Haase said. “Riviera has really controlled our lives. The kids were born into it. There were no summer vacations. It will be hard on them whenever it’s gone.”

TODAY, RIVIERA averages 70 to 80 race cars each weekend.

“There’s really no comparison to the old days,” Haase said. “The power is incredible. These guys really fly out there now.”

The entire family is proud of Riviera Raceway’s reputation.

“It’s a racer’s track. You have to know how to drive,” she said.

“It’s not like some tracks where you get around the corner and kind of take it easy down the straightaways. If you can race at Riviera, you can race anywhere.”

Haase isn’t sure how much longer Riviera will wave its flags.

“When we do talk about ever closing the track, it really makes me sad. I think of all the people who have been affected by the track,” she said. “It gives young people something to do that they won’t get in trouble. And, I think of all the wedding proposals we’ve had. It would feel like I’m taking something away from the community if I close it.”

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Everyone knows ‘The Hummer’ At 79, Riviera icon still involved as a fan and car owner

By JAY PRAUNER

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In 1950, Raymond Haase witnessed his first stock car race in person.

“I rode to Sioux City with some buddies.

As we drove by an amusement park, we heard a bunch of commotion, so we stopped in,” Haase said. “There were a bunch of 1937 Ford coupes racing around a track. I was only 15 years old, but I knew right then I wanted to give that a try someday.”

Four years later, his lifelong love of the sport was full throttle.

Living in Verdigre at the time, Haase began his racing career in Creighton in 1954 at the age of 19. His first race car was a V12 1941 Lincoln convertible.

In 1955, two Norfolk tracks opened — King’s Speedway in May and Riverside Speedways later that season.

“I remember racing in the afternoon in Creighton, then driving my race car to King’s Speedway to race that night,” said Haase, who operates Southside Salvage in Norfolk. “They wouldn’t let me race the first night because I had a gas tank mounted above my back window.”

By the end of 1957, both Norfolk tracks had closed down.

Eight years later, Raymond and his younger brother, Robert, decided to build a race track of their own.

“There were quite a few cars from

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RAYMOND HAASE stands next to a race car he drove “30 to 40 years ago” that is sitting at his business, Southside Salvage, in Norfolk around the area, so Robert made arrangements for the land, and I financed my salvage yard to get the money to build the track,” Haase said.

The rest, as they say, is history as Riviera Raceway opened in May 1965.

“I had gone five years without a driver’s

license because of speeding tickets, so I figured it would be cheaper to race on a race track than on the highway,” Haase said.

Before long, Raymond turned week-toweek operations over to Robert.

“I quickly decided I’d rather race on the track than run a race track,” Haase said.

Haase became referred to as “The Hummer” because his 6-cylinder motor had a different sound from his competitors.

“I went to Sioux City and they already had a car registered as 2, so I just slapped a zero in front of my car and ran 02 for quite a few years after that,” Haase said.

During his nearly 50 years of racing, Haase won track titles in Sioux City, Columbus, Albion, Yankton, Neligh and Norfolk.

“I liked the old days when the top point drivers started at the back of the pack. I think it was a better show than putting fast cars up front,” Haase said. “That was the challenge, to make it up to the front, and 25 laps gave you just enough time to do it.”

Three generations of Haases have followed in his footpedal, keeping the now 79-year-old Haase as interested as ever in the sport.

“I still love to be involved. Right now, I own a couple late models and four-cylinder cars that race at Riviera,” Haase said. “I got another four late models but ain’t got anybody I want to put in them.”

Just as his race career had begun, Haase enjoys taking it all in from the grandstands.

“Each year I go to Florida and North Carolina to watch some of the best drivers in the nation,” Haase said. “And you know what? I’d still put Riviera’s show up against anyone’s.”

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NORFOLK DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014

Madison driver now hired gun Dickes, Humphrey race teams combine resources

BY JAY PRAUNER

do this for a living go to open the season,” Dickes said. “It’s a pretty big deal.”

So is Dickes, who has been busy fine-tuning his 2014 No. 6 Victory Circle Late Model.

“First and foremost, I’d need to thank Al and Lori (Humphrey) for giving me the opportunity to drive their cars,” Dickes said.

“Right now, the plan is to focus on the bigger MLRA shows.”

Which, with work and a family (wife, Kelli, and two daughters, Camryn and Cora), is a challenge itself.

“It’s getting tougher to get away,” Dickes said. “I typically leave on Thursday, race Friday and Saturday and come home Sunday.

Dickes currently sits fifth in the MLRA point standings.

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MADISON — The past three race seasons have been a blur for Travis Dickes of Madison — much like the on-track view of his Late Model by more than a few of his competitors.

After winning back-to-back Nebraska-based Super Late Model Racing (SLMR) titles in 2011 and 2012, Dickies won rookie-of-theyear honors in the Missouri-based Lucas Oil Midwest Late Model Racing Association (MLRA) in 2013.

“Hopefully, this year we can carry on,” Dickes said during a recent interview at his spacious 4,800-square-foot race shop near Madison.

The space is a welcome replacement for the tight confines at Weiland Well Co.’s shop in Madison, where Dickes works as a service technician.

LAST SEASON, Dickes enhanced his résumé by competing for a spot in the Show Me 100 at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo. Dickes was among 75 of the nation’s top Late Model drivers after the $30,000 winner’s share of the televised 100-lap race on the track know as the “Diamond of Dirt-tracks.”

“We ended up missing everything by one spot,” Dickes said.

The top three from each heat advanced to the main event — Dickes took fourth. The top two from the “B” feature moved on — Dickes finished third. Finally, the winner of the 20-lap, last-chance qualifier race grabbed the final spot — Dickes finished second.

Dickes was disappointed he didn’t qualify for what would have been the biggest race of his

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TRAVIS DICKES poses in a new race shop with two of the cars, a Modified (21T) and Late Model (6), he will compete with this season. career, but he was still able to draw a positive from the situation.

“Any time you can go compete with them guys, it’s a good deal,” Dickes said.

THE EVENT was a far cry from his humble beginnings at Riviera Raceway in Norfolk.

“That’s where it all started. In 1996, I drove a Hobby Stock car for Russ Wilkins. The nice thing about Riviera was it was just 15 miles down the road. I had a lot of fun there,” Dickes said. “Just surviving was my No. 1 priority.”

Two years later, Dickes jumped into a Late Model and a year later was on his own.

“I would say Riviera Raceway is one of the toughest tracks out there,” Dickes said. “I’ve told a lot of people that if you’re going to start racing, you need to run Riviera for one or two years. A, you’re going to learn how to drive in tight quarters, and B, you’re going to learn how to work on your car. If you can’t do both, you might not want to get into the sport.”

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“Last season, I had some motor problems and ended up borrowing a car from Al,” Dickes said.

“That led to us talking throughout the season about combining race teams this season.”

In January, the two teamed up in Arizona at the National Dirt Racing League (NDRL) Winter Extreme Opener.

“It’s where a lot of the guys that

AS FOR THE Modified, Dickes is basically a hired gun for Roth Racing, which manufactures Razor chassis in Platte Center.

“Hey, if somebody is going to give me a car, I don’t care what it is, I’m jumping in and racing it,” Dickes said. “Customers want to buy winning race cars, that’s just how the world works.”

Dickes plans to race the Modified at U.S. 30 Speedway in Columbus and Boone County Raceway in Albion.

“We’re not going for points, so we’ll just race it whenever it works out,” Dickes said. “It’s a little slower but still a lot of fun to drive.”

Which, according to the 33-year-old, is what it’s all about.

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Back to the basics in Albion Westring takes over as Boone County Raceway promotor

By MIKE RENNING

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ALBION — Kirk Westring — the new racing promoter at Boone County Raceway here — said that for the 3/8-mile track here to move forward, it must first get back to the basics.

The basics, according to Westring, are the fans and race purses.

“We need to give the fans the most entertainment for their money,” he said. “And we need to give the driver top dollar to attract the top drivers and top competition.

The fans deserve to see the best battle the best.”

Westring, who takes the reins at Boone County after serving as tech inspector and a driver at the track, began his tenure with some improvements.

He had clay brought in on the turns and reduced the bank on the straightaways to allow for three- and four-wide racing — part of his plan to entice fans. In addition, he plans to offer affordable prices.

“We will be offering $2 beer and other affordable concessions for our fans,” Westring said. “Racing fans love to watch racing and love to have fun. On the other hand, I think we know how to be responsible while we have fun. We will still be family-friendly.”

Boone County Raceway will also offer

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BOONE COUNTY RACEWAY, located on the southwest edge of Albion, will open its season on Friday, April 25. five sanctioned classes of racing each night for fans’ enjoyment.

Every Friday night beginning April 25, circling the oval at the track will be International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks, Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods and Mach-1 Sports Compacts

— along with limited late models.

According to Westring, IMCA rules and regulations level the playing field with respect to the cars. That allows the competition to be more about the drivers, which makes for better racing and more excitement for the fans.

Westring cut his teeth in racing as a driver, and it has been in his blood since his

first trip around the track.

“Racing is definitely a passion,” Westring said. “I wouldn’t put in all of these hours and money if I didn’t love it.”

It’s no different from someone who loves to fish or hunt, according to Westring, except the product of his passion can be enjoyed by lots of fans.

The season will unofficially begin at Boone County Raceway with an open practice night on April 18. Drivers will be competing for $500 and a $300 bonus.

Former NASCAR driver Ken Schrader is scheduled to make an appearance and race at the track on June 6, and the full slate will end Aug. 22 with a special Shane Thome Memorial Modified Mania race.

Thome was the 2013 track champion at Albion. He was killed in a traffic accident in September.

“He was a friend of mine and a friend of racing,” Westring said. “I can’t think of a better way to honor him than putting his good name on a great race.”

The track will be offering a $2,500 purse that night.

“This community and this area have always been great supporters of racing,” Westring said. “We intend to give them the racing they deserve at a price they can afford. It should be great for all of us.”

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1965 through 1999

Jay Prauner Sports Editor

Finishing touches on best of best In 1970, my dad, Gerald, passed away at the age of 31. I was nine.

Now 43 years later, most of my memories of him are a bit vague. However, one that lingers a bit more vividly is of him taking my older brother, Jerry, and me to Riviera Raceway in Norfolk.

With the track having opened in 1965, it’s possible we were some of the track’s first customers. I can still see dad sitting there with a beverage in one hand, popcorn in the other, one eye on us and the other on the track.

According to my mom, Dad loved the races, and truth be told, would have rather been on the track than in the stands.

Seems, at the time, my grandparents thought with a wife and three kids, and another on the way, his plate was full.

Too bad. Who knows, maybe he would have ended up on the honorable mention lists (see page 9-A) like his oldest son, Jerry, and first grandson, Kyle.

THIS SATURDAY, for a 50th time, Riviera opens its gates for stock car racing.

With the quarter-mile track’s golden anniversary season just days way, let us take a little trip back in time.

In 2000, the Norfolk Daily News published a full-page story honoring Riviera Raceway’s best drivers over its first 35 seasons. My good friend Bill Canham put it together, with the help of Robert Haase and 14 others with considerable knowledge of the track’s history.

Listed on each side of this column is a photo of the 10 drivers the group considered as Riviera’s best from 1965 through 1999.

In an effort to complete the journey, Dennis Meyer, who has covered the races at Riviera since 1997, and I compiled a list of the top five drivers and five honorable mention selections from the past 14 years.

The 10 drivers rose to the top from a list of just under 500 who have competed in Riviera Raceway’s top three divisions since 1997. !Please see BEST, page 9-A

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Best

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Honorable mentions 1965-1999 Mark Henery Larry Hockemeier Alan Hoehne Sammy Jacobs Joe Krohn Robert Osborne

Jerry Prauner Gene Wagner Tom Wagner Ron Wilkinson

Brian Kock Kyle Prauner Shawn Primrose Jason Wilkinson

2000-2013 Chad Jensen

Best female driver Tiffany Bittner

2000 - through 2013

Top 10 drivers from 1965 through 1999 GENE BRUDIGAN: Owns several point titles, including three in a row at Riviera.

Was best known for racing Sprint Cars and Late Models.

GERALD BRUGGEMAN: The “Boog” won 98 features during his career. Won point championships at six different track, including Riviera.

BILL KIRK: Raced at Riviera for only a few years, but left his mark with a Late Model points championship and a love of signing autographs for kids after the races.

RAYMOND HAASE: Raced well into his 60s, winning point titles at six different tracks, including Riviera.

KIM LINGENFELTER: Best know at Riviera for driving a Late Model for Will Schaller, winning 16 of 32 features in 1986.

DALE ROTH: Many considered Roth the driver to beat at Riviera during the 1960s.

REGGIE ROTH: Following in his father’s footsteps, Reggie was a threat to win the feature each time he pulled on the track.

GERRY SUHR: Had a hand in many innovations at Riviera — installing a wing toward the rear of the car, hydraulic weight jacking and portable air tanks and impact wrench that helped change a flat tire in around 30 seconds.

DON WEYHRICH: Started his career as a drag racer but wanted to race more than once a week. Bought his first oval car, a Modified, that came with the now famous number $1.98, which was always a crowd favorite.

CURT ZUHLKE: Four years after winning a Sportsman point championship at Riviera, Zuhlke died in an automobile accident in 1999 at the age of 43. If Robert Haase ever decided to sell Riviera, he wanted first dibs at buying it.

Top five drivers from 2000 through 2013 CHRIS JOHNSON: A consistent competitor at Riviera since 1998, Johnson owns three Street Stock and one Grand National points championships.

JIM JOHNSON: Credited with one Street Stock and one Grand National points from Riviera. Has finished in the top three of the Grand National standings in seven out of the last eight seasons.

ROBERT OSBORNE: The most dominant driver in Riviera history. Osborne has won 14 points titles at Riviera, 13 in the Grand National division, including nine in a row from 1999 through 2007. Overall, owns 24 track championships.

RON PETTITT: Another longtime competitor at Riviera, Pettitt consistently battled for the Street Stock championship. He won the division in 2001 and finished among the top three five other seasons.

JAY SMITH: While he never won a Grand National points title, Smith always seems to get his car dialed in come ‘A’ feature time.

2000 - 2013 cont.

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Throttling down After banner year, Bittner eases schedule

By NICK BENES

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Tiffany Bittner has been around racing nearly her entire life.

The IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock and SportMod driver from Norfolk started racing go-karts when she was 5. Now 23 years old, Bittner already has quite a career under her belt.

Last racing season, Bittner earned her third-straight Design 500 Lady Eagle, which goes to the top female points driver nationally, and earned her first track championship last year at Albion Speedway. She also qualified for Super Nationals for the first time.

“Pretty much all my life, I’ve grown up around racing,” she said.

“I’ve watched my dad, Dale, racing stock cars, and eventually I fell into it when I turned 16.”

She has already raced for eight seasons in hobby stocks and two seasons in sport mods. In a typical week last year, she would race in Columbus, Albion, Norfolk and Lexington on consecutive nights.

“It’s definitely a lot of work,” Bittner said about maintaining that

demanding of a schedule.

While racing two cars can make for challenging nights, she admitted it may have helped her clinch the track championship at Albion.

“It’s two different machines, but it feels alike,” she said. “Driving’s still driving. But you can go faster in the SportMod, and I think it helped me go faster in the hobby stock without feeling uncomfortable.”

The hobby stock track championship came against Jason Wilkinson, a multi-time track champion and former Super Nationals winner.

“The track championship meant the most because I was racing with Jason Wilkinson,” she said. “Just to steal one from him was awesome.

It wasn’t given to me. It was really competitive there.

“Making Super Nationals was a huge deal, also. It was the third year trying to qualify for that. I feel like that’s a great accomplishment.”

That schedule is demanding, and not just because she’s strapping herself into the driver’s seat and racing four times a week.

There is also the time on the road getting to the track — Lexington is

a three-hour drive from Norfolk, for example. And there’s the constant maintenance and fine-tuning the cars when they’re not on the track.

That’s why, she admitted, she’s looking forward to this summer.

Bittner, who will graduate from Wayne State in May, has already accepted an internship with Aurora Cooperative, although she’s unsure what hours she will be working. She hopes to be able to race about half as much as she did last year, but all she knows for certain is that she doesn’t expect to be able to race four times a week this season.

“I’m excited to slow down this summer, but it will be hard not to race as much as I can,” she said.

“It’s sad that, this year, I may not race enough for the Lady Eagle and I might have to give that up.”

She credited her family, including her father, Dale, for her success on the track.

“I definitely could not do it without them,” Bittner said. “My dad has put his time and resources into it and supported me through it all.

Racing is really a family deal.”

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THREE-TIME DEFENDING Design 500 Lady Eagle national champion Tiffany Bittner of Norfolk poses with her SportMod race car.

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Stuart Raceway to open May 25 Volunteers, passion keep Holt County speedway rolling along

By MIKE RENNING

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STUART — For more than 60 years, literally hundreds of volunteers and a community passionate about racing have kept the Stuart Raceway rolling along.

Keith Larabee, president of the Stuart Stock Car Association, said the key to attracting and keeping a volunteer workforce is making the work be a lot of fun.

“You have to have a good time while you're doing all that needs done,” Larabee said. “We don’t have wages to offer so we make sure we have fun.”

Larabee has been the head man at the track for the past three seasons but has been one of the volunteers since 1991.

“I love being around racing,” Larabee said. “I’ve done about everything you can do around the track besides actually racing. Being 30 to 40 feet from all of the action — it’s the best seat in the house.”

Another factor that adds to the Stuart track’s longevity is the emphasis on families at the track.

“We have a lot of second- and third-generation drivers,“ he said. “And we like it to be a family atmosphere off the track. We encourage families to come and tailgate before and during the races, and often we grill food at the end of the races.”

Stuart Raceway runs on Sunday evenings during the summer. The track will

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KEITH LARABEE, president of the Stuart Stock Car Association, stands stands in the infield of Stuart Speedway. The track is set to open it's ?? season on Sunday, May, 17. host a Test and Tune on May 4 and then begin live racing on May 25. Races will run the first four Sundays in June and then feature a Fourth of July race.

“The Fourth is our big night,” Larabee said. “We increase our purse for the drivers, and we have a huge community celebration in Stuart. We have a parade and

we’ll have fireworks after the races.”

He also said his group is trying to get a vintage stock car group out of Columbus to come and race that night.

“We have contacted Midwest Classic Stock Cars out of Columbus, and we’re trying to get them here that night,” Larabee said.

The Midwest Classic Stock Car Association travels to various tracks and features race stock car models from 1950 to 1975.

Regular racing will resume on July 13 and a race night is scheduled for July 27.

The season will end with action on Aug. 3 and Aug. 17.

Larabee also indicated the track is gradually converting its rules for cars and drivers to International Motor Car Association (IMCA) rules.

“We’re implementing some of the rules this season, and then next season we should be completely under the IMCA rules,” Larabee said. “We didn’t want to do it all at once because we wanted to give our drivers time to adjust and implement the changes necessary to the cars. In the long run, it’s better for everyone.”

He pointed out it would be easier for drivers to go from one track to another if the tracks all are under IMCA rules. He also added it is easier to sell or trade stock cars if they are already set up under the IMCA rules and regulations.

Regardless of what rules the racers are racing under and regardless of who actually wins each race, Larabee is quite certain everyone involved will have a good time.

“Our motto is, ‘Where families come to race,’ ” Larabee said. “I think we should add where families come to have fun.

That’s what we plan to do every race night.”

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Hausers’ dragster ready for strip

By KATHRYN HARRIS

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Scott Hauser looks back fondly on his childhood days at the dragstrip.

His father, Robert, raced a blown-alcohol dragster, and he couldn’t wait until he was old enough to buckle into the cockpit of one of his own. So when he saw an opportunity to team up with his dad to build that hot rod more than 30 years later, he didn’t hesitate.

“I grew up with a car like this. I’ve always wanted one,” Hauser said, nodding toward the high-performance machine that now waits for its first green light.

The Hauser racing team intends to give the car its first spin as soon as the season allows. The father-son duo plan to run at places like Thunder Valley in Marion, S.D., and Kearney Raceway Park in Kearney.

And as soon as Scott earns his National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) license, the Hausers will hit bigger venues like Topeka, Kan., Brainerd, Minn., and St. Louis.

But even if the dragster’s tires would never hit the strip, the three years Scott and Robert Hauser took to build the machine was time and energy well spent.

The father-son team built the dragster at the Hausers Hot Rod Shop, a modest shop in the hills just outside of Norfolk. The car, itself, started out as little more than a pallet of tubes and a wild idea.

Hauser said he and his father had spent a lot of time scouring the Internet and magazines, looking at pictures and developing a plan of what the car would look like.

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SCOTT HAUSER of Norfolk sits in the cockpit of the blown-alcohol dragster he built with his father earlier this year. Hauser showed the car at the Cabin Fever Car Show at Northeast Community College Ag Complex. He intends to race the car this summer.

“We ordered a basic tubing kit. . . . They gave us a set of blueprints, so we just started making mounts and brackets off of that blueprint,” Hauser said.

From there, they began measuring, welding and building the car piece by piece in a manner similar to building a smallscale model car.

“The finished product looks so simple.

You don’t even realize the sophistication.

The process that it takes to make . . . the car work as it does, that’s a neat thing,” he said.

The cockpit exterior was designed, fabricated and finished at Hausers Hot Rod Shop, as well. The Dupont paint finish con-

sists of blended reds and Harley-Davidson copper. It’s highlighted by a marbled gray tribal flame outlined with green.

“We want this car as a show car as much as we want it for its performance,” Hauser said.

The alcohol-fueled engine is a supercharged Big Block Chevy with an SSI 8-71 blower. Hauser anticipates it will push the car to speeds of about 180 miles per hour, a detail that is both exciting and slightly anxiety-inducing for him.

Hauser has been driving in drag races with a different hot rod he built a few years ago. That car, however, could be converted to a street legal machine whose top speed maxed out at about 125 miles per hour.

“I’m a little bit nervous to see how it starts and steers and stops and drives at higher speeds. It’s going to be a learning curve, that’s for sure,” Hauser said. “But it’s the same as any sport: The more you do it, the more you get used to it.”

Hauser and his father have discussed building another car together now that this project is complete. Too many variables prevent the team from making a decision like that right now. But Hauser said he doesn’t regret the sacrifices of time, money and luxury it took to finish the alcohol dragster with his father.

“It’s been kind of a dream come true for both of us. It’s a lot of hard work and a lot of blood, sweat and tears,” Hauser said. “But this was father-son time, and it’s time we’ll never get back.”

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Racing a family affair for Jankes

By MIKE RENNING

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PENDER — Harold Janke learned about racing cars from his father, Leonard. Harold returned the favor with his son, Trevor.

Add in Harold’s wife, Cindy, and daughter Callie, and on most race weekends, you’ll find the whole crew at a track racing or watching.

Leonard started Janke Auto in Pender and Harold has since taken over the business along with Cindy. Leonard is a member of the Nebraska Motor Racing Hall of Fame.

“It’s pretty much all in the family for us,” Harold said. “I love working on cars — it’s kind of my therapy. Everyone else got attracted to it, so they started coming along.”

The Jankes race in the Mid-West Conference Division of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Club Racing in the American Sedan Class.

SCCA races are generally road races.

The tracks are two to four miles in a lap and are not ovals. Some tracks are level and some have elevation changes through the course. They also contain left- and right-hand corners.

Some of the races are timed events and some include head-to-head racing. The Jankes race exclusively head-to-head.

Drivers are required to go to driver’s school before participating in any races and must maintain a license through the SCCA to continue racing. As the drivers

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TREVOR JANKE of Pender races at the Hallett Motor Racing Circuit in Jennings, Okla., earlier this month. gain experience, they are allowed to move up to competitive racing and could move up to formula racing. Al Unser Jr., for example, competed in the SCCA on his way up to formula racing.

“I’ve been doing this for a lot longer than I would like to admit,” Harold said. “My dad was a racer so it was kind of in my blood. My dad had an old car at the back of the shop underneath a bunch of boxes. I started stealing parts and putting together a race car. He didn’t stop me — so I guess he just wanted me to do it on my own.”

Actually, Harold started racing in 1981 in a Camaro, which is in the American Sedan class of the SCCA. In 1982, he finished second in the Midwest Division and was named the co-driver of the year. Eventually, he moved up to the pro class but has

since tapered off as he spent more time watching his children play other sports through high school.

Now that both of his children are out of high school, he found more time on his hands to return to the track.

“I never left racing, I just didn’t go as much,” Harold said. “Then Trevor and I started talking about him racing and I really got excited about it again.”

Trevor is in his third year of racing and seems to have caught on rather quickly.

“To begin with, I was rather tentative,” Trevor said. “But as you gain experience, you realize just how meticulous and repetitive racing is — it’s all about doing things over and over until you don’t think about it — you just do it.”

They will race all over the Midwest in

a season, with the nearest races being at Iowa Motor Speedway, Omaha and Hastings. On April 5 and 6, Trevor raced at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit in Jennings, Okla. According to Harold, they had trouble with the car, but Trevor gained more experience behind the wheel.

“It’s most of what he needs right now — experience,” Harold said.

Both Jankes agree, road racing is not about speed, it is more about the car and driving the car as fast as possible on the track. Not as fast as the car will go.

“You can go anywhere from 150 to 40 miles per hour in a lap,” Harold said.

“Sometimes a corner at 40 is as exhilarating as flying down a straightaway.”

Trevor also added the comfort of the driving school, or the knowledge gained from it, adds to the safety aspect of racing.

“Every driver in the race has been taught to drive the same way,” Trevor said.

“That way, if someone is coming into your blind spot to pass you on a corner, he knows exactly what I’m going to do and I know exactly what he’s going to do.”

Although the Janke men have a love for the racing, Cindy Janke is not so thrilled about race day.

“I am a nervous wreck, pardon the pun,” Cindy said. “That is my baby and my husband out there. I am happy when it is over, but I surely wouldn’t miss any of it for the world. I guess I love it, too.”

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