BRITT, Iowa -- With the 2006 season coming to a close at the Pritchard Family Auto Stores Hancock County Speedway, six new drivers emerged as USRA Casey's General Stores Weekly Racing Series track champions for the 2006 season at the Britt, Iowa, speedplant.

In the high-powered USRA Modified division, Brad Bakken of Garner concluded a dominating season with his first track championship. Bakken, who finished second the points last season, won an impressive nine of the 15 USRA Modified races this season, and bested Algona's Ed Green for the crown. Clint Wendel of Mason City finished third in the final standings, followed by Doug Doocy of Lone Rock and T.J. Stalker of Mason City.

In the USRA Stock Car class, Tom Schmitt of Independence made the Pritchard Family Auto Stores Hancock County Speedway a regular Friday night stop during 2006 and parlayed seven main event wins into a track championship. Schmitt finished 45 points ahead of Forest City's Jeff Dolphin, who raced to three victories during the 2006 campaign but settled for the runner-up spot in the points for the second straight year. Ryan Hiscocks of Britt finished third, John Campbell of Belmond was fourth and Renwick's Chad Palmer rounded out the top five.

Logan Brown finished just a handful of points outside of the top-10 in last season's final USRA B-Modified points, but the Messervey youngster used two wins an consistent finishes this season to emerge as the 2006 track champion. Brown sealed the title with two laps to go in the final points race of the season where he finished seventh while Manly's J.J. Wise finished third. Brown's margin of victory over Wise was just four points. Defending track champion Jake Simpson of Algona wound up third in the final standings, with Jamie Anderson of Mason City fourth and Jesse Hoeft of Forest City in fifth. All of the top five drivers were in contention for the crown entering the Aug. 25 finale.

The battle for the USRA Hobby Stock title also came down to the wire, and it took a little luck -- good or bad, depending on which side you were on -- for Britt's Randy Hadacek to lay claim to the title. Trailing Algona's Michael Schadendorf by nine points going into the final main event of the season, Hadacek got the feature win to earn the maximum points possible and forcing Schadendorf to finish second in order to secure the title. While running third, however, Schadendorf was knocked out of the race by another car and his hopes for a title were dashed. A third-place finish would have resulted in a tie for the points lead, but Hadacek would have been crowned the champion based on his five wins to Schadendorf's one. Tony Smidt of Britt finished third in the final standings, with Chris Monson of Clear Lake fourth and Chad Gentz of Forest City in fifth.

In the Hornet division, Matt Baker of Britt captured the Senior Hornet crown over Algona's Brandon Ostwald. The Junior Hornet track championship went to Colby Fett of Thompson, who won seven feature races in 2006.

Next up will the season-ending awards banquet (time and place to be announced). The schedule for the 2007 season at the Pritchard Family Auto Stores Hancock County Speedway will be announced before year's end.

For more information, call RL Promotions at (515) 832-6000 or go to http://www.rlpromotions.com/britt on the World Wide Web.

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FINAL 2006 POINTS STANDINGS

USRA Casey's General Stores Weekly Racing Series

Pritchard Family Auto Stores Hancock County Speedway, Britt, Iowa

USRA Modifieds

1. 50 - Brad Bakken .... 1414

2. 02 - Ed Green .... 1315

3. 75 - Clint Wendel .... 1139

4. 87 - Doug Doocy .... 1051

5. 1 - T.J. Stalker .... 748

6. 10 - Todd Hansen .... 735

7. 2 - Carey Umbarger .... 688

8. 55 - Alan Mondus .... 618

9. 12 - Mark Elliott .... 463

10. 15 - Scotty Anderson .... 450

USRA Stock Cars

1. 18 - Tom Schmitt .... 1289

2. 02 - Jeff Dolphin .... 1244

3. 7iii - Ryan Hiscocks .... 1193

4. 7j - John Campbell .... 1129

5. 14 - Chad Palmer .... 1090

6. 21 - Travis Hoeft .... 1058

7. 77 - Kevin Hoeft .... 1052

8. k20 - Kevin Paca .... 1005

9. 5x - Gary Lalor Jr. .... 906

10. 05 - Craig Berhow .... 650

USRA B-Modifieds

1. 65 - Logan Brown .... 1291

2. 68 - J.J. Wise .... 1287

3. 5 - Jake Simpson .... 1240

4. 0 - Jamie Anderson .... 1233

5. 21 - Jesse Hoeft .... 1202

6. 3f - Jeramie Faber .... 1129

7. 21g - Greg Simmons .... 1100

8. 22 - John Madson .... 1006

9. 9 - Thomas Buns .... 933

10. 55 - Shane Swanson .... 836

USRA Hobby Stocks

1. 5 - Randy Hadacek .... 1310

2. 24 - Michael Schadendorf .... 1295

3. 32 - Tony Smidt .... 1276

4. 25 - Chris Monson .... 1265

5. 15 - Chad Gentz .... 1250

6. 11L - Chad Lundy .... 1200

7. L5 - Gary Lalor Sr. .... 1125

8. 2 - Wayne Landheer .... 1094

9. 53 - Wade Nall .... 1027

10. 37 - Mike Jergens .... 901

Senior Hornets

1. 03 - Matt Baker .... 1408

2. 21 - Brandon Ostwald .... 1359

3. 60 - J.D. Schroeder .... 1257

4. 32jr - Laura Curry .... 435

5. 9 - Travis Nelson .... 388

Junior Hornets

1. 00 - Colby Fett .... 1349

2. 4jr - Devin Fish .... 1305

3. 38 - Greg Fish .... 794

4. 7 - Tim Moretz .... 681

5. 52t - Trevor Nelson .... 595