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Gallatin gets night one in the books and WISSOTA wins go to Steffenson and Hoppe

GALLATIN, MT (June 7) - Casey Steffenson and Dillon Hoppe were winners in WISSOTA Dirt Track Series action Friday, as Gallatin Speedway opened its gates to the 2024 season on June 7.

Steffenson started outside of Jon Tribble for the 20-lap WISSOTA Super Stock go, taking the victory ahead of Jeremy Meirhofer, R.C. Geiss, Nick Hunter, and Tribble in the top five.

Hoppe drove from the pole to victory lane in the WISSOTA Street Stocks, holding back the charge of eighth-starter Robert Petroff by .774 seconds to score the win. Twelfth-starter Ryan Ghormley was third, Troy Cepak, Jr. was fourth and Bob Leep was fifth.

In the IMCA Modifieds, Jordan Tocci recorded a victory to start his season in Gallatin, while Tyler Thompson was the winner in the Sprints.

SUMMARY

WISSOTA Super Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 67-Casey Steffenson[2]; 2. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[3]; 3. 9-RC Geiss[5]; 4. 58-Nick Hunter[7]; 5. 3T-Jon Tribble[1]; 6. 6-Taylor Martin[14]; 7. 32*-Bodie Smith[10]; 8. 21-Ryan Fasching[8]; 9. 108-Bill Monnett[13]; 10. 4-Scott Hawes[11]; 11. (DNF) 4T-Matt Tribble[12]; 12. (DNF) 85-Patrick LaMere[9]; 13. (DNF) 00-Beau Brown[4]; 14. (DNF) 07-Paul Lease[6]; 15. (DNS) 00RW-Riley Wolfe

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 3T-Jon Tribble[3]; 2. 58-Nick Hunter[7]; 3. 9-RC Geiss[2]; 4. 07-Paul Lease[5]; 5. (DNF) 4T-Matt Tribble[1]; 6. (DNF) 108-Bill Monnett[4]; 7. (DNF) 6-Taylor Martin[6]; 8. (DNF) 00RW-Riley Wolfe[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[2]; 2. 67-Casey Steffenson[3]; 3. 21-Ryan Fasching[1]; 4. 00-Beau Brown[7]; 5. 85-Patrick LaMere[4]; 6. 32*-Bodie Smith[5]; 7. 4-Scott Hawes[6]

WISSOTA Street Stocks:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 14D-Dillon Hoppe[1]; 2. 11*-Robert Petroff[8]; 3. 44-Ryan Ghormley[12]; 4. 22-Troy Cepak Jr[7]; 5. 57-Bob Leep[5]; 6. 21JR-Caden Craver[3]; 7. IO-Anthony Cacace[4]; 8. 81-Brock Salsbury[10]; 9. 22J-Preston Johnson[6]; 10. 13D-Kayla Pelissier[11]; 11. 93-Jimmy Havens[13]; 12. 10-Ben Nichols[14]; 13. (DNF) 7G-Chris Galpin[2]; 14. (DNF) 45T-Conner Carter[9]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. IO-Anthony Cacace[6]; 2. 14D-Dillon Hoppe[1]; 3. 22-Troy Cepak Jr[2]; 4. 22J-Preston Johnson[3]; 5. 45T-Conner Carter[4]; 6. 13D-Kayla Pelissier[5]; 7. 10-Ben Nichols[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11*-Robert Petroff[5]; 2. 21JR-Caden Craver[2]; 3. 7G-Chris Galpin[4]; 4. 57-Bob Leep[3]; 5. 81-Brock Salsbury[6]; 6. 93-Jimmy Havens[7]; 7. (DNF) 44-Ryan Ghormley[1]

IMCA Modifieds:

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 2C-Jordan Tocci[2]; 2. 28H-Kolby Hannah[1]; 3. 21-Cory Craver[4]; 4. 41-Joey Price[12]; 5. 44-Devon Jadwin[6]; 6. 51-Terrell Payne[8]; 7. 5X-Taylor Johnson[9]; 8. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[7]; 9. 21*-Trayke Metz[16]; 10. 87-Rex Feller[14]; 11. 26-Kaycie Kynett[11]; 12. 12DF-Dwayne Fowler[3]; 13. 84-Tyler Staruiala[15]; 14. 8-Aaron Amundson[13]; 15. 9-Douglas Martin[5]; 16. 08-William Schonsberg[18]; 17. (DNF) 56-Colin Scott[17]; 18. (DNF) 12-Ty Clemens[10]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 28H-Kolby Hannah[2]; 2. 44-Devon Jadwin[7]; 3. 21-Cory Craver[8]; 4. 9-Douglas Martin[3]; 5. 12DF-Dwayne Fowler[9]; 6. 26-Kaycie Kynett[6]; 7. 8-Aaron Amundson[1]; 8. 84-Tyler Staruiala[5]; 9. 56-Colin Scott[4]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 32M-Jeremy Meirhofer[1]; 2. 2C-Jordan Tocci[3]; 3. 12-Ty Clemens[6]; 4. 51-Terrell Payne[2]; 5. 5X-Taylor Johnson[7]; 6. 41-Joey Price[5]; 7. 87-Rex Feller[8]; 8. 21*-Trayke Metz[4]; 9. 08-William Schonsberg[9]

360 Sprints:

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 35KM-Tyler Thompson[2]; 2. 2L-Logan Forler[5]; 3. 72-Phil Dietz[1]; 4. 12HW-Harli White[9]; 5. 28-Joe Perry[3]; 6. 44-Damon McCune[6]; 7. 0J-Jeremy McCune[13]; 8. 2-Shad Petersen[11]; 9. 24M-Ian Myers[14]; 10. 9K-Kory Wermling[10]; 11. 2JR-Kelly Miller[4]; 12. 37-Trever Kirkland[12]; 13. 35M-Cody Masse[15]; 14. 38B-Bryan Brown[8]; 15. 23N-Garen Linder[16]; 16. 01-Rich Bailey[7]; 17. 12-Josh Ostermiller[17]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 35KM-Tyler Thompson[3]; 2. 44-Damon McCune[2]; 3. 12HW-Harli White[1]; 4. 38B-Bryan Brown[5]; 5. 9K-Kory Wermling[6]; 6. 2-Shad Petersen[7]; 7. 0J-Jeremy McCune[8]; 8. (DNF) 23N-Garen Linder[4]; 9. (DNF) 12-Josh Ostermiller[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 2JR-Kelly Miller[3]; 2. 72-Phil Dietz[4]; 3. 01-Rich Bailey[2]; 4. 28-Joe Perry[7]; 5. 2L-Logan Forler[8]; 6. 37-Trever Kirkland[6]; 7. 24M-Ian Myers[5]; 8. 35M-Cody Masse[1]