Friday July 17th I ventured to one of my favorite race tracks and would go there every friday night if it was about 130 miles closer. Marshalltown Speedway was putting on $1k to win Modifieds and it was $400 to win Hobbies as well. With Harris Clash scheduled to race the day before but was rained out and postponed a few extra Modifieds were in the area and Ventured to the highbanks of Marshalltown. A total of 5 states were on hand Friday with the exception of Iowa...Kansas, California, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Arizona as well Frank Packer who is pilioting a sport mod here this summer, he calls Australia home.
Kyle Strickler made the trip pay off as he found victory lane in the IMCA Modified feature. "Uncle Ronny" Ronn Lauritzen brought his 10k machine home in 2nd. Arizona driver Tim Ward was 3rd followed by Josh Gilman(83g) Jimmy Gustin(19) Scott Simatovich(43s) Richie Gustin(19g) Kyle Brown(21k) Todd VanEaton(v31) and Joel Rust(26j) rounded out the top 5.
Micheal Jeanette found victory lane in the IMCA Stock Car feature and held off tough company as Donavan Smith, Dave Atcher, Tyler Pickett and Steve Meyer rounded out the top 5.
Dysart driver Sam Wieben held off the always hard charging driver of Jared Vandiest to win the IMCA sport mod feature. Jenae Gustin, Duane Petersen and Brandon Williams were the top 5. */
The Ol` Mayor John Watson was victorious and picked up a $400 pay day for his triumph in the IMCA Hobby Stock feature. Andy Hick(5h) Eric Stanton(7b) Austin Luellen(3a) and Tyson Overton(42t) rounded out the top 5.
ModLites Top 5. 99 Josh May 89 Travis Stensland 64 Randy Bryan 6 Mike Morril 11r Jason Whitehead.
Saturday July 18th I ventured to the historic Hamilton County Fairgrounds in Webster City.
John Gill was the IMCA Sport Compact winner.
Fort Dodge driver Bryce Summerfeld wasted no time getting to the front from his 4th place starting position to claim the victory but it was Myles Michehl who came back from the tail after spinning on the start and being nearly half a lap down he would finish in 3rd. Craig Graham would finish 2nd while veteran racer Randy Embrey and Matt Byrne would round out the top 5. Matt Mundt and Daniel Ayers would finish 2nd and 5th but were later dq'ed for some post race fireworks in the tech area.
2nd the night before at Marshalltown it was Jared Vandiest who was the winner in the IMCA Sport Mod feature. Ty Griffith, Matt Lettow, Branden Toftee and Cory Bahrenfuss were the top 5.
Matt Ring held off the always hard charging Jason Minnehan to win the Stock Car feature event. John Cambell, Mitchell Griffith and Jim Mitchell were the top 5.
Carter Vandenberg adn Kyle Brown started in row 4 and would finish 2nd and 3rd respectively but it 6 place starter Mark Elliott who crossed the finish line in first. Greg Elliott and Bob Sutherland rounded out the top 5 in the IMCA Modified feature.
Jason Hahne would bounce back from a heat race wreck to claim victory in the IMCA Late Model feature. Ryan Griffith, Jeremy Grady, Al Johnson and the "Ironman" Darrell DeFrance were the top 5.
Sunday July 19th brought me to my hometrack Stuart Speedway for the John Wetzel memorial hobby stock event.
Nick Roberts once again found victory lane in the IMCA modified feature while rookie contender Matt Webb was 2nd. Todd VanEaton ended up 3rd after leading early on. Jeff Joldersma and Luke Wanniger rounded out the top 5.
Flying Brian Blessington was the winner in the class to tough to tame the IMCA Stock Cars feature event holding off a hard charging Clay Mercer. Josh Daniels, Branden Pruitt and Bryan Snell were the top 5 finishers.
Clint Luellen started 4th but finished 1st in the IMCA Sport Mod feature. Jerry Hinton would settle for the bridesmaid spot while Dusty Masolini, Kendall Davis and Kody Havens were the top 5.
27 IMCA Hobby Stocks from 3 States other than Iowa were on hand for $1,000 to win John Wetzel Memorial. Minnesota, Nebraska and Missouri were the other 3 states.
The field was narrowed down to 20 starters for the feature. John Watson would claim the victory over Shannon Anderson. With just a few laps in 3rd place starter "BuckWild" Buck Schafroth would peak to the inside of Watson for the lead while Anderson followed in 3rd. Contact between the 3 would result in Schafroth going around and chalking up a dnf on the stat sheet. Austin Luellen, Bill Bonnett, Jaime Songer, Eric Stanton, Aaron Rudolph, Jeff Anderson, Andy Hick and Milligan Nebraska Driver Shawn Slezak rounded out the top 10.
Curtis Miller would win for the 2nd week in a row in the IMCA Sport Compact feature.
SideNotes... My Stats so far on the year are 44 races, 18 different tracks and 1 new track. Also I had some racing stickers made up by Amanda Murray that say CZ Motorsports and have passed them out to some drivers be sure to look for a CZ Motorsports driver at a track near you!!
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