Finally, some racing in Iowa to report. We were happy to be able to see two racing programs locally this past weekend. First up was the Frostbuster special at the Marshalltown Speedway. There were 205 cars on hand and a packed grandstand, which no doubt, made promoter Toby Kruse very happy. Also evident were the new bleachers that were erected on the west side of the grandstand. The track was groomed and ready for racing and proved to remain racy all night long, with multiple lines for the drivers. Drivers from five or six states and one from Canada were in attendance with a large contingency from Wisconsin.
The little dwarf cars/Mod Lites love the 1/4 mile track at Marshalltown. It was noted that many of the drivers are switching to the newer style bodies which appear to be miniature modifieds, and thus the name Mod Lites. Mike Morrill took his first win of the year in one of those bodies, followed by Andy Hennigar in the old style, and rounding out the top five was Tim Hennigar, Ed Zehm and Johnny Mordock.
The SportMod class is growing and growing and tonight saw six heats and two B mains from the good field of cars present. Kevin Sather continued his winning way, and took home the feature, followed by Luke Wanninger, Nate Chodur, Kyle Brown and Scott Davis.
The hobby stocks put on a good show with Lake City driver, Devin Smith winning the feature, followed by Terry Shaffer, Todd Reitzler, Brandon Pruitt and Beatrice, Nebraska driver, Adam Armstrong.
The class called, "too tough to tame", the IMCA stock cars, saw another Lake City, Iowa driver take home the feature win, with Dustin Smith crossing the finish line in first, with Damon Murty, "The Chelsea Charger" coming home second. Third was young Ryan Gustin in the John Hunnell car, followed by Dusty Vis and Trent Murphy. Dusty Vis would go home with a different motor, as he was claimed by Larry Silbaugh and they exchanged motors.
Wow! What a field of IMCA modifieds! There were 66 on hand and they put on a show.
It was an exciting finish coming right down to the wire, but Beatrice, Nebraska driver, Jordan Grabouski held on by a nose, over area driver, Troy Cordes. Following not far behind was Jay Noteboom, Jimmy Gustin and Ryan Ruter.
We got a chance to chat with young gun Randy Brown from Chowchilla, California who was piloting his Jet modified #16B. We saw him recently at the Spring Nationals in Beatrice, Nebraska and was surprised to see him at Marshalltown. From talking with him, it sounds as though he will be staying around the area for a while and racing in Iowa and Nebraska. He was none too pleased with his welcome to Iowa when he was ticketed with having his window tint on his hauler a tad too dark by just 1%! Randy was the Western Region Rookie of the year in 2008.
We were off to Boone on Saturday for an earlier race start of 5 p.m. for their "Supernationals Shakedown". The wind was horrific and with temps none too warm and weather theatening, the crowd was more sparse than normal. It was nice to hear a familiar voice from the past on the microphone this year, as veteran Bill Haglund began his announcing duties at Boone Speedway. Bill is a wealth of racing knowledge and we enjoyed hearing some of his trivia about racing from the past as well as the present.
Four classes of IMCA cars ran on Saturday with the little Dwarf/Mod-Lite cars getting a hot lap session. The hobby stock class was won by the #88 of Michael Leffler with Beau Kaplan on his heels, and then it was Beatrice, Nebraska driver, Adam Armstrong taking third, followed by Daniel Hilsabeck and Richard Yaw. The fast growing SportMod class put on a good show with local area third generation driver, Jeremy Embrey taking the checkers first. Behind him was Kevin Sather, Brett Moffitt, Luke Wanninger and Kyle Brown. About 20 cars were present for the stock car class and Trent Murphy was the winner, followed by Wayne Gifford, Wisconsin driver John Heinz, and two Newton, Iowa drivers, Michael Jaennette and Mike VanGenderen. Close to 40 cars were there for the modified class and it was nice to see John Logue get win number 100. Crossing the line behind him was Wisconsin's Benji LaCrosse, Nate Caruth, Adam Larson, and Missouri's Steve Glenn. The night had only a short break in the action for rain sprinkles, and then the track was quickly packed back in for racing. The program was done shortly after 8 p.m. With the weatherman predicting a winter storm for the area, Boone continued its lucky ways with a completed show.
We look forward to reporting on more racing in our area in the weeks to come. Happy racing everyone!
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