Our tradition continued this past Tuesday evening, when we attending yet another race event at the Iowa State Fair. There was a nice crowd filling the huge grandstands and the pits were filled with over 160 cars. It's always a pretty sight to see the cars on the track, with the colorful midway lights shining off of turn one...something that hasn't changed for us in years and years.
A brief recap of the night follows, but be sure and catch Ryan Clark's "In Staging" and Kevin's "Tapfan's Tours" on Positively Racing for a more in dept take of the races.
First feature to hit the track was the two hobby stock features. The first half of the race was led by the #19 car driven by Steve Jones, and he was chased by Daniel Hilsabeck. With one lap to go, a hard charging #99JR of Nick Murty managed to get around Jones as did Hilsabeck...an exciting finish at the line! When the first checkered flag flew, it was Nick Murty taking the win, Hilsabeck in second, Jones fell to third, fourth went to Matt Drottz with a good run, and fifth was Kenny Loftus.
The second hobby stock feature was won by Kris Walker who I believe has been a winner at the State Fair race before. Kenny Hansen was runner-up, Rob Allison was third, fourth went to Beau Kaplan and rounding out the top five was Alan VanGorp. I scored the 2N of Donavan Nunnikhoven in second, but have heard that he was later dq'd for an infraction of the rules.
Kevin Sather won and made it look easy as he cruised to the IMCA SportMod checkers. Crossing in second was Jesse Sobbing, third was Dalton Dingman, fourth to Rick Gladson and fifth was Bryon Weyer. Earlier, in a scary incident, Kevin Fee was on the worst end of a racing incident involving lap-traffic. He flipped several times on the front stretch before coming to a stop in front of the stage. Thankfully, he was fine, but the car appeared to sustain a great deal of damage.
The IMCA stock cars brought an exciting and intense race to the fans. Front row sitters, Josh Daniels and Steve Jackson drew the lucky pills for their starting spots. Jackson took the lead early but he certainly had company as behind him Donnie Bown, Donavon Smith, brother Dustin Smith, and Damon Murty were putting up the good fight. Donavon Smith seemed to prefer the low-line of the track as Jackson kept his machine higher. That low line paid off as the cars came to the final circuit out of turn four, and Smith was able to get by Jackson for the win. This race saw many battles behind the leaders as they swapped positions many times. Behind the top two finishers, third place would go to Donnie Bown, fourth to Dustin Smith and Justin Temeyer who traveled from the eastern part of Iowa, was fifth.
Bryan Nevins led the Dirt Truck feature until Ed Nelson was able to make the pass on the backstretch. Brett Moyer made the pass on Nelson only to be relegated to second after a caution came out. After the restart, it took little time until Moyer did take over the first position which he held until the finish. Ed Nelson held on for second, third went to Bob Murray, fourth to Brad Moyer in the #21, and Bryan Nevins finished in fifth.
The IMCA Deery Brothers 35-lap feature race was a fitting finish to the evening. Todd Cooney redrew lucky #1 and with his experience on the famed Iowa State Fair Speedway, many were thinking it might be a walk-away win for him. Other drivers, had other ideas. Ray Guss, Jr. driving the #58 of Herschel Roberts, raced into the lead and was putting some distance between himself and second place Cooney. Point leader, Jeff Aikey quickly made his presence known as he advanced from starting around the seventh starting spot and soon found himself in second.
Aikey showed why he is the Deery Brothers point leader as he took that number one spot and came home the winner again. Ray Guss, Jr. took the runner-up spot, third went to Jay Johnson, fourth to Tommy Elston and fifth was Jason Frankel.
With Mother Nature not cooperating very well for racing on this day, we will turn our hopes for better racing weather come the weekend. Marshalltown Speedway has had to scrap their Deery Brothers IMCA late model race for tonight due to the rain and it will be made up on September 1. The Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa has also called off their regular night of racing tonight due to wet grounds. Let's all hope for some drier weather. Happy racing!
Some unofficial results are listed below.
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