On Friday night, it was back to Marshalltown Speedway for another regular night of racing at the high-banked quarter-mile. Great weather saw a nice crowd on hand making it even pleasant enough for our grandson Brycen to make his first ever race at less than three month's old. Two of the Smith brothers showed their strength as did Richie Gustin who took a repeat win from last week.
The Dwarf/Mod Lite's were, as usual, the first to run their main event. Mike Kennedy got to the lead early on from starting about 5th but the man on the move was certainly Tim Hennigar as he started 9th and was in third by the first lap! Several yellow flags flew during the duration of the race, shaking up the field. As the checkers flew, it was Kennedy holding off the familiar #6 of Mike Morrill, third was Tim Hennigar, who wasn't lacking the support of his enthusiastic fans who sat near us, fourth went to Josh May and fifth to his dad, James May.
The IMCA Northern SportMods ran their feature next. Tonight, there was no denying the young man from Adel, Dylan Book, as he led the entire race from the pole. A hard charging Zach Rawlins made a valiant effort running the topside attempting to catch Book, but had to settle for the runner up spot. Third place car was that of Scott Davis who had a great run after having to go to the work area for repairs, tag the field, and flying through the pack. Point leader, Eric Flander kept that lead by finishing fourth, and fifth went to Austin Lucas.
Promoter Toby Kruse offered double money to any heat winner on the night to start at the tail and win. In the IMCA stock car class, Dustin Smith took that challenge. Having seen him do this before, we thought those odds were pretty good. Even making it sweeter was the fact that he would have had to start in the twelveth position as point leader anyway, but with other cars unable to make the call, (18 ran heats) his starting spot ended up only being 14th---still no small feat. Once again, Smith seemed to drive effortlessly through the field to take the lead with only 8 laps down. Smith kept that lead, driving away from the pack, to get his second feature win of the year at the Marshalltown Speedway. Michael Jaennette had a good run to take second from starting back in 7th as he held off third place Trent Murphy who started near the back. Murphy was declared "too light" in his heat race, so was relegated to the back of the starting field. Fourth went to Tracy Gienger who ran upfront all night, and fifth went to Jeff Wollam in the 3W.
It was Richie Gustin repeating from last week, as he got himself another win---his third at the track this year. Gustin led nearly from the beginning of the contest as pole sitter Daniel Hilsabeck chased him. Hilsabeck, still in second with two laps to go, met with an incident on a restart situation, that sent him far back in the finish. Mike O'Lear had a great run as he finished in that runner up spot, third went to Scott Simatovich, fourth to Adam Larson and fifth to visitor from Sioux City, Chris Abelson in the 1X car. It was nice to hear Richie Gustin offer thanks to the veterans as he spoke in Victory Lane, on this Memorial Day weekend. As a note, another Gustin, that being brother Jimmy, ran the feature...finishing in 7th I believe...with what could almost be called, "half a car" as announcer Blake Anderson described it. This resulted from a mishap in his heat race when he had no where to go when a car ahead of him slowed. He was able to stop and avoid much contact, but another car then in turn, slammed into Gustin. When he appeared for the feature event, nearly the entire back half of his car was minus any sheetmetal making for quite an unusual sight.
The final A main for the evening was the IMCA hobby stocks. While the last couple of weeks have been virtually caution free, that was not the case on this night. The 12K of Eric Knutson led until another Smith brother, Devin Smith, came into the equation. After a battle for a couple of laps, Smith took the lead away and then went on to the win and Knutson getting second. Third went to Todd Reitzler who held off fourth place finisher Michael Murphy and rounding out the top five was Terry Shaffar.
So ended another fun night of racing at the Marshalltown Speedway. For full results and other information about the track, be sure and check www.marshalltownspeedway.com. Another full night of racing will find us back at the track next Friday night. Happy racing!
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