It was back to the Southern Iowa Speedway this past Wednesday after they had to call their show off last week due to wet grounds. There were no strangers visiting Victory Circle on this night.
The USRA B Mods had a nice field of 17 cars on hand. Jason "Mighty Mouse" McDaniel led the first couple of laps of the 15-lap feature, until young Cayden Carter snatched the lead away after a restart at five laps down. Later, Tyler Groenendyke who started 10th, worked his way past McDaniel to take over the second spot as Carter VandenBerg and Mike Shelton tried to catch the top three. Cayden Carter took the win and Groenendyke followed in second. McDaniel kept third place, Shelton was fourth with VandenBerg in fifth.
Only five USRA stock cars were on hand to try and tame the big half-mile. We note some of those "MIAs" from last year are the 29 of Matt Greiner, the 12M of Brian Mitrisin, the 4M of Chase Mitrisin , the 11 of Kyle Anderson, the 94 of Corey Stout, the 3 of Clayton Garden, and the 73C of Carl Yaw. All of those were quite regular competitors last year at the track. We can remember when the stock cars were a dominate class at the track "back in the day", and one or two B mains were always needed. The five cars racing were no slouches running their 15-lap feature. Nathan Wood led the entire race but at times, had three different cars on his tail; Mike VanGenderen, Kyle Harwood and Shane Weller. Wood took the checkers, repeating from his win on May 26th, Shane Weller was second, third went to Kyle Harwood, fourth to Mike VanGenderen, and fifth to Toby Smith.
The USRA hobby stocks saw 21 cars in attendance and all started their feature event. Veteran driver Jim Hughes, sat on the pole along side Steve Allen who earlier had looked strong in winning his heat. Not one lap was completed when the 10G of Dustin Griffiths brought the action to a halt as he sat in turn two with a broken left front suspension. When the race restarted, it was Matt Messemaker in the 33M car taking the lead with Hughes and Smith in tow. Meanwhile, ninth place starter, Donavan Nunnikhoven, dove to the inside and made fantastic headway as he maneuvered the 2N up into the second position. By eight laps down, Nunnikhoven had taken over the lead, which he would maintain to the checkers flying. Messemaker kept the runner up spot, third went to Kris Walker, fourth to the 99JR car of Nick Murty and fifth to Andy Coleman.
The final feature of the night was the USRA modifieds. Fourteen cars were on hand but three were unable to start. Brandon Banks and Brad Dubil both belched smoke in their heats and the 20 of John Fellman of Blue Grass, left the track early after scratching from his heat. The black 94 of Steven Blattler was looking strong from the get go, leading the field through lap ten of the 20-lap feature. At lap eleven, Zack VanderBeek made the pass on Blattler, but Blattler battled back, regaining the lead. Those two cars would race side-by-side before VanderBeek took over for good. VanderBeek took the double checkers, Blattler kept second place, third went to Colt Mather who came from back in ninth starting spot, fourth was Brad Pinkerton and fifth to Ron VerBeek.
For complete information and results, check out www.heartlandmotorsports.com. Next Wednesday will be another regularly scheduled night of racing at the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa. Come check it out for some mid-week racing. Happy racing!
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