The IMCA Deery Brothers Late Models came to town Wednesday night for a turn at the big monster half-mile at Osky. They joined the regular classes in conjunction with the Southern Iowa Fair. The 35-lap Deery Brothers feature was the finale for the evening.
The USRA B Modifieds were the first to run their feature event. Mike Wanders would lead the first few laps until Cayden Carter took over about lap five. Carter's cousin Carter VandenBerg in the 7 car moved to second before Bill Gibson slipped by him. Jason "Mighty Mouse" McDaniel then maneuvered his ride up into the second spot and would chase Carter to the checkers. Carter added another win to his impressive list of runs this year, McDaniel was second, third went to Bill Gibson, fourth to Carter VandenBerg, and fifth was Mike Wanders.
Derek Kirkland took another win in the USRA Hobby Stock class but it wasn't without a good battle prior to his taking the checkers. Todd Reitzler jumped to the lead over Don Nunnikhoven and those two would swap back and forth for many laps. Kirkland joined the fray for a 3-car, 3-wide shoot-out as the laps wound down. With two laps to go and Nunnikhoven leading, he suffered a tire going down as he entered turn two. This left the 2K of Kirkland and the 22R of Reitzler to fight it out for the final two laps. Kirkland was first across the line to take the win, Reitzler in second. Third went to Kris Walker who had started well back in the pack, fourth was Steve Allen, and fifth went to Craig Brown.
Nine USRA Stock Cars were on hand with eight taking the green flag for their A. David Denham in the 93 car was unable to make the starting call. It was tight, tight racing early on as "The Flying Dutchman " Mike VanGenderen fought off the challenges of Shane Weller and Nathan Wood. Wood made the pass into first and Weller slipped by VanGenderen as the checkers flew. Wood added another Osky win to his list this year, Weller took second and VanGenderen third. Fourth was Kyle Harwood and rounding out the top five was Corey "just across the road in turn one" Stout in car 94, making his first appearance of the year.
Fourteen USRA Modifieds checked into the pits and all started their main. Steve Blattler showed his muscles tonight as he led the entire race. Fertile, Iowa driver Kelly Shryock pulled down to join the contest for the night and battled with Zack VanderBeek. Shryock made the pass on VanderBeek, and then would make the attempt to catch Blattler. It wasn't to be on this night as Blattler took a dominate win. Shryock closed a bit on the leader but had to settle for the runner-up place, with VanderBeek taking third. Fourth went to Corning, Iowa driver, Ryan Peckham and fifth was Josh Truman.
Thirty-one IMCA Deery Brothers Late Models checked in on the night. Two B Mains filled out the 24-car starting field. Clear Lake, Iowa's Charlie McKenna led the charge around the big old half-mile through lap 9 or 10 of the 35-lap feature. Veteran driver Ray Guss, Jr. was the one who took over that top spot then with McKenna and Deery rookie Andy Eckrich giving chase. Lap 32 resulted in a red flag situation when McKenna smacked the wall between turns three and four and took a nasty hit. A wheel was observed flying but it was unclear if the wheel was off before or after the contact with the wall. McKenna was okay and exited the car on his own. The final three laps saw no changes up front in the finishing order with Guss taking the win. Andy Eckrich finished as the runner-up, third was Jay Johnson, fourth was Terry Neal and fifth went to Jeremiah Hurst. Guss extends his point lead on the Deery Brothers Summer Series with his win. Going into the night, Mark Burgtorf was second in points, but suffered mechanical woes in his heat race and was done for the night.
For official results check out http://www.rlpromotions.com/ and http://www.imca.com/ will have the Deery Brothers Late Model rundown. The Positively Racing crew was represented well last night so check "Back Stretch" and "Tapfan's Tours" for more takes on the night's racing action. Happy racing!
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