Marshalltown Speedway got their regular season of racing underway on Friday night. After a record-breaking 225 cars checked in last Friday for their Frostbuster special, there was still a good car count of 130 plus cars passing through the pit gates for their season opener. The temperature while not the best, was much better than the previous week and thankfully, much more comfortable to watch the racing action.
The Dwarf/Mod Lite feature started the main event's action. Mike Morrill led the entire race to take the checkers first. Andy Hennigar took second place, Colby Oberembt was third, Randy Bryan was fourth and fifth went to Joel Huggins.
It took two b-mains to whittle the IMCA SportMod feature to their 24-car starting field. Ryan Ashton and Tracy Wassenberg from Wisconsin, won those events. It was a thrilling finish to the A main when a last lap pass decided the winner. Brad Iverson had led the entire race as he peddled hard in front of young Caden Carter. It was appearing to be a win for Iverson but Carter had other ideas and was able to make the pass out of turn two on the final lap and take the checkers first. Following Iverson to take third was another young driver, Tyler Droste, fourth went to Jared Timmerman and fifth to Andy Tiernen.
The IMCA modified feature ran next as 21 of the 22 cars on hand started the main. Visiting drivers from Canada and Wisconsin came to race in "warmer" weather prior to their track's opening and it was looking like a Wisconsin driver was going home with the win. Mike Wedelstadt and Jon Snyder took advantage of their front row starting spots and led the pack throughout the 20-lap feature with Wedelstadt to the point. Snyder took the lead with about five laps remaining and would then go on to the win. Snyder won at Boone last Saturday for their Frostbuster, so he is off to a great start in 2011. Adam Larson came under the checkers in third place, fourth went to Ronn Lauritzen and David Brown was fifth. Those two drivers came from starting eleventh and twelfth.
The IMCA stock cars ran their 18-lap feature next. Sean Johnson charged to the lead and was pulling away from second place Trevor Titus when a yellow would halt the action and bunch up the field. Damon Murty had positioned himself up to third and on the restart, made the pass on Titus for the second position. Nathan Wood soon followed suit to take over the third spot over Titus. At the flag, it was Murty for the win, Johnson kept second over Wood in third and Trent Murphy finished fourth after a mishap in turn four coming to the checkers, found Titus at a halt up against the rail. Finishing fifth in his rookie season in the stock car class, was Grinnell driver Todd Reitzler. Jeff Wollam made a good charge through the pack to finish sixth after having to qualify through the B main.
The IMCA hobby stockers finished the evenings program. Knoxville driver Kevin Fee made it two-for-two at the Marshalltown track as he won the feature as he had the Frostbuster last Friday night. Fee passed leader Aaron Rudolph about the half-way mark to take the victory. Rudolph finished in second, third went to Eric Larson, fourth to Richard Yaw, and rounding out the top five was Russell Damme, Jr.
Racing action will continue next Friday night at Marshalltown. For more information and results, check www.marshalltownspeedway.com. Happy racing!
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