Beautiful weather greeted racers and fans for a great night of racing at the Marshalltown Speedway on Friday night. It was also Clement Heating and Cooling night at the races, and with those magic words at the ticket booth, admission was only $5! The crowd on hand reflected that bargain.
Thirteen Dwarf/Mod Lites started the feature event action. It didn't take Tim Hennigar long to get to the lead in the 15-lap affair. It was pretty smooth sailing from there on as Hennigar captured his second win at the track this season. Randy Bryan finished in second place, Colby Oberembt in third, fourth went to Josh May and fifth to Joel Huggins. The race went flag-to-flag.
The hobby stock 12-lap feature also went caution free. Brandon Brinton pushed past Jennifer Hulin for the lead and then pulled away. Brinton took the win, his second of the season at Marshalltown, over Eric Elliott. Jennifer Hulin had a third place finish over Michael Murphy in fourth and Jake Nelson in fifth. Great job on the hobby stocks keeping the race going green the entire 12 laps!
The IMCA Northern SportMods had only one early race caution for a pileup in corner one, halt their racing action. Point leader, Cayden Carter started twelfth on the field, caught leader Jenae Gustin, made the pass for the lead, and then pulled away. Carter grabbed his third win on the season. Scott Davis followed Carter through the pack to finish in second and Dylan Book finished strong to capture third. Fourth went to Jenae Gustin and Dane Larson rounded out the top five spots.
The stock cars put on a heck of a show for the fans. Jay Schmidt got to the lead before many circuits of the 18-lap feature had clicked off. Michael Jaennette got to second and gave chase while a pack of cars were battling closely for positions behind him. One of those cars was the 99D of Damon Murty who made his way to the third spot and soon passed Jaennette and took over second. The first yellow flag would then fly late in the race, making for a green-white-checkered shootout to the finish line between the two. Schmidt kept his composure and no bobbles, which no doubt Murty was hoping for, and got to the checkers first, sealing his win. Murty took the runner up spot followed by Jaennette in third, Donavon Smith in fourth and Kevin Rose took fifth.
The final feature, the IMCA modified 20-lapper, brought the crowd to its feet in a thrilling finish. Todd Shute flew to the lead from his second row starting spot, and looked to be headed for a win. However, Jammin' Jimmy Gustin had other ideas as he was reeling in the 5 car. All eyes were on the leaders as they ran the topside in turns three and four, and dove low in corners one and two. The two swapped leads and contact was made on the frontstretch leaving Shute in the top spot. On the final lap, Gustin got his nose under Shute in corner one to take the lead and power home to the win as the crowd cheered wildly. It is hard to believe that this is Gustin's first win at Marshalltown this year as he is a four-time track champion. Adam Larson finished third, Joel Bushore was fourth and Jon Snyder had a top five finish.
Tuesday night, June 28th will be the annual stock car shoot out at the Marshalltown Speedway. Racing will start one half hour early at 7 p.m., for this special event. Then it will be back to a regular night of racing next Friday night at the track. Check www.marshalltownspeedway for complete results and information. Happy racing!
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