It was back to the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa, Iowa on Tuesday night, for night #2 of the Great American Stock Car Shootout. And what a stock car feature we saw! Also on the docket were the B-mods, hobby stocks, and "alternative rule" modifieds.
The hobby stocks ran their 15-lap A main first and the outcome was the same as the previous night. Dustin Griffiths took his #10G back to victory lane, repeating his win from Monday night, and making it three-in-a-row at the track. It was close coming to the checkers but Griffths prevailed over Craig Brown, who finished in second place. Jason McDaniel took third, fourth went to northern Iowa driver Chris Hovden, and Todd Reitzler rounded out the top five.
It was rather disappointing to see only eleven modifieds running the "alternative" rules...no spoiler, steel-headed motor with flat tappets, among some other regulations. All eleven cars were able to start the feature, and all finished the race. "RVB", Ron VerBeek started from the outside front row and led all 15 laps. Montour, Iowa driver, Dan Fetters took home second place, third went to Mike VanGenderen, fourth to Nick Deal, who made the trip over from Walnut, Iowa and Greg Cox was fifth after making some adjustments from falling out of hot laps and not able to start his heat race.
The B modifieds had 32 cars in attendance, requiring a B-main qualifier. That was won by Jake Timm out of Minnesota. A couple of yellows flew in the first few laps and on a restart at lap four, it was Cayden Carter already at the helm from his sixth starting spot. From there on, it was all Carter, as he distanced himself from the pack. Last night's winner, Brandon Hare was running second until Andrew Schroeder caught and passed him for second place. Schroeder would then finish as runner up, and Hare in third. Matt Lettow took the fourth place and Jeremy Embrey edged out Jenae Gustin at the line as they finished fifth and sixth respectively.
Now came the main event--the 30-lap stock car feature. And who should be sitting on the pole after the redraw amongst the top in passing points from the heats, but promoter Todd Staley. Justin Temeyer sat along side. As the green flag waved, some cars didn't make it out of turn two. Getting the brunt of the situation, the #7 car of Rick Todd ended up sideways on the wall with the #31M of Mark Haglund underneath him. Those two drivers were not able to continue.
When the racing did get underway, it was a show between Staley and Temeyer. Those two battled it out through lap fourteen. Then Shay Curtin out of Waukon, Iowa passed Staley to take over second and continue the chase to catch Temeyer. There was tight racing all around the racy track, giving the fans what they came for. At lap twenty, Shay Curtin had caught and passed Temeyer for the lead, but Temeyer fought back, regaining the lead. That however, was only momentary, as Kevin Donlan, Decorah, Iowa, made his way into the lead. A tight pack of five or so cars were running up front with positions changing nearly every remaining lap. When all was said and done though, it was Kevin Donlan taking home the $1,500 paycheck. Temeyer, out of Independence, Iowa held the runner up spot, and Shay Curtin was third. Fourth went to McClelland, Iowa's Jeff Joldersma who started near the back of the field, and fifth was Mike VanGenderen, who rebounded from the red flag at the start of the race, changed three tires, and tagged the tail.
The stock car race brought back memories of the good ole days. Amongst the fans setting in our area, we agreed it may have been the best race we'd seen at the Monster Half-Mile in a long time. It was exciting.
After wondering all day if the racing at Osky would even happen---we had rain all day, we had heard nothing to the contrary, so we headed out--in the rain! To our relief, a dry line on the pavement appeared just a short distance from Oskaloosa. There was sure a change in the temperature from the previous night as well. We went from sweltering heat, to immediately putting on a sweatshirt as we got to the grandstand last night...adding layers as the evening progressed! Only in Iowa!
We are up for a bit of R & R for a couple of days after racing 12 out of 15 days. It's been a fun run, but it's catching up with us a bit. Until next time, happy racing!
More complete results are listed below. For official results, you can check www.rlpormotions.com.
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