The Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa was the scene Monday of night #1 of the 15th Annual Musco Lighting Great American Stock Car Shootout. The stock cars and the B-Mods were both part of the USRA Iron Man series, and the USRA modifieds and hobby stocks were also in competition.
The 15-lap USRA hobby stock feature was up first. Five cars broke away from the pack with Nick Ulin leading last week's winner, Dustin Griffiths, visiting driver Chris Hovden from Creso, Craig Brown and Todd Reitzler. Griffiths would make the pass for the lead with just two laps remaining, repeating his win from last week. Ulin kept second, Craig Brown was third, fourth was Hovden and Todd Reitzler was fifth.
The USRA modifieds had but eleven cars competing, with two unable to make the starting call. Zack VanderBeek repeated his win from last week as well. Colt Mather finished a distant second, Scott Dickey was a distant third, and Josh Truman a distant fourth. Steve Blattler rounded out the top five.
The USRA B-mods had a good field of 31 cars on hand, which required a B-main to whittle the starting field to 24 cars. Andrew Schroeder took the win in that consolation race. The leader of the race through lap nine of the 20-lapper, was Bill Gibson. When a yellow flew at that point, the leader suddenly pulled into the pits, and out of the race. This handed the lead over to Brandon Hare from Elma, Iowa who fended off the challenges of Cayden Carter and took the feature win. Carter was the runner up and cousin Carter VandenBerg, finished in third place. Andrew Schroeder had a fine race, having come from the B-main, to finish in fourth, and Roland, Iowa's Matt Lettow rounded out the top five.
The stock car feature was 25 laps. The top eight cars in passing points from their heat races, redrew for their starting positions. The luck of the draw put veteran driver, Rick Gustin on the pole and Nathan Wood along side. Most of the race turned into a two-man show--Gustin and Mike VanGenderen. Those two ran around the top of the track, leaving the competition behind. Gustin led through lap ten but by lap twelve, it was VanGenderen at the helm. VanGenderen, "The Flyin' Dutchman" went on to grab his first ever win at Osky, a comfortable distance ahead of Gustin, in second. Independence, Iowa driver, Justin Temeyer finished in third, Nathan Wood in fourth and Tory Reicks, Waukoma, Iowa, rounded out the top five.
We plan to head back down to the Southern Iowa Speedway for night #2 action of the Great American Stock Car Shootout, with the B-mods, hobby stocks and the modifieds under "alternative" rules tonight. We are really hoping that the "alternative" rule will draw more drivers to come and try their hand at the Monster Half-Mile. For the sake of the drivers and fans, let's also hope it's not at hot as last night! This will be a complete new show for all classes of cars.
More complete results are listed below. You can also check www.rlpromotions.com for the offical results and more information. Happy racing!
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