The Southern Iowa Speedway kicked off the five-night IMCA Frostbuster series for 2012 on Wednesday night. After a nine year absence of the IMCA sanction at the big half-mile track in Osky, it was great to see the pits full, a good and enthusiastic crowd on hand, and a smooth track for the drivers. There was more than just a few traveling drivers, many from Wisconsin and Canada, as well as Kansas, Illinois, Wyoming, Texas, North Carolina, California, and North Dakota; those being the ones I can recall. Wisconsin and Kansas took home two of the feature wins, with Iowa claiming two.
The features started with the 15-lap IMCA hobby stock feature. No stranger with taking a checkered flag, Shannon Anderson, son of veteran racer, Jeff Anderson, and who now shows Urbandale, Iowa as his home, out ran Eric Stanton and Bill Bonnett. Longtime driver, Bill Bonnett held the lead until just before halfway of the event, when Anderson sneaked past him to take over the helm. Eric Stanton made his way into second and closed in on Anderson, to no avail. Below is my unofficial results for the hobby stock feature:
1. 78 Shannon Anderson
2. 7B Eric Stanton
3. 19 Bill Bonnett
4. 84 Danny Thrasher
5. 33X Justin Hook
6. 2N Donovan Nunnikhoven
7. 69 Craig Brown
8. 24B Brandon Brinton
9. 31 Dale Porter
10. 4X Pete Hutzel (a former Gary Pfantz car)
11. 27C Cory Adams
12. 33 Jerry Kriegel
13. 20B Ben Bruck
DNF: 57 Shull
224 Gina Greubel (hit wall going into turn 4)
10G Dustin Griffiths
25 VanBuskirk ?
53D Downing
32T Bobby Greene
The IMCA Stock Car 18-lap feature came next. The visiting drivers were abundant in this race, taking home three of the top five positions. Veteran driver from Wisconsin, John Heinz, led the entire feature with fellow Wisconsin competitor, Justin Jacobson taking the runner up spot. Kyle Harwood shot past Texas driver JC Howell on the final circuit, as they finished third and fourth respectively. Iowan Jeff Mueller rounded out the top five. My unofficial finish is as follows:
1. 57 John Heinz - Wisconsin
2. 1330 Justin Jacobson - Wisconsin
3. 15K Kyle Harwood
4. 103 JC Howell - Gun Barrel, Tx (don't ya just love that name!)
5. 77M Jeff Mueller
6. 22R Todd Reitzler
7. 99D Damon Murty
8. 93 Michael Jaennette
9. 1K Tom Killen
10. 94 Corey Stout
11. 29 Matt Greiner
12. 81X Randy Killen
13. 38 Rich Vogt
14. 52X Nathan Wood
15. 27 Gary Bass
16. 10 Matt Junio - Wisconsin
17. 22 Jaimie Czechowski ? - Wisconsin
18. 49G Leroy Groenendyk (former B mod driver)
19. 3 Joe Zedana
20. 73C Carl Yaw
DNF: 14R Jim Redman
00 Lemmes ?
The IMCA Northern SportMod feature went to Wichita, Kansas driver--and defending IMCA National Champion--Bryan LaRiviere. LaRiviere dominated in the feature, leading from start to finish, and pulling away from his nearest challenger. Clint Luellen and brother Ty Luellen finished second and third, respectively. Racer Hulin in his bright #505 ride, finished in fourth while veteran racer John VanDenberg rounded out the top five spots. Below is my unofficial finish:
1. 2 Bryan LaRiviere - Kansas
2. 3L Clint Luellen
3. 32L Ty Luellen
4. 505 Racer Hulin
5. 3K John VanDenberg
6. 81D Scott Davis
7. 7+ Jared Timmerman
8. 27 Bryon Weyer
9. 23K Joey Kates - Kansas
10. 21L Brad Lautenbach - Wisconsin
11. 1 Curtis VanDerWal
12. 72 Brett Lowry
13, 19J Jenae Gustin
14. 38 Bill Gibson
15. 8C Rob Czarapata - Wisconsin
16. 30X Josh Modde
17. 64 Casey Greubel
18. 198 Sam Weubben/Wiven ?, Dysart, Iowa
19. 20 Brad Theys -Wisconsin
DNF: 10 Jack Housley
48 Blake Conant
00M Brett Moffitt
9X Austin Lucas
7 Carter VanDenberg
The finale of the evening was the IMCA modified 20-lap feature. By this time, the track was really not multi-grooved and the dust was rolling. After speaking with new manager of the track, Mike VanGenderen, he commented that he was between a rock and a hard spot on what to do. He had been checking radar all evening,(as had we) and knowing that rain was just to the south, opted to take the route of getting the show in without watering, instead of taking the time to water the track and then have it rain and not get the show in. The front row was young Andrew Schroeder on the pole with Gilman, Iowa's Richie Gustin to his outside. Behind them sat Kyle Strickler, "The Highside Tickler" out of Mooresville, NC and Mark Elliott. That would be the finishing order after 20 laps. However, we learned even before we got home, that Schroeder had been disqualified and the win then went to Richie Gustin. Lance Arneson from Wisconsin was scored in fourth and Ronn Laruitzen from Jesup, Iowa in his "Angry Bird" hotrod, rounded out the top five. Below are my unofficial results:
1. 19G Richie Gustin
2. 2 Kyle Strickler - NC
3. 12 Mark Elliott
4. 98 Lance Arneson - Wisconsin
5. 10K Ronn Lauritzen
6. 9 Ken Schrader - NC
7. 7N Jay Noteboom
8 7 Eric Dailey
9. 69X Jon Snyder
10. 58 Marcus Yarie - Wisconsin
11. 73 Dan Ratajczak - Frog Station, Wisconsin (gotta love that name too)
12. 8X Rich Smith
13. 13 Matt Waugh
14. 18 Jake Durbin
15. 62 Greg Cox
16. 21CZ Tim Czarnetski - Wisconsin
DNF: 99M Tim Murty
10 Tyson Turnbull - Canada
70 Jesse Dennis
O2 Kody Scholpp - Kansas
40 Scott Dickey
01 Joey Galloway - Canada
19V Eric VanIten - Wisconsin
02 Andrew Schroeder - dq'd for "stud girdles"
The show was completed shortly after 10:45 p.m. and with the 125 cars that competed, not bad at all. The program was run in a timely and efficient manner, and the comments we heard all around us, much appreciated by the fans in the stands.
The regular season for the Southern Iowa Speedway will start next Wednesday night, with hot laps at 7 and racing at 7:30.
Be sure and check out fellow PR's blogs under "Back Stretch" and "In Staging" for their views of the racing. Positively Racing was well represented at the Southern Iowa Speedway tonight.
There are four more early season Frostbusters on tap--tonight in Des Moines at the Iowa State Fair Speedway, Friday night at the Marshalltown Speedway, Saturday at Boone Speedway, and Benton Speedway in Vinton on Sunday. Hope to see you at some of those! Happy racing!
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