The Southern Iowa Speedway held an IMCA SportMod special on Wednesday night to go along with the other regular classes of cars. It was a draw/redraw format for the SportMods, with $500 going to the winner. A new face appeared in victory lane in that class, all other divisions seeing repeat winners. A stock car King of the Hill race was also on tap to entertain the fans, and the youngsters got to scramble for candy on the front stretch for their added enjoyment. All added up to a fun night at the races at the famed Monster Half Mile.
Veteran Merv Chandler took another of his many victories over the years, in the IMCA Sport Compact class. This time, he did it in his asphalt car. That set up didn't seem to slow him down one bit, as he cruised home to the checkers. John Whalen closed in on the leader, but was only able to muster a second place finish. Last week's winner Bill Whalen, Jr. took third, fourth went to Larry Hopkins, and newcomer for the night, Steve Williams, Jr. completed the five car field.
The IMCA Hobby Stocks saw the familiar face of Shannon Anderson taking another win. Starting in tenth position hardly deterred Anderson as he was up to second by lap three and leading by lap five. Hartford, Iowa's Eric Stanton overcame a slip up earlier, to chase Anderson to the checkers in second place. John Watson finished third, followed by Kevin Fee and Danny Thrasher in fourth and fifth.
The IMCA Modifieds ran their 15-lap A main flag-to-flag. Cayden Carter caught leader Brandon Banks by the halfway mark of the race, and would go on to score his third feature win at the track this year. Greg Cox finished in third ahead of Shane Weller, Jeff Conner and Doug Pratt; as they finished fourth through sixth. The 12H of Dakota Hayden smacked the wall and was unable to finish the feature.
The IMCA Stock Cars competed in a King of the Hill contest earlier in the evening. The top 4 finishers of the two heats were pitted against each other. The final two standing after elimination rounds were Colt Mather and Damon Murty. Murty took his 99D to the "top of the hill" and was crowned the winner, taking home an extra $100 on the night.
The 16-lap stock car feature also went to Damon Murty. Murty, who started back in 8th spot, held off the challenges of Matt Greiner, who took the runner up spot, third went to Todd Reitzler, fourth was Nathan Wood and Todd Fisher rounded out the top five. Murty had a perfect night, having won his heat, the King of the Hill and then the feature.
There was a special format for the IMCA Northern SportMod's featured 20-lap event. At halfway, the cars were stopped on the front stretch and they were allowed to change one tire only, but make any other changes they wanted. At the halfway mark, Scott VanBuskirk was at the helm with Race Hulin and Curtis VanDerWal trailing him. VanDerWal slipped by Hulin for second place and the challenge between VanBuskirk and VanDerWal was on. The lead swapped several times in the last handful of laps, VanBuskirk taking the lead with a lap to go and holding it for the win. Racer Hulin held third place behind VanDerWal's second place finish, fourth went to Brett Lowry and fifth was Jenae Gustin.
Track manager, Mike VanGenderen was out on the track all evening, watering the track in an attempt to keep the dust down that appeared going into turn one during hot laps. The water truck was used in that first instance, which helped tremendously. However, scattered spots on the front stretch kept rearing their ugly heads--those being "bucket watered" throughout the night. Though this method does appear a bit odd, it seems to work, as was proven earlier in the season. Break out at least a five-gallon bucket though, Mike!
Positively Racing was well represented again last night with fellow bloggers Ryan Clark, Eric Arnold, and Kevin Trittien in attendance. Be sure and check their take of the night's events at www.positivelyracing.com as well. Everyone sees the races differently, so their prospective may be different. We all agreed however, it was a great night of racing.
Next week at the Southern Iowa Speedway will be another weekly points night with IMCA sanctioned racing in all classes. Hot laps are 7, with racing at 7:30. Be sure and check www.oskyspeedway.com for additional information, schedule and results and point standings. Happy racing!
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