It was Nostalgia and Vintage car racing on Friday night at Marshalltown--adding a little extra value for your dollars on the evening. A well known name in racing would chalk up wins in two different divisions, the Stock Car class produced a new winner on the year, and other divisions had repeat winners.
The "cars of yesteryear" started off the feature racing. They would be split into three different divisions. The first was the sprint car class with five cars participating. This one was won by Ted Rozenski. Next came the vintage coupe class that back in the day, were also billed as "Jalopy" cars. Austin Russell emerged the winner in this one in his #3R. The final Nostalgia race was with the full bodied cars from the '50-'60s. Ben Holt took home the win in his #7 ride.
The Sport Compacts ran their A main next. For some reason, this class is struggling a bit with car count.
Tonight, only three cars competed along with a "house car". Merv Chandler took home the marbles again tonight....getting back to his groove after his only loss of the season last week. Duayne Herb finished second and Josh Keller ran third.
The Mod Lite division has been dominated this year by two drivers---Josh May and Mike Morrill, as the two have won all the features in 2012. This time, it was May's turn. May passed early leader Tim Hennigar to go on and take the win, his 8th of the year. Hennigar finished as the runner up, third was Mike Morrill, fourth, Randy Bryan, and Joel Huggins was fifth.
The IMCA Northern SportMods came to the track next. The race had to be completely regrouped when Sam Wieben found himself spinning toward the infield as the field approached the starting green flag. When racing then got underway, Travis Peterson was the guy at the helm Gatlin Leytham doing his darnedest to catch him, and Jenae Gustin was pestering Leytham. Gustin would then make her move into the lead after a restart situation. Meanwhile, the 505 of Racer Hulin had cut through the field from starting fourteenth, to nab the second spot, having passed Travis Peterson. The final laps were great racing at the front, but Jenae Gustin was not to be denied the win, taking her second in a row, Racer Hulin finished a close second over Peterson in third. Curtis VanDerWal, Oskaloosa, Iowa driver who has spent some time racing on asphalt a few years back, had a good run to finish in fourth. Joel Rust rounded out the top five.
Scott Pippert took the win in the IMCA Hobby Stock class. Pippert won for the sixth time, and went back to back for feature wins at Marshalltown. Pippert, who started twelfth on the field, caught leader Brice Udelhoven, riding his bumper in the closing laps. As we've seen so many times lately, this one was decided as the cars approached the finish line to the checkers. Pippert made the pass for the win coming out of turn four. Udelhoven finished what was no doubt, a disappointing second. Third was Eric Knutson, fourth went to Eric Larson, and Randy Embrey took fifth.
The Stock Car's 18-lap feature saw a new face in victory lane. Tracy Gienger made the pass on leader Trevor Titus after a restart situation on lap eight and would pull away at the checkers, taking his first win of the season at Marshalltown. The Chelsea Charger, Damon Murty was second just ahead of third place Steve Meyer, who had started tenth. Fourth was last week's winner Trent Murphy, and Trevor Titus took the old Ford Thunderbird to a fifth place finish.
Josh Truman led the first eight laps of the IMCA Modified feature. Lap nine found Jammin' Jimmy Gustin snatching the lead away. Gustin, who was debuting his new 2013 Harris car, started twelfth, and "testing" his new ride, put it into the victory circle--making it the second Gustin of the night taking the checkers. Gustin was challenged by Jon Snyder during the final few laps, Snyder only able to take second place. Third went to Josh Truman, and fourth through seventh was a "gob" of cars crossing the finish line! As it was sorted out, fourth went to Luke Wanninger (but since he was piloting a crate motor ride again, sans spoiler...all drivers finishing behind him were moved up a position) Ronn Lauritzen crossed in fifth (but took fourth), Scott Simatovich crossed sixth, but took fifth, Kyle Brown crossing in seventh, but scored sixth.
It was officially announced this week that the crate motor is going to be an option for the IMCA Modified class next year. Though not confirmed, we heard that the testing of the crate will be done as of this weekend. From what we have observed, it is certainly going to be competitive. We have also heard...you know how that goes sometimes...that the spoiler will NOT be an option.
How quickly the racing season is winding down! Seems we just got started and now here schools are back in session, and the IMCA Super Nationals are just around the corner. Still plenty of time to catch a good old dirt track race though. Find one, and attend. Happy racing!
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