The Mod Lite feature was a shoot out between Bryan Zehm and Mike Morrill. Morrill held the advantage and was looking for the checkers. Zehm stuck it on the bottom on the final lap, made it work and snatched the win, leaving Morrill in second. Mike Kennedy had led the early race, but on this night, had to settle for third. Andy Hennigar, last week's winner, came from twelfth, to score fourth place, and Randy Bryan took fifth.
The IMCA SportMods had a field of 46 cars. They whittled the feature to it's 24-car starting field with two B mains. Steve Reetz made the haul from Arcadia, Iowa and won the first consy race, the second went to Eric Elliott. In the feature, Brian Miller was hungry for a win and flew to the lead instantly from his pole starting spot, and Randy Roberts, who had started right behind him, took over second. About lap seven, an ever so slight bobble by the leader allowed Roberts to slip into first with Tim Love seizing the chance to get by Miller as well, and take over the runner up spot. Now it was make up time for Miller, who swung to the topside as the laps clicked off, got back into second and was reeling in the leader. However, time ran out, and Roberts kept the lead, scoring the win, Miller taking second. Love finished third ahead of Daniel Tasler and Cory Rose.
The IMCA Modifieds ran their usual 20-lap feature. Kellogg, Iowa's David Brown sat on the front row alongside Humeston's Shay Woods. Brown got the jump at the drop of the green and took the point position. It wasn't long until Brown's son Kyle had made his way into second, coming from the third row, and setting up what could have been a possible one-two finish for them. That possibility ended when Kyle Brown suddenly found himself spun out at the bottom of turn one, slamming the door shut on a good finish. Unable to get the car re-fired in time to avoid the yellow coming out, this would bunch up the field for the restart. Brown wasn't deterred however, and maintained his lead in smooth fashion, scoring the win. Shay Woods followed him in second and third went to Jamaica, Iowa veteran racer, Denny Pittman. Fourth was Randy Havlik and Frostbuster winner Jimmy Gustin showed his usual finesse, coming from fourteenth to take fifth.
The IMCA Stock Cars made everyone say, "Wow", again tonight. There were cars clustered in tight packs all over the track. They were going 3, 4, and 5-wide at times. This was all happening behind leader Jay Schmidt who wanted nothing more than a caution free race, letting the pack go at it and leaving him in the clear. Well, that wasn't to be, when a yellow flew at lap eleven. The restart put Frostbuster winner Wayne Gifford right on his rear bumper, and the rest of the hungry pack all looking for more. Gifford was able to make the pass on Schmidt within the next lap or so, but suddenly all eyes were not on the leaders, but on a car coming fast on the topside! Enter Damon Murty, into the picture. Murty was amazing to watch as he picked off car after car and with two laps remaining, made the pass into the lead. He scored the win, making it back-to-back victories at the track, padding his points lead nicely. Gifford finished in second, Schmidt held on to third. A much improved driver in our opinion, Kevin Balmer, who we have heard is driving an old Dusty Vis car, took the fourth spot, and "HotRod" Richards finished in fifth.
Stick around folks, for that final race of the night--the twelve lap IMCA Hobby Stocks! The green fell and in corner two, somehow, a real disaster was avoided when a bunch of cars were scattering and trying to regain control. They all continued however, no caution needed. Lap two was another story. Danny Watson rolled in turn one, the car soon bursting into flames. It was a few tense moments before it was announced that he was out of the car and was seen walking away. We heard that he was unconscious briefly, but with the aid of the emergency crew quickly on scene coming to his aid, they were able to get the driver out of the car safely. We understand the fuel filter was broken in half, which caused the scary fire. Scenes like that are always terrifying, and we are thankful when they turn out as well as this one did.
When the race was able to resume, Curt Reed and Andrew Burg were upfront and they were doing battle. They passed the flagstand once in a virtual tie. Caution number two came on lap seven at which time, defending IMCA Hobby Stock Champion Shannon Anderson had moved into second, and wanting more.
Anderson passed Burg within a lap or two to take over the lead. Anderson was not letting up and looking for the checkers after the white flag flew, when a caution flag came out, ending the race under yellow/checkered. Anderson scored another of his numerous wins, Andrew Burg took the runner up spot. Austin Luellen came from row six as he started along side Anderson, to score third, fourth was Tyler Pickett from row five and Curt Reed rounded out the top five.
Racing was finished before 9 p.m. thanks to the early starting times put in place for the entire month of April. That will also be the case next week, so remember, hot laps at 4, racing at 5. Happy racing!
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