We ventured east last night for a night of racing at the Benton County Speedway. It was a typical warm Iowa July night and you could almost hear the corn growing as we took our journey through the countryside among the waving green fields. This made it five out of six nights of racing for the week for us.
The IMCA Sport Compacts raced for 12-laps. Bill Whalen, Jr. took the lead by lap one, drove off from his competition and took the win by a sizable margin. Second went to Jeremy Lerch followed by Merv Chandler in third, fourth was Travis Losenicky and the 36DD of Gary Peiffer was fifth.
It took surviving at least a half a dozen yellow flags before Danny Dvorak saw the checkers flying in the 15-lap IMCA Northern SportMod feature. Dvorak took over the lead from Mike McDonald with just a few laps remaining, securing himself another victory at Vinton. Joel Rust, still in his borrowed ride, withstood some hard knocks that left the car with less than straight sheet metal, to take the runner up spot. McDonald was scored in third, fourth was Mike Hogencamp and Nick Roberts took fifth.
We were rather surprised to see only seven Stock Cars on hand last night. They put on a good show none the less. Rookie to the class this year, Scott Pippert took the lead at the drop of the green, but lap two found veteran Norm Chesmore at the helm. Chesmore then continued his driver to the checkers, chased by Pippert in second, the entire way. Third was John Emerson, who we noted had a big following in the stands, Mike Galli took fourth and Scott Beauregard was fifth.
The IMCA Hobby Stock division had Jacob Keiser leading the troops from the get go of the feature. Justin Wacha was soon in the runner up position and pressuring the leader. Wacha would then inherit the lead after Keiser ended up dead in the water in turn four, bringing out the yellow. As the field restarted, it was Stander in the second spot, but the 46 of Brian Happel was lurking in third. Shortly after the restart, Stander would make contact with one of the tractor tires in turn four, sending him several positions back before regaining control of his ride. Happel took advantage of the bunched field on the restart as well, and made the pass around Wacha for the lead with a handful of laps remaining. Happel then put his car to the topside, as those close behind him were trying to make up distance on the bottom. Their efforts came up short, as Happel took the checkers, Wacha kept the runner up spot, and Chris Lulloff came from starting mid-pack to take third. Fourth was Stander and Matt Brown rounded out the top five.
The IMCA Modifieds ran a 20-lap feature. Racer Hulin and Kyle Brown began on the front row. Hulin led lap one but Brown secured the top spot on lap two. Joe Docekal began his task of running down the top two and opted for the topside on his quest. With a lap to go, Docekal made it stick for the pass around Hulin but would run out of time to advance any further. Brown nabbed the win, his third at the track this season, Docekal took the runner up spot and Hulin went home with a third place finish. Fourth was Jerry Lulloff and Ronn Lauritzen got by Scott Hogan as they went fifth and sixth.
Racing was completed at 8:26 p.m., making for an early exit for those needing an early Monday morning work call. We enjoyed our night of racing at the Benton County Speedway and it was made more enjoyable by sharing it with racing friends in the stands. Fellow Positively Racing writer, Ryan Clark will have his take of racing and full results at www.instaging.blogspot.com as he observed from the infield announcer's stand last night. Be sure and check it out. Happy racing!
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