It was back to the Marshalltown Speedway on Friday night. The nostalgia cars were on hand for another appearance, but they weren't the only nostalgic thing going on by night's end. There was a new winner in the Modified division while the other classes saw repeat winners from earlier in the season...two taking their seventh win of the year.
The vintage/nostalgia car feature was won by Jim Anderson in his black 1959 Ford Fairlane. He kept ahead of the 1957 Chevy of John Schroyer, who was scored in second.
Only three IMCA Sport Compacts were in attendance last night. John Gill led the first lap, but Dave Moorman put his #6m to the lead by lap two and motored the rest of the way to the checkers. Gill took second over Chad Larson in third. This was Moorman's second win of the season at Marshalltown.
It was looking as if the familiar #99 of Josh May was going to be visiting victory lane again in the MADCRA Mod Lite A main. He had grabbed the lead from Mike Kennedy at lap three and drove off. That is, until Andy Hennigar began to reel him in after getting to second. May kept his momentum up on the topside, while Hennigar began to slowly close the distance as he dug on the bottom. As they approached the white flag, Hennigar seized the moment and snatched the lead---May bobbled then in turn one, ending his chance for any revenge. Hennigar captured his seventh win of the season, now one win ahead of May. Third place went to Dusty Masolini, fourth was Jimmy May and Travis Brandt, the pole sitter, rounded out the top five.
Eric Larson grabbed the early lead in the 12-lap Hobby Stock feature while cars battled four-wide behind him. Shannon Anderson was able to weave his way through the bunch, taking second place by lap nine. On the restart, Larson didn't waiver and took the checkers first, managing to stay just a bumper ahead of the 78 at the checkers. Anderson had to settle for runner up on this night. Third was Nick Murty, who had started back in nineteenth place, fourth was point leader Bill Bonnett and John Watson was back in a Hobby Stock last night..switching from Stock Car, and was scored in fifth. Larson nabbed his second feature win at Marshalltown this year.
It was hard getting the SportMod feature underway. Two yellows flew before the first lap was scored. With lap two finally scored, yet another yellow flew, Jason Hall at the helm at that time. This restart was also called back, and we were beginning to wonder if any sort of consecutive laps would get in the books! Liking the restarts however, was the black #26J driven by Joel Rust...still in a "rent-a-ride" car while his is being put together, as he had scooted into second place. He took over the point shortly after that restart, only to have another yellow fly at lap eight. That lap eight must have been the magic number, as the cars raced on to the finish under green. Rust held the front position but was dogged by "Little E" Eric Elliott the rest of the way. Rust took the win, Elliott in second, as they finished a distance ahead of the rest. Third went to Andy Tiernan, fourth was Jayme Duinink and Brandon Brinton hung around the front all race, to score fifth. This was Rust's third win at Marshalltown this year.
The IMCA 18-lap Stock Car feature did not get off to a good start. As the cars took the green, there was a pack racing down the backstretch...when suddenly Dave Atcher took a nasty looking barrel roll near turn three. Thankfully, he climbed from the car unhurt, but was not happy, expressing his displeasure at another driver. We thought it was just hard, tight racing, and many trying to win it on the first lap. The yellows continued to fly in this race too. We were searching the sky to see if the full moon was shining, but it wasn't! Steve Meyer and Scott Pippert dueled it out in the first handful of laps or so, swapping leads back and forth. Jay Schmidt and Damon Murty entered the picture shortly. Schmidt set sail on the topside with "Black Betty", reeled in the leader and claimed the top spot. Meyer and Pippert were battling for second and Murty doing everything to catch them. At the final 18th lap, it was once again, Jay, "All the Way" Schmidt, claiming the win comfortably over Meyer in second. Pippert took the third spot over Murty in fourth and Kevin Balmer had a good run to complete the top five positions. Murty came back through the pack after a lap seven incident sent him spinning out, and having to tag the tail on the restart. Schmidt took win #7 at Marshalltown and we believe that makes #11 total on the year.
The dust was really rolling by the time the Modifieds came to the track for their 20-lap feature. Joel Bushore took over the top spot from Kyle Krampe by lap two and from there on never looked back. Bushore would finish the winner, a comfortable distance ahead of Krampe who finished in second. Luke Wanninger got around Scott Simatovich on the final lap as they were scored third and fourth. Ronn Lauritzen in his Angry Bird #10K finished a close fifth. Bushore scored his first win at the speedway in the green to checkers feature.
That final race brought back some voices of the past as Denny Grabenbauer and Toby Kruse got back to their days of the "Denny and Toby Show", sharing the mic for the call of the race. Great to hear them doing that again.
We are looking at a lot of racing still ahead. We will be back at the Boone Speedway tonight for our usual Saturday night venue. Monday we are planning for the Deery Brothers show at the Iowa State Fair, and Tuesday we hope to be back at the Marshalltown Speedway for the Corn Belt Clash. We hope you can catch some racing in your neck of the woods too. Happy racing!
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