The Cedar County Raceway in Tipton was the scene of the Xsan Hawkeye Dirt Tour for IMCA Modifieds, the Deery Brothers IMCA Late Models and the IMCA Stock Cars on Tuesday night. Justin Kay left little doubt as to why he is leading the Deery Brothers series AND the IMCA National points race, as he took the 40-lap caution free win by leading the entire race. Jesse Sobbing stayed over in the area after racing the HDT race at Vinton the previous night, and made his stay over a good one by snaring the win in that series. The IMCA Stock Cars, that we understand were not on the weekly show at the track, found area hot shoe David Brandies standing in victory lane.
The 15-lap IMCA Stock Car feature was led initially by Shane Paris---with a clump of cars fighting it out right behind him for position. By lap six, David Brandies, Atalissa racer, had put his #71 in command of the lead, Tim Current tucked into second and Elberon, Iowa's Scott Pippert, (I believe a letter had been left out of the listing for the announcer, as our group sitting in the stands had to chuckle each time the town was announced) ran in third, Damon Murty in fourth. There was still a lot of close fought battling going on the rest of the way to the finish, giving the local fans a taste of just what IMCA Stock Cars are all about. Brandies was able to hold off Current, who tried a peek to the outside in the closing laps for a way around but fell short, Brandies taking the checkers and Current settling for the runner up spot. Scott Pippert held third place, Murty was fourth and Jerry Miles rounded out the top five.
There was a nice field of 45 IMCA Modifieds on hand for the Hawkeye Dirt Tour. That was quite surprising, since the night before at the Vinton show, there were twenty-two. The local racers came out in full force for sure.
An interesting draw for the top 12 starting positions was held on the frontstretch. The Modified drivers were paired up with a Late Model driver and they had to agree on what to do with their original "unknown" number, keep it or pass it to another duo of drivers. Steve Stewart, who was paired with Justin Kay, ended up with the #1 for the pole start for each and Patrick Flannagan and Late Model driver Kyle Hinrichs got the outside pole.
Steve Stewart took advantage of his pole starting spot, jumping to the lead as the green flag flew. But by lap two, he had company in Glenwood, Iowa's Jesse Sobbing who was hot on his heels. Sobbing made his persistent pestering pay off at lap ten, flying to the lead. The race had it's first yellow at lap twenty-two for the 19G of Richie Gustin sitting off the bank of turn four. When thing restarted, Sobbing was still in command with eighth place starter Darin Duffy running in second, and ninth place starter Brad Diercks in third, who had gotten around Stewart. It was but one lap later at lap twnety-three that the final yellow flew for Durant's Dusty Kraklio. The final run to the checkers was no problem for Sobbing, holding his lead easily, and taking his first win in the Hawkeye Dirt Tour series. Brad Diercks held on to the runner up spot, the #6 of Brian Webb (we understand he is the son of veteran racer Gary Webb) had a great late race run after starting sixteenth, taking third when he passed fourth place finisher Darin Duffy in the closing lap of the race. Kyle Brown started tenth, and had a good run to complete the top five.
It's looking like point leader Mike VanGenderen has the series title locked up going into the final race during the annual Yankee Dirt Track Classic in mid September. Jesse Sobbing and Jeremy Mills tightened the screws in the late season, but it appears they fell just short.
There were 34 Deery Late Models in the house last night. As mentioned earlier, point leader Justin Kay got the lucky draw for the pole. Kyle Hinrichs sat along side. The two front row starters took off immediately---Kay getting the drop on Hinrichs who tucked in behind him. Fourth place starter Tyler Bruening established third spot. The race at the front would continue in that order the rest of the caution free 40-laps. Kay looked comfortable in his win, second place Hinrichs was pressured by Tyler Bruening in the waning laps, but had to be content with a third place finish. Brian Harris started fifth, and took fourth place, after getting by fifth place finisher, Brian Beaudry.
We will not be getting to our regular Wednesday night show at the Southern Iowa Speedway tonight as they have been washed out by today's heavy rain in that part of the state. We will cross our fingers and hope that rain is not going to be a pattern in the closing part of the racing season. We still need to be getting our racing fix before things come to a halt.
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