July 24, 2015
Despite Mother Nature's attempt to foil the racing with rain earlier in the day, the scheduled program at the Marshalltown Speedway went on as usual Friday night, where it was Shawn's Custom Hay Grinding Night. A driver who hadn't seen victory lane in quite some time, stepped back into the winner's circle in the IMCA Hobby Stock class while all other classes found repeat winners.
The Mod Lite's ran their 15-lap feature caution free. Travis Stensland got to the lead early and held that top spot the rest of the way to the checkers. Finishing a close second was point leader Josh May, third went to Mike Morrill, fourth was Charlie Brown and Randy Bryan rounded out the top five.
The 18-lap IMCA SportMod feature went to Curt Hilmer. Hilmer had to fight through a tightly bunched pack of cars, taking over the top spot on lap eleven. He would have to withstand five yellows in the race on his way to securing his second feature win of the season. Jared VanDeest, who was unable to run his heat, started 18th, and finished in second place. Third was first time visitor to the track, Lyle Sathoff from Adel, who had started in the twelfth position, fourth went to Jonathan Logue, and veteran driver Bill Hildreth was fifth.
Gary Pfantz saw the checkers flying first in the 15-lap IMCA Hobby Stock A main event. It would be the first time in recent years that Pfantz has won at the Marshalltown Speedway. Following him across the finish line in second was Tim Barber. Third went to Mitchell Thomas, fourth was Brandon Pitts and Dillon Million completed the top five.
Michael Jaennette made it two in a row in the IMCA Stock Car class. Jaennette started seventh and snatched the lead at lap four, keeping it to the checkers and the win. Finishing a close second was Steve Meyer. Meyer had to jump in a back up car, that of Jay Schmidt, after suffering damage to his own car in the heat. Todd Reitzler started tenth and finished in third, fourth went to Tim Fobian, and fifth was Jeff Wollam. Jeannette also won on opening night, making this his third trip to the winner's circle at Marshalltown this season.
The racing ended with the 20-lap IMCA Modified feature. Brian Irvine would see a return to Victory Lane from his win a few week's ago. Irvine won comfortably over second place finisher Josh Gilman. Jimmy Gustin was third, followed closely by Ronn Lauritzen in fourth and Jake Strayer finished in fifth.
There was also a "spectator eliminator" challenge after the features. It was the Mustang beating out the Oldsmobile Alero in the final go around.
Next week, Open Quads will be an addition to the five regular classes. Hot laps are 6:50 and racing at 7:30.
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