Gustin class of Modified field at Osky, T Mac claims Sprint Invaders win

After a two week black out due to rain at the Southern Iowa Speedway, the racing last evening was stout in all classes plus the Sprint Invaders came to town for a show.

In the Shottenkirk.com Sprint Invaders, Terry McCarl showed he knows his way around the Monster Half Mile.  He had no trouble in taking the 25-lap feature, leading it from start to finish.  He became the recipient of the pole starting spot when John Schulz had his ride die on the parade lap, needing a push and forced to tag the field for the start.  McCarl pulled to a sizable lead, dicing through traffic easily, when the race was red flagged when the 9M of Ricky Montgomery hit the turn one wall, and rotated wildly along the fence.  Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when he emerged from his machine, uninjured.  There was  more than a 20 minute delay however, as a bar had become caught in the fence.

McCarl picked up where he had left off when the race returned to green.  He continued his charge at the front to the checkers, picking up his 10th career Sprint Invaders win.  Oklahoma's Wayne Johnson, made a late race pass on Jamie Ball, as they went second and third.  Fourth was Jarrold Schneiderman and Jon Agan took fifth.

Thirteen IMCA Sport Compacts came to play last night, new faces among them.  Jake Benishek led the entire race until the final circuit when Cody VanDusen made the pass into first and getting to the checkers first.  However, a post race inspection, found VanDusen with an infraction of the rules, leading to his disqualification.  Benishek was awarded the win.  Second was then the 9H of Levi Heath, third was Shane Evans, fourth was Brad Havel and Lukas Yoder was fifth.

The Hobby Stock feature found the #10G of Dustin Griffiths sitting in Victory Lane at the end of the 15-lap feature.  Griffiths chased down leader Brad Stephans at lap thirteen, and held him off for the win. Stephans had to be content with the runner up spot, third was Danny Thrasher and Nick Uhl and Craig Brown finished fourth and fifth.

The IMCA Stock Cars put on quite a show last evening!  Nathan Wood and Derrick Agee went at it lap after lap, exchanging leads more than half a dozen times, while cars a bit further back were going 3-wide in an attempt to catch the two.  One of those cars, the 10C of Cayden Carter, did just that.  He threw his hat into the ring with just a couple of laps remaining----and made good on that challenge.  Carter took over the lead from Agee as the green was held high, and kept it to the checkers for the win.  Nathan Wood made a last gasp effort to surge by Agee as they went second and third.  Fourth was Mike Hughes and Jason See took fifth.

 The IMCA Northern SportMods found Austin Paul snatch the immediate lead and looking strong.  It wasn't long however, until the familiar #1V of Curtis VanDerWal came calling, working his way to second by lap six after starting in row five.  VanDerWal took command at lap nine, and then stretched his lead in scoring win #2 of the season.  Austin Paul finished in second place and Carter VandenBerg made the run from starting in row four, to finish third.  Fourth was Brett Lowry and Logan Anderson rounded out the top five.

The IMCA Modifieds had a steller field of 17 cars, and they put on a great show for the nice crowd on hand.  Anytime you have Cayden Carter sitting alongside Kelly Shryock on the front row, you know it's going to be a dandy race up front!  That's exactly what it was through the first eleven laps,  then a caution flew.  Carter and Shryock had been swapping leads back and forth, and at the caution, it was Carter holding down the top spot.  However, sitting in third by that time was Richie Gustin in the 7SR.  Gustin, who was piloting a brand new Harris chassis purchased by Shawn Ritter, was now up to third place from starting ninth.  When the green flew, Gustin seized the moment, slipping under Carter, and into the lead before turn one.  From there on, it was all Gustin, as he motored away for the win...the first on the brand new car.  Carter held on to finish as the runner up, just ahead of Shryock, in third.  Fourth was Colt Mather and  Ricky Thornton, Jr. made it up to fifth after having to tag the field from a "no go" incident he was involved in on the initial start.

Regular season racing continues next Wednesday night at the Southern Iowa Speedway with racing in all five regular classes.