Night #2 of the World Nationals at the Marshalltown Speedway was held on Friday night. Full shows were run for the Stock Cars, SportMods and Hobby Stocks and there was qualifying for the 56 Modifieds on hand. Total car count was right at 140 cars.
The Hobby Stock feature went to Shannon Anderson. Anderson started third, and had the lead at lap three, never to look back. He led the entire 20-lap feature to secure the win and the $500 prize. Track champion Eric Stanton came from tenth starting spot to capture the runner up position. Clear Lake, Iowa's Chanse Hollatz finished third, fourth went to pole sitter Garrett Eilander, and eighth place starter Justin Lichty came home in fifth. Anderson won both nights of last years Hobby Stock World Nationals.
Clint Luellen claimed the $1,000 to win SportMod 25-lap feature. Luellen took the lead at lap five and held it the remainder of the way to the checkers. Austin Luellen chased his brother across the finish line to finish second. Third was seventh place starter, Joey Schaefer, Travis Peterson was fourth and Jared Boumeester from Waseca, Minnesota, was fifth. Luellen has won the second night of the past two World Nationals as well.
No stranger to getting around the high banks, it was Damon Murty taking another win in the 25-lap Stock Car main event and taking the $1,000. Murty ran down front runners Mike Nichols and Kyle Vanover with a handful of laps down. He planted his #99D on the topside of the track and had the lead at lap nine. Nichols and Vanover were battling it out for position, when Nichols dropped over the top of turns three and four, and Vanover kept the runner up spot to the checkers. Wisconsin racer,Travis VanStraten, a 2014 and 2015 World Nationals winner, motored all the way from twenty-second place, to finish third. Fourth was Joe White, Oconto Falls, Wisconsin and twelfth place starter, Trent Murphy rounded out the top five.
Fifty-six Modifieds ran two rounds of heats, their second being a reversal of the starting order from the first heat. They earned points through the heats and the top ten are locked into tomorrow night's $10,000 to win World Nationals feature. Terry Phillips sits atop the standings to secure a spot in tomorrow's finale. Richie Gustin, Jordan Grabouski, Kelly Shryock, Ethan Dotson, Kyle Brown, Kyle Strickler, Jesse Dennis, Jimmy Gustin, and Joel Rust round out the top ten locked into the feature.
Check www.marshalltownspeedway.com and click on World Nationals to see all the points and the qualifying heats for tonight's Modified feature. Night #3 of the World Nationals continues tonight, September 17, with full shows in the Stock Car, SportMod and Hobby Stocks, and the qualifying will continue in the Modifieds to complete the starting grid for the big $10,000 to win World Nationals Championship. Hot laps are 6:30 with racing at 7.
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