For a few of you who may be wondering why there have been no blogs for Friday night racing at Marshalltown and Saturday night at Boone....it's because we BOTH got a terrible bug!! Be it gastroenteritis, food poisoning or Norovirus, we wouldn't wish it on anyone!! Absolute worst we've ever had it. Now, this Sunday afternoon, we are just beginning to feel like we might just live to enjoy life again!
I do have some racing updates about both races though thanks to Speed Shift TV from Friday night, plus racing staff and friends from both tracks, keeping me updated, and the power of the internet line ups, and results.
Friday night at Marshalltown, looked to be some fantastic racing...as I watched from my bed. There were 34 modifieds on hand with a stellar field of drivers. Kyle Brown would lead this one from lap two to take home the feature win. Jesse Hoeft made the haul down from Forest City in northern Iowa, to take second place. Jacob Murray took third, fourth went to Laurel's Racer Hulin, and Tyler Droste was fifth. Brown said in his Victory Lane interview, just how much fun the track was on Friday night.
Jeff Mueller was another winning driver who exclaimed about how great the track was at Marshalltown. Mueller won the IMCA Stock Car event and looked strong in doing so. Mueller started sixth, and led from lap three on his way to victory. Donavon Smith started in the row behind Mueller, and ended up a close second. Third went to Michael Jaennette, fourth was fifteenth place starter Steve Meyer, and Dave Atcher completed the top five.
Shannon Anderson took the win in the IMCA Hobby Stock class. Anderson battled it out with Eric Stanton much of the race, but Stanton had to settle for second. Eric Knutson took third, Justin Wacha started eighteenth and finished fourth and Clint Nelson rounded out the top five.
The IMCA Northern SportMod feature winner was Doug Smith. Smith, in his Rage Chassis, took the lead at lap twelve and never relinquished it to the checkers. Jared VanDeest was trying all he could do to catch the leader, but had to be content with the runner up spot. Sam Wieben was third, early leader and Frostbuster winner, Ethan Braaksma was fourth and Jake McBirnie fifth.
Joe Glick won the Mod Lite A main after inheriting the lead from Travis Stensland. Stensland was leading when he dropped his driveshaft handing the lead over to Glick on the restart. Bryan Zehm took second, third was Josh May, followed by Joel Huggins and Doug Byers in fifth.
The long-awaited return of the IMCA Late Models to weekly racing at the Marshalltown Speedway was welcomed by the fans. Cedar Rapids driver, Justin Mitchell led the race from start to finish to capture the win. Seventh place starter, Jason Hahne was the runner up, and hometown boy, Darrel DeFrance was third. Fourth was Ben Seeman and Ryan Griffith was fifth.
Racing next Friday, May 12 has hot laps scheduled for 6:55 and racing at 7:30
After the rainy weekend last week, it was back to racing at the Boone Speedway on Saturday night.Two drivers already took their second win of the year, while another driver, long absent from the winner's circle, happily returned. There were 118 cars signed into the pits.
Bryan Zehm claimed his second feature of the season in the Mod Lite division. Zehm, who started eighth, took over the lead after Charlie Brown and Mike Kennedy took themselves out of the game after fighting for the top spot. After inheriting the lead on the restart, Zehm sailed home to victory. Josh May finished second, Joe Glick third, fourth went to thirteenth place starter, Joel Keenan, and Kevin Grisham was fifth.
Defending track champion Johnathon Logue got back to his winning ways in the IMCA Northern SportMod feature. Randy Roberts came from twelfth place to finish as the runner up, third went to eighteenth starter, Chad Ryerson, fourth was Tom Egenberger, followed by Dusty Masolini in fifth.
The "New Kids on the Block" this season for weekly racing, the IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Cars had 14 cars checked in. Their feature was led from start to finish by Tyler Thompson from Des Moines. Thompson started on the pole and never looked back. A caution at lap 11 involved several cars, calling for a restart, but never deterred him on the way to victory. Completing the top five were Michael Johnston, Michael Houseman, Bob Hildreth and Michael Moore respectively.
Jimmy Gustin won the IMCA Modified feature. Gustin led from the drop of the green flag to take his first win at Boone this season. Mike VanGenderen ran Gustin down, but was not able to muster more than second place. Eric Elliott was third, and after a lot of jockeying for position, it was veteran Denny Pittman finishing fourth ahead of Russ Dickerson in fifth.
A driver who has raced many laps around the Boone Speedway finally made it to Victory Lane in the IMCA Stock Car feature. Veteran racer Craig Carlson dominated in winning his first feature after many year's absent in the winner's circle. Josh Daniels finished second, Justin Nehring was third, Donavon Smith came from deep in the starting field to finish fourth, and Kevin Opheim was fifth.
The second racer to claim his second feature of the year at Boone came out of the IMCA Hobby Stock class. Aaron Rudolph kept working his way through the field and to the front, eventually take over that #1 spot and was able to take the checkers. Solomon Bennett took the runner up spot, hometown driver Dustin Graham was third, followed by Chris Cox and Todd Bass in fourth and fifth.
Racing continues at Boone next Saturday, with hot laps at 6:30 and racing at 7:30.
We keep asking ourselves if we HAD to have this yucky stuff, WHY couldn't it have been the weekend before, when most all racing around was a wash out. Now, we missed out on the beautiful racing weather for the past weekend. It was the first weekly racing we have missed at Marshalltown or Boone in years and years.
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