A beautiful night of racing it was at the Southern Iowa Speedway on Wednesday night. It is so great to be able sit in pleasant weather, not all bundled up, and watch some great racing on once again, a nice smooth track.
Brandon Housley left no question that he was the class of the field on Wednesday night in the IMCA Sport Compact class. He started fourth, led by the first lap and then just drove off into the beautiful sunset....winning by more than a straight away. Levi Heath, did not start his heat race, but tagged the tail of the feature and sliced through the field to take second place. Third went to Nathan Moody, Cody VanDusen was fourth and Bryan Claussen, fifth. The race went flag to flag. Missing in action were the top two drivers in points going into the night, Daniel Fellows and Jason Breuklander.
Curtis VanDerWal scored yet another of his numerous victories in the IMCA Northern SportMod class. He started tenth and had the lead by lap nine of the sixteen lap feature. He finished comfortably ahead of runner up Carter VanDenBerg, the ninth place starter. Jason Hall, the pole sitter, led the first eight laps, and finished third. Fourth went to eighth place starter, Cory VanZante, and Jack Housley completed the top five. VanDerWal has three feature wins at Osky this season.
There was a new winner in the IMCA Stock Cars as the "green machine" of Derrick Agee, Huntsville, Missouri made his initial appearance to the winner's circle for 2017. He had to battle some hard runners to get the win. Todd Reitzler took to the topside from his fourth starting spot as soon as the race went green and made it pay off as he flew to the lead. Following behind, drivers were hunting for a lane as they chased Reitzler. Soon Dustin Griffiths, Derrick Agee, Mike Hughes, and Nathan Wood were swapping positions back and forth as they tried to run down leader Reitzler. Agee got the advantage and was able to overtake Reitzler at lap 10 of the 18-lapper. He then got some breathing room, content to let the others duke it out behind him. As the checkers flew for Agee, it was Reitzler in second, holding off Nathan Wood, in third, and Mike Hughes in fourth. Dustin Griffiths rounded out the top five. Agee hadn't won at the Monster Half Mile since the 2016 Frostbuster Special.
Can we say DOMINATING for Shannon Anderson in the IMCA Hobby Stocks? Anderson just walked away with his fourth straight win at the track, He started eighth and led at lap six, leaving the field in his dust. Aaron Martin came from sixth to take the runner up spot, just holding off ninth place starter, visiting Chanse Hollatz. We had just witnessed Hollatz, who is from Clear Lake, win the feature at the Boone Speedway on Memorial Day in his spiffy looking #6 ride. Bill Bonnett was racing his second car, and got it to a fourth place finish, and Thomas Stevens came from eleventh, to finish fifth. After the Hobby Stock feature, there was a $300 bounty placed on Anderson.
Cayden Carter made it two in a row in the IMCA Modified class. Carter charged to the lead by lap one and pulled away. Colt Mather chipped away at his lengthy lead, but still finished a distance behind in second. Scott Dickey was third, Andrew Schroeder finished fourth, Sean Ritter fifth, and Todd Cooney was back in a Modified last night and finished in sixth. The race went caution free.
Racing was completed at 9:12 p.m. allowing those who had a morning call, able to get on the road home in good time. The 64 cars on hand were run in under two hours. If you're looking for some racing action during the week, make the trip to Osky!
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