For the second night in a row, we saw history made at a race track in IMCA racing. The previous night, it was Justin Kay winning both the Hawkeye Dirt Tour for Modifieds, and the Deery Brothers Late Model race at West Liberty. Last night at the Southern Iowa Speedway monster half mile, Shannon Anderson chalked up his 300th IMCA Hobby Stock win.
Feature racing started off with the IMCA Sport Compact feature. Their five car field got taken down to only three before even one lap was scored. Levi Heath and Brandon Housley got together as they entered turn one when the green flag flew. Neither driver was able to continue. When the 4-cylinders did get underway, Daniel Fellows flew to the immediate lead, never to look back. He crossed under the flying checkers a full straightaway ahead of second place Bryan Claussen, and third was Clayton Webster. However, when checking the official results it showed there had been an adjustment and then a clarification why. I was told that Fellows failed to go to the tech area after the feature. This gave the win to Bryan Claussen....his first at the track, Webster was moved to second, and Fellows penalized to third.
Brayton Carter led the opening laps of the IMCA Northern SportMod feature....only to have Curtis VanDerWal snatch it away at lap five. VanDerWal started ninth, and when he got the lead, it was all over but the shouting, scoring another easy win. Seventh place starter, Jason McDaniel got by Brayton Carter in the closing laps, as they went second and third. Fourth place finisher was Colton Livezey, and Austin Paul was fifth. This was VanDerWal's fourth win of the season at Osky.
The IMCA Modified feature went green to checkered, with Scott Dickey leading the entire race.Dickey stretched out a big lead but Colt Mather began reeling him in. The race ended too soon for Mather however, and he had to be content with a runner up finish. Todd Cooney was back behind the wheel of a Modified again this week, and finished third. Cayden Carter's streak of three wins came to an end with his fourth place finish. Jason Murray rounded out the top five. This was Dickey's first win at Osky since July of 2015.
Nathan Wood put his ride in victory lane in the IMCA Stock Cars for the second week in a row. When the green flag dropped, there were five cars hustling into corner one in a close bunch. When it got sorted out a bit, Nathan Wood was leading as lap one was scored. Wood would (pun intended) then go on to lead the entire caution free race on his way to back to back wins. It was his third of the year. Derrick Agee, the Hunstville, Missouri racer who has been a regular this season, chased Wood most of the race, and finished second. Mike Hughes, Todd Reitzler and Danny Thrasher were third through fifth.
The IMCA Hobby Stock feature had more than one reason to be the focal point of the night's racing. There was still a $300 bounty on Shannon Anderson's head for anyone that could beat him, and he was also going for his 300th win. Jared Stephens led the first handful of laps, only to have Mike Kincaid to briefly hold down the top spot at lap six. Then, before lap seven was even in the books, Shannon Anderson had taken control. The remainder of the race was all Andersons, as he stamped his name into the record books in dominate fashion by winning his 300th IMCA Hobby Stock feature...quite an accomplishment. Kincaid kept the runner up spot, Steve Allen was third, Jared Stephens fourth and Bill Bonnett was fifth. Anderson expressed his thanks to many in his post race interview with fill in announcer for the night, Jeff Broeg. We offered our congratulations to Shannon, and he said he remembers those days as a youngster, often sitting with us in the grandstand, during the old IMCA Winner Series for Stock Cars, when his dad, Jeff Anderson was competing. It was nice to see grandmother Judy, as well as other family members, in attendance to witness his feat.
It was another warm, humid June night of racing in Osky last evening. Late in the night's activity, the officials were concerned about a storm cell rearing it's ugly head, just to the south of the track. The winner's interviews and pictures were delayed until after the final checkered flag flew, however nothing more than a few raindrops fell on the track.
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