Night #1 of the World Nationals at the Marshalltown Speedway was run on Friday night. A huge field of 178 cars filled the pits to over flowing. The crowd was slow to fill in, but come race time, there was a good contingency of fans in the stands. Drivers from twelve different states were on hand to try their hand on the high banks at Marshalltown.
The IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Northern SportMods, and IMCA Hobby Stocks all ran a full program and the IMCA Modifieds ran qualifying heats to try and lock themselves in to the top 10 in points for Saturday's $10,000 win finale.
The first feature of the evening was the 20-lap IMCA Northern SportMod main event. With 42 cars checked into the class, two B mains were needed to whittle the starting field down to 24 cars. Jordan Bartz from Shawano, Wisconsin won the first B and Boone, Iowa's Jake McBirnie was victorious in the second.
Blaine Webster started on the outside front row and jumped to the lead as the race went green. Webster was still leading when the race was red flagged at lap eight when Colton Nelson, Osceola, Iowa driver, flipped off of the track and landed in turn four. Thankfully, Nelson was okay.
When the race resumed, it was now Austin Luellen that had marched from twelfth starting spot, to trail the leader Webster for the restart. It was just one lap later that Luellen took command of the ship, and from there on held it the remaining distance to the flying checkers and the win. Jared VanDeest finished as the runner up, just beating out Curtis VanDerWal in third. Fourth went to Beatrice, Nebraska driver, Lance Borgman who had started in fourteenth, and Ethan Braaksma completed the top five.
The IMCA Hobby Stocks fielded 33 cars, and they required a B main to complete their 24 car starting grid for the 20-lap feature. Aaron Rudolph won that consy.
Dylan Nelson took advantage of his pole starting position and immediately took the lead. Nelson was looking poised to take the checkers as the race wound down, but Chanse Hollatz had other ideas. Hollatz had moved up from his eleventh starting spot and had been chasing Nelson much of the race. A caution flew late in the race which put Hollatz on the leaders tail for the restart. With just two laps left, Hollatz made the decision to slide to the top of turns 1 and 2, and it was the right move. Hollatz took the lead, and kept it to the finish. Nelson had to settle for the runner up spot, Gene Nicklas finished third, and Kyle Parizek just beat out Leah Wroten as they went fourth and fifth respectively.
The Class too Tough to Tame, the IMCA Stock Cars had 39 cars in competition, requiring two B mains to set their 24-car feature event. Jason See and Tom Cannon took those wins.
Jeff Mueller started fourth and wasted little time in getting to the top spot. Mueller had command at lap four, and from there on out, led the remainder of the laps to secure the win easily. The fight for second and third was a close one with Kyle Brown in Dallon Murty's Stock Car, just beating out Damon Murty as they finished in that order. Not far behind was track champion Todd Reitzler in fourth, and Dave Atcher rounded out the top five.
An impressive field of 64 IMCA Modifieds did battle. They were vying for a top 10 in points acquired through passing points and their finishing position of two sets of heats---the second heat a complete inversion of the first. Those drivers locked in for tomorrow night's $10,000 to win World National's 50-lap feature are: Richie Gustin, Cody Laney, Jordan Grabouski, Tim Ward, Darin Duffy, Chris Abelson, Terry Phillips, Cayden Carter, Kurt Kile, and Kelly Shryock.
There will be another complete show Saturday night for the IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA SportMods, IMCA Hobby Stocks along with the $10,000 to win IMCA Modified headliner. The green flag is scheduled to drop at 6 p.m.
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