The Southern Iowa Speedway was a bit short on cars Wednesday night, due in part to two other races going on in the area, one the big Dirt Duel at the Stuart Speedway, and Webster City was holding the Rumble by the River, but the feature racing did not lack for close and exciting action, and the Stock Car feature alone was well worth the price of admission.
The Sport Compacts kicked off the feature racing and it was Trent Orwig bringing his #04 under the checkers first for another win. Orwig led the 10-lap caution free race, flag to flag. Orwig finished comfortably ahead of last week's winner Brandon Allison. Nathan Moody was third, fourth went to Billy Cain, and Lewie Winkleman rounded out the top five.
Scott Dickey came home the winner in the 16-lap Stock Car main event. It was anything but easy however. Pole sitter Jason McDaniel jumped to the immediate lead and put a bit of distance between himself and the cars fighting tooth and nail behind. The early laps saw Dustin Griffiths, Brett Lowry, and Scott Dickey going three-wide for the second position. Nathan Wood soon joined in the fun and made it a four-way battle as McDaniel continued to lead. It was an all out battle the final laps as McDaniel, Lowry, Dickey, Wood, and Griffiths could have had a blanket thrown over them. McDaniel still held down the top spot on lap fifteen, but going down the backstretch, Dickey split the middle and made it work, beating everyone to the checkers first. Brett Lowry took the runner up spot, third went to Nathan Wood, Dustin Griffiths was fourth , and the driver who had led the entire race, Jason McDaniel was fifth. This was Dickey's second win of the year, and back-to-back.
The SportMod feature went 16-laps. Blaine Webster took the lead immediately from his outside front row starting spot. It wasn't long until he had company in Curtis VanDerWal on his tail. The rest of the race turned into a two-car race up front between the two. The youngster Webster kept his composure the entire distance...hitting his marks every circuit, not letting VanDerWal's occasional peek under in corner one faze him. Webster took his first ever feature checkers at the big half-mile holding off the veteran VanDerWal in second. Third was Colton Livezey, Logan Anderson was fourth, and Greg Cox completed the top five. It was a happy 17 year old Blaine Webster in his post race interview with announcer Jerry Mackey, glad to get his first win under his belt at the Southern Iowa Speedway.
The night cap was the 14-lap Hobby Stock A Main. Drawing the pole starting spot for this one was Mike Hughes, no stranger to victory lane in years past. Hughes would lead this one from start to finish, with Dustin Griffiths pestering him the entire way, as they finished first and second. Clint Nelson was a distant third, fourth went to Scott Shull, and Rick Goldsberry was fifth. This was Hughes' first win of the season.
It was Memorial night at the races last evening, with extra pay from drivers and fans putting up extra money in honor of their loved ones. It was distributed to the drivers in many different designated finishing positions...some dead last. I am sure there were some drivers that got very pleasant surprises when they picked up their pay at the end of the night.
Racing continues next week at the Southern Iowa Speedway when it will be DeJong Manufacturing, Copeland Auto Body, and SS Mobile Blasting night at the races...with FREE popcorn. The Stock Cars, and SportMods will be running for their usual $500 pay offs, $400 goes to the Hobby Stock winner, and $250 for the Sport Compact victor.
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