It was Drury Automotive and Truck Repair Night at the Marshalltown Speedway on Friday evening with extra money on the line for the IMCA Stock Cars, and the STARS Mod Li
Joel Rust took a dominate win in the Friesen Performance IMCA Modifieds. Damon Murty went home $1,000 richer with his Sunoco IMCA Stock Car win. Sam Wieben captured his first win of the season in the Friesen Performance IMCA Northern SportMod class, and Bradly Graham took his first trip to Victory Lane at Marshalltown in the Sunoco IMCA Hobby Stock division. It was Randy Bryan returning to the winner's circle as he took the checkers in the STARS Mod Lites, and the Outlaw Mini Mods were an added class on the night that saw Nathan Kilwine with the victory.
Randy Bryan would lead all 15 laps of the STARS Mod Lite main event and pull away to take the easy win and pocket the $350. Second place went to tenth place starter, Jon Padilla from Silvis, Illinois. Joel Huggins trailed a distant third, and Joe Glick and Ben George completed the top five. The race went caution free.
The visiting Outlaw Mini Mods made their second trip to Marshalltown this year and they were up next on the track for their 15 lap feature.
Michael Bryant led from the drop of the green and was looking to be on his way to the checkers until a caution at lap twelve halted the action. As the race returned to green flag racing, it was Nathan Kilwine who came calling, flashing to the lead from restarting third. From then on, Kilwine kept hold of that top spot the rest of the way to the checkers and the win. Troy Ihrke, Sheffield, Iowa took the runner up position, and earlier leader Michael Bryant was third. Ben Kraus, Britt, Iowa came from tenth to finish fourth, and Bobby Daniels was fifth. Kilwine, who hails from Glenville, Minnesota also won back on May 20, when the Mini Mods made their initial appearance.
The IMCA Northern SportMods went 20 laps for their feature event. Braden Richards held down the lead through the first seven laps. That's when a caution flew. Then when the racing action picked back up, Sam Wieben wasted no time in making his move to the lead after restarting in third position. Wieben then kept command of the race, and held it to capture his first win of the year at the track. Kaylin Lopez trailed a distance behind to take second place. The Olson cousins battled it out for third and fourth, with Tony Olson taking third, and Kyle Olson coming home in fourth place. Travis Peterson rounded out the top five.
The IMCA Hobby Stocks were running a caution free race in their 20 lap A Main until the first caution flew at lap seventeen. At that time, Bradly Graham was leading after getting by Sam West a few laps earlier. He had stretched out his lead and was no doubt counting down those final three laps, anxious to see the checkers. That's when the yellow rag just kept flying. There was another yellow before lap eighteen was in the books, then two more yellows flew on lap eighteen! This set up a green-white-checkered dash to finish line....Graham still holding the upper hand. Graham kept his composure and kept that top spot to the waving checkers and the win.....his first ever at Marshalltown. Seth Butler came from ninth, to finish second, and William Klosterman from eighth to finish third. Jeremiah Andrews was fourth, and Scott Ellis started thirteenth, and was fifth. Graham started tenth on his drive to the checkers.
The IMCA Modified went 20 laps for their feature event that saw Scott Simatovich leading the first three laps of the race. Then Joel Rust came flying on the top shelf of the track and snatched the lead away. From there on out it was all Rust's race as he pulled away to take a dominate victory. Jimmy Gustin started sixth and had a good run to finish as the runner up. Tim Ward advanced seven spots to finish third. Hebron, Illinois racer, Dustin Kroening finished fourth, and Ethan Braaksma was fifth. The only caution of the race flew at lap one, and then the race was all green flag racing. Joel Rust won for the third time this season.
The IMCA Stock Cars were running for $1,000 and you just knew it was going to be a good one as the Class too Tough too Tame always puts on a good show, and with the extra money on the line, it would bring the cream to the top.
Austin Kaplan has been a strong runner in the Stock Car class all year long at Marshalltown, and he took advantage of his outside front row starting spot, and grabbed the lead immediately.
Kaplan quickly had Dallon Murty and Michael Jaennette to contend with. Then suddenly Damon Murty was in the picture. By lap five, he was running in third place after starting twelfth. Kaplan continued to hold off the two Murty's until lap twelve, when Damon pulled off a perfectly executed slide job to take over the number one spot. A caution flew at lap seventeen and on the restart, Dallon Murty got the upper hand on Kaplan to take over second place.
The father/son duo then held those spots to the finish line....dad Damon taking the checkers, and his "Game Changer" son, having to be content with second on this night. Kaplan held on to third place, Kaden Reynolds took fourth, and Michael Jaennette was fifth. This was Damon Murty's second win of the season.
There had been a STRONG south/southeast wind blowing all night long. Thankfully, on this night, it was to our backs. However, we had no idea that some weather was moving in close by as the night wore on. We were surprised to find raindrops falling JUST as the final checkers flew. We weren't far from the track when things cut loose. We drove through some pretty heavy rain at times, but just when we reached the outskirts of Grinnell, it was dry. Mother Nature held off just long enough last night for the racing action to see the final checkers fly.
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