Sunday, May 24, 2015

Hogan, Embrey, Griffith, Campbell, Olson and Griffith Win on Fan Appreciation Night

Saturday was Fan Appreciation Night at the Hamilton County Speedway an also on hand was the North Iowa Vintage Club. 87 cars signed in to take to the historical half mile.

First feature of the night was the  IMCA Sport Compacts ten lap feature and it was Nick Hogan leading from start to finish. John Gill came home in second meanwhile Tommy Beekman crossed the line in third but was disqualifed in post race tech inspection. Aaron Miller moved up to third, Nick Weiss was fourth and Nathan Miller was fifth.

Josh Zieman grabbed the lead in the North Iowa Vintage Club ten lap feature but just after lap two the caution came out for Mike Anderson sitting on the back stretch. Zieman still set the pace until Ben Holt chase him down and began to battle for the lead. Holt edged Zieman on lap nine and they race side by side on lap ten with Holt winning by a bumper at the line over Zieman. Ben Holt was third, Tyler Trappe was fourth and Scott Jorpeland was fifth.

Corey Roe took  the lead early in the IMCA Hobby Stock feature event but the red flag came out on lap three when Jamie Matheny rolled in turn one after hitting the wall. Roe had to contend with Randy Embrey and Myles Michehl on the restart and it was Embrey taking the lead away by lap five. Embrey went on to take the win over Michehl, who took second from Roe. Kevin Berger was fourth and Danny Ayers was fifth.

In the IMCA Northern SportMods feature event, Colby Bangasser grabbed the top spot before a caution came out for Shawn Albers in turn three. Bangasser continued to lead until Ty Griffith, Rocky Caudle and Jared Van Deest chase him down. Griffith took the lead away on lap 12 and went on to take the win over Caudle, Van Deest, Bangasser and Brandon Toftee.

John Campbell lead from start to finish in the Stock Cars 18 lap feature despite a caution on lap two and several challenges from Jim Mitchell and Travis Prochaska. Jeff Lyon and Dennis Plain took fourth and fifth.

Joel Rust led the first four laps of the IMCA Modifieds 20 lap feature event before "Wide Open" Scott Olson took the lead away. Olson held off challenges from Greg Elliott to take the win. Adam Larson finished a close third with Nick Roberts not far behind. Tyler Prochaska completed the top five finish.

Final feature of the night was the IMCA Late Models 20 lap feature and it was "Crazy" Bill Hoover leading the first four laps before fan favorite and hometown boy Ryan Griffith took the lead away. Griffith cruised to the easy win over Hoover, Paul Nagle, Jeremy Grady and Curt Schroeder.

Racing action continues every Saturday through July at the Hamilton County Speedway. Do not forget to mark your calenders for Tuesday June 16th as the IMCA Modifieds and IMCA SportMods have a topless Special, also racing at the night will the Mod Lites.

For more information, like the Hamilton County Speedway on facebook or check out http://www.hamiltoncospeedway.com/ 

Pictures by Foxman are posted at  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154153962547195.1073741883.333727462194&type=1

NORTH IOWA VINTAGE CLUB 
Feature - 1. 24 Ben Holt; 2. 45 Josh Zieman; 3. 100 Ben Holt; 4. 33 Tyler Trappe; 5. 3 Scott Jorpeland; 6. 42 Mike Anderson; 7. 99 Chris Holt; 8. 43 Devin Murphy; 9. 8 Mark Holt

IMCA SPORT COMPACT 
Feature - 1. 20TP Nick Hogan (Manson); 2. 02 John Gill (Marshalltown); 3. 01 Aaron Miller (Marshalltown); 4. 713 Nick Weiss (Otho); 5. 511 Nathan Miller (Dows); 6. 10 Danny Sassman Jr (Fort Dodge); 7. 3T Tommy Beekman (Fort Dodge); 8. M13 Matt Oberhelman (Fort Dodge)

IMCA HOBBY STOCKS
Feature - 1. 40 Randy Embrey (Granger); 2. 21 Myles Michehl (Fort Dodge); 3. 8R Corey Roe (Webster City); 4. 27P Kevin Berger (Otho); 5. 4D Danny Ayers (Webster City); 6. 1 Blake Miller (Des Moines); 7. 25M Matt Mundt (Callender); 8. 50 Bryce Sommerfeld (Fort Dodge); 9. 18 Ryan Boland (Fort Dodge); 10. 06 Kyle Schmauss (Eagle Grove); 11. 121 Travis Staley (Hampton); 12. Y5 Matt Byrne (Webster City); 13. 14 Logan Terranova (Fort Dodge); 14. 18A Shane Aldinger (Iowa Falls); 15. 25 Justin Patterson (Fort Dodge); 16. 13G Craig Graham (Webster City); 17. 33M Jamie Matheny (Des Moines); 18. 0K Keaton Graffunder (Rockwell City)

IMCA SPORT MODS
Feature - 1. 56 Ty Griffith (Webster City); 2. 99 Rocky Caudle (Ellsworth); 3. 80J Jared Van Deest (Holland); 4. 82 Colby Bangasser (Allison); 5. 85T Brandon Toftee (Webster City); 6. 13T Taylor Musselman (Norwalk); 7. 68B Cory Bahrenfuss (Webster City); 8. 71M Jeremy Morriss (Clare); 9. 138 Jon Peed (Webster City); 10. 26B Bryan Johnson (Roland); 11. 99X Nate Olmstead (Webster City); 12. 28 Autum Anderson (Mason City); 13. 100 Chris Teel (Webster City); 14. 2 Jerid Ratzke (Williams); 15. 22A Shawn Albers (Wellsburg); 16. 55R Rick Routh (Story City)

STOCK CARS
Feature - 1. 7J John Campbell (Belmond); 2. M5 Jim Mitchell (Webster City); 3. 21T Travis Prochaska (Iowa Falls); 4. 59 Jeff Lyon (Duncombe); 5. 57 Dennis Plain (Fort Dodge); 6. 59L Vince Loewen (Hubbard); 7. 58 Matt Ring (Dows); 8. 00 Scott Bloemke (Belmond); 9. 556 Terry Corneilson (Boone); 10. 22D Jeff Deal (Fort Dodge)

IMCA MODIFIEDS 
Feature - 1. 8X Scott Olson (Blairsburg); 2. 47 Greg Elliott (Webster City); 3. 2L Adam Larson (Ankeny); 4. 23JR Nick Roberts (Des Moines); 5. 22T Tyler Prochaska (Iowa Falls); 6. 26J Joel Rust (Grundy Center); 7. 12 Mark Elliott (Webster City); 8. 85 Dustin Smith (Lake City); 9. 14E Chase Ellingson (Iowa Falls); 10. 02A Coty Albers (Wellsburg); 11. 94 Steve Meyer (Grundy Center); 12. 40RC Rod Clement (Rhodes); 13. 24B Brandon Brinton (Nevada); 14. 7V Carter VanDenBerg (Oskaloosa); 15. 00 Tristan Vesterby (Webster City)

IMCA LATE MODELS 
Feature - 1. 15X Ryan Griffith (Webster City); 2. CZ 8 Bill Hoover (Duncombe); 3. 05 Paul Nagle (Nevada); 4. 43 Jeremy Grady (Story City); 5. 15C Curt Schroeder (Ames); 6. 21 Ben Nading (Ankeny); 7. 76 Jason Hahne (Webster City); 8. 99D Darrel DeFrance (Marshalltown); 9. 23 Paul Conrad (Colo); 10. OH5 Rusty Patterson (Mason City); 11. 35 Bill Crimmins (Fort Dodge)


Heat 1 - 1. Nading; 2. Griffith; 3. Conrad; 4. Nagle; 5. Schroeder; 6. Crimmins
Heat 2 - 1. Hahne; 2. DeFrance; 3. Grady; 4. Patterson; 5. Hoover