Crimmins Take Two Wins on Opening Night at Sports Park Raceway

Sports Park Raceway took on new team of promoters in 2021 lead by Track Owner Jeff Frevert. Along with Frevert are experienced Bryan Denekas and Ryan Bergeson serving as track promoters along with being Track Manager / Announcer and Race Director respectively. So it was only fitting that since Marshalltown race on Thursday night, I would make the trip up and support my good friends in beginning their adventure as promoters. I want to thank them for some great hospitality and for letting me take part in their first night.

Sixty-two cars checked in to tame the half mile dirt oval in Fort Dodge with extra money on the line in all classes thanks to some great sponsors. The race track came in nicely besides the rough spot in turn one but there was some great racing all night. The final checkered flag was waived at 10:40pm by Flagman Dave Bergeson.

First feature of the night was the Matt's Tire Service USRA Tuners 10 lap feature. Jaedon Erickson from Welcome, Minnesota grabbed the early race lead and never looked back going on to take the feature win. Jade Lange ran second the entire distance. Tayla Lange came home in third, John Dahlsten finished fourth and Josh Dahlsten was fifth.

Jacob Blau led the opening lap of the Pickett Salvage USRA Hobby Stocks 15 lap feature event before a caution came out when Tanner Green came to a stop on the front stretch. Eric Knutson got a great restart and took the top spot away from Blau before another caution came out after lap two was scored when Caden Lowmiller spun in turn two. Knutson held off Blau but Jeremy Crimmins was working his way into second. Jeremy Crimmins made the move and took the top spot away from Knutson on lap seven. The caution came out one more time on lap 14 when David Gilliland spun in turn two forcing a green-white-checkered finish. Jeremy Crimmins held off Knutson and Bryce Sommerfeld on the restart to take the win. Knutson finished second, Sommerfeld was third, Daniel Ayers was fourth and Riley Crimmins was fifth.

Devon Havlik led the first two laps of the United Plant Serivces USRA Modifieds 15 lap feature before exiting with mechanical issues. Tonganoxie, Kansas's Adam Kates inherited the race lead and despite a hard charging Chase Ellingson, Kates won rather easily. Ellingson, Greg Elliott, Jesse Ely and Havlik rounded out the top five. 

Up next was the On The Lock & Key USRA B-Mods 18 lap feature event and no surprise when Ty Griffith starting on the front row, he grabbed the race lead right away. Justin Patterson was running second for the first three laps before Josh Appel took the spot away on lap four. The caution came out on lap five when Patterson blew up going in to turn one. Griffith was only slowed down one more time when Thomas Behle stopped exiting turn four. Griffith grabbed the opening night victory ahead of Appel, Jared Timmerman, Hunter Longnecker and Jason Bass.  

Final feature of the night was the Marsh Concrete USRA Stock Cars 18 lap feature event. Duncombe's Jeff Lyon led the first lap before Shawn Ritter from Keystone took the top spot away on lap two. Ritter and the field saw the caution come out four times first time on lap five when Derek Green came to a stop in turn three and lap seven for Chanse Hollatz in turn one. The next caution was for Josh Monthei when he had a fire on the hood of his hot rod. A debris caution on lap nine but Ritter still hung on to the race lead. Bill Crimmins took the race lead from Ritter on lap 12. The caution came out on lap 16 when Todd Staley broke something in the rear end after hitting the rough spot in turn one. Bill Crimmins held on to take the opening night win. Green came back to finished second, Myles Michehl was third, Hollatz came back to finish fourth and Ritter fell back to fifth.

Sports Park Raceway returns next Friday May 14th with another night of Summit Racing Equipment USRA Weekly Racing Series for Untied Plant Services USRA Modifieds, Marsh Concrete USRA Stock Cars, On The Lock & Key USRA B-Mods, Pickett Salvage USRA Hobby Stocks and Matt's Tire Service USRA Tuners. Drivers Meeting at 6:45p, Hot Laps at 7p, Racing to Follow.

For more information about the Sports Park Raceway check out sportsparkraceway.com or sportsparkraceway.myracepass.com or like the Facebook page Sports Park Raceway or follow the Twitter page SportsParkRace or call (515) 571-4401.

The Sports Park Raceway is a half-mile semi-banked dirt oval located 0.9 mile north of US 20 on US 169, then 0.5 mile east on 230th in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The track location is 2298 S River Rd, Fort Dodge, IA 50501.

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Sports Park Raceway
Summit Racing Equipment USRA Weekly Racing Series 

Season Opener

Friday May 7th, 2021

USRA Modifieds
presented by United Plant Services

Feature (15 laps) : 1. 23 Adam Kates (Tonganoxie, Kan.) [3]; 2. 14E Chase Ellingson (Iowa Falls) [2]; 3. 75 Greg Elliott (Webster City) [4]; 4. 211 Jesse Ely (Webster City) [5]; 5. 5D Devon Havlik (Waterloo) [1]; 6. 52 LaDon Sams (Fort Dodge) [6].

Heat  (7 laps) : 1. Kates [1]; 2. Havlik [2]; 3. Ellingson [4]; 4. Elliott [3]; 5. Ely [6]; 6. Sams [5].

USRA Stock Cars

presented by Marsh Concrete

Feature (18 laps) : 1. 35 Bill Crimmins (Fort Dodge) [3]; 2. 32 Derek Green (Granada, Minn.) [7]; 3. 21 Myles Michehl (Fort Dodge) [6]; 4. 6 Chanse Hollatz (Clear Lake) [12]; 5. 7SR Shawn Ritter (Keystone) [2]; 6. 59 Jeff Lyon (Duncombe [1]; 7. 47 Parker Slagle (Eagle Grove) [13]; 8. 19 Reid Keller (Webster City) [9]; 9. 24 Josh Zieman (Plymouth) [10]; 10. 11 Jesse Brown (Nashua) [4]; 11. 10 John Ades (Rippey) [16]; 12. 21X Xander Treichel (Greene) [8]; 13. 14 Todd Staley (Webster City) [5]; 14. 43 Calvin Lange (Humboldt) [14]; 15. 87 Travis Shipman (Mason City) [11]; 16. 77M Josh Monthei (Jefferson) [15].

Heat 1 (6 laps) : 1. Crimmins [1]; 2. Michehl [6]; 3. Ritter [3]; 4. Brown [5]; 5. Slagle [4]; 6. Ades [2].

Heat 2 (6 laps) : 1. Hollatz [2]; 2. Green [4]; 3. Treichel [1]; 4. Zieman [5]; 5. Lange [3].

Heat 3 (6 laps) : 1. Lyon [2]; 2. Shipman [4]; 3. Keller [5]; 4. Staley [3]; 5. Monthei [1].

USRA B-Mods
presented by On The Go Lock & Key

Feature (16 laps) : 1. 56 Ty Griffith (Webster City) [1]; 2. 65J Josh Appel (Garner) [4]; 3. 7+ Jared Timmerman (Norwalk) [6]; 4. 93  Hunter Longnecker (Woodward) [5]; 5. 4 Jason Bass (Fort Dodge) [15]; 6. 85T Brandon Toftee (Otho) [3]; 7. 2 Jerid Ratzke (Williams) [11]; 8. 85 Dustin West (Radcliffe) [13]; 9. 9J Jeremiah Reed (Otho) [7]; 10. 88 Bryer McCoy (Webster City) [12]; 11. 27 Michael Parcel (Bondurant) [16]; 12. 56W Kyle Webb (Des Moines) [10]; 13. 37 Thomas Behle (Polk City) [8]; 14. D1 Damion Elliott (Webster City) [9]; 15. 40 George Gilliland (Lehigh) [14]; 16. 25P Justin Patterson (Fort Dodge) [2]; DNS 49 Nate Whitehurst (Mason City).

Heat 1 (6 laps) : 1. Griffith [1]; 2. Patterson [2]; 3. Toftee [4]; 4. Appel [5]; 5. McCoy [6]; 6. Bass [3].

Heat 2 (6 laps) : 1. Reed [1]; 2. Whitehurst [6]; 3. Behle [4]; 4. Webb [2]; 5. West [3]; 6. Parcel [5].

Heat 3 (6 laps) : 1. Longnecker [2]; 2. Timmerman [5]; 3. Elliott [4]; 4. Ratzke [3]; 5. Gilliland [1].

USRA Hobby Stocks
presented by Pickett Salvage

Feature (15 laps) : 1. 15 Jeremy Crimmins (Fort Dodge) [9]; 2. 12K Eric Knutson (Slater) [5]; 3. 50 Bryce Sommerfeld (Fort Dodge) [4]; 4. 4D Daniel Ayers (Webster City) [11]; 5. 35 Riley Crimmins (Fort Dodge) [12]; 6. 56 Jake Blau (Latimer) [2]; 7. 76 Justin Jones (Renwick) [15]; 8. 34 Lincoln Miller (Eagle Grove) [1]; 9. 14 Joseph DeBoer (Fort Dodge) [8]; 10. 136 Tanner Green (Hampton) [7]; 11. 55G David Gilliand (Fort Dodge) [14]; 12. 11G Jayden Glenn (Stratford) [16]; 13. 56G Bradley Gilliland (Lehigh) [13]; 14. 5 Caden Lowmiller (Jefferson) [3]; 15. 45 Drew Barglof (Sioux Rapids) [10]; 16. 10X Danny Sassman Jr (Fort Dodge) [6].

Heat 1 (6 laps) : 1. Knutson [4]; 2. Sassman [1]; 3. Blau [2]; 4. Lowmiller [3]; 5. Bradley Gilliland [5].

Heat 2 (6 laps) : 1. Jeremy Crimmins [1]; 2. Ayers [5]; 3. Sommerfeld [3]; 4. Riley Crimmins [2]; 5. David Gilliland [4].

Heat 3 (6 laps) : 1. Barglof [4]; 2. Miller [3]; 3. Green [2]; 4. DeBoer [1]; 5. Jones [5]; 6. Glenn [6].

USRA Tuners
presented by Matt's Tire Service

Feature (10 Laps) : 1. 440 Jaedon Erickson (Welcome, Minn.) [2]; 2. 43 Jade Lange (Humboldt) [3]; 3. 21T Tayla Lange (Ames) [6]; 4. 45 John Dahlsten (Pomeroy) [5]; 5. 54 Josh Dahlsten (Pomeroy) [7]; 6. 38 Desiree Sells (Fort Dodge) [1]; 7. 10B Breanna Ades (Rippey) [4].

Heat (5 laps) : 1. Erickson [2]; 2. Jade Lange [5]; 3. Sells [6]; 4. Ades [3]; 5. John Dahlsten [4]; 6. Tayla Lange [1]; DNS Josh Dahlsten.