Dale DeFrance Memorial Race Postponed; Grundy County Fair Races?

With the rain early in the week and Thursday morning, the Karl Auto Group of Marshalltown Speedway was forced to postpone the Dale DeFrance Memorial presented by Vinyl Cup Records featuring the Malvern Bank Super Late Model Racing Series to Friday, August 22nd, because the grounds were extremely saturated.

Marshalltown has adjusted their August schedule: August 1st will be Midwest Liquid Systems Night featuring $1,000 to win Stock Cars, August 8th will be KIX101.1 Make-up Night, August 15th will now be the North 3rd Avenue Dairy Queen Larry Wollam Season Championships, the Dale DeFrance Memorial will be on the 22nd, followed by the Karl Auto Group Showdown at Motown on August 29th.

IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Sport Mods, and IMCA Hobby Stocks will be all the nights. IMCA Sport Compacts and IMCA Mod Lites race all nights except for the rescheduled Dale DeFrance Memorial.

For more information check out marshalltownspeedway.com or follow Marshalltown Speedway on Facebook. Follow the Dale DeFrance Memorial Race on Facebook for all the details about that night.

So that meant my Friday night was open to go somewhere else for racing. My initial plan was to head to the Hamilton County Speedway in Webster City for the Malvern Bank 360 Sprints or head to the Cedar County Raceway in Tipton for the Gary Reinhart Memorial, but after it was apparent that I was not going to make it in time for either of those races, there was only one option left. The Grundy County Fairgrounds in Grundy Center was having Grundy County Fair Figure 8 Races, so the decision was made to make the 30-minute drive and capture some pictures. 

I say capture images because I did not get names of the drivers, so there won't be much of a blog recap. I arrived around 5:45pm, walked around the pits for a bit, grabbed something to eat, and then got ready to take pictures. I want to thank the Grundy County Fairboard for letting me come and capture some pictures. 

A total of one hundred and three entries checked in over 5 classes. The largest class was the Small Cars with 40, so they were split into 2 features. Old School Figure 8 class had 20 entries, Mini-Madness had 21 entries, Cruisers had 12, and Open Figure 8 had 9 cars. All cars transferred out of the heats with no b-features since they had Tyler Richton & The High Bank Boys playing after the races in the 1851 Pavilion. The Grundy County Speedway Figure 8 Races are working in conjunction with the Butler County Figure 8 Races in Allison, and they share the same rules.

One More Race is a 2-day special at the Grundy County Speedway on August 22nd and 23rd. Bands after the Races are No Smoking on the Grounds on the 22nd and The Smokin' Yotes on the 23rd in the 1851 Pavilion.

For more information about the Grundy County Speedway Figure 8 Races, check out grundycountyfair.com or follow the Grundy County Fair on Facebook.

All-American Grundy County Fair Races
TOP 3 FINISHERS

Grundy County Speedway, Grundy Center, Iowa
Friday July 25th, 2025

CRUISERS

1. 69B Brady Feckers / Deacon Eiklenborg
2. 75L Jake Lehman / Laverne Lehman

3. 13 Alex Bovy / Christopher Bovy

SMALL CAR #1

1. 9 Clayton McDivitt
2. 94 Britt Meyer

3. 6 Devan Auchstetter

SMALL CAR #2

1. X2 Chris Bonk
2. 707 Derek Thran

3. 18B Morgan Bonk

MINI-MADNESS

1. 47T Tanner Ragsdale
2. X2 Chris Bonk

3. 668S Nick Shepard

OPEN

1. 99 Lance Baker
2. 51 Colton Wersinger

3. 98 Gary Kiewiet

OLD SCHOOL

1. Luke Brown
2. Chris Bovy

3. Nick Brooks

All photos from the All-American Grundy County Fair Races are on the Trackside Report by Foxman Facebook page in a photo album titled Grundy County Fair Races (Grundy Center) 7/25/25. Please let racers you know that raced know about the pictures.