This weeks racing begin at the Buena Vista Raceway "The Beaver" in Alta with the Kyle Suter Memorial for the IMCA Stock Cars and it also in turn was to be the 1st night of The IMCA Great American Stock Car Series. The IMCA Stock Cars were running for $1000 to win, where the winner Dave Smith started on the pole and led all 30 laps, getting his first win of the season, Brian Blessington was living up to his nicknamed "Flyin Brian" because he started 20th and finish 2nd. Jeff Joldersma, Dustin Smith and Chris Ullrich rounded out the top 5. Nick "The Real" Deal took the IMCA Modifieds feature, Jeremy Mills, Adam Larson, Jay Noteboom and Reece Coffee. Sport Compacts race for $150 to win, Thanks to Mach 1 and John Sedlachek took the win with Josh Egesdal, Cory Flanigan, Cory Klug and Todd Paulsrad rounding out the top 5. the IMCA Hobby Stocks raced for $400 to win and was Andy Boeckman taking the win, Shannon Anderson was 2nd, Kenny Hansen in 3rd, John Briggs and Craig Brotherton in 4th and 5th.
The next night racing headed to the Independence Motor Speedway "Home of Fast Family Fun" for the 2nd night of the IMCA Great American Stock Car Series and joining them in the fun was the Deery Brothers Summer Series for IMCA Late Models and Nostalgia cars. In the IMCA Stock Cars, Which again was running for $1000 to win saw "Flyin" Brian Irvine take the lead on lap 17 of the 30 lapper by passing Justin Temeyer and Mike Nichols. Jeff Joldersma finish home in 2nd and took over the series points lead, Justin Temeyer, Jesse Colwell and Mike Nichols would finished 3rd through 5th. The IMCA Late Models is ran for $2000 to win, Rob Toland and Terry Neal were battling for the lead through at the event. Toland lead the first 7 laps before caution came out, Neal took the lead. Just as Toland shuffled Neal back to 2nd, lap cars came into the equation and for a moment put Toland in 3rd. Neal would end up winning by a straigtaway over Rob Toland, Jason Frankel would finish 3rd, Ray Guss Jr in 4th and Jeff Aikey in 5th. The Nostalgia cars was won by "The Racing Legend" John Schroyer from Marshalltown in his 1957 chevy.
Also Racing was the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa with their annual Musco Lighting Great American Stock Car Shootout. The USRA Stock Cars ran for $2000 to win and saw track regular Matt Greiner take the win, Shay Curtin from Cresco in 2nd, Brian Mitrisin in 3rd, Tory Reicks in 4th and "Flyin Dutchman" Mike Van Genderen rounding out the by 5. USRA B-Mods ran for $1000 to win and taking the win was hometown driver Tyler Groenedyk, "Young Gun" Brett Moffitt would come in 2nd, Mike Wanders, Drew Lawson and Paul Underwood rounded out the top 5. The USRA Hobby Stocks ran for $700 to win with Nathan Wood taking top honors. Chris Hovden, Jason McDaniel, Shannon Anderson and Kris Walker rounded out the top 5. Last but not least was the Musco Lighting USRA Modifieds for $1000 to win which saw the "Z-Man" Zack Vanderbeek the win, surprise vistior Kelly Shryock came home in 2nd, Brad Pinkerton in 3rd, Colt Mather in 4th and Adam Bell in 5th.
The next night brought racing action in Marshalltown, Britt, Donnellson and Allison. 1st we headed to the Hancock County Speedway in Britt for the Firecracker 360 Modified Special where 88 b-mods signed in. Adam Ackerman took home the $2000, Brett Meyer finished in 2nd and taking home $1500, Scott Davis took home for $1250 for 3rd, Brandon Leeman finish in 4th for $900 and Tad Reutzel in 5th getting $700. Other winners was Blake Cole in Novice Hornets, Joe Bunkofske in Hornets, Stac Schroeder in Hobby Stocks, Kevin Opheim in Stock Cars and Jeremy Mills in Modifieds. Next on to Donnellson and the Lee County Speedway for the 2nd Annual Liberty Cup where the IMCA Modifieds ran for $1500 to win, IMCA Stock Cars $1000 to win and IMCA Sport Mods for $500 to win. The Modifieds were won by Michael Long from Quincy, IL. Josh Foster, Dusty Kraklio, Troy Cordes and Nate Caruth rounded out the top 5. Jeff Mueller took the top honors in the stock cars, Mike VanGenderen, Aaron Brocksreck, Abe Huls and Darin Thye finished in Mueller. Jason Cook would take the win in Doug Fenton's Sport Mod, Jacob Smith, Roger Tresden, Paul Underwood and Phillip Cossell would finish in the top 5 as well. Next were off to the Highway 3 Raceway in Allison for the Firecracker Special plus the 2nd Race for the Dart Corn Belt Clash Late Model Series. Chad Simpson would take the top honor in the the Late Models over Jeff Aikey. Kevin Kile, Curt Martin and Kurt Kile would finish 3rd-5th. B-Mods was won by Cletus Engen, Scott Splide in the hobby stocks, Mitch Hovden in Stock Cars and Joe Zrostlik in Hornets.
The racing blog continues with my recap from the marshalltown speedway.
