On the 6th day of the 2009 Iowa State Fair it was the annual Deery Brothers Summer Series for the IMCA Late Models show on the big half mile speedway at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. This would also see the IMCA Hobby Stocks, IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Stock Cars and the Karl Chevrolet Dirt Trucks take to the speedway.
Pits open up at 3 in the afternoon, grandstands open up at 5, hot laps were at 5:30 and racing started after a driver meeting around 6. A total of 160 cars signed in, 41 hobby stocks, 41 late models, 23 sport mods, 32 stock cars and 17 dirt trucks.
Coming in to the night, Current Deery Brothers Point Leader Jeff Aikey would be the all time deery series feature winner with 4 of his 51 deery career wins, Darrel DeFrance had 2 wins and 10 drivers each having one win in deery competition in des moines including Todd Cooney and Rob Toland, who were also in attendance.
The IMCA Hobby Stocks were up for their 2 12 lap feature events because they had 41 cars sign in. In Feature #1, the orginal start was called back because Flagman Bob Moses didn't like the start. Once the race got going Steve Jones jump to the race lead from his pole postition but just after one lap was in the books there was a caution when Tim Hadley, Larry Embrey, John Yaw, Brandon Ratcliff, Steve Roberts and the 12j car. once they resumed Jones continued to lead only to see another caution come out on lap 4 when Blake Miller got in to the turn 1 wall. Jones maintained the lead and would have to start doing battle with Nick Murty and Daniel Hilsabeck but would lead at the line every lap. They would be doing some side by side battles through the remainder of this race including the finish of the race would be so close it was almost to hard to tell who finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Murty would get the win, Hilsabeck would get 2nd and Jones would follow back to 3rd. Matt Drottz and Kenny Loftus would round out the top 5.
1. Nick Murty; 2. Daniel Hilsabeck; 3. Steve Jones; 4. Matt Drottz; 5. Kenny Loftus; 6. Greg Hower; 7. Richard Yaw; 8. Leonard Loftus; 9. Brandon Radcliffe; 10. Matt Webb; 11. Blake Miller; 12. Rick Goldsberry; 13. Tim Hadley; 14. Vern Lunsford; 15. Kenny Johnson; 16. Steve Roberts; 17. Jeremy Auten; 18. John Yaw; 19. Larry Embrey; 20. Dustin Griffiths; 21. David Castellano.
In feature #2, Kenny Hansen took the early race lead in the hobby stock feature from his 2nd row inside starting spot. After 1 lap was in the books a caution came out for debris in turns 1 & 2, this would be the only caution. Hansen resumed command but started to enter lap traffic around the half way point. Hansen got caught up by a lap car which allowed Kris Walker to get on by him. Walker would have to battle with Hansen and the lap traffic but would go on to the win, Hansen would hit the wall in 3 and 4 and follow to 3rd but would get 2nd after Donavon Nunnikhoven ,who crossed the line in 2nd, would be disqualified in post race tech. Rob Allison was 3rd, Beau Kaplan was 4th and Alan Van Gorp was 5th.
1. Kris Walker; 2. Kenny Hansen; 3. Rob Allison; 4. Beau Kaplan; 5. Alan VanGorp; 6. Ray Stock Jr.; 7. Jerod Weston; 8. Blain Petersen; 9. Adam Hagan; 10. Bruce Wolfe; 11. Dylan Book; 12. Mike Nicoletto; 13. Bob Johnson; 14. Taylor Reynolds; 15. Ross McCombs; 16. Josh Sink; 17. Tim Teff; 18. Joe Murphy; 19. Cory Adams
Up Next was the IMCA Sport Mods for their 15 lap feature event which was a track points night for them. Jesse Sobbingwould take the race lead from his pole position but would be passed by 2nd row inside starter Kevin Sather on lap 3. After Sather took the lead a caution would come out for the lap car/a car that appeared to be heading to the pits of John Wells make contact with Kevin Fee which then sent Fee in a series of barrel rolls on the front stretch resulting the red flag, Wells immediately got out of his car and went over to see if Fee was alright, Fee claimed from his car okay. Sather would continue to lead despite 2 more cautions before half-way, first on lap 5 when the 15 car, Gary Stajcar and Tim Young got together on lap 5. The next caution would come out at the half-way point when Young would spin in turn 2, sending him to the pits. Sather would cruise on to the victory, Sobbing would finish 2nd and take over the track points lead heading into season championship night on september 4th, Dalton Dingman was 3rd, Rick Gladson was 4th and Bryon Weyer was 5th.
1. Kevin Sather; 2. Jesse Sobbing; 3. Dalton Dingman; 4. Rick Gladson; 5. Bryon Weyer; 6. Brett Moffitt; 7. Jeremy Embrey; 8. Tyler Gross; 9. Kyle Webb; 10. Paul Nagle; 11. Troy Oliver; 12. Tommy Killen; 13. Kenny Hay; 14. Cody Hillgartner; 15. Bret Sheppard; 16. Josh Modde; 17. Bill Wears; 18. Tim Young; 19. Justine Campbell; 20. Austin Kaplan; 21. Kevin Fee; 22. John Wells; 23. Gary Stajcar; 24. Merlin Kalar.
For the IMCA Stock Cars it was also a track points night, 32 cars signed in so 3 heats and 1 b feature would be used to get the field down to 24 cars. When that was all said and done boy would the crowd be in for a good one. Josh Daniels would lead the first couple of laps but would be passed by "Mr. Executive" Steve Jackson on lap 3, Jackson would hold on to the top spot despite a caution on lap 7 of the 15 lap feature, the caution came out for Rod Richards and Gary Bass getting together in turn 4. Jackson continued to lead but would be caught by the har chargin Smith Brothers Donavon and Dustin and Donnie Bown. Jackson and Donavon Smith would begin to door to door battle and on lap 13, Smith would lead by a bumper but Jackson came right back on the next lap and led. On the final lap, Jackson bobbled a little bit enough for Donavon Smith to make the pass and take the win, Jackson would finish 2nd. Donnie Bown was 3rd, Justin Temeyer was 4th and Dustin Smith was 5th.
1. Donavon Smith; 2. Steve Jackson; 3. Donnie Bown; 4. Dustin Smith; 5. Justin Temeyer; 6. Damon Murty; 7. Mike Nichols; 8. Mike VanGenderen; 9. Josh Daniels; 10. Randy Biederman; 11. Pat Graham; 12. Todd Inman; 13. Todd Holsteen; 14. Mike Johnston; 15. Jeff Wollam; 16. Ryan Lundy; 17. Jon Byriel; 18. Randy Killen; 19. David Atcher; 20. Steve Campbell; 21. Wayne Gifford; 22. Rod Richards; 23. Gary Bass; 24. Danny Hill.
The Karl Chevrolet Dirt Trucks were up next with their special 25 lap Iowa State Fair feature event. Paul Nagle would lead the first 9 laps, Ed Nelson would lead laps 10 through 17. On lap 17 there would be a caution for Del Enos spining in 1 and 2. On the restart, Bret Moyer would jump to the lead and not look back. Nelson would get 2nd, Bob Murray would finish 3rd, Brad Moyer was 4th and Nagle ended up 5th.
1. 98 Bret Moyer
2. 03 Ed Nelson
3. 47X Bob Murray
4. 21 Brad Moyer
5. 1N Paul Nagle
6. 3M Brett Moffitt
7. 3 Carl Moyer
8. 95 Lou Siplot
9. 1 Bryan Nevins Jr
10. 25 Pat Fagen
11. 88 Andrew Burg
12. 33 Tim Murray
13. 72 Daryl Lilly
14. 7X Rick Clark
15. 2 Del Enos (DNF)
16. 16M Brian Murray (DNF)
17. 55 Rodney Sorter (DNF)
The Final feature of the night was the 35 Lap IMCA Deery Brothers Summer Series for the IMCA Late Models. 41 cars signed in so 5 heats, 2 b-features, 2 provisionals and 1 hard charger provisional would be used to set the field for the feature. Todd Cooney would take the early lead in the feature event. The First caution would come out on lap 2 when Sam Halstead spun on the backstretch for a flat tire. On the restart, Cooney would be passed by "The River City Hustler" Ray Guss Jr. Guss would hold the top spot until he would be passed by Deery Series Point Leader Jeff Aikey on lap 10, Aikey would begin to pull away. The only things slowing Aikey was cautions on lap 17 and 18 and lap traffic. The caution on lap 17 was when Terry Neal spun in turn 2 for a flat tire and the caution on lap 18 was for debris on the track. Aikey would go on and get his 52nd career deery series victory and expand his deery series points lead. Guss would get 2nd, Jay Johnson would end up 3rd, Tommy Elston was 4th and Jason Frankel was 5th.
Deery Series – 1. Jeff Aikey; 2. Ray Guss Jr.; 3. Jay Johnson; 4. Tommy Elston; 5. Jason Frankel; 6. Rob Toland; 7. Jason Hahne; 8. Craig Jacobs; 9. Fred Remley; 10. Colby Springsteen; 11. Brett Diercks; 12. Todd Cooney; 13. Terry Neal; 14. Al Johnson; 15. Darrel DeFrance; 16. Charlie McKenna; 17. Ryan Griffith; 18. Greg Kastli; 19. Chad Cooney; 20. T.J. Criss; 21. Ryan Giles; 22. Josh Most; 23. Justin Kay; 24. Sam Halstead.
Next Race at Iowa State Fairgrounds Speedway will be Season Championship Night on September 4th, the next deery show will be Wednesday night in Marshalltown joining them that night will be sport mods, dwarf cars/mod lites and dirt trucks.
