This friday night would just be like any other friday night, once again we would have to battle with mother nature and the amount of rain that fell down during the morning. Once again Promotor Toby Kruse and the track prep crew would do the perfect job of getting the track into shape and making it wide, smooth and fast despite all the rain. So this Custom Concrete Night at the Races wouldn't be anything different.
The talk all day i heard from most drivers and fans was how the racing surface would be.
The night would bring great racing action. This would also have the Vintage Coupes on hand and the dwarf car king of the hill. In the Vintage Coupes there was a total 9 cars on hand, no results were kept.
Dwarf Car/Mod Lites were up first for their 15 lap feature event, 14 cars would sign in. Joel Huggins would lead the first lap but would be passed by Randy Bryan on lap 2. Huggins wouldn't give up though as he would take the lead back from Bryan on lap 7. The only caution of the feature came out on lap 11 when Mike Kennedy spun in the exit of turn 2. Huggins wouldn't let the caution faze him as he would go on and get another victory. Tim Hennigar would pass Bryan for 2nd, Bryan ended up 3rd, Josh May and Johnny Mordock was 4th and 5th.
Big 8 Tyre Center IMCA Sport Mods were up next for their 15 lap feature, 26 cars signed in so that meant all cars going to the a feature. This feature would see a total of 4 cautions, first on lap 3 for Michael Grantham and Adam Shelman get together in turn 2, then on lap 5 when Gaitlin Leytham spun in turn 2, then lap 9 when Luke Wanninger stopped in the exit of turn 4 and then on lap 10 when Lauren Vis spun in turn 1. Tom Rawlins lead the first 7 laps, Kyle Brown lead the next 4 laps and Kevin Sather would lead the last 4 laps. Finishing behind Sather was Brown, Scott Davis, Brad Iverson and Jake Strayer.
Up next is the Aaron's IMCA Stock Cars for their 18 lap feature event, 23 cars signed in. This feature even would also have 4 cautions. Trevor Titus would lead lap 1 but would be passed by Aaron Haggerty on lap 2. Titus and Haggerty would get together on lap 3, Titus would be sent to the pits for aggressive driving, Haggerty would come to a stop in turn 2. Rob Schneider would inherit the lead on the restart. After another lap was completed another caution would come out this time for Kevin Rose in turn 2. Schneider resumed command in the lead, he would see 2 more cautions and have to hold off challenges from Jeff Wollam and Dustin Smith. The next caution came out on lap 7 when Todd Kearney stop in turn 3 on the track exit and the last caution came out on lap 15 when Eric Flanders spun in turn 3. Schneider would take the win, Wollam would finish 2nd, Dusty Vis would finish 3rd, Aaron Haggerty would end up 4th and Damon Murty in a borrowed race car would finish home in 5th.
Tonight in the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel IMCA Modifieds, the winner would take home $500 to win and a 5 foot trophy. They had 24 cars sign in and almost all of them started the a main. In this feature only one caution would slow our feature winner and that came out on lap 5 when Andrew Kinser spun in turn 2. But tonight was the night for the Phoenix E-Waste Solutions/Rob Chambers Motorsports/Nitefly Designs Dirtworks Chassis car #12X of "The Mo'town Missile" Brett Ladehoff. Ladehoff would lead all 20 laps and outdistance himself from the rest of the lead cars. This would be Ladehoff's first win at Motown since August 1st, 2008. Point Leader Jimmy Gustin was 2nd, Adam Larson was 3rd, Jay Schmidt would finish 4th and Ronn Laurtizen was 5th.
The final feature of the night was the Junction Bar & Grille IMCA Hobby Stocks, 23 cars signed in. Clint Nelson took the early race lead. A red flag came out on lap 3 when John Schuring rolled the car in turn 1, he was able to drive away. Nelson hung on to the lead but would be passe d by Michael Murphy on lap 9. Murphy would go on and take the win, Nelson would end up 4th. Finishing between Murphy and Nelson was Terry Shaffar, who got 2nd and Todd Reitzler, who got 3rd. Jennifer Hulin would round out the top 5.
Last event of the evening was the America's Best Value Inn Dwarf Car King of the Hill. The scheduled first round match ups were Jeff Stensland/Joel Huggins, Johnny Mordock/Mike Morrill, Andy Hennigar/Josh May and Jimmy May/Dusty Masolini but Stensland, Hennigar and Jimmy May all scratched so Eric Hendrickson would join in the fun as he was 5th in his heat race so the first round match ups were Mordock and Huggins in which Mordock would beat Huggins, Josh May and Morrill in which Morrill would beat May and Hendrickson and Masolini with Masolini taking the win. Mordock and Morrill would face off and Morrill would take the win and move on to the final to face Masolini, who received a bye in the final round. Morrill would beat Masolini by a car length in the King of the Hill.
Racing action completed at 10:13 pm. Racing action continues next friday night with Vis Roofing Night at the Races, Pits open at 5:15, Grandstands at 5:30, Drivers Meeting at 6:45, Hot Laps at 7, Racing at 7:30!
