Well if you would have asked if we were tonight the answer didn't look good if you would have asked Promotor Toby Kruse at 10 or 11 this morning. The rain stop and gave way to clear skies or so we thought because as 7pm rolled around and the clouds were building up to the south. The Change was made to have the drivers meeting at 6:55pm and Hot Laps at 7:10pm to get the show moving along at 7:30.
After all the heat races were run they were going to do the cardboard classic but because the sky didn't look good to the south they had to move them until after the Hobby Stock Feature and got the sport mod b-feature called up followed by the Mod Lites.
The first feature of the night was the O'Reilly Auto Parts Mod Lites for their 15 lap feature. Ivan Guerra would take full advantage of his outside front row starting spot and not look back. Guerra would have to see 2 cautions on lap 8 and lap 12. Lap 8 caution was for Justin Efkamp spinning in turns 3&4 and then the lap 12 caution again for Efkamp in turn 4. Guerra wouldn't let the cautions faze him even though he would have Eric Hendrickson and Josh May right behind him. Guerra would pull away and watch Hendrickson and May battle for 2nd. Guerra took the win, his first at Marshalltown in the Mod Lites, Hendrickson took 2nd and May was 3rd. Guerra was very happy tonight that his wife and his kids were there to see it happen, good job Ivan. Finishing behind Guerra, Hendrickson and May rounding out the top 5 was Tim Hennigar and Mike Morrill.
In the Big 8 Tyre Center IMCA Sport Mods 15 lap feature. It took 3 trys to get 1 lap in the book. The initial start saw Shawn Simatovich, Carter VanDenBerg and Nick Roberts get together in 3 & 4 and Jake Strayer in the frontstretch wall. On the restart, Lauren Vis would go in turn 1 and lose the driveshaft and come to a stop on the backstretch. So on the next restart we would see the young guns take advantage as Cayden Carter would take the lead and Tyler Droste would take 2nd place. These 2 would only have to worry about cautions on lap 11 and 2 on lap 13. Caution on lap 11 was for Fred Leytham in turn 1, the 2 on lap 13 was for Geoff Olson going off of turn 1 and then for Neil Follett and Jared Van Deest getting together in 1 & 2. Carter would go on and take his 5th win at Marshalltown of the year, Droste would finish 2nd, Scott Davis was 3rd, Brad Iverson was 4th and Eric Elliott was 5th.
The Class "Too Tough To Tame" Aaron's IMCA Stock Cars were up next for their 18 lap feature. Trevor Titus would lead the first lap but Veteran Tommy Thompson would battle with Titus and take the lead on lap 2. Thompson look to be going on to the win but then the only race caution came out on lap 9 when John Emerson spun in turn 4. On the restart, Thompson, Rob Schneider, Trevor Titus, Michael Jeannette and Dustin Smith were the top 5. Thompson would continue to lead until Dustin Smith made his way up to 2nd, Smith began to do battle and would pass Thompson on lap 14 to cruise on to the victory. The win would be Smith's 5th straight win and 7th of the season at Marshalltown. Thompson would finish 2nd, Schneider was 3rd, Rick Brown was 4th and Jeff Wollam was 5th.
The Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel IMCA Modifieds had only 12 cars sign in tonight all made the call for the 20 lap feature. Todd Conrad would take the lead from the outside front row starting spot. The only thing slowing Conrad was the cautions on lap 6 for Mike O'Lear in turn 4 and then on lap 16 for Kyle Krampe in turn 3. Conrad would go on and take the win, his first win at Marshalltown since June 6th, 2008. "Motown Missile" Brett Ladehoff was 2nd, Jimmy Gustin was 3rd, Jay Schmidt was 4th and "Toddzilla" Todd Shute was 5th.
The final feature of the night was the Junction Bar & Grille IMCA Hobby Stocks for their 12 lap feature. Clint Nelson would take the lead from the outside front row and just after 2 laps were completed a caution came out for Nic Shearer spinning on the front stretch then on the restart another caution for Josh Burrell and John Schuring getting together in turn 2. Nelson would let that faze him meanwhile Devin Smith was making his way through the field and would catch Nelson on lap 5 and then make the pass on lap 6. Smith would go on and take his 7th win of the season at Marshalltown. Michael Murphy, Clint Nelson, Jennifer Hulin and Calvin Dhondt would round out the top 5.
All that racing was completed at 9:49p but after all that racing action was completed the kids hit the track for the Cardboard Box Classic Races presented by New Hope Christian Church and then it was the Spectator Eliminators.
Next Friday Night will be Johnny Ray's Sports Bar Night plus Vintage Cars racing as well. Hope to See you there at the Races
Unofficial Results
O'Reilly Auto Parts Mod Lites
Heat 1- 99 Josh May
Heat 2- 0B Colby Obermebt
Feature
1. 10 Ivan Guerra
2. 66f Eric Hendrickson
3. 99 Josh May
4. 57 Tim Hennigar
5. 6 Mike Morrill
6. 0B Colby Obermebt
7. 64 Randy Bryan
8. 8 Dusty Masolini
9. x50 Joel Huggins
10. 88 Jimmy May
11. 2 Bobby Harris
12. 95 Mike Kennedy
13. 41s Tim Sutherland
DNS:
5k Kent Efkamp
9 Rick Taylor
51 Justin Efkamp
Big 8 Tyre Center IMCA Sport Mods
Heat 1- 92 Tyler Droste
Heat 2- 40s Shawn Simatovich
Heat 3- 19F Fred Leytham
Heat 4- 7 Carter VanDenBerg (777 Jayme Duinink crosssed in 1st but DQ for illegal Pan hand Bar)
B-Feature (top 4 tranfer):
1. T17 Tom Rawlins
2. 32N Neil Follett
3. 777 Jayme Duinink
4. 4W Herbie Wilson
DNF:
21 Kyle Brown
81 Jesse Belez
DNS:
52E Ryan Engelkes
57R Ryan King
Feature
1. 10 Cayden Carter
2. 92 Tyler Droste
3. 81D Scott Davis
4. 8 Brad Iverson
5. 9E Eric Elliott
6. 12 Eric Flander
7. 19g Gatlin Leytham
8. 19F Fred Leytham
9. T17 Tom Rawlins
10. 777 Jayme Duinink
11. 40s Shawn Simatovich
12. 19J Jenae Gustin
13. 2g Geoff Olson
14. 49g Leroy Groenendyk
15. 80 Jared Van Deeset
16. 32N Neil Follett
17. 505 Racer Hulin
18. 3 Stacy Clark
DNF:
2z Zack Rawlins
7 Carter VanDenBerg
4w Herbie Wilson
23jr Nick Roberts
18J Jake Strayer
20L Lauren Vis
Aaron's IMCA Stock Cars
Heat 1- 75 Rick Brown
Heat 2- 85 Dustin Smith
Feature
1. 85 Dustin Smith
2. 72 Tommy Thompson
3. 17s Rob Schneider
4. 75 Rick Brown
5. 3w Jeff Wollam
6. 93 Michael Jeannette
7. 94 Steve Meyer
8. 36 Trevor Titus
9. 2 Dave Atcher
10. 52E Robert Engelkes
11. 54 Robbie Merkle
12. 9E Austin Evens
DNF:
25 Trent Murphy
287 John Emerson
DNS:
60 Clay Deppe
5 Keith Miner
Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel IMCA Modifieds
Heat 1- 83C Todd Conrad
Heat 2- 12x Brett Ladehoff
Feature
1. 83C Todd Conrad
2. 12X Brett Ladehoff
3. 19 Jimmy Gustin
4. 19J Jay Schmidt
5. 5 Todd Shute
6. 21 David Brown
7. 2X Mike O'Lear
8. 10k Ronn Lauritzen
9. 32 Rick Speck
10. 69x Jon Snyder
DNF:
K1 Kyle Krampe
87 Joel Bushore
Junction Bar & Grille IMCA Hobby Stocks
Heat 1- 24B Brandon Brinton
Heat 2- 81 Devin Smith
Heat 3- 45 Russell Keefer
Feature
1. 81 Devin Smith
2. 25m Michael Murphy
3. 27 Clint Nelson
4. 82 Jennifer Hulin
5. 69 Calvin Dhondt
6. 20E Eric Larson
7. 19D Dustin Elliott
8. 3X Scott Durlin
9. 52 Josh Saunders
10. 4X Gary PFantz
11. 6R Adam Rickett
12. 86 Gene Nicklas
13. 47 Scott Pippert
14. 29 Jake Nelson
15. 43 Nic Shearer
16. 00 Callen Fitzgerald
DNF:
37G Jeff Gunderson
77 Rod Grother
18V Mike Vibbard
12k Eric Knutson
93 Josh Burrell
21 John Schuring
45D Matt Deaton
4JR Russell Damme
24B Brandon Brinton
DNS:
45 Russell Keefer
51D Dustin Filloon
77M Mark Lamer
