Well I once again made it out to the central iowa fairgrounds for the Thunder Dome Kart Races on December 11th for their 3rd race of the season and the final race in the 2010 portion of the season. They have 5 saturday's of racing in January, February and March.
Outside pitting wasn't as big as the first couple of times and because of the weather the participants were down as well and for the first time this season they were only going to do one session.
Heat race winners in the first set of heats were: Carter Vandenberg in Open 4 Cycles, Walker Ashton in Putt Putts/Kid Karts, Logan Gunderson in the Jr 1 Flathead Heavy, Brian Eppert in the Clone Heavy, Justin Meinders in the Stock Heavy, Brandon Webster in Jr Pit Bikes, Clayton Webster in Amateur Bikes, Trent Meimann in Pit Bikes and Brody Baer in Pro Quads.
The 2nd set of heats went to: Carter Vandenberg in Open 4 Cycles, Lucas Gunderson in Putt Putts/Kid Karts, Logan Gunderson in the Jr 1 Flathead Heavy, Brian Eppert in the Clone Heavy, Justin Meinders in the Stock Heavy, Brandon Webster in Jr Pit Bikes, Dylan Webster in Ametuer Bikes, Albert Wolfgram in Pit Bikes and Tyler Hammons in Pro Quads.
After that a little quick track maintenance would happen while the feature line-ups were finished up and once all of that was completed we would go racing with features.
First feature on the track was the Open 4 Cycle which would see Carter Vandenberg from Oskaloosa taking the win in the #38x machine. Clint Wendel from Mason City would finish 2nd in the #75 machine and Ryan Mills from Des Moines would finish home in 3rd in the #92 machine.
In the Putt Putts and Kid Karts would be ran together because there was only 1 kid kart and 3 putt putts, this division is a trophy class meaning everybody is a winner. Walker Ashton from Beamon would finish first in the #7R machine and take the win in the Putt Putts, Dallon Murty from Chelsea in the #99 would finish 2nd and win the Kid Karts portion. Lucas Gunderson from Liscomb in #29 would finish 3rd and Landon Murray from Hartford in the #21 would finish 4th.
Jr 1 Flathead Heavy only saw 1 car sign in to compete on the day so making a clean sweep was Logan Gunderson from Liscomb in the #29 machine.
Clone Heavy class would see the most amount of karts of 4. Jake Veenstra of Pella would take the win in the #35, Brian Eppert from Boone in the #22 would finish 2nd, Kelly Lyons from Boone in the #72 would finish in 3rd, Albert "Pep" Wolfgram from Boone in the #1 machine would finish 4th.
Stock Heavy class would see Justin Meinders from New Sharon taking the win in the #38x machine (the same machine Vandenberg won with in the Open 4 Cycles). Clint Wendel from Mason City would finish 2nd in the #75 machine and Ryan Mills from Des Moines would fail to start the feature in his #92 machine after having mechanical failure in the Open 4 Cycles feature.
In the Jr Pit Bikes it would be Brandon Webster from Ottumwa on Bike #22 making a clean sweep by taking the feature event over Blaine Webster also from Ottumwa on Bike #48.
Amateur Bikes would go to Clayton Webster from Ottumwa on bike #155 taking the win, Jose Marquez from Ames was 2nd on bike #218, Ethan Roth of Ames was 3rd on bike #3 and Dylan Webster from Ottumwa was 4th on bike #67.
In the Pit Bikes class it was Trent Meimann #25 from Ankeny taking the win, Ben Van Wyk #07 from Pella was 2nd, Zach Davis #G from Ames was 3rd, Noah Hovell #434 from Pella was 4th, Albert Wolfgram #78 from Boone was 5th and Kyle Busch #117 from Boone was 6th.
The final feature was the Pro Quads class would go to Tyler Hammons #5 from Fremont, Nebraska. Brody Baer #32 from Elmwood, Nebraska was 2nd. Tyler Ringle #690 from Omaha, Nebraska was 3rd. Zach Davis #136 from Ames was 4th and #7 Zach Hovell from Pella was 5th.
Racing completed shortly after 5pm on a day that a low car count because of the blizzard like conditions that were getting ready to hit iowa but it was still a good day inside the thunder dome.
The next show is on January 8th at the Central Iowa Fairgrounds where a few class will be racing for $200 to win and they are Animal Heavy, Clone Heavy, Open 4 Cycle, RWYB, Pro Bike, Pro Heavy and the adult flatheads (Stock Heavy) will be too.
Hope to see you inside the thunderdome also if you need any pictures from the thunderdome kart races check out http://www.moto.photoreflect.com/ .
