After having fun the night before at the Marshalltown Speedway at Toby K's Hideaway 1K, i made the decision to make the trek to the Independence Motor Speedway for the Inaugural Red Dralle Memorial.
Before that could happen i headed to the Team 3W race shop to help get the car ready. I helped change a gear, put the driveshaft back on , radiator back in after it was patched up after it suffered the damage from the night before after all of that we got the car put together and on the trailer and arrived at Independence at 6:30pm.
At Independence it was the Inaugural Red Dralle Memorial for the IMCA Deery Brothers Summer Series for Late Models, World Product IMCA Stock Car Shootout Series Night #2 and the IMCA Sport Mods were also on hand to compete.
IMCA Sport Mods were up first for $504 to win 20 lap feature. Ken Kositzky and Racer Hulin would lead the field to the green and it was Hulin that would take the early race lead and it look as if the feature would run caution free but then the caution came out on lap 12 for Kositzky going around in turn 4. Hulin would now have Brad Lautenbach from New Franken, Wisconsin and Tyler Droste on his back bumper. Hulin would have to battle with Lautenbach, Lautenbach would make the pass for the lead on lap 14 and go on and take the win. Hulin would take 2nd, Droste was 3rd, Danny Dvorak was 4th and Tyler Hackett from Algoma, Wisconsin in 5th. Drew Fish, Joel Rust, Ray Lundry, Jim Buhlman and Kim Siems rounding out the top 10.
Next up was the "Class To Tough To Tame" IMCA Stock Cars for their 30 lap feature after 4 heats and 2 b-features dwindle the field down from 35 to 24 cars for the feature. Damon Murty and Justin Temeyer would lead them to the green and it was Temeyer taking the lead on lap 1 but then the caution would come out after 1 lap was down for Derek Green going around. On the restart Temeyer would have to deal with Murty and Sean Johnson, it was Johnson getting a wonderful restart as he would make the pass on Murty and Temeyer to take the lead on lap 2. The caution again would come out on lap 3 for Ryan Leeman as he would slide off the top of turn 3. Johnson wouldn't let that caution bother him as he would remain out from even after the final race caution with 9 laps to go for Tony Ritterbush going off turn 1 and 2 and getting in to the guard rail. Johnson would still go on and take the win, Murty was 2nd, Donavon Smith took 3rd, Devin Snellenberger was 4th and 21st place start Trent Murphy would take 5th. Rounding out the top 10 was Temeyer, Larry Karcz, Jeff Wollam, Jay Schmidt and John Heinz.
The finale of the night was the 84 lap Red Dralle Memorial for the IMCA Deery Brothers Summer Series Late Models. It took 5 heats, 2 b-features and 3 provisionals to determine the field of 24. Joe Zrostlik and Nate Beuseling would lead the field to the green. Zrostlik would lead the first 15 laps before Beuseling would make the pass and take the lead on lap 16. The first caution would then come out on lap 17 for Brian Klein in turn 2. Beuseling would still continue to lead until lap 31 when Justin Reed would make the pass for the lead but the caution would again fly on lap 34 for Dan Shelliam spinning on the frontstretch. On the restart, Reed would have Beuseling and Jeff Aikey right there behind him. Aikey would make the pass on Beuseling and then make the pass on Reed on lap 36. A lap later on lap 37 the caution would come out for a single car incident in turn 3. Aikey would resume command and the only thing that look like would slow the leaders was the lap traffic but then the final race caution flew on lap 62. Aikey would still manage to hold on to the lead the final 22 laps despite Reed trying to take it away in the end it was Aikey taking the $5,004 to win pay check. Reed, Stephan Kammerer, Colby Springsteen and Beuseling rounding out the top 5. Ray Guss Jr, Brian Klein, Terry Neal, Andy Eckrich and Nick Marolf in positions 6th through 10th.
Racing action came to and end at 11:20p. Thanks to Tyler and Jeff Wollam, Dusty Van Kirk and the whole Wollam Racing team that worked on the race car. Thanks for letting me tag along and we should definately do it again some time. Thanks to IMCA for giving some great racing action as well at Marshalltown and Independence.
Iowa Speedweeks continues tonight with IMCA Sport Mod Nationals at the Hancock County Speedway in Britt plus IMCA Stock Cars and IMCA Hobby Stocks. Also the JR Motorsports Hawkeye Dirt Tour IMCA Modifieds are at the Lee County Speedway for the Annual Liberty Cup along with IMCA Stock Cars and IMCA Sport Mods. Then its weekly raceing friday through Sunday. Then Monday Night July 4th you can head to the JR Motorsports Hawkeye Dirt Tour Race at the Algona Raceway and then the 20th Annual Harris Clash on July 5th.
Up next for me is the Marshalltown Speedway Friday night for Leytham Racing Night along with Kids Bike Races.
