It was hot and humid all day long but that didn't stop as the racing action would be hot and steamy all night. The was 87 race cars signed in to do battle on the high banks of Marshalltown.
After all the heat races we would have a father and son grudge match with the Leythams. Gatlin Leytham would beat out his dad Fred Leytham to take the win. Then we would turn horsepower into peddle power for the kids bike races, the youngsters would get a lap on the high banks of the Marshalltown Speedway. Josh Vis would be out track promotor Toby Kruse for the win.
The first feature of the night was the O'Reilly Auto Parts Mod Lites. Adam Davis would take the early lead but then the first caution came out on lap 2 for 4 cars to get together in turn 2. On the restart, Davis would have Mike Kennedy on his back bumper and Kennedy would get by and after the lap was scored the caution came out for Robert Kientz in turn 2 but when we would resume going the caution would come out this time for Kientz taking a roll in turn 2. Kientz would climb from the car okay. Kennedy would have to battle with Randy Bryan, Bryan would make the pass on lap 5 but Kennedy would not go away and later on it would be Tim Hennigar battling with them. Bryan took the win with Tim Hennigar, Mike Kennedy, Andy Hennigar and Adam Davis finishing 2nd through 5th.
Toby K's Hideaway IMCA Hobby Stock feature would see some great racing action. Jennifer Hulin would lead the first couple of laps. The caution would come out on lap 2 for Scott Williams in turn 2. Hulin would have to battle with Nelson on the restart and Nelson would make the pass on lap 4 to take the lead over. The caution would again fly on lap 5 for debris in turn 3. Brandon Brinton takes the top spot away on lap 6 but just after that happened the caution came out again. Kevin Fee would make the pass on Brinton and take the lead on lap 8. The caution would fly two more times on lap 9 and lap 10. On the final restart, Fee would have to do battle with Michael Murphy. Coming off turn 4 on the final lap, Murphy would make it stick and beat Fee too the line to take the win. Donavon Nunnikhoven, Brandon Brinton amd Christopher Wiltse rounding out the top 5.
Big 8 Tyre Center IMCA Sport Mods saw 27 cars signed in so no b-feature would be required for them on this night. Before a lap would be completed 3 cars would get together in turn 2. On the restart, Duinink would take lead early but then the caution would come out again on lap 2. Jenae Gustin would pass Duinink to take the lead over on lap 4 but just after that another caution came out. Gustin's lead was short lived as Cayden Carter would make the pass on the restart to take the lead. The cautions on lap 6, 7 and 11 would be the only thing that would slow Carter down as he would cruise on to the win. Tyler Droste, Scott Davis, Brad Iverson and Eric Flander would finish 2nd through 5th.
Andy Bryant would lead the first lap in the IMCA Stock Cars feature but Steve Meyer would get around and lead lap 2. Curt Hook would lead lap 3 before Meyer regained the lead on lap 4. Meyer would hold on to the lead despite a caution on lap . Meyer would reamin the leader until lap 11 in which he was passed by Trent Murphy. Murphy would take the win even after the caution with 4 laps to go. Meyer took 2nd, Tracy Gienger was 3rd, Jay Schmidt was 4th and Curt Hook came home in 5th.
The final feature of the night was the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel IMCA Modifieds feature. Ronn Lauritzen would take the early lead, the caution would come out on lap 2. Lauritzen would still remain in the lead despite the final race caution on lap 7 for a car in turn 2. Laurtizen would be passed by Todd Shute on lap 14. Shute would go on and take the win with Lauritzen taking 2nd. Jimmy Gustin, Duane Peterson and Adam Larson rounded out the top 5.
Racing action came to an end at 10:20pm. Racing action resumes next friday night at Marshalltown for Budweiser Night at the Races, Hot Laps at 6:45p and Racing at 7:30p sharp.
O'Reilly Auto Parts Mod Lites
Heat 1 - 57 Tim Hennigar
Heat 2 - 0B Colby Oberemebt
Feature
1. 64 Randy Bryan
2. 57 Tim Hennigar
3. 95 Mike Kennedy
4. 15 Andy Hennigar
5. 2D Adam Davis
6. 8 Dusty Masolini
7. 46 Kevin Grisham
8. 23 Michael Parcel
9. 99 Josh May
10. 8W Joe Wood
11. 829 Robert Kientz
12. 88 James May
13. 0B Colby Oberemebt
14. 6 Mike Morrill
15. X50 Joel Huggins
16. 82 Charlie Brown
DNS: 11 Mike Stoker
Toby K's Hideaway IMCA Hobby Stocks
Heat 1 - 24B Brandon Brinton
Heat 2 - 82 Jennifer Hulin
Feature
1. 25M Michael Murphy
2. 52X Kevin Fee
3. 2N Donavon Nunnikhoven
4. 24B Brandon Brinton
5. 96 Christopher Wiltse
6. 20E Eric Larson
7. 52 Josh Saunders
8. 69 Calvin Dhondt
9. 29 Jake Nelson
10. 12K Eric Knutson
11. 4X Gary Pfantz
12. 18V Mike Vibbard
13. 82 Jennifer Hulin
14. 9 Scott Williams
15. 26 Brice Udelhoven
Big 8 Tyre Center IMCA Sport Mods
Heat 1 - 92 Tyler Droste
Heat 2 - 777 Jayme Duinink
Heat 3 - 10 Cayden Carter
Heat 4 - 8 Brad Iverson
Feature
1. 10 Cayden Carter
2. 92 Tyler Droste
3. 81D Scott Davis
4. 8 Brad Iverson
5. 12 Eric Flander
6. 21 Kyle Brown
7. 505 Racer Hulin
8. 19J Jenae Gustin
9. 23JR Nick Roberts
10. 7 Carter Vandenberg
11. 80 Jared Van Deest
12. 777 Jayme Duinink
13. 19F Fred Leytham
14. 20G Michael Grantham
15. 77 Larry Beeghly
16. 40S Shawn Simatovich
17. 84W Jeff Welter
18. 12M Creston Williams
19. 19G Gatlin Leytham
20. 7R Ryan Ashton
21. 33R DJ Robinson
22. T17 Tom Rawlins
23. 2 Bill Wears
24. 4W Herbie Wilson
25. 937 Cody Moore
26. 26J Joel Rust
27. B00K Dylan Book
Mike's Hard Lemonade IMCA Stock Cars
Heat 1 - 22R Todd Reitzler
Heat 2 - 36 Trevor Titus
Feature
1. 25 Trent Murphy
2. 94 Steve Meyer
3. 59 Tracy Gienger
4. 19J Jay Schmidt
5. 75 Curt Hook
6. 22K Kevin Rose
7. 77 Andy Bryant
8. 72 Tommy Thompson
9. 20L Lauren Vis
10. 22R Todd Reitzler
11. 99D Damon Murty
12. 20 Leroy Staub
13. 36 Trevor Titus
DNS: 3W Jeff Wollam
Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel IMCA Modifieds
Heat 1 - 5 Todd Shute
Heat 2 - 10K Ronn Lauritzen
Feature
1. 5 Todd Shute
2. 10K Ronn Lauritzen
3. 19 Jimmy Gustin
4. 25T Duane Peterson
5. 2L Adam Larson
6. 21 David Brown
7. 83C Todd Conrad
8. 17R Derek Reimer
9. 69X Jon Snyder
10. 12EH Riley Emmel
11. 12 Andrew Kinser
12. 87 Joel Bushore
13. 43S Scott Simatovich
DNS: 40RC Rod Clement
