Wednesday Night it was back at the track for Jerry's Automotive Pro Collision Center of Oskaloosa Night. Residents of Eddyville and Rose Hill got in for $5 and any kid 6-18 got in for $3. There would also be a added special at intermission where 16 drivers would try to earn themself a free pit pass for next week. Also Dick Berggren's Speedway Illustrated was on hand to experience the Southern Iowa Speedway excitement.
Those 16 drivers would compete in wheel barrow races on the front stretch by going around an empty fuel barrel and then a track official before racing back to the start and finish line. It was the Sport Compact team of John Whalen and Bill Whalen Jr winning over Danny Thrasher and Jason Hall to earn a free pit pass.
First feature after intermission was the Autocrafters/Whalen Racing IMCA Sport Compacts 8 lap feature and it was Larry Hopkins leading lap 1. John Whalen and Merv Chandler would get by Hopkins on lap 2 with Whalen taking the lead. Whalen would get passed by Merv Chandler on lap 6 as Chandler would go on and take the win. After the race however Chandler would lose his left rear wheel, John Whalen took 2nd. Chuck Fullenkamp was 3rd, Bill Whalen Jr was 4th and Hopkins was 5th.
In the Tracy Elevator IMCA Hobby Stock feature it was Bobby Greene taking the early lead. However on lap 3 the caution would come out for Curt Hook sitting in turn 2, Hook would get going and rejoin the field. Greene would still lead until lap 7 when Kevin Fee would get by and take the lead. Fee would lead the remaining laps and take the win with Greene in 2nd. Danny Thrasher, Shannon Anderson and Dustin Griffiths would round out the top 5.
Next up was the Pyramid Graphics and Sports IMCA SportMods feature and before a lap was completed the caution would come out for Tom Lathrop coming to a stop on the front stretch. When the race got going it was Eric Flander lead lap 1 however Jason McDaniel would make the pass and take the lead and not look back. Flander would end up 2nd, Carter VanDenBerg was 3rd, Curtis Vanderwal was 4th and Jesse Sobbing was 5th.
Carter Manufacturing IMCA Stock Cars would see Shane Paris lead the first 6 laps before fan favorite Nathan Wood would get take the lead on lap 7. Wood would take the win in the green-to-checkered feature with Damon Murty finishing 2nd. Finishing behind Wood and Murty was Matt Griener, Jeff Joldersma and Paul Shepherd.
Final feature of the night was the Musco Lighting IMCA Modifieds and it was Defending Stock Car Track Champion Shane Weller leading lap 1. Jacob Murray would get in a battle with Weller and end up taking the lead on lap 2. Murray would take the win as Cayden Carter would get by Weller for 2nd. Mark Widmar and Brandon Banks would finish 4th and 5th.
Racing came to an end just before 9:50pm. The Southern Iowa Speedway will be back in action next Wednesday Night with Johns Tree Service Night plus a Hobby Stock King of the Hill and residents of Ottumwa and Hedrick can get in for $5. Hot Laps at 7p and Racing at 7:30p.
A Few Side Notes would have came but i was multi tasking by working on the pit pa and also being a unofficial scorer during the features.
Southern Iowa Speedway
May 23rd, 2012
Autocrafters/Whalen Racing IMCA Sport Compacts
Heat: 1. 4 Larry Hopkins (Ottumwa); 2. 77 John Whalen (Ainsworth); 3. 2 Merv Chandler (Vinton); 4. 00W Bill Whalen Jr. (Riverside); 5. 48 Chuck Fullenkamp (Fort Madison)
Feature: 1. 2 Chandler; 2. 77 J. Whalen; 3. 48 Fullenkamp; 4. 00W B. Whalen; 5. 4 Hopkins
Tracy Elevator IMCA Hobby Stocks
Heat #1: 1. 10G Dustin Griffiths (Ottumwa); 2. 69 Craig Brown (Eldon); 3. 96R Jamie Songer (Ankeny); 4. 33 Curt Hook (Oskaloosa); 5. 6 Jarred Gann (Sigourney); 6. 224 Gina Greubel (Lacona); 7. 7B Eric Stanton (Hartford)
Heat #2: 1. 32T Bobby Greene (Eddyville); 2. 84 Danny Thrasher (Agency); 3. 78 Shannon Anderson (Urbandale); 4. 2N Donavon Nunnikhoven (Sully); 5. 52 Kevin Fee (Knoxville); 6. 33R Roy Eakins (Grinnell); 7. 20 Andrew Hustead (Rutledge, MO)
Feature: 1. 52 Fee; 2. 32T Greene; 3. 84 Thrasher; 4. 78 Anderson; 5. 10G Griffiths; 6. 20 Hustead; 7. 69 Brown; 8. 96R Songer; 9. 2N Nunnikhoven; 10. 6 Gann; 11. 33R Eakins; 12. 224 Greubel; 13. 33 Hook; DNS: 7B Stanton
Pyramid Graphics and Sports IMCA SportMods
Heat #1: 1. 12 Eric Flander (Barnes City); 2. 1 Curtis Vanderwal (Oskaloosa); 3. 38 Bill Gibson (Knoxville); 4. 19J Jenae Gustin (Marshalltown); 5. 01 Brayton Carter (Oskaloosa); 6. 10R Ryan Fullenkamp (Bloomfield); 7. 95J Jason Hall (Grinnell); 8. 72 Brett Lowry (Montezuma)
Heat #2: 1. 7 Carter VanDenBerg (Oskaloosa); 2. 85 Jason McDaniel (Eldon); 3. 99 Jesse Sobbing (Glenwood); 4. 10L Levi Laymon (Muscatine); 5. 16 Mike Shelton (Ottumwa); 6. 8T Tony Johnson (Oskaloosa); 7. 8 Tom Lathrop
Feature: 1. 85 McDaniel; 2. 12 Flander; 3. 7 VanDenBerg; 4. 1 Vanderwal; 5. 99 Sobbing; 6. 19J Gustin; 7. 8T Johnson; 8. 38 Gibson; 9. 10R Fullenkamp; 10. 01 Carter; 11. 95J Hall; 12. 10L Laymon; 13. 8 Lathrop; 14. 16 Shelton; DNS: 72 Lowry
Carter Manufacturing IMCA Stock Cars
Heat #1: 1. 25C Shane Paris (Muscatine); 2. 73C Carl Yaw Jr. (Des Moines); 3. 52 Nathan Wood (Sigourney); 4. 7 Todd Phillips (Packwood); 5. 29 Matt Greiner (Washington); 6. 55 Randy Killen (Des Moines); 7. 49G Leroy Groenenedyk (Oskaloosa); 8. 15K Kyle Harwood (Oskaloosa); 9. 30J Alex Buffington (Wapello)
Heat #2: 1. 33Z Zack Vanderbeek (New Sharon); 2. 22R Todd Reitzler (Grinnell); 3. 99D Damon Murty (Chelsea); 4. 66 Jeff Joldersma (McClelland); 5. 94 Corey Stout (Oskaloosa); 6. 31S Paul Shepherd (Marengo); 7. 46B Michael Bilyeu (Indianola); 8. 88H Rich Hemsley (Sigourney); 9. 39 Clayton Garden (Oskaloosa)
Feature: 1. 52 Wood; 2. 99D Murty; 3. 29 Greiner; 4. 66 Joldersma; 5. 31S Shepherd; 6. 73C Yaw Jr.; 7. 94 Stout; 8. 30J Buffington; 9. 25C Paris; 10. 22R Reitzler; 11. 7 Phillips; 12. 55 Killen; 13. 49G Groenenedyk; 14. 39 Garden; 15. 33Z Vanderbeek; DNS: 46B Bilyeu; DNS: 15K Harwood; DNS: 88H Hemsley
Musco Lighting IMCA Modifieds
Heat : 1. 7W Mark Widmar (Ottumwa); 2. 22 Brandon Banks (Washington); 3. 10 Cayden Carter (Oskaloosa); 4. 20DUB Shane Weller (Agency); 5. 40 Scott Dickey (Packwood); 6. 71W Jeff Waterman (Quincy, IL); 7. 49T Tim Stevens (Cedar Rapids); 8. 48J Jacob Murray (Hartford)
Feature: 1. 48J Murray; 2. 10 Carter; 3. 20DUB Weller; 4. 7W Widmar; 5. 22 Banks; 6. 40 Dickey; 7. 49T Stevens; DNS: 71W Waterman
