This year at Marshalltown Speedway it was a return of me in the announcer's stand along with veteran race track announcer Jerry Vansickel for a 2nd year in a row and a return of me writing the story for speedway every night after the races and i want to thank Toby for bring me back. Just like did last year i am going to bring you some mid-season weekly stats for the Marshalltown Speedway.
In 2012, the speedway added a new division to the speedway with the additon of the IMCA Sport Compacts. The numbers haven't been too high but every week the racing is getting more excting and harder for the stats man (me) to keep up but anyways its time to move on to the stats.
This season at Marshalltown there has been 179 different drivers signed in to do battle at the speedway not including the frostbuster with 20 different Mod Lites, 39 Hobby Stocks, 29 Modifieds, 12 Sport Compacts, 46 SportMods and 33 Stock Cars.
Car Count
Division Highest - Lowest - Average
Modifieds 23 17 19.57
Stock Cars 19 14 16.86
SportMods 33 26 29.0
Hobby Stocks 24 18 20.14
Sport Compacts 9 4 6.0
Mod Lites 16 10 12.71
Total 116 95 104.29
*Modifieds lowest car count was on May 18th meanwhile their highest count of 23 was on April 20th.
*Stock Cars lowest car count was on May 4th meanwhile their hghest count of 19 happened twice (May 11th and June 8th)
*SportMods lowest car count happened twice (May 18th and June 1st) meanwhile the highest of 33 happened on April 20th
*Hobby Stocks lowest car count happened 3 times (May 18th, June 8th and June 22nd) meanwhile the highest of 24 happened on May 4th
*Sport Compacts lowest car count happened twice (June 8th and June 22nd) meanwhile the highest of 9 happened on April 20th
*Mod Lites lowest car count happened on April 20th and the highest count was on May 16th
*The Overall Car Count saw its lowest of the season on May 18th and the higest county happened on April 20th.
Feature Finishers
Top 10
* 125 drivers of 179 different drivers have finished in the top 10 in 1 or more feature events this year.
*Obviously all of the Sport Compacts have finished in the top 10 at least once
*17 of 20 Mod Lites, 25 of 39 Hobby Stocks, 24 of 29 Modifieds, 22 of 46 SportMods and 25 of 33 Stock Cars
*Merv Chandler and David Moorman lead the way with 7 top 10's in the Sport Compacts
*Brandon Brinton, Scott Pippert, Kevin Fee and Donavon Nunnikhoven have all finished in the top 10 in 6 of 7 Hobby Stock Features
*Joel Rust and Scott Davis have finished in the top 10 in all 7 features meanwhile Carter Vandenberg, Nick Roberts and Racer Hulin have finished in the top 10 in 6 of 7 SportMod features.
*Jimmy Gustin is the only driver to finish in the top 10 in every feature this year in the Modifieds, Ronn Lauritzen has finished in the top to 6 times this year
*Jay Schmidt leads the way with 7 of 7 top 10 finishes in the Stock Cars meanwhile Damon Murty, Michael Murphy, Steve Meyer and Tracy Gienger all have finished top 10 in 6 features.
*Mike Morrill, Josh May, Randy Bryan, Jason Whitehead and Dusty Masolini have finished in the top 10 in all 7 features for the Mod Lites
Top 5
*71 of those 125 different drivers that finished in the top 10 have finished in the top 5 in at least 1 feature event this year
*13 Sport Compacts, 11 Hobby Stocks, 13 SportMods, 14 Modifieds, 15 Stock Cars and 8 Mod Lites
*Merv Chandler and David Moorman again lead the way with 7 top 5 finishes in the Sport Compacts
*Scott Pippert has finished in 6 of the 7 Hobby Stock features this year, Kevin Fee and Eric Larson have finished in 5 of 7
*Racer Hulin, Jenae Gustin an Scott Davis lead the way with 5 top 5 finishes this year in the SportMods
*Jimmy Gustin has finished in the top 5 in 6 of 7 Modified features, Adam Larson and Rookie Kyle Brown have each finished in the top 5 in 4 of 7 features.
*Steve Meyer leads the way with the most top 5 finishes in the Stock Cars with 6 top 5's, Damon Murty is 2nd with 5 top 5's
*Mike Morrill, Josh May and Randy Bryan have finished in the top 5 in all 7 features for the Mod Lites
Top 3
*51 of those 71 different drivers that finished in the top 5 have finished in the top 3 in at least 1 feature this year.
*6 Sport Compacts, 10 Hobby Stocks, 10 Sport Mods, 9 Modifieds, 10 Stock Cars and 6 Mod Lites
*Merv Chandler and David Moorman have finished in the top 3's in all 7 features in the Sport Compacts infact have finished 1 and 2 in all 7 features
*Scott Pippert leads the way with 5 top 3's in the Hobby Stocks
*Racer Hulin leads the way with 5 top 3's in the SportMods and Jenae Gustin is 2nd with 4 top 3's
*Jimmy Gustin has finished in the top 3 in 6 of 7 features and his brother Richie Gustin and Adam Larson are tied for 2nd with 3 top 3's this year in the Modifieds
*Brian Irvine leads the way with 4 top 3's this season in the Stock Cars with Damon Murty and Jay Schmidt in 2nd with 3 top 3's
*Mike Morrill and Josh May have finished in the top 3 in 6 of 7 features for the Mod Lites
Feature Winners
*23 different drivers have picked up at least 1 feature win this year
*1 Sport Compacts, 6 Hobby Stocks, 5 SportMods, 5 Modifieds, 4 Stock Cars and 2 Mod Lites have picked up a feature win
*Sport Compacts (1): Merv Chandler (7 feature wins)
*Hobby Stocks (6): Kevin Fee (2 feature wins), Donavon Nunnikhoven (1), Austin Luellen (1), Brandon Brinton (1), Eric Knutson (1) and Eric Stanton (1)
*Sport Mods (5): Jenae Gustin (2 feature wins), Gaitlin Leytham (2), Racer Hulin (1), Jake Strayer (1), Austin Luellen (1)
*Modifieds (5): Jimmy Gustin (3 feature wins), Ronn Lauritzen (1), Luke Wanninger (1), Adam Larson (1), Richie Gustin (1)
*Stock Cars (4): Jay Schmidt (2 feature wins), Damon Murty (2), Brian Irvine (2), Sean Johnson (1)
*Mod Lites (2): Josh May (4 feature wins), Mike Morrill (3)
Lap Leaders
*57 different drivers have led at least 1 lap in a feature event his year at Marshalltown
*4 Sport Compacts, 13 Hobby Stocks, 10 SportMods, 10 Modifieds, 13 Stock Cars and 7 Mod Lites
*Sport Compacts (4): Merv Chandler (42 laps led), David Moorman (7), Duayne Herb (2), Josh Keller (1)
*Hobby Stocks (13): Austin Luellen (19 laps led), Eric Stanton (16), Brandon Brinton (12), Kevin Fee (8), Brice Udelhoven (7), Eric Knutson (7), Eric Larson (6), Donavon Nunnikhoven (2), Josh Saunders (2), Gary Pfantz (2), Scott Pippert (1), Garrett Eilander (1), Jennifer Hulin (1)
*SportMods (10): Jenae Gustin (25 laps led), Gaitlin Leytham (24), Racer Hulin (13), Clint Luellen (12), Jake Strayer (12), Brett Lowry (11), Jared Van Deest (9), Jayme Duinink (6), Tom Rawlins (3), Travis Peterson (2)
*Modifieds (10): Jimmy Gusitn (41 laps led), Zack Rawlins (28), Richie Gustin (23), Ronn Lauritzen (17), Josh Truman (11), Adam Larson (10), Luke Wanninger (8), Tim Stevens (1), Duane Peterson (1), Kyle Brown (1)
*Stock Cars (13): Damon Murty (35 laps led), Trent Murphy (25), Brian Irvine (13), Andy Bryant (13), Michael Murphy (9), Sean Johnson (7), Jay Schmidt (5), Trevor Titus (4), Michael Jaennette (4), Steve Meyer (4), Tracy Gienger (3), Jeff Wollam (2), Kevin Balmer (1)
*Mod Lites (7): Josh May (34 laps led), Mike Morrill (31), Joel Huggins (23), Joe Wood (8), Mike Kennedy (7), Dusty Masolini (2), Eric Hendrickson (1)
Heat Winners
*53 different drivers have won at least 1 heat race event this year at Marshalltown
*4 Sport Compacts, 12 Hobby Stocks, 12 SportMods, 11 Modifieds, 8 Stock Cars and 6 Mod Lites
*Sport Compacts (4): Merv Chandler (3 heat wins), David Moorman (2), John Gill (1), Duayne Herb (1)
*Hobby Stocks (12): Eric Larson (3 heat wins), Scott Pippert (2), Eric Knutson (2), Austin Luellen (2), Donavon Nunnikhoven (2), Brandon Brinton (2), Bill Bonnett (2), Kevin Fee (2), Gary Pfantz (1), Brice Udelhoven (1), Eric Stanton (1), Benji Irvine (1)
*SportMods (12): Jenae Gustin (5 heat wins), Nick Roberts (5), Carter Vandenberg (4), Eric Elliott (2), Gaitlin Leytham (2), Jared Van Deest (2), Jake Strayer (2), Racer Hulin (2), Tom Rawlins (1), Sam Wieben (1), Scott Davis (1), Joel Rust (1)
*Modifieds (11): Richie Gustin (3 heat wins), Kyle Brown (3), Luke Wanninger (3), Jon Snyder (2), Kyle Krampe (2), Ronn Lauritzen (2), Joel Bushore (1), Scott Simatovich (1), Zack Rawlins (1), Jimmy Gustin (1), Tim Murty (1)
*Stock Cars (8): Tracy Gienger (5 heat wins), Trent Murphy (4), Steve Meyer (3), Jay Schmidt (2), Damon Murty (2), Sean Johnson (1), Michael Murphy (1), Michael Jaennette (1)
*Mod Lites (6): Mike Morrill (5 heat wins), Josh May (4), Mike Kennedy (2), Randy Bryan (1), Andy Hennigar (1), Cory Sonner (1)
Thats the end of the stats for Marshalltown and going into the season i heard from people with 6 classes racing weekly in 2012 the shows will go longer will on average we are getting finished around 10 pm and that is on par with last year meaning we are done in 2.5 hours not bad for a Friday Night track. The track has been fast night in and night out and see it being no different the rest of the year.
Until Next Time,
Jeremy Fox aka Foxman
