Richie Gustin Takes Top Spot at Benton County Speedway
By Jeremy Fox
Vinton, Iowa (April 7th, 2013) – Seems everytime Richie Gustin signs into race at the Benton County Speedway, he always seems to have bad draws and have a little work ahead for him but the outcome is always the same a trip to victory lane.
Scott Hogan redrew the pole and he would take advantage of it by grabbing the early lead but just after the completion of lap one the caution would wave three times.
When the race resumed it was again Hogan dominating until he got into heavy lap traffic this would allow Jeff Waterman, thirteenth place starter Richie Gustin and the 20th lap. A lap later the caution would wave again but Hogan would not be able to get back by Gustin and a couple of laps later would again bobble that before sliding off the topside of turn 3 to bring the caution out with four laps to go.
Gustin would lead the remaining laps to take the win over Auringer, Waterman, Kyle Brown and Patrick Flannagan.
In the IMCA Stock Cars it was Damon Murty taking full advantage of his outside front row starting spot despite three early cautions in the feature. Murty would go on to take the win, Matt Junio from Wisconsin was 2nd. Tyler Smith, Rookie Scott Pippert and Norman Chesmore rounded out the top 5.
IMCA Sport Mod feature saw Clint Luellen, who is a regular at the Stuart Speedway on Sundays, jumping to lead. Luellen wouldn’t give up the lead even after 3 cautions within the final five laps. Luellen would take the win a day after his birthday and it was really impressive when he lost his left rear spring sometime around the final caution. Danny Dvorak, Austin Moyer, Austin Kaplan would finish second through fourth respectively.
Kyle Parizek would take the early lead in the IMCA Hobby Stocks feature. On lap four the race would come to a halt as Matt Brown would go for a spill in turn 3. When the race resumed it was again Parizek taking control but that would be short lived as Shannon Anderson would grab the race lead away on lap 8. Anderson would go on to take his first ever win at the Benton County Speedway. Benji Irvine would take 2nd, Brian Happel was 3rd, Nick Murty was 4th and Austin Luellen was 5th.
Nathan Chandler would lead all 12 laps in the IMCA Sport Compacts feature. Craig Bangert finish 2nd, Bill Whalen was 3rd, Merv Chandler and Steve Miedke rounded out the top 5.
Southern Iowa Speedway Frostbuster will be made up this Wednesday Night.
Weekly Points get underaway next sunday at the Benton County Speedway.
Frostbuster #4
Benton County Speedway
April 7th, 2013
IMCA Modified
Heat 1 - 5D Devon Havlik
Heat 2 - 5R Matt Reechek
Heat 3 - 71 Troy Cordes
B-Feature 1 (top 9 advance) - 1. 00 JD Auringer; 2. 08 Johnny Whitman; 3. 21K Kyle Brown; 4. 11B Mike Burbridge; 5. 2G Matt Gansen; 6. 12D Joe Docekal; 7. K1 Kyle Krampe; 8. 64 Vern Jackson; 9. 33X Dan Roedl; 10. 137 Bill Pittaway (Corpus Christi, TX); 11. 17 Mike Krall (Waterloo); 12. 19R Todd Reed (Port Byron, IL); 13. 99X Jeremy Christians (Horicon, WI); 14. 8 Kyle Strickler (Mooresville, NC); 15. T23 Tony Olson (Cedar Rapids)
Feature - 1. 19G Richie Gustin (Gilman); 2. 00 JD Auringer (Evansdale); 3. 71W Jeff Waterman (Quincy, IL); 4. 21K Kyle Brown (Kellogg); 5. F7 Patrick Flannagan (Cedar Rapids); 6. 08 Johnny Whitman (De Pere, WI); 7. 10K Ronn Lauritzen (Jesup); 8. 12D Joe Docekal (Dysart); 9. K1 Kyle Krampe (Baxter); 10. 2G Matt Gansen; 11.64 Vern Jackson (Waterloo); 12. 33X Dan Roedl (Beaver Dam, WI); 13. 80 Jerry Dedrick (Vinton); 14. 33D Scott Hogan (Vinton); 15. 27W Jason Wolla (Day, ND); 16. 11B Mike Burbridge; 17. 5R Matt Reechek (Beaver Dam, WI); 18. 27 Kyle Lentz (Green Bay, WI); 19. 71 Troy Cordes (Raymond); 20. 74 Eric Arneson (Oconto Falls, WI); 21. 149 Jason Murray (Hartford); 22. 70 Mitch Morris; 23. 75 Lance Arneson (Oconto Falls, WI); 24. 5D Devon Havlik (Iowa Falls)
IMCA Stock Car
Heat 1 - 99D Damon Murty
Heat 2 - K17 Rick Kriegel
Feature - 1. 99D Damon Murty (Chelsea); 2. 10 Matt Junio (Casco, WI); 3. 8X Tyler Smith (Luxemburg, WI); 4. 47 Scott Pippert (Dysart); 5. 15 Norman Chesmore (Rowley); 6. 00 Luke Lemmens (Kewaunee, WI): 7. K17 Rick Kriegel (Brooklyn); 8. 76 Mike Galli (Manchester); 9. 81X Randy Killen (Des Moines); 10. 4 Jerry Miles; 11. 45 Michael Dancer (North Platte, NE); 12. 20V Dustin Vis (LeGrand); 13. 5K Stefan Klym (Moose Jaw, SK); 14. 87 John Emerson (Waterloo); 15. 19J Jay Schmidt (Tama); 16. 8B Scott Beauregard (Cedar Rapids); 17. 7H Phil Holtz (Manchester); 18. 97 Jamie Suchoki (Forestville, WI)
IMCA Hobby Stock
Heat 1 - 3A Austin Luellen
Heat 2 - 78X Shannon Anderson
Feature - 1. 78X Shannon Anderson (Urbandale); 2. 79 Benji Irvine (Cedar Falls); 3. 46 Brian Happel (Cedar Rapids); 4. 99JR Nick Murty (Chelsea); 5. 3A Austin Luellen (Minburn); 6. 67 Justin Stander (Vinton); 7. 99 Erick Knutsen (Cedar Rapids); 8. 55 Vince Buchholz (Waterloo); 9. 07 Jacob Keiser (Marengo); 10. 7B Jim Ball; 11. 4 Matt Sorenson (Ames); 12. 27C Cory Adams (Des Moines); 13. 45 Justin Wacha (Vinton); 14. 5 Destiny Klym (Moose Jaw, SK); 15. 17K Kyle Parizek (Belle Plaine); 16. 7B Eric Stanton (Hartford); 17. 19 Bill Bonnett (Knoxville); 18. 78 Matt Brown (Dysart); 19. 35 Brett Vanous (Quaesqueton)
IMCA SportMods
Heat 1 - J2 John Schulze
Heat 2 -1 Austin Kaplan
Heat 3 - 57R Ryan King
Feature - 1. 3L Clint Luellen (Minburn); 2. 3R Danny Dvorak (Vinton); 3. 25 Austin Moyer (Dubuque); 4. 1 Austin Kaplan (Ankeny); 5. 26J Joel Rust (Grundy Center); 6. S16 Kip Siems (Cedar Falls); 7. K3 Kyle Olson (Cedar Rapids); 8. 8C Rob Charapata (Oconto, WI); 9. 00 Jim Buhlman (Cedar Falls); 10. 7M Kurt Moeding (Mason City); 11. 24B Brandon Brinton (Nevada); 12. 7D Dakota Sellers; 13. 03 Cody Hudson (Shawano, WI); 14. J2 Dave Schulze; 15. 10S John Schaefer; 16. 3B Brian Anderson; 17. 30 Tracy Wassenberg (Shawano, WI): 18. 22H Curt Hilmer (Dysart); 19. 95 Mike McDonald (Cedar Rapids); 20. 44G Brady Graham (Brooklyn); 21. CH19 Colby Heishman (Brooklyn); 22. 1JR Dan Chapman (Clarence); 23. 57R Ryan King (Marshalltown); 24. 57K Ross Kitner; 25. 34 Jerry Hinton (Adel)
IMCA Sport Compacts
Heat - 22C Nathan Chandler
Feature - 1. 22C Nathan Chandler (Norway); 2. 99B Craig Bangert; 3. 00W Bill Whalen Jr. (Riverside); 4. 2 Merv Chandler (Vinton); 5. 11 Steve Miedke; 6. 99J Jeremy Lerch; 7. 22T Travis Losenicky; 8. 30 Shawn Cooney (Des Moines)
