Sunday, May 4, 2014

Cooney Wins at Both the Iowa State Fair Speedway and Hamilton County Speedway

Cooney, Thompson Shute, Murty, Gladson, Anderson and Sather Win at ISF Friday Night

Des Moines, Iowa (May 3rd, 2014) – With Friday Night races at the Marshalltown Speedway getting rained out, I decided to make my first visit to the Iowa State Fair Speedway fueled by Casey's. This year marked a group of new leadership lead by Tony Moro, John Pat Dorrian and Eric Lundstrom, they were greeted with 95 race teams signed in to do battle for the second night of weekly points at ISF.

Blake Miller lead the opening two laps in the IMCA Hobby Stock feature but it was Tommy Killen Jr grabbed the lead away on lap three. Shortly after the caution came out when Kenny Hay went on a spin cycle when a tire went down. On the restart, it was Miller grabbing the lead back only to see Killen come back to take again on lap five. Right behind Miller and Killen was Shannon Anderson and Eric Stanton, Anderson came up and grab the lead away on lap seven and pulled away to take his second win of the season at ISF. Killen, Miller, Chad Legere and Kevin Fee rounded out the top five.

In the IMCA Stock Car feature it was Fort Dodge's Lance Deal leading the first four laps before last week's feature winner Damon Murty took the lead away on lap five. Murty went on to lead the remaining laps after the caution on lap six to take his second win of the season at ISF. Don Wear came home second, Michael Johnston was third, Randy Killen was fourth and Trent Jeanes was fifth.

Karl Chevrolet Dirt Trucks feature was up next and it was Matt Moro, driving his dad Tony's truck, grabbing the early lead but on lap three Moro bobbled in turn four and opened the door that allowed Brad Moyer to sneak by for the lead. A Lap later the red flag came out when Moro spun out in turn three and collected the trucks driven by Carl Moyer, Ed Nelson, AJ Nelson, Lou Siplot and Bryan Spangler, only Spangler was able to continue. After the clean up it was Brad Moyer still leading only to see the caution come out on lap six for debris in turn two. Moyer did not let that bother him as he continued to lead and appeared to be heading on to the win but Kevin Sather worked his way to the back side of Moyer coming to the white flag. On the last lap, Moyer bobbled just enough to allow Sather by to take the checker. Rick Clark, Pat Fagen and Bret Moyer rounded out the top five.

Andy Tiernan grabbed the early lead in the IMCA Sport Mods feature but the caution came out when Tyler Gross and Rick Gladson got together in turn three. Tiernan continued to lead only to see the caution come out again on lap four when Ben Kates lost driveshaft in turns three and four. Tiernan had to contend with Glenn Gladson Jr and Jerid Ratzke on the restart and it was Gladson getting by, Tiernan headed to the pits with some mechanical issues. The caution came out two more times on laps eight and nine but Gladson was able to hold off and lead the remaining laps to take the win. Brandon Brinton worked his way to second but was disqualifed in post-race tech inspection that moved up Jerid Ratzke to second. Matt Webb was third, DJ Robinson was fourth and Rick Gladson was fifth.

Todd Shute started on the pole in the IMCA Modified feature and lead the entire race, that went green-to-checkered, to take the win. Rookie Cole Ferguson founded his way to the runner up spot. Josh Gilman came home third, Last week's feature winner Randy Havlik was fourth and Casey Greubel was fifth.

IMCA Late Models 18 lap feature was out next and it was the racing veteran Darrel DeFrance grabbing the early lead. DeFrance lead the first eight laps by racing around on the bottom in turns one and two and the top in three and four. However Todd Cooney was working the top side and grabbed the lead away from DeFrance on lap nine. The only race caution came out on lap 12 when Jeff Aikey spun around in turn four. Cooney held off any challenges on the restart to take his second consective checkered of the season at ISF. DeFrance, Ryan Griffith, Jeremy Grady and Craig Jacobs came home second through fifth respectively.

Final feature of the night was the IMCA Racesaver IMCA Sprints feature. Matt Stephenson lead the opening lap but it was Tyler Thompson grabbing the lead away on lap two. Kelly Graham experience troubles resulting in the caution coming out on laps two and three. Thompson pulled away meanwhile Stephenson battled with Matt Moro for second. Stephenson and Moro got together in turn four on lap eight but went to the tail. The race was shorten from 15 laps to 12 laps and it was Thompson taking the win. Moro worked his way back up to take second, Stephenson was third. Keoni Texeira was fourth and Antony Guiffre was fifth.

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Iowa State Fair Speedway
Result For May 2nd, 2014

IMCA LATE MODELS
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points
1    7    30       Todd Cooney        Des Moines, Ia    40.00  
2    1    99D       Darrel Defrance        Marshalltown , Ia    39.00  
3    8    15X       Ryan Griffith        Webster City, Ia    38.00  
4    3    43       Jeremy Grady        Story City, Ia    37.00  
5    2    95       Craig Jacobs        Des Moines, Ia    36.00  
6    5    15C       Curt Schroeder        Ames , Ia    35.00  
7    4    32       Curtis Glover        Des Moines, Ia    34.00  
8    9    21       Ben Nading        Ankeny , Ia    33.00  
9    10    77       Jeff Aikey        Cedar Falls, Ia    32.00  
10    6    66       Todd Johnson        Mitchellville , Ia    31.00  
11    11    76       Jason Hahne        Webster City, Ia    30.00    DNS

IMCA RACESAVER SPRINTS
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points
1    2    48       Tyler Thompson         -    38.00   
2    4    2M       Matt Moro        Polk City, Ia    37.00   
3    3    55       Matt Stephenson        Des Moines, Ia    36.00   
4    5    50       Keoni Texeira        Moulton , Ia    35.00   
5    1    05X       Antony Guiffre        Newton , Ia    34.00   
6    6    12G       Kelly Graham        Collins , Ia    33.00   
7    7    6D       Don Dawson Ii       Indianola , Ia    32.00   
8    8    19       Rob Weauve        Newton , Ia    31.00   
 
IMCA MODIFIEDS
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points

1    1    5       Todd Shute        Des Moines, Ia    40.00   
2    5    3F       Cole Ferguson        Dexter , Ia    39.00   
3    7    83G       Josh Gilman        Earlham , Ia    38.00   
4    8    3Z       Randy Havlik        Madrid , Ia    37.00   
5    3    64       Casey Greubel        Lacona , Ia    36.00   
6    2    23JR       Nick Roberts        Des Moines, Ia    35.00   
7    9    13       Matt Waugh        Altoona , Ia    34.00   
8    10    25       Tyler Vandekamp        Ankeny , Ia    33.00   
9    12    66       Gordy Head        Des Moines, Ia    32.00   
10    6    1       Bill Davis Jr       Des Moines, Ia    31.00   
11    4    36       Russ Gladson        Des Moines, Ia    30.00   
12    11    18       Jake Durbin        Perry , Ia    29.00    DNS

IMCA STOCK CARS

Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points

1    9    99D       Damon Murty        Chelsea , Ia    40.00   
2    8    28W       Don Wear        Des Moines, Ia    39.00   
3    6    14J       Michael Johnston        Des Moines, Ia    38.00   
4    3    81X       Randy Killen        Des Moines, Ia    37.00   
5    1    77T       Trenton Jeanes        Chariton , Ia    36.00   
6    10    19A       Alan Vangorp        Des Moines, Ia    35.00   
7    5    22R       Todd Reitzler        Grinnell , Ia    34.00   
8    16    18C       Ronald Bougher        Des Moines, Ia    33.00   
9    14    22X       Troy Oliver        Des Moines, Ia    32.00   
10    11    50X       Kevin Balmer        Garwin , Ia    31.00   
11    12    30       Matthew Pinegar        Des Moines, Ia    30.00   
12    2    22       Lance Deal        Fort Dodge, Ia    29.00   
13    15    3K       Kent Knopf        Granger , Ia    28.00   
14    7    94       Corey Stout        Oskaloosa , Ia    27.00   
15    4    55       Steve Hill        Des Moines, Ia    26.00   
16    13    1K       Tommy Killen        Des Moines, Ia    25.00
 
IMCA SPORT MODS
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points

1    11    71       Glenn Gladson Jr       Des Moines, Ia    40.00   
2    5    2       Jerid Ratzke        Williams , Ia    39.00   
3    9    51X       Matt Webb        Des Moines, Ia    38.00   
4    4    33R       D.j. Robinson        Des Moines, Ia    37.00   
5    10    77       Rick Gladson        Des Moines, Ia    36.00   
6    14    57       Tyler Gross        Bondurant , Ia    35.00   
7    6    11H       Mike Hay        Grimes , Ia    34.00   
8    7    9A       Logan Anderson        Oskaloosa , Ia    33.00   
9    15    CH19       Colby Heishman        Brooklyn , Ia    32.00   
10    3    1       Kendall Davis        Des Moines, Ia    31.00   
11    1    321       Andy Tiernan        Madrid , Ia    30.00   
12    8    23K       Ben Kates        Tonganoxie , Ks    29.00   
13    13    93       Mike Stark        West Des, Ia    28.00   
14    2    30       Shawn Cooney        Des Moines, Ia    27.00   
15    12    24B       Brandon Brinton        Nevada , Ia    26.00    DQ 
 
IMCA HOBBY STOCKS
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points
1    10    78       Shannon Anderson        Des Moines, Ia    40.00   
2    2    1K       Tommy Killen Jr.       Des Moines, Ia    39.00   
3    1    1       Blake Miller        Des Moines, Ia    38.00   
4    6    7C       Chad Legere        Des Moines, Ia    37.00   
5    7    52       Kevin Fee        Knoxville , Ia    36.00   
6    9    19       Bill Bonnett        Knoxville , Ia    35.00   
7    8    66       Brandon Cox        Norwalk , Ia    34.00   
8    14    49D       Bill Dawson        Des Moines, Ia    33.00   
9    3    27C       Cory Adams        Des Moines, Ia    32.00   
10    4    9H       Kenny Hay        Des Moines, Ia    31.00   
11    11    10       Tim Teff        Des Moines, Ia    30.00   
12    5    33J       Rick Jackson        Des Moines, Ia    29.00   
13    15    20A       Steven Crees        Des Moines, Ia    28.00   
14    20    74       Matt Smith        Des Moines, Ia    27.00   
15    18    224       Gina Greubel        Lacona , Ia    26.00   
16    16    25       Frank Cochrane        Des Moines, Ia    25.00   
17    13    47       Raymond Fees        Des Moines, Ia    24.00   
18    17    77C       Andy Coffman        Des Moines, Ia    23.00   
19    12    7B       Eric Stanton        Hartford , Ia    22.00   
20    19    31       Rex Bonnett        Pleasantville , Ia    21.00    DNS
 
KARL CHEVROLET DIRT TRUCKS
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points

1    8    51       Kevin Sather        Ankeny , Ia    40.00  
2    3    21       Brad Moyer        Alleman , Ia    39.00  
3    1    7X       Rick Clark        Des Moines, Ia    38.00  
4    7    25       Pat Fagen        Des Moines, Ia    37.00  
5    6    98       Bret Moyer        Polk City, Ia    36.00  
6    13    17       Bryan Spangler        Coon Rapids, Ia    35.00  
7    11    19       Pat Gordin        Oskaloosa , Ia    34.00  
8    12    23K       Carl Knight        Des Moines, Ia    33.00  
9    2    2M       Matt Moro        Polk City, Ia    32.00  
10    4    3       Carl Moyer        Ankeny , Ia    31.00  
11    5    28       Ed Nelson        Van Meter, Ia    30.00  
12    9    23       Aj Nelson        Indianola , Ia    29.00  
13    10    9       Lou Sipolt, Jr.       Altoona , Ia    28.00
 
 
Beekman, Lettow, Embrey, Deal, Cooney and Roberts Win at HCS

Webster City, Iowa (May 3rd, 2014) – For the second consective week the Hamilton County Speedway was up able to continue its 76th season. There was 82 race teams signed in to race the half mile race track and the track was rough in turn three and but produced some great side-by-side racing all night.

Danny Sassman lead the first two laps in the Oberhelman Motorsports IMCA Sport Compact Feature. On lap three, Sassman and last week's winner Tommy Beekman made contact sending Sassman in to the outside wall. Beekman took the lead and never looked back to take his second win of the young season. Lyle Oberhelman finish second, Nick Hogan finish third, Nick Weiss was fourth and Kalan Guthrie was fifth.

The Conley's Trucking IMCA Sport Mods feature saw Levi Carlberg of Iowa Falls grab the early lead but Roland's Matt Lettow took the lead away on lap three. Lettow went on to take the win despite a pair of cautions on lap five and ten. Carter Vandenberg came home second, Aaron Benson was third, Shawn Albers was fourth and Brandon Toftee was fifth.

Bryce Sommerfeld started on the Outside front row in the Casady Brothers Implement IMCA Hobby Stock 15 lap feature. David Rieks grabbed the lead away from Sommerfeld on lap three and appeared to be heading on to the win but the caution came out when Sommerfeld spun around in turn four. On the restart, Rieks had to contend with Randy Embrey and Craig Graham. Embrey grabbed the lead away on lap 13 and went on to take the win. Rieks finished second, Graham was third, Justin Nehring was fourth and Cory Roe was fifth.

Mary Ann's Speciality Foods Stock Cars 18 lap feature saw Cody Frierichs lead hte first six laps but then the caution came out when Jason Minnehan blew up and came to a stop on the backstretch. On the restart it was Steve Meyer grabbing the lead. Meyer lead until lap 14 when Lance Deal took the lead away. Deal went on take the win over Meyer, Travis Prochaska, Craig Berhow and Robbie Merkle.

Chalfant Plumbing and Neighbors Heating and Cooling IMCA Late Models 20 lap feature saw Ryan Griffith lead the first lap but Todd Cooney grabbed the lead away on lap two. Cooney never looked back as not even lap traffic would slow him down as he went on to take his first win at HCS and second win of the weekend. Griffith finished second and Darrel DeFrance was third. Jason Hahne and Jeremy Grady finish fourth and fifth respectively.

Final feature of the night was the George White Chevrolet IMCA Modifieds 20 lap feature. Devon Havlik grabbed the early lead and continue to hold through the four early race cautions. On each restart though it was Nick Roberts from Des Moines putting on the show. As he started nineth and worked his way to second by the time of the final restart on lap eight. Roberts eventually grabbed the lead away on lap 11 but the final nine laps it got excited as Greg Elliott chase down Roberts and showed his nose to the youngster but Roberts held him off. Roberts took the win for the second week in a row. Elliott was second, Mark Elliott was third, Havlik was fourth and Rookie Coty Albers was fifth. 

The Hamilton County Speedway and Hamilton County Fairboard hope you are able to come out next Saturday Night. Hot Laps at 6:30 P.M. and Racing to Follow.

For additional information and to follow the season at the Hamilton County Speedway, log on at: http://www.hamiltoncospeedway.com/, or follow Hamilton County Speedway on Facebook and Twitter.

Hamilton County Speedway
Result For May 3rd, 2014

CHALFANT PLUMBING/NEIGHBORS HEATING & COOLING IMCA LATE MODELS

Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points

1    2    30       Todd Cooney        Des Moines, Ia    40.00  
2    1    15X       Ryan Griffith        Webster City, Ia    39.00  
3    3    99D       Darrell Defrance        Marshalltown , Ia    38.00  
4    6    76       Jason Hahne        Webster City, Ia    37.00  
5    4    43       Jeremy Grady        Story City, Ia    36.00  
6    9    95       Craig Jacobs        Des Moines, Ia    35.00  
7    5    23       Paul Conrad        Colo , Ia    34.00  
8    8    15C       Curt Schroeder        Ames , Ia    33.00  
9    7    91       Gabe Umbarger        Garner , Ia    32.00  
10    11    29       Gary Pedersen        Rolfe , Ia    31.00  
11    10    32       Curtis Hoover        Des Moines, Ia    30.00  
12    12    35       Bill Crimmins        Fort Dodge, Iaq    29.00  

GEORGE WHITE CHEVROLET IMCA MODIFIEDS
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points

1    9    23JR       Nick Roberts        Des Moines, Ia    40.00   
2    6    47       Greg Elliott        Webster City, Ia    39.00   
3    8    12       Mark Elliott        Webster City, Ia    38.00   
4    1    5D       Devon Havlik        Iowa Falls, Ia    37.00   
5    10    02A       Coty Albers        Wellsburg , Ia    36.00   
6    2    8X       Scott Olson        Blairsburg , Ia    35.00   
7    5    64ZC       Brandon Leeman        Roland , Ia    34.00   
8    3    K1       Kyle Krampe        Baxter , Ia    33.00   
9    7    14E       Chase Ellingson        Iowa Falls, Ia    32.00   
10    4    64       Scott Williams        Steamboat Rock, Ia    31.00   
11    11    28       Cole Hall        Sheffield , Ia    30.00   

MARY ANN'S SPECIALITY FOODS STOCK CARS

Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points

1    6    22X       Lance Deal        Fort Dodge, Ia    40.00   
2    4    94       Steve Meyer        Grundy Center, Ia    39.00   
3    10    21T       Travis Prochaska        Iowa Falls, Ia    38.00   
4    7    05       Craig Berhow        Belmond , Ia    37.00   
5    11    54       Robbie Merkle        Des Moines, Ia    36.00   
6    2    46       Cody Frerichs        Bristow , Ia    35.00   
7    3    M5       Jim Mitchell        Webster City, Ia    34.00   
8    8    58       Matt Ring        Dows , Ia    33.00   
9    1    59L       Vince Lowen        Hubbard , Ia    32.00   
10    12    4L       Jeff Frevert        Fort Dodge, Ia    31.00   
11    5    7J       John Campbell        Belmond , Ia    30.00   
12    9    7       Jason Minnehan        Churdan , Ia    29.00   
13    13    556       Terry Cornelison        Boone , Ia    28.00    DNS
14    15    22D       Jared Daggett        Marshalltown , Ia    27.00    DNS
15    14    22       Jeff Deal        Fort Dodge, Ia    26.00    DNS 

CONLEY TRUCKING IMCA SPORT MODS
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points

1    3    21L       Matt Lettow        Roland , Ia    40.00   
2    8    7       Carter Vandenberg        Oskaloosa , Ia    39.00   
3    7    24       Aaron Benson        Clear Lake, Ia    38.00   
4    6    22A       Shawn Albers        Wellsburg , Ia    37.00   
5    10    85T       Brandon Toftee        Webster City, Ia    36.00   
6    20    2       Jerid Ratzke        Williams , Ia    35.00   
7    14    38S       Paul Atchison        Webster City, Ia    34.00   
8    4    100       Chris Teel        Webster City, Ia    33.00   
9    2    2C       Levi Carlberg        Iowa Falls, Ia    32.00   
10    9    41       Jeremy Embrey        Madrid , Ia    31.00   
11    15    56       Ty Griffith        Webster City, Ia    30.00   
12    18    138       Jon Peed        Webster City, Ia    29.00   
13    16    40       George Gilliland        Lehigh , Ia    28.00   
14    17    38R       Ralph Risius        Ogden , Ia    27.00   
15    19    99X       Nate Olmstead        Webster City, Ia    26.00   
16    1    26B       Bryan Johnson        Roland , Ia    25.00   
17    5    63R       Rick Fasse        Urbandale , Ia    24.00   
18    11    4ORD       Bob Sutherland        Blairsburg , Ia    23.00   
19    12    80J       Jared Van Deest       Holland , Ia    22.00   
20    13    57C       Cody Wirt        Otho , Ia    21.00    DNS

CASADY BROTHERS IMPLEMENT IMCA HOBBY STOCKS
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points

1    7    40       Randy Embrey        Granger , Ia    40.00   
2    3    78XX       David Rieks        Eldora , Ia    39.00   
3    8    13G       Craig Graham        Webster City, Ia    38.00   
4    10    20N       Justin Nehring        Storm Lake, Ia    37.00   
5    5    8R       Corey Roe        Webster City, Ia    36.00   
6    9    21       Myles Michehl        Fort Dodge, Ia    35.00   
7    15    59       Jeff Lyon        Duncombe , Ia    34.00   
8    4    4D       Danny Ayers        Webster City, Ia    33.00   
9    6    25M       Matt Mundt        Callender , Ia    32.00   
10    13    7K       Ruben Stanbrough        Ardale , Ia    31.00   
11    11    51       Nate Bonin        Iowa Falls, Ia    30.00   
12    14    74       Matt Smith        Des Moines, Ia    29.00   
13    12    85S       Adam Strunk        Webster City, Ia    28.00   
14    17    21W       Wade Gilliland        Fort Dodge, Ia    27.00   
15    16    88P       Butch Paterson        Otho , Ia    26.00   
16    2    50       Bryce Sommerfeld        Fort Dodge, Ia    25.00   
17    1    22P       Victor Palmateer        Ackley , Ia    24.00   
18    18    22N       Nathan Palmateer        Ackley , Ia    23.00   

OBEHELMAN MOTORSPORTS IMCA SPORT COMPACTS

Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points

1    4    3T       Tommy Beekman        Fort Dodge, Ia    36.00  
2    3    M13       Lyle Oberhelman        Fort Dodge, Ia    35.00  
3    6    20TP       Nick Hogan        Manson , Ia    34.00  
4    5    713       Nick Weiss        Otho , Ia    33.00  
5    1    50K       Kalan Guthrie        Otho , Ia    32.00  
6    2    10       Danny Sassman Jr       Fort Dodge, Ia    31.00