Sunday Night it was back to the Benton County Speedway for its Season Opener and again i helped with lineups and scoring feature events but unlike the Frostbuster the week before i was able to keep notes and results.
First feature of the night was BCS Micro Mods and clearly it was wild caution filled feature. Tristan Cordes grabbed the lead on lap one but just after that the caution came out for Brandon Maitland spinning in turn two. Don Erger took the lead away but just after lap two the caution came out again. Erger saw young Brody Willett take the lead away on lap three but another caution came out. Willett continued to lead until lap eight when Brandon Maitland took the lead away but when the caution came out on lap ten for Tristan Cordes in turn four, Maitland and Willett did not hear the message of yellow both were to be sent to the tail for racing under yellow but Maitland would hit Cordes hard both drivers would get out but it would end their night. Erger enherited the lead and went on to take the win over Jeff Davis, Jason Gorman, Willett and Matt Post.
Matt Pohlman took the early lead in the IMCA Hobby Stocks feature and appeared to be heading on to the win despite a caution on lap nine for Nathan Ballard and then on lap ten for Zach Swanson but it was Ballard making his way through the field to take the win over Pohlman, Justin Wacha, Brett Vanous and Adam Petrzelka.
Curt Hilmer grabbed the lead on lap one of the IMCA Northern SportMods 16 lap feature but it was Kyle Olson taking the lead on lap two. Olson went on to take the win with Duane Van Deest in second, Hilmer in third, Danny Dvorak in fourth and Matt Petrzelka in fifth.
IMCA Stock Cars 18 lap feature saw Damon Murty lead from start to finish but the battle was for second as Norman Chesmore beat Scott Pippert. Michael Peterson was fourth and Justin Stander finished fifth.
Final feature of the night was the 20 lap IMCA Modifieds feature and it was Joel Rust leading the first eight laps before Kyle Brown took the lead on lap nine. Brown held on to the win over a hard charging Troy Cordes, Rust, Patrick Flannagan and Scott Hogan.
Benton County Speedway continues to race every Sunday through September plus several races for the IMCA Late Models part of the Sunday Series, Benton County Fair Events, Hawkeye Dirt Tour. You can find the complete schedule and information at http://www.jjamracing.net/
Racing Results
IMCA Modifieds
Feature - 1. 21K Kyle Brown (State Center); 2. 71C Troy Cordes (Dunkerton); 3. 26J Joel Rust (Grundy Center); 4. F7 Patrick Flannagan (Cedar Rapids); 5. 33D Scott Hogan (Vinton); 6. 20L Zach Less (Hopkinton); 7. 4 Ryan Maitland (Denver); 8. 3F Cole Ferguson (Dexter); 9. 12D Joe Docekal (Dysart); 10. 02A Coty Albers (Wellsburg); 11. 57B Dennis Betzer (Central City); 12. 21 Brennen Chipp (Waterloo); 13. 5B Austin Bishop (Manchester); 14. 80 Jerry Dedrick (Vinton); 15. 14 Tom Hanson (Vinton)
Heat 1 - 1. Maitland; 2. Ferguson; 3. Less; 4. Rust; 5. Brown; 6. Bishop; 7. Dedrick; 8. Betzer
Heat 2 - 1. Cordes; 2. Hogan; 3. Docekal; 4. Albers; 5. Chipp; 6. Flannagan; 7. Hanson
IMCA Stock Cars
Feature - 1. 99D Damon Murty (Chelsea); 2. 15 Norman Chesmore (Rowley); 3. 47 Scott Pippert (Elberon); 4. 1X Michael Peterson (Montezuma); 5. 67 Justin Stander (Vinton); 6. 3 Scooter Dulin (Cedar Rapids); 7. 76 Mike Galli (Manchester); 8. 8 Curtis Roster (Vinton); 9. 8B Scott Beauregard (Brandon); 10. 42 Lon Mercer (Urbana); 11. 22D Jared Daggett (Marshalltown); 12. 8E Austin Evens (Indepedence)
Heat 1 - 1. Chesmore; 2. Daggett; 3. Peterson; 4. Mercer; 5. Evens; 6. Pippert
Heat 2 - 1. Murty; 2. Dulin; 3. Stander; 4. Galli; 5. Beauregard; 6. Roster
IMCA Northern SportMods
Feature - 1. K3 Kyle Olson (Cedar Rapids); 2. 80 Duane Van Deest (Grundy Center); 3. 22H Curt Hilmer (Dysart); 4. 3R Danny Dvorak (Vinton); 5. 22 Matt Petrzelka (Norway); 6. 95 Mike McDonald (Cedar Rapids); 7. 17 Dawn Krall (Evansdale); 8. 3M Dave McCalla (Cedar Rapids); 9. 199 Dave Burrell (Dysart); 10. 57R Ryan King (Montour); 11. J2 Dave Schulze (Keystone); 12. 6T Siraj Thomason (Montezuma); 13. CH19 Colby Heishman (Brooklyn); 14. T23 Tony Olson (Cedar Rapids)
Heat 1 - 1. Schulze; 2. Dvorak; 3. Burrell; 4. Thomason; 5. McCalla; 6. McDonald; 7. Tony Olson
Heat 2 - 1. Heishman; 2. Van Deest; 3. Kyle Olson; 4. Hilmer; 5. Petrzelka; 6. Krall; 7. King
IMCA Hobby Stocks
Feature - 1. 29 Nathan Ballard (Marengo); 2. 4P Matt Pohlman (Keystone); 3. 45 Justin Wacha (Vinton); 4. 357 Brett Vanous (Quasqueton); 5. 48 Adam Petrzelka (Norway); 6. 14C Leah Wroten (Independence); 7. 717 Zach Swanson (Waterloo); 8. 14J Jacob Floyd (Cedar Rapids); 9. 78 Matt Brown (Dysart); 10. 10J Gabe Phelps (Vinton); 11. 42 Riley Songer (Ankeny); 12. 71A Kyle Dulin (Brandon)
Heat 1 - 1. Wacha; 2. Ballard; 3. Vanous; 4. Songer; 5. Phelps; 6. Dulin
Heat 2 - 1. Swanson; 2. Pohlman; 3. Petrzelka; 4. Brown; 5. Floyd; 6. Wroten
BCS Micro Mods
Feature - 1. 6E Don Erger (Brandon); 2. 18 Jeff Davis (LaPorte City); 3. 35 Jason Gorman (New Hampton); 4. 00 Brody Willett (Alburnett); 5. 64 Matt Post (Walker); 6. 16 Robby Decker (Waterloo); 7. 75 Cole McNeal (Dysart); 8. 2 Brandon Maitland (Denver); 9. 71 Tristan Cordes (Dunkerton); 10. 48 Carson Less (Manchester); 11. 13 Scott Beaty (Urbana)
Heat 1 - 1. Willett; 2. Gorman; 3. Beaty; 4. McNeal; 5. Maitland; 6. Post
Heat 2 - 1. Davis; 2. Cordes; 3. Less; 4. Erger; 5. Decker
