ast Week, Mother Nature cooperated to allow us to get two of the four IMCA Frostbusters at Lee County Speedway in Donnellson and Benton County Speedway in Vinton. Marshalltown and Boone Speedway's Frostbusters fell victim to Mother Nature and her Spring Craziness.
Kelly Shryock won the IMCA Modifieds at Lee County with Hunter Marriott finishing 2nd. At Benton County Speedway, Shryock finished 8th meanwhile Marriott finished 2nd after he was passed on the last lap by Cayden Carter. Marriott (two 2nd place finishes) and Carter (3rd & 1st place finishes) would end up being tied in the Frostbuster points after Vinton with the unofficial champion being Carter because of the win in Vinton.
Todd Reitzler picked up the IMCA Stock Car win in Donnellson with Damon Murty finishing runner-up. Murty dominated at Benton County Speedway taking the win, Reitzler finished 2nd in Vinton. With Reitzler and Murty, each finishing 1st and 2nd place, they ended up tied in the Frostbuster Points.
Austin Howes won the IMCA
Sport Mods on Wednesday in Donnellson meanwhile Joey Schaefer won the
Sport Mods at Benton County Speedway in Vinton on Thursday. Tyler Soppe appears to be the unofficial Frostbuster Series Champion with a 4th place finish at Lee County and 2nd place finish at Vinton. Sam Wieben had a 6th place finish in Donnellson and 3rd place finish in Vinton appears to finish runner-up in points.
Defending IMCA
Hobby Stock National Champion Shannon Anderson took the checkers first
on Wednesday Night at the Lee County Speedway in Donnellson with Eric
Stanton finishing 2nd place. Stanton grabbed the feature win at the
Benton County Speedway in Vinton and that would mean Stanton is the
unofficial Frostbuster Series Champion, David Rieks will be the runner-up with a 5th place finish at Lee County and 2nd place finsh at Vinton.
Support class winners was Barry Taft in the IMCA Sport Compacts feature at Lee County Speedway and Chad Dugan in the BCS Micro Mods at Benton County Speedway.
With Marshalltown Speedway's Frostbuster getting rained out, speedway officials decided to announce the Inaugural Twin Highbanks Hustle on Thursday & Friday April 19th & 20th. IMCA Modifieds will be $1,000 to win, IMCA Stock Cars & IMCA Sport Mods $500 to win, IMCA Hobby Stocks $300 to win & Late Models (IMCA Rules) $750 to win each night. Mod Lites
will join the card on Friday Night and will have increased purse. Hot
Laps at 7 pm with Racing to Follow Both Nights. Thursday is
STATE/REGIONAL/NATIONAL IMCA
Points and Friday will be Opening Night for TRACK Points, Both Nights
will be DRAW/REDRAW. No Entry Fees for any classes and both nights will
be broadcast LIVE on SpeedShiftTV.com!
Boone
Speedway will start its 51st Season with Special incentives and races
all season this Saturday April 21st. Check out their Facebook Page or
raceboone.com for more information.
Lee
County Speedway gets weekly track points underway on Friday April 20th
and the Benton County Speedway will start track points on Sunday April
22nd. Benton County Speedway features IMCA Late Models, IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Hobby Stocks, BCS Micro Mods & IMCA Sport Compacts.....however the Late Models will not begin their season until May 6th!
As I write this the Southern Iowa Speedway has cancelled their Bill & Ray's Truck Repair and Kool
Seamless Gutters Season Opener for this week Wednesday April 18th so
the Season Opener for their shortened season will be next week and will be sponsored by Musco Lighting, Bill & Ray's Truck Repair and Kool Seamless Gutters. Osky is non-sanctioned but runs IMCA
Rules and will be Draw/Redraw every week. Stock Cars, Sport Mods, Hobby
Stocks and Sport Compacts are on the card every week through the end of
June with Hot Laps at 7pm and Racing to Follow.
On Monday April 16th, the Hancock County Speedway announced their Frostbuster scheduled for Friday April 20th has fallen victim to Mother Nature again and their fingers are crossed that racing action will get underaway next week on Friday April 27th but expected to get more Spring Snow on Wednesday this week.
Finally a race I want to give a shout out is the Brooklyn Raceway Spring Nationals which is being dubbed the Inaugural Sharon Jaennette Memorial. This past January, Sharon Jaennette
passed away and her favorite track was the Brooklyn Raceway. She loved
spending time with family and watching them do something they had a passion
for and that being racing. So I ask if you are looking for some racing
to attend this weekend then head to the Brooklyn Raceway on Friday &
Saturday Night this week for the Sharon Jaennette Memorial Spring Nationals in support of the Jaennette Family.
Well I guess that is all for this week maybe next time there will be more to write about!
