The plan this past week was to head to the Marshalltown Speedway for the Twin Highbanks Hustle on Thursday and Friday because of the Hancock County Speedway cancelling their Frostbuster Season Opener. However Mother Nature had different plans and gave us one more winter blast that forced Marshalltown to postpone the Twin Highbanks Hustle to April 26th & 27th and the Hancock County Speedway was forced to cancel April 27th Races because they have been unable to do any track prep this Sprinter.
So with those plans being cancelled last-minute plans was being made
to go somewhere for racing on Friday Night and the plan was to make a
short track to the Figure 8 Capital of the World known as the Brooklyn
Raceway, a place i
had planned going to for few years now but because of races at
Marshalltown I did not go. This time though I was glad I made the trip
where I met Track Owner/Promoter Don Wauters and several other great people who
welcomed a newbie to the Figure 8 World. Not only did I just go watch
the racing action but I took the camera along and took pictures from
both nights of the "Sharon Jaennette Memorial" Spring Nationals, those pictures are posted on the Trackside Report Facebook Page.
Night #1 Photos : https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10157189624227195.1073741982.333727462194&type=3
Night #2 Photos : https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10157191994692195.1073741983.333727462194&type=3
On
to Friday Night's Races of the Spring Nationals at Brooklyn: 6
Non-Winged Micro Sprints, 9 Hobby Stocks, 12 Front Wheel Drives, 7
Cruisers, 8 Junior FWD, 10 Stock Figure 8, 6 Pro Stock Figure 8 and 6
Open Figure 8.
Travis Rewerts led the Micro Sprints from start to finish with Doug Slyvester finishing 2nd. Jacob Lehman took the win in the Hobby Stocks feature with Anthony Goldsberry finishing runner-up. James Harring took the lead away with two laps to go in the Front Wheel Drive from John Schuring and went on to take the win. Duane & Jesse Zander won the 2 Man Cruiser class ahead of the Jacob & Lavern Lehman. Nathan Castellano
running a number in honor of his grandpa goes out and takes his 1st win
of the season in the Junior FWD division ahead of defending track
champion Ethan Wauters. Rick Goldsberry takes the checkers first in the Stock Class with Jerome Kline finishing 2nd. Mark Schuring
took the lead on lap three and never looked back going on to take the
win in the Pro Stock Class ahead of Keith Lester. Final race of the
night was the Open Figure 8 Class and it was Rick Roush taking the win ahead of Mark Schuring.
Saturday Night's Races of the Spring Nationals at the Brooklyn lived up to the quote "Wildest Show on Dirt" and also included the INEX
Legend Cars "Racing for a Cause" C.O.P.S. (Concerns of Police
Survivors) raising money for family of fallen police officers. The
Legend Cars raced at Lee County Speedway on Friday Night and made the
trip to the Brooklyn Raceway on Saturday and there was a total of 17
Legend cars at Brooklyn. Eight Micro Sprints, 4 Hobby Stocks, 15 Front
Wheel Drive, 10 Cruisers, 7 Junior Front Wheel Drive, 11 Stock Figure 8,
6 Pro Stock Figure 8 and 10 Open Class.
Riley Goodno took the lead away from Landon Hansen on lap two of the Micro Sprints and headed on to the win, Doug Slyvester finished second. Tim Brockhouse lead all 25 laps in the Legend Car feature event, Baiden Heskett
finished second. Jacob Lehman matched his Hobby Stock feature win on
Friday Night with a feature win on Saturday however this time he made
the past with 2 laps to go, Travis Fenton managed to come back and take
second. John Schuring slowed late in the race on Friday Night but on Saturday Night he was determined not to be denied even when the lap traffic began to got heavy as Schuring
went on to take the win. Blake Cole & Zach Kane led the entire
distance of the 2 Man Cruiser feature and Danielle & Bruce Kline
finished 2nd. Brandon Allison dominated the Junior FWD and going on take
the win ahead of Ethan Wauters. Rick Goldsberry took the lead late and won the Stock Class feature ahead of Josh Albertson. Mark Schuring led from start-to-finish in the Pro Stock Class and Scott Shook ran second. Rick Roush did it again by taking the win in the Open Class but this time had to chase down Mark Schuring, Schuring finished 2nd.
I
want to thank Don Wauters and the Staff of the Brooklyn Raceway for
inviting me to come down Friday and Saturday Night, it was a lot of fun
and I wish you guys the best in the 2018 season. I will try to make
another visit when you guys are racing if my schedule allows feel free
to check out all information from the Brooklyn Raceway on their Facebook
Page or at http://www.brooklynraceway.org/.
As I write this I am getting ready to head to the Benton County Speedway in Vinton for Season Opener with Modifieds,
Stock Cars, Sport Mods, Hobby Stocks, Sport Compacts and BCS Micro
Mods. As for next week the plan is Marshalltown on Thursday and Friday
for the Twin Highbanks Hustle, Boone on Saturday and Vinton on Sunday.
Now you may notice I made no mention of Osky,
they are racing on Wednesday however before there was any signs of
racing happening this year I chose to give up Wednesday Nights because I
was wore out by the end of the season working 3-4 nights a week. As
many know I have attended Osky since 2012 and last season, I was the official voice of racing at Osky on KBOE
104.9 FM doing the Pre-Race Show & Race Night Flag to Flag coverage
however prepping every week made the 3-4 nights a week turn into 4-5
nights a week work turning a passion into two jobs.
So from now on,
you can find me at the Hancock County Speedway on Race Nights beginning
on May 4th and Benton County Speedway every Race Night, this will allow
for me to fill in more often at different race tracks if need be as
announcer, scorer, flagman or track official.
