Normally Friday Nights, I make a 2 hour trip up north to work the Hancock County Speedway Races however Mother Nature had different plans as Britt received a lot of rain late Thursday Night and Early Friday Morning leaving the grounds extremely wet. Friday Night was suppose to be the Pritchard Auto Stores 100, that has now been rescheduled for Friday August 18th plus the debut of the Outlaw Mini Mods on the short track in the infield, that will now be next week.
So with Britt not racing, I decided to wait it out to see if Marshalltown was going to go and at 6:30 it appeared nothing was going to happen. I hopped in my car and drove across town and made it just time for hot laps, which I rarely do because usually I am there earlier. It also made it my second visit to the track this week.
Friday Night at Marshalltown was sponsored by RBF Electric from Union, Iowa and the IMCA Hobby Stocks were draw/redraw $400 to win show.
The MADCRA Mod Lites 15 lapper was the first feature of the night. Tanner Gannon led the opening lap before "Dry Slick" Joe Glick took the top spot away on lap two. Glick and the field saw the caution come out on lap five when Joel Huggins spun exiting turn four. Glick led until Mike Morrill worked his way through the pack after starting last because of suffering a flat tire in the heat race. Morrill took the lead away on lap nine but Glick did not give up as he reclaimed the top spot on lap 12. Morrill powered back on lap 13 and led the remaining laps to take the win. Glick settled for runner up finish. Jason Masengarb, Randy Bryan and Travis Stensland rounded out the top five.
IMCA Hobby Stocks was up next for the draw/redraw format $400 to win 15 lap feature event. Eric Knutson and Bryce Sommerfeld led the field to the green, Knutson took advantage by grabbing the early lead. Knutson led until the caution came out on lap four for David Rieks in turn two and Craig Lovig on the front stretch. On the restart, Shannon Anderson showed hs power and took the top spot away. Anderson lead the remaining laps to take the win ahead of "Mean Gene" Eugene Nicklas, who worked his way from 10th place. Dylan Nelson finished third, Leah Wroten was fourth and Matt Smith was fifth.
Before a single lap was completed in the IMCA Sport Mods 18 lap feature event, the caution came out when Ryan Luedke blew up leaving an oil line in turn one. On the complete restart, Curt Hilmer grabbed the race lead and the the caution came out again on lap two for Justin Becker and Brandon Ostwald in turn four. Hilmer was able to fend off all the challengers until the caution came out on lap three for Becker in turn four collecting Craig Carpenter. The red flag came out on the restart when Thomas Egenberger made contact with race leader Curt Hilmer on the front stretch causing a pile up including Ryan King, Dusty Masolini, Sam Wieben, Chance Titus and Bill Hildreth. After the mess was cleaned up, Adam Shelman inherited the race lead and Shelman led until the caution on lap 13 for Travis Peterson in turn two. Shelman hung out until he spun exiting turn four on lap 15 forcing Jack Housley and Jake McBirnie to spin in turn four. Braaksma made his way from 12th place starting spot all the way to the lead on lap 15. Braaksma went on to take his third win at Marshalltown ahead of Johnathan Logue, Chad Ryerson, Travis Peterson and Travis Storjohann.
The "Class to Tough to Tame" IMCA Stock Cars 18 lap feature saw Kyle Everts lead the first three laps before Jeff Mueller worked his way from seventh to the lead on lap four. Just after Mueller took the lead the caution came out when Doug Russell came to a stop against the front stretch wall just past the flag stand. Mueller continued to lead until lap 10 when the red flag came out because Mueller erupted into flames in turn four. Mueller climbed from the car and the fire was out rather quickly. Damon Murty worked his way from 10th place to take over the top spot. Murty went on to take the win, Todd Reitzler finished second, Trent Murphy was third, Kyle Everts was fourth and Curt Hook was fifth.
Kirby Schultz led the first three laps for the IMCA Late Models feature. Curt Schroeder took the lead way on lap four and then Andy Eckrich took the top spot away on lap seven. The caution came out on lap eight for Jenna Johnson in turn four. Eckrich continued to lead until Todd Cooney worked his way from tenth to take the lead away on lap 12. Cooney led the remaining laps to take the win despite a late race push by Jeremiah Hurst. Hurst was second ahead of Eckrich, Darrel DeFrance and Ben Seemann.
Final feature of the night was the IMCA Modifieds 20 lap feature. Austin Emry led the first nine laps before Tim Ward made the high side work when Emry slipped up just a bit. Joel Rust, reeled down Ward and tried several attempts to get by but Ward was ready and held on to take the win. Ronn Lauritzen ran third, Scott Simatovich was fourth and Emry slipped back to fifth.
Racing continues at Marshalltown, next Friday Night will be Karl Performance / Casey's General Stores Night at the races with all six classes in competition. Hot Laps at 6:55 pm and Racing at 7:30 pm.
For me it will be Boone on Saturday Night, Benton County Speedway in Vinton on Sunday Night and then hopefully back to Britt on Friday Night.
Marshalltown Speedway
RBF Electric Night
Friday June 8th, 2018
IMCA Late Models
Feature - 1. 30 Todd Cooney (Des Moines); 2. 58 Jeremiah Hurst (Dubuque); 3. 56 Andy Eckrich (Oxford); 4. 99D Darrel DeFrance (Marshalltown); 5. 60 Ben Seemann (Waterloo); 6. 15C Curt Schroeder (Newton); 7. 73 Greg Kastli (Waterloo); 8. 301 Shawn Cooney (Des Moines); 9. 85C Bryce Carey (Nashua); 10. 17 Kirby Schultz (Albia); 11. 7 Jenna Johnson (Mitchellville).
Heat 1 - 1. Eckrich; 2. Todd Cooney; 3. DeFrance; 4. Schroeder; 5. Carey; 6. Johnson.
Heat 2 - 1. Seemann; 2. Hurst; 3. Shawn Cooney; 4. Kastli; 5. Schultz.
IMCA Modifieds
Feature - 1. 4TW Tim Ward (Harcourt); 2. 26J Joel Rust (Grundy Center); 3. 10K Ronn Lauritzen (Jesup); 4. 43S Scott Simatovich (State Center); 5. 68C Austin Emry (Kellogg); 6. 12X Trent Jackson (Marshalltown); 7. 64ZC Brandon Leeman (Roland); 8. 99 Josh May (De Soto); 9. 40RC Rod Clement (Rhodes); 10. 48J Jacob Murray (Hartford); 11. 505 Racer Hulin (Laurel); 12. 14 James Aschenbrenner (Aplington).
Heat 1 - 1. Simatovich; 2. Lauritzen; 3. Ward; 4. Leeman; 5. May; 6. Clement.
Heat 2 - 1. Rust; 2. Jackson; 3. Hulin; 4. Murray; 5. Emry; 6. Aschenbrenner.
IMCA Stock Cars
Feature - 1. 99D Damon Murty (Chelsea); 2. 22R Todd Reitzler (Grinnell); 3. 25 Trent Murphy (Jefferson); 4. 2K Kyle Everts (Holland); 5. 75 Curt Hook (Ackley); 6. 94 Steve Meyer (Grundy Center); 7. 2 Dave Atcher (Laurel); 8. 22D Jared Daggett (Marshalltown); 9. 3W Jeff Wollam (Marshalltown); 10. 21K JD Kennedy (Ackley); 11. 98B Michael Bilyeu (Indianola); 12. 4 Scott Rice (Marshalltown); 13. 9C Tyler Carey (Nashua); 14. 19J Jay Schmidt (Tama); 15. 77M Jeff Mueller (Albion); 16. 42 Doug Russell (Conrad); 17. 50X Kevin Balmer (Garwin).
Heat 1 - 1. Reitzler; 2. Mueller; 3. Rice; 4. Murphy; 5. Bilyeu; 6. Kennedy; 7. Schmidt; 8. Russell; 9. Carey.
Heat 2 - 1. Murty; 2. Everts; 3. Hook; 4. Balmer; 5. Wollam; 6. Meyer; 7. Atcher; 8. Daggett.
IMCA Sport Mods
Feature - 1. 11 Ethan Braaksma (Newton); 2. 69JR Johnathan Logue (Boone); 3. 25R Chad Ryerson (Wellsburg); 4. 25 Travis Peterson (Gladbrook); 5. 12R Travis Storjohann (Marshalltown); 6. 3S Adam Shelman (Ames); 7. 82 Jake McBirnie (Boone); 8. 10H Jack Housley (Runnells); 9. 5T Tyler Inman (Altoona); 10. 9 Scott Williams (Atkins); 11. 22H Curt Hilmer (Dysart); 12. 57R Ryan King (Montour); 13. 8 Dusty Masolini (Des Moines); 14. 198 Sam Wieben (Dysart); 15. 4 Chance Titus (Baxter); 16. 35 Justin Becker (Bernard); 17. 98 Bill Hildreth (Rhodes); 18. 93C Craig Carpenter (Des Moines); 19. 231 Brandon Ostwald (Algona); 20. 8L Ryan Luedtke (Norway); 21. 98M Morris Schuler (Albion); 22. T17 Tom Rawlins (Kellogg); 23. 98X Thomas Egenberger (Des Moines).
Heat 1 - 1. Housley; 2. Logue; 3. Braaksma; 4. Hilmer; 5. Peterson; 6. Titus; 7. Schuler; 8. Luedtke.
Heat 2 - 1. Shelman; 2. Inman; 3. Egenberger; 4. Storjohann; 5. Becker; 6. Hildreth; 7. Ostwald; 8. Rawlins.
Heat 3 - 1. Williams; 2. Masolini; 3. McBirnie; 4. King; 5. Wieben; 6. Ryerson; 7. Carpenter.
IMCA Hobby Stocks
Feature - 1. 78 Shannon Anderson (Des Moines); 2. 83 Eugene Nicklas (Grinnell); 3. 13N Dylan Nelson (Adel); 4. 14C Leah Wroten (Independence); 5. 74 Matt Smith (Des Moines); 6. 78XX David Rieks (Eldora); 7. 77 Derek Hodges (Des Moines); 8. 47 Raymond Fees (Des Moines); 9. 14T Mitchell Thomas (Marshalltown); 10. 37G Jeremiah Andrews (Union); 11. 17 Andy Peck (Newton); 12. 17X Ben Newhouse (State Center); 13. 50 Bryce Sommerfeld (Fort Dodge); 14. 22J Justin Lovig (Clemons); 15. 89R Ryan Wells (Runnells); 16. 121 Kenzie Ritter (Keystone); 17. 12K Eric Knutson (Slater); 18. 4X Gary Pfantz (State Center); 19. 500 Garrett Eilander (Newton); 20. 88 Luke Bird (Winthrop); 21. 22C Craig Lovig (Marshalltown); 22. 3T Thomas Stevens (Guersney); 23. 18 James Jensen (Newton); 24. 56J Jamie Coady (Colfax).
Heat 1 - 1. Fees; 2. Smith; 3. Wells; 4. Stevens; 5. Ritter; 6. Jensen.
Heat 2 - 1. Wroten; 2. Anderson; 3. Thomas; 4. Peck; 5. Andrews; 6. Coady.
Heat 3 - 1. Rieks; 2. Nicklas; 3. Nelson; 4. Hodges; 5. Justin Lovig; 6. Newhouse.
Heat 4 - 1. Knutson; 2. Sommefeld; 3. Eilander; 4. Bird; 5. Pfantz; 6. Craig Lovig.
MADCRA Mod Lites
Feature - 1. 6 Mike Morrill (Altoona); 2. 3G Joe Glick (Des Moines); 3. 30 Jason Masengarb (Colona, IL); 4. 64 Randy Bryan (Ames); 5. 89 Travis Stensland (Nevada); 6. 3T Tanner Gannon (Des Moines); 7. X50 Joel Huggins (Des Moines); 8. 4B Doug Byers (Grinnell); 9. 82 Charlie Brown (Nevada); 10. 7 Erin Turner (Van Meter); 11. 18M Chelsea May (De Soto); 12. J7B Jon Braathun (Story City); 13. 4L Larry Sorenson (Ames); 14. 28 Terry Brown (Nevada); 15. 14 Bryan Compart (Madrid).
Heat 1 - 1. Glick; 2. Stensland; 3. Gannon; 4. Charlie Brown; 5. Braathun; 6. Byers; 7. Sorenson; 8. Morrill.
Heat 2 - 1. Masengarb; 2. Bryan; 3. Huggins; 4. Terry Brown; 5. Turner; 6. May; 7. Compart.
