With the Hancock County Speedway in Britt taking the night off for the 4th of July weekend that meant making a return visit to the Marshalltown Speedway for a beautiful night of racing action. The Night was sponsored by Central Iowa Farm Stores and KMJ Performance of Ames & Story City. Thanks to KMJ Performance all fans in the grandstands were admitted free and to counter that they also sponsored the Free Broadcast on Speed Shift TV.
One Hundred and seventeen cars checked in on Friday including Twenty-Four IMCA Modifieds, Twenty-Two IMCA Sport Mods, Twenty-Two IMCA Hobby Stocks, Twenty-One IMCA Stock Cars, Fourteen IMCA Late Models and Fourteen Mod Lites. Jeff Aikey (Modifieds), Brayton Carter (Sport Mods), Leah Wroten (Hobby Stocks), Jeff Stensland (Mod Lites) and Dallon Murty (Stock Cars) all claim feature wins.
First feature of the night was the Mod Lites 15 lap feature. Cory Sonner jumped out the early race lead but Joe Glick took the top spot away on lap four. Shortly after Sonner spins in turn two bringing out the yellow. Glick got a great restart and pulled away until late stages of the feature meanwhile Doug Byers jumped the start but got a break when the caution waived on lap 13. The caution was for Tanner Gannon coming to a stop in turn two. Glick saw Jeff Stensland get a great restart and wrestle the lead away. Stensland goes on to take the feature win. Glick finished second, Mike Morrill moved up six spots to finish third. "Huggie Bear" Joel Huggins finished fourth and Terry Brown finished fifth.
Before a single lap was completed in the 15 lap IMCA Hobby Stocks feature event, the caution came out for debris in turn one. Travis Merical grabbed the lead on the restart and lead until the caution came out on lap two for Kaden Reynolds going off the topside of turn four. Leah Wroten restarted third but took the top spot away on the restart meanwhile Merical, Ben Newhouse and Zach Hovell got together but everybody kept moving. Wroten and the field saw the caution come out on lap six for Dan Brady in turn two. Wroten paced the field to lead the remaining laps to take her second feature win in Motown. As the checkered flag was coming out Colton Wersinger came to a stop in turn three with a fire under the hood, it took track crew little bit to put the fire out. Bill Bonnett finished second with Newhouse in third. Zach Hovell crossed the line in fourth but was disqualifed in post-race tech so that moved up Jacob Floyd to fourth and Justin Ginther to fifth.
Just like the Hobbys the 18 lap IMCA Sport Mod feature event saw the caution come out for Jared Dew came to a stop in turn two. Jason Hall grabbed the top spot when the race got going and holding onto the top spot until lap five when the caution came out. Hall spun all by himself on the topside of turn three. With Hall spinning that handed the lead over to Ronnie Hults. Hults lead until lap eight when Tony Olson wrestled the lead away. The caution came out on lap nine for Jason Pansegrau spinning in turn two. Tony Olson lost the lead on the restart to twelveth place starter "Speedy Bray" Brayton Carter. Carter held off Olson and eleventh place starter Jake McBirnie to take win number four in Motown this year. Olson finished second and McBirnie finished third. Thomas Egenberger, Travis Peterson and Hults rounded out the top five.
The Class Too Tough Too Tame 18 lap IMCA Stock Car feature event started out wild when Todd Reitzler made contact with Jeff Wollam going into to turn one sending Wollam over the topside of turn one. Wollam rolled once and climbed from the car okay but unfortunately ended his night. The "Game Changer" Dallon Murty started third but by the end of lap one was in the top spot. Murty began to pull away and lead all eighteen laps in route to take his first ever IMCA Stock Car feature win. Murty's first Stock Car feature win was two years ago at the Hamilton County Speedway in the unsanctioned Stock Cars. Tenth place starter Steve Meyer worked his way up to finish second, Shawn Ritter finished third, Todd Reitzler was fourth and David Atcher was fifth.
Dalton Simonsen led the first two laps of the 20 lap IMCA Late Model feature before a pair of cautions came out. First caution on lap two was for Kyle Hinrichs and Jenna Johnson in bottom of turn two. On the restart, the caution came out when Jill George and Bryce Carey got together on the back stretch. Todd Cooney got a great restart and took the top spot way on the restart only to see the caution come out again on lap three when Curtis Glover hits the wall on the front stretch before coming to a stop in turn one. Cooney led the remaining laps depsite challenges from Jeremiah Hurst to take win number two in Motown. Hurst finished a close second with Hometown favorite Darrel DeFrance in third. Simonsen fell back to fourth and Luke Pestka was fifth.
Final feature of the night was the 25 lap $1,000 to wim IMCA Modifieds feature event. The caution came out before a lap was scored when Rod Clement went off the top side of turn three and then again on the restart when three cars got together (Anthony Hofbauer, Austin Howes and Austin Kuehl) in turn two. Jeff Aikey wrestled the lead away early from Nick Roberts. Aikey had to contend with Richie Gustin and Joel Rust but once again the caution came out on lap three for Nick Roberts and Ronn Lauritzen getting together in turn four. Aikey got some great restart but once again on saw the caution come out on lap nine and ten. The caution came out on lap nine for Jason Morehouse going off the top side of turns one and two. A lap later the caution come out when Hofbauer and Clement get together in turn one. Aikey went onto to lead the entire distance to take the win ahead of Rust, Cody Laney, Tim Ward an Kollin Hibdon.
Marshalltown Speedway will be in action again on Thursday July 11th for the make-up Dale DeFrance Memorial and Bill Davis Memorial Races. The Night is sponsored by Haverhill Social Club and Casey's General Stores will be in conjunction with the Central Iowa Fair. IMCA Late Models, IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Hobby Stocks and Mod Lites. Hot Laps at 6:55 and Racing at 7:30.
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Marshalltown Speedway
KMJ Performance FREE Grandstand Night
Friday July 5th, 2019
IMCA Hobby Stocks
A Feature (15 Laps): 1. 14C Leah Wroten (Independence) [8]; 2. 19 Bill Bonnett (Knoxville) [9]; 3. 17X Ben Newhouse (State Center) [3]; 4. 14J Jacob Floyd (Cedar Rapids) [18]; 5. 20CK Justin Ginther (Independence) [11]; 6. 37G Jeremiah Andrews (Union) [4]; 7. 1 Kaden Reynolds (Cedar Rapids) [7]; 8. 56J Jamie Coady (Colfax) [13]; 9. 11K William Klosterman (Ackley) [10]; 10. 171 Derek Willert (Rockford) [12]; 11. 14T Mitchell Thomas (Marshalltown) [5]; 12. 40SE Scott Ellis (Marshalltown) [17]; 13. 47 Ray Fees (Des Moines) [15]; 14. 17 Andy Peck (Newton) [16]; 15. 18 James Jensen (Newton) [22]; 16. 75M Preston Merical (State Center) [21]; 17. 15D Dan Brady (Deep River) [14]; 18. 51 Colton Wersinger (Conrad) [2]; 19. 4X Gary Pfantz (State Center) [20]; 20. 57 Marlena Betzer (Central City) [19]; 21. 81M Travis Merical (Marshalltown) [1]; DQ 117 Zach Hovell (Pella) [6]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. Reynolds [6]; 2. Travis Merical [1]; 3. Thomas [4]; 4. Klosterman [7]; 5. Coady [5]; 6. Peck [2]; 7. Betzer [3]; 8. Jensen [8]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. Wroten [6]; 2. Hovell [4]; 3. Ginther [7]; 4. Wersinger [1]; 5. Brady [2]; 6. Ellis [3]; 7. Pfantz [5]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. Willert [7]; 2. Newhoise [2]; 3. Bonnett [6]; 4. Andrews [3]; 5. Fees [4]; 6. Floyd [5]; 7. Preston Merical [1]
IMCA Sport Mods
A Feature (18 Laps): 1. 01 Brayton Carter (Oskaloosa) [12]; 2. T23 Tony Olson (Cedar Rapids) [5]; 3. 82 Jake McBirnie (Boone) [11]; 4. 98 Thomas Egenberger (Des Moines) [6]; 5. 25 Travis Peterson (Gladbrook) [7]; 6. 42 Ronnie Hults (Truro) [2]; 7. 8 Dusty Masolini (Des Moines) [4]; 8. 34Z Cory Van Zante (Sully) [8]; 9. 95J Jason Hall (Grinnell) [1]; 10. 12R Travis Storjohann (Marshalltown) [13]; 11. 14X Austin Schrage (Cresco) [9]; 12. 16 Jason Pansegrau (Toledo) [14]; 13. 28A Andrew Sneller (Pella) [17]; 14. 27 Michael Parcel (Bondurant) [3]; 15. 4J Jared Dew (Holland) [20]; 16. 1 Austin Kaplan (Ankeny) [16]; 17. 7D Dale VanDerWal (Maxwell) [21]; 18. 25R Chad Ryerson (Wellsburg) [15]; 19. K3 Kyle Olson (Cedar Rapids) [10]; DNS 98M Morris Schuler (Albion); DNS 98X Bill Hildreth (Iowa Falls); DNS 19J Jenae Gustin (Marshalltown)
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. Tony Olson [4]; 2. Kyle Olson [6]; 3. Peterson [5]; 4. Hults [2]; 5. Storjohann [3]; 6. Kaplan [7]; 7. Hildreth [1]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. McBirnie [6]; 2. Van Zante [5]; 3. Parcel [2]; 4. Masolini [3]; 5. Pansegrau [7]; 6. Sneller [8]; 7. Dew [1]; DNS Gustin
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. Hall [1]; 2. Carter [7]; 3. Egenberger [4]; 4. Schrage [5]; 5. Ryerson [3]; 6. Schuler [2]; 7. VanDerWal [6]
IMCA Stock Cars
A Feature (18 Laps): 1. 99 Dallon Murty (Chelsea) [3]; 2. 94 Steve Meyer (Grundy Center) [10]; 3. 7SR Shawn Ritter (Keystone) [7]; 4. 22R Todd Reitzler (Grinnell) [9]; 5. 2 David Atcher (Laurel) [5]; 6. 2K Kyle Everts (Holland) [4]; 7. 22D Jared Daggett (Marshalltown) [2]; 8. 20V Dustin Vis (Cedar Rapids) [14]; 9. 21 Andrew Borchardt (Plymouth) [12]; 10. 32 Tom Cannon (West Branch) [11]; 11. 22K Kevin Rose (Waterloo) [17]; 12. 7 Andrew Lokenvitz (Charles City) [15]; 13. 121 Kenzie Ritter (Keystone) [18]; 14. 56 Joseph Hofbauer (Huxley) [13]; 15. 50X Kevin Balmer (Garwin) [20]; 16. 19J Jay Schmidt (Tama) [6]; 17. 86 Shawn Mouzakis (Waukee) [19]; 18. 3W Jeff Wollam (Marshalltown) [8]; DNS 4 Scott Rice (Marshalltown); DNS 99D Damon Murty (Chelsea); DNS 4JR Russell Damme Jr (Waterloo)
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. Dallon Murty [2]; 2. Reitzler [4]; 3. Schmidt [3]; 4. Cannon [6]; 5. Hofbauer [1]; 7. Damon Murty [7]; 8. Mouzakis [5]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. Everts [2]; 2. Meyer [4]; 3. Shawn Ritter [3]; 4. Rice [1]; 5. Vis [7]; 6. Rose [6]; 7. Balmer [5]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. Atcher [2]; 2. Wollam [3]; 3. Daggett [1]; 4. Borchardt [6]; 5. Lokenvitz [7]; 6. Kenzie Ritter [5]; 7. Damme [4]
IMCA Modifieds
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 77 Jeff Aikey (Cedar Falls) [2]; 2. 26J Joel Rust (Grundy Center) [5]; 3. 5L Cody Laney (Torrance, CA) [8]; 4. 4TW Tim Ward (Harcourt) [11]; 5. 48K Kollin Hibdon [13]; 6. 33Z Zack Vanderbeek (New Sharon) [24]; 7. 10K Ronn Lauritzen (Jesup) [7]; 8. 17A Austin Howes (Memphis, MO) [19]; 9. 33D Scott Hogan (Vinton) [16]; 10. 10C Cayden Carter (Oskaloosa) [12]; 11. 48J Jacob Murray (Hartford) [21]; 12. 23JR Nick Roberts (Des Moines) [1]; 13. 237 Zack Rawlins (Kellogg) [22]; 14. 40RC Rod Clement (Rhodes) [9]; 15. 13 Anthony Hofbauer (Huxley) [17]; 16. 80J Jared Van Deest (Holland) [3]; 17. 5 Jason Morehouse (Evansdale) [18]; 18. V Milo Veloz (Colona, IL) [14]; 19. 19G Richie Gustin Jr (Gilman) [4]; 20. 3Z Randy Havlik (Ankeny) [10]; 21. 19 Jimmy Gustin (Marshalltown) [6]; 22. 77X Austin Kuehl (Cave Creek, AZ) [15]; DNS 41 Thor Anderson (Rock Valley); DNS 99 Josh May (Des Moines)
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. Aikey [2]; 2. Carter [7]; 3. Jimmy Gustin [4]; 4. Van Deest [6]; 5. Hibdon [5]; 6. Hogan [8]; 7. Howes [3]; 8. Rawlins [1]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. Havlik [1]; 2. Laney [8]; 3. Roberts [6]; 4. Rust [7]; 5. Veloz [5]; 7. Hofbauer [2]; 8. Anderson [3]; 9. May [4]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. Lauritzen [3]; 2. Richie Gustin [6]; 3. Ward [8]; 4. Clement [2]; 5. Kuehl [5]; 6. Morehouse [4]; 7. Murray [7]; 8. Vanderbeek [1]
IMCA Late Models
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 30 Todd Cooney (Des Moines) [8]; 2. 58 Jeremiah Hurst (Dubuque) [9]; 3. 99D Darrel DeFrance (Marshalltown) [7]; 4. 60 Dalton Simonsen (Fairfax) [4]; 5. 99 Luke Pestka (Robins); 6. 15 Kyle Hinrichs (Swisher) [5]; 7. 66 Todd Johnson (Mitchellville) [3]; 8. 22 Jill George (Cedar Falls) [1]; 9. 301 Shawn Cooney (Des Moines) [2]; 10. 7 Jenna Johnson (Mitchellville) [11]; 11. 85C Bryce Carey (Nashua) [12]; 12. 32 Curtis Glover (Des Moines) [6]; DNS 77 Jeff Aikey (Cedar Falls); DNS 11 Randy Faux (Earlham)
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. DeFrance [5]; 2. Todd Johnson [3]; 3. Pestka [7]; 4. Hinrichs [4]; 5. Shawn Cooney [2]; 6. Jenna Johnson [1]; 7. Aikey [6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. George [1]; 2. Simonsen [3]; 3. Todd Cooney [5]; 4. Glover [4]; 5. Hurst [6]; 6. Carey [7]; 7. Faux [2]
Mod Lites
A Feature (15 Laps): 1. 20 Jeff Stensland (Nevada) [10]; 2. 3G Joe Glick (Madrid) [6]; 3. 6 Mike Morrill (Altoona) [9]; 4. X50 Joel Huggins (Des Moines) [8]; 5. 28 Terry Brown (Nevada) [3]; 6. 64 Randy Bryan (Ames) [7]; 7. 47 Cory Sonner (Huxley) [2]; 8. T3 Tonia Stevens (Guernsey) [12]; 9. 4G Ben George (Altoona) [13]; 10. 4B Doug Byers (Madrid) [5]; 11. 18M Chelsea May (DeSoto) [11]; 12. 73T Ted Jensen (Portsmouth) [14]; 13. 14 Bryan Compart (Madrid) [1]; 14. 3T Tanner Gannon (Des Moines) [4]
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. Brown [4]; 2. Morrill [7]; 3. Bryan [6]; 4. Byers [5]; 5. Compart [1]; 6. May [3]; 7. George [2]
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. Huggins [6]; 2. Gannon [4]; 3. Glick [5]; 4. Sonner [2]; 5. Stensland [7]; 6. Stevens [1]; DNS Jensen
