With the Benton County Speedway in Vinton taking the week off after running the Hogan Memorial on Wednesday, the plan was to head to Sports Park Raceway in Fort Dodge for a night of racing with the camera however that changed on Friday when Ryan Bergeson asked me to go fill in for him on Sunday. Without hesitation I said yes I would fill in because it was so much fun the first time.
It was a beautiful night for racing action as it wasn't hot like the week before the racing was hot and heavy. There was two, three and sometimes four wide racing on Sunday Night. Sixty-Eight drivers checked in pitside including Thirteen IMCA Modifieds, Seventeen IMCA Sport Mods, Fifteen IMCA Stock Cars, Thirteen IMCA Hobby Stocks and Ten IMCA Sport Compacts. Final checkered flag was displayed at 9:15pm.
Each week when drivers arrive at the race track, they draw a poker chip out of a bucket. Red Poker Chip means you get your pit pass money back, you race for an extra $100 if you keep your starting spot or an extra $200 if you started last and win. Two drivers drew the lucky red chips this week, John Gill in Sport Compacts and Joel Tigges in Stock Cars, only Gill took the challenge.
First feature of the night was the 10 lap IMCA Sport Compacts. Tyler Fiebelkorn led the opening lap before Oliver Monson worked his way by on lap two. Monson pulled away to take the win, 4th win in Fort Dodge, meanwhile Jade Lange chased him down to finish second. John Gill worked his way through the field to finish third but need a caution to make it interesting since he accepted the poker challenge. Fiebelkorn fell back to fourth and Mick Evans was fifth.
Before a lap was compled in the 15 lap Pickett Salvage IMCA Hobby Stocks feature the caution came out two times. First caution was for Drew Barglof getting spun in turn four after contact with Riley Crimmins, Barglof got his spot back with Crimmins to the tail for questionable driving. On the restart, David Gilliland was spun off the backstretch by Wade Gilliland meanwhile as race officials called for a yellow, it was replaced with a red flag when Wade Gilliland flipped on his side on the frontstretch. Danny Sassman Jr wrestled the early race lead away from Barglof on the restart and led until a caution on lap five for Lincoln Miller sitting on the front stretch. Sassman lost the lead to Bryce Sommerfeld on the restart. The caution came out one more time on lap seven for Jeff Fink stopping in turn two. Sommerfeld got a great restart and went on to take his second win of the season. Crimmins worked his way back up to finish second, Sassman finished in third. Barglof and David Gilliland finished fourth and fifth respectively.
Justin Patterson led the openinf lap of the 15 lap Scrap Processors IMCA Sport Mods feature before Jason Bass took the lead away on lap two. Bass began to pull away only to see the caution come out on lap four, five and six. Lap four caution was for Justin Bettin in turn three, lap five caution was for Lucas Jones in turn two, lap six caution was for Bettin again in turn two. Bass was determined to not be denied the win as he held off challenges from Jake McBirnie on the restarts to nabbed his second win at Sports Park. McBirnie took second ahead of Jake Sachau, driving Tim Judd's No. 31 car. Doug Cook and Hunter Longnecker rounded out the top five.
The Silgan Containers IMCA Stock Cars 18 lap feature, certainly showed why the they are known as the "Class Too Tough Too Tame" beacuse they were two, three and four wide inlcuding a late race pass for the win. Cory Roe and Parker Slagle led the field to the green flag. Slagle grabbed the lead pulled away looked to be going on to take the win but Bill Crimmins made the pass for the lead. Crimmins went on to take his third straight win ahead of tenth place starter Jake Masters, Slagle, Joel Tigges and Jeff Deal.
Final feature of the night was the 20 lap IMCA Modifieds feature event. Ryan Griffith jumped out to the early race lead but just after one lap was completed the caution came out for Jason Hickingbottom off top side of turn four. Kelly Shryock got a great restart worked his way to second by the end of lap two and took the lead away from Griffith on lap three. Shryock and Shane DeMey pulled away from the rest of the field until a caution came out on lap 13. The caution on lap 13 was for Bryce Summers in turn two and the final race caution came out three laps later on lap 16 for Roger Nielson in turn four. Shryock and DeMey battled it out but Shryock went on take the win. DeMey, Nate Hughes, Ethan Braaksma and Jeff James rounded out the top five.
Sports Park Raceway will be back at next sunday night July 14th for an IMCA Weekly Racing Series with IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Stock
Cars, IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Hobby Stocks and IMCA Sport Compacts. Gates
Open at 4pm, Hot Laps at 6pm and Racing to Follow.
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Sports Park Raceway
IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing Series
Sunday July 7th, 2019
IMCA Modifieds
A Feature: 1. 3 Kelly Shryock (Fertile) [7]; 2. 15M Shane DeMey (Denison) [8]; 3. 41 Nate Hughes (Humboldt) [5]; 4. 11 Ethan Braaksma (Newton) [9]; 5. 71 Jeff James (Stanton) [6]; 6. 01 Brandon Aggen (Rushmore, MN) [10]; 7. 15X Ryan Griffith (Webster City) [4]; 8. 14E Chase Ellingson (Iowa Falls) [12]; 9. 20X Chad Louk (Jefferson) [1]; 10. 9 Roger Nielson (Fairmont, MN) [2]; 11. 75 Christopher Elliott (Webster City) [3]; 12. 78 Bryce Summers (Eagle Grove) [11]; 13. 45 Jason Hickingbottom (Ogden) [13]
Heat 1: 1. Griffith [4]; 2. DeMey [6]; 3. James [5]; 4. Aggen [7]; 5. Nielson [2]; 6. Summers [1]; 7. Hickingbottom [3]
Heat 2: 1. Shryock [5]; 2. Elliott [2]; 3. Hughes [4]; 4. Braaksma [6]; 5. Louk [1]; 6. Ellingson [3]
Scrap Processors IMCA SportMods
A Feature: 1. 4 Jason Bass (Fort Dodge) [4]; 2. 82 Jake McBirnie (Boone) [6]; 3. 31 Jake Sachau (Denison) [7]; 4. 25X Doug Cook (Algona) [8]; 5. 93 Hunter Longnecker (Woodward) [5]; 6. 0 Shawn Kralik (Creston) [9]; 7. 85T Brandon Toftee (Otho) [3]; 8. 5 Josh Sink (Red Oak) [12]; 9. 42H Ronnie Hults (Truro) [15]; 10. 511 Matt Groll (Fort Ddoge) [2]; 11. 13 Lucas Jones (Webster City) [11]; 12. 40 George Gilliland (Lehigh) [16]; 13. 8JR Cole Bingham (Duncombe) [17]; 14. 52 LaDon Sams (Fort Dodge) [14]; 15. 25 Justin Patterson (Fort Dodge) [1]; 16. 2B Justin Bettin (Sac City) [10]; DNS XXX Matthew Hanson (Klemme)
Heat 1: 1. Toftee [4]; 2. Patterson [3]; 3. Longnecker [5]; 4. Cook [7]; 5. Kralik [8]; 6. Jones [1]; 7. Hanson [9]; 8. Hults [6]; 9. Bingham [2]
Heat 2: 1. Bass [4]; 2. McBirnie [5]; 3. Sachau [6]; 4. Groll [3]; 5. Bettin [8]; 6. Sink [7]; 7. Sams [1]; 8. Gilliland [2]
Silgan Containers IMCA Stock Cars
A Feature: 1. 35 Bill Crimmins (Fort Dodge) [8]; 2. 11 Jake Masters (Graettinger) [10]; 3. 47 Parker Slagle (Eagle Grove) [2]; 4. 82 Joel Tigges (Carroll) [6]; 5. 22D Jeff Deal (Fort Dodge) [5]; 6. 19 Reid Keller (Webster City) [7]; 7. 5A Tyler Pickett (Boxholm) [9]; 8. 8R Cory Roe (Webster City); 9. 32J Austin Jahnz (Lewisville, MN) [15]; 10. 59 Jeff Lyon (Duncombe) [12]; 11. 7 Andy Jones (Webster City) [3]; 12. 52 Nathan Ely (Webster City) [4]; 13. 43 Calvin Lange (Humboldt) [13]; 14. 211 Jesse Ely (Webster City) [14]; 15. 21 Andrew Borchardt (Plymouth) [11]
Heat 1: 1. Deal [4]; 2. Roe [1]; 3. Pickett [7]; 4. Tigges [5]; 5. Jones [2]; 6. Borchardt [6]; 7. Lange [3]; 8. Jahnz [8]
Heat 2: 1. Slagle [1]; 2. Keller [5]; 3. Crimmins [6]; 4. Masters [7]; 5. Nathan Ely [2]; 6. Lyon [4]; 7. Jesse Ely [3]
Pickett Salvage IMCA Hobby Stocks
A Feature: 1. 50 Bryce Sommerfeld (Fort Dodge) [9]; 2. 35 Riley Crimmins (Fort Dodge) [5]; 3. 10 Danny Sassman Jr. (Fort Dodge) [2]; 4. 45 Drew Barglof (Sioux Rapids) [1]; 5. 55G David Gilliland (Fort Dodge) [4]; 6. 14 Joseph DeBoer (Fort Dodge) [11]; 7. 01F Jeff Fink (Denison) [8]; 8. 31 Jeremy Crimmins (Fort Dodge) [7]; 9. 14L Josh Lyon (Pomeroy) [3]; 10. 21 Myles Michehl (Fort Dodge) [10]; 11. 34 Lincoln Miller (Eagle Grove) [12]; 12. 21W Wade Gilliland (Callender) [6]; DNS 1J DJ Anderson (Webster City)
Heat 1: 1. Sassman [2]; 2. Barglof [1]; 3. Sommerfeld [6]; 4. Jeremy Crimmins [5]; 5. Riley Crimmins [4]; 6. DeBoer [3]; 7. Anderson [7]
Heat 2: 1. Michehl [6]; 2. Fink [5]; 3. Lyon [2]; 4. Wade Gilliland [4]; 5. David Gilliland [3]; 6. Miller [1]
IMCA Sport Compacts
A Feature: 1. 5 Oliver Monson (Clear Lake) [4]; 2. 43 Jade Lange (Humboldt) [7]; 3. 02 John Gill (Marshalltown) [9]; 4. 61F Tyler Fiebelkorn (Creston) [5]; 5. 99 Mick Evans (Fort Dodge) [6]; 6. 9 Kolby Sabin (Des Moines) [8]; 7. 230 Michael Heun (Manson) [2]; 8. 3B Josh Dahlsten (Pomeroy) [1]; 9. 14 Tyler Deboer (Fort Dodge) [10]; DNS 45 John Dahlsten (Pomeroy)
Heat 1: 1. Lange [4]. 2. Fiebelkorn [3]; 3. Gill [5]; 4. Josh Dahlsten [1]; 5. John Dahlsten [2]
Heat 2: 1. Monson [3]; 2. Evans [4]; 3. Sabin [5]; 4. Heun [2]; 5. Deboer [1]
