Berry Wins Again on Triple E Insulators Night in MoTown

As the Month of July wraps up its hard to think in a few weeks weekly racing action will be completed before the hopes of getting all fall specials in looms. Marshalltown Speedway did exactly that as they wrapped up the month of July on a very beautiful Friday Night for Triple E Insulators Night at the Races.

One Hundred Twenty One cars signed in to tame the high banked quarter mile race track located on the Central Iowa Fairgrounds. Fourteen MADCRA Mod Lites, 30 IMCA Hobby Stocks, 19 IMCA Sport Mods, 22 IMCA Stock Cars, 15 IMCA Late Models and 21 IMCA Modifieds.

First feature of the night was the 15 lap MADCRA Mod Lites feature event. Cliff Barber driving Kevin Grisham's car led the first lap but it was Joel Huggins known as "Huggie Bear" grabbing the top spot on lap two. Huggins wrestled the lead away and fend off several challenges from Mike Morrill to take his first feature win in Motown. Morrill finished second, Points leader Randy Bryan finished third, Ben George was fourth and Travis Stensland was fifth.

Ryan King wrestled the early in the 18 lap IMCA Sport Mods feature but the caution came out on lap two. The caution came out when Austin Kaplan blew the transmission exiting turn four leaving debris all over the front stretch. King held off Joseph Luethje and Kyle Olson. King led until the caution came out again on lap four for Cory Petotnik and Jared Dew in turn four. Johnathon Logue got a great restart and took over the race lead. The caution came out on lap eight when Dennis Stewart spun in turn two and then again on lap nine when Luethje and Dew spun turn two. Logue held off King and Kyle Olson and appeared to be heading on to the easy win until the caution was displayed one final time on lap 14 for Pestotnik, Dew and Brian Lepa in turn two. Logue held off any challenges to take his second win in Motown this season. Olson finished runner-up honors, eleventh place starter Garrett Nelson finished third, Travis Peterson was fourth and King was fifth.

In the IMCA Hobby Stocks 15 lap feature event, Nathan Ballard led from start to finish fending off several early challenges from Jacob Floyd. Lap two saw a caution when Scott Ellis spun in turn four. Ben Newhouse spun in turn one on lap five also bring out a caution. Ballard was not fazed and got great restarts however the caution came out again on lap ten, not once but twice. First caution was for Mike Kincaid, Gary Pfantz and Tom Killen spin exiting turn four. The restart saw Scott Durlin, Newhouse, William Klosterman, Matt Wahl and Shane Palmer get togther exiting turn four. Ballard went on to claim the win ahead of Floyd, Braden Richards, Solomon Bennett and Tyler Ollendieck.

Bobby Hansen grabbed the early lead in the 20 lap IMCA Late Models feature before the caution came out on lap four. The caution came out when Thomas Stevens spun in turn two and then again on the restart when a buried infield tire was ripped out of the ground. Hansen held off Curtis Glover and Darrel DeFrance on the restart and continued to lead until lap eight when Glover took the lead over. Glover settled out front until the caution came out on lap 11 for Randy Faux spinning top side of turn four. Glover went on to take the feature event. Luke Pestka wrestled the second place ahead of DeFrance. Logan Duffy and Hansen finished fourth and fifth respectively. DeFrance heads into next week with a three point gap over Duffy which means it will come down to the final checkered next week.

The Class Too Tough Too Tame is the IMCA Stock Cars and they were up next for their 18 lap feature event. Jason Hall led the first lap before the caution came out when Jim Ball Jr slid off turn two. Kenzie Ritter got great restart and grabbed the lead away from Hall before Dallon Murty worked his way through the field. Dallon Murty grabbed the race lead on lap nine and after fending off Kenzie Ritter pulled away just bit. Dallon Murty took his second win at Marshalltown ahead of Damon Murty, Kenzie Ritter, David Atcher and Tyler Pickett.

A friend of the Trackside Report, Josh Capalla finally got a full night of racing in and got to see the checkered flag crossing the finish line in fifteenth place, he did a great job in only fourth night behind the wheel.

Final feature of the night was the 20 lap IMCA Modifieds feature event. Garrett Wilson grabbed the race lead but on lap three jumped the cushion in turns three and four allowing Tom Berry Jr to take over the race lead. Berry pulled away and never really looked back until the caution came out on lap fifteen. The caution was for Ronnie Hults going off top of turn three and then on the restart for Jared Van Deest spinning in turn one collecting Hults. Berry held off Scott Simatovich and Anthony Hofbauer to take the win. That is win number six and third in a row at MoTown. Hofbauer, Tim Ward, Ronn Lauritzen and Scott Simatovich round out the top five.

Night of racing was completed in less than three hours as the first heat race took green at 7:30pm and the final checkered flag was waived at 10:23pm.

Next Friday Night August 7th will be Shawn's Hay Grinding Night at the Races, it will also be Season Championship Night for the IMCA Late Models. Also Racing is IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Hobby Stocks and MADCRA Mod Lites. Hot Laps at 6:50pm and Racing at 7:30pm.

Remaining Marshalltown Speedway Weekly Schedule : Bob Harris Enterprises Night on August 14th featuring $1,000 to win Sport Mods, KMJ Performance / Speed Shift TV FREE Grandstand Night on August 21st plus North Iowa Vintage Cars and North 3rd Ave Dairy Queen Larry Wollam Season Championship on August 28th.

The Month of September features four special races : September 4th Safelite Auto Glass Showdown at MoTown, September 17th Dale DeFrance Memorial, September 18th and 19th Fourteenth Annual World Nationals.

For more information about Marshalltown Speedway checked out marshalltownspeedway.com or like the Facebook page Marshalltown Speedway or contact promoter Toby Kruse at toby@marshalltownspeedway.com.

Marshalltown Speedway
Triple E Insulators Night at the Races
Friday July 31st, 2020

IMCA Late Models

Feature (20 laps) : 1. 32 Curtis Glover (Knoxville); 2. 99 Luke Pestka (Robins); 3. 99D Darrel DeFrance (Marshalltown); 4. 14 Logan Duffy (Independence); 5. 9 Bobby Hansen (Center Point); 6. 60 Dalton Simonsen (Fairfax); 7. 301 Shawn Cooney (Des Moines); 8. 10 Jacob Waterman (Colona, Ill.); 9. 22 Jill George (Cedar Falls); 10. 66 Todd Johnson (Mitchellville); 11. 13JR Colton Leal (Dubuque); 12. 11 Randy Faux (Earlham); 13. 7 Jenna Johnson (Mitchellville); 14. 3D Thomas Stevens (Guernsey); 15. 13 Michael Leal (Pacific Junction)

Heat 1 (8 laps) : 1. DeFrance; 2. Glover; 3. Hansen; 4. George; 5. Michael Leal; 6. Waterman; 7. Jenna Johnson; 8. Stevens

Heat 2 (8 laps) : 1. Simonsen; 2. Duffy; 3. Pestka; 4. Todd Johnson; 5. Cooney; 6. Faux; 7. Colton Leal

IMCA Modifieds

Feature (20 laps) : 1. 11X Tom Berry Jr (Des Moines); 2. 13 Anthony Hofbauer (Huxley); 3. 4TW Tim Ward (Chandler, Ariz.); 4. 10K Ronn Lauritzen (Jesup); 5. 43S Scott Simatovich (State Center); 6. 5G Gatlin Leytham (Toledo); 7. 82 Jake McBirnie (Boone); 8. 175 Kyle Heckman (Bakersfield, Calif.); 9. 5L Cody Laney (Torrance, Calif.); 10. 3W Garrett Wilson (Carlisle); 11. 164 Brandon Leeman (Roland); 12. 41 Thor Anderson (Rock Valley); 13. 77X Austin Kuehl (Cave Creek, Ariz.); 14. 2Z Zack Rawlins (Kellogg); 15. 42RH Ronnie Hults (Truro); 16. 198 Sam Wieben (Dysart); 17. 333 Rob Charapata (Green Bay, Wis.); 18. 5 Jason Morehouse (Evansdale); 19. 27 Tim Love (Kelley); 20. 80J Jared Van Deest (Holland); 21. 48J Jacob Murray (Hartford)

Heat 1 (8 laps) : 1. Ward; 2. Wilson; 3. Leytham; 4. Heckman; 5. Murray; 6. Love; 7. Hults

Heat 2 (8 laps) : 1. Simatovich; 2. Berry; 3. Laney; 4. McBirnie; 5. Wieben; 6. Anderson; 7. Kuehl
Heat 3 (8 laps) : 1. Hofabuer; 2 Lauritzen; 3. Van Deest; 4. Rawlins; 5. Charapata; 6. Leeman; 7. Morehouse

IMCA Stock Cars

Feature (20 laps) : 1. 99 Dallon Murty (Chelsea); 2. 99D Damon Murty (Chelsea); 3. 121 Kenzie Ritter (Keystone); 4. 2 David Atcher (Laurel); 5. 5A Tyler Pickett (Boxholm); 6. 94 Steve Meyer (Grundy Center); 7. 7SR Shawn Ritter (Keystone); 8. 20V Dustin Vis (Cedar Rapids); 9. 38C Kellie Drury (Eldora); 10. 14C Leah Wroten (Independence); 11. 1X Michael Peterson (Montezuma); 12. 95J Jason Hall (Grinnell); 13. 4 Scott Rice (Marshalltown); 14. 5JR Jami Ritter (Keystone); 15. 3X Josh Capalla (Marshalltown); 16. 7B Jim Ball Jr (Independence); 17. 78B Andrew Burg (Maricopa, Ariz.); 18. 56 Joseph Hofbauer (Huxley); 19. 20J Josh Vis (Cedar Rapids); 20. 22R Todd Reitzler (Grinnell); 21. 48G Austin Gray (Story City); DNS 22K Kevin Rose (Waterloo)

Heat 1 (8 laps) : 1. Shawn Ritter; 2. Dallon Murty; 3. Pickett; 4. Dustin Vis; 5. Wroten; 6. Gray; 7. Capalla; DNS Burg

Heat 2 (8 laps) : 1. Peterson; 2. Damon Murty; 3. Jami Ritter; 4. Hofbauer; 5. Rose; 6. Meyer; 7. Josh Vis

Heat 3 (8 laps) : 1. Atcher; 2. Kenzie Ritter; 3. Hall; 4. Drury; 5. Rice; 6. Reitzler; 7. Ball

IMCA Sport Mods

Feature (18 laps) : 1. 69JR Johnathon Logue (Logansport); 2. K3 Kyle Olson (Cedar Rapids); 3. 95N Garrett Nelson (Osceola); 4. 25 Travis Peterson (Gladbrook); 5. 57R Ryan King (Tama); 6. 14X Austin Schrage (Cresco); 7. 14 Brian Schrage (Cresco); 8. 19F Fred Leytham (Garwin); 9. K9 Brian Kauffman (Reinbeck); 10. 22JR Brady Hilmer (Dysart); 11. 98X Bill Hildreth (Iowa Falls); 12. 14A Brandon Allison (Oskaloosa); 13. 98S Dennis Stewart (Marshalltown); 14. 62C Cory Pestotnik (Boone); 15. 7L Brian Lepa (Waterloo); 16. 4J Jared Dew (Parkersburg); 17. 33J Joseph Luethje (Nevada); 18. 146 Austin Kaplan (Collins); DNS 4 Chance Titus (Baxter)

Heat 1 (8 laps) : 1. Logue; 2. Titus; 3. Brian Schrage; 4. Pestotnik; 5. Kauffman; 6. Lepa; 7. Leytham

Heat 2 (8 laps) : 1. Kaplan; 2. King; 3. Olson; 4. Hildreth; 5. Allison; 6. Dew
Heat 3 (8 laps) : 1. Nelson; 2. Peterson; 3. Austin Schrage; 5. Luethje; 6. Hilmer; 7. Stewart

IMCA Hobby Stocks

Feature (15 laps) : 1. 29 Nathan Ballard (Marengo); 2. 14J Jacob Floyd (Cedar Rapids); 3. 11R Braden Richards (Madrid); 4. 11B Solomon Bennett (Minburn); 5. 24T Tyler Ollendieck (Tripoli); 6. 73 Aaron Martin (Richland); 7. 37G Jeremiah Andrews (Union); 8. 43 Kevin LeBeau (Dallas Center); 9. 1 Kaden Reynolds (Cedar Rapids); 10. 19 August Bach (Reinbeck); 11. 47X Darin DeZwarte (Knoxville); 12. 20A Steven Crees (Des Moines); 13. 40SE Scott Ellis (Marshalltown); 14. 12 Mike Kincaid (Cincinnati); 15. 57C Cory Ogden (Cedar Rapids); 16. 17X Ben Newhouse (State Center); 17. 18S Gary Ollendieck (Sumner); 18. 3X Scott Durlin (Ames); 19. 21P Shane Palmer (Huxley); 20. 20W Matt Wahl (West Des Moines); 21. 11K William Klosterman (Ackley); 22. 4X Gary Pfantz (State Center); 23. 1K Tom Killen Jr (Des Moines); 24. 00A Carl Agan (Altoona)

B-Feature (8 laps) : 1. Reynolds; 2. DeZwarte; 3. Durlin; 4. Ogden; 5. 17 Andy Peck (Newton); 6. 43J John Irwin (Hedrick); 7. 28 Josh Killen (Des Moines); 8. 57 Marlena Betzer (Central City); 9. 15D Dan Brady (Deep River); DNS 57M Mike Holtz (Cedar Rapids)

Heat 1 (8 laps) : 1. Martin; 2. Gary Ollendieck; 3. Crees; 4. Ellis; 5. LeBeau; 6. Brady; 7. Durlin; 8. Ogden

Heat 2 (8 laps) : 1. Ballard; 2. Floyd; 3. Klosterman; 4. Kincaid; 5. Andrews; 6. DeZwarte; 7. Josh Killen; 8. Holtz

Heat 3 (8 laps) : 1. Newhouse; 2. Richards; 3. Tyler Ollendieck; 4. Palmer; 5. Agan; 6. Irwin; 7. Reynolds

Heat 4 (8 laps) : 1. Pfantz; 2. Bennett; 3. Bach; 4. Tom Killen; 5. Wahl; 6. Peck; 7. Betzer

MADCRA Mod Lites

Feature (15 laps) : 1. X50 Joel Huggins (Des Moines); 2. 6 Mike Morrill (Altoona); 3. 64 Randy Bryan (Ames); 4. 4G Ben George (Altoona); 5. 89 Travis Stensland (Nevada); 6. 46Z Bryan Zehm (Ames); 7. 20 Jeff Stensland (Nevada); 8. 4 Matt Sorenson (Bondurant); 9. 31K Cliff Barber (Nevada); 10. 4B Douglas Byers (Grinnell); 11. 17S Chris Weir (Colo); 12. T3 Tonia Stevens (Guernsey); 13. 8W Joe Wood (Boone); DNS 3T Tanner Gannon (Des Moines)

Heat 1 (6 laps) : 1. Barber; 2. Morrill; 3. George; 4. Bryan; 5. Byers; 6. Gannon; 7. Stevens

Heat 2 (6 laps) : 1. Jeff Stensland; 2. Travis Stensland; 3. Sorenson; 4. Zehm; 5. Huggins; 6. Weir; 7. Wood