Season Championship Night at Dallas County Speedway

When Marshalltown Rained out on Friday after an afternoon rain storm that forced them to cancel, it was too late to get ready and make it too Sports Park Raceway in Fort Dodge on Friday so the talk of doing two races in one day was an idea. After talking myself into doing I planned for Dallas County Speedway in Adel and Boone Speedway in Boone.

Dallas County Speedway in Adel was hosting Season Championship Races on Saturday, started at 4:30pm with the first race going green and the final race was completed 7:09pm. The race track hasn't received rain since the Derecho so any water that was put on the racing surface was sucked right in that left the track dry. It still produced some great racing through out the night. Fifty-nine cars signed in for Season Championship night.

First feature of the night was the Junior Front Wheel Drive 8 lap race, Aubrey McKasson wrestled the early lead away from fellow front row starter Braelynn Long. McKasson held off any challenge, Long threw at here to take the win. Long finished second, Hannah Swedberg was third,  Amanda Lee was fourth and Zach Cleghorn was fifth. McKasson claimed the JR Front Wheel Drive track championship.

Cole Edgington claimed the early lead of the Stock (Figure 8) ten lap feature from the "The Goose" Rick Goldsberry. Edgington held off Goldsberry to go on to take the feature win. Goldsberry slipped up allowing Jesse Tarter, Chris Mitchell and Jerry Glass to get by him. Tarter finished second, Mitchell was third, Glass was fourth and Goldsberry was fifth. Goldsberry claimed the track championship.

Before a single lap was scored in the Front Wheel Drive ten lap feature the caution came out when Jordan Ford, Beau Purvis and Ethan Thompson got together in turn two. Mark Downing grabbed the race lead when the race finally got going with Matt Pool and Autumn Turner trailing him. The caution came out again on lap five when Ryan Hass hit the wall in turn three. On the restart, it came out again when Autumn Turner came to a stop on the back stretch after her car finally gave up. Mark Downing held off Jeremiah Downing to claim the feature win. Jeremiah Downing, Tanner Spolestra, Steven Fenton and Nate Fallin rounded out the top five. Autumn Turner hung on to win the track title over Mark Downing.

In the Pro-Stock Figure 8 Class twelve lap feature, JR Tarter grabbed the early lead holding off Joey Young. Nic Runyan got by Joey Young for second and was trying to get by Tarter. On lap seven, the caution came out when Young made contact with Runyan spinning him around. Tarter held on to the race lead until lap nine when Young forced him out of the way. Young went on to take the win, Runyan came back to finish second, Billy Fomaro was third and Tarter was fourth. Young was the Pro-Stock Track Champion.

 

James Tarter / Brianna Brickman showed why the are so tough in the Cruisers class as they lead from start to finish in the 12 lap feature event. Not even Brandon Tjaden / Brandan Long could make the pass for the race lead or would they let the lap five caution faze them. The caution was for Jeriray Croy / Johnnie Croy in turn two. Tarter and Brickman claimed the feature win and the track title. Tjaden / Long, BJ Charlson / Emily Rucker, Chris Mitchell / Shelbie West and Eugene LaRue / Monte Miller finished second through fifth respectively.

Casey McKasson led from start to finish in the Open (Figure 8) 12 lap feature but the real battle was behind him between Nic Runyan and Joey Young. Runyan spun Young on lap eight and went on to finish second. Young pulled off on lap nine but he would finish third and JR Tarter exited on lap one. Runyan claimed the Open Figure 8 track championship.

Final feature of the night was the Hobby Stocks 12 lap feature event, before a lap was compeleted the caution came out when Wes Millang and Brandon Tjaden got together in turn two. Jerry Glass grabbed the race lead on lap one but slipped up on lap two allowing Brandan Long to take over the race lead. The caution came out just after for debris on the back stretch. Long held off Glass until the caution came out twice on lap five for debris in turn two. Long held off Glass to take the feature win. Garrett Croy was third, Tjaden was fourth and JR Croy was fifth. Glass came in the night ten points up on Long and after all points have been added he would claim the track title by 10 pts.

This was the last scheduled race at the Dallas County Speedway in Adel. However last night in the drivers meeting, Darin Nelson and Scott Mineart announced the possibility of having a Fall Special race in October. So keep checking the Facebook Pages if that happens. 

For more information call Promoter Scott Mineart at 515-313-1121 or e-mail him at Dallascoraces@yahoo.com or DallasCoRaces Facebook Page for any updated information.

All the pictures I took last night are posted on the Trackside Report Facebook Page. If you share the pictures please give me credit because I do this for the love of this sport and not to make money, however if you want to give me some I wouldn't complain.

Dallas County Speedway
Adel, Iowa

* Unofficial Results *

Season Championship
Saturday August 29th, 2020

Junior Front Wheel Drive

Feature (8 laps) : 1. 95 Aubrey McKasson; 2. 00B Braelynn Long; 3. 15 Hannah Swedberg; 4. 41 Amanda Lee; 5. 14Z Zach Cleghorn

Heat : 1. Long; 2. McKasson; 3. Cleghorn; 4. Lee; 5. Swedberg

Stock (Figure 8)

Feature (10 laps) : 1. 3E Cole Edgington; 2. 3T Jesse Tarter; 3. 15 Chris Mitchell; 4. 9W Jerry Glass; 5. 55 Rick Goldsberry; 6. 07 Casey McKasson; 7. 616 Josh Haynes

Heat : 1. Goldsberry; 2. McKasson; 3. Edgington; 4. Haynes; 5. Glass; 6. Mitchell; 7. Tarter

Front Wheel Drive

Feature (12 laps) : 1. 5D Mark Downing; 2. 5DJR Jeremiah Downing; 3. 18S Tanner Spolestra; 4. 16 Steven Fenton; 5. 7F Nate Fallin; 6. 33 John Millang; 7. 16A Abbie Turner; 8. 74 Dustin Kingery; 9. 14 Matt Pool; 10. 17Z Autumn Turner; 11. 4X Ethan Thompson; 12. 89 Brandon Willamsen; 13. 76T Ryan Hass; 14. 33M Blake McCann; 15. 3B Beau Purvis; 16. 13J Jordan Ford; 17. 82 Robert Shimer; 18. 168 Mark Aeschlinan; DNS 31A John Alexander; DNS 012J Jarrett Huff; DNS 000J Jacob Grief

Heat 1 : 1. Jeremiah Downing; 2. Mark Downing; 3. Millang; 4. Shimer; 5. Thompson; 6. Ford; 7. Grief
Heat 2 : 1. McCann; 2. Pool; 3. Aeschlinan; 4. Willamsen; 5. Spolestra; 6. Fenton; 7. Alexander
Heat 3 : 1. Autumn Turner; 2. Hass; 3. Fallin; 4. Kingery; 5. Abbie Turner; 6. Purvis; 7. Huff

Pro Stock (Figure 8)

Feature (12 laps) : 1. 72 Joey Young; 2. 28 Nic Runyan; 3. 4 Billy Fomaro; 4. 8T JR Tarter; DNS 23K Russell Klisaris

Heat : 1. Runyan; 2. Young; 3. Tarter; 4. Fomaro; 5. Klisaris

Cruisers

Feature (12 laps) : 1. 2B James Tarter / Brianna Brickman; 2. 386B Brandon Tjaden / Brandan Long; 3. 37 BJ Charlson / Emily Rucker; 4. 15 Chris Mitchell / Shelbie West; 5. 88 Eugene LaRue / Monte Miller; 6. 23 Jeff Culp / Charles Belew; 7. 134 Jeriray Croy / Johnnie Croy

Heat 1 : 1. Mitchell / West; 2. Tjaden / Long; 3. Croy / Croy; 4. LaRue / Miller; 5. Culp / Belew; 6. Charlson / Rucker; 7. Tarter / Brickman

Open (Figure 8)

Feature (12 laps) : 1. 95 Casey McKasson; 2. 28 Nic Runyan; 3. 72 Joey Young; 4. 8T JR Tarter

Heat : 1. McKasson; 2. Runyan; 3. Tarter; 4. Young

Hobby Stocks

Feature (12 laps) : 1. 06B Brandan Long; 2. 2JR Jerry Glass; 3. 70X Garrett Croy; 4. 386B Brandon Tjaden; 5. 7TX JR Croy; 6. 9W Larry Routh Jr; 7. 37 Wes Millang; 8. 43 Ariadne LeBeau; 9. 37 BJ Charlson; 10. 70J Jason Collins

Heat 1 : 1. Glass; 2. Long; 3. Garrett Croy; 4. Tjaden; 5. Charlson
Heat 2 : 1. Millang; 2. Routh; 3. Collins; 4. JR Croy; 5. LeBeau