Friday night found me attending the Marshalltown Speedway for the ninth time this season. Makes sense as it is the closest track to my house, but with all my traveling I'm a bit surprised I've made it that many times. Tonight's show had a little bit extra hype as it was rumored that Kansas modified hotshoe David Murray was going to unveil his Victory car for Supernationals. Well, Murray showed up, but he didn't come alone. Jason Schoenberger, another Kansas modified driver, would also make the long pull to compete on this night.
First up though would be the dwarf cars/mod lites. Joel Huggins took control from the drop of the green flag while point leader Mike Morrill carved his way through the field to fourth place before the halfway point. Morrill would pass Josh May for the third spot before passing Johnny Murdock for second with six laps remaining. The gap was too big to make up as Joel Huggins took the win. Mike Morrill was second, Johnny Murdock third, Josh May fourth, and James May fifth.
IMCA sportmods took to the track next for their fifteen-lap feature event. Mike Grantham took the top spot on lap one while a few laps later Jake Strayer passed Bill Hildreth on the inside to snare the second spot away. Kevin Sather was working his way towards the front and found himself up to fourth until a caution flag put him back a spot in fifth on the restart. Grantham would scoot up the racetrack and allowed Brad Iverson to dart to the lead. That didn't last long, however, as Grantham would spin on the next lap to bring out the caution again. At that point, Iverson was docked two spots for apparently jumping the first restart, handing the lead over to Kevin Sather. Austin Kaplan got a run on the inside to take over third while point leader Scott Davis experienced troubles as his car spun around in turn two. Kevin Sather would capitalize on that as he took home the win and unofficially became the point leader in the process. Austin Kaplan finished second, Jake Strayer third, Brad Iverson fourth, and Neil Follett rounded out the top five.
1. 3E Kevin Sather
2. 1 Austin Kaplan
3. 18J Jake Strayer
4. 8 Brad Iverson
5. 32N Neil Follett
6. 98 Bill Hildreth
7. 3s Miles Shelman
8. 99 Jenae Gustin
9. 7R Ryan Ashton
10. 81D Scott Davis
A field of eighteen IMCA stock cars were next to do battle on the highbanks as pole sitter Tommy Thompson led the first couple of laps. Point leader Dustin Smith methodically carved his way through traffic on his way to the front while his brother David took over the lead from Thompson. At that point the Smith brothers were running first and second with David holding down the top spot. Jeff Wollam diamonded a set of corners to slip past Thompson for the third position. Dustin Smith followed his brother's tire tracks until four laps to go when he dove to the inside to take the lead away. From that point on it was all Dustin Smith as he captured his 10th win of the season at Marshalltown to extend his already impressive point lead. David Smith finished second, Jeff Wollam third, Dustin Vis fourth, and Damon Murty rounded out the top five.
1. 85 Dustin Smith (shocks claimed by 22K Kevin Rose)
2. 8 David Smith
3. 3w Jeff Wollam
4. 20V Dustin Vis
5. 99D Damon Murty
6. 72 Tommy Thompson
7. 75 Rick Brown
8. 59 Tracy Gienger
9. 2 Dave Atcher
10. 17s Rob Schneider
11. 93 Michael Jaennette
12. 04 Don Vis
13. 22K Kevin Rose
14. 52 Robert Engelkes
15. 36 Trevor Titus
16. 61 Wendy Reisinger
17. 17AJ Joe Luethje
18. 94 Steve Meyer
A solid field of nineteen IMCA modifieds were ready for twenty laps of exciting action. Kyle Krampe used the outside front row to grab the lead on lap one while Mike O'Lear got inside of Rod Clement to take over second on lap three. Clement would make some contact with O'Lear going into turn one, resulting in both cars spinning and collecting a few other machines. Brett Ladehoff, last week's feature winner, dove to the inside of Krampe after the restart to take over the catbird seat on lap four. Krampe would lose the second spot a lap later to Todd Shute while on the next lap Adam Larson tried to slide up in front of Krampe in turn four. The two made contact and Krampe's machine would spin to the inside of the front stretch to bring out the caution. On the restart Larson, Jimmy Gustin, and Shute would go three-wide into turn three to determine the runner up spot. Gustin would come out with the advantage while Shute would later spin in turn two.
As mentioned in the opening paragraph, David Murray was on hand and he was making a statement. He powered his new ride to third after passing Larson with five laps to go. He would later sneak by Gustin for the second position at the white flag, but that was the best he could do as Brett Ladehoff took home his second consecutive win at Marshalltown. David Murray finished with an impressive second place in his first-ever trip to Marshalltown. Jimmy Gustin was third, Adam Larson fourth, and Jon Snyder came home fifth.
1. 12x Brett Ladehoff
2. 23 David Murray
3. 19 Jimmy Gustin
4. 2L Adam Larson
5. 69x Jon Snyder
6. 43s Scott Simatovich
7. 3z Randy Havlik
8. 99M Tim Murty
9. 6 Jason Schoenberger
10. 19J Jay Schmidt
11. 83G Josh Gilman (Jimmy Gustin's backup car)
12. 40RC Rod Clement
13. 46 Tyler Vandekamp
14. 2x Mike O'Lear
15. 1K Pat Graham
16. 48J Jacob Murray
17. 5 Todd Shute
18. K1 Kyle Krampe
19. 21 David Brown
The final event of the night would be the IMCA hobby stocks. Dustin Filloon used the pole to take the lap one lead before a quick caution waved. Todd Reitzler drove to the outside of Filloon to snare the lead away while Michael Murphy used the slingshot move to pass Filloon later for second. Filloon would continue to drop back after Terry Shaffar and Devin Smith both made their way by. Shaffar would duck low on Murphy after a caution to take over the runner up spot, but it wasn't enough to knock off Todd Reitzler's journey to victory lane. Shaffar was second, Murphy third, Devin Smith fourth, and Pete Hutzel rounded out the top five.
1. 22R Todd Reitzler
2. 35 Terry Shaffar
3. 25M Michael Murphy
4. 81 Devin Smith
5. 74 Pete Hutzel
6. B00K Dylan Book
7. 12K Eric Knutson
8. 52 Josh Saunders
9. 45 Russell Keefer
Of course all these results are unofficial. Be sure to check out the Marshalltown Speedway website at http://www.marshalltownspeedway.com/ for official results. The track will have a short turnaround time as they will host the IMCA Deery Brothers late models on Tuesday, September 1. More information can be found on the track website.
- Racing may be a hobby, but it's DEFINITELY addictive!!
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