Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway Finally Gets Season Opener
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By: Tony Paris
BLOOMFIELD, IA (May 9) - After three straight weeks of cancelations the
Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway opened with six exciting classes sponsored
by IA-MO Grain and Community First Bank and the return of the Junior Fan
Club for the young racers sponsored by Sue Guiter in honor of Reggie Guiter.
The Taylor Automotive & Lee Construction Stock Car Feature was won by Ben
Jones of Williamsburg who passed Nathan Wood of Keswick with six laps
remaining to take the first feature of the night with Wood taking second
followed by Mike Harward of Floris in third and Howard Gordon Jr. of
Oskaloosa taking fourth after starting last.
The Bennett Racing Supplies USRA B-Modifieds saw a nice car count for
there second year of competition with fourteen racers checked in with Andrew
Schroeder of Keswick taking the win over Ray Lundry of Maynard with Charles
Van Boening of Paris, Mo. in third and Cory Brown of Ottumwa taking the
fourth spot.
In the Kollision Korner Mini-Stocks first time visitor Derek Stills of
Anabel, Mo. Took the checkers passing Tyler Whalen of Riverside on the
seventh lap of the ten lap feature with Mike Florke of Washington in third
and Bill Whalen Jr. of Riverside in fourth.
The Mid-America 305 winged Sprint cars took to the fast 3/8 mile speedway
with Louis Lynch of Glenwood, Mo. pacing the field for the first nine laps
before the action would stop for Chad Huston of Jamesport, Mo. who’s front
axel broke causing him to flipping in turn four. This would setup a six lap
shoot-out with Rob Kubli of Milo passing Lynch and taking the lead and
picked up his first win in the series The young racer Tasker Phillips of
Pleasantville would take second followed by Matt Stephenson of Des Moines
who started tenth to take third and Lynch in fourth.
The Mikel’s Inc. USRA hobby Stock feature went to Don Nunnikhoven of
Kellogg who passed Jason McDaniel of Eldon on lap seven and never looked
back with McDaniel in second followed by Mark Moore of Ottumwa in third and
Shawn Smothers of Oskaloosa in fourth. The final feature of the night was
the Pepsi-Cola A-Modifieds with the hometown guy Jim Lynch of Bloomfield
leading all twelve laps for the win followed by Cody Townsend of Bloomfield
in third and Casey Lancaster of Glenwood, Mo.in fourth.
Next weeks racing action will be sponsored by Elmer Wood Co. and Karr St.
Collision Center with five exciting classes in action with hot laps at 7PM
and Racing action at 7:30Pm.
KOLLISION KORNER MINI-STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Andrew Hurley, Macon, Mo. 2.Mike Florke, Riverside 3.Larry Hopkins,
Ottumwa 4.Gene Irwin, Bloomfield 5.Jim Garrett, Ottumwa 6.Kevin Garrett,
Bloomfield 7.David Probasco, Moulton
Heat#2-1.Bill Whalen Jr., Riverside 2.Devin Stills, Anabel, Mo. 3.Ryan
Moore, Centerville 4.Tyler Whalen, riverside 5.Mike Fisher, Blakesburg 6.Eli
Mast, Drakesville
A-Feature: 1.Stills 2.T.Whalen 3.Florke 4.B.Whalen 5.Hopkins 6.J.Garrett
7.Irwin 8.Moore 9.Mast 10.K.Garrett 11.Hurley 12.Fisher 13.Probasco
MIKEL’S INC. USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Jim Walker, Mystic 2.Tim Pettibon, Centerville 3.Nick Ulin, Agency
4.Andrew Hustedt, Rutledge, Mo.5.Dustin Griffiths, Ottumwa 6.Derek Kirkland,
Centerville
Heat#2-1.Jason McDaniel, Eldon 2.Danny Thrasher, Agency 3.Jim Sulser,
Centerville 4.T.J. Henderson, Douds 5.Tom Irwin, Bloomfield 6.Tyler
Shanahan,Centerville
Heat#3-1.Don Nunnikhoven, Kellogg 2.Mark Moore, Ottumwa 3.Dale Porter,
Pulaski 4.Shawn Smothers, Oskaloosa 5.Steve Allen, Oskaloosa 6.Jeremiah Fry,
Bloomfield
A-Feature: 1.Nunnikhoven 2.McDaniel 3.Moore 4.Smothers 5.Thrasher 6.Ulin
7.Porter 8.Walker 9.Sulser 10.Pettibon 11.Irwin 12.Allen 13.Shanahan
14.Henderson 15.Hustedt 16.Fry 17.Griffiths 18.Kirkland
BENNETT RACING SUPPLIES USRA B-MODS
Heat#1-1.James Maxey, Holliday, Mo. 2.Mike Wanders, Oskaloosa 3.Andrew
Schroeder, Keswick 4.Charles Van Boening, Paris, Mo. 5.Cory Brown, Ottumwa
6.Jamie Dunnik, Pella 7.Jared Miller, Des Moines
Heat#2-1.Ray Lundry, Maynard 2.Mike Shelton, Ottumwa 3.Tyler Groenendyk,
Oskaloosa 4.Brandon Martin, Eldon 5.Tanya Sederburg, Mt. Sterling 6.Shannon
Sample, Milton 7.Bill Young,Ottumwa
A-Feature:1.Schroeder 2.Lundry 3.Van Boening 4.Brown 5.Shelton 6.Groenendyk
7.Miller 8.Martin 9.Dunnik 10.Young 11.Maxey 12.Wanders 13.Sederburg
14.Sample
TAYLOR AUTOMOTIVE/LEE CONSTRUCTION STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1Mike Harward, Floris 2.Pat Rachels, Knoxville 3.Tyler McClure, Mt.
Pleasant 4.Phil McClure, Floris 5.Chris Hawkins, Drakesville 6.Cory
Townsend, Bloomfield 7.Clell Evan, Kirksville, Mo.
Heat#2-1.Mike Robinson, Moravia 2.Toby Johnson, Eldon 3.Ben Jones,
Williamburg 4.Nathan Wood, Keswick 5.Dave Bennett, Bloomfield 6.Howard
Gordon Jr.,Oskaloosa
A-Feature 1.Jones 2.Wood 3.Harward 4.Gordon 5.P.McClure 6.Bennett 7.Hawkins
8.T.McClure 9.Townsend 10.Johnson 11.Rachels 12.Robinson 13.Evans
PEPSI-COLA A-MODIFEDS
Heat#1-1.Jim Lynch, Bloomfield 2.Casey Lancaster, Glenwood, Mo.3.Scott
Dickey, Packwood 4.Jeff Hoffman, Ottumwa 5.Cody Townsend, Bloomfield 6.Kirk
Hopkins, Bloomfield 7.Jeremy Townsend, Bloomfield 8.Todd Holman, Ottumwa
A-Feature 1.Lynch 2.Townsend 3.Lancaster 4.Hopkins 5.Holman 6.Hoffman
7.Dickey 8.J.Townsend
MID-AMERICA 305 WINGED SPRINTS
Heat#1-1.Chad Huston, Jamesport, Mo. 2.Bob Lamb, Mitchellville 3.Rob Kubli,
Milo 4.Justin Gianetto, Cedar Rapids 5.Mark Widmar, Ottumwa 6.Patrick Long,
Hedrick
Heat#2-1.Mitchell Alexander, Knoxville 2.Tasker Phillips, Pleasantville
3.Louis Lynch, Glenwood, Mo. 4.Josh Padellford, Pleasantville 5.Matt
Stephenson, Des Moines 6.Mike Mayberry, Fremont 7.Cale Hutchings, Fairfield
A-Feature: 1.Kubli 2.Phillips 3.Stephenson 4.Lynch 5.Widmar 6.Gianetto
7.Alexander 8.Lamb 9.Padellford 10.Huston 11.Mayberry 12.Long 13.Hutchings
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