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Aug. 5 "Dirt At The Downs" next for Deery Brothers Summer
Series
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (July 31) - The annual adventure on asphalt is next on
the schedule for the Deery Brothers Summer Series, when IMCA Late Models
visit Hawkeye Downs Speedway on Aug. 5.
Sanctioned Stock Cars, Hobby Stocks and Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods,
along with the local hornet class, complete the Wednesday night card. The
grandstand opens at 6 p.m. and racing starts at 7:05 p.m.
Five-time tour champion Jeff Aikey of Waterloo won for the 50th time in his
Deery career in July and will come to town with a 36-point advantage over
Jason Frankel of Quincy., Ill., in the latest standings.
Aikey and Mike Smith of Jewell have each won three of the 16 previous Deery
events held at Hawkeye Downs.
NASCAR's Ken Schrader has visited Cedar Rapids to take a pair of checkers.
Among the drivers with one pavement victory apiece are Ray Guss Jr. of
Milan, Ill., who has won the last two series races on dirt, hometown pilot
Johnny Spaw and, last August, Darrel DeFrance of Marshalltown.
DeFrance has yet to miss a race in the series' 22-plus seasons. That streak
now stands at 345 consecutive events.
Grandstand admission next Wednesday will be $15 for adults, $8 for seniors
and students (ages 12-17) and $1 for kids 11 and under who are accompanying
a paid adult.
One hundred and twenty-four different drivers have competed in one or more
of the first 13 of 21 scheduled Deery events.
From Cedar Rapids, the series returns to dirt at the Iowa State Fairgrounds
Speedway in Des Moines on Tuesday, Aug. 18 and at Marshalltown Speedway on
Wednesday, Aug. 19.
The rescheduled race at Cresco Speedway is Aug. 25.
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