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Guss Wins Again
By Mike Sunken
EAST MOLINE, IL (August 25) - Mother Nature provided the Quad City Raceway
with a beautiful cool summer evening. 75 cars were on hand to do battle on
Hall of Fame voting night. Racing action was at its best as 3 and 4 wide
racing was the norm for the night. May familiar faces made there way to
victory lane.
First off the UMP 4 cylinders had two feature events. The first was a make
up from 2 weeks ago. In that race Todd Sibley, the current points leader,
was victorious. Todd led all 12 laps to secure the win, with Chad tucker and
Amie Woekenner rounding out the top 3. In the 2nd feature event, Polo
Illinois driver Scotty Powell picked up another win, getting by early race
leader, Pekin Illinois driver Eric Wisher on lap 7. Todd Sibley would finish
2nd and Wisher was 3rd. Heat races were won by Wisher and Powell.
In the Mod-lites, Jason Masengarb and Bobby Toland picked up heat race wins.
In the feature event Bobby Toland grabbed the early race lead and never
looked back to capture the 15 lap feature. Jason Masengarb and Shon Sanders
rounded out the top 3 spots.
In the UMP Street Stocks, the heat race was won by Chris Lawrence. The
feature event had lots excitement, as current point leader Matt Werner lead
the first 14 and 3/4 laps, but coming out of turns 3 and 4, Werner broke an
upper ball joint and came to stop in turn 4. Chris Lawrence took the lead
and the victory, moving Lawrence now into the point lead. Jimmy Simpson came
home with his best finish of the year 2nd,m and RJ Gonzalez, driving a
borrowed race car for the feature was 3rd.
The UMP Modifieds again drew a big field of cars, 24 in all. Heat races were
won by Mike Spatolla, Craig Crawford and Jason Pershy. The last chance race
was won by Dale Leuth. In the feature, Manhattan Illinois driver Mike
Spatolla grabbed the early race lead, but 9 laps in current UMP National
point leader Gary Cook Jr. Got by Spatolla on the bottom of turn 2. Cook
then moved to the high side of the track where Spatolla was running and
Spatolla went to the bottom. Spatolla was right there Coook Jr., getting
beside many times but just could not get by. Cook Jr. Went on to capture the
feature event with Spatolla 2nd. 15th starting Leland Bushong may of been
the fastest car on the track as he charged up to the front on the bottom,
catching both leaders, but just ended a bit short. Bushong wound up
finishing 3rd. Greg Durbin also had his best run of the year making his way
to the front coming home 4th. The consistent Craig Crawford would come home
in the 5th spot.
The IMCA Late Models stole show tho. With 1 more week left in the National
Points hunt things are really heating up at the top. Heat race action saw
Adam Opendike overtake DJ Burke on the final lap in turn 4 to tak the win
and Kevin Blum making an unbelievable pass on both Ray Guss Jr and Toland as
he split the 2 cars off 4 with 2 laps to go take heat race number 2. In the
feature event, your early race leader was Eric Sanders, but by lap 7 rob
Toland had worked hi way to the front of the 25 lap main event. Kevin Blum
was the next car to challenge Rob as the 2 ran side by side for man laps.
Then on lap 17 or so Ray Guss Jr got to the botttom of both driver and made
a 3 wide pass for the lead. Guss Jr would go on to take the win with Blum
finishing 2nd and Rob Toland would be 3rd. Rounding out the top 5 were Nate
Buesling and Gary Webb. This coming Sunday will be the final night of IMCA
National points as Blum has a very slight lead over Guss jr and Terry Neal.
The point battle will be decided this Sunday night at Quad City Raceway.
On August 30th Quad City Raceway will be having Kids box car races. So make
sure your kids make there box cars and come show them off Sunday Night. We
will also have a bike giveaway for the kids this Sunday night. Gates open at
4 pm and racing action starts at 6pm.
Aaron’s Affordable UMP 4 Cylinders– 13 cars
Heat 1–
1. 30 Eric Wisher
2. 21c Chad Tucker
3. 12a Amie Woekenner
4. 14 JR Brown
Heat 2–
1. 42x Scotty Powell
2. 125 Todd Sibley
3. 1 Taco Jones
4. 114x Mike Wisdom
Make up feature from 8-11
1. 125 Todd Sibley
2. 21c Chad Tucker
3. 12a Amie Woekenner
4. 1 Taco Jones
5. 114x Mike Wisdom
6. 106 Derrick Courson
7. 93 Arthur Caryle
8. 21 Dale Tucker
Feature–
1. 42x Scotty Powell
2. 125 Todd Sibley
3. 30 Eric Wisher
4. 21c Chad Tucker
5. 1 Taco Jones
6. 14b JR Brown
7. 106 Derrick Courson
8. 114x Mike Wisdom
9. 12a Amie Woekenner
10. 21 Dale Tucker
11. 7 Andy Mayberry
DNS– 39g Justin Veloz and 93 Arthur Caryle
Mod-Lites– 13 cars
Heat 1–
1. 30 Jason Masengarb
2. 88 Jeremy Mowery
3. 8g Dan Guss
4. 3 Dave Imming
Heat 2–
1. 1 Bobby Toland
2. 007 David Norton
3. 4 Shon Sanders
4. 77 Greg Rossell
Feature–
1. 1 Bobby Toland
2. 30 Jason Masengarb
3. 4 Shon Sanders
4. 77 Greg Rossell
5. 8g Dan Guss
6. 3 Dave Imming
7. 88 Jeremy Mowery
8. 8 Bobby Fox
9. 007 David Norton
10. 69 Danny Etheridge
11. 17b Cody Brown
12. 3g Jeremy Mowery
13. 15 Chas Art
Extreme Auto Glass UMP Street Stocks– 10 cars
Heat 1–
1. 8L Chris Lawrence
2. 93 Matt Werner
3. 88 Jimmy Simpson
4. 3g Jeremy Mowery
Feature–
1. 8L Chris Lawrence
2. 88 Jimmy Simpson
3. 39g RJ Gonzalez
4. 3g Jeremy Mowery
5. 68 Jason Church
6. 93 Matt Werner
7. 03 Chris Hambright
8. 85jr Erick Turner
9. 93d Dustin Patz
DNS– 8 Rick Shriner
Eastern Iowa Landscaping LLC UMP Modifieds– 24 cars
Heat 1–
1. 89 Mike Spatolla
2. 40 Doug Crampton
3. 83 Nathan Balensiefen
4. 85 Leland Bushong
Heat 2–
1. 29 Craig Crawford
2. 75 Chad Tomlinson
3. Z Mike Zemo Jr.
4. 15 Brandon Durbin
Heat 3–
1. 17 Jason Pershy
2. 64 Gary Cook Jr.
3. 43 Milo Veloz Jr.
4. 8 Greg Durbin
Last Chance Race–
1. 96L Dale Leuth
2. 88j Jerry Bailey Jr.
3. 6j Andy Warner
4. 52 Nick Hillyer
5. 15b Brad Pershy
Feature–
1. 64 Gary Cook Jr.
2. 89 Mike Spatolla
3. 85 Leland Bushong
4. 8 Greg Durbin
5. 29 Craig Crawford
6. 96L Dale Leuth
7. 15 Brandon Durbin
8. 83 Nathan Balensiefen
9. 17 Jason Pershy
10. 88j Jerry Bailey Jr.
11. 6j Andy Warner
12. 43 Milo Veloz Jr.
13. 52 Nick Hillyer
14. 75 Chad Tomlinson
15. Z Mike Zemo Jr.
16. 70 Jeff Morris
17. 15b Brad Pershy
18. 50 Andy Clark
19. 40 Doug Crampton
20. 71 Casey Lappin
DNS– 39 Pepe Gellerstadt
DNQ– 64x Bill Klingbiel, 89x TJ Patz, and 6 Stanley Vervynk
Avenue Rental IMCA Late Models– 15 cars
Heat 1–
1. 29 Adam Opendike
2. 21 DJ Burke
3. 46 Nate Buesling
4. 75m Todd Malmstrom
Heat 2–
1. 54 Kevin Blum
2. 39 Rob Toland
3. 58 Ray Guss Jr.
4. Z2 Gary Webb
Feature–
1. 58 Ray Guss Jr.
2. 54 Kevin Blum
3. 39 Rob Toland
4. 46 Nate Buesling
5. Z2 Gary Webb
6. 29 Adam Opendike
7. 95 Eric Sanders
8. 42 Kevin Dickey
9. 165 David Englekens
10. 53 LeRoy Brenner
11. 75m Todd Malmstrom
12. 21g Cory Goldbeck
13. 21 DJ Burke
14. J28 Steve Gustaf Jr.
15. 7 Stephan Kammerrer
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