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GASE, PLUMMER SCORE REPEAT WINS ON CASSILL MOTORS NIGHT AT
HAWKEYE DOWNS
McGlothlen, Dallas Chandler ,Petrzelka Among Other Winners
By Brad Grupe
CEDAR, RAPIDS, IA (June 3, 2011) - Racing action continued Friday night at
Hawkeye Downs Speedway as Cassill Motors-Your Friend in the Car Business-
presented action in the Papa Johns Cup/I-Wireless Championship Series. All
six Hawkeye Downs divisions were in action on a hot, steamy summerlike
evening.
The Innovative Signs Promoters Choice Trophy Dash switched to the McGrath
POwersports INEX Legends Division this wee with six drivers doing battle for
six laps on the quarter-mile. Troy Burkhart of Urbana earned a new piece of
hardware for the trophy case, beating Brogan Fiala to the stripe.
The first feature of the evening saw Matt Petrzelka of Norway taking top
honors in the Barron Motor Supply Hobby Stock division. Jeremy Robbins led
the early going before Nathan Ballard and Petrzelka started battling for the
lead. Petrzelka appeared to have a little better handling car and was able
to keep the lead and secure the wins as the final laps ticked off the Miller
Lapboard. Ballard, the current point leader, maintained second while Robbins
was third.
Greg Hentrich lead the early going in the Coca-Cola Sportsmen feature before
Dave Ballstaedt and Ben Glascock joined in the fray. Glascock ran the high
line and powered into the lead on lap five and held the point until lap
twelve when Dave Ballstaedt pulled alongside and the two battled and banged
the remaining laps to the checkered flag. Ballstaedt edged Glascock at the
line by a scant .032 seconds winning the very entertaining feature. Craig
Stepanek finished a strong third in his second outing of the season.
Rod McGlothlen of Oskaloosa piloted his #95 McGrath Powersports Legend to
his second straight victory Friday night, easily outdistancing Matt Blake.
McGlothlen bolted into the lead on the first lap and was untouchable the
rest of the 30-lap feature. The win comes one week after he scored a feature
win in a completely different car. Finishing behind second-place Blake were
Troy Burkhart, Brogan Fiala, and Brian Kamer.
Tim Plummer passed race leader Ryan Luedtke at the halfway mark of the
20-lap Budweiser Modified Feature to take his fourth win of the 2011 season.
A lap five caution erased the early lead that Luedtke had built and enabled
Plummer to make what would be the winning pass on lap ten. Luedtke dropped
back a bit on the next lap allowing the #88, driven by Johnny Spaw, to take
control of second., Spaw was able to gain some ground on Plummer but still
finished over a second behind the leader as they crossed the stripe. Brian
Gibson finished third, Luedtke was fourth, and Jason Beauregard crossed in
fifth. While Plummer currently holds a sizable lead in the points he
indicates he will miss some races this season due to campaigning the #74
late model at other events.
The Sunline Hornets Feature win was awarded to Dallas Chandler after the
apparent winner on the track, Kurt Bohnsack, failed post-race inspection.
Chandler had led earlier in the race but was passed by Bohnsack on lap
seven. A couple cautions later in the race kept the action close with recent
winner Derek Parrott moving into the picture in the closing laps. The
revised finish order saw Parrott finishing second followed by Brad Chandler
and Nate Chandler. Dallas Chandler is the fourth different winner in as many
races in the division. He’s also the third different Chandler to score a win
this season.
Joey Gase picked up his third win of the season in Performance Concepts Late
Models but it certainly wasn’t an easy one. Gase, Kyle Hinrichs, and last
weeks’ winner Brad Osborn ran over a full lap in a three-wide battle before
Gase appeared to back off a bit giving Osborn the point. Osborn built a
sizable lead at the halfway mark but Gase was still within striking distance
as the laps ticked off. With 10 laps remaining, Gase s once again on
Osborn’s tail and in fact took a brief lead with seven laps to go but it was
erased when caution reverted the order to the last lap.
Once racing resumed the battle resumed as well with Gase wrestling the lead
from Osborn with three circuits remaining. Osborn tried a couple different
lines in the last couple laps but came up .196 seconds short at the stripe
with Gase scoring the win. Andy Edwards posted another strong run finishing
in third while Tim Plummer was fourth and Mason Mitchell fifth.
JUNE 3, 2011 RESULTS
BARRON MOTOR SUPPLY HOBBY STOCKS
HEAT- 1. Matt Petrzelka, Norway; 2.Nathan Ballard, Marengo; 3.Jeremy
Robbins, Swisher; 4. Matt Lacoursiere, Cedar Rapids; 5. Brad Chandler, Cedar
Rapids;DNS-Brian Bries, Norway
FEATURE (15 laps) 1. Petrzelka 2.Ballard 3.Lacoursiere 4.Robbins 5.Bries
DNS-Chandler
COCA-COLA SPORTSMEN
HEAT- 1.Greg Hentrich, Hiawatha; 2.Ben Glascock, Indianola; 3.David
Ballstaedt, Marion; 4.Craig Stepanek, Cedar Rapids; 5. Cory Houdek, Marion
6.Bryan Klein, Cedar Rapids; 7. Malena Betzer, Cedar Rapids
FEATURE (20 laps) 1. Ballstaedt 2.Glascock 3.Stepanek 4.Hentrich 5.Klein
6.Houdek 7.Betzer
MCGRATH POWERSPORTS LEGENDS
INNOVATIVE SIGNS TROPHY DASH- Troy Burkhart, Urbana
HEAT- 1.Rod McGlothlen, Oskaloosa; 2.Matt Blake, Cedar Rapids; 3.Troy
Burkhart, Urbana; 4.Bryce Bailey, Cedar Rapids; 5. Dennis Diercks,
Davenport; 6.Ken Brown 7. Brogan Fiala, Fairfax; 8. Caleb Adrian, Davenport
FEATURE (30 laps) 1. McGlothlen 2.Blake 3.Burkhart 4.Fiala 5.Brian Kamer 6.
Diercks 7.Brown 8.Bailey 9. Adrian
BUDWEISER MODIFIEDS
HEAT 1- 1.Tim Plummer, Cedar Rapids; 2.Ryan Luetke, Norway; 3.Johnny Spaw,
Cedar Rapids; 4.Steve Lindell, Marion; 5.James Dixon, Cedar Rapids
HEAT 2- 1. Brian Gibson, Walford; 2.Jason Beauregard, Cedar Rapids; 3. Craig
Bender, Cedar Rapids; 4.Tim Dains, Marion
FEATURE (20 laps) 1. Plummer 2.Spaw 3.Gibson 4.Luedtke 5.Beauregard
6.Lindell 7.Dixon 8.Bender 9. Dains
SUNLINE HORNETS
HEAT 1- 1. Nate Chandler, Cedar Rapids; 2.Derek Parrott, Marion; 3.Dallas
Chandler, Cedar Rapids; 4. Jeff Dvorak, Lisbon; 5.Parker Anderson, Marion;
6.Dakota Dains, Marion; 7.James Yochum, Cedar Rapids; 8.Aaron Jarvis, Center
Point; 9.John Ness, Cedar Rapids
HEAT 2- 1.Brad Chandler, Cedar Rapids; 2.Todd Ness, Cedar Rapids; 3.Casey
Bilden, Cedar Rapids; 4.Jose DeJesus, Cedar Rapids; 5.James Stevens, Cedar
Rapids; 6.Kurt Bohnsack, Iowa City; 7.Joe Bean, Cedar Rapids; 8. Brandon
Klein, Cedar Rapids
FEATURE (20 laps) 1. Dallas Chandler 2. Parrott 3.Brad Chandler 4.Todd Ness
5.Bilden 6.John Ness 7.Dvorak 8.Stevens 9.Dains 10.Nate Chandler 11.Anderson
12.Jarvis 13.Yochum 14.Klein 15. DeJesus 16.Bean
PERFORMANCE CONCEPTS LATE MODELS
HEAT 1.- 1. Brad Osborn, Janesville; 2.Andy Edwards, New Hartford; 3. Brian
Allen, Hiawatha; 4.Chad Siems, Shellsburg; 5.Jay Jaspers, Steamboat Rock; 6.
Tucker Cory, Quincy, IL
HEAT 2.- 1.Kyle hinrichs, Swisher; 2.Joey Gase, Cedar Rapids; 3.Mason
Mitchell, West Des Moines; 4.Tim Plummer, Cedar Rapids; 5.Scott Siems, Cedar
Rapids
FEATURE (30 laps) 1. Gase 2.Osborn 3.Edwards 4.Plummer 5.Mitchell 6.Allen
7.Siems 8.Jaspers 9.Siems 10.Hinrichs 11.Cory
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