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Friday Nights Gambler A Bust At Speedway
By Denny Grabenbauer
MARSHALLTOWN, IA (April 24) - Friday’s perfect weather turned south on
Friday night as one-hundred and forty race teams and crews made there way to
the speedway for week number three. Media night and the Kruse Family Reunion
was scheduled and the Gambler race that was scheduled would all end early as
the rains came ending the nights racing action after nine o’clock, with
three features still yet to be run.
The evening would be rushed and hurried as the clouds and winds would move
above the raceway before giving way to rain showers ending the night’s
action. “There just is no way we could of continued with the rain that moved
in,” say’s promoter Toby Kruse. “We new we were gambling on this one, but we
kept going until the track took on to much rain for us to handle. We might
have been able to work it in, but it would probably take over an hour to do
it, so we will just start where we left off next Friday night. We are going
to begin with a drivers meeting at 6:30 a short hot lap session will follow
with racing starting around 7:00. This will be a great way to start the
month of May because we will be giving the fans three extra feature events
to start out the night.”
Even though the night was cut short, doesn’t mean the racing was any less
exciting because the track was fast and wide once again on this night. All
heat races were run off without a hitch, as drivers would jockey for
position.
The first feature of the night that would be run would be the Mod Lite Dwarf
Cars. With lightning building from the north, the action on the track was
tipsy for three drivers. On lap one Joel Huggins flipped wildly in between
turns three and four. Tim Hennigar would be the next driver, two laps later,
would get up side down on the back straight a way. Then it was Ivan Guerra’s
turn to take the wild ride as he flipped off of turn three. All three
drivers walked away and were uninjured. While cars were getting upside down,
Mike Morrill would keep his winning streak in tack as he would take the lead
on lap two and cruise to his four feature of the year. “I don’t have any
explanation for this winning streak, I am just going to enjoy it,” said
Morrill in victory lane. “I always come out and give it 100%. Sometimes you
win and sometimes you don’t so I’m just going to enjoy this, it’s a racers
dream.” Morrill, co-track champion in 2008 finished ahead of co-track
champion Andy Hennigar followed by Eric Hendrickson and Troy Hudson.
Kevin Sather would also keep his winning streak going, but it would take him
until the white flag lap to put his car in the lead. Paul Nagel would take
the lead on the opening lap then give way to Matt Lettow on lap three.
Lettow appeared to be on his way to his first victory. Lap traffic and rain
drops would give the break to Sather to charge into the lead coming off of
turn two to take the lead then go on for the win. Behind Sather Luke
Wanninger followed by Lettow and Brad Iverson.
Then, just as the Aarons I.M.C.A. Stock Cars pulled out on to the racetrack
the rains picked up and it would eventually end the night’s action.
The season will resume next Friday night with the three make up feature
events. The evening will begin at 7:00 after a short hot laps session.
MARSHALLTOWN SPEEDWAY FRIDAY April 24, 2009
By Denny Grabenbauer
“Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel” I.M.C.A. MODIFIED:
HEAT 1: Denny Rosenberg—Mike O’Lear—Adam Johnson
HEAT 2: Jay Schmidt—Brett Ladehoff—Scott Hogan
HEAT 3: Richie Gustin—Troy Cordes—Adam Larson
FEATURE: CANCELLED BECAUSE OF RAIN TO BE RUN MAY 1st
“Aarons” I.M.C.A. STOCK CAR:
HEAT 1: Brian Efkamp—Sean Johnson—Michael Jaennette
HEAT 2: Clay Deppe—Tracy Gienger—Dustin Smith
HEAT 3: Jeff Wollam—Trent Murphy—Don Vis
FEATURE: CANCELLED BECAUSE OF RAIN TO BE RUN MAY 1st
“Junction Bar & Grille” I.M.C.A HOBBY STOCK:
HEAT 1: Todd Reitzler—Dustin Elliott—Terry Shaffar
HEAT 2: Jennifer Hulin—Chad Koch—Eric Knutson
HEAT 3: Aaron Rudolph—Michael Murphy
FEATURE: CANCELLED BECAUSE OF RAIN TO BE RUN MAY 1st
“Big 8 Tyre Center” I.M.C.A SPORT MOD:
HEAT 1: Joel Rust—Matt Lettow—Bill Hildreth
HEAT 2: Kevin Sather—Jared Timmerman—Joel Bushore
HEAT 3: Fred Leytham—Shawn Simatovich—Paul Nagel
HEAT 4: Jamie Schirm—Brad Iverson—Jake Strayer
B-MAIN: Kyle Brown—Zach Rawlins—Nick Deleeuw—Ryan Ashton
FEATURE: Kevin Sather—Luke Wanninger—Matt Lettow—Brad Iverson—Scott
Davis—Fred Leytham—Bill Hildreth—Jake Strayer—Kyle Brown—Tim Love—Josh
Sherbon—Jeremy Embrey—Dave Schlicht—Jarred Timmerman—Zach Rawlins—Joel
Rust—Neil Follett—Nick Deleeuw—Jamie Schirm—Paul Nagel—Shawn Simatovich—Shawn
Hunter—Joel Bushore
“Mod Lite” DWARF CARS:
HEAT 1: Tim Hennigar—Troy Hudson—Joel Huggins
HEAT 2: Mike Morrill—Josh May—Johnny Mordock
FEATURE: Mike Morrill—Andy Hennigar—Eric Hendrickson—Troy Hudson—Johnny
Mordock—Josh May—Mike Kennedy—Duane Coffman—James May—Dusty Masolini—Bryan
Zehm—Travis Stensland—Mike Thomas—Joe Wood—Ivan Guerra—DJ Schmalzried—Joel
Huggins—Tim Hennigar—Jason Whitehead—DJ Robinson
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