Brown & Paris Score Big Wins As CJ Speedway Returns To Racing Action

| July 16, 2023

 

Columbus Junction, Iowa: Racing resumed on Friday night at the CJ Speedway located on the Louisa County Fairgrounds in Columbus Junction following two consecutive nights of rain outs of the Friday night racing programs. Rain threatened to spoil Friday night as well but racing went on as scheduled, following the races Patriot Fireworks provided a very nice fireworks display before rain moved in.

The headliner of the night was the Stewart & Sons Fuel IMCA Modified 18 lap main event. Brandon Banks debuted his new car on Friday night and the new car is going to be a very fast machine. Banks shot to the front from his 4th row start and built a comfortable lead only to have 9th starting Jarrett Brown chase down Banks and make the winning pass with 4 laps remaining in the main event. Brown has been the man to beat all year and Friday night was no exception. Banks ran second ahead of Kurt Kile.

Shane Paris is currently in contention for the National Championship in the IIMCA Northern Sportmod division. A win on Friday night in the Huston Brothers Trucking IMCA Sportmod class would be very big for the Muscatine driver and a win was exactly what Paris was able to achieve. Cody Layman led early and had built a comfortable lead before the field was bunched up for a restart following a caution. Paris took advantage of the caution and shot by Layman and went on to record the win. Layman turned in a fine run in taking second ahead of Carter VanDenberg.

Tom Cannon visited victory lane for the first time in 23 after scoring his feature win in the Mincer Ford IMCA Stock Car division. Cannon took advantage of a front row start and led the feature flag to flag. Cannon hit his marks every lap in diving a perfect race in taking the checkers ahead of Kirk Kinsley and Dustin Griffiths.

The CJ Auto Parts/NAPA Stores IMCA Hobby Stocks have put on entertaining races every week and Friday night was certainly no exception. James Pilkington led early before giving way to Tom Killen who had advanced from a 4th row start. Killen led for several laps until Luke Phillips was able to take over the point position. Phillips, who certainly is no stranger to victory lane took the win ahead of Killen and Tucker Richardson.

The Midwest Rod & Restoration IMCA Sport Compacts started off the feature portion of the race program. Darin Smith scored the feature win on Friday night getting to the checkers ahead of Shane Barnes and Caleb Giese.

Friday, July 21st will be another full weekly race program with five classes of cars in action. Then the stage will be set for the 2023 Louisa County Fair. The race night being billed as the “Battle on the Levee” will offer a huge purse for all the racers with the help of a long list of sponsors. The race night during the Fair will be Thursday, July 27th.

 

CJ Speedway Friday, July 14 Feature Results (top five)

 

Stewart & Sons Fuel IMCA Modifieds

  1. 88 Jarrett Brown-Ainsworth
  2. 22 Brandon Banks-Washington
  3. 77 Kurt Kile-Nichols
  4. 40 Dakota Simmons-Douds
  5. 9Z Chris Zogg-New Liberty

 

Huston Brothers Trucking IMCA Sportmods

  1. 13C Shane Paris-Muscatine
  2. 7 Cody Layman-Muscatine
  3. 7V Carter VanDenberg-Oskaloosa
  4. 44G Levi Gaunt-Muscatine
  5. 9W Ryan Walker-Wilton

 

Mincer Ford IMCA Stock Cars

  1. 32 Tom Cannon-West Branch
  2. 21M Kirk Kinsley-Wapello
  3. 10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
  4. 57 Andrew Schroeder-Fremont
  5. 71 David Brandies-Wilton

 

CJ Auto Parts/NAPA Store IMCA Hobby Stocks

  1. 33 Luke Phillips-Wapello
  2. 1K Tom Killen-Des Moines
  3. 28 Tucker Richardson-Morning Sun
  4. 4R Randy LaMar-Buffalo
  5. 22 James Pilkington-Hedrick

 

Midwest Rod & Restoration IMCA Sport Compacts

  1. 17 Darin Smith-Wapello
  2. 26 Shane Barnes-Washington
  3. 20C Caleb Giese-Morning Sun
  4. 23H Alex Hayes-Lone Tree
  5. 69JX William Michel-Columbus Junction

 

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