Fast Track Provides Wild Night of Racing At CJ Speedway

| April 29, 2023

 

Columbus Junction, Iowa: Friday night saw the second night of racing at the CJ Speedway located on the Louisa County Fairgrounds in Columbus Junction. April 28th was a beautiful day that gave way to a typical cool spring evening and the motors were humming on the super fast 4/10th mile oval.

The Stewart & Sons Fuel IMCA Modifieds main event took the green with veteran racer4 Troy Cordes taking the lead from his outside front row starting position. Cordes built a commanding lead as the race went green to checkers. Defending track champion Jarrett Brown moved into second as the race neared the Midway point and set out to chase down leader Cordes, who had built a commanding lead. Lapped traffic came into play late in the race and Brown was able to use traffic to reel in Cordes. The two front runners split a slower car as the race off of turn four to the checkers saw Cordes score the win by a bumper ahead of Brown. Kurt Kile Kile ran third on Friday night ahead of Brandon Banks.

Veteran racer Jim Redman scored the win in the Mincer Ford IMCA Stock Car main event. Redman was able to take the top spot from Kenny O’Donnell following a restart for a grinding crash that saw the cars of Nathan Ballard, Corey Strothman and Matt Picray receive extensive damage, fortunately all drivers were uninjured. Redman scored the win by holding off a fast closing Dakota Simonsen at the checkers with O’Donnell finishing third.

Dylan VanWyk scored his second consecutive Huston Brothers Trucking IMCA Sportmods win of the young season at CJ in 23 by advancing to the front from a sixth row start. VanWyk was able to pass cars high and low making a steady march to the front. VanWyk took the top spot from early leader Trey Rock and went on to record the feature win ahead of Carter VanDenberg and Colton Livezey. Richard Hurlbut rode out a hard hit to the turn four wall in the qualifying races, the 14 car received extensive damage but Hurlbut was uninjured.

The CJ Auto Parts NAPA Stores IMCA Hobby Stocks provided an action packed main event on Friday night. Rookie driver Tucker Richardson led early before being overtaken on a restart by Cody Staley. The 55 of Staley took the win over perennial strong runner Randy LaMar.

Garrett Porter led lap number of the Midwest Rod & Restoration IMCA Sport Compact main before Seth Meinders drove to the lead. Meinders went on to record the feature win ahead of Caleb Giese who held off Shane Barnes by a matter of a couple of feet at the finish line.

IMCA Weekly Racing will continue at the CJ Speedway on Friday, May 5th with hot laps at 7 pm, racing will follow.

 

CJ Speedway Friday, April 28 Feature Results (top 5)

 

Stewart & Sons Fuel IMCA Modifieds

  1. 71C Troy Cordes-Dunkerton
  2. 88 Jarrett Brown-Ainsworth
  3. 77 Kurt Kile-Nichols
  4. 22 Brandon Banks-Washington
  5. 40 Dakota Simmons-Douds

 

Mincer Ford IMCA Stock Cars

  1. 14R Jim Redmann-Lockridge
  2. 60 Dakota Simonsen-Fairfax
  3. 56 Kenny O’Donnell-Columbus Junction
  4. 10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
  5. 22 Tanner Allen-Springville

 

Huston Brothers Trucking IMCA Sportmods

  1. 117 Dylan VanWyk-Oskaloosa
  2. 7V Carter VanDenBerg-Oskaloosa
  3. 29 Colton Livezey-Nedw Sharon
  4. 7T Trey Rock-New Boston, IL
  5. 13 Shane Paris-Muscatine

 

CJ Auto Parts/NAPA Store IMCA Hobby Stocks

  1. 55 Cody Staley-Muscatine
  2. 4R Randy LaMar-Buffalo
  3. 6XP Preston McDonald-Keota
  4. 33t Trevor Tanner-Knoxville
  5. 52 Billy Stanford-Wapello

 

Midwest Rod & Restoration IMCA Sport Compacts

  1. 00 Seth Meinders-Ottumwa
  2. 20C Caleb Giese-Morning Sun
  3. 26 Shane Barnes-Washington
  4. 17 Darin Smith-Wapello
  5. 89 Christian Grady-Cedar Rapids

 

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