There were so many rainouts at our PR.com coverage area tracks on Friday night that it gives me a little bit of time to make a few observations since I am not compiling points this morning.
34 Raceway near Burlington survived a rain delay during their IRA 410 Sprint show that saw a great field of 42 cars on hand. Reports show that Johnny Herrera dominated the main event by lapping all the way up to the third place car of Brian Brown. Jesse Hockett was the runner-up in that one. Jayson Dittworth put the Olson Brothers Custom Shop special in victory lane by making a thrilling last lap move in the 305 feature. Don't forget that 34 Raceway comes right back again tonight (Saturday) with their 2009 Hall of Fame Induction program featuring IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Stock Cars, Hobby Stocks and Four Cylinders.
The Lee County Speedway in Donnellson also completed their program Friday night after waiting out a two hour rain delay as it was night number two of the Ideal Ready Mix/Pilot Grove Savings Bank "Drive for Five" for the IMCA Late Models. All five of the track's regular divisions were on hand as well. Mark Burgtorf bounced back from a recent string of mechanical issues to make it two straight wins in the Late Models at Lee County. Tommy Elston came home second with 2008 Deery Series champion Boone McLaughlin third. There were twenty-eight Late Models in attendance on Friday night and the division is back once again next Friday May 15th. A big congratulations to Rodger Dresden who picked up his first career SportMod feature win. It seems like the "Tall Thin One" from Keokuk has had nothing but bad luck the past two years so hopefully he now has the monkey off of his back. Jason Cook made it two in a row at Donnellson in the Stock Car division and also drove Donnie Fenton's #3D SportMod to a fifth-place finish. Sixteen-year-old Derek St. Clair picked up his first career feature win last Saturday night by winning the Hobby Stock main event at 34 Raceway. It only took him six days to get career win number two by topping the field at Donnellson. And in the four cylinder "Wild Things" young Jacob Darbyshire, son of Late Model driver Tom Darbyshire, notched his first-ever feature win over a field of seventeen.
Another track in the southeast corner of Iowa, the Bloomfield Speedway, was also able to get a full show in as it sounds like they completely dodged the raindrops. Go back to the homepage at www.PositivelyRacing.com and check in with Kevin Trittien's TapFan Tours for more details. We also want to welcome our newest blogger Ryan Clark to the roster! Ryan will be giving you details on all of the racing action at the Independence Motor Speedway where he is the track announcer for 2009, plus he will get out and about to several other tracks around the region as well.
We are looking for a blogger or two to help us cover the state of Missouri. If you are interested drop us a note at news@positivelyracing.com and have a couple of samples of your work ready. In the meantime I am down here in the soggy Show Me state ready for what should be a great night of action for the Diamond of the Dirt Nationals at the Lucas Oil Speedway.
Thanks for checking in and we invite you to visit www.PositivelyRacing.com often to see where our bloggers have been, to learn where the races are on both our Special Events Calendar and our Weekly Racing page, and to stay up-to-date on both the All Iowa and All Missouri Points.
Now get out to the track of your choice tonight!!!
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